Author's Note:

First, a big thanks for all of the readers and those kind reviews. Again, please tell me what you guys think. Constructive Criticisms are definitely welcome!

Second, I'm not a lawyer nor do I work in any law related organization. Therefore, some of the stuff I described below might be off comparing to the real life. Same applies for government agencies and their respective protocols. These are fictional situations so some creative liberties are exercised here :D.

Basically, "Day 9" begins 18 months after the events of Day 8 (including what happened in the prologue). Jack Bauer was on the run from every law enforcement agencies around the world, and Renee Walker, after being resuscitated successfully, was placed in the witness protection program. Just like previous "days" of 24, new characters are introduced. This chapter is mostly set-ups for the events to come. Anyway, enough with my rambling. Hope you guys enjoy this chapter :)

Disclaimer: I don't own 24 and any of the characters. However I do own the OC's I created though: P

The following takes place between 8:00AM and 9:00AM

Events occur in real time.

8:05:25

FBI LA Field Office

"In international news, tensions rise between Russia and Islamic Republic of Kamistan worsened as Russian President, Yuri Suvarov, announced in a public speech today that he vows to punish those who were responsible for the nerve gas attack on three of Moscow's subway terminals three weeks ago. The death tolls from the attack are among thousands. The Russian authority had found two male bodies near the origin of the nerve gas attack in the Borovitskaya station. According to Russian authority, those two men were identified as IRK intelligence agents operating in Russia. As FSB, Russia's internal security service continues cracking down on possible terrorist cells, Russia's Caspian Sea and Black Sea fleets had left their respective ports and Russian ground forces are mobilizing towards the Kamistan's border. A spoke person from Russian Foreign Ministry has stated strongly that the current IRK government, led by President Dalia Hassan, is no better than the extremists she sought to replace, and this cowardly attack is the proof of that. Crisis talks were held at UN five days ago between US, Russia, and Kamistan. However, no peaceful resolutions were reached. So far, diplomats and government officials from all three sides are continuing to meet in various capacities hoping to avert the crisis…Ever since the allegations made by both US and IRK leaders about Russian government's involvement in the assassination plot against the late IRK President, Omar Hassan, US and IRK's relation with Russia Federation have degraded exponentially. The Russian Foreign Ministry had repeatedly denied those allegations, stating that those accusations are false and Russia is being used as a scapegoat by both US and IRK to hide their embarrassments of the failed peace treaty, and those accusations has helped fostering the extremist elements inside Dalia Hassan's government. So far, the UN's special investigatory commission has found no evidences of Russian involvement in the said assassination…"

FBI special agent Scott Riley watched the talking head spoke on the flat screen TV installed high up on the structural column of the floor. After wrapping up the case on the Russian spy network in New York, Scott and his boss handed whatever they had found to the Attorney Generals and UN investigators, but in truth, they didn't find much. His boss, special agent in charge Ted Donahue, retired from the Bureau due to health reason. Scott, who had fed up with dealing with same bureaucrats in the various agencies in New York, was eager for a fresh new start. As a result, he applied for a transfer to the Los Angeles Field Office.

At the moment, he learned on his desk and pondered whether the decision he and his former boss, special agent Donahue made about keeping Renee Walker in WITSEC for indefinite time was a correct one or not, especially after he had found out what she had known after he debriefed her. According to Renee Walker, Pavel Tokerav, who disguised himself as an EMT, was at the scene where the late President of IRK, Omar Hassan's body was found. This and the fact that Samir Mehran, the IRK extremist and Omar Hassan's murder, was found poisoned to death by unknown substance, should create probable cause for the investigators to look into the Russian angle. However, the Russians seemed to be one step ahead of them. For starters, they had completely erased any of their records regarding Pavel Tokerav and his operatives. Somehow, they even managed to make it look like Tokerav was never a diplomatic attaché within the Russian delegation. Those Russians probably greased a lot of wheels to make that happened…As of now, Pavel Tokerav was just another two bit criminal within the Russian organized crime as oppose to an intelligence operative working under the diplomatic cover. Therefore, Renee's possible testimony could not be used in ICJ (International Court of Justice) if there was any sort of prosecution to be made. Knowing the length the Russians were willing to take to ensure their skeletons stays buried, Scott and Donahue decided it was for the best if Renee remains in the witness protection program. Initially, this decision didn't go well with Renee, as she was more concerning about finding Jack Bauer and exposing the Russian conspiracy. However, Scott managed to convince her to stay in the WITSEC. He simply reminded Renee that she still needed to recover from her life-threatening gunshot wound and witness protection program could protect her while doing so. Renee, whom at the time couldn't up from her hospital bed, reluctantly agreed.

"Hey, what are you thinking?" A young woman approached him. Sarah Ferris, who had just graduated from FBI Academy in Quantico months ago, was assigned as Scott's partner.

"Un..Nothing. By the way, I asked you to run that name I gave you yesterday. Do you have anything?" The name Scott asked Sarah to run through the FBI database was from one of Scott's old informant in New York. His informant was a Russian businessman named Peter Sokolov, who had various shading dealings with the Russian mob and corrupted Russian officials. This kind of person wasn't scared easily. However, about a week ago Scott received a call from him, and at that moment Sokolov sounds like he had already wet his pant. He claimed that the nerve gas attack in Moscow was orchestrated by a former GRU Colonel named Nicholai Kirilenko, not some IRK radicals. Normally, Scott would discard such information as whacky conspiracy theories. However, when it came to solid tips, Sokolov was reliable, and the fact that Sokolov's body was found two days later after his conversation with Scott further increased his suspicion.

"You mean Nicholai Kirilenko? Yeah, that name did come up once in our database." Sarah said causally. "It was from an old case file involves an undercover operation against a Russian arms smuggling ring in New York. Kirilenko was mentioned once in the report. However, that said report wasn't that useful"

A Russian arm smuggling ring in New York? Scott thought. "Why is the report not useful?"

"Well for starters, there's no surveillance photo or voice ID of this Kirilenko character. According to the report, the agent only found out about the name Kirilenko because the target of the investigation, Vladimir Laitanan mentioned it. The undercover agent tried to get Laitanan to enter a business partnership with Kirilenko hoping that might leads to more information on a mysterious Russian crime syndicate called 'Red Square'. However, that didn't work out, so the lead went dead…Now, any report that involves prolonged undercover operations usually means that only special agents in charge have the clearance to access the names of agents who involved in the operation. It's a security measure to prevent those agents' names from getting leaked. Therefore, if we want to talk to the undercover agent or agents who were involved in the operation, we need to get the proper security clearance first, which means it could take days."

Damn those red tapes. Scott thought. A Russian arm trafficking ring in New York, Vladimir Laitanan, and Red Square, all of those really sounds awfully familiar…

"It's kinda freaky though" Sarah said. "It seems CTU did a follow up report which pretty much closed the case. The follow-up report didn't tell us much either. It only states that most of the players involved in that case are now dead, even the agent is listed as deceased…I guess we hit a dead-end on this Kirilenko stuff…"

Suddenly, Scott had a light bulb moment. Damn it why didn't he think out it sooner. He cursed at himself. That's Renee's case! That case got her 'killed' supposedly and now she's in WITSEC. As Scott pondered his thought, his suspicion about Sokolov's claim grew even stronger. At the same time, he couldn't help but to worry the possibility that this Kirilenko was connected to the assassination of Omar Hassan a year prior, especially after hearing that Renee had mentioned that name in her report.

Sarah leaned forward and gave Scott a slight nudge in the arm. "Hey, you want to share what you have in mind? You're really in the zone a couple minutes ago…"

"Un…I was just thinking about the other case... Who else knows about this?"

"Right now just you and me."

"Good. I want to keep it that way. Did Kristin help you ran this through our database?" Scott was referring to Kristin Gordon, the resident analyst at Los Angeles Field Office.

"No way! You know I don't like her. She always has this 'I'm better than thou' attitude when I was talking to her. I guess she doesn't like me either" Sarah sighed. "Besides, I know how to run queries in the FBI database by myself…"

Scott and Sarah then looked in the direction of Kristin Gordon's cubicle. In her cubicle, Kristin Gordon was too busy looking at her monitors to notice that both Scott and Sarah were looking at her. Even if she noticed them she wouldn't even bother with them, simply because she thought her job was more important.

"Well, sometimes you just need to work with people you don't like. I mean, you can't choose your co-works, partners, or boss." Scott said to Sarah. "Besides, Kristin isn't that bad. She just takes her job very seriously. After you get to know her a little more you'll see that she's not as cold as she seems…Oh, speaking of the boss, I need to go chase down a possible lead about this and it's probably gonna take a whole day, so I need you to cover for me with Hoffman." Stan Hoffman was the special agent in charge of the LA field office, and he was also Scott's new boss. Comparing to his old boss, Donahue, Hoffman was a lot stricter with protocols. In fact, he was quite controlling. He didn't like Scott running around chasing leads without informing him first about the details.

"Again?" Sarah groaned. "What possible lead? Another drunken Russian?" Sarah rolled her eyes.

"Look. I'm playing this pretty close to the chest. If the lead turns out solid this will be one of the biggest cases you will ever have a chance to work on…so please?" Scott gave Sarah a look similar to kids begging their mother for allowance. "I'll make it worth your while…"

Sarah hesitated for a moment then said "Alright. I want tickets to the Iron Weasel concert! You know, Hoffman probably gonna have your badge for this since it's the third strike if you get caught. If Hoffman asks I'll tell him that you told me you are chasing down a lead in that Medoza case." Sarah then teasingly said. "You better get me the front row seat."

"OK. So front row seat it is." Scott grinned. After talking to Sarah he grabbed his jacket and headed to the elevator.

8:26:12

As Scott's car left the LA Field Office, he was unaware that someone was monitoring his movement. Inside a blue sedan parked near the FBI's LA Field Office, Vasili Chernov, sitting in the backseat, was looking at his netbook screen. The red dot indicating Scott's location was clearly shown on the detailed wireframe map of the city.

"He's out of FBI, should we take him now?" The man seating in the passenger seat asked while reading his MP5k-PDW submachine gun.

"Not yet. It's possible that he is going to meet another informant. We follow him and if he is indeed doing so, then we take both him and the informant out, save us some troubles."

"da" The driver nodded and began to tail Scott's car. The driver knew that with the tracking device he could easily hanged back more car lengths than usual so that they wouldn't draw the target's suspicion.

All three men, including Chernov, were former GRU operatives. After disposing Peter Sokolov, Chernov went through Sokolov's phone record and found out he had been talking to an FBI agent in LA. After contacting a well placed source inside the FBI, Chernov found out about name of that FBI agent. As a result, he ordered that source to put a tracking device in Scott's phone while he flew to LA, hoping this was the last of the mess he had to clean up under the orders from Kirilenko.

8:28:32

Undisclosed Private Holding Facility

Inside a narrow hallway, a prisoner in shackles with a black hood over his head was being dragged forward by two huge muscular security personnel dressed in black. Also accompanying the prisoner were another four security guards. They wore armored tactical vests and carried an MP5A3 submachine guns outfitted with RIS handguards and foregrips. Two of them were positioned in front of the prisoner and the other two were positioned in the back of the prisoner. These fully armed men distanced themselves couple feet from the man with the black hood. They were moving in such formation was not because they were afraid of the prisoner. It was for added security measures. In case the prisoner managed to overpower the security that was currently dragging him, those fully armed men could easily train their weapons at the prisoner without having to worry the prisoner disarming them in close range.

Finally they arrived in front of another room where another two other securities guards with the same weapons and load-outs stood guard. One of the securities guards punched the code on the keypad besides the door and then the door opened. Inside the room there was a steel table with two steel chairs, and a man wearing black suit and a red tie. The two security guards in front entered the room and stood guard in both left and right corner of the room. The shackled prisoner was then dragged inside and then seated while being re-shackled to the steel chair in front of the steel table. The armed security guards in both corners of the room raised their weapons at the prisoner until he was completely re-shackled. Afterward, the man in the black suit gave the order to those security guards to take the hood off the prisoner, then the man gave a head gesture telling the extra security personnel to leave. All but the two guards standing in the left and right corner of the room compiled.

"Mr. Bauer, it's a great honor to finally meet you." The man in the black suit said in a calm manner. "You're a hard man to find."

Jack Bauer remained in silent. Only give the man a cold stare.

"I'm General Jeremiah Rawlins, United State Army. I must apologize for the security measures. You can never be too careful nowadays."

"Where am I?" Jack said, without showing any emotion at all.

"You are currently in a private holding facility in California." General Rawlins said as he sat down across the table.

"Why am I here?" Jack asked, again, without any emotion.

"I have a situation I think you can help me with…"

"With all due respect, General, I cannot help you with whatever the situation you have. I'm an international fugitive. Every law enforcement agency in US wants me captured and the Russians want me dead for what I did about 18 months ago. Unless you want to throw me in jail and take away the keys then I suggest you stop wasting your time!" Jack said.

"Trust me, if my men haven't dragged you out of whatever hell hole you were hiding, you would be sitting in some Russian gulag in Petropavlovsk. I don't expect a 'thank you' but at least you can hear out what I have to say first. Besides, you're not going anywhere at the moment."

Jack continued to stare at General Rawlins coldly. At the moment he didn't give a damn about the General or his situation, but at same time, he was also shackled to a steel chair with fully armed security guards standing on his left and right position. The chance of him escaping was slim to none.

The General continued. "As you know, before President Taylor resigned and handed herself to the Attorney Generals, she made a join press statement with IRK President Dalia Hassan about the Russian government's involvement in the assassination plot against the late President Omar Hassan. As one would expect, the Russians denied those allegations. Unfortunately, UN's investigatory commission didn't find any evidence of Russian government's involvement in their independent investigations. Plus, at the time there have been rumors that Taylor wasn't in the right state of mind on that day. With IRK's spotty records of coming up with false accusations in the past, the entire thing soon evolves into a diplomatic Charlie Foxtrot. As a result, the world is in an even more sorry shape than before. Russians are sore at us and people of Kamistan are even more pissed off at the Russians…"

"I thought President Taylor had the recording I made, the data card contains the conversation between Charles Logan and Suvarov." Jack said. The mention of Charles Logan made his rages boiled inside him. At the same time, he tried not to show it.

"From what I heard, what President Taylor had was your message to your daughter. If what you said is true, then my guess is that Charles Logan must have wiped the content that implicates both him and Suvarov in that data card." General Rawlins said calmly.

"What about Meredith Reed? I gave her the video recording Dana Walsh made about Pavel Tokerav." Jack couldn't hide his anger now. The mere mention of Pavel Tokerav, Renee's killer, made him loose control. Pavel Tokerav took the one person who was very important to him and the pain from the loss was just too much for him to bear.

"That reporter Meredith Reed was dead. A sniper got her when the FBI was transporting her to a more secure location, and the video recording you mentioned had simply disappeared. I think Russians was able to intercept it when we're processing it through the chains of evidences…"

Jack pondered for a moment, and then he said. "There's also a man named Sergei Bazhaev. He's the head of the Russian crime syndicate 'Red Square'. He told me that the Russian government was behind the assassination plot…"

"Sergei Bazhaev was found dead in a holding cell. From what I heard, pretty much every member of this so-called 'Red Square', and their families were either killed or simply disappeared without a trace. It wasn't surprising that after President Taylor's announcement the Russians had worked diligently to erase any evidence that could implicate Moscow. The UN is gonna conclude their investigations soon, and they will probably say that the only perpetrators involved in the assassination are radical elements from IRK and Russian organized crime. Unfortunately, the Hayworth administration has no intention of pursuing this any further, considering they want to try repairing our relationship with the Russians, so they tried to downplay the events on that day as much as possible…"

Truth to be told, Jack somewhat expected this grim outcome. Despite he got little to none of the news concerning the aftermath of what happened on that fateful day, he always had the feeling that the truth did not get exposed and justice was not served. All those people, including Renee, had died for nothing, the peace treaty was in shambles and now those who are responsible are still not brought to justice. Jack thought, and sickened by this realization.

"Unfortunately, right now I don't think anyone want to bring up this matter in Washington, especially in the diplomatic front. Ever since that terrorist attack in Moscow three weeks ago, in the eyes of the world, the Russians are now the victims, and they are currently trying to paint the government of Dalia Hassan as the same extremists, since bodies of IRK intelligence agents were found at the site of the attack. Even with the UN Security Council around, all of these gave the Russians a free pass at taking a shot at Kamistan. As you heard on the news, Russian ground forces and naval fleets are mobilizing as we speak."

"What does President Hayworth plan to do about this situation?"

"Unfortunately, just like other politicians in Washington, Hayworth wants to play a role of peacemaker, which he thinks it will give him a boost in the upcoming election. Aside from not pursuing the investigation against the Russians and trying to appease them, President Hayworth thinks he can resolve the situation peacefully by convincing Dalia Hassan to step down as the President of IRK..."

What the hell? Jack cursed mentally. Those Russians are the one who were responsible for the assassination, nuclear threat, and all that crap happened on that day and now we're not holding them accountable for what they did? And what's with politicians' desire to be peacemakers anyway, especially when the peace they seek is more about political gains and leverages as oppose to the actual peace? Even honorable people, like President Taylor, became one of those politicians because of that. Jack then thought about what he said in the recorded video message to his daughter. Lasting peace cannot simply be political; it has to be born out of trust and honesty and understanding and most importantly, a will of both sides to move forward…

"However, I have a solution that can prevent this flashpoint from flare up without having one of our potential allies in the region. As one expects, the people who are currently pushing for military actions are hardliners inside and outside the walls of Kremlin, and the current top guy among them is one Nicholai Borisovitch Kirilenko, a former GRU colonel and now a very influential businessman." Rawlins then took out a photo from a folder on the table and placed the photo on the steel table for Jack to see. The black and white surveillance photo showed a sunglass wearing Kirilenko with some other men. "Ever since you took out Novakovich, Kirilenko has been shelling out his hard earned fortune in an attempt to further increase his influence and power, and so far his reach is spreading fast because he got a vast amount of fortune from the oil and natural gas pipelines in the Caspian Sea region and the alleged WMD trafficking deals from his old GRU days." General Rawlins said, like stating facts in a mission briefing.

"What does Novakovich has to do with Kirilenko?" Jack asked.

"Novakovich was the one who had kept Kirilenko and other hardliners in check in Moscow, possibly through blackmail or other under the table tactics, but now that is no longer the case…"

"If you are asking me to regret what I did to Novakovich, you're wasting your time, because I don't" jack said, show hints of anger.

"I'm not asking you to regret anything." General Rawlins leaned toward to Jack. "What I'm asking you to do is that you take Kirilenko out. You see, if Kirilenko was dead, it will create a power vacuum among the hardliners. While those hardliners are busy fighting among themselves to see who's gonna become the top dog, our diplomats can easily use this window of opportunity to talk to the doves inside Kremlin and getting them to halt the military activities, and maybe, withdrawing their forces from Kamistan border. All of that can be accomplished without sacrificing one of our potential allies in the region…Before you object, the things is, no one is gonna miss Kirilenko one bit after he's gone, even the hardliners hated him. Besides, according to my intel, he is one who gave those uranium rods to those Russian gangsters in New York 18 months ago, which makes him part of the Russian cabal who was responsible for the death of many others in that day, including President Omar Hassan, and former FBI agent Renee Walker…"

Upon hearing her name, Jack's face became profoundly sad. In his mind, he thought he had failed her. He had failed to protect the woman he loved and also, he had failed to bring justice for her afterward, either by law or by any means necessary.

"If you got information that he is involved in the assassination and nuclear threat of that day you should hand that information to the Justice or UN!" Jack said angrily.

"That piece of intel was obtained through, should I say, 'unconventional means', out of a suspect, which means that it will never hold up in any court."

After General Rawlins said that, there was silence inside the room, Jack continued to stare at the photo and General Rawlins waited for Jack's response.

"Look, Jack, if you don't want to do it that's ok. I understand…"

"Do you have a location on Kirilenko?" Jack said with his full determination. He wanted to bring Kirilenko down.

"Currently, there's a high level talk between US, IRK, and Russian held in Hilbert Grand Hotel. Both IRK and Russia had sent their foreign ministers to meet with the secretary of the state. This meeting is where the secretary of the state tries to sell President Hayworth's idea to both Russia and IRK: Russia will back down if President Dalia Hassan resigns. Kirilenko is also part of the Russian delegation. I think he's one of advisors or something like that. Therefore, this is one golden opportunity for us to take him out…If it's all works out we just might prevent a war…"

"General Rawlins, let's get one thing straight, I'm not doing this for you. I'm doing it because all of those people who died on that day deserve some justice one way or another. I know the reason you choose me for this operation it's because you want to make this operation deniable. If the operation succeeds you take all the credits. If the thing goes south, you can easily deny everything because I'm an international fugitive. That, to me, you're no better than those politicians who value political gains…"

Anger suddenly flashed through General Rawlins's face. He got up from his seat and got close in Jack's face. "I don't care what you think, Bauer, but get this: You ain't the only one who suffered loss and injustice. Let me tell you something, several years ago, I watched my family, including my granddaughter, got vaporized by that nuclear bomb in Valencia and those jokers on the Hill did nothing! After that, do you think I only do this for the political gains? I didn't give a damn about those years ago and I'm not gonna start now, so don't you dare to put me and those kinds of politicians in one sentence…" General Rawlins said to Jack in full anger.

Two men then continued stared at each other intensely. After a very short while General Rawlins backed off from Jack and walked to the door. He punched the key code on the keypad and said "Get your shopping list ready. My men will get anything you need and then dropped you near the Hilbert Grand Hotel." General Rawlins paused for a few second. "Thank you, Mr. Bauer". He then walked out of the interrogation room and closed the door.

Jack sympathized General Rawlins' situation regarding his family, but he still didn't care about the international politics. At the moment he did care about one single objective: making sure anyone who had a hand in Renee's murder pays their due.

8:49:21

Hilbert Grand Hotel

Inside a lavish conference room, the Secretary of the State, Kevin Ross, was meeting with the IRK foreign minister Sayid Al-Fulani. Ross was trying to convince Al-Fulani to take the solution: President Dalia Hassan steps down and Russians withdraw their forces, to President Dalia Hassan in order to defuse the situation. Ross already talked to the Russian foreign minister, Semyon Lugansky. Just as Suvarov, Lugansky was not really keen on going to war with IRK either. However, they also want, though other means, to extend Russian's influence in the region, which was also the goal shared by those hardliners as well. Ross knew that the hardliners in Moscow tried to force President Suvarov to take military action against IRK and now Suvarov was playing it cautiously by only moving Russians military near the IRK border instead of advancing into the IRK territory. Ross, as well as President Hayworth, thought the solution of having Dalia Hassan resign would satisfy both doves and hardliners inside the walls of Kremlin and gave Suvarov means to withdraw his forces without being ousted by the hardliners. If that happened, things will be a lot worse. Ross thought. However, minister Al-Fulani didn't seem to like the idea so far…

"This is absolutely not acceptable!" IRK foreign minister Sayid Al-Fulani said angrily to the Secretary of the State. "Mr. Ross, you of all people understands that President Dalia Hassan is very popular among the people of Kamistan. She is the wife of a martyr and the political coalition her husband built has never been stronger. She has worked hard to achieve the current stability. Now you are asking her to throw all of her hard work and sacrifice away simply because those Russian thugs pointing their guns at us? No foreign powers should dictate our politics…"

"Look, your intelligence agents were involved in a terrorist attack against Moscow. Right now, because of that, Russian got the moral high ground this time. Fortunately, the Russians are playing nice and showing restraints at the moment. If it was before, those Russian tanks were already advancing towards your capital, but that's not the case this time. I already talked to the Russian foreign minister. He said that he agreed with the solution and willing to work with that. Now, if Russia actually wages war in your country, you know the consequences is not gonna be pretty. Your economy and infrastructure will be set back for ten years without guarantee of recovery…I think we all want to solve this peacefully without making the people of Kamistan suffer." Ross said. Hoping that the IRK foreign minister got the message.

"You are speaking of peace yet you are helping Russians threaten us with war! Even if I agree to this and take the offer to President Hassan she will never agree to this injustice! Those intelligence agents were already missing three weeks prior to the attack. One thing is certain: they are certainly not operating on our authorities, and we already made our case in the international media and the UN. If the Russian refuse to believe that, then that's their business. The truth is the truth. This meeting is over." Al-Fulani and his aides got up from their seats and left the conference room.

President Hayworth is not gonna like this. Ross thought. However, the day is long enough to convince Al-Fulani to think otherwise. We still have some tricks in our sleeves.

8:55:20

Chatsworth

After Scott met up with the US Marshal handling Renee Walker's relocation, they headed to Renee Walker's apartment in Chatsworth. He was surprised that WITSEC didn't dump Renee in middle of nowhere. I guess that nowadays with all of these movies and TV shows, bad guys are probably starting to get it and willing to travel to Midwest to look for witnesses. Scott thought of the possible reasons for Renee being relocated to LA. During the car ride, Inspector Elena Ramirez told Scott that Renee Walker was currently living under the alias of Anne O'Connor and she was working as a temp in a local insurance firm. Just so happened, today was her day off.

Inspector Ramirez was worried about Renee because ever since her discharge from the hospital she had been uncooperative with respect to WITSEC protocols. At first, Renee was relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico. However, while she was being processed in US Marshal's Albuquerque office, she somehow managed to access one of the inspector's computers in order to find Chloe O'Brian's current whereabouts. The US Marshals was able to stop Renee before she even got into the database. Afterward, they gave her a very strong verbal warning about the danger of contacting her former associates. They told her it not only violates WITSEC protocols, it also puts her former associates at greater risk.

As a result of that, she was relocated again to California. Inspector Ramirez handled her relocation this time. Ramirez mentioned that while living in LA, Renee had tried to leave the country by planning to go through US-Mexican border, claiming that she needs to find Jack Bauer, the wanted international fugitive. However, US Marshals were able to intercept her before she ever had a chance of leaving LA. Inspector Ramirez also stated that she worried that Renee is gonna get herself killed again if she kept violating the protocols like that in the future.

During her debriefing at the hospital, I already told her that Chloe O'Brian was arrested for aiding and abetting a federal fugitive because she helped Jack Bauer escaping. Although I heard that she was later released after serving a reduced sentence...Probably because of some lenient judge or something like that...I guess Renee probably thought she can track down Jack through her...Scott thought. He did not involve in Chloe O'Brian's arrest because he was working on secretly transferring Renee to the US Marshal's custody at the time. However, he did get some updates from his boss at the New York field office. I guess Renee's one stubborn chick. That Jack Bauer guy must be one lucky son of a bitch to have a girlfriend like her. Scott mused, with a grin on his face.

After they parked, they entered the apartment complex and found the apartment Renee was staying. Inspector Ramirez had called her ahead to let her know she and Scott were coming to prevent any confusion. After Ramirez knocked, the door opened and a woman in plaid shirt with her dark auburn hair tied in a neat low ponytail gestured them to come in. Truth to be told, Renee wasn't that thrilled to see both Scott and Marshal Ramirez…

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