Chapter two
"It's two in the morning!" Don snapped answering his cell phone.
"Its me." Michael said into the phone looking at Emma, Lincoln and L.J.
"Oh. Michael. Tell me you have good news?" He had sat up.
"We're going to help." Michael nodded.
"Good' Come to ..." Don paused.
Emma listened to an address while Lincoln chewed his inner lip. L.J. looked worried.
It wasn't till at least eight hours later. Don was walking the four of them into a room.
"This will be your team. One is already in California." Don opened the door to a brief room.
Emma's eyes looked seeing, Fernando, Bellick, Alex and Katt.
"Papi!" Fernando said quickly taking Michael's hand hugging him, Emma now rushing over to Katt smiling.
"Oh man you look massive!" she laughed while Katt playfully glared.
"Oh shut your face bitch!" she now pulled her into a hug, Emma's eyes now going to Bellick.
"Hello Brad…" she nodded while everyone now turned to Don Self, he was watching them all.
"Ewww Ginger…" Katt whispered to Emma who laughed, her arm wrapped around Katt, but Katt now looked confused to Lincoln and then back to Emma.
"Ok so I am going to make this simple, you get Scylla, then you get freedom, we have a plane ready to take us to L.A, when we arrive more information will be given."
"Question." Katt raised her hand.
"Yes?" Don said looking at her.
Emma feared the worst at the moment.
"Can I put in a request for a Glock?" She smiled.
Emma rolled her eyes. Of course Katt and her hand guns.
"No you can't." Don glared.
"Then I refuse to work for you!" Katt crossed her arms and turned her head. "Besides you're a GINGER!"
Michael face palmed.
Emma covered her mouth. She'd laugh otherwise.
"Well! You can go back to sit on death row!" Don continued to glare.
"Okay fine I will!" Katt headed for the door. Emma grabbed her wrist pulling her back, also Alex gave Don a dark glare to say don't threaten my woman.
The plane ride was horrible, and landing wasn't better, "These GPS ankle monitors, all of you will be required to wear them…" Don said as another agent held the box open.
"Yeah, they don't really go with my shoes…" Emma said while Katt giggled, but Don rolled his eyes.
"I am the boss, and if I tell you to wear an monitor, you will, if I tell you to run around in circles you will, or you will be heading back to prison!"
Emma raised her hand slowly, her face trying hard to keep serious, "Don, Erm not to burst your bubble, but I'm not a wanted convict, and you need to take a chill pill…" Katt burst into a fit if giggles now pointing to Don.
"I wasn't implying you anyways." Don snapped before Fernando stood up. He went and grabbed a monitor.
Bellick followed him in suit. Lincoln grabbed one next, Michael to follow, Then Alex finally gave in and took one.
"You are gonna have to hold me down and force that around my ankle." Katt crossed her arms." And Ginga' you touch me. I will personally stick the monitor so far up your ass."
Emma snickered. "Yeah DON YEAH!" She said but stopped.
Alex placed a hand on Katt's shoulder his eyes finding hers softly, "please, for me…" Katt rolled her eyes glancing to Alex.
"Ok but you can't do that again for another year!" She snapped while grabbing the last ankle bracelet with a dirty look on her face.
The warehouse was huge, Emma stood outside glancing at the size of it before they was all escorted inside by Don.
"Everything you need is here, food, beds, showers computers, vehicles…" Emma glanced around the big table before turning to Face Michael.
"Katt gets the house boat…" Emma was quick, and Bellick cursed, but Katt poked her tongue out.
"I'll leave you, but I am going to check in…" Don said before walking away leaving everyone to stare at each other.
"Right so right now, we have a card holder to find, and not much to go on…" Michael clapped his hands.
It was silent for a minute.
"I want the house boat." Bellick whined.
"No. You don't get it!" Emma snapped.
Lincoln sat against a car bumper. He missed being close to Emma.
Michael went to speak before Katt screamed.
"APPLE, APPLE, APPLE, APPLE, APPLE!!!" She was looking at the table that had a bunch of Macbooks. She was vibrating.
"Oh Jesus!" Michael snapped at her, Alex laughed but it was a sad laugh.
Emma stood by the bars and L.J was close by her, his eyes glancing behind himself, "Emma, you know, his not with Sofia…" He said while Emma moved away from L.J.
He just watched as she walked into the place where the kitchen was, she didn't even look back as Michael was now glancing around.
"Oh finally you get here!" A little Asian boy walked in making Katt jump, her eyes glared she didn't know him, but she didn't think she would like him.
"Who are you…?" Michael asked, and he laughed walking closer to one of the Macbooks.
"I'm Ronald, but you can call me Ron, I'm the computer genius…" he had a smug look on his face, but Lincoln snarled.
"No you're a douche!" he now sat down at the table, he kicked up his feet on the table glancing back to Michael and Ron sat back down on the Macbook.
"Uh, uh!" Katt said quickly looking at Ron. She piled up all the Macbooks and held them close to her. "MINE!" She narrowed her eyes.
Ron blinked. "What is with the crazy chick?" He questioned.
"Why don't you just go SHUT UP?" Lincoln didn't like Ron either.
Ron glared at Lincoln but didn't say anything.
"As I was saying..." Michael restarted.
Katt still holding all the Macs close to her walked into the kitchen to see her best friend.
"Katt, why do you have to make yourself look retarded?" Emma spoke while piling up a tone of junk food on the counter. Katt stared before rolling her eyes.
"Fine I'll take them back…" she casually walked into the main room placing the Macbooks down before patting Ron's head. "Good boy…" she laughed running away before Michael snapped at her.
Emma was now resting against the counted dipping a chunk of beef jerky into peanut butter.
"Ok what happened?" Katt said while Emma looked frozen holding the food close to her mouth.
"No idea what you're on about…" she said while piling the food into her mouth, and Katt no rushed around the counter poking her stomach making Emma squeal. "Katt!" She mumbled through food quickly washing it down with some red bull. "I'm not pregnant, I broke up with Lincoln, I left him in Panama with… Her!"
Katt stared. Sounding dumb; "What?!" She stated quickly. Rubbing her hands over her stomach she protectively looked at the window. "I mean, I get the what...But WHY?!"
Emma sighed. "Katt, I really do not want to talk about it..." She whispered taking another bite of food.
Katt looked at it. It was tempting, for red meat. She then opened the fridge getting a Macintosh Apple. She bit into it.
Emma listened to her crunch it. "Spill it all." Katt narrowed her eyes.
Freezing with her finger in the peanut butter, she sighed, her eyes admitting defeat. "I left him, I was sick and tired of him going on about Sofia, she got shot, and he was all I'm making sure she's ok…" Emma froze with her finger in her mother. "That makes me sound insensitive, but I love him, loved him…" she now folded her arms picking up a lump of cheese, "plus I miscarried two weeks ago…" Emma was glancing to the food still feeling empty.
Lincoln was about to enter the kitchen. He froze and his heart broke. He just didn't know what to do. He listened.
"Emma. I'm ... I..." Katt stammered. You could hear a splat - From the apple. Katt had wrapped her arms around her best friend, her sister tightly holding her but she kept her baby bump away from Emma. She had already worn a baggy shirt and stopped talking about the baby around Alex. It just wasn't fair. "Katt stop please." Emma said freezing on the spot again but she didn't want Katt to let go. She wanted Katt to continue hugging her, it wasn't helping much but it helped. She wished Lincoln would take over for her. But Lincoln was probably thinking about Sofia.
"Linc?" Michael said seeing him staring with a lost expression.
Lincoln snapped out of it. "Yeah?" He turned away from looking at the kitchen.
"What's wrong?" Michael saw his eyes.
Lincoln shook his head slowly.
Everyone was now out and about doing cool things, but Emma sat with Katt in the main room, Ron was typing about on the Macbook, and Emma was simply just sitting glancing over the screen at a picture of butterfly, her eyes wouldn't look away, her whole life she knew what she wanted to do, but right now she had no clue what so ever, and it was annoying to her.
"Emma…" Katt said slowly, her eyes wide, "I know I don't want to rub the baby thing in, but something doesn't feel right…" Katt groaned and Emma glanced away from the Butterfly, and Ron looked up freaked out.
"She's not gonna have that thing now!" he snapped getting ready to run, and Emma rolled her eyes.
"Katt it's probably just wind."
"AHH!" Katt yelled her hands turning into fists.
Emma started at her. "How bad?!" She then realized Katt didn't feel a lot of pain.
Ron stood up and he stepped back away from the table.
"Katt, Chill." Emma reminded her. "It's no doubt Braxton Hicks." She nodded seriously.
"The fake contractions?" Katt winced letting out a breath everything was good again.
"Yeah. Let's time it out. Usually they don't happen in a set pattern and they don't get anymore painful." Emma sounded geek.
Ron sat back down but away.
Katt nodded. Emma looked to the Macs menu clock.
At least two hours passed and she got one ten minutes after the first then forty-five minutes after that Same amount of pain.
"BH." Emma nodded seriously.
"Make it go away!" Katt winced as it hit her again.
"See this one happened forty-five minutes... And they'll stop." She smiled.
Katt closed her eyes before hearing them all come back, "You don' tell anyone!" Katt said lightly, and Emma rolled her eyes heading for the kitchen.
"Emma, we're gonna need you…" Michael said before Emma made it through the door, but Katt jumped up.
"Oh can't need me!" she snapped while Alex rolled his eyes, he was by her side touching her arms.
"No, Emma is easier, plus she's not known around the world…" he said slowly and Katt nodded.
Emma was now frozen still, her eyes had now found Lincoln's she could tell something was wrong, but she put it down to missing Sofia. "What do you need me to do?" She finally said making her way back to the table, her hands touched the surface as Michael stood beside her, and she watched him closely while he informed her about the maid.
Katt on the other hand kept looking from Alex to Lincoln, she could feel the tension, and then remembered that they didn't like each other much.
Lincoln's eyes were not leaving Emma, even when Emma looked away from him.
Oh god he missed her. It was killing him.
"You need to slip this." Michael held up a black card thing. "Into her bag, with out her knowing. We have her route. She takes a bus." Michael pointed to a bulletin board now.
Emma nodded while licking her lip, A Habit from Lincoln. "I can do that I guess." She whispered.
"We'll be waiting at the house to get the info..." Lincoln spoke.
Emma winced as he spoke. It was a rough voice very dark.
"Yeah, I'll do it…" she moved away from them all heading to a room that she had claimed for herself while Lincoln exhaled with her leaving.
"I'm sorry Linc; I honestly didn't want this to be happening." Michael said while Lincoln sat down brushing his hands over his head, his eyes finding Katt.
"What!" he snapped while she glared, her hands lifted up.
"Cabeza de carne!" [Meat head] Katt snapped while slowly getting up holding herself before feeling like she was going to slip over, but Alex caught her just in time.
"What did she just call me?" Lincoln asked anyone while Fernando started to laugh, his voice high.
"She called you a meat head Papi…" he laughed again while Katt hissed at him.
Emma now had come back wearing a nice skirt with a lace white vest top, holding in her hand a cream coloured bag.
"Ok I'm ready…" she smiled, but it was clearly a fake one plastered on her lips.
"WELL DAMN!" Ron said seeing Emma.
Lincoln turned looking at Ron. His eyes were death narrowed.
Ron backed off silently.
Fernando was still amused by Katt's comment.
"Alright, let's go." Michael grabbed the car keys. Emma nodded.
"Let's get this over with!" She snapped. Her smile went away even if it was fake the first time around.
Emma walked to the bus stop, it was easy for her to see who she needed to talk to, but most of all she was happy to be out of the car, even if Michael and Lincoln seemed to be joined at the hip, it was frustrating to know that she was going to be seeing Lincoln a lot more, and it made her stomach feel sick.
"Hi, I just have to say, I'm sorry, but I really like your bag…" Emma smiled warm and welcoming, her eyes seemed to sparkle giving off the 'you can trust I'm not a psycho killer'.
"Oh, yes it's very useful to have, I mainly us it for work." The maid smiled while Emma showed off her bag, her smile keep still, and then Emma glanced.
"Do you mind if I take a look?" she bit her lip slowly and the woman smiled, Emma now held the bag carefully, but without the maid noticing she slipped the device into the bag.
"Oh this is my bus!" The maid said lightly, but Emma simply nodded handing the bag back.
"No it's ok, have a nice day…" Emma waved watching her get onto the bus, and then bus drove away. Looking quickly around herself Emma rushed to get back into the SUV.
"You did well Emma…" Michael said as she reached into her bad taking out a bag of baby carrots. Michael glanced to her in the rear view mirror as she started to crunch on the carrot, Fernando sitting next to Emma glanced at her wrist, he then blinked looking to Emma's face as she clocked on placing the bag back into her bag, and Lincoln was now driving to the house.
Katt's eyes snapped to the car as it pulled back into the warehouse, it was strange to see Emma, but her eyes kept forward as she walked out of the warehouse, and Lincoln Michael and Bellick walked back to the main table.
"What happened?" Alex asked while still rubbing Katt's shouldered, it was his thing to be over protective of the woman carrying his child, and who he had fallen in love with.
"The Maid left it in the house…" Michael said taking a deep breath, and Lincoln nodded.
"So we going to have to break in and get the device back…" Lincoln added while he focused on Katt.
"I meant with Emma…" she finally said while Michael glanced to the outside, Fernando had followed her, and so Katt didn't feel too bad.
"Oh, she's just, Emma…" Michael shrugged now Alex ad Lincoln were all getting into talking about the new plan.
Emma was sitting on the pile of boxes outside the warehouse, her shoes kicked off, her chin resting lightly on her knees.
"Mami, I know this is me being nosy, but I have ask about…" he stopped behind her as Emma's eyes kept looking out to the water. "Why do that?" he said while Emma moved her hands looking to the two neat lines running down her wrist, they were faintly pink, but could tell they were only a month or so old.
"Fernando, I, I had an accident…" She said slowly, her eyes welling up, she kept focused on the waves, but Fernando placed his arms around her, she rested her head on his chest while he let her cry.
Patting her back softly and rubbing it lightly in a pattern. He rocked her, In silence of words. The oceans waves hit against the dock. It was soft, calming. Emma was crying a silent cry but it finally broke into loud sobs. It made Fernando jump a bit. It wrapped his arms tighter around her. "What kind of accident Mami?" Fernando finally asked. There was no answer, just sobs, and squeaks. It was the ugly cry and Emma knew it; but she couldn't stop herself. "I miscarried!" She broke it out. Everything had just flooded over her in one long huge wave. Fernando tensed, "Oh my god. Mami!" Fernando had been talking about his daughter so much, he felt like an inconsiderate git.
"I can't even look at myself, I don't even know what I am anymore, I failed to become a Doctor, I failed as a girlfriend, and I even failed as a mother, I just am fail!" her words harsh as she now stopped crying brushing her face harsh with her hands. Fernando didn't know what to say slowly letting he go and Emma placed her hands by her side.
"You promise me Fernando, you promise you won't tell anyone, not a soul what I just told you!" her voice carefully, and Fernando bit his lip looking to the warehouse, back to Emma. "Fernando, you can't let Linc know, I don't want him to know…" her words a plea and Fernando sighed.
"Fine, I won't tell anyone…" he touched her face lightly watching her eyes, he could see why people would bend to her will, "But you have to sometime… He misses you Mami." his words filled with passion, and Emma started to walk away.
"Well maybe I don't miss him…" A blatant lie, but then Emma had her poker face on so Fernando couldn't tell.
Fernando stared off. Blank faced a little worried. Could this actually be happening? He did not much believe so. But Emma looked real.
She glared for a minute before walking back into the small door she had exited. "WATCH IT!" She glared yelling a bitch fit.
"Sorry." Bellick squeaked. He watched her move quickly to her room, she needed a sweater, and no one can see her arms.
Katt sat in front of Emma in the main room, everyone got to be cool secret agent like breaking into a house, and Emma, Katt and L.J was all stuck back at the warehouse with nothing much to do but play go fish with Katt's playing cards.
"I feel kinda dirty using these…" L.J laughed while glancing at Katt's cards, then to Emma's, but she was being quiet.
"L.J I am so happy you love the cards, but it's your turn!" Katt snapped playfully, and L.J glanced to his cards before looking to Emma.
"Got any twos…?" his voice soft, his eyes kept studying Emma's but he couldn't get anything from her.
"Go fish…" Emma simply said before staring to where the cars normally were, then back to he cards, pulling her sweater over her hands.
"Emma, you know, you can pull that face all you want, but I know your true feelings…" Katt said while staring in her face and Emma looked away, "L.J got any aces?" Katt said quickly, and he groaned placing them down, and Katt picked them up quickly.
"I'm gonna go bed…" Emma finally said placing her cards down on the table, she really was tired, but most of all, it had been a long day.
"Aww. Emz why?" L.J. pouted unpleased.
"I'm SLEEPY!" Emma glared not meaning too. "Sorry... This is just stressful." She rubbed her forehead, pulling the hood over her head.
She turned from them. Walking up the stairs that reminded her of the prison she once worked in. She looked to the beds. Actually their was only one bed and a bunch of cots. She looked at the stuff on the bed. Ron. She pushed it all over violently grabbing a clean blanket she curled on, on the centre on the bed and held her knees close to her. She started crying again.
Katt now stared where Emma had gone when she heard the cars pull up, everyone piling out rushing to the main table looking excited.
"You got it back?" Katt asked while Alex kissed her forehead, and L.J used the time to place the cards down and pretend to not known they were there. Lincoln was glancing around the room, but sighed sitting down.
"Yup, now this can all be over with…" Lincoln said trying to keep calm. Katt on the other hand huffed.
"Yeah don't want Sofia alone too long…" she said getting to her feet making Lincoln's temper snap.
"I'm not with Sofia, so keep your trap shut!" his voice a growl and Alex stepped in front of Katt.
"You want to start something?" Alex asked while Lincoln kept still, his arms folded tight across his chest. "Good, don't take your temper out on her…" he glanced to Katt kissing her forehead again. "It's late, you should get some sleep…" he whispered softly and Katt nodded before staring to Lincoln.
"Well, just so you know, you should of thought of that before keep going on about her in front of Emma…"
Lincoln stared at her.
"And continue on about her, and go places with her, and take her to translate for you!" Katt continued with a dark expression to Lincoln. "I was trying to protect her!" Lincoln snapped back at her quickly interjecting her as she went to speak again.
"YEAH? WERE YOU!?" Katt stepped forward to him.
Lincoln kept his arms crossed. "Yeah I was! Where was Mahone huh? OH YEAH IN PRISON!" Lincoln took a low shot.
"Don't you dare twist this around LincolnAldoBurrows!" She glared. "The BEST way you could have protected Emma would have been to let her know what was happening. AND STOP TALKING ABOUT THAT SMELLY FISH VAG IN FRONT OF HER!" She felt her blood pressure rise.
Lincoln looked lost.
Katt shook her head in disgust. She turned on her heels putting her hands on her stomach she stormed off to the boat.
L.J was staring to Lincoln, his eyes going wide, "You are a jerk dad!" He got up from the table and headed for bed, he didn't want to look at him anymore.
Michael was now brushing his hands over his head, his eyes staring to his brother. "Maybe we all should get some sleep and deal with this in the morning…" he now watched everyone dispatch, Lincoln kept still looking to Michael.
"I am a jerk…" he kicked a chair his eyes glaring out a window feeling his chest heaving, it was all his fault, but he didn't know what else to say before feeling Michael touch his shoulder.
"Linc, just get some sleep man… Tomorrow this will all be over and we can just move on with our lives, Panama, surf shop, remember…" He said slowly, and Lincoln turned around to face him.
"Yeah…" he now headed off to bed.
The next morning everyone say around the table, it was all on Ron and his mad skills with computers, and Emma had cut hole in the cuffs of her sweater to place her thumbs through, she kept her eyes on Ron, but got to her feet, Lincoln watched he leaving the room, Katt staring at Lincoln with a dark glare, she wasn't going to drop it, and then she watched Michael follow her out of the warehouse, Katt felt bad, everyone was following Emma, but she, she didn't want to be too close to Emma, maybe she felt guilty about being pregnant herself, not wanting to rub it in.
Emma stood looking to the water, her hand brushed a tear away from her eye, she hated crying, it was something she was sick of doing, it made her feel weaker than she was.
"Emma, why are you doing this to him…?" Michael asked as she kept looking forward, she didn't have to explain anything to him.
"Michael, if you knew what was good for you, you would leave me alone, after today, I can go back to my life…" she said while thinking about her place in the world, her eyes stared to the boats passing by.
"He doesn't love Sofia, his not even with her, she's helping him with a surf shop." Michael said touching her arm, and Emma shrugged it off.
"Michael, for once, just once in your life can you be selfish, not give a crap about other people, cos most of them don't give a crap about you!" she turned around to face him her eyes red and blotchy.
"I just want to be alone…"
Michael was staring for a long, long moment. Hurt ran across him. "Yeah. Okay. But... Lincoln doesn't even like her. It's just the shop." He was being honest.
"Uh huh ... Lemme guess, long hours together, working by the TV light, eating take out Chinese!" Emma snapped.
Michael blinked. "No, nothing like..." He sighed.
"Just! Leave me alone Michael! Please!" Emma felt the tears running harder down her face. She couldn't stop that anymore.
Michael glared for a long minute. He didn't want to give up on this. Michael couldn't give up. If Michael gave up ... Everything died.
"Pickle!" A voice cut in.
Emma took in a deep breath taking this chance she walked farther away from Michael across the docks, her arms around herself.
Michael looked up seeing Katt standing in the door frame in her jeans and baggy shirt, showing no signs on being pregnant.
Coming to think of it, she hadn't said much about the baby either. "What?" He said in a sign, his fingers playing up pinching the bridge of his noise. "We have a problem..." She voice was silent.
"What do you mean?!" He said sharply looking at her walking close to him.
He hated Katt, he hated her for being such a bitch to Sara, hated her for being so mean to Lincoln, hated her for being with the man who killed his father.
"Scylla... It's uhm." She itched her head.
"WHAT!" Michael snapped finally his yell echoed.
It made Katt jump and glare. "It's ... Six pieces..."