A/N: Pretty sure this is my longest chapter, sure feels like it. This is not quite as action packed, but hey, can't always be action. Love leaving off on cliffhangers! Thanks for the reviews! R&R people!

Chapter 18:

Sara came running down right away, Katie was there too, helicopters had to be flown in to get them to a hospital fast enough. John was still gasping for air, while Sara detected a heartbeat from her cousin, but it was really faint. Pope had made his way out there too. "Sara go, go with them." Katie stayed back and sent them on their way. Sara knew that Kristin was alive; she was out, "John, John stay with me. You two are going to be just fine." The doctor wanted so badly to cry, but she couldn't she needed to let the two know they would be fine.

"What happened to them?" Pope exclaimed at Geary.

"I have no clue, I was just coming to check on the progress of the break room, and then all the sudden I hear Sucre an Scofield hollering."

"PI is done for now, I want every single member of PI cuffed and one by one dragged to my office." Henry Pope was strong-minded in trying to find the person or persons responsible for this act. "We may lose John Abruzzi."

"Scofield, come here." Pope called for Michael. Michael slowly approached the elderly man. "Who else does Kristin speak with who is not on PI? Anyone?"

"Davi-Tweener." Michael corrected. "He is supposed to start with PI tomorrow."

Guards were all over the place looking for anything they could. "Get the blood cleaned up. I want these men in my office, one by one in 15 minutes." He looked at the other doctor. "Katie, please call the hospital an try to get Sara on the line, tell her to check in on Abruzzi too." He paused, "Of course have her main focus be her family."

Pope stopped and froze for a moment, "Everyone be expecting the Governor, I'm sure he will make his presence know if he's nearby." Pope clapped his hands and told everyone to get moving.

Calls had been made and as soon as the helicopter landed they pulled out Abruzzi first, as his eyes were nearly rolling in the back of his head. Sara winced at how bad his cut really did look. She saw more nurses coming back for her cousin.

Kristin's wrists were bleeding out, as was her scar; it was re-opened and cut even deeper. She had bruises all over her body; her clothes were ripped and torn apart. She had a black eye, opposite one of her scar, so being her right eye.

As soon as she was rushed into the back, Sara had to stay in the waiting room. She couldn't believe this was happening. Who would do this to both Kristin and John? Did Kristin have enemies, did Abruzzi does this and the two of them had just duked it out?! So many questions she had, she needed answers. Sadly though, she was going to have to wait.

T-bag had managed to come from the side of the building, "What's all the screaming for?"

"Where the hell have you been, T-bag?!" Geary snarled.

"Call of nature." T-bag simply stated, "When ya got's to go ain't nothin' stopping that, boss."

"Pack everything up, Pope wants to talk about what happened to the doc's cousin and Abruzzi."

T-bag was very good and making himself seem innocent. "What happened?" He looked intrigue and sadden at the same time.

"Someone slit Abruzzi's throat, and Kristin got the shit beat out of her, clothes ripped apart and slit wrists." Gary shook his head, "Pieces of shit, whoever did that."
T-bag said nothing, just looked confused by the whole situation, he did help the others clean up and no one said anything since guards were everywhere. If they talked it was just like, "I'll take the shovel." "Hand me your bucket." Only work related.

Geary looked back at Louis to the side of him, "Wanna take them or grab Tweener?"

"Nah man, you get the kid, I got these ones." Louis called out. In reality he just wanted a reason to see Becky the receptionist as much as possible. This was after all, a serious situation so he knew he shouldn't' joke about anything right now. Everyone sure did seem to be on edge. "Cons line up, lets get going!"

One by one they went and told Pope they had no idea what happened. Everyone said pretty much the same thing, in reality no one saw Abruzzi since he was already in the storage area as was T-bag, and Kristin was dragged in there just a few minutes after PI started. First was Sucre, Lincoln, C-note, Charles, Michael, T-bag and then finally Tweener.

"David, please sit down." Pope had instructed. "How would you explain your relationship with Kristin?"

"Aw, well she's pretty fly, she's really sweet. She's cool peoples, and I like hangin' with her." David tried to talk as proper as he could.

"So you're dating then?" Pope questioned.

"Boss, you's can't really be datin' when you're in here." He replied.

"No, no I guess it is rather challenging." He noted, "Would you ever strike a woman? More specifically, Kristin?"

"Whoa, hold up? What happened?" Tweener looked at Pope's face and got serious real quick. "Did you harm Kristin and John Abruzzi?"

"Naw, how could I? I don't start PI until tomorrow, I've been in my cell." He said defensively.

"Did you order or pay someone to do it for you?" Pope asked the same questions to everyone.

"Naw, I really like her, I would never. I have no beef with Abruzzi, he watches for her in PI, he told me he does." Tweener looked like he was going to bust into tears. "When you find out, let me know. Cause that son of a bitch is dead."

"David." Pope put his hands up, "Even making a threat like that could get you thrown into the shoe for a long time. But you are upset, I will let you and the others on the PI crew know what is happening. You will still start PI tomorrow, Mac is working on making you a PI card as we speak."

Tweener was sympathetic to this whole situation; he felt it strongly affected him. He had said thank you to Henry Pope and stood up to leave the room. "Boss."

"Hmm?" He turned his head to look up at the young man. "If you talk to the doc, can you have her tell Kristin I'm worried about 'er?"

"Yes yes David. I will do that."

Hours had gone and passed, to Sara though it felt like an eternity. She went in to see Kristin, but the doctor pulled her aside and told her some info first. "A ew bruised ribs, we managed to stop the bleeding on her wrists, any deeper and it would have cut a major vein, that black eye will be there for about a week. The cuts will, I'm sad to say leave scars. Her scared eye went pretty deep. No signs of sexual assault, thank God for that."

Sara looked up at the other woman doctor while nodding and taking this all in. "Someone really beat the crap out of her. She did have some internal bleeding but we managed to stop that in time. She is fine, but will be sore."

Sara smiled; she was so relieved that her cousin would be fine. "What about John Abruzzi?"

"He made it too, just by seconds though. We are very lucky that they both will be walking out of here in a few days." The doctor touched Sara's should and smiled and then walked off.

As Sara went in to see Kristin she saw that she was awake, though was hard to tell from her black eye. She was examining her wounds as if they were something fascinating. "Son of a bitch!"

Hearing the door open she saw her cousin shut the door and sit down beside her. She took Kristin's hand and gently rubbed it. "Your alive."

"Well I do believe so." Kristin murmured.

"Kristin who did this to-"

"Where's Abruzzi?" She nearly snarled. "Is he okay?"

"Yes he's fine; the doctors said he made it just by seconds. You on the other hand, you had a very faint heartbeat and internal bleeding."

"I was preparing for the worst, I felt like the life was being sucked out of me." Kristin explained.

"You can't go back there, first your eye, and now this." Sara wouldn't have had it.

"I need to. I will not surrender, my bruises will heal, and my scars show the struggles I have endured, I will be fine." She looked up and said, "I will not dress provocative anymore." She chuckled.

"I certainly hope not." Sara smiled. "I will be back in a bit, Katie is here, I need to go back to work and get my stuff."

"Sara stop! I am not a baby, I will be fine, do what you need to at work." She sarcastically stated, "Not like I'm going to run away. Bring me some clothes too, please."

"Yeah I will. See you soon." The Doctor waved bye and shut the door again.

A nurse came in right after Sara had left and asked if Kristin needed anything. "Can you tell me how John Abruzzi is doing?"

"He's doing fine, in better shape than you physically. We almost for sure lost him, and could have lost you. But all he has is one scar." The woman half smiled. "Do you want me to give him a message? I can if you'd like, it's no trouble."

"Does he know I'm here too?"

"Yes, as soon as he woke up, he asked how you were doing too. At that time we didn't know for sure, so I told him we didn't know yet."

Kristin smiled, "Just tell him I'm sorry. He will know what that means. Please."

The nurse smiled and said she would do that. Kristin slowly moved to get more comfortable and went back to sleep. She had a lot to be thankful for, but she felt so betrayed by T-bag, she should have seen that coming. If T-bag was not there was Abruzzi going to kill her? What do the others know? Does Tweener know?

Two days had passed and they were both being released, of course John was going to have to take the bus back to the prison. While he was resting, he had asked one of the nurses to cut his hair, he was coming back, and he wanted to look a little different. He had not seen Kristin yet; he had left before she did.

Kristin put on some new clothes; she was so over the robes that showed your butt and the scrubs. She was happy to just have a pair of jeans and a t-shirt again. She did her make-up real minimal, because she already had a black eye. "Are you sure you want to go back today?" Sara asked, "You are being discharged, but Pope says he understands if you want to take a day to rest at the house."

"I'm fine. Besides that would make me look cowardly." Sara had to explain all of this to her father, who had been currently out of town with business stuff, but both Sara and the warden got an ear full from the Governor.

"Lets get this over with." Kristin commented, as she was just tired of being in that room. Made her feel like she was going to die in her sleep, she had not really gotten much rest.

As soon as hey arrived, Sara had to go back into the infirmary, but Kristin was welcoming with some warm smiles and hugs. Pope met her out by Becky's desk. "Kristin, glad to have you back." The older man hugged her. "You have battle wounds, but you are alive, that's all that matter." Pope smiled as he motioned for her to step into his office.

"I know this is the last thing you want to talk about, but we need to. Abruzzi is back , in fact the guards are checking him in, you may have saw the bus. They are doing all the normal checks before in intimate comes in here, but just on the bus." Kristin nodded. "We asked him if he knew what happened, and he says he doesn't, I assume you will be saying the same thing?"

"Just like I don't remember who cut up m eye the first time." She sounded frustrated.

"David is out there on PI now, Mac is out there, he is going to let you try this by yourself, but f you need him for any reason, you yell for him."

"Understood sir."

It was morning time so right now it was just yard time, but Kristin wanted to go and talk to everyone. As she went outside she saw Sucre hugging a heavier Latino man, and saw Michael going over to give him a hug.

C-note and T-bag were leaning against the wall, looking like a bunch of mean pit bulls. "Y'all can sign each others years books later, where we at?"

Kristin made her way closer and closer, she could hear them, but she was sure no one was really even expecting her back, so no one was looking for her.

"The map is complete." Scofield beamed. He looked at Sucre, "I got what I needed."

"Then we are ready?" T-bag questioned.

"Almost. I know what pipes we need to take in order to get to the psych ward now which means our way to the infirmary is clear. But we are walking down 30 feet of hallway to get to the infirmary., which is our exit point. Which means we need to get the key to that room," He looked at the others, "And with Kristin gone, that's going to be a little trickier than I had anticipated."

"I'm not gone yet." Kristin saw all the heads turn over to her. "Takes a lot more to get rid of me." She saw mostly smiles on everyone's face. Sucre right away gave her a hug, Michael gave a small hug, Charles hugged her and kissed her on her forehead, and C-note just smiled at her.

"You's one tough white girl." C-note smirked.

T-bag looked stunned at first but then just put on an act. "Krissy, darling it's soooo good to have you back." His sarcasm overtook all of his sincerity.

Tweener was probably the happiest to see her, as he wrapped her in the biggest embrace and planted a kiss on her lips.

"Jesus, Mary Joseph." Charles looked over at the bus, seeing others getting off the bus, but also a very familiar face. It was Abruzzi!

He had cut his hair short and shaved off most of his facial hair, he had stubble, but looked a lot more clean cut.

"This day is just full of surprises." Sucre smiled.

T-bag had a huge lump in his throat now; he could handle Kristin, but not Abruzzi again. Abruzzi glared daggers at the Alabama native.

Tweener put his attention back on Kristin. "What happened to you? Pope called me to talk, but, shit I didn't know nothin'."

Kristin looked at Abruzzi and smiled, and then back at Tweener. "Some ass hole or assholes dragged me into the shed, I didn't see Abruzzi at first, but when I was on the ground about to pass out I saw him gurgling for air."

She told the men that the person had slit her wrists, re-opened her scar, gave her a black eye, also gave her some bruised ribs, and tore apart her clothes. Tweener looked at her, but she looked at T-bag. "No, no sexual assault, that's a shocker."

T-bag shrugged, "Sorry Krissy, but not all men in here want to sleep with you."

Kristin shot back, "I don't think they had any time, I do recall screaming pretty loud for help!" She gave a snotty smile and looked away from T-bag.

She looked to the side of Sucre and asked, is he coming too? What did I miss?"

Kristin had never met Haywire, but she was told about him, and how Michael lost a big chunk of his back from burning layers of skin off. Since he needed to know those, he had to go to the psych ward to talk to Haywire. The lunatic supposedly had become obsessed with Michael's tattoos for a short amount of time, in fact he even drew them on several pieces of papers.

"'Ey Kristin, doc wants you in the infirmary." A guard came to the fence to tell the woman." Alright cons keep it moving."

Kristin didn't know why Sara wanted to talk to her, she figured it was a way to get her an Abruzzi together. Sara had heard Kristin say over and over again that she needed to talk to John. She needed to make sure that everything between the two of them were alright.

Sara had the doors open and she told John to step in and sent the guard on his way. "John I know that you have been checked over and over, but I want to check that scar as well."

"Whatever you want." He sat on the patient's table and scooted to the edge. She grabbed a flashlight to shin on the wound, to make sure there was no fluid or blood leading out of it. "I know what you are thinking." He cleared his throat, "I didn't do that to her."

Sara had a tad of attitude in her voice, "I was not wondering that John, I'm sure you both were ambushed." She looked over at the older man, "Though it does worry me that you are supposed to be this big, strong, and intimidating man, but couldn't scare off your attacker."

John squinted his eyes, as if he was getting irritated by her allegations. Sara had continued, "My cousin, my family almost lost her life." She casually turned around and saw Kristin at the doorway and softly knocked. "There you go, you wanted to talk to him, I will be back in a few." Sara rushed out the room and slammed the door behind her.

"I didn't know anything about that." She started, "Your men kidnapped me."

"They didn't kidnap you, they grabbed you, I wanted you to watch what happens to people who step out of line." He explained.

"I know, because I have a scar to prove it." She snarled.

"I knew you wouldn't have acted on anything." He beamed, "You are to sweet."

"What happened after I fell to the ground, bleeding all over the ground?" He sounded very saddened, as the thought of him nearly dying came into his mind.

"Well look at my face, John, that's what happened." Kristin pointed to her face.

"I couldn't protect you?" He questioned, he knew the answer, but he still asked it. She shook her head no. "I cut my hair." He changed the topic, "And even shaved."

"You look like a stud." She grinned, as she stepped closer to the mobster.

"You were never supposed to get hurt. The Lord made sure you stayed here, it was not yours or my time to go, not yet." Abruzzi commented as he held onto his cross necklace.

"Oh John." She smiled as she gave him a hug. "I guess a lot with the plan has changed since we have been gone.

"I'm surprised they are still here."

"Well, I guess a few new people have bad added, Tweener being one of them." Letting go of the older man, and she blushed while saying the kid's nickname.

"I think I should send some of my boys to trail you two when you get out." He smiled, "Make sure the lovebirds are staying out of trouble."

Kristin's cheeks were noticeably several shades brighter. "Are we alright? I don't want to have to go to the hospital again, I think I am traumatized."

Abruzzi nodded. "Act normal around Theodore." He briefly said as he saw Sara coming back. "I will see you soon."

Forty-five minutes had passed, and the men went to the cafeteria to go and grab some food. Sitting a table by himself was Abruzzi; he was mumbling some phrases from the good book. Holding his cross necklace in one hand, and turning the pages with the other.

"Hello John." Michael said as he had a food tray, just stopping by to say hi, but Abruzzi quickly replied.

"Michael!" Abruzzi looked up at the tattooed man and chuckled as he gave him a hug. Safe to say Michael was not expecting that.

"How are you?"

Releasing the hug, which Michael did not hug back. "Any day above ground is a blessing." Abruzzi commented, his voice sounding very raspy. Michael caught a glance at his scar, it did look bad, but he tried not to stare. As the mobster sat back down he asked Michael to sit with him.

I'm glad you're here." Michael smiled.

"I'm surprised you are still here, thought you would have been gone by now." Abruzzi looked at his book, and remembered the page number he was on and closed it.

"Well John, you and Kristin are crucial parts to the plan. We didn't want to leave without you." He had a smug look on his face, that was true, but the reality was they had some issues with the escape plan a few days ago.

"Still planning on it?" Abruzzi was hoping the answer was yes, he may have turned to the Lord, and become religious all of the sudden, but, he needed to get out of here.

"Well John, that depends." Michael eyed John, "How does the idea of escaping sit with the new you?"

He let out a sigh and then answered, "Oh, the old sinner was confined to these walls, he's dead. Though, the new soul deserves to be free."

Michael was relieved to hear that, but he had to ask something else. "Well the old sinner was going to have a jet ready for us, will the new soul be able to pull that off for us?

"Noah had his ark, did he not?" John responded with a slight smile.

T-bag watched nervously to one side, at his own table, quite a way's from John and Scofield. "I'm going to need a blade, pronto." His ordered to one of his men as he was slowly eating his food, not once letting his eyes leave Abruzzi.

When it was tier time Abruzzi stayed in his cell, he seemed pretty relaxed as he was just continually on with reading the bible. Someone handed something to T-bag secretly and swiftly, as she tried to conceal it he grabbed and twisted around by C-note.

"That man in there is our transportation out of here." He grabbed a hold and squeezed tighter on T-bag's upper arm. "And that means if you mess with that man in there, you screwin' with the chances I got to see my family, and I ain't havin' that."

T-bag turned around ready to leave but the black man stepped in front of him. "So why don't you hand me that shank you are holdin, huh." T-bag did so as he scowled at the darker man. "Good."

Making his way over to Abruzzi's cell, Tweener knocked and saw that John held up a finger, saying to hold on a minute. Marking his place and shutting his book he looked up, "Ahh one half of the love birds."

Tweener shrugged and smiled, "K seems to have a bond with you's so I just wanted to check on you. I told 'er I would."

"The little darling wants you to check on me?" He laughed, "Just so you know, I didn't do it."

Tweener looked up at John and nodded. "Yea' I know, I think I know who it was." He sighed and just told Abruzzi he was only here to make sure he was alright, and how he was just doing a favor for Kristin.

"Kid."

Tweener stopped in mid-motion and turned around. "The girl is tough, but watch after her."

Tweener smiled and said he would.

Around early afternoon, all of the sudden Brad Bellick was on a mission; he went right into the new CO's break room. He made sure he was the only one in there, and then went to work. He grabbed a sledgehammer and began to move it around trying to feel the difference in the ground. He must have found what he was looking for, because he moved the couch and rolled up the carpet.

Slamming the sledgehammer down where he had felt a difference, 3 or 4 whacks and he bent down to real a large hole, he could see down into the vents. His mouth was hanging open when he gasped.

All of the sudden a deep voice, "You know I can't let you leave her boss." It was Charles, Bellick must have seen him in the connected through kitchen area. He had a shovel raised and ready to knock him. Bellick blocked it, and tossed Charles with his back against the lockers, the shovel was tossed to the side.

Charles received three punches to the gut, and then smashed into a coffee pot, glass shattering everywhere. Charles managed to knock Bellick out cold by smacking him dead in the face with a metal coffee container. Charles looked down and saw a piece of glass lodged to the side of his stomach.

At that same moment, Kristin had come through the door checking to make sure they had all their supplies. Another group similar to PI had borrowed some of their equipment, and she needed to make sure it was returned.

"Oh my, Charles." She gasped, as she looked at a knocked out cold Bellick and a bleeding Charles. "We need to get this plan in motion."

"Yeah, right now." Charles huffed.