Michael, Lincoln and I were walking to the break room.

"I found our access to the infirmary building but I'm gonna need some time to make it work" Michael said.

"How much time?" Lincoln asked.

"Enough time for me to find my way up a 20 ft vertical drain pipe without using a ladder"

"Good luck with that" I said.

"I'm probably going to have to skip P.I tomorrow if I'm gonna get this thing done" Michael said.

"You can't just skip it" Lincoln shook his head "It ain't class, what if one of the bulls decided to drop in?"

"Well I don't have a choice do I? Once we get through the pipe below the guard's room, it'll be a whole lot easier. I can come and go without using the door and with Westmorland as a lookout, we'll have one more man available for digging"

"Westmorland's gonna be a problem. All eight of us can't break over that wall in 18 minutes. You said it yourself, it's impossible. Listen, man, I'm telling you. One of us has gotta take a hike" I bit my lip and stopped walking once we reached a corner.

"Hey I-" Michael interrupted me.

"Your coming" He said firmly, as we walked around the corner.

"So how are we gonna decide you leaves?" Lincoln asked as we turned the corner, to where C-Note was leaning against a wall.

"Mind if I share that with the rest of the class?" He asked. We followed him into the break room, where he stood in the middle of the room.

"Apparently college boy here did the math. Figured out we got too many clowns in the car. So one of us is in here digging, but his seat ain't guaranteed"

"How's this your problem?" Lincoln asked.

"He doesn't know what he's talking about" Michael said, trying to calm everyone down.

"I'm not gonna dig if I'm not gonna go" Sucre threw down the tool he was using.

"We need to make a decision who gets cut" Lincoln said.

"I think we know who we want to go without" I piped up, nodding towards the door where T-Bag was watching guard outside.

The door opened and T-Bag came in.

"Pardon me for interrupting, but uh...what's that smell?" He sniffed the air "It smells a little like...conspiracy"

"We need to get back to work" I said.

"Yeah well before you do I have an announcement to make. I've been growing leery of the way y'all talk like I'm a lesser man. So I bought an insurance policy. I called up my guy on the outside and I told him about our plan. And I told him in all likelihood, I'll be seeing him next week. But if he don't hear from me five minutes before the escape and 20 minutes after, I told him to call up the warden, blow the whistle on the whole thing. So if y'all got ideas about gettin' rid of me, I suggest you make other plans"

Damn him for thinking ahead. I never noticed but T-Bag is a lot smarter then what we've given him credit for.


I was walking back inside with Abruzzi, Michael and Lincoln.

"Son of a bitch got a counter move for everything" Lincoln growled.

"Not for this" Abruzzi said, hiding a smirk.

"What have you got planned?" I asked.

"You'll just have to wait and see" He replied, before walking faster to catch up with some of his friends.


I was working on some pipes, when I saw Tweener come up to the fence where me and Michael were working.

"Yo. I'm still waiting" Tweener said.

"What for?" Michael asked, I knew what Tweener was asking so I moved away. I didn't really like to see confrontations, and hopefully Tweener would forget I was involved in this.


I just got back from the infirmary, Michael and I were going at separate times now, seeing as Doc didn't have much to do any more, she's decided that we can have our own appointments.

"DB. Oh, is that who you is now? I thought you was just a cowboy" I heard, I looked up to see T-Bag talking to Westmorland.

"Take a couple steps back, boy" Westmorland said.

I walked away, as I said I didn't like confrontation, but I did turn back to see Westmorland shove T-Bag away from him. T-Bag said something to him, but Westmorland ignored him and walked back into his cell.

T-Bag saw me staring and winked at me. If I didn't know any better I'd say T-Bag is taking this 'too many people' problem into his own hands.


In the yard I was sitting on the bleachers, and T-Bag came up to me.

"I saw you looking at me and Westmorland earlier"

"So?" I asked.

"Well, you know as well as I of our little situation. You need to back out" He said.

"I don't think so" I said. He grabbed my arm and squeezed really hard.

"I don't think you understand what I'm telling you" He growled at he squeezed tighter.

"I don't think you understand what I'm telling you" I grabbed his hand and twisted it, forcing him away from my arm, and off the bleachers.

"I'm not backing down, so you need to leave" I said. He huffed angrily.

"Don't think I don't know where you sleep Red" He said while backing away.

"I know where you do as well" I retorted. He clearly hadn't thought of that. I couldn't believe I had almost called him smart earlier.


It was yard time the next day, and as I walked out I saw T-Bag still sitting in his cell, I gave him a confused look that he didn't see as he was facing the wrong way.

I was working in the yard, standing next to Michael who was staring at a water mains tap.

"And this will help you get up that wall?" I asked, after he explained what he was going to do.

"Yeah, cover for me" He walked over to it, while I pretended to work. I saw Westmorland looking at me and I nodded in his direction, acting casual in case any C.O's were looking.

I was starting to get a little nervous, Michael was taking a little longer then I thought.

"Black" A C.O said.

"You scared me, boss" I said loudly, trying to warn Michael.

"Get back to work"

"Course boss" I said at the same volume, feeling really anxious.

Pattinson blew his whistle.

"All right, let's go" He shouted.

Michael came over to stand next to me in the line, with a small smile on his face.

"Did it work?" I asked.

"I'll check tonight, but if it did, then everything's going according to plan"

I love it when everything goes according to plan.


I noticed later on, that there was hardly anyone in the break room. C-Note walked in and voiced my thoughts.

"Oh, crowds thinned out in here"

"How you doing Riley?" Lincoln asked me, as it was my turn digging.

"Almost there. Switch me out" I said, holding out my arm to be pulled out. Once I was back on the ground I handed Lincoln my shovel.

"Alright, your up" He handed the shovel to C-Note "Then Westmorland. We gotta get through, Michael's gonna be coming back this way" Lincoln went outside to cover watch duties, and sent Westmorland in.

Sucre and I were filling in the walls with the concrete that had been dug up.

"Does anyone know where Abruzzi and T-Bag are?" I asked.

"Who cares" C-Note said.

"Just wondering" I don't know why but I had a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.

We worked in silence for a little bit, but then C-Note said

"I'm through" I smiled hearing that. That had made my day, this escape was going through and it was coming fast.

"Keep it up" Westmorland said.

"Stomp it" Sucre suggested. So C-Note stomped on it, trying to break through without falling down.

"Bulls" Lincoln said

"Tell him to stall them" I said to Westmorland, while quickly locating the board.

We put that over the hole, and tried to be quick with the carpet. I nearly fell over in my haste to put the table back.

Westmorland came back in and told us we were safe, so we hurriedly took the board off to let Michael climb back up. I held out my hand to help him.

"Thanks. Well we leave tonight" He said. I looked at my feet unable to look at him.

"Where's my brother" He asked. Westmorland stepped forward.

"Michael we got a problem"

Michael was not going to like this one bit.


AN: Oh dear! I still don't understand why Lincoln didn't just lie. But oh well.

Another chapter done, and the next one should be up soon :) Hope you enjoy.