"Okay" Michael said, agreeing to our plan, he turned to Cooper "I think you better go"
"You sure?"
"Yeah. Thank you for your help, but, uh...there's nothing more you can do for us"
"Doesn't feel right just leaving"
"I don't think you want any part of this. Thank you" Cooper left. "It's ten minutes away, right?"
"At least. Listen, this doesn't work, we're gonna need a way out. For good" Lincoln said.
"Well, that's on you" Michael replied.
"Yeah. What about Derrick?"
"Derrick Sweeney?" I had no idea who that was.
"Yeah"
"You think he'll be up for this?"
"Yeah"
"All right. This is your neck of the woods. You wanna meet at the park?" Michael said to me.
"Uh, how's Third and Racine?" I asked.
"Third and Racine. Uh..." He checked his watch "3:15, the corner. I'll be there. If anything happens...I love you both" He walked out of the room, Lincoln followed, I continued packing my bag.
Once I had finished packing I heard a noise from the door. I walked towards it a bit, seeing someone try to open it. I looked round for a place to hide, diving under the bed as someone kicked the door open.
I watched the man's feet go past and the door closed. I let out a sigh of relief, and crawled out from under the bed. I got my phone and flipped it open, turning the corner I came face to face with Mahone, who was pointing his gun at me.
"Sit down" He said. I moved to sit on the sofa, near the window where he sat on the widow sill, keeping his gun pointed at me.
"When were they here? Five minutes? Ten minutes?" He said, I didn't know how to answer.
"They were never here" I decided to say.
"No, no. They were here. I know they were here. Where did they go?"
"I don't know. We've split up. I haven't seen them for days" I said.
"No, you do know"
"I don't care if you believe me or not"
"No plans to meet, no phone calls"
"I'm telling you the truth"
"He's not gonna call you?" He shouted, I got fed up and slammed my phone on the table. "Don't lie to me. You don't wanna do that"
He went back to the window, and got out his PDA. His hands were shaking, he took out his pen and took a pill out of it.
"You know, It's not hard for me to spot a junkie, when he's doing drugs right in front of me" Mahone didn't look at me when he popped the pill "You mind me asking what you're taking?"
"Here, you want one?" He said.
"No, that's okay" He threw me one.
"Save it for later" I looked at the pill, still not knowing what it was.
"I'm sorry, but I have no idea what these are" I said.
"Varatril. Benzodiazepine's is a hard-core tranquilizer" He said.
"You take these everyday" I asked.
"Twenty milligrams"
I kept quiet, knowing that, that probably wasn't a good amount but not wanting to get on the wrong side of him. Well obviously I was already on the wrong side but being quiet couldn't hurt my chances.
We were quiet for a long time, until Mahone suddenly stood up.
"I don't wanna do this. I really don't"
"What are you...what are you talking about?" I stuttered.
"You can't say that I didn't give you a choice...but you never...you never take the easy way. You...And I noticed that about you. You... " He put his gun on the table I should never expect it to be any different but I have a job to do...a job that I'm being made to do" My cell phone rang.
"Pick it up, Sara. Sara, pick it up. Pick up!" He lunged for it, but I threw it on the floor. And as Mahone reached down for it I picked up the gun, pointing it at Mahone.
"Wait, wait. Don't move. Just...uh...don't move. Okay, I need the phone. Give me the phone" He handed it over. "Stay right where you are. Please" I backed out of the room, running down the stairs.
I rang Michael "Hello?" He answered.
"Michael quick. Mahone was in the hotel, I need to meet you somewhere where they won't find us.
"Riley it worked" Michael said.
"The pardon?" I asked.
"She's announcing it any minute" Michael said happily.
"Okay can you come and get me?" I asked.
"Yeah where are you?"
"I'm near the hotel still, I'm … I don't know. Near a warehouse on fifth. But I don't know what will happen if you come and get me, will they find us?" I panicked.
"Calm down, calm down. I'm on my way. We can work around anything they throw at us" He said.
"Thank you" I hung up the phone, checking to see if anyone was following me, but didn't see anyone.
Michael came to pick me up, and thankfully no one saw us.
"Oh my god, what happened?" I asked about his face.
"Don't worry about it" I raised my eyebrows.
"Michael, that looks so painful" I sighed. "Let's just find a first aid kit"
"We will, when we get on the boat"
"What boat? Why are we going on a boat? What about the pardon?"
"She didn't do it, so now we run"
We pulled up at the docks, Michael pulled me aboard the ship meeting Lincoln who was already there.
AN: Riley obviously doesn't get caught by Lang, and they're all going to Panama.