AN: After watching the flashback episode I really wanted to play around with the idea that the Sara's addiction didn't simply disappear when she got clean, but instead began to take a different form.

Sara had found a new drug to fuel her need for addiction, but this time she wasn't hiding in the dark, in the back of a medical supply closet with a needle sticking out of her arm. This time she was in the Fox River infirmary looking into Michael Scofield's impossibly blue eyes. She welcomed back the feeling of her rushing pulse, thumping heart beat, and an unusually foggy brain; her old friends and telltale sign of a high.

She hadn't become addicted to Michael the first time he walked into her infirmary and flirted shamelessly with her; after all, she hadn't become addicted to morphine the first time she shot up. But sometime in the last month, sometime when she wasn't paying attention, Michael had become her personal drug. His voice made her heart beat faster, his smile made the world slow down, his intense gaze stuck her like a needle, and the touch of his hand on hers gave her a high that morphine could never match.

And then he was gone. There was no withdrawal; no splitting headaches and feverish dreams. There was no fear that she would relapse because her drug was nowhere to be found. There was no hope and no joy. Even morphine hadn't taken that from her.

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