Michael stays like made of stone.
"She knows Michael Scofield . She knows me!" his thoughts overwhelm him.
He isn't sure if he should tell her that he doesn't know who he really are, but looking at his wall he realizes that she must feel something is wrong. So he moves some steps in her direction. He look at her with a so sad and at the same time curious gaze, that she feels caught in it. His eyes put her in a prison of emotions. She realizes Michael Scofield is a stranger for himself, badly searching for information about his past.
Before the two can start to talk, little Gina interrupts them. Awaked from the loud spoken words of her mum she stepped out of the bed and comes now to them to say a friendly " Good Morning ". Julie bows down to lift up her 5 years old Sweetie while saying " Good Morning Darling!" But Gina has no eyes for her. The little Girl goes straight to Michael and her arms showing him that she wants to get lifted on his arms. With a warm smile he does what the little sunshine recommended. Gina looking very curious at Michaels shaved face. Carefully she touches his cheek. Her eyes showing some kind of enthusiasm, and with a serious sounding voice she says:
" Wow Mr. John, you should never again miss to shave!" and gave him a wet, smacking kiss on his cheek.
Michael and Julie can't avoid starting to laugh. The tension that was builds when Julie recognizes him, as Michael was gone. Michael kisses the " Princess" how he calls her in his mind, on her cheek too and with saying
" OK! I'll follow your order Princess!" he put her back on the ground.
The whole scene looks like a family idyll, when they sit on the table having breakfast. The torturing questions, which bothers Michaels mind all days, are gone for a while. He enjoys this rare moment of happiness very much. He takes the chair that let the wall being in his back, not to have to look at it.
Gina is talking the whole time, not even stopping when her mouth is filled with a big spoon of flakes, what makes it hard to understand her, about her friends and how exited she is to visit her grandparents and so on. She is the opposite of her 2 years older brother. Joshua is a very quiet, serious child. He is searching for being near Michael. Somehow Michael can feel the sadness that inside the mind of this little boy and tries to give him a bit of the secureness the boy is obviously looking for.
Julie is grateful Michael takes care about Joshua a bit. The boy is so sad since his Daddy is gone and with this new look Michael reminds her a lot on him. Her husband Tom was MIA in Iraq 10 month now and Joshua takes it very hard. He missing the male leading person in his life and Michael with his kind, gentle personality gives him a bit of this so much missed feeling of being protected back right now.
" Why you just don't go outside playing a bit, while John tells me how we find the way to grandma and grandpa?" Julie tells her Kids, when they finished breakfast. Gina is on her way out before she has finished, skipping and running all in one. The
" Gina your jacket!" Julie calls after her is like said in the wind. Joshua makes a serious face, takes it and follows his little sister.
There is no need for Michael to ask Julie what she knows about him. Alone in the house now, she was going to the wall by her own. Seeing the questions in his eyes she starts to talk:
" You are Michael, right and know nothing about your past?"
Michael just nods. His eyes fixed her lips, waiting for the words that must come out any second. The words helping him to understand, the words lighten the darkness of his past, but what Julie says is:
" I'm so sorry Michael. I have no more information than what you already pined on your wall."
Endless sadness is floating back into Michael's face. The brightness of his eyes are showed before is gone. His growing desperation darkens them. Hardly he managed to say:
" It's OK! Maybe I should show you the way back now."
He tries to smile, but Julie can feel and see it's not what Michael feels right now. She feels so sorry for this nearly unknown man and before she was thinking about it she says:
" Maybe I can help you a bit with your research. "
And further pointing at the Michael Scofield article from Heichen P.
"Heichen is a friend of mine. I'm sure she will send me everything she has about the case; if I tell her I want to write a book about it. The kids will stay now 4 week with their grandparents. So I'm alone at home anyway. I can be back here tomorrow evening if you want."
Michael is not sure if he can take this offer, but the deeply wish to find the woman he loves and his child blowing the concerns away.
" Would be so kind of you. " He answers with a raspy voice.
Michael still stands outside the house looking in direction to the corner where the car disappeared 5 minutes ago. In his hand he holds some small flowers, Gina gave him after asking him, with such a cute smile, to bows down and putting one behind his ear like she has one too.
" Good Bye Mr. John, it was nice to meet you!" the Princess says very serious and polite after this and runs to the car where Joshua and Julie already waiting for her.
Michael goes back into the house then. Somehow the wall isn't that menacing anymore, with the knowledge Julie will be back to help him. He takes a small glass from the board to put the flowers in. The stems are much to short and some of them just swimming in the glass, but when he puts this on his desk it give him a warm feeling. The loneliness seems to be gone. It seems a bit like the pulsing life Gina brought into this quiet place is still in the air.
He is very tiered now, because of not sleeping the whole night. Without take off his clothes Michael lays down on his bed. It doesn't takes long and he felt into an, for the first time after years, restful sleep.
Michael awakes when the first rays of morning sun tickling his nose. Looking at the clock he recognizes that he slept nearly 20 hours. In his hand he holds a small Teddy, Gina or Joshua must have forgotten in the bed. A bit childish he starts to speak with the Teddy.
" Good Morning my friend! Ready to start research?" he says moving the bear with holding him on both of his arms in front of his face. He let the Teddy nod and answer himself with a disguised voice:
" Sure Michael. Let's start to work."
While go out of the bed he put the Teddy on his desk beside the flowers and smiles about himself..