Jessica got back to the hospital as Nick was getting discharged. "What are we going to do now?" she asked them. "We are going to go back to Chicago. Nick knows someone that can maybe get us the proper papers to get us to dig up the body that was claimed as Terrance Steadman. You need to head back to work. LJ is going to stay at your apartment right?" Veronica asked her sister. Jessica sighed. "Yeah I'm going to be heading out soon just wanted to make sure everything was OK here first." Jessica stated. Nick nodded back at her. "Yeah everything is OK. Veronica and I are going to be heading back. I need to talk to my guy as soon as possible." Nick informed her. "OK." she said heading for the door. "Call me when you find out something. I'll meet you back in the city." she hugged Veronica and left to go get LJ.
Jessica walked into the small room and seen LJ. He was sitting on the couch watching the TV. On the TV was an interview with Henry Pope about Lincoln's execution. She seen that he was upset so she quickly found the remote and turned the television off. "Hey." she greeted sitting down beside him on the couch. "Are you OK?" she asked him wrapping her arm around him and pulling him into her side. He shook his head. "I lost my mom now I'm going to lose my dad. What am I going to do?" he asked her with tears in his eyes. "I don't know." she whispered back to him. She pulled away and stood up. "I need you to grab anything that you need. We're going back to Chicago. Veronica and Nick are working on getting an appeal for your dad's case and I need to head into the station." she said to him grabbing a couple of things. "OK." he nodded and stood up to head into the back room to grab his things.
Jessica led LJ into the back door of the apartment building. They walked up the steps instead of taking the elevator. She stopped at her door. "Let me check and make sure that Jason isn't hanging around." she told LJ as she unlocked the door and walked inside. Once she discovered that Jason wasn't there she told LJ to come inside. "When are you going to break up with that guy?" LJ asked her as he sat across from her at the island counter. "Its obvious that you still love my dad and he still loves you too. I never knew what you saw in that guy." he confessed to Jessica. She sighed and handed him a warm cup of tea. "This whole situation is hard. I have always loved your father and I have loved you all the same. But we went our different ways and it was hard and I made a mistake and I plan to make up for that mistake." she went to continue when her phone rang. She looked at the caller ID and seen that it was Veronica. "Hey please tell me you have some good news." she answered into the phone. "We have a hearing set for this afternoon. I need you there as a witness." Veronica informed her sister over the phone. "Alright let me get LJ settled in and I'll be there." she hung up the phone and walked back out into the living room. "Hey I have to go. We may be able to save this. There is plenty of food in the fridge, your favorite soda too, plenty of movies to watch, I'll be back as soon as I can." she kissed him on the forehead and went to change her clothes and leave.
Jessica sat in the court room in between Veronica and Nick. "Your honor, Lincoln Burrow's case has been tainted with conspiracy with evidence of extortion and a witness with the truth of intimidation." The other lawyer quickly stood. "I object your honor these are some series accusations with absolutely no proof-" Veronica cut him off. "No proof! What have I been arguing for the past 20 minutes?" she sarcastically asked. The other lawyer looked at her amused. "You got me." he retorted back. Jessica rolled her eyes. Nick quickly stood up. "Your honor as Miss Donovan stated a top forensic computer analyst found a flaw in the tape that was top evidence in convicting Lincoln Burrows." The lawyer spoke. "A tape that no longer exists right." he stated. Jessica rolled her eyes at him. "A tape that your client had destroyed." Jessica accused. The judge looked back and forth as they continued to argue. "If my client is a rusty water pipe then you've mistaken." he retorted at her. Jessica went to say something but Nick beat her to it. "Judge Miss Donovan's apartment was blown up to silence both her and me." Nick stated the truth. "That was concluded as a gas leak your honor." the lawyer argued back. Jessica stood up. "Your honor I am a detective for the city of Chicago. I have seen millions of these kind of cover ups all the time. There is no way that what has happened is just a coincidence." Jessica argued "Judge a month ago a secret service agent Paul Kellerman visited my office along with my sister. Jessica saw Kellerman last night and he killed another agent David Hale right after Hale told Jessica that Steadman was alive and well." Veronica argued to the judge. The lawyer dug through his papers. "Your honor I have an affidavit from the director of the secret service operation that there has never been an agent by the name of Paul Kellerman or David Hale. There was no other witness to this murder. There were no bullet holes no shell casings and no blood. The only witness is Jessica Donovan; Lincoln Burrow's ex wife. I feel for Miss Donovan I really do-" Jessica scoffed at that. "Oh please I know what I saw." she retorted. "But desperate times call for desperate measures. And that is all that we are seeing here today." the lawyer continued. The judge banged his gavel making the court room go silent. He looked to the three of them. "Do any of you have any solid evidence of any of this?" he asked them. "If you had anything please tell me." Jessica spoke up. "Kellerman visited me at the police station. There were witnesses. My partner Jason Clarke saw him." she attempted at one last attempt to save this trial. "I will take your arguments into consideration. If you can get me that tape by 7 o'clock tonight you might have a better chance with your argument. I will let you know of my verdict." he banged the gavel making Jessica jump.
She made her way down the steps of the court house with Veronica following behind her. "Jess wait." she yelled as Jessica stopped for her. "That went horrible in there." she exclaimed. "All is not lost OK. You did good you might have saved us there with the last bit." Veronica reassured her. Nick came out and spotted them. "You need to get that tape or at the very least talk to Jason." he said coming up to them. "Yeah I know but he doesn't know what's going on. He won't answer my calls." she said as she walked to her car. "I'm going to go and see if I can get that tape. Are you guys hanging around here?" she asked them unlocking her door. "Yeah we're going to hang around here and wait for the judge. Call us once you have the tape." Veronica told her giving her a hug. "Good luck." she granted as Jessica got in the car.
Jessica made her way up the steps to the police station. She walked past all the cops and made her way to the main office. She about knocked when a person that she didn't know walked out. She looked at him long and hard as he nodded at her and continued walking. She turned and entered the office. She spotted the tech guy who handled all the videos. He spotted her coming toward him. "Hey Jessica how can I help you today?" he asked heading over to his work space. "I need the camera footage for last month around the 22nd at around noon to three o'clock." she informed him. He gave her a funny look. "I just gave that tape to the secret service agent that was just in here. He said there was a suspect he was after and he needed that tape." the tech guy informed her making her tense up instantly. "Damn it!" she exclaimed and rushed out of the room to try to find that man. She made it all the way downstairs when she spotted him heading for the main door. "CPD! Stop right there!" she shouted drawing her gun. The guy looked back at her and took off running outside. She ran down the hall after him. She pushed past the doors and ran down the steps to the street. She looked around and didn't spot the man anywhere. She tried to catch her breath but felt her lunch come back up and rushed to the bushes where she puked up her lunch she ate earlier.
Jessica sat inside her captain's office. "Would you like to explain to me what the hell is going on!" he shouted at her. She flinched and had the sudden urge to cry but held it in. "I know I granted you the time off you needed. I figured that had something to do with your ex husband. But what I did not grant is for you to just walse right in here and try to take security footage. Even worse now someone who no body even seen now has a tape of the place." he leaned forward on his desk. "Do I have to suspend you?" he asked her. She shook her head. "No sir." she whispered. He nodded at her. "I need you back here in a couple of days Internal Affairs want to have a word with you." she went to say something but he held his hand up to warn her not to. "I don't want to hear it about it being a conspiracy." She sighed and nodded in defeat. "Go on get out of here. I need you here in a couple days alright." he informed her as she stood up to leave. "Yes sir." she said as she left the office. She went over to her desk and grabbed her phone. She heard a beep on the other end. Her phone was bugged. She quickly slammed it back down. She pulled out a spare burner phone she kept for emergencies. She quickly dialed Veronica's number as she made her way outside. "Hey bad news they got to the tape before I could." she informed her sister. "What are we going to do now?" she asked Jessica. "I'm going to need you to head to my apartment and watch after LJ while I'm at Fox River." Jessica told her sister. She felt like she was going to throw up again. "OK we can do that we'll see you back at your apartment." Veronica hung up the phone. Jessica felt like she was going to break down. She rushed over to the bushes and puked again. She kept heaving until there was nothing left in her stomach.
"You're not going LJ." Jessica exclaimed as she followed LJ through her apartment. "I don't care I have to see him!" he shouted back. "Don't be stupid you would never make it past the front gates there are cops everywhere." Nick commented to him. Jessica made LJ look at her. "Look you can't go until we get all of your stuff cleared up OK." she assured him. Just then Veronica's phone rang. She looked at it. "Its the judge's clerk." she informed them answering the call. "Hello. What do you have for us?" she asked into the phone. Jessica could see the defeated look on her sister's face. "Thank you." she said and hung up the phone. "They ruled against us didn't they?" Nick asked already knowing. Veronica nodded. Jessica started grabbing her stuff. "I have to go see him." she informed them trying to hide her tears. "Are you OK going alone?" Nick asked her. She nodded. "Yeah I'll be OK." she reassured. "Tell Lincoln that I'm sorry and that we all tried." she nodded not trusting her voice. Veronica gave her a hug. Just then there was a knock on the door. "LJ get in the bedroom now." Jessica demanded making her way to answer the door. She opened the door and her eyes narrowed in confusion, standing there on the other side of the door was Dr. Sarah Tancredi. "What are you doing here?" she asked her. "I came here to speak with Lincoln's attorneys." she informed Jessica. Jessica moved out of the way so she could come in.
Jessica was led to the visitor's room where Lincoln and Michael were at. She walked in and smiled when she seen the blueberry pancakes. Lincoln stood up and engulfed her in a hug. She pulled back and looked between Lincoln and Michael. "We uh we lost the appeal." she said sadly as she watched the look on Michael's face change. "Dr Tancredi stopped by and talked to us." she said to Michael. He looked up at her in surprise. "She did? Did she hear you out? Is she going to talk to her father?" he kept spitting out questions. Jessica seen the look in his eyes when she mentioned the doctor. He liked her a lot. "She did listen to what we had to say and I sure hope she speaks to her father." she stops when Lincoln speaks up. "It doesn't matter anymore guys. You did more than enough for me." he said looking at Jessica with so much love in his eyes. She felt her stomach twist. "I couldn't bring LJ. I wish that I could." she said walking closer to him. " I know." he whispered to her as she laid her head on his chest. She felt him loosely wrap his arm around her. She ran her hand up and down his chest in a comforting manner. She took out her phone. "What do I even say to him?" he asked her. She just kept her phone held up to him.
***Lincoln's POV***
He waited for the phone to ring. Veronica answered. She put LJ on. "Dad?" heard his son's voice through the phone. "LJ?" he whispered knowing he could hear him. He tried not to let LJ know he was upset. "So this is it huh." he tried to joke. "Yeah I guess so." he said back. "I wish I was there with you." Lincoln had to close his eyes to stop the tears from coming. "Me too, more than anything." he whispered back to him. He heard LJ's voice he was also trying not to cry. "I have to tell you something dad." LJ told him. "What's that?" he asked wondering what it could be. "I had a dream last night and we were working on a house together you know pounding nails and Jessica she came out with a couple glasses of sweet tea and she had a big baby belly on her. And in that dream it felt like we were older you know." Lincoln listened to his son's dream. He had to grip the phone to stop himself from completely breaking down. He snuck a glance at Jessica who was quietly talking to Michael. He imagined what she would look like pregnant with his baby. He wished that dream could be real so badly. "When I woke up I knew that today wasn't going to be the end and that we'll see each other again." he paused and Lincoln felt tears coming down his face. "I love you dad." he whispered to him and he had to pull the phone back so LJ didn't hear him silently cry. "I love you too LJ so much." he whispered back to him.
***END POV***
Jessica was sitting at the table with Michael as Lincoln was walking around the room. " I never gave a damn about what people thought of me, but these last couple of days though" he scoffed as he sat down. Jessica took his hand in hers. He looked at her. "Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkins Booth, Lincoln Burrows. I'm going to go down in history with those freaks." he whispered angrily. "The bitch thing is I didn't do it." he whispered before pounding his fist into the table. Jessica jumped up as Lincoln pushed everything off the table before lifting it and knocking it over. "I didn't do it!" he angrily exclaimed before walking over to the window. Jessica followed him and laid her hand on his arm. They look up when the guards walk in and the warden walks in behind them. Jessica felt Lincoln tense up under her hand. "Its time." he informed them. Jessica backed away as the guard handed him clothes to change into. Jessica pushed back the tears that wanted to fall.
Jessica walked beside Michael as they followed behind the warden as he led the way to the execution room. Jessica grabbed onto Michael's hand as they walked. "Warden!" they turned and seen one of the guards with a phone. "Its the Governor." he said as he passed the phone. Jessica looked to Michael with hopeful eyes. Her eyes met Lincoln's and she prayed that this was a good call. She watched as the warden talked on the phone. He hung up and she took a deep breath and squeezed Michael's hand. The warden looked over to them. "The Governor has reviewed your case and he's not granting clemency." he informed them looking at Lincoln. Jessica's heart broke. The love of her life was minutes away from being executed. "Let's proceed." he demanded as they continued down the hallway.
Trish stood beside the Vice President as they met with the Governor. "You have done your country and your party a great service today." Trish watched as the Governor shook the Vice President's hand. "Thank you both." he smiled half heartedly as Trish shook his hand. He looked at her. "Isn't Burrows your brother in law?" he asked her remembering reading that in the file. "Ex brother in law. We're both doing my sister a favor by removing that terrorist from society. So thank you Governor Tancredi." she shook his hand and walked to where Carolyn went. Trish only felt half bad by what she did. She knew Jessica would get over the loss eventually and everything would be back to normal again.
They stopped when they came to a yellow line. Bellick stopped them from going farther. "You can't go past this point. You will be escorted to the viewing room." he informed Jessica and Michael. She looked up and seen that Lincoln was looking at her. She tried to hold herself together. "Can I?" she asked nodding to Lincoln. Bellick moved out of the way as Jessica moved to stand in front of Lincoln. She let a couple tears fall down her cheek. She moved to give him one last hug. "I have loved you since the first time I saw you." she whispered in his ear. She pulled back and grabbed his face with her hands. "The happiest I have ever been was being your wife." she confessed to him and leaned in and gave him one last kiss. She tried to express how much she loved him in that one kiss. She finally pulled back. "I'm not staying for the viewing. So this is goodbye Lincoln Burrows." she gave him one last look before turning and making her way back down the hall not looking back.
Jessica made her way to her apartment. She stopped when she seen someone standing in front of the door. She stepped closer and wrapped her hand around her gun. She relaxed her hand when she realized that it was Jason standing there. "What are you doing here?" she asked unlocking her door. "I heard about what happened plus I need to ask you an important question." he informed her. She sighed and turned to face him. "Now is not a good time. I have had a long day I am tired and I just want to go to sleep." she said to him. He shook his head. "This will only take a minute. Can I come inside?" he asked her. She paused remembering LJ inside. "No. Like I said now is not a good time." she stated. "Fine I'll do this here." he said taking a deep breath. "I think we should move in together." he said to her. She stood in her doorway and her eyes got wide in shock. "What did you just say?" she asked confused. "Move in with me." he said to her making her shocked.
