Taking a deep breath Phoebe opened the door and walked into the long and narrow grey room and kept walking until she saw her brother sitting in a small stall with plexiglass right in front of him. Phoebe's eyes met up with her brother's and she watched as his attention soon diverted from her and onto her pregnant belly and she watched as the corners of Neal's mouth curved into a smirk. He looked the same as always, but then again Neal never really changed except looking a couple of years older from when they last saw each other. Taking a seat on the metal stool in front of her Phoebe reached out and grabbed the phone that was to the right of her.

"Hey Pheebs…"

"Hello Neal, it's been a long time." Phoebe quietly replied, saying the only thing that soundly vaguely appropriate given that she hadn't visited him once or replied to any of his letters once since he had been sent to prison, the first time anyway. Before he managed to escape.

"It has, you look good Pheebs." Neal began with a small smile. "So your pregnant Phoebe? That's great, how far along are you?"

"Twenty weeks, I'm due early next year." Phoebe said placing a hand protectively over her stomach, it was weird for her to see Neal so excited and enthusiastic despite his rather grim prospects. Although he had always been a rather optimistic person whilst Phoebe was always the realistic one out of the two of them.

"The father?"

"We're not involved anymore." Phoebe replied choosing to remain vague on the subject as she didn't come here to talk about herself or her unborn child and their father. She came all this way to talk to Neal and about him. "Three months Neal, that's how long you left on a four year sentence and yet you decided to break out of prison. What the hell were you thinking Neal? Forget that question because you clearly weren't thinking when you decided to break out of a superman prison!"

"It's Kate."

"Three months Neal, you couldn't have waited?" Phoebe asked with an exasperated sigh, like she said before Neal was a hopeless romantic that much so that he didn't seem to realize the consequences of his actions. But then again that was the thing with Neal, he tended to shoot first and ask questions later. It was one of the traits that Phoebe found most annoying about her brother.

"You would never understand Pheebs." Neal stated.

"Your right I don't get it Neal. Unlike you I don't let my heart dictate my heads, I get that you love Kate but what difference would it have made waiting three months? Either way she'd still be gone and you would have been free to look for instead of being locked up here for another four years."

"Perhaps." Neal replied and Phoebe didn't like his tone of voice or what he could possible insinuating especially if he was talking about another jailbreak. If he was she didn't want to know.

"I've had Peter Burke sniffing around, not that there's anything for him to sniff out but I've had him at my office. I thought my days of having the FBI watching me, bugging my phones and showing up at my home and office un expectedly with a warrant ended when you were put in prison. I can't deal with that again and all the stress it brings especially while I'm pregnant Neal."

"Pheebs…"

"I don't want to end up like mom, I won't end up like her." Phoebe firmly sated, her voice wavering slightly as she brought up hers and Neal's mother, who wasn't the most stable of parents. The two of them didn't talk about their past, they kept it closely guarded but at this moment Phoebe pushed that aside in order for her brother to know how serious she was being.

"Your not going to Pheebs as your not mom and you won't end up like her as you won't make the same mistakes that she did. I know that your going to be a great mom." Neal offered.

"I can't take that chance especially if you're in my life, you're a conman Neal, you make your living out lying and stealing things from other people and I can't have that in my life anymore."

"I never conned you Pheebs, I'd never do that." Neal firmly stated.

Phoebe shook her head, whilst she believed that Neal never had or would never attempt to con her it didn't change things, it didn't change who he was. "But you lied to me Neal and in your line of work it's pretty much the same thing, you were convicted of bond forgery but you've been suspected of counterfeiting, securities fraud, art theft, racketeering and don't even get me started on that Raphael that you stole…"

"Allegedly! That's never been proven." Neal retorted.

"But it must do wonders for your career, having people think that you've 'apparently' stolen and fenced such an impressive piece." Phoebe said with a sigh. "How can I have a child and allow you to be in my life? What happens when I'm trying to teach them right from wrong and he or she say to me but mommy Uncle Neal does bad things all the time? Try and explain that one Neal, I'm all ears."

"Come on Phoebe, your making me sound like a criminal!" Neal said.

"You are a criminal Neal, hence the reason why your locked up in prison." Phoebe pointedly said.

"That's not what I meant and you know it Pheebs, it's not like I've killed people or I go around beating people up for money. It's not like anyone gets hurt in what I do!" Neal said in an attempt to justify his profession.

"But that's where your wrong as someone always gets hurt Neal, you just never stick around long enough to see. I'm sorry about Kate but like I said I can't do this anymore, take care of yourself…" Phoebe began as she rose from her stool.

"Phoebe!"

"You're my big brother and I will always love you and that will never change, goodbye Neal…"