She was frantically collecting her things, putting stuff in her backbag, almost throwing them in. It would be obvious to every one who watched her that she was in a big hurry. It would seem to them as if she was running from something or someone.

She got her things together and turned to leave, only to see her boss standing in the doorway.

"I don't have time for the lectures. I have to catch a plane" she tried to walk past him, but was stopped in her tracks. She looked away from him.

"Are you sure you want to do this, Chloe? Have you thought about him? What it's going to do to him? "

She turned to face him and said blankly, "I can't do this anymore." With that she walked by him and started towards the exit when she heard his last words.

"You are making a mistake, Chloe".

Bill's words were echoing in her mind. Tears stung to her eyes and for a moment she felt like crying. But she knew that there was no time and continued through the hallways of CTU. She knew that Jack got back from his mission any minute now and if he were to spot her leaving like that, it would all be over.

Unfortunatly for her, he was already back to CTU. When she walked by the main room, she spotted him talking to an analyst. He didn't see her as he ha his back on her. She panicked and fastened her steps, at the same time knowing that it could very well be the last time she ever saw him. He seemed so happy, the mission went well and things looked good for him and Audrey. But still, she knew him. She might not be the love of his life but all hell would break loose when he found out about her leaving. And it broke her heart to million pieces thinking that she was going to put him through that kind of pain. But she reminded herself quickly that she had to stay strong to go through with the plan.

She managed to get out of his sight and continue her way out of the building.

"Ok, thanks Stacy, send the data to my screen," and he walked away from the analyst towards the situation room where Bill was just heading to.

"Bill, where is Chloe? I can't find her. She was suppose to be waiting for me."

"She left, Jack" Bill answered bluntly and with that he went to the situation room, leaving a confused Jack behind.

"What do you mean she left? Left for home already? She wouldn't do that if she promised to wait for me." Jack has followed Bill inside and fear was evident in his voice.

"No, she didn't leave for home, Jack. She left for good."

"What? What are you talking about, Bill? What do you mean by left for good? When? Why? What happened?"

"You happened, Jack," Bill let out a sigh, acknowledging that is not the time. "She left a minute ago," he stated, knowing very well what he was going to do.

Jack ran out of the situation room to the main floor.

"Stacy, check the surveillance cameras, try to locate Chloe. She should still be in the building"

"On it," and the analyst started typing.

Bill came out of the situation room, hoping Jack wouldn't go too far with this.

"She is still in the building but not for long. She is about to go past the security." Stacy showed the video feed to Jack whose wheels started spinning in his head.

"Bill, tell the security not to let Chloe out of the building."

"What? Are you crazy? I can't treat her like a suspect just because you two have issues to work out."

Jack drew his gun and pointed at Bill. "Tell the security not to let her get away," he repeated his request with a deadpan voice.

"Okay, alright, Jack. But it's not going to end well."

Jack started to run towards the exit while hearing Bill give the order out.

Bill gave the order just when Chloe had gotten past security and was exiting the building. She could hear Bill's voice and her name and started running. She ran towards her cab that was parked just outside. She could see the security guards following her and she couldn't believe he did that. He had actually made them treat her like a suspect. But at the same time she could see the desperation in his actions and understood him.

She didn't know whose side god was on, but to her it looked like it was her day because she got to the taxi just in time to see him getting out of the building and running after her taxi, calling her to stop the car. She heard him yelling "dammit" and saw him starting towards his car, knowing that by the time he started the engine, she'd be out of his sight. But she knew the drill of what was going to go down next. After all, she had done the same thing with many, many suspects. There was going to be a witch hunt through the streets of LA. It was ironic, she thought to herself, that now she was treated like a suspect and treated as one by the one man she loves the most in this world.

"Driver, there is going to be a freeway overpass a few miles away under which I want you to stop" she gave the cab driver her destination mark. She knew that to get away, she had to go as fast as Jack, if not faster, and that meant she had to be the one behind the wheel. And of course there was the fact that they knew the cab she was driving with and were following it, so she had to switch the cars to buy time. She had planned this the whole day, nothing could go wrong. Chloe knew how he operates and she thought that she could beat him in his own game.

"Stacy, are you tracking Chloe's cab already?"

"Yes, Jack, she is 5 miles ahead of you. Wait…"

"What, what is going on?"

"She just went under a freeway overpass and hasn't come out yet although she should be."

"Dammit, she stopped. Probably to switch cars. Can you determine the car she switched to?"

"I might, but it's going to take a bit"

"Just do it as quickly as you possibly can".

Jack continued to drive, added to speed and hoped that he would catch her. How could he not, he had done it a million times and was better at it than her. There was no way she would get away, he said to himself, assuring himself that he would win this little game that they were playing.

"I'm under the overpass right now and there is no sign of the cab or any other cars. So one car that came out didn't go under it a few seconds before. Identify the car." He almost yells the last sentence to Stacy.

"I have it, Jack. The car is blue Honda Accord with a license plate 5BBM299. The cap between you two is about 2-3 miles. But she's going pretty fast."

"Ok, I'm going add to speed then."

"Be careful. The cap is getting smaller, you should have a visual soon, only…"Stacy stopped, shocked at what she saw on the screen.

"What? What do you see?" Jack almost yelled, demanding to know what made Stacy so shocked.

"It appears that she got into a car accident and it doesn't look good. I'm sending ambulance right now."

"Oh my god," was all Jack could say, fearing the worst.

When he reached the crash site, he saw just how bad it was. At least five cars were involved and it looked like a big mess. But he didn't pay attention to the other cars when he noticed hers. The car was upside down and didn't really resemble the kind of a car it once was. He quickly ran to it and reached down to get her out. The sight he saw would probably haunt him forever. Her face was so bloody that it took him time to be sure that it was really her. He quickly touched her neck to see if there was any pulse and was relieved to find it. But she was stuck some way and he couldn't get her out. Then something else got his attention –leaking gas and the car getting on fire. He went to the other side of the car to get her out from there, his movements getting frantic. It took him for what felt like an hour to get her out, at the same thinking that every second this car could explode. For a second he even thought about afterlife. That he would probably go to hell and she would go to heaven. On a normal day it would probably amuse him but that was not the time. When he finally got her out, he took her in his arms and moved away from the car, not getting very far before the car exploded.