Alex slowly walked to the visitation gates, he laughed seeing Nikole, he kept feeling like she was surrounded by pretty colours reflecting off her hair, he moved the fence slowly, he knew she visited him everyday, maybe he was waiting for a day she didn't come, but it filled him with amusement and dread at the same time. "When you going to get bored of this Nikki, Nik ole...?"
Nikole felt her cheeks getting warmer as she saw him, not blushing but getting warmer, her eyes looking him over. The dirt on his clothes, the scruff growing around his face and his hair had gone wild. "Oh, you know... " She paused, "When you're out and I don't have to." She said factually. Before biting her lip. Visitation hadn't gotten easier, but hiding the fact it hurt like hell did.
Keeping as still as he could, Alex smiled, "you look like an angel," he whispered while trying to keep hidden the fact that right now he was high, it was better than feeling what he was feeling right now, he had no idea how long it would last, but for the time being, he was happy to see her. "I told you, I'm here, here," he waved around him, "For another ten years..." he laughed again, "If I'm not murdered first."
Nikole had blushed at his first comment, before looking down sadly at his last. "That isn't... Funny, Alex." She said while looking back up to him, saddened again.
Medically she could tell something wasn't right, but her mind kept blocking it out, she couldn't process so many things at once like she use to. "You're going to get out, even if I have to start digging a tunnel from the outside." She slid her hands into her pockets.
"Dig, yes, dig, cos, that isn't the plan, no the plan," he kept looking to Nikole, "you need to tell me about the plan..." he focused more on her now, "Cos, I need to know, cos you're with Olivia, Olivia is with Lincoln, and Lincoln's brother is Michael, so you know about the plan..."
"What is, going on with you?" Nikole looked between the links in the fence seriously focusing on him, maybe he'd mentally snapped. She looked a little freaked out. "What plan? There isn't ... Any plan." She kept cool. Trying not to spill everything.
"See, this is how they get to you Nikole," he pointed, "Michael, he's got me on this plan, I made sure I am on this plan, but you!" he pointed, "you know something, and you need to tell me, tell me, so I won't get screwed over, Nikole, you don't want to screw me over, please, tell me, help me, if you help me, I'll be out, we'll be together, both of us."
Nikole kept feeling an unusual feeling in her stomach as he spoke; it felt like someone was twisting her stomach into different directions.
But that was all Nikole wanted was for him to be out and for them to be together. "The Company is having Michael break out this guy with a Bird Book - They have Sara, Elle May and L.J. - They'll kill them if Michael doesn't get him out. - Fernando is getting hired as the new SONA grave digger and." She held her tongue. "That's all I know, really - Lincoln doesn't trust me... I don't know anything!"
Alex kept nodding, "Yes, but you're friends with Olivia," he pointed out, "If you get the right information from her," he focused more clearer now, "Focus on her, make sure she doesn't leave you out, work her, to get passed Burrows."
Wearily Nikole had nodded slowly. "Okay, I will." She kept thinking about Olivia and the baby inside her Uterus that only a selected few people knew about. "I'll get any information I can, Alex."
"I trust you Nikole," he pointed to her, "I know that with you on the outside," he nodded, "I'll get things done," he kept looking from her to the prison, "Michael Scofield won't screw us over again."
Waiting a long moment to reply, Nikole nodded looking up seriously. "Never, again." Her mind reverted like a tape on rewind, remembering the first time she'd ever laid eyes on Michael Scofield, remembering how he saved her from the Riot. "Be careful, you know I don't know what I'd do if... If." She couldn't finish.
"I am taking care on my side," he pointed, "just remember," he pointed while going to the door leading into the main prison, "Olivia, keep her close, and if you need to, make sure she'll tell you everyone." he now disappeared into the prison walls.
Getting back to the hotel room Nikole seemed to be calling home with Olivia and Fernando, she used her key card to get in. "Hello?" She asked while glancing around the place, quickly. Seeing Fernando gone to work assumingly, ",'Livia?" She whispered, as if a whisper would catch her attention.
The sound of a toilet flushing, the door opening to the bathroom, "sorry, not getting the hang of it," she kept looking over Nikole, "something playing your mind?" she asked quickly while still pissed off that Lincoln had rushed off to do things, big chance with Sofia, that smelly ass woman seemed to be all over Lincoln, when ever she could.
"Yeah." Nikole let out a long sigh, pulling the grey cardigan she was wearing off and dropping it onto a chair in the corner, before climbing up onto the bed that usually had Olivia, Fernando and herself asleep in it during the nights. Her finger played with each other's kept looking to Olivia. "Alex; - He, wants me to..." She paused, closing her eyes.
"What?" Olivia quickly opened a bottle of water drinking it to get rid of the horrible taste in her mouth, she sat down on the bed before pulling her feet up, she kept glancing over her stomach wondering if it was showing yet, but knew it was a stupid notion.
Opening her eyes, Nikole focused on Olivia, "He wants me to get as much information from you because you're my friend and Lincoln doesn't trust me, about the escape so he can make sure Michael doesn't screw him over." She bit her thumb, sighing.
"I know Lincoln doesn't trust you," she whispered, "It's why the SOB doesn't trust me now," she kept looking to the window, "I mean, thought he asked me out last night for dinner, thought I'd tell him, no, he tell me, he's cutting me out, cos he doesn't trust you, so he can't tell me anything." she exhaled, "Lets say, reason he didn't come here, is cos I told him to blow it out his ass!"
Running her hands cover her face, Nikole looked stressed out, "Ugh." She said annoyed, looking back to Olivia. "I'm sorry, I'm causing un-needed drama." She sat up straight on the bed. "I should just, leave and make this easier."
"Hell no!" Olivia moved on the bed, "you are not going anywhere," she now brushed her hands into her pockets. "I am not letting you go, cos he's being a royal D bag," her eyes kept on Nikole. "He'll get over it, then again." she touched her own Stomach, "I think I might need a hospital, cos something don't feel right with me..."
Nikole's eyes flickered, "What do you mean, something doesn't feel right, what does it feel like?" She kept staring at Olivia's hand on her stomach.
"Well, there is morning sickness," she pointed out looking over Olivia, "and there is puking my guts up, and feeling like I am going to smash my brains in, cos my head is killing me." she then laid back, "I didn't have any of this with Elle, none of it."
Rubbing her fingers against her cheek, Nikole attempting to focus fully on her, "You might have heat exhaustion, or dehydration." She reached into her pocket, taking out her wallet, her Fox River Medical I.D. in the front, "I could, get you into a hospital, without to many questions being asked." She tapped her wallet against her hand, looking at the picture on the I.D. before looking back to Olivia. "If you'd like?"
"I'd like to be on the safe side," she pointed out, "I mean, it's not that I am risking going back prison being in Panama and everything." she thought about it, her eyes looking over Nikole getting her bag while slipping her shoes on, "But if I am keeping this thing, I better be checked over."
Nikole nodded, "That would be only logical." She half smiled getting up and putting her own shoes on, putting her silver cell phone in one pocket and her wallet back into the other.
"Yay my first prenatal check..." she waved her hands around while looking over to Nikole. "Maybe see if we can score you some drugs." she pointed out while looking to the hallway while walking to the elevator.
"Thank you, for making me sound like I am a complete junkie, Olivia." Nikole said while she pressed the down button on the elevator.
"I didn't mean it like that," Olivia now pressed the button again while looking to the floor, "Do you think if I can." she stopped, "Just maybe leave a note for Lincoln, in a pocket and he'll know from that he's gonna be a dad again."
"If you want, it's up to you." Nikole lent against the railing of the elevator feeling it moving them down to the lobby.
Olivia kept looking to the elevator door now, "I just keep thinking of," she titled her head to one side. "I'm not very good at telling him, every time I try, it's like..." she watched the doors open.
"The complete wrong timing and something always messed up?" Nikole suggested while they walked out of the elevators, across the Lobby and out the front doors.
"That and that Sofia..." she narrowed her eyes watching the door open, "But then I should be paranoid, she's just, weird." walking through the lobby with Nikole feeling like she was ranting too much.
"Well I know I wouldn't like another woman near my man, either." Nikole blinked for a second before clearing her throat.
"You Mean officer Lang?" she asked thinking about the things her and Nikole talked about, it was really weird to think of what Lincoln would see in Sofia, more of what Alex would see in Lang, her hands playing in her pockets feeling the sun from the sky burning onto her skin stepping out of the hotel.
"Exactly." Nikole bit the corner of her lip looking nervous, "Though - I don't even know if Alex is 'my man'. We never really termed out what we were." She shrugged again waving down a Taxi for them, opening the back door letting Olivia in first.
"Well," Olivia got into the taxi looking to Nikole, "you keep saying that you want to be together, you see him everyday." her hands touching her lap looking to the driver, "I'd say you two are deep in the couple zone."
"El hospital, por favor." Nikole said to the driver. "Si." He responded and started driving. Turning to Olivia, "You think?" She then smiled to herself.
Olivia nodded; "When I was sixteen, I wrote an epic love story, it was kinda like you and Alex, except the leading Lady was me, and the man was Starsky from Starsky and Hutch." she twirled her hair lightly. "I had a lot of free time..."
Nikole let out a little laugh, looking over Olivia again, "That sounds... That sounds pretty interesting." She nodded.
"Well, I was a very imaginative teenager," she kept playing with her fingers, her eyes looking to Nikole. "Also, the fact your story doesn't involved a lot of hugging, cos I didn't know much about sex..."
"Hugging." Nikole laughed, she could count the number of times Alex and herself had hugged on one hand.
"El Hospital." The driver pulled up outside the building, turning around in his cab. Nikole paid him, getting out and waiting for Olivia.
"I was sixteen," she got out of the cab while looking over to Nikole seeing the hospital, "Also how are we going to make this work?" she asked trying to ignore the fact this was the first time she'd been in a hospital in a very long time.
"We'll go in, tell them we're sisters on vacation, I'm a Doctor. Flash the I.D. and get an exam room." Nikole took her wallet out again.
Sitting in an examining room, Olivia kept looking to Nikole sitting on the bed, "this feel weird." she glanced to Nikole, "what are we going to do?" she kept feeling exposed, even it if wasn't something she hadn't seen before.
Nikole had pulled her hair into a ponytail, wearing a lab coat she'd stolen from a rack. "First, we'll do an Ultrasound and see if we can pick up the little Apple seed." She pulled a machine closer to the examination table-bed. All ready wearing white gloves she shook the gel.
"Apple seed," Olivia clapped, "I have an apple seed," she brushed her hand down her arm. "Also, is there and can we talk about the how happy we are Sara is like, a dead woman, cos I feel like doing something bitchy, so this moment isn't too touchy feely."
"Shirt up." Nikole gesture, opening the Gels cover. "I'm happy Sara is dead... I mean, I know that's a really bad thing to say, but - I am. After all the shit I've had to deal with because of that woman."
"Whoa buy me dinner first," she laughed pulling her shirt up, she kept looking to her stomach. Her eyes looking to her stomach, "I remember the first time I was knocked up, I shot out like a missile..." her eyes on Nikole's again. "Then, Michael wasn't even aware, cos he was being big college man."
"Typical men." Nikole said putting the gel across Olivia's stomach in a line, putting the bottle down. She picked up the scanner, turning the machine on, bringing up a black and white nothing before she placed it onto the gel, moving the gel around with it, watching the screen.
"Well this is the moment it's real," she kept looking over the screen, "and I have no idea what I am looking for." she whispered trying to think of how she was taking the whole thing, "plus, I want to think, not long until the escape." she pointed out, "I mean, a week isn't so long."
"One week." Nikole said breathlessly, her eyes watching the screen intently. Moving the scanner again before pausing, "Right there." She said, bringing her finger to point to a tiny little grey and white oval inside a sack. "That's the Apple seed." She nodded.
"Wow, apple seed..." Olivia kept looking, "It's a tiny little thing," she relaxed back, "I really am pregnant." her eyes close trying to think about the mother, getting around to doing it right this time. " Her hands over her face, "Yup Susan gave us one week, the escape is going down tomorrow..."
Nikole's eyes went wide and she almost dropped the scanner she was holding against Olivia's stomach. "Tomorrow?" She felt lost for a second, her stomach knotted. "... Yeah Apple seed, Uhm. Everything looks fine, attached to the Uterine wall, placenta looks great. I think we can rule out the Apple seed."
"So, what would be making me sick, headaches?" she kept looking to the apple seed. "I am having such a cute little baby," she then looked to Nikole, "I know it's a lot to ask, but I don't want to go through labour alone again, I just can, will you be there with me?"
Pressing a button of the keyboard, the image froze for a minute, before appearing in a screen gab at the corner.
Her eyes looking back to Olivia, Nikole looked from Olivia's still flat and perfect stomach to her eyes. "There would be nothing more important happening for me to miss it, of course I'll be there." Nikole smiled. Taking the scanner off her stomach and taking a cloth, cleaning the gel off her stomach. "Got you a picture of the Apple seed." She pointed to the ultrasound printing it out silently.
"My apple seed," Olivia pointed out, "Right now, apple seed is a very catchy name, until it's not that size anymore..." she sat up finally. "Nikole, I know Lincoln is a douche bag, but once you get past the douche bag, he's quiet nice, then he gets mad easy."
"I know what kind of person Lincoln is; I did spend several years of my life fixing his injuries and wounds." She pointed out. "Right, well... You've been out in the sun a lot - how much water have you been drinking? - What colour is your urine?" Nikole raised her eyebrow it was strange to ask Doctorly questions to a friend.
"Erm, drinking, like water?" she asked while thinking about it, her hand waved, "Pee I don't really look at my pee." she then held a hand up, "I, no." she shook her head. "no I don't know."
"You're very informative Olivia." Nikole sighed, "Yes like water." She rolled her eyes, before looking around the exam room. "Open your mouth." She grabbed a tongue depressor, most commonly called 'That pop-sickle stick thing.'
Olivia shrugged, "Ahhh!" she opened her mouth as wide as she could, she kept looking over to Nikole.
Looking around her mouth, using a light to check around, Nikole nodded, stepping back after turning the light off. "You're mouth looks pasty and your Saliva is white and thicker then usual. I'm leaning toward Dehydration."
"So I guess I need to keep drinking," she nodded, her eyes lighting up, "But I really, really am pregnant." her voice dropped, "so I need to first, get myself back together with Lincoln and tell him we're got to fix our shit and have this baby."
Nikole nodded, holding the picture of the Ultrasound out to Olivia, "Your cute little Apple Seed."
"So," Olivia got up, her eyes looking over to Nikole. "Tomorrow," she kept serious, "I think we need to confront Lincoln, tell him, we're here, we're not being ignored, and I want to fuck him." she folded her arms.
"Yes, yes that is exactly what we have to say." Nikole pulled the white gloves off, "Except you can say the last part." She smiled.
Olivia kept looking to the hotel room door while feeling like they were having a competition with the door. "I think like, the more we stare, the less he's going to walk in that door." she kept staring at the door, "He needs to love me, and understand you're not evil..." she stopped, "you're not evil right?"
Looking away from the door, Nikole looked at Olivia with a blank expression, before her eyebrows pulled together, "No! I'm not evil!" She gave a slight flap of the arms.
"You know there are times, where I feel," Olivia inhaled, "slight less mature than you, because I've been in prison most my life, you've lived and all that." she pointed, "but that arm thing just there, well, you're making yourself look slightly retarded, just putting it out there."
"Do you honestly, honestly think, I really care?" Nikole looked at Olivia with a dull expression, "I grew up in Mississippi, I haven't lived at all, unless you count noodling."
"I think extreme fishing is something I've never wanted to do," she pointed, "but take your word that it's fun." she kept glancing to the door, "also, I think the most extreme thing me and Michael did," she paused for effect, "I ate with my retainer in, and he didn't wear his pocket protector..." she nodded, "I know, really, living on the edge."
Nikole had burst out into a fit of laughter, covering her mouth. "Dangerous!" She said while laughing. Looking over her. "Very dangerous, how did you manage?" She giggled.
"I know," Olivia smiled, "but I made you laugh, and you've not really laughed since head in a box." she thought about it, "I wonder what happened to that head, I mean, is it still there? Is it gone? Did someone feed it to their dog? Is the dog now dead?"
"You ask a lot of questions." Nikole pointed out, "Though, I do wonder where that head is now..." She put her finger on her chin as if she was pondering it.
"I find I ask a many of questions, to see a many of answers." Olivia moved on the bed now, "also, I need a drink, cos I don't want to be that woman who ignores the doctor." she took a bottle of water glancing over Nikole, "Want one?"
"Uh, yeah please." Nikole nodded, while thinking about Alex again, reaching into her pocket, she flipped her cell phone open, looking at the unchanged Display picture of his half-blurred face for a long moment before flipping it shut and stuffing her cell phone back into her pocket.
Olivia let out a yawn, opened the cap to the water, then reached for her bag taking her phone out; quickly she typed in a message to Lincoln. Where are you? She hovered around for a moment adding I miss you =C then glanced to Nikole. "I really am getting tired.
"Maybe you should take a nap?" Nikole suggested looking from the cell phone in Olivia's hand to her face, while watching the phone vibrating after a few seconds. Lincoln had replied to Olivia with; 'Oh my way bakc, miss u2'
"Just wake me, when, he..." Olivia slowly closed her eyes after placing her head on the pillow, it seemed like the days were just either really long, or just plain boring for her right now.
When the front door had opened and Lincoln walked into the hotel, using his own key card, he looked around. Going to call for Olivia but Nikole standing in front of him stopped it, but he paused. "Can I help you?" He asked coldly.
Nikole narrowed her eyes, "Shut up Lincoln, you aren't that tough of a guy, you use to cry when I'd rip band aids off."
Olivia rolled over on the bed lightly, her hands under her cheek while looking peaceful, it seemed like being pregnant in this heat wasn't the best thing in the world, but slowly she opened her eyes, "No fight..." she whispered, "It's not good stress, not good..." she slowly woke up more looking from Nikole to Lincoln.
Lincoln and Nikole were glaring at each other before they both looked away at the same time. "I missed you." Lincoln said looking at Olivia with a small smile.
"I miss you too," Olivia slowly got up looking to Lincoln, she walked over to him before hugging onto him lightly, "What's going to happened tomorrow Lincoln?" she asked finally looking into his eyes.
Lincoln had hugged her back carefully, while seeing Nikole still in the room; he didn't want to say anything around her. "Let's take a walk and talk about it." He held his hand out for her.
Olivia nodded while glancing back to Nikole with a small smile, her eyes kept looking to Lincoln now, "Yeah, we've got a lot to talk about..." her voice light trying to remember the real thing that she wanted to talk about, because she didn't really care about the escape right now.
Sitting in the park area of Panama City, on a bench under a shady tree, Lincoln had bought them Ice Cream, while licking the plain Chocolate off the waffle cone, Lincoln looked over Olivia as a warm breeze blew. "All I need to do, it arrange a get away." He'd nodded after telling her everything.
"Right," Olivia kept looking to the ice cream cone, she felt her eyes glancing over his face, "I'm just," she stopped, "You've shut me out, I shouldn't of let you, but..." she kept looking over his cone.
"Yeah, I'm sorry - I just, I keep... Trying to do this and get it done. With as little danger to the people I love as possible." Lincoln kept looking at her.
Olivia kept looking to Lincoln, "I am just trying to," she paused, "Work out the plan you've just told me." she kept looking to her cone now licking it lightly. "I just don't see how this is going to work, but it's happening tomorrow?"
"Yes, tomorrow." Lincoln nodded he kept thinking about L.J. and Elle May, he wanted everything to go smoothly so no one else got hurt.
"That, the beach, where you are meeting Michael, Alex and Whistler." she kept her voice smooth, her eyes kept on Lincoln's licking the ice cream cone keeping everything friendly.
Lincoln almost laughed. "Yeah - Alex." His voice was different, darker. More so possibly letting off the hint Alex wouldn't be coming.
"You know, there is more to life than holding grudges..." Olivia kept still, "I mean, there is a lot that I've wanted to tell you, and it's not all that easy, when you look the way you look right now..." Not feeling that hungry she placed the rest of the cone into the trash.
"Linc," she exhaled looking him over, "Can you," she spoke slowly, "I, well, I'm." she couldn't finish it before looking to his cone, "Nikole, she's the only friend I've had in a long while, and by friend, I mean someone who likes to be around me."
"I like to be around you, Michael likes being around you, Fernando likes being around you, I mean I don't see why you had to make friends with her." He finished his ice cream, his voice wasn't judging but not understanding.
"Wow, a guy who I went to high school with, who dropped me when he went to college, you, who I love, but you're a guy, and Fernando," she waved her arms, "Who's a guy!" she snapped, "I want female friends!"
Lincoln sighed, "I suppose so, but its just - do you really think, Nikole is gonna hang around IF Alex ever gets out of prison?" Lincoln asked her.
"Am I sure you're going to," she stopped talking, "I don't know why you are trying to inflict your lack of trust onto me," she now brushed her hand into her hair, "I mean, if I was hanging about with a guy, ignored you, would you still trust me, cos I trust you with Sofia."
"I don't have any sexual feelings toward Sofia." Lincoln said, "And yeah, I would, 'cause I love you and I trust you enough. Unless I shouldn't?"
"Why would you?" Olivia kept smiling, "I mean it's not like you think she's cute." her fingers drumming carefully, "I am sorry, I am having some emotional problems, lately because I am..."
"Because you are...?" Lincoln asked with a curious look on his face.
"I am," Olivia kept looking behind Lincoln, "Why is she following you?" her eyes narrowed looking to Sofia standing behind them, her eyes to the woman, "Why are you here?" she folded her arms.
Biting her lip. Sofia advanced, ignoring Olivia, "Lincoln we need too." She pointed behind her, her voice casual.
"What? - Oh, oh yeah." He stood up, before looking back to Olivia.
"Oh, you need to what?" she asked, "What?" Olivia now getting to her feet, "I know what you two are going to do, so yeah!" she pointed in Sofia's face, "you can do it all you want, cos I am going." she stormed away feeling like she was going to blow up on the inside.
Sitting outside the Hotel in the little garden shaded area, Nikole kept playing with her phone, contemplating something deeply, before finally flipping the phone open, dialling a long number, putting it to her ear, listening to the silence before listening to the ringing.
Biting her fingernail, nervously. Nikole listened to something pick up. "What?" The voice was distant.
"Hey..." Her voice was light, feeling better about hearing a voice she'd known for a long time.
"... Nikki?" His voice changed to surprised.
"Yeah, it's me." She cleared her throat, looking around feeling nervous for what ever reason.
"Where the hell are you? You've just disappeared off the map for like a week!" He snapped.
"I know, I know ... Greg." She thought of her Godfather. "I kinda... Got into some trouble." She admitted honestly.
"You think? Your home phones disconnected, your house is for sale and no one can contact Kevin either, last I hear you went from Prison Doctor to FBI Consultant." He kept talking.
"Yeah, uh, Kevin and I kinda broke up a while ago." She itched the side of her face, "But I don't really wanna talk about it." She changed the subject.
"Where are you?" Greg asked again.
"South America..." Nikole looked around.
"Why South America? Nikki, what's going on? Why haven't you called your parents?" Greg knew something was wrong, he just couldn't place exactly what.
"I can't talk long, I'm fine... Okay? I just got into some trouble, that I'm working on getting out of, I need you to call, my mom and dad, tell them I'm okay and I love them." She instructed him.
"Why can't you call them? Nikki tell me what kind of trouble?" Greg tried to get answers from her, but listening to her voice, it wasn't the same Nikole he used to hear.
"It's... Complicated." Nikole laughed dryly.
"Come home, I'll pay for your ticket - what ever you've gotten yourself into, we'll get you out of it." Greg was worried.
"It's not that simple, Greg, but thank you - Just call my parents okay?" She didn't want to cry, she kept thinking about life before and life after.
"I will, I will... But... This trouble, does it have anything to do with the Fox River Escape? I heard they were in Panama... Are you with that Agent who led the manhunt?"
"You are so, close yet so far." She rolled her eyes. "I have to go now, I just wanted to tell someone I was alive." Nikole nodded to herself.
"Please be careful Nikole." Greg looked at his watch.
"I will be, take care Greg." She stood up, exhaling.
"I love you, if you need anything... Call me." Greg said.
"Okay, love you too. Bye." She said quickly hanging up the phone.