Weekend Getaway
~Chapter 3~
The following morning everybody in the Scofield and Burrows household was getting ready for another busy day. Lincoln was in the kitchen making breakfast for everyone. Sara was on the phone in the kitchen trying to find a new photographer as well as trying to get Nicole and Matt to settle down and sit at the table. Hannah walked in freaking out about the photographer canceling on them. "What are we going to do now?" a stressed out Hannah asked.
"We'll figure it out sweetie" Lincoln said giving her a comforting hug. They watch as Sara once again came up empty handed.
"Don't worry Hannah I'll find someone" Sara assured her as she dialed another number. She turned to the twins who were playing in their Seats. "Nic and Matt eat!"
After struggling with them and the phone. Michael finally walked in the kitchen, dressed for work. He took over getting the twins to eat as he sat at the table with Hannah, Linc, LJ and the twins. While they ate Sara stayed on the phone and took notes of different photographers.
As they finished eating Nicole and Matt started playing their favorite game, bug LJ. Michael gave Sara a quick kiss to Sara before he headed to work for a few hours.
"Argh" Sara grunted as she hung up the phone again.
"No luck huh" Linc says.
Sara shook her head. "The guy Michael and I had is booked pretty much until next year."
Linc let out a sigh "Well we can always hope someone calls off their wedding" he gave a grin.
"Lincoln!" Hannah snapped, "That's not right"
Yet his statement made Sara laugh because so far it was their only hope for a decent photographer.
"Look, why don't we go visit my brother, I know he had his friend do his wedding. Their pictures turn out beautiful," Hannah told Linc and he nodded.
As Linc and Hannah left to go see her brother, Sara took the twins with her to run some errands. LJ also decided to go with Sara and help her out. They made many stops including the mall and baby r us. Sara was looking at all the different baby stuff and picked out a few items with LJ's help. After they made a stop at an electronic store where LJ was able to buy some new gadgets for his laptop. Their last stop of the day was the grocery store. As they walked down the aisles LJ held on to Nicole's hand while Matt held on to the cart that Sara was pushing. After a little while the twins were complaining that they were hungry, so Sara gave LJ some money so he could take the twins to the McDonalds across the street to get them a small snack. The three headed off while Sara continued shopping.
As she placed some pasta noodles in the cart she heard a familiar voice. "Sara, Sara!" Looking up she saw Judy Pope walking towards her with a smile.
"Hello dear" Judy said as she gave her a hug.
"Oh my God I haven't seen you, forever" Sara said after they broke. "So how have you been?"
"Good Henry and I have been doing some traveling. While he worked at Fox River we never had the time." Judy smiled "By the way I ran into Michael and the twins back in February. Those two are adorable. Little Nicole looks just like you. They both seemed very well behaved.
Sara grins "They're good at making good first impressions and then they go wild" Sara admits. The two remained talking and catching up with each other. As the two laughed, Sara noticed LJ returning with Matt and Nicole.
"Speak of the devils" Sara said as Matt and Nicole skipped over to her. LJ made his way over and saw the woman who was standing with his aunt. He figured it wasn't a repeat of yesterday since Sara was smiling.
As Sara motioned LJ over, he quickly walked to her side. "LJ this is Judy Pope, I use to work for her husband. Judy this is my nephew LJ" Sara said introducing them.
LJ nervously held out his hand. Usually people from their past hated them and wanted nothing to do with them. Although when he saw her smile and shake his hand he seem to relax a little bit. "It's nice to meet you LJ," she said kindly to him. A moment past and Judy glanced at her watch. "Well I better hurry, I told Henry that I would only be a few minutes. It was nice seeing you again Sara, as well as you two," she said smiling as the twins, who acted shy and hid their faces behind Sara and LJ. "And it was nice to finally meet you LJ."
LJ smiled and nodded as the woman who turned around and walked to the end of the aisle. "So when you said you worked for her husband do you mean." he stopped not wanting to say anything in front of Nicole and Matt.
"Yep" Sara said quietly. "He was the warden."
LJ's eyes widen, "The warden, that can't be good" he thought considering his dad and uncle broke out of his prison. "So why was she being so nice to us then?" LJ asked as they continued walking and placing items into the cart.
"I'm sure they were mad in the beginning, but then Henry help us uncover some evidence and I think it changed his perspective of the situation," Sara said. She turned he head around to see the twins looking at the selection of cereal. "Come on you guys" Sara called as she started to turn the corner. As she turned the cart around the corner, she became face to face with one of the last people she wanted to see. It had been years since she talked to this person. Sara could tell that she was also surprise to see her by the look on her face. Sara took a deep breath knowing it wasn't going to end well with Nika.