Disclaimer:

I do not own the characters of 24, nope not mine..

Summary:

Song fic, very dark and one shot as well with Jack Bauer, the song is Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire, I changed it up as I just was reminded of 9-11-2001, as I am nearly every day. Here is Jack's reaction to it…

The eastern world, it is exploding

Violence flarin', bullets loadin'

You're old enough to kill, but not for votin'

You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'

Jack sat listening to the song on the radio as he watched the hell that unfolded in New York City. For hell it was, terrorists had attacked and the world trade center was on fire, hell that was not right they were gone, completely and he sat stunned at the horror that had hit home.

And even the Jordan River has bodies floatin'

But you tell me

Over and over and over again, my friend

Ah, you don't believe

We're on the eve

of destruction.

Jack nearly laughed, on the eve of destruction? They had gone way past that, the end of the world was now, he sat in his home in LA sure that another attack was going to wipe out LA..

Don't you understand what I'm tryin' to say

Can't you feel the fears I'm feelin' today?

If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away

There'll be no one to save, with the world in a grave

Take a look around ya boy, it's bound to scare ya boy

And you tell me

Over and over and over again, my friend

Ah, you don't believe

We're on the eve

of destruction.

If the button was pushed? If the button was pushed, there was not going to be any damn button this time! Jack knew that and knew that the terrorists planned on using planes and whatever else they could get their damn bastard hands on.

Yeah, my blood's so mad feels like coagulatin'

I'm sitting here just contemplatin'

I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation.

Handful of senators don't pass legislation

And marches alone can't bring integration

When human respect is disintegratin'

This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'

And you tell me

Over and over and over again, my friend

Ah, you don't believe

We're on the eve

of destruction.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China

Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama

You may leave here for 4 days in space

But when you return, it's the same old place

The poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace

You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace

And… tell me over and over and over and over again, my friend

You don't believe

We're on the eve

Of destruction

Mm, no no, you don't believe

We're on the eve

of destruction.

China was the least of anyone's worries now, the real threat came from the middle east from evil men who believed they would end up in heaven for killing innocent people who had never done them any harm. Jack was more than mad, more than pissed off he wanted to kill. His phone rang and he answered it and walked out of his house, kissing his wife and daughter on the way out. His last words to them were "I love you" for who the hell knew if he would ever see them again?

End.