Hi, this is my first '24' fanfic so I would love it if you told me what you think of this chapter. )

The German translations may not be correct because I'm only using an internet translator. )

Phia x

Always and Forever.

Rubbing a hand over her eyes Chloe turned off the computer and got up from behind her desk. She set her phone to divert so that any calls she missed at CTU would be transferred to her cell and picked up her bag and jacket.

Chloe headed down to CTU's parking lot where she had left her car at 6am that morning, when the long day had only just begun and the she hadn't yet had to endure hours of system failures, communication breakdowns and mess ups in the field which nearly cost them the life of one of their agents-in-training.

She was so wrapped up in her own world that Chloe didn't notice that she was about to walk into somebody until she actually did.

"Oh…. sorry." Chloe said distractedly as she attempted to walk past the person she had just bumped into.

"I'm not sure that sorry is good enough," said Jack with a small smile playing on his lips. "But I know something that would make up for it." He continued with the smile spreading and lighting up his eyes.

Chloe looked up realising who it was and giving a smile to match his own.

"Oh really, and what would that be?" Chloe asked, smiling innocently. Her and Jack had been innocently flirting for weeks, discreetly of course and not usually when anyone else was around.

"Well, for starters, you could agree to come out with me for dinner, Friday night?" Chloe looked up into his eyes and saw two very different emotions, the nervousness was almost obvious, but there was something else mixed in as well. Something Chloe hadn't seen before.

"I think I might be able to agree to that." Jack smiled and the nervousness in his eyes seemed to evaporate. But the other emotion stayed well put.

"Pick you up at eight?" Jack asked with a smile. He was surprised Chloe had agreed so easily, but he wasn't exactly complaining. In fact it was quite the opposite, but he wasn't going to let Chloe know that. That would be giving in too easily, and he got the feeling that Chloe liked to play it hard.

"Yeah, okay. See you tomorrow." Chloe smiled, and tiptoed up and gave Jack a kiss on the cheek. Jack returned the kiss and gave her a fierce, but gentle, hug.

"See you tomorrow." He said before they both walked off secretly smiling to themselves.

Chloe unlocked her car with the electronic key and opened the door. She shoved her bag and jacket onto the passenger seat next to her, closed the door and started up the engine. Slowly driving out of CTU she switched the radio, and for the first time in a long time, she started singing along to the radio. Turning right out of the parking lot she turned right along North Los Angeles Street and right down to the Santa Ana Freeway and straight down to Ramirez Street to where the parking lot for her first floor apartment on Keller Street was.

Parking her car into the allocated space she shut off the engine and grabbed her bag and jacket from the passenger seat. She stopped though when she saw her reflection in the rear view mirror. She looked somehow different, more alive, the color in her face had returned, and there was even a faint blush on her cheeks. Her eyes looked different as well; they almost seemed to mirror the emotion that she had seen in Jack's eyes when she had been talking to him earlier.

Slowly she got out of her car and double locked the doors as she headed across the parking lot and towards Keller Street. The journey to her apartment was never particularly pleasant but today it somehow felt different. Smiling to herself as she crossed the road she headed down the street towards her apartment. She was so wrapped up in her happiness that Chloe didn't see the pale skinned, dark haired man who walked into sync behind her; if she had then maybe what happened next wouldn't have happened. As Chloe dipped her head to search through her bag for her keys she felt the cold, precise, point of a gun nestle in the small of her back. Lifting her head up Chloe slowly looked over her shoulder and saw the dark, emotionless eyes of the dark haired, pale skinned man behind her.

Startled she shakily found her voice.

"What do you want?" Trying to stay calm her mind assessed the possible ways to get her out of her current predicament without getting herself killed. Easier said than done she thought to herself waiting for the man to reply.

"Wenn Sie noch ein Wort sagen, bringe ich Sie um." Chloe looked confused, she instantly recognized the language, it was German, but what he had actually said, was another thing. Her German was extremely limited and she just about managed to remember what she said next.

"Ich spreche Deutsch nicht." The German man gave her a filthy look and muttered something under his breathe in German before continuing in English.

"If you say another word I will kill you." He said in a heavily accented voice. Chloe panicked, she didn't have much experience out in these kinds of situations, she'd only been out in the field a couple of times for CTU, she was only friggin' analyst, not super woman. Her breathing labored, she decided what to do next. The German man had an arm around her waist, keeping the small of her back against the cold nozzle of the Kahr PM9. Grabbing around his wrist she turned in hopes that she could put his twist his arm behind his back while kicking away the Kahr, but unfortunately he was too quick and had anticipated what she was going to do.

Twisting her arm round so he was close to breaking it he roughly shoved her down the street and through a back alleyway onto Gateway Plaza where another man was waiting for him in a silver Chevrolet Camaro Z28. He pushed Chloe roughly into the back seat of the car and then got into the passenger seat.

He spoke quickly to the man sitting next to him.

"Gehen Sie! Bevor jemand uns sieht." The driver stepped on the gas and sped away leaving a cloud of dust in its wake.

All Chloe could hope was that someone had seen them and would inform the authorities immediately.

And then maybe…. although she didn't like playing 'damsel in distress', Jack could be her super hero. Even though he already is she thought to herself as the world went whizzing past her window.

Even though he already is.