Jessica was in her car heading to the station. She had a lot on her mind. Her ex husband's execution was coming up and she kept getting calls from his son wanting to talk. Just then her radio came on. "We have a 132 in progress at the Chicago National Savings Bank. All officials closest please respond." Jessica snapped into attention. She was two blocks over. She turned on her lights and raced over to the bank. She got out and spotted the officer in charge. " What do we got?" she asked showing her badge to the officer. "One man armed, he already has the money but hasn't left let. We heard gun shots, but nothing else." the officer told her. "OK go ahead and try to make contact." she said to him grabbing her gun and standing behind the police car. " This is the police." the officer said into the speaker. "You are completely surrounded. Drop your weapon and come out with your hands on your head!" he spoke loudly. Jessica held her breath and prepared for the worst. She saw that the man dropped his weapons and headed to the officer. "OK follow my head." she said to him as they went inside. She prepared for a fight, but was not prepared for who was in front of her. She stopped dead in her tracks in surprise. "Michael?" she asked in shock as she seen her smart and successful ex brother in law standing in front of her. She watched as the officer handcuffed him and lead him to the car.
2 days later she was sitting in the middle aisle of the court room where Michael was having his hearing. She saw that her younger sister was representing him. She looked over when the door opened and seen LJ walk in. He quickly spotted her and sat down beside her. "Hey how you holding up?" she whispered to him. He just shook his head and engulfed her in a hug. She put her arm around him and hugged him to her tightly. She listened on as the hearing started. "Rarely for an armed robbery do we hear a plea of no contest." The judge said before looking over to Michael. "Are you sure about this Mr. Scofield?" she asked him. Jess looked over at him to see what he would say. "I'm sure your honor." he said with a certainty. Jess looked at him with confusion but held her breath as her sister spoke. "Your honor we would like to recess. My client is not thinking right at the moment." Jessica still got angry hearing Veronica's voice. LJ looked up at her. "What's happening? Why is uncle Mike not doing anything to defend himself?" he asked her with a look that broke her heart. Poor kid, having to see his father in prison, now his uncle too. "I don't know kid. I don't know." she whispered to him. She heard the judge declared recess and looked up and seen the defeated look on her sister as Michael looked over at the two of them. LJ stood up as they were going to lead Michael out. "Uncle Mike?" LJ pleaded as Michael looked over at him. "I didn't want you to come." he told him softly. "Go home LJ. Jess make sure he gets home please." he asked her looking at her. "I didn't want you to see this. Neither of you." he said as the bailiff led him out. Jess watched with a heavy heart as they took him back. She wrapped her arm around LJ and pulled him out of the room. "I need you to stay here for a second. Then I'll take you home OK." she said leading him to the waiting room. "It's OK Jess. I wanna walk to clear my head." he told her before giving her another tight hug. "It was good to see you. I miss you." he whispered. She hugged him back. "I miss you too kid. Everyday." she said back. He let go of her and backed away and headed outside.
Jessica was walking back to the holding cells. She caught up with Veronica and Michael. "He is not going to take this well." she heard him say. She scoffed before walking around the bailiff to walk beside Veronica. "Can you blame him." she said glaring at the both of them. "He's your nephew. He's starting to think anyone he attaches himself to is going to wind up in prison." Jess says as Michael goes into the cell. "He's not the only one starting to feel that way Michael." Veronica said as the bailiff locked him in. "Can you give us a minute please." She said to him. He nodded and walked down so he wasn't in hearing distance. "What are you thinking?" Jess asked him. " Ronnie just did everything she could but you just threw that book right into the judge's hands didn't you." Jess said lecturing him. Veronica looked at her in shock. It has been a while since Jess defended or complimented her. "I know." Michael said looking at both of them. "Will you please tell us what is going through your head." Veronica asked wanting to know why he is making this easy. "We've all been over this." Jess rolled her eyes. "We have known you our entire lives. You do not have a lying bone in your body." Veronica said to him. "And we all know you definitely didn't need the money." Jess imputed. "Guys please." Michael pleaded. "You both have been good to me my whole life. Jess you have been the best sister in law a guy can ask for and Veronica you have been an amazing best friend. But you both have to just let me do this please." he told the both of them. Jess just looked at him with tears in her eyes. She turned around and walked out without another word to either of them.
When Jess got to the station she had a missed call on her phone. She read the message and it was from Veronica saying that Michael was sentenced to five years in Fox River. She put the phone down and took a deep breath to stop herself from crying. Before she could compose herself Jason walked over. "Hey how did it go?" he asked sitting down beside her at his desk. "Something just isn't right about this. He didn't even put up a fight. That's not like him at all." she said before looking up at him. "I'm sorry you probably don't want to hear about this." she said to him. He grabbed her hand and gently squeezed. "I wouldn't have asked if I didn't want to know." he said softly with a smile. "Alright we have a possible drug deal going down. I've just been informed that CPD wants a couple of our people down there for back up." the captain stated. "Clarke and Donovan I want you two to take this. It's possible that you know the kid involved." he said looking at Jessica. Jessica looked up in confusion. "Who is the kid they've been trailing?" she asked. "LJ Burrows." the captain informed her. She looked up in shock and grabbed her coat. "Let's go I'm driving." she said to Jason as she headed out ahead of him.
They sat in the car and waited for the deal to go down. Jason looked over at her. "If you want to talk to me about any of this, I will be willing to listen." he said to her. She looked over at him and smiled. "Thank you for being so understanding about all this. Its just nerve wrecking. I haven't spoke to Michael in almost a year, and it break my heart to look at LJ. I love that kid so much and I hate that he has to go through all of this." she spills to him. "Do you still love him?" Jason asked her. She looked over in confusion. "Lincoln I mean." he says with an awkward small laugh. She opens her mouth to respond but movement out of the corner of her eye catches her attention. She seen LJ and another boy pull up on bikes. They talk to the suspect for a couple minutes then see him get in his trunk and pulls out two packages of weed. The boys put them in their back packs and head out. "Show time." Jason says as Jessica pulls the car forward to block their path from heading out the alley. She gets out of the car and looks over at LJ with a hurt look. He looks at her back with a deer caught in headlights look.
"Hey." Jessica said into the phone. "Hey how are you doing?" her sister Trish responded into the phone. "Are you busy? I can swing by for lunch and talk." Jessica said back hopeful. "Of course stop on by I can do lunch." Trish responded back. "Great. I'll see you in an hour." Jess hung up and sat her cell on her desk. Luckily since LJ was a minor he got a slap on the wrist and got to go home. She watched as Lisa picked him up. She resented Lisa with a passion. She's the one that had Lincoln's child and not her. But she had to remind herself that she's divorced from him and had no more ties to him. LJ looked back at her as he left and gave her a small wave. She waved back and watched him leave with his mom. Jason walked over to her. "Having to deal with two family members in a week how ever will you manage." he said jokingly. She just looked at him. "Do you want to grab lunch?" he asked lightly. "Can't I told my sister I'd be over to have lunch with her." she informed him. "Awl OK, well where does she work I'll drop you off." she just shook her head. "That's OK. I'll drive I'll see you later." she gave him a small peck on the lips and headed out of the station.
Since Trish worked at Fox River as a therapist Jess had to go through all bunch of security. She came upon this one CO who looked like he had a bad attitude. "OK Miss Donovan I'm going to need you to leave the gun." he informed her with an attitude. "Excuse me." she exclaimed as she was filling out the visitor log. "No. I don't have to leave my gun. I'm not going in the section with the inmates I'm going on the Wing B. So unless somehow you get higher rank than me" she gave him an attitude. " I suggest you don't tell me to leave my gun behind." she said pushing past him seeing his name on his shirt. She turned around to face him. "Oh Bellick was it? I would lose the attitude. I could have your job in a second." she got the last word as he just glared. She walked to the B wing where her sister's office was. She came to the door and knocked lightly. A minute later a guy opened the door with Trish right behind him. "Jess! Hey right on time." she says to her and looks over at the guy. "Thanks Paul for stopping by. I'll make sure to keep in contact." she said to him as before he said his goodbyes and left. Jess looked over to Trish. "So who was that?" she said teasingly to her sister. Trish rolled her eyes playfully and held the door open wider for Jess. "An old friend." she states and Jess walks in past her with a bag of take out.
" I wish there was something more that I can do for him." Jess said after she took a bite of her burger. "For LJ you mean?" Trish asked taking a sip of her drink. "Yes. He's so upset and confused. It can't be easy on him first his dad now his uncle." she said in a small voice. Trish gave her a pointed look. "You are not responsible for LJ anymore. You can't be putting your name on the line for him anymore. He has a mom Jess. Just because you got attached when you were married to Lincoln doesn't mean you need to play mother now." Trish lectured. "I know you're right. It's just hard sometimes. I loved Lincoln so much and put so much into our marriage. What he did with Veronica was just too unforgiving. I know that it was just a kiss, they claim that it was all it was. But I couldn't take that chance that anything else could have happened. Does that make me a shitty wife and sister?" she asked Trish desperately. "No." she said with a solid voice. " You did the right thing. But Veronica is our sister after all. I think you should at least talk to her. She misses you and I know you miss her." Trish said before her phone rang. Jess got up and looked out the window. Her heart almost stopped beating when she spotted him. She saw Lincoln looking out through the fence. Even though she was far away she could tell that he was lonely. As if sensing someone watching him he turned and looked up in her direction. She panicked and moved from the window, hoping that he didn't see her. She turned back to Trish. "Hey I have to get going." Jess said to her. "Yea of course. Call me later maybe we'll do dinner. Maybe Hank and I will double with you and Jason." Trish offered. Jess smiled at the gesture. "Yea sounds good."
As she was heading back down she seen Veronica sitting in on visitation with Michael. She decided to sign herself in and go talk to him. She walked over to them. "Hey mind if I join you?" she asked sitting down beside Veronica. "Hey." Veronica greeted looking shocked. "What are you doing here?" she asked her sister. "Well I was upstairs having lunch with Trish and I seen you guys and I figured I'd stop and talk for a minute." she said to her sister. Jessica looked over at Michael. "OK what are you doing? Don't think I don't know you didn't want to be sent here on purpose." she scolded him. " Remember I grew up with the both of you. You two have the most dysfunctional idea of love I have ever seen. He beats you up to keep you off the streets and you get yourself thrown right in here with him." She looks at Michael as he looks at her back. "To do what? Save him? Believe me I've tried. I loved him just as much as you did." She said to him. He scoffed lightly at her. "Past tense for you maybe but not me." he said right back to her looking her right in the eye. "Its not that easy OK. I seen him. He was making out with Veronica!" she said pointing to her sister but not looking at her. Veronica had a look of shame on her face. "What was I suppose to do? Stick around wait for it to happen again? I loved Lincoln with my whole heart and he broke it." she said to him trying not to cry. "Did you even try to talk to him to get his side of things? But you just shut him down not even giving him a chance to explain. You don't know things could have worked out." he said trying to get her to see. "Look Michael whatever you're thinking about doing don't I'm already appealing your case." Veronica informed him drawing his attention away from Jessica. He looked at her angrily. "I told you to leave that alone." he said to her. "I've got in touch with the Bishop about Lincoln's case he might be able to help." Veronica said to him desperately. "That won't stop it. It will only delay it" he informed her. "Wait a minute why are you reopening Lincoln's case?" Jessica asked Veronica. "You both want to do something for me? You find out who is trying to bury my brother." he asked of them. Jess looked at him in confusion. "Nobody is setting him up Michael, the evidence was all there I know i was on the case." Jessica said to him. Michael shook his head. "The evidence was planted." he whispered to them. Jess looked like she didn't believe him, but Veronica looked like she was going to investigate. The buzzer sounded stating that visiting hours were over. Jess and Veronica got up to hug Michael. "Please you have to believe me. Someone wants him to take the fall for this. I know my brother and you should know him too Jess you were married to him for four years." he said desperately. Jess sighed not wanting to hear anymore said goodbye to Michael and walked off.
***Lincoln's POF***
He was being led back in from the yard. He was walking through the visiting center and looked up. His heart skipped a beat. There sighing out was Jessica. He wondered what she was doing here. She is still as beautiful as ever. That girl was the love of his life and he let her get away all because of one stupid mistake. He hasn't seen her in almost two years. He would give anything just to talk to her one more time and to hold her and kiss her and tell her that he still loves her. His heart ached just from seeing her walk away and out the door not even knowing that he was standing right there. Now he had a new vision for his dreams tonight. Earlier he had a strange feeling that someone was close by and now he knew that he got that feeling because she was there.
Jess walked out of the prison after signing out. She almost turned around but didn't. She had a strange feeling. A feeling she always use to get when she was around Lincoln. She made it out to her car but stopped when she seen Veronica heading towards her. "Hey can we talk a minute?" Veronica asked her. She sighed but turned around. "Yea we can talk." she said. " I just want to say that I am so sorry for everything that I have done. I miss you so much Jess. I just want my sister back." she said with tears in her eyes. Jess looked like she was about ready to cry too. She just stood there not knowing what to do until she walked toward Veronica and engulfed her in a big hug. "I've missed you too." she said to her.
Later that night she got home. She had to get changed because she was meeting both Trisha and Veronica for dinner and drinks in an hour. She walked passed her phone and seen she had a voicemail. She pressed play as she walked over to the table to check her mail. 'Miss Donovan. You don't know me but I know you. You may think that Lincoln Burrows is guilty but you're wrong. I need you to investigate what really happened. You know in your heart that your husband is innocent.' She stood there in shock. She went to her cordless and tried to look up the call history. The number was blocked and there was no way of tracing the number. She sat on the couch and thought. What if Lincoln really is innocent.
She got the call in the middle of the night. She showed up at the Bishop's house. "Hey." She greeted a fellow detective as she walked up the front stairs to the bedroom. "So indefinitely murdered. No sign of forced entry or any prints that they have found yet." he said to her. "The Bishop? Why do I know that name?" she asked. The other detective shrugged. "I have no idea. I know he had tremendous amount of influence with the Governor and lawyers always pleading their cases to him hoping that he will take them to the Governor." he said before walking away. She walked up and looked at the dead body thinking. Then it all came back to her. Veronica said something about getting a meeting with the Bishop about Lincoln's case. She hoped that this wasn't connected but she had a feeling that it was.
The next morning she walked into Veronica's office. She knocked lightly causing her sister to look up from her desk. "Hey Jess what are you doing here?" she asked her. "I have some bad news V." she said walking to stand in front of the desk. "Bishop McMoore was murdered last night. Someone had shot him while he was sleeping. I thought you would want to know since you had a meeting with him." she informed her. Veronica took a breath and sat back in her chair in shock. "You don't think this has to do with Lincoln do you?" she asked Jessica. "I have no idea. The only reason I put the connection together is because I remember you saying something to me yesterday." Jessica said before looking over and seeing the calendar. Circled in red marker was May 11th; the execution date for Lincoln. "You have it marked too?" she asked her. She watched as Veronica stood up and went to her filing cabinet. She pulled out a big envelope. "This is everything on Lincoln's case. I want you to help me please. This is no coincidence. I'm starting to think that someone set Lincoln up. Will you help me?" Veronica asked Jessica. She opened her mouth but closed it before opening it again. "No. I'm sorry but I can't." She walked out of the office quickly before Veronica could see her heartbroken tears.
Jason found her later sitting on a bench. He sat down next to her. "Hey. Are you OK?" he asked grabbing her hand. She looked at their hands together before sighing. "I'm fine." she said looking at him with a smile. He looked like he didn't believe her but he let it go.
**Lincoln's POV**
He saw that Michael had got his way into PI. When he had the chance he was going to ask him about Jessica. Once they finished painting for the day he found his opportunity. "I seen Jessica come by yesterday." he said to Michael as they put the equipment away. "She still with that guy?" he asked not knowing if he wanted to know the answer. "Yep." Michael said. "That should be me." he said heartbroken. "If you hadn't self destructed and made out with Veronica you two would probably still be married." Michael said to him not showing any pity to him. "You think I meant to make out with Veronica. I was drunk. I was just talking to her about my problems then one thing led to another then Jess walked in. If i could take it all back I would in a heartbeat." Lincoln told his brother with a heartbroken look.
