I can't believe this is the 50th chapter

I can't believe this is the 50th chapter!!

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Chapter 50: "Team"

Lincoln, Sophia, Sucre, and Jack all sat on the couches in the hotel room the next afternoon. Lincoln was talking to Sucre about the escape. Sophia listened in, eyes wide in apprehension.

Jack was oblivious to it all. She stared out the window, a deep sadness in her eyes. That woman…Susan, had brought back a memory she had tried so hard to suppress. Now the face of Tweener flashed through her mind, young, defenseless and begging for his life. Then his lifeless body, slumped beside the car…

Jack shuddered visibly and curled up into a ball. She leaned against the window for support.

Lincoln glanced over at her for a moment, stopping in mid-sentence. He frowned in concern.

"Jack? You alright?"

Jack shook her head slightly and felt like she was coming out of a deep fog.

"Huh? Oh, yeah…yeah I'm okay."

Lincoln's frown deepened.

"You're lying."

Jack smiled slightly.

"Yeah, I am."

She sighed and forced herself to stand and walk over to them.

"But I'll be fine. I'll be fine as soon as Alex is out of that place."

"It doesn't end there you know," said Sophia.

Jack felt an instant wave of anger wash over her. For some reason she just did not like this woman.

"And how would you know?" she snapped.

"Well if you've done the things Lincoln's told me about, then I'd guess the next stop for you would be prison," replied Sophia smugly.

Jack shot Lincoln a look. He glanced away and refused to make eye-contact. She returned her glare to Sophia.

"You have no idea what you're talking about," she said, seething with rage.

Sophia sneered, "I think I do. You murdered their father and a teenage boy. Prison only seems fitting for someone like…"

Jack whirled around and grabbed Sophia by the neck. She yanked her up off the couch and slammed her into the wall. Lincoln leapt up to help Sophia, but hesitated for a moment. He remembered briefly the fight he had with Alex and Jack shortly before Alex was caught and thrown into SONA. Jack could more than hold her own against him and he was not too keen on fighting her again.

"You listen to me and you listen good," hissed Jack in Sophia's terrified face, "The Company took my parents and held them hostage. The told me that if I didn't do what they said then they would kill them. And you know what? They killed them anyway! So don't begin to even pretend like you know half of what's really going on here…okay?"

Sophia nodded, trembling under Jack's harsh and unforgiving gaze.

Jack, satisfied, shoved Sophia away from her and stalked back over to the window.

Just then, Lincoln's cell phone rang.

"Yeah?" he said into the phone.

"Lincoln, it's Susan. How are we doing?"

"Fine…how's my son?"

"Fine. Is the escape taking place like we planned."

Lincoln hesitated.

"Lincoln?" asked Susan, voice edged with suspicion.

"Uh, yeah, yeah. Everything's going as planned."

"Good. Make sure it does." >>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Lincoln, Jack, and Sophia climbed into the rental car and drove towards SONA. They headed down a back road that had obviously not been used in quite some time.

Soon, armed guards leapt into their path. Lincoln slammed on the breaks and stepped out of the car.

"What the heck?" he asked as an armed man approached him.

He began to rattle off in Spanish.

"What is he saying?" asked Jack, glancing at each guard in turn.

"That this road is a private road," answered Sophia, "We can't go down it."

Lincoln sighed angrily and walked back over to the car.

"Fine. I guess it's time for plan B." >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Jack walked into a local dive shop while Lincoln and Sophia stayed with the car.

She approached the counter casually and smiled kindly to the man behind the counter.

"Hi," she said as she showed him a cooler full of supplies.

"Will that be all?" asked the man, with a heavy accent.

"Yeah," said Jack, "Oh, and do you know how far out the international waters are? >>>>>>>>>>>

Lincoln, Jack, and Sophia drove down to the beach. Lincoln and Jack began frantically digging a hole not far from the water. Sophia stretched out on the sand and threw her head back.

Lincoln kept glancing up at her while they were digging. Jack sneered and shook her head.

"She's Whistler's," she murmured.

Lincoln gave her a sharp glance.

"I know."

Jack smiled, "Yet you don't care."

"The guy's a loser."

"And what do you find about his girlfriend that's so attractive?"

Lincoln shrugged, "I dunno."

Jack rolled her eyes in exasperation.

"Everything will work out okay," said Lincoln, raising his voice so Sophia could hear, "As long as Whistler doesn't play any games."

Jack opened up the water cooler and showed it to Sophia.

"Our getaway vehicle."

Sophia gazed at the contents of the cooler.

"Is that going to be enough."

"Unless Michael decides to pick up some strays," said Jack, "He did last time."

"We're all in this together," said Lincoln, "We're a team now so we need to start acting like one."

Jack glanced away. She was not too big on the whole "team" thing. She preferred working alone…or with Alex.

"Is that understood?" asked Lincoln, giving Jack a hard look.

Jack gave him a mock smile.

"Of course…we're a team." >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The next morning, Lincoln and Jack drove towards SONA. Sucre left earlier that morning for his gravedigger job and Sophia opted to stay behind.

Michael approached the fence and gave Lincoln and Jack a quick nod.

"I need you two to find out where the guard gets his coffee and put something in it."

"Why?" asked Lincoln, confused.

"Not enough time to explain. It's important though…tell Susan. She'll help I'm sure," said Michael bitterly.

"That all?" asked Lincoln.

"Yeah for now," said Michael, uncertainty filling his gaze, "Linc, we have to do this one right. We only have three hours to go…" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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