A/N – I decided to try another one shot. I like watching an episode, and then just writing a quick story of how I would have liked to have seen it all play out! (Not that the writers don't do a fantastic job, but its fun to imagine how things could have happened differently). This is my second one shot – I wrote one awhile back about Simon Says. This one is for the New Mafia, after Jack yells at Tony for endangering Sue, Sue approaches Jack and tells him that he didn't make her go, but Sue never finds out that Tony is actually married. Hope you like it – please review! (PS: sorry if what I write from the actual episode isn't word for word. I'm hard of hearing and at the end of Jacks talk to Sue; I can't quite catch what he is saying. So I'm writing what I THINK he's saying, since I really can't tell! (If anyone can tell me – right after jack says to Sue: Actions like that will get you killed, that would be awesome!) . And by the way, sorry guys but I'm going to make this super angsty. (It might be more than just one post…)

His Choice

"It's not like he made me go with him." Sue said desperately, looking at Jack's livid face. "I made the choice to go; and it's a good thing I did!" Jack turned to look at Sue.

"I don't care what you got. Actions like that will get you killed. He doesn't see how valuable you are." Before Sue could say anything more, Tony spoke up,

"Got it! This is the guy." He went over and showed Sue a picture of the man they were looking for.

"That's him!" She said excitedly. She grinned even more, as Tony said,

"Good work partner." Partly understanding that Jack just cared about her, and party annoyed that he seemed to think he knew better, Sue walked away to Tara's desk, as Dimitrius laid out the plan to visit Rocco.

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Sue entered hesitantly into the Hamas man's apartment, after Tara had nodded to her that it was safe. Jack and Tony walked back into the main room, after checking the rest of the place, Tony wielding the Uzi he found under the bed. They decided to set up surveillance, and wait until he came back home. Sue hung around a bit longer, hoping to have a chance to talk to Jack and smooth things over. She hated that things were awkward between them, just because of Tony. Jack saw her looked at him, but before she could speak, Tony came up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder. Jack looked away again, and finished what he was doing, fury rising in his chest, like every time he now saw them together.

"Ready to go?" Sue looked back at Jack, who seemed to refuse to look at her. She nodded, and slowly made her way out, pausing at the door. "Coming Jack?" Tony called out to the only man left in the room. Jack made his way out, walking by Sue, ignoring the hurt look on her face as he brushed by without even looking at her.

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Jack saw Bobby's car pull around the corner and knew he would meet the rest of them back at the bullpen. He made his way over to his car, knowing that Sue would want to go with Tony instead of him, but turned as he heard Tony talking to Sue.

"Wait here a second okay?" She nodded and waited by the side of his car, as Tony made his way over to Jack. Jack stood his ground, ready to get into his car, and wondering what Tony wanted.

"What?" He said, quite angrily.

"You don't have to treat her like crap just because you don't like me alright?" Jack was about to get in his face again, now that no one else was around to stop him, when he quickly heard the running steps of some men heading towards them. As he turned he saw the man they were looking for pulling out a gun, and yelling in Arabic, along with two other men. Instinctively, both Jack and Tony ducked behind his car door, as he heard the bullets ring out. They both pulled out their guns, when Jack's heart stopped and realized that Sue was alone by Tony's car, only a few steps away. He looked over and couldn't see her, praying that Levi had gotten her attention and she had gotten to safety. Still, he needed to make sure, especially when he started to hear Levi's continuous barking.

"We need to find Sue and make sure she's okay." He said anxiously to Tony. Tony agreed and they both ran, firing as they went. Jack gasped as he saw her lying on the pavement, unconscious and covered in blood, hidden from the men on the opposite side of Tony's car. He hurried over to her and checked her pulse, which was present, as he heard Tony call into his radio.

"This is Special Agent Caponno. We have an agent down and are currently engaged in a shootout with suspect #1 and 2 others. We need an ambulance stat and back up pronto!" He turned to Jack, who was busy looking at Sue, trying to find the source of the bleeding, and praying that the ambulance would arrive soon. Tony spoke up,

"The ambulance is on its way." He was interrupted as he heard another bullet hit his car. The three men were still there, and they were trapped. "There's nothing else you can do for her now until they get here. We need to go after them." Jack looked at him as if he were crazy.

"We can't just leave her?" He said. Tony looked at him furiously.

"If we don't go now, they might get away. I didn't work for over a year to catch these men…"

"You claimed to care about her!" Jack said incredulously. "I'm not going to leave her here to die!" Tony moved away carefully.

"Fine – You do what you have to do, and I'll do what I have to do. I'm not going to let some terrorists get away." Jack watched as Tony snuck his way behind his vehicle and tried to make his way closer to the men that were shooting at them.

Jack took his coat and pushed it to stem the flow from the bullet hole in her shoulder. He knew that it hadn't hit her heart, but she was losing blood fast, and was most likely unconscious from having fallen and hit her head. He saw the matted blood in her hair from where she must have hit it. He moved her gently; to make sure it wasn't bleeding badly, and choked when he saw the embedded gravel and cement in the open wound.

Suddenly, he felt angry; enraged at Tony for letting this happen to her, furious at her for believing him, and livid at himself for not having protected her. He could hear the ambulance siren in the distance, as he prayed that they would arrive quickly; he could feel her slipping away with each moment that passed. He noticed her eyes start to hazily open. She looked at him but he could tell she wasn't seeing very clearly.

"Jack?" She whispered, her eyes opening and closing slowly. He squeezed her hand to assure her that it was him. "Are you okay? Is Tony okay? Everything's so blurry, and I'm so tired." Jack knew that it wasn't a good thing for her to fall asleep with a concussion, but he didn't know how he was supposed to communicate with her. It also made him enraged to hear her ask how Tony was. He kept squeezing her hand, as he heard the sirens coming closer, and the bullets ceasing. Tony must have caught up to them, somehow, but Jack didn't care.

"Stay awake Sue. You can't go to sleep now, stay with me." He knew that she couldn't hear him, or probably read what he was saying. Levi whimpered and rested his chin on Jack's leg, as Sue stroked his fur with one free hand, her other still weakly holding Jacks. Jack could feel her grip getting looser and looser and her eyes start to stay closed.

"Sue? Sue!" Jack said, trying to wake her. Jack felt a strong hand on his shoulder push him away as two men in uniforms moved to her body. He turned and saw Bobby and Myles run towards him.

"What happened?" Bobby asked. He stopped in shock as he saw Jack's bloody hands, and Sue's limp body on the pavement. They both looked at Jack, who kept his eyes on Sue, as the two paramedics tried to revive her, Levi flush against his side, as anxious as he was.

Jack didn't know how many minutes passed by, but the next thing he knew, Sue was loaded onto a stretcher. Bobby and Myles hung around silently, unable to speak any words of support. Dimitrius soon joined them, and watched as they wheeled Sue away. Jack moved to go with them, but the paramedics stopped him.

"I'm sorry sir you can't come with us – she's going to need emergency surgery. You'll have to meet us at the hospital." Jack stood there, not completely able to understand what they were saying, as Myles took over, and moved Jack away from the doors.

"Thank you." He said quietly, as Dimitrius hurried over, and watched the ambulance pull away.

"What happened?" He asked. Jack finally talked.

"They started shooting. Tony had come over to my car, we had ducked behind my door, but they hit Sue." Jack stated simply, as if it wasn't himself talking, but someone else. His own mind was in a different universe. The four men looked over as they saw three men being put into a police car, and a some officers smiling and shaking Tony's hand, who was grinning, looking a bit bruised and cut, but not seriously injured. The words they were saying taunted Jack.

"Good Job Agent Caponno!"

"Way to go!" Tony smiled with gratitude, and before Bobby, Myles or Dimitrius could stop him, Jack hurried over to him and punched him hard. Next thing he knew, he was bleeding from his mouth, and being pulled off Tony by Bobby.

"He wanted to leave her there! He wanted to leave her to die!" Jack shouted, as Myles and Bobby held him back. Two other officers held back Tony, who was looking fiercely at Jack. Myles, Dimitrius and Bobby all looked mutinously at Tony, not surprised or blaming Jack for what he had done, now that they had heard the truth.

"Come on Jack." Bobby said, still glaring furiously at Tony. "Let's get to the hospital and see how Sue is. We can deal with him later." The four men quickly piled into the car and sped off, worried about the news they would receive upon arrive at the hospital.

To be continued…