Everytime that I look in the mirror
all these lines on my face gettin' clearer
the past has gone
It went by like dusk to dawn
Isn't that de way... yeah
Everybody got their dues in life to pay
Yeah I know nobody goes
Where it comes and where it goes
I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know how to win
Jack Bauer drummed on the steering wheel as he drove his new black mustang towards his town house. It had been almost a year since the last long day of his life and his drug addiction. He had overcome it and was now enjoying working in a small security firm with his former co-worker Tony Almedia. CTU had made it clear they did not want Tony back, and Jack left for his own reasons.
Jack looked at his gas gage and saw that he needed to get some gas or he was going to be pushing the car to his new town house. He turned right at the corner passing a small group of children playing hop scotch on the corner. He drove down the residential area to the gas station at the end of the block. He was at the intersection before the gas station waiting for the light to turn green.
Half my life's in books written pages
Livin' learnin' from fools and from sages
You know it's true
All the things you do come back to you
Sing with me sing for the year
Sing for laughter and sing for the tear
Sing with me if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow good Lord take you away
He was into the song drumming. Aerosmith was one of his favorite groups, though he had been introduced to newer music by a co-worker Jasmine. She had a disk man at her side all the time with music coming from it. She was a good computer expert and had helped Tony and Jack start the business from the ground up. The light turned green and Jack went to take off. When he put his foot on the peddle the car shook and he heard the noise of an explosion. The gas station went up in flames in a huge ball of fire. Jack slammed on his breaks and looked in amazement for a minute.
Well... sing with me sing for the year
Sing for laughter sing for the tear
Sing it with me if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow good Lord take you away
His first reaction was to run over to see if anyone had still been alive, but the underground tanks had not exploded yet. He saw the little kids come running towards the corner. He put his car in park and got out. One of the kids screamed at the top of her lungs, "Daddy!!!!"
Jack grabbed the little girl before she could run across the street. A few seconds later the underground tanks went and Jack yelled to the little kids, "Get back." He knew debrief would fly all over. He walked the little girl to the end of the street and reached for his cell phone. He called 911 and told them what had happened. He sat still holding the little girl who was crying loudly. Jack figured her father must have been working in the gas station or something like that. He asked the little girl, "Is your mother home?" He knew she shouldn't be alone and he knew he would be hauled away to answer some questions.
"Yes." The little girl sniffled.
"Why don't we go get her than?" Jack said kindly not sure of what to do. He had never really had to console the families of victims before. He had Kate Warner but that just sort of came natural. It was different with little children.
He walked down the block with the little girl till she pulled his hand towards her house. Jack knocked on the door and waited for the mother to answer. He could hear a woman inside say "I'll be there in a minute."
When she answered the door Jack was taken back by her beauty. She had a shocked look on her face, a strange man holding her crying little girls hand, not something a mother would expect. "What's wrong?"
"Ma'am I'm Jack Bauer. I was driving down the street and uhm. . ." He paused he noticed the suspicious look in the mothers eyes. "Well the gas station down the block exploded."
"Oh my God. Was that what the noise was?" The mother asked in terror.
"Yes ma'am. She was going to run to it."
"Oh my God. Rich he was working. Oh no god please no." The mother said with tears in her eyes.
"I'm so sorry ma'am." Jack said as he saw the cop cars and fire engine speed down the road to put out the fire before it spread.
"Maybe he wasn't there." The mother lied to herself. Her husband was there. He ran the gas station and had been there every day except Sundays and major holidays.
Jack did not know what to say or do. He knew he had to go back and speak with the police. "Ma'am is there anyone you can call family, a friend, someone to stay with you?"
"Yes. I'll call my sister. Thank you for saving her."
Jack lowered his head. He saved the little girl but not the father, he thought to himself there was no way you could have known Bauer. He walked away back to his car where the police awaited him to answer their questions.
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Kim was scanning the police frequencies as Michelle the new Director of CTU had ordered her too. There was a terrorist threat, but they had no other information other than it would occur over the next few days. A mole in one of the Hamas splinter cell's had gotten the information to them. Hamas was now broadening their horizons into terrorizing the U.S. and other like countries. Israel was no longer the only target. The U.S. and other countries had helped Israel come into existence and would keep it there, unless they no longer existed or were to scared to fight on Israel's side.
She almost jumped up when she heard that not one, but three gas stations had exploded in the past five minutes. She picked up the phone, this was not the biggest terrorist action to be taken, but it could be part of one. She told Michelle of her findings and got a laugh out of Michelle, "Kim really why would they target gas stations? Really come on that's a little thin. Keep checking."
Maybe Kim was stupider than originally believed, Michelle thought to herself. That was just crazy to think terrorist would attack gas stations, seriously what would that achieve other than a body count and maybe a shortage of gas in the city.
Kim felt stupid after reporting that to Michelle. What had she been thinking. She looked up to her fathers old office and saw the new man who inhibited it chewing out Chase over something. Chase no longer was a field operative, but he helped command the teams from the safety of CTU. The new Field Op's director Bob Cooley was a nice guy usually, expect for when someone made a mistake or got out of line. Chase had a problem with him, as he had told Kim many of times, because he was not Jack. Chase missed working with Jack, and had admitted he looked up to Kim's father. Kim joked with him that was the only reason he was seeing her and he got mad at her for it.
But her stupid feelings quickly disappeared as she looked up to the big TV screen tuned into CNN. It was flashing breaking news. Maureen Kingsley who came back from a hiatus was reporting, "A few minutes ago loud explosions where heard in Texas and Louisiana when the caverns of the oils reserves shook with an explosion. CNN does not have any details as to whether this was an accident or the act of terrorist. Please stay tuned as we will report as more facts come to light."
Kim jumped up wondering if this had anything to do with the gas stations going up in flames. She went back to scanning the police frequencies. She decided to expand her search to all major cities. By the end of a ten minute search she had at least fifty gas stations that went up in all of the major cities. Counting five in L.A.
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Kate had never seen Rick as mad as he was. She put her hand on his shoulder and said, "Honey calm down what's wrong?" She asked her husband of a few months.
Rick shrugged her shoulder off and yelled, "Nothing." Kate had just told him she had found out someone was embezzling money from her fathers company. She had been looking into the financial side for her father and found out about it. She told Rick because he was the Vice President of the company now, and she thought he should know.
"I'll find who it was don't worry about that honey." Kate said thinking maybe it was the news that there was in fact someone embezzling money that got to him.
His face turned red and he threw the glass of scotch hard at the wall. "Why where you looking into the finances anyways?"
Kate was scared of him, physically scared she had never seen him like that before. "Daddy asked me too." She said backing away from him.
He followed her. The mentioning of her father pissed him off more. He punched her hard in the face sending her flying to the floor.
Kate fell to the floor with a scream of pain. She put her hand to her face and she could feel the warm blood trickle out of her nose. She tried to crawl away from him, but he continued to approach her. When he reached her again she was on the floor and he kicked her three times hard in the stomach. "Why the fu(k did your father have you meddling into my financial department?" He asked as he roughly grabbed her off the floor.
"He knew money was coming up missing and he was tipped off someone might be using the company to launder money." Kate answered scared of her husband for the first time ever.
The happy world was crumbling on him Rick felt. He quickly let Kate fall back to the floor. He walked away and went to their room to change as he had gotten some of Kate's blood on his shirt. Kate lay on the floor in pain not sure if she should run away, which would cause him to chase after her or if she should wait for him to come back. She was not sure why he was so violent he had never been before. She got onto her hands and knees and crawled to the near by study. She got inside and locked the door scared of him. She went to the desk and picked up the phone. She was not sure who she could call. If she called the cops it might not help because Rick was the police chiefs son. She called the only person she could think to call.
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Tony's cell phone rang and interrupted the staff meeting he was conducting. He looked embarrassed and said, "I'm sorry I have to take this. Ten minute break?" He answered the phone, "Tony Almedia?"
"Tony I'm not going to make it in today." Jack said waiting for Tony to get over his pissed off mood he would get at this revelation.
"Why's that Jack?" Tony said letting the anger in his voice show.
"Have you heard about the gas station that blew up." Jack said not knowing about the others yet.
"Which one?" Tony said knowing that there had been at least five in L.A. area that had exploded.
"There's more than one?" Jack said confused.
"Yeah. I was just going to call Michelle to see if they needed some help. We could run our own investigation outside of theirs. Hold on Jack the business phone is ringing." Tony set down his cell phone and picked up the conference room phone. He figured his secretary must have patched the call through so he answered, "Tony Almedia?"
"Mr. Almedia how are thing with you?" David Palmers voice came over the phone.
"Very good. I cannot thank you enough Sir." Tony said referring to the president pardoning him from his treason charge.
"It's me that should be thanking you. Jack and you have helped this country out so many times and yet thanks never seems enough. I need your guys help. I have a little situation to deal with. If you are available it would be nice to have people I can trust look into it."
"No problem sir. I'll see if Jack can stop by your house today and help out. How soon do you need him? He might not be able to make it today."
"Today or tomorrow." Palmer answered.
"If he can't do it either days I'll come out myself and brief him later sir." Tony said ready to please.
"Thank you Tony and say hi to Jack for me. I look forward to seeing one of you soon." Palmer hung the phone up.
Tony set the phone down and picked up his cell phone again, "Jack you there?"
"Yeah. Who was that?" Jack asked.
"David Palmer he wants our help. Can you get out there today? After you finish whatever is detaining you from working." Tony said sarcastically.
"I'll try. Thanks Tony. I got to go the police want to question me." Jack hung the phone up.
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It was busy. His phone has never been busy before. Doesn't he have call waiting. She left a voice mail message. Kate hoped he would call back soon. Rick was outside the door banging trying to get in, and she was not sure if it would hold up. The noise of him hitting the door every time made her jump in fear. She screamed, "Leave Rick now. I'm going to call the police if you don't."
"Honey I'm sorry." Rick said stopping from banging on the door. "I'm so sorry. I never should have. I don't know what came over me. Please open the door baby."
"I'm calling the police now." She screamed back. She knew if she opened the door he would not be there to say sorry. She was not going to turn into one of those battered wives. She had seen it happen to too many people, and she was not going to become that. She picked her phone up and tried the number again.
"You know the police won't help. My father is the police Chief." Rick said smiling from the other side of the door.
The phone rang once twice, three times. Why wasn't he answering.
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Jack felt his phone vibrate in his pocket and said to the police officer, "Do you mind if I take this? I run a business and it might be important."
"Sure go ahead." The police officer that was watching him said. He knew of the man and all he had done in the past. He remember the man as the man who saved David Palmer when he was a senator. He was also the same man that broke out the cop killer to, and took a lot of stuff from the police because of that later.
"Bauer."
"Jack?" A frantic woman's voice came over the line.
"Kate?" Jack said confused and than worried by the tone of her voice, "What's wrong?"
"Can you come over to my house now please."
"I'm kind of stuck in something. Where's Rick?" Jack heard the banging on the door in the back ground and someone scream for Kate to open the damn door. "Who is that Kate?" Jack asked with a worried look on his face.
"It's Rick. He's lost it or something. Please can you come over now. I'm scared and I don't know who to call." Kate said crying now sitting behind the desk holding her knees tightly to her chest, rocking back and forth.
"I'll be there in a few minutes. Just stay on the phone with me ok?" Jack said feeling his anger rise up in him. The last time he saw Kate this scared she had just saw a man killed, and tortured.
She laughed over the phone to relieve some of the tension she felt. "I'm sorry to drag you into this."
"Don't be sorry. Hold on for one second." Jack put the phone at his side and looked at the police officer, "It's an emergency I've answered all the question if you have anymore you can call me, but I really have to go."
"I don't know sir." The police officer said not knowing if the detectives were finished with him.
"I really have to go. Please." Jack begged.
"Let me go ask the detective." The uniform officer walked away.
Jack was tempted to get into his mustang and drive away, but he knew better than to do that. He was no longer law enforcement and that could only prolong his trip to Kate's.
The detective walked back over with the uniform officer and said, "If you leave your number with him and make it to the police station later today to sign a statement than you can go. If you don't come later today I will put an APB out on you and you will be assumed as a suspect sir."
"No problem. My number is 212-206-2538. I'll make it there later today." Jack said. He ran to his car and put it in reveres and quickly turned it around. He drove at the top speed towards Kate's house. "Kate are you still there?" He said remembering his cell phone.
"Yes." It was quiet outside the door and she thought maybe Rick had left, but she was not stupid enough to unlock the door and venture out to find. "Are you almost here?" She asked anxiously.
Jack felt part of his patience wear with that. "I'm sorry I had to get away from the police."
"What?" Kate said shocked.
"I witnessed a gas station explode and they were questioning me about it. I'm almost there." Jack said slowing down as he pulled into her neighborhood. He knew it was the summer and kids were out playing and he did not want to road kill one of them. He pulled into Kate's drive way and noticed both cars parked there. He got out and cautiously walked towards the front door. He knocked on the door and waited a few minutes to see if anyone would open it. When no one came he warily opened the door and walked inside. He said into his cell phone at almost a whisper, "I'm here in the house. Where are you at?"
"I'm in the study." Kate said. "Be careful. I don't know if he's still here." She would have laughed if it did not hurt to much at her telling Jack to be careful of Rick. She began to worry than, if Jack go a hold of Rick he would tear him apart piece by piece, and probably go to jail for it.
Jack rounded the corner from the living room and saw Rick coming in from the back yard with an axe in his hand.
"Hey Jack. What are you doing here?" Rick asked standing in the kitchen, the axe hanging loosely at his side.
"I came to pick up Kate. She called me." Jack said readying himself for a fight.
"Oh did she. You were always prince charming for her. Running to her rescue." Rick said in a cold distant voice. It was not new to either of them that they did not like each other. At the wedding it was even worse. Jack did not want to go there he had just gotten out of rehab and wanted to pick up where he left off, but he found out as many people who leave the reality of the world for awhile that when he came back things changed. There was no hope of trying to rekindle his love for Kate, she had moved on. Tony gave him some advice, the best thing he could do was go there and be there for her. So that is what Jack did, alone. It was the worse thing to have to go to an ex's wedding alone.
"Why don't you let me just drive her to wherever she wants and you both can calm down and talk about this later." Jack said not wanting to engage Rick while he had an axe in his hands.
"Sure Jack. I'm going to let my wives ex-lover, who she still loves mind you, take her away. What do you think I am a complete jerk off?"
Jack knew he could take him and he let his anger get the better of him, "Well now that you ask. Yes I do. You have Kate this wonderful lady and what do you do to her?"
This angered Rick and he came at Jack axe in the air. Jack moved quickly out of the way and grabbed Rick's arm, with the axe in it, and twisted it hard backwards. Jack heard the bone snap and smiled to himself, he had never really taken pleasure in hurting people, but this was a good new experience.
Rick screamed in pain as he brought his arm forward, axe on the floor he looked at Jack with rage in his eyes, "You broke my arm. I'm going to press charges."
"Rick a little problem, you came at me with an axe." Jack said walking up to Rick, he was not finished. Jack punched Rick as hard as he could in the face. Rick fell to the floor grabbing his broken nose. Jack stepped over him and went to the study door. He knocked on it and said, "Kate it's me lets go."
Kate opened the door and cautiously looked out to see Jack standing there. She felt so relieved to see him, she had the feeling of safety again.
Jack's heart broke when he saw Kate's face, and if she had not been there he might have walked over and killed Rick for doing that to her. Jack took his coat off and gently put it around Kate. He wanted to comfort her so much. He walked her out past Rick who lay on the ground holding his nose looking up angry at them, but not stupid enough to try anything else.
When they got to the car Jack asked, "Do you want me to take you to the hospital?" Jack was not sure what he was suppose to do with her.
"No. I'm fine. Nothing's broken I think. If you don't mind could I go to your house? I have no where else to go." Kate said almost crying now at the reality of her world crushing down on her.
"Of course you can. I'll stop by the supermarket to pick up some ice." He said looking at her. Her nose had stopped bleeding, but her left cheek was covered in a big bruise that looked painful. One of her eyes were already swollen looking and blue.
He parked his car in front of the supermarket and asked, "Do you want me to pick anything else up? I don't have much food in the house." He said almost shamefully.
"Do you have scotch?" She asked chastising herself for saying it. She was not sure if he had gone completely away from all drugs or just the heroin and if it was from all drugs that was not helpful. She felt horrible again and started to cry as she had just turned her back on in after he left her. She was a horrible person. He was always there for her, and here he was again, and she didn't even know something that simple about him.
"Of course I do." Jack said putting his arm around Kate who was sobbing.
"I'm so sorry." She said through her tears.
"Don't be Kate. Everything is going to be fine. Your safe now." He said taking his arm away and getting out of the car, "I'll be back in a few minutes."
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Michelle listen as Kim reported all of the happenings. She looked around the room at her highly capable staff and a part of her wished Tony and Jack were there to help. How could CTU function without them. Jack the field man, who always followed the leads that Tony had found. Tony always there ready to help Jack with whatever, and always coming up with new ideas. Michelle looked at their replacements and wanted to laugh and scream, "we are all doomed."
Bob Cooley, one to always state the obvious said, "They're going after our oil supply. Makes sense. If they create enough panic, gas stations will raise their prices, on top of the already raised prices. We will have a shortage and no way of fixing the problem. Let's just hope Saudi Arabia and the other countries don't decided to be more independent at the moment because if they do we are in trouble and out of gas and oil."
Chase wanted to say, "Duh Mr. Smart!" but he kept his mouth closed. He asked, "Do we have any clue as to who is behind this?"
"We have no clue yet." Kim answered. She was well briefed on the situation and enjoying her new post as an assistant to Michelle. "We have some top ten candidates, but it's purely speculation."
Michelle's phone rang and she answered it, "Almeida." It was weird now to be able just to say Almeida and not be specific as to which one.
"Michelle. I know things are hectic. The firm has been asked by a few of the oil big wigs to look into the current situation. I just wanted to let you know and we will share any and all information we get." Tony said to his wife.
"You know we can't share information with you. You are civilians." Michelle said regretting reminding him.
"Yes we know. It's fine we already have more information than you guys do. We have a clue who is behind it. Came through on some of our sources of information. A possible Hamas splinter group. We are not sure of who is funding them yet." Tony said smiling on the other line. He loved working outside of CTU. He had so many more resources available to him because of the lack of red tape. Palmer and his friends had made sure the firm had more than enough sources of information inside and outside the government.
"How did you get that information?" Michelle asked angry that he already knew information she was in the dark on.
"They sent in demands just before the explosion. Keeler decided not to comply to them." Tony answered knowing CTU and other organizations were having problems with Keeler's administration who did not see a need for CTU and other organizations that doubled on other well known organizations.
"OH." Michelle answered. "I don't think I'll be making it home tonight." She said to him.
"I know. I'll stop by with some dinner for you later." He answered back. "But I better let you go you have lives to save, and I have clients to deal with."
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When Jack walked out of the store a part of him thought this was all a dream. He had thought Kate and Rick's marriage was happy and normal. He never really spoke to Kate after the wedding, mostly because he was keeping his distance. He knew that he screwed up their relationship just like he had with Teri, and every time he saw her it reminded him of the mess he made of his life, and it hurt. He was now mad at himself for cutting all ties with her after he returned. He thought maybe if he had not than she wouldn't be in this position or she might have been in it sooner. Either way he felt to blame for it.
Kate was in the car trying to find music that was not made back in the day. She knew Jack's music taste tended to be stuff made before her birth, as he was older than her. She was looking through the CD's and found one that interested her. She put it into the CD player and laid her head back against the head rest. Her head hurt, and so did her face. She was to scared to look in the mirror for fear of seeing the extent of the bruise and if she broke down she knew Jack would go back and kill Rick.
Jack walked out of the store and was filled with rage when he saw Kate in the car. Her mascara causing black lines to run down under her eyes from crying. Her face bruised and puffy from him hitting her. Jack was tempted to turn the car around and go back to finish the job, but he knew it would not help Kate, and he needed to be there for her at the moment.
"How are you doing?" He asked when he got into the car.
"I'm fine." She lied, they both knew she was far from fine.
"Sure." He said sarcastically. "I got ice and some soda for you. You still like sprite right?"
She smiled at him, rewarding him for remembering her favorite soft drink. She hoped it would have been ice crème or something chocolate, but at least he remembered her soda. It hurt to smile, but she hid the pain from him. She felt safe again with him near. She knew nothing would hurt her as long as he was close by. He had proven that to her many of times, and that was only on the first day she meant him.
"I almost forgot." Jack said smiling at her pulling out a pint of Ben and Jerry's chocolate chip cookie doe ice crème.
Kate smiled bigger cringing slightly in pain. "You are sly Jack Bauer. You know the way to a woman's heart, ice crème."
He put the car into gear and sped off towards his new town house. He pulled into his drive way. They walked to the front door and he unlocked it and let her in. He said, "If you want I can give you something of mine to change into, and later after you both have had time to cool off we can go pick up some of your things."
"Thanks." Kate said studying the apartment. There were still some boxes spread around still needing unpacking, but she thought it was better than the small apartment he had when they were together. "I like the new place." She said walking around the living room looking at some of the things he had hanging on the wall.
"Kim hung those while I was away." Jack was referring to the shadow box with his medals and awards from the Army, and a few picture of him and Kim.
"How is Kim?" Kate asked. She had not seen her since before her and Jack and broke up.
"Dating a ex-field op's agent."
Kate almost laughed when Jack said that. She could only guess what made the boy quit field op's. "What are you doing now? I heard that you left CTU."
"Tony and I are running a security firm. We pretty much are running background checks, but we get the occasional high level politician asking us to look into some things. Do you want to get into a shower or something to eat?" Jack asked a little nervous. He did not want to talk about himself.
"Shower than food." Kate answered knowing he was trying to change the
"I'll cook you something while you are in the shower. What sounds good?" Jack asked just trying to be there for her at the moment, nothing more.
"Anything would be good at the moment." Kate answered looking around for where the shower might be.
Jack noticed and felt stupid for a minute, he was not use to her not knowing where things were. "It's upstairs the second door on the right side."
"Thanks." Kate said leaving the living room for the steps that led up to another floor of the town house. She walked into the bathroom that was well kept. Something she liked about Jack. Most men would let the bathroom go never really cleaning it, but Jack kept everything clean and nice. She shut the door and noticed another door in the good size bathroom. She opened it and noticed it led into his bed room. She closed it not wanting to snoop around his room, he had done so much for her already. She turned the shower on and undressed. Looking at herself in the mirror she almost gasped at the way she looked. She checked out her ribs poking them gently they were bruised, and she hoped not broken. She walked into the shower stall and welcomed the warm water beating down on her.
Jack walked upstairs and into his room to find something for Kate to change into, and to make sure his room was not in bad shape. He turned the light on in the room and looked around. He didn't see anything he thought he should hide. His room consisted of a bed, dresser, and a night stand. He was never one for decorating so it was still the same off white color as when he moved in. He went through his dresser and found a shirt and a pair of boxers for Kate. He yelled through the bathroom door, "I laid some clothes on the bed for you."
He heard Kate say, "Thank you."
Jack left the room again back to ordering food because he didn't have anything inside the house. He put some of the sprite in the fridge and than the ice crème in the freezer. Walking over to his CD player he knew he need music, something to help calm him, or he was going to leave and kill Rick. He looked through his CD collection to find something Kate would listen to he gave up and put on some Led Zeppelin.
He sat on the couch resting his head in his hands. His mind racing a million miles a minute knowing he had a lot to do, but he could not leave Kate alone. He jumped when his cell phone rang. He took it out of his pocket and saw on the caller Id the caller was unknown. He did not have many numbers that came up like that, and he was not sure who it might be. He answered the phone, "Hello."
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Chase wanted so bad to be out in the field with everyone else, but he knew he couldn't. It was not because of his hand, he had full use of it with some minor complications, but not enough to keep him out of the field. He would keep his promise to Kim, and Jack. He left field op's for good. He no longer was a field agent, even if he wanted to be one. Kim meant more to him than that. He looked at his watch it was late in the afternoon and neither him nor Kim had lunch yet. He walked over to Kim's desk she was busy typing away and he asked, "You want to go grab some lunch before everything hit's the fan."
"I'm really busy trying to get this done." Kim said.
Chase looked at Chloe who was watching them, "Chloe would you do a favor for a friend?" Chase asked.
"I'll finish it for her. God I always have to do everyone's job around here." Chloe said.
"Come one Kim. Food now." Chase said poking her gently.
"Fine." Kim said wanting to say something to Chloe, but Chase had already explained that she meant well, and she didn't have many friends so Kim should try to be nice to her.
Kim and Chase left CTU holding hands as they walked to his truck. "Where do you want to go to eat?"
"I'm not really hungry for food." Kim said playfully.
"Don't start something Ms. Bauer that you can't finish." Chase said smiling.
"I can finish. Your apartment isn't to far from here. We can eat afterwards." Kim said smiling at him.
Chase put the truck in gear and drove to his apartment. He followed behind Kim like an obedient puppy up to his apartment. When they got inside he hungrily kissed her. They both started to take each others clothes off as they moved towards his bedroom. They only made it to the door and were already undressed. He picked her up and dropped her gently on the bed. He was getting ready to, when he heard his cell phone ring.
Kim wanted to say "Don't get it", but they both knew they were in the middle of a crisis. Kim's phone started to ring and they both got up and walked to their phones in the living room.
Both incidences it was Michelle ready to chew the two out. "Where are you guys?"
"Getting lunch." Chase said into his phone looking at Kim knowing there was no way he was going to get what he wanted now.
"You need to be here. There is no time for that we are in the middle of a crisis and down bodies already. Get back here now. Both of you."
"Sorry Michelle." Kim said into her phone.
Michelle didn't want to snap on them, she remembered what it felt to be young and in love, but now was not the time. "Be here in ten minutes. We have a conference call with Brad Hammond."
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