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Chapter 49: The Gravedigger

At the hotel…

Jack turned her back to Sophia and murmured to Lincoln.

"Linc, we need to go talk to the gravedigger…remember?"

Lincoln nodded but glanced over Jack's shoulder to look at Sophia.

"Yeah, but what about her?"

"Who cares about her?" hissed Jack, "She'll be fine here."

"I'm not staying here!" said Sophia.

Jack rolled her eyes and turned around to face Sophia.

"You don't even know what we're talking about."

"I don't care! I'm not staying here while you two go out and do something. I want in on this!"

"We did tell her she was part of the team," said Lincoln.

"So?" asked Jack, her annoyance causing her to become impatient, "We have things to do. She's just going to hold us back."

Sophia sneered, "Stop acting like you know me!"

"Would you just shut up?!" said Jack, angrily, "Stop yelling like a freakin' two year old, okay?"

Sophia glowered at Jack.

"I'm coming with you," she said through clamped teeth.

"No, you're not."

"Yes, I am."

"Would you both knock it off?" said Lincoln, rubbing the side of his head.

Jack glanced back at Lincoln.

"Linc, she's a set back to our plan. She won't help us, she'll hinder us. She obviously has never been in a fight before and there's no way she'll be able to handle what's out there…no way."

"I know," said Lincoln, "But she'll just follow us if we try to leave her here."

"That's right, I would," said Sophia.

Jack glared at her for a moment before she turned back to Lincoln.

"Not if we tied her up," she muttered under her breath.

"Jack…"

"I know, I know…I was just kidding."

Lincoln sighed and shook his head in exasperation.

"Alright, let's go."

Lincoln, Jack, and Sophia drove towards SONA in their rental car.

"Thanks for letting me come," Sophia said sweetly to Lincoln.

Jack sneered and gave her a look.

"Just keep quiet, princess. This isn't some little game, people could get hurt."

"I'm not a little girl, you know," retorted Sophia, "I can hold my own."

"Yeah, we'll see."

Sophia opened her mouth to argue when Lincoln pulled over to the side of the road.

"There he is," said Lincoln as he got out of the car.

The gravedigger was sitting in front of what looked like an old shack, working on a car. Lincoln, Jack, and Sophia climbed out of the car and approached him.

Sophia began to speak to him in Spanish. After awhile Lincoln appeared to be agitated.

"Well, what's he saying?" he asked Sophia.

Sophia frowned.

"He wants fifteen thousand. But you said ten thousand, right?"

"Yeah…that's right," answered Jack, "Tell him he'll get what we agreed on."

Sophia did but the man shook his head in protest.

Jack's eyes flashed in anger and she tried to approach the man. Lincoln grabbed her arm and pulled her back.

"It's okay," he said, "We'll tell Susan and see what she says."

Sophia repeated the message in Spanish to the man. The man nodded and gave them a smile as he turned back to work on his car.

Back at the hotel…

"Susan," said Lincoln into his cell phone, "The gravedigger wants fifteen grand now."

"Meet me back at his house within the hour," replied Susan, "We'll take care of this."

Lincoln hung up the phone and glanced over at Jack and Sophia. They were sitting on opposite ends of the couch. Then Lincoln froze. The couch…the same couch Sucre had been lying on. Where did he go?

"Where's Sucre?" asked Lincoln.

Jack looked up and shrugged, "Haven't seen him."

Just then, Sucre walked out of the bathroom fresh from the shower.

"So, are you going to help us?" asked Lincoln as Sucre walked over to them.

"Um…I don't know…"

"If you're not going to help, then get lost," said Lincoln angrily.

Jack raised an eyebrow in surprise. She knew these men had been friends back in Fox River so it seemed odd that Lincoln would snap at him like that.

"They've got my son!" he yelled, "So if you don't want to help, then you're just getting in the way. You have till the end of today to make your decision."

Sucre hung his head and refused to make eye contact with Lincoln.

"Let's go," muttered Lincoln as he motioned for Jack and Sophia to follow him.

The girls exchanged a confused look, but obeyed and followed Lincoln out of the hotel room.

Back at the gravedigger's house…

Susan stood, arms crossed, glowering down at the gravedigger.

Lincoln approached the man and handed him the fifteen grand. The man immediately began to rattle off in Spanish.

"He says he wants more," said Sophia.

Jack sneered in disgust and looked at Susan. Susan did not respond. Jack had had enough.

"That's it," she muttered.

She stalked up to the man, grabbed him by the collar, and threw him onto the hood of his own car.

"You'll take the money and you'll do as your told," she snarled, even though she knew that he did not understand a word of what she was saying, "Comprende?"

Susan stood back and smiled in approval.

"Well done, Jack," she crooned as she approached them, "Very well done. It might have worked to."

"What are you talking about?" demanded Jack as Susan stood beside her.

Susan did not reply. Instead, she quickly pulled out a gun, placed it against the man's temple and pulled the trigger.

Jack was instantly covered in blood. Her eyes widened in horror as she slowly stepped away from the man's body. It slid off the hood and landed heavily on the ground. Jack held her bloody arms out in front of her, gaping in shock.

"You…you killed him," she whispered in disbelief as she looked at Susan.

Susan smiled, "He was of no more use to us. He would have just sold us out."

Jack glared at her in fury. Tears welled up in her eyes.

"How can you do that!?" she screamed, "How can you just…just blow someone away like that!?"

Susan shrugged, "It's no different than when you killed Apolskis."

Jack felt her blood turn to ice. Guilt stabbed her like a knife as she flashed back to the image of Tweener's bloody body, lying on the ground just like the gravedigger.

Susan smiled at the look of horror and terror on Jack's face.

"See…we're not so different after all…"

That night, Lincoln and Jack met up with Michael at the fence. Sophia stayed at the hotel, too shaken by seeing the gravedigger murdered to come with them.

Lincoln had waited for a smart comment from Jack, but she was too engrossed in her own terrible thoughts to pay Sophia any mind.

Jack scuffed the dirt as they waited for Michael. Finally, he came out of SONA and approached them.

"Hey…what's wrong?" he asked as he saw the distant look in Jack's eyes.

"We had a little incident today," said Lincoln carefully, "The gravedigger's dead."

Michael shot an accusing look at Jack.

"No, it wasn't her," said Lincoln, quickly, "It was Susan."

Michael nodded, but did not take his eyes off Jack. The distraught look in her eyes bothered him.

"But it's going to be okay," continued Lincoln, "Because Sucre's the new gravedigger. I guess he couldn't abandon his old friends after all."

Michael smiled faintly.

"Yeah, well that's good," he said as he looked back at Jack, "I um…I have a little surprise for you."

Jack looked up for a second.

Just then, Alex strode out of SONA.

Jack's eyes seemed to come to life at the sight of him. Her breath caught in her throat and she pressed herself against the fence.

Alex ran over to her and did the same.

"Hey, sweetheart," he said, voice rough and strained, "How are you?"

"I'm okay," said Jack, narrowing her eyes, "But are you?"

Alex's eyes were surrounded by dark black circles. He was trembling and sweating. His face was pale and he looked like he hadn't been eating well.

"SONA isn't that great of a place," he chuckled, "I'm…I'm okay. It's…it's just withdraw from the pills."

Jack nodded slowly, concern etched in her every feature.

"Look," said Lincoln as he turned back to Michael, "Susan has the bird book…the real one."

"Don't worry about it," said Michael, "We have another problem on our hands."

"What's that?"

Michael glanced back over at Jack and Alex. They were murmuring quietly to each other. Alex slipped two fingers through the fence and rubbed a few strands of Jack's hair. His eyes conveyed the longing he felt to be with her.

"Michael?"

Michael shook his head to clear his thoughts and turned back to his brother.

"Uh, yeah sorry…I need a van by three p.m. Not tomorrow, but the next day. I need it parked in that place we talked about a while back. Remember?"

"Yeah…yeah I remember," said Lincoln, furrowing his brow in confusion, "But why three o'clock and why two days from now? I thought we were doing this thing tomorrow night?"

"We can't do it in Susan's time frame."

"Michael…"

"We're going to do it the day after tomorrow," said Michael earnestly, "And…we're doing this in the middle of the day…"

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