Regained Moments
Okies,! This is now my second attempt at writing fan fic. I will try and not disappoint. Takes place straight after S6. And will be considered slightly AU, as certain people are still alive……. All will be revealed.
He exited the house, walking down towards the edge of the cliff. Jack Bauer didn't know what to do. He had just lost the woman he loved, the man he looked up to had called him cursed, and most of his family had died that day. He was lost, at a crossroads. As he looked over the edge, the thought of suicide crossed his mind. But he knew he couldn't do it. He wasn't that type of man.
Jack sat down, back to the fence, and broke down. He cried for all that he had lost, for everything in his life that he had done wrong, maybe things that he could've done differently, like Teri.
Teri, his first true love, and she was dead because of him. Because of his job. No matter how hard he tried, he could never forgive himself for what happened to her. He pretended that he had put it in his past, but it was all just a front, just an act. Then came Kim. He didn't think she ever forgave him for what happened, but 18 months later, they made up, and he even got her a job a CTU to keep an eye on her. She was so happy when he took the job in D.C. It meant that he would be on the other side of the country, but he was behind a desk, and no harm could come to him. He even found love again, with Audrey. But that one fateful day back in LA when he had to chose between Paul and Lee. The hardest choice of his life, and it ended in Audrey's husband dying. She hated him.
Still Jack sat crying, as the rain began. He was soaked to the skin in minutes, but his thoughts flew back to when the Chinese came knocking, and he had to disappear. He moved around for a while, and then settled in the Mojave. He thought that this might be his life from now on, but no, somebody tried to frame him for David Palmers assassination. Now that really pissed him off.
Jack came out of hiding, and met Audrey again. She told him she was sorry, and she needed to take her anger out on someone, and he was the target. Over the past months, she had come to realize, that what he did was the right choice, and she hated herself as the last thoughts before Jack died was thoughts of Audrey hating him. But they made up, and was planning on starting a new life again.
Then the Chinese came knocking once more. He thought hat really was the end for him. But he didn't want to die for nothing, so he fought to hang on to life, he kept visualizing Audrey's face, and that last kiss they shared. But he wasn't they only one the Chinese had. He didn't know it but Audrey was only a few miles away. And she was in much a worse condition than himself.
Then after an increasingly hard day, a nuclear bomb going off, his brother and father in the middle of it all, and Audrey being unresponsive to everyone, trying to fight invisible demons off, he couldn't take any more. He was now beyond wet. And still the tears came.
Secretary Heller looked out the back window to find Jack still sitting out there. 'There must be something I could do.' He might've not wanted Jack anywhere near his daughter, but he didn't want him dying of out there. There was only one person Jack would listen to. He reached for his phone, and dialled the number.
"Hello?"
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