Chapter 6
„Why the hell I didn't go back to Martha , Jim and my kids?" Julie bothers her head .
Two hours ago, when the phone call came, that the delivery from Heichen is available in the post- office down the hill in this , small beautiful town near by , she decided to say good bye now and drive directly from there to Michael.
Her kids are in such a happy mood with their grandparents, that there was no need to stay any longer. Watching Joshua on dock fishing with his grandfather , exited looking at the water waiting for the big fish and Gina cuddling with her grandmother much more quiet than usually,while listening to the fairytale she read for her, let her feel relaxed. Her kids are in the best hands she can think of and doesn't needs her at the moment was her feeling.
But there is one person that needs her help and she feels somehow like can't let him wait any longer. So she goes to Martha,Toms mother and her loved former mother in law and tells her that she needs to leave now.
Martha was a bit surprised , course it was close to lunchtime and normally Julie would stay for this, but she doesn't asks . After saying good bye to everyone , Julie went to the post-office and get the stuff about Michael Scofield. Those are three big packages and she needed the help from the employee there to get them in her car.
The whole way to Michael's house she was thinking about his sad story and the loneliness that has darkens his eyes, when she with her kids arrived there the day before yesterday. Somehow her heart beats a bit faster thinking about Michael and so she drove very slow up the hill to the house .
Coming around the corner seeing Michael , stepping out of the lake naked and obviously without a towel or something to wear on let her hit the break and stop the engine immediately .
"Damn, how embarrassed he will feel seeing her." she is thinking .
Julie wished she and her car would be invisible now. But on the other side he looks so damn good , standing there, his wet body shimmering in the sunlight. Julie sighs a bit .
She is just supposed to let her car role back a bit to be hidden behind a bush , when she hears another car is coming up the hill .
Michael recognizes the sound of the car , at the same moment as Julie. Fast he turns around moving in direction to the house . Now he has a perfect angle to see Julies car , but he is looking down and it feels like a miracle for Julie that he doesn't see her .
Standing there in the sun was such a great feeling for Michael. It was a bit like the rays of the sun tender stroking his skin , while they dry up the water drops from him. He felt somehow free and ready for everything that will come.
He was in some kind of daydream when the sound of the closer coming car awakes him. A daydream about his kid , his son . Deep in his heart he knows he must have a son and his wife . Sara Scofield ! Sara ! Sara? . Somehow he still feel this strange distance to her . Sure her picture was always in his dreams. But the feeling there is nothing more than a picture hurts him much.
" I need to find her , find a solution , find my past , get my feelings back. !" he is thinking while grabbing his clothes and step inside of the house to get dressed before Max arrives.
A last sight at the wall , makes him feel comfortable . Nothing is to see from his investigations .
He nods a bit , sure that it will work.
He doesn't takes the time to dry his body , therefore it is a bit difficult to wear on his jeans which doesn't slid well along his still slightly wet skin. He skip a bit to put himself in a bit faster course the sound of the car is very close now and before he manage to wearing on his shirt the car stops in front of the house.
" No matter!"Michael is thinking and opens the frontdoor , holding the shirt only in his hands .
" Hey Max you must have been flying up to here …!" Michael says and stop in the middle of the sentence, when he recognizes it is Julie. His face turns a bit into red and the quick movement he does to wear on the shirt let him look like a teenager who get caught by his mum doing something forbidden.
Julie needs to smile a bit about this picture . When the sound of the other car was close enough to hide the noise her car will make when starting the engine , she did this and drove forward to the house.
" Oh , it's you !" is all Michael manage to say first . " I was awaiting a friend !"
Julie smiles while answering : " I tough it must be something like this , course I'm obviously not Max. "
The car from Max comes around the corner now too. Seeing Michael talking with a young , beautiful woman surprises Max.
" Maybe this is what he calls knowing who he is ! He found a girlfriend ." Max is thinking and takes a deep breath. Somehow it feels much better this way.
Max stops and steps out of his car with a big grin in his face .
" Hey John! Now I understand why you let me wait for my stuff. Would you like to introduce me to this lovely person ." he says in an very charming way , that let Michael realize Max is thinking he and Julie are a couple .
With only the hope Julie will take the act , he lays his arm around her shoulder.
" Sure , let me introduce Julie to my best friend and boss Max." he hold her a bit tighter than necessary and pray in his mind that Julie will understand.
" Hello Max!" Julie says with a smile that would let a iceberg smelting
" I need to say sorry for snowing into Johns life and hold him back from work!"
Michael presses her hand a bit and Julie understand he is saying thank you.
After shaking hands and Max putting a lot of compliments on Julie, they step into the house. Julie can't avoid a surprised look in her face, when seeing the wall , but now she knows definitely Michael doesn't wants Max knows about he find his real identity.
" Maybe I should make some coffee for us ," Julie says , " It's a long way from LA up to here."
Max looks grateful .
" Oh yes! Great idea!" he says.
Seeing Julie going straight to the kitchen-corner, find the coffee , which normally is hard to find in this strange, like a first aid kid looking, box, Michael is storing it in, for a stranger , let him calm down.
" He is in love ! This is the meaning of find out who I am. Thank god I doesn't made this damn call." Max is thinking somehow relieved .
He follows Michael to the table , where the model stands and shimmering in the sunlight.
"Wow!" is all Max can say, because it is money what pop up in his mind now , just like Michael planed .
" It's not totally finished Max, sorry . I was a bit distracted ." Michael says and the quick sight he point in direction to Julie did the rest of the work. Max is now caught in the project .
Slowly he turns the model around . Seeing the perfect clear structured walls that also let room for the fiction of endless freedom are much to fascinating for Max , who is an architect with body and soul by his own , let him forget about the burning question that brings him up to here.
Max and Michael starts to talk about the project and if Julie wouldn't have interrupt them with bringing the coffee to them they would have been forgetting about the world around.
Michael pointing a warm smile on Julie , when she hands the cups over , saying :
" I guess I will have mine on the veranda , not to bother you while working !" she says and leave the room.
Max needs to ask now.
" John you need to tell me everything , Where the hell you find her , She is wow just wow!"
Michael feels a bit insecure with answering this question . How should he explain it in a way that Max will believe it .
" Ehm... !" he starts " As she said , she snowed in here , took a wrong turn down the hill and ends up in front of my door with her kids. "
Max looks a bit confused . " Kids?"
Michael feels the change happens inside of Max , when he mention the kids.
" Damn !" he is thinking , but with an gently voice he starts to explain:
" Yes , kids . A boy and a girl and one of them left without the favorite teddy , therefore Julie is here. " Michael biting his lips , The much more curious look of Max face tells him clearly that he shouldn't have mentioned it.
" Yes , they stud here over night and No! there was nothing until now and I'm afraid there never will be if we don't finish this and you disappears from here buddy!"
The knowing look in which , Max face changes now is exactly what Michael wants to see.
After wink at Michael and have a look trough the window to Julie , who sit there on the stairs ,
laying her head a bit back , so that the sun can reach her face fully and let her hair shimmering in this amazing tempting red what makes him sighs a bit , he grabs the blueprints and start to study them. The blueprints are a bit too big for the table so Max take them and carries them to the wall.
" Do you have some pins John? I guess we can talk better when we pin them on here." he says in direction to Michael, while holding it in front of the wall.
Michael's heart skipped a beat when Max goes this close to his secret . Quickly he grabs some pins and take the blueprints from Max saying :
" I'll do this" he goes to the wall and starts to pin them on to it.
Max goes along the wall in his back and look at all the projects that pinned on there. Some of them were very difficult and without Michael they would have gave up on them.
Than his sight falls on Michaels drawings . This drawings were always there and he never looked closer to them . Today is the first day when he fully recognizes those and looking at the last one , the one were the angel wins , the figures have real faces for the first time the picture he printed from the mysteries man starts to burn like fire in his pocket .
It's the same face the devil has …...