Four years later….
Emma sat down on a bench, it was a sunny day, in the yard of her home she shared with Lincoln, little Robert was sitting in a sandbox with another little girl who was pouring sand on his mousy brown hair, her hair was a soft blonde her curls relaxing around her heart shape face, and Emma closed he eyes pulling her long hair back.
"Katt you need to remind your daughter, my son, isn't a thing to try and burry!" her voice chuckled as Katt sat beside her placing her lemonade on the table.
"Sarah!" Katt yelled over to the sandbox, "Stop being mean to your cousin!" she added while Sarah Em-Lee looked up placing the mini spade down, her eyes going wide and innocent like, Robert on the other hand shook the sand out his hair while playing with his trucks.
"So how you feeling?" Katt asked Emma, she was rubbing her hands into her hair more; it was a nice summer day, the smell of barbeque food filled the garden. Katt's hair was neatly up in a pony tail as cheers could be heard from the porch door.
"Nando!" Katt called getting to her feet before giving him a hug, Emma got up hugging Maricruz, holding a little baby boy, and looking to Fernando with love in her eyes.
"Maricruz his beautiful…" Emma said while she smile, and then little Isabella stopped her foot. "You're adorable too…" Emma added touching her nose, and she smiled up to her daddy. "Robbie's in the sand box with Sarah…" Emma said while Isabella looked to the sandbox running.
They all turned looking at Isabella climbing into the sand box. Robert and Sarah both are hugging her in their childhood way before sharing toys. "LOOK!" Sarah yelled pointing at her new shirt that said; 'My mom is a fire fighter.' It made Katt smile prouder at her. Sarah loved showing off her stuff but not in the greedy way.
"Pretty." Isabella smiled.
"Least they get alone now!" Emma snickered.
"Oh remember when! Robert use to bite Sarah?" Maricruz started to laugh brightly. "He was teething!" Emma defended her son with a laugh.
"Mhmm!" Katt snickered. "Are you expecting again?" Maricruz remembered Emma talking about trying to have another baby. She seriously thought they just liked an excuse to get it on hard core. "Maybe....." Emma winked making gesturing with her hand. Maricruz gasped.
"EMMA!" She covered her little boy's eyes.
"Hey! I'm not a child factory unlike this one!" Emma ruffled Katt's hair.
"Hey!" Katt snapped. It was silent.
The men walked out of the house, Alex holding a beer in one hand and holding another little girl on his side. She looked three.
"Just because... My eggs are less confused about where to go!" Katt joked smiling at her husband and her second daughter Scarlet Natalie Mahone or as everyone liked to say 'SNM'
Lincoln back up behind Emma kissing her neck softly.
"Well Emma, she will be pregnant, when it happened, we just have fun until then…" he nuzzled into the side of her neck as Fernando laughed.
"When's Michael gonna get here?" he said while Emma was giggling, it was a party and Michael was always the last person to arrive.
"His just picking up some chocolate sauce, we ran out…" Lincoln said looking to Emma who was blushing.
"Ewww, seriously, no one wants the mental picture…" Katt held her hand over her eyes, and Alex chuckled placing his beer down before letting Little Scarlet run to the sand box to play with her sister.
"Don't blame me…" Emma said holding her hands up, but everyone now looked to Michael as he walked into the back yard with a cake, it had four candles on it, and he was smiling bright.
"Four years of freedom today…" he said moving the cake to the table.
"FREEDOM CAKE!" Katt yelled her hands going from her eyes to the air and she jumped.
Emma laughed at Katt. "Oh wow." She looked at Michael. "Where's my sauce?" She said alluringly.
Michael rolled his eyes. "I got the ... Strangest looks in that shop." He pointed to the kitchen. "I left it in there."
"You didn't use any did you?" Emma watched Katt jumped onto Michael's back hugging him.
"NO!" Michael laughed going red.
"Good because that one time... That one time ... Just ... No." Lincoln waved his hand and shook it off.
Fernando started to laugh harder then before.
"Ewww." Katt jumped off Michael. Who had rolled his eyes.
"Used half a bottle of my sauce." Emma bit her finger sexually. Lincoln snickered kissing her again holding her hips.
"Seriously, get a room; you two are just like animals…" Maricruz laughed while seeing L.J coming into the garden his arm around a young girl.
"L.J, Beth, you two got here just in time…" Emma broke the kiss looking to Michael starting to light the candles, it didn't seem that long ago, they were all in Fox River, it was like a distant dream, and Emma stood next to Katt placing a hand on her shoulder, Lincoln and Michael stood close to each other, and Fernando and Alex watched the burning candles.
"We did it, we got everything we wanted…" Michael said quietly, his eyes looking to Emma and Katt, "Can we have a moment of silence, to remember the ones who fallen, so we could be here today?" Michael whispered as everything went still.
Michael thought of Sara, he remembered her face, her smile.
Emma closed her eyes remembering Bellick, even if a complete jerk he was a good man in the end.
Fernando thinking about Westmoreland, the old man who was trying to find his daughter in time, it was a sad thing to think.
Katt remembering David, he was a child, he didn't need to die, her eyes going over to Alex who felt bad about the things he done.
Lincoln now thinking of his father, he didn't care what Christina said, but then in curiosity Michael and Lincoln had DNA tests done, she was a good liar, they was in fact brothers, Aldo cheated on Christina, and got the woman pregnant, so Lincoln and Michael were brothers after all.
"Okay..." Michael said lightly. He brushed the small tears from the corners of his eyes. They always came around this time of year.
For everyone, His eyes looked up catching Lincoln's who was smiling a content smile. Life was prefect right now, Prefect. Emma looked from Alex with a smile to Fernando. Fernando looked at his wife. He kissed her lightly. L.J held Beth close to him, His arms around her waist. It was normal... Even if people still stared at them, even if, people knew the story, they knew the exonerations...
"We did it." Katt almost started bawling.
"Yeah..." Emma sounded surreal it was hard to believe no matter what. They did the things they did. None of this would have been remotely possible if Michael hadn't looked into Lincoln's case... Cared so much about this brother ... To make this plan.
Emma looked around, "Oh crap, I gotta, I'll be right back…" she rushed into the house, and this had to be it this time.
Lincoln, Michael and Katt now started to pass out the cake, even the kids ran out of the sandbox to get cake, they didn't understand yet why they did this every year, but soon they will, and Fernando helped Alex sit the kids down at the kiddie table giving them all a piece of cake.
Everyone's eyes snapped to the house, a blood curdling scream was heard, it was enough to put everyone on edge as Lincoln held the knife tight in his hand, Fernando protecting the children as Alex started to look bad ass. Emma ran from the house waving a little white stick, and everyone relaxed.
"I'm pregnant!" Emma waved it more, "I'm gonna have another baby…" she screamed again, but Katt held her chest looking relieved.
"Emma, stop waving the pee stick around!" Katt snapped getting up to look at the test, but Lincoln was frozen on the spot dropping the knife to the table, his eyes wide, but Michael tapped his shoulder, "Congratulations bro…"
Emma smiled to Lincoln, and everyone raised their glasses, freedom, living like real people. It was finally over.
The end….