A/N – This isn't really set at any point in time, but it's pre-S1.

Jack was sat at his desk, busily typing away. It was a quiet day at CTU, and he knew that Nina and Tony wouldn't be back from the meeting for some time. Stopping his manic keyboard bashing for a minute, he glanced at the screen and smiled. His work was coming along well, and he knew that it would be well received. The only problem was that, due to his being engrossed in his work, he hadn't noticed Tony and Nina walk into CTU early. He also didn't notice Nina walking up the stairs to his office. It was only when Nina's head popped up above his monitor that he was brought back to reality.

"Hi, Jack. The meeting finished early," Nina spoke, before noticing that she had spooked him somewhat. Grinning as she walked around to Jack's side, she tried to sneak a peek at the screen.

"Oh, that's good," Jack replied as he hastily tried to shut down the document he had been working on.

"What have you been doing, Jack?," Nina asked playfully and as Jack tried to come up with a good enough excuse, Nina grabbed the mouse off of him and brought the document back up.

"Hey! What if that was classified?," Jack protested, but they both knew Jack wouldn't be embarrassed if it had been official CTU material. Nina started to read, before dissolving into fits of laughter.

"What's this? Harry Potter fanfiction?," Nina giggled as she read the title. The first paragraph sent her into hysterics, much to Jack's bemusement.

"Hey, not so loud!," Jack whispered, seemingly oblivious to the fact that not even Nina's laughter could get through the soundproofed walls.

"John Bower? That's so obviously a Gary Stu!," Nina told Jack, before her usually porcelain white face turned red. Jack chuckled and looked up at Nina.

"Gary Stu? May I ask what fanfiction you've written, Ms Myers?," Jack asked, grinning up at Nina.

"If I don't tell everyone about yours, promise you won't tell everyone about mine?," Nina enquired, and Jack replied with a nod.

"OK, I promise. What's yours?," Jack asked her, somewhat glad that Nina understood his fanfiction writing passion. Teri had liked his stories but hadn't read the books, whilst Kim had loved them, but had made Jack swear never to show them to anyone outside of the family, in order to avoid embarrassment.

"I write fanfiction for ER," Nina admitted. It had been a cold night one November when she had been watching an episode of the programme, and she had been on the Internet soon after. She didn't remember how she had got to ER fanfiction, but for the rest of that otherwise uneventful Friday night, she had read many different fanfics, and had soon attempted to write one herself.

"ER, eh? Whos your Mary Sue?," Jack grinned. He knew that Nina would have to have such a character in her fanfiction.

"A doctor called Nina Byers," Nina admitted. She had never used her real name when writing her fanfiction, so it was easy enough to user her first name and a surname similar to her own.

Later that night, and Nina was in her house, snuggled under a warm duvet and finishing off her latest work. Suddenly, an email appeared, and she was pleased to see yet another review. It was apparent to Nina that her work was very much in demand on the Internet, and as she read the review – which was very glowing – she recognized the reviewer. John bower, it seemed, was not just a Gary Stu, he was also an avid reader of her work.