Make sure to read the other stories that come before this one if you have not already!!
Here's a complete list:
1) Reflections – complete
2) Recession – complete
3) Regret – complete
4) Rapture – complete
5) Revenge – complete
6) Reunion – in progress
7) Redemption – coming soon
Revenge
So Michael and I came to a sort of, well, let's just call it an agreement. He got me out of Sona. His brother, however, was not so kind. He nearly shot me. Thanks to Whistler's little distraction I managed to get away.
First thing I did was make a deal with a somewhat shady guy and get a boat ride back to the states. How I managed to make it out of Panama without being noticed was a miracle in itself. I took a series of buses to Chicago. I know it sounds crazy, but if I was going to do what I was going to do, I wanted to do it right. I wanted to see the agents I worked with. If nothing else, just to let them know I was okay. Especially Lang, she never really judged me for what I had done.
I will never forget the looks on the other agents' faces when I strolled back into my old office. Wheeler dropped a stack of files on the floor. Lang let her phone slide out of her hand to clatter on her desk. Everyone else stopped what they were doing and stared at me in shock.
"I want to turn myself in," I said, my mouth suddenly very dry. I had no idea what this would mean. I could face the death penalty. For all I knew, this was suicide. But I had to do the right thing. After all the wrong I had done, I had to do one thing right.
Wheeler and Lang, once they snapped out of it, cuffed me and took me downtown. A few weeks later, they scheduled my preliminary hearing. I testified against The Company. I had to. Even though I knew what happened to Kellerman when he did the same thing. I could not let these people continue to murder other innocent people.
I told the judge and the jury everything…literally everything. I began with Oscar Shales and ended with the escape from Sona. I confessed to every bad thing I had done. It felt so good. I had no more secrets. Even if it meant I may die for it, at least I was free of this burden.
A few more hearings and court cases later, and I ended up in the Supreme Court. I remember standing there, shaking like a leaf, wondering what my sentence would be. Finally, the judges came to their final decision.
Because of the evidence my attorney and I were able to present, they let me go. I was exonerated of all the crimes I had committed while I was forced to work for The Company. That only left the murder of Oscar Shales. Preliminary hearings were to be scheduled to look further into that issue. Until then…
"Mr. Mahone, you are free to return to your family."
My heart fluttered in my chest. My family. Pam. Cameron. Home.
The judges also said that it was to be arranged for my family and I to live in a safe house until further notice. The house would be under twenty-four-seven surveillance to protect us from The Company and to insure that I would not try to make a run for it before my next hearing.
"And finally, a thorough investigation is to be conducted immediately regarding this, 'Company.' These people must be stopped!" yelled the judge, as the gavel slammed on the long desk, "Case dismissed."
I came so close to passing out. I sank back down onto the bench and just broke down, right there, in the middle of the Supreme Court. I didn't care. It was over. I had had my revenge. I testified against The Company, and now I was going to see my family. Nothing else mattered.
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