Ch. 12: Reunited

Sara was awoken to the sounds of her son's happy babbling coming over the baby monitor. She smiled as she heard him have a conversation with himself. It was times like this that she loved the most. But it was also times like this that she had Michael here to share them with. She imagined a life where they could lay in bed together and admire their son's creative mind. He was such a happy baby. All he needed in his life was his father. And all Sara needed in her life was her husband.

She rolled out of bed and made her way down the hall to Mikey's room. She opened the door and her son's conversation with himself ceased as his head snapped up in her direction.

"Mama!" He shouted playfully and threw his arms in the air. For ten months old her baby was a genius.

"Good morning handsome. Did you sleep well?" Sara asked after picking up Mikey from his crib, placing a kiss on the side of his head, and settling him on her hip.

Mikey started babbling and going on and on about things that probably made sense to him in his ten month old brain, but to the average human just sounded like pure gibberish. Sara nodded along and pretended to understand even remotely what he was saying, but felt only pure joy when he would notice she wasn't listening and grabbed her face between his small hands, saying, "Mama," to re-command her attention.

Sara set him down in his high chair and began to prepare his breakfast as she did every morning. After successfully getting about half of the pureed bananas in his mouth and the rest on the floor, Sara picked Mikey up and took him to his room to clean him up for daycare.

20 minutes later, she and Mikey were both dressed and ready for their days. Sara buckled him into his car seat and began her daily drive to the hospital. She had only been driving for a few minutes when her phone began to ring. She saw it was Lincoln and picked up.

"Hey Linc, what's up?" Sara greeted.

"Morning sis. Can we meet for lunch today? Bring Mikey." Lincoln cryptically stated.

"Umm sure, but can I ask why?" Sara responded curiously.

"Let's just say I have an…old friend who wants to see the both of you. Anyway I gotta go, but I'll meet you in the hospital cafeteria around 12:30. Alright see you then." Lincoln ended before hanging up.

Sara was dumbfounded. She hadn't heard this much excitement in Lincoln's voice in a long time. She was anxious for lunch to see what had gotten her brother in law so excited.

She pulled into her parking spot and walked around to car to unstrap Mikey from his car seat. She made her way toward the daycare center.

"Dr. Scofield, hi!" greeted Katie, one of the ladies who looked after the kids during the day.

"Katie, how many times do I have to tell you to call me Sara?" Sara scolded.

"Right. Sorry. How's our little man doing today?" Katie asked.

"Great! He slept great and is a great mood."

"Well when is he not?" Katie asked. "He'll be in great hands here."

"He always is," Sara smiled. "I'll be back around 12:15 to take him out for my lunch break, and then I'll bring him back. Thanks Katie," she said as she handed Mikey to her.

"Bye baby be good," Sara finished as she kissed Mikey on the cheek and left.

Sara started her day as she always did. She made her rounds, checked in on some of her recovering patients. She loved her job as a pediatric surgeon and wouldn't trade it for the world—except for maybe her husband.

After stopping in to check on her recovering patients, Sara made her way to the nurses' station to see if any cases needed her consult. She asked Sydney, her favorite floor nurse, if she had any consults and right when she was about to answer, her 'favorite' person came up to her and threw his arm around her.

"Hey gorgeous. How's the prettiest doctor at Miami Pres?" he tackily greeted.

"Well hello to you to Josh." She groaned and she slid out from under his loose grasp over her shoulders.

Josh was a plastic surgeon at Miami Presbyterian, and possibly the most difficult part of Sara's job. The trouble with Josh, is that unlike the other men who had shamelessly hit on Sara since she began working in Miami, he simply could not take a hint and realize that she was just not interested. Sure he was good looking and all that jazz, but that's where his good traits ended. He had the personality of stick and all he liked to talk about was himself and how great he was. Sara knew all he wanted to do was get in her pants, and there was no way in hell she was about to let that happen. Besides, she was nowhere near being over Michael.

"So how about that dinner date?" Josh asked for what felt like the umpteenth time.

"Maybe some other time," Sara answered without looking up from the charts she suddenly found herself interested in.

"Okay, well you're missing out on a great catch. I hope you know that," Josh cockily smirked and slapped her butt before finally walking away.

Sara rolled her eyes and wondered if he would ever move onto a new girl that actually showed even the slightest amount of interest. She handed her charts back to Sydney and headed to the daycare center to pick up Mikey for their lunch date.

Sara walked through the doors of the hospital cafeteria, Mikey in tow, and saw Lincoln wearing the biggest grin on his face.

"What's got you smiling like that? Is it Christmas morning or something?" Sara joked.

"No. I'm just very excited because we have a very special visitor. Come on out now dude."

Sara's jaw dropped as she saw none other than Fernando Sucre standing before her very eyes. She threw her arms around him as best as she could while holding her son.

"Fernando! What are you doing here?" Sara asked dumbfounded.

"I was just passing through town and realized I haven't stopped by to see my 'nephew' yet. Is this him?" Sucre asked motioning toward the child in Sara's arms.

"It is. Mikey, I'd like you to meet your Uncle Sucre. Fernando, I'd like you to meet your nephew, Michael James Scofield II, Mikey for short. Though LJ has taken to calling him MJ and Linc here has taken to calling him little Mike." Sara chuckled.

Sara, Sucre, and Lincoln spent the remainder of Sara's lunch break catching up, and talking about Maricruz and Sucre's daughter. Sucre informed them that he, Maricruz, and Lila were staying in town for a couple of months to enjoy some sunny weather, a nice break from the cold and windy weather of Chicago. They said their goodbyes, deciding that they would all meet for dinner that night and Sara went back to work. It was nice having Sucre back. In some ways it even made Sara feel closer to Michael.

A/N: Hope you enjoyed chapter 12! I'm trying to write as often as I can and whenever I get spare moment. Sorry if I misled you with the chapter title...but you didn't actually think I would have Michael and Sara reunite without even some sort of climatic build up ;). Anyway I hope that despite my slow update rate I still have a few readers out there. Review to let me know if you're still reading! Much love.