Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters nor claim them. Some of the situations may seem sort of not ever going to happen, but this is all my and a friend hypothetical thinking. What ifs?

Tony looked into the interrogation room and his heart sank. He had never been effected by the people who where taken into the room, they always brought it on themselves he deduced. He never knew them enough to know the circumstances. To know the gray area that he and his colleagues where taught to only use when it helped them. He never actually knew the persons story, but he knew this persons story all to well.

He walked into the room his head up and eyes conveying nothing. He knew breaking this man would be hard. Others had tried before, but none had ever succeeded. Everything he did would in the end add up to his results. If he showed that torturing the man brought him pain it would fuel the man to go on for longer. "Morning." He said betraying no real emotion.

The man looked up at him and smiled, just as Nina had the last time Tony had seen her in this room. "What are you suppose to try to get me to talk?" Jack looked at the black one way window and yelled over, "Come on Alberta at least show me some respect here and get someone half way qualified. No offense Tony you have no chance in hell."

Tony ignored his comment and asked, "How did you hook up with Nina?"

The man looked up at him and said nothing, than smiled at him and answered, "Well you know Tony. I got bored with life and decided I'd just liven it up a little."

"Why? She killed your wife? How could you?" Tony asked trying to get to the part of the man he knew.

"If we went by that, Tony." The man said in a chilling voice. "Than I should not be talking to you or anyone else at CTU because you killed my daughter."

"No we didn't. Michael's killed your daughter." Tony answered back.

"He pulled the trigger, you where the people who put her in that situation and than would not deal. You where willing to deal to save your wife, but not my daughter. So don't preach to me." Jack said holding his voice at a stead tone.

Over his receiver in his ear Michelle told him, "You touched a nerve. His heart rate increased. His eyes still are not showing anything."

Tony took the information and thought about it. "Where is she now?"

"Uhm. Let me think about that." Jack said smiling again. "I think she said she was going to the North Pole to tell Santa what she wanted for Christmas. Than she was going to visit Ireland to catch herself a leprechaun so that she could be rich. After that I think she said she was going to fly to Mar's? But that one I'm no so sure of."

Tony felt a slight bit of anger rush through him. He fought to keep it off his face. This was a new Jack not the same old one. It was almost as if it where Jack's evil twin.

Noticing the slight changes on Tony's face Jack quipped, "Fells like your in the twilight zone?"

"One last time than I'm going to get Darren in here. Where is she?"

"I already told you she's at the north pole."

"Fine." Tony walked out of the room and brought Darren who was waiting outside in. Tony watch Jack as Darren set up his equipment. Nothing showed on him, he was just the shell of the man he use to be. Tony wondered how much he had really changed, and if the real Jack was still in there. Tony was taken out of his thoughts with a knock on the door. Chase opened the door and first looked at Jack and then at Tony, "Palmers on the phone."

"Thanks Chase." Tony said turning his gaze from Jack and walking out of the room. Chase waited down away from the room a little and asked, "How is it going?"

"I can't believe this is Jack. It's not him. At least not the man we knew."

"I think it's him, just the side he fought to keep hidden for so long. We all have it and we all hide it. It was what Freud would call our id."

"Enough with the psychology. Do you have the phone?"

"Yeah I brought the cordless. Palmer might want to talk to him." Chase said handing Tony the phone.

"Tony Almeida."

"Hello Tony. How are things going with you and Michelle? I hope Michelle is doing better now."

"We are fine sir. She is recovering good. She is back at work now. But this is not why you are calling."

"I heard a rumor and it may be true and it may not."

"We have him. Chase and a team got him yesterday in Mexico."

"What are you doing with him?" David Palmer asked worrying about the man who was once his friend.

Tony hesitated, Palmer was no longer president and really had no reason to know this information, and Tony giving it to him would be breaking protocol. "You know." Tony said not really telling him, but in a way communicating that they where in fact questioning him, and most likely with some sort of force behind it. "He's not the same man anymore. I'm not sure if the old Jack even exists. I don't know what caused this other than Kim's death. We are trying to get to him."

"Thank you Tony. I know I have no right to this information anymore."

"He's was your friend, our friend, and I understand you have done the same for me in the past. I'll call you if anything else comes up." Tony said before he hung the phone up to go back to work.

When he walked into the room Darren was still unpacking all of his instruments, and setting them on the table. This was a form of psychological torture, in the hope it made the person look at the different instruments and wonder what they would do to him or her. It also helped the tortures due to technology to figure out which instrument causes the subject the most anxiety by monitoring their heart rates, blood pressure, and eye movements.

Tony waited for Michelle to come over his ear piece and say, "That's the one." But Darren had unpacked all of his tools and that never came.

Jack smiled at him and said, "What did I not distress over any tool? Tony I thought you knew me better by now. Really how many times do you think I have seen these before?"

"I guess you'll see them again than." Tony said in a low voice.

Darren looked at Jack and felt uneasy though he did not show it. When he started working for CTU he witnessed Jack do an interrogation and started to learn from the man. All Darren's best tactics came from Jack. He pulled a syringe of the table and a bottle that held a opaque liquid in it. He withdrew some so that Jack could see him.

Jack raised his eyebrows, "What that?" He said as if he were a curious little kid.

Tony answered, "Venom. It will cause your brain to secret Acetylcholine. And you will see what ACH does for the body."

Darren walked up behind Jack. He had learned about inserting the needle in the neck after the Nina incident and to avoid another he took the needle and inserted it in the shoulder. He stepped away and watched as Jack sat there perfectly calm.

Jack's mind was racing he knew what ACH did for the body and knew the drug all to well, he kept his body under control though. He knew they were monitoring his vitals and other bodily functions. He felt the onset of the venom. First his shoulder tensed tightly and it felt as if he had a huge cramp that spread throughout the body making all of his skeletal muscles constrict, in essence it was the worse painful cramp one could ever experience all over your body all at once. Jack squeezed his eyes shut to keep from calling out in pain. He struggled to breath as his muscles where crushing his chest. It felt like hours had passed when finally his body to relax.

Michelle came over the ear phone to Tony and Darren, "He felt that his heart rate is up and so is his blood pressure. Maybe try it a few more times?"

Darren looked at Tony who gave him a glance that said, "Go ahead."

Darren inserted the needle and this time put in 5ccs more than the last time. He stood back and watched the drug kick in.

This time it was worse and Jack tried not to scream out in pain, but he heard a familiar voice, that was his. His eyes involuntary started to let tears out from the pain they where also experiencing.

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Chase sat at his desk watching the room his former mentor sat in now. He was just as shocked as everyone else when Jack turned. He never expected it, but again understood why he did it.

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