Fallen
#10
Prison Break and all it's characters and their crimes belong to the masterminds who are credited on the show. I am unfortunately not one of those masterminds. Cali, however, I'll take credit for. Please read and review, most importantly, enjoy!
Veronica and Nick were driving back to Veronica's office to call Cali. Thus far, the ride had been silent.
"Thanks for covering me back there. When Lincoln asked if she thought he was guilty, I mean. It was hard for me not to just tell him that it's Cali." Veronica answered truthfully.
"It was no problem." Nick replied. "Look, I know it's none of my business, but why did Cali leave in the first place? I mean, if she's always believed that Lincoln was innocent, why didn't she stay for his appeals?" He was right, it wasn't any of his business, but they are all in this together and it didn't seem fair to keep him out of the loop.
Veronica sighed, Cali would kill her if she knew that she was going to divulge this information to Nick.
"Cali and Lincoln have always been close. She could relate to him better than she could to me, with them being similar personalities and all. They can see through each other like you wouldn't believe. They almost had to remove her from the courtroom when he was sentenced. She and I would get into arugments all the time. She thought that I should think more like her. She always said that I had been blinded by the evidence and ignored what I felt in my heart. I always said she was blinded by Lincoln and "simply neglected to use any common sense she had".
"My parents hated that she and Lincoln got along as well as they did, and disowned her when she refused to change her mind about him. A year after Lincoln was incarcerated something happened between Cali and Michael. I think that was the straw that broke the camels back. The next thing I know, she up and leaves the state. Leaves me a note in my mailbox saying that she took off. With all the animosity between she and my parents, the fact that she and I never spoke in a civil manner, the thing with Michael, and the fact that the person who knew her best was on death row, she just didn't have anything to stay here for."
"In the past four years she has never spoken with my parents, Michael, or myself. After Michael was arrested I had managed to get her phone number from Jen, hoping that if I called her and told her what was going on she would come back. So, I called her and got her voicemail. It was the recorded message, you know, the robotic voice, she always hated leaving messages it didn't matter if they were incoming or outgoing. I left a message and called back the next day, only to find out that she had that number disconnected. And well you were there for the rest."
Veronica felt relieved to finally get that off of her chest. After Cali had left, everyone acted as if she had never existed. Veronica tried to talk to Michael about it but he would always change the subject. So, finally she gave up, and after she called Cali and heard "The number you are trying to reach had been disconnected" she wasn't so sure she wanted to find out why Cali had left.
"Do you think that she'll be able to get Michael to stop doing whatever it is he's doing?" Nick asked. Veronica knew that Michael would stop for no one, but she also knew that no one had a relationship with him like the one that Cali once had. "Stop him? No. Find out what he's up to? Let's hope so."