Auburn Correctional Facility
Maximum Security Prison
135 State Street, Auburn, New York.

Timing is everything and his cell faces the wrong direction. But he could hear the truck drive by his first-floor prison cell. His brother would be using the stolen cube van that he took from the medical supply company and make it in and out before they noticed that it was missing. He had to do his part to make this escape be believable. He watched as the night guard started his rounds by climbing up the staircase to the second floor. Then he looked to his cellmate J.J. and gave him a nod after the guard was out of sight. He climbed down off his top bunk and walked closer to the bars and whispered into Josh's ear.

"Good luck Josh and give my regards to Kate."

Josh nodded his reply and they started their act.

"I thought I told you not to touch my books!" Josh screamed loudly.

"I didn't touch your precious books!" J.J. replied just as loud.

"You had to because you are the only one in here so it had to be you! It certainly wasn't me!

"Why you son of a bitch! Piss off!" J.J. landed a solid punch to Josh's jaw sending him straight into the cinder block wall. Then he gave him a shot to the abdomen and Josh launched himself right at J.J. sending them both into the bars of the cell.

The other cons had started to get a little out of control in their cells and sent anything that could burn over the side and onto the floor below. They also stuck mirrors out between their bars to see any action coming from the cell at the end of the row where Josh and J.J. were. The guard on the third floor had heard the fight and pulled out his radio to call in the fight and request back up.

J.J. had put on a good show but the best was yet to come. He slammed Josh up against the wall and as he did, he took a shiv from his waistband and stabbed Josh in the side making for a lot of blood with minimal damage. Josh screamed and J.J. took the shiv and threatened to stab him in the eye. Just as he was about to stab him the guards rushed into the cell and separated both men. Since Josh was bleeding heavily the guards took him directly to the infirmary.

Peter Davidson had made it into the security area of the prison and parked the van for inspection. He had bitched to the guard that he was sent here as a last run of the night. The guards searched the truck and found nothing out of place then they let him into the prison. He entered the medical exam area with no problems. There was no one to challenge him. He unloaded the box that had everything he and his brother needed to get him out of this hell hole. He removed the black duffle bag and placed it on the exam table while he finished emptying the box. He took out the last item in the box, a 9 mm Smith and Wesson and then he heard the noise. He checked his watch and realized that they were right on time with his brother. He took the duffle and retreated back to the surgical area of the infirmary.

The guards were not making it easy for Josh. When the doctor had told the guards to put him on the exam table the guards lifted him up and slammed him onto the table hard. The guard at his head poked him with his nightstick where he had been stabbed and said: "fuck you."

Peter entered the surgical area and raised the gun to the back of the guard's head and cocked the hammer on the gun. The guard froze but the doctor hearing the action of a gun being cocked raced to the alarm on the wall to sound it. The next thing he felt was a bullet pierce his shoulder. Then Josh got up off the table, pulled the nightstick from the guard's holder and bashed him in the head twice breaking his nose and then cracking his skull open. As he was going down, he continued to beat him all over his body.

"Poke me in my stab wound? Well, fuck you too!" Josh yelled.

"Josh that's enough! We're on a tight schedule here so stop screwing around!"

Josh looked over at the doctor who was holding his shoulder and gave him a crack to the head as well and then he fell unconscious onto the floor.

Peter pulled out a pair of jeans, a flannel shirt, and a pair of running shoes. Josh checked his watch and told his brother that they were ahead of schedule by three minutes. He quickly changed out of his orange prison jumpsuit and gave his brother the bag back and he shoved everything into the box and placed it under the exam table. Josh took off for the roof with the fifty-foot length of rope hanging from his shoulder and his brother headed back for the van.

Josh watched the road between the two cell blocks. His brother would be rolling through here in about two minutes. He tied off the one end of the rope to the steel vent pipe about three feet from the edge and threw the remaining rope over the side. He watched as the rope dangled and noticed that it was too short. He'd need to jump at least thirty feet to the top of the van as it drove by. He just hopes that he won't break anything.

Peter is sweating bullets and hopes that this will work. He drives the van as close to the building as he dares so his brother can jump onto the van. He slows a little so he does not look that suspicious. He watches as his brother hangs from the end of the rope.

Josh sees the headlights of the van as it makes the right turn between the two cell blocks. He hoists himself over the side and shimmies down the rope. Just then the searchlight from the guard tower shines towards him and he stops moving so he is not seen. The light moves on and he continues moving down the rope until he reaches the end of it. He sees his brother slow down as he reaches the end of the rope so he pushes off the side of the building and lets go of the rope. He lands on top of the roof of the van and almost falls over the side of the truck. He grabs onto the rail that's mounted on the front of the van. Once he slides down the rail, he can hear his brother yell out to him to get under the van and into the box that's mounted between the frame. He slides along with the van that's speeding along and grabs the exhaust pipe and he burns his hand. He grabs the driveshaft but because it's spinning he can't keep a grip on it and then he finally finds the cross member. His ass is starting to get hot from being dragged along the road and it's then when he finds the trap door for the box. But he panics because the van is starting to slow down and he is not hidden yet.

Peter pulls the van into the inspection area and parks shutting down the engine. The same two guards are there when he entered but they have added more procedures to their inspection. One guard is searching the underneath of the van with a very large mirror and a flashlight starting from the back of the van. He hopes that his brother is tucked away in the box. He moved the side view mirror up and down to see what the guard is looking at under the van and so far he's not finding the secret door. After looking all over the van the one guard is satisfied that there is nothing wrong. The second guard is still looking around inside of the van and lifts up the cover on a crate finding nothing as well, he leaves the van and closes the roll-up door.

The first guard wished him a good night and tells him that he is good to go. Peter starts the van up and puts it into drive and pulls out of the inspection area and out of the prison.

The trap door inside the cargo area of the van popped open and Josh pushed through the hole and worked the rest of his body through the small opening.

"Are we out?" He asked his brother.

Peter either did not hear him or didn't want to answer him until he was sure they were safe so Josh asked him again.

"Are we out?"

"Yeah."

"I can't believe that we got away with it."

The next day inside Josh's cell, J.J. was moved to a different cell while the warden and the inspector looked into the escape of one Josh Davidson.

"Who is this?" The inspector asked as he held up a black and white picture of Josh's girlfriend.

"That's Kate Beckett. She came to see Davidson when he was first incarcerated here but she has not been here for a while now, at least two years." The warden tells the inspector as he reads from Josh's folder.

"The address listed there for her is that her most current?" The inspector asks the warden eying the folder.

"It better be because that's all we have on file for her."

"May I take that file so I can copy down her address?"

"Sure." The warden hands over the file reluctantly.

"2117 St Paul Ave. Pelham Bay the Bronx. Interesting." The inspector writes down the address in his notepad.

TBC