Jobs, Life and Fate

This is for all those Bill Karen shippers out there, you know who you are.

I'm sorry it has taken me so long to update!

Disclaimer: I do not own 24 Fox does, but maybe, just maybe I'll own Fox in the future.

Enjoy.

Funny things Jobs are, jobs are meant just for making money and nothing else. It's meant to be stressful and hard, which makes you in the end hate it.

Bill completely agreed with the statement saying Jobs are stressful and hard but disagreed that you have to hate your Job. Bill always loved his Jobs; you got a chance to save your country and meet new people along the way. During his time at Division he'd met a wonderful person, Michelle Dessler. They had a professional relationship but it ended on that disastrous day. When a missile was just destroyed before hitting its target, Michelle got backed to her changed husband and Jack Bauer got supposedly killed.

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He thought that day was the worst of his life but it was beaten by the day when Michelle was murdered; Jack Bauer came back from the dead and the lethal Sentox gas to into the air conditioning. The Sentox gas was one of the most horrific scenes he'd ever experienced. His employers and work mates were dieing right before his eyes. But all he could do was watch as the gas slowly killed them.

He then suddenly saw someone jogging into the main floor- it was Edgar Oh God Bill thought.

Edgar had collapsed at a station and huffed something Bill couldn't understand- but later as he thought about he wondered did he say 'Chloe'?

All alone in his office, Bill only made and received phone calls.

As he watched Lynn McGill painfully died from the gas- he didn't know what to feel. Those hours to Bill felt so un-real, those people he'd known for so long, those people he'd employed and trained, they'd gone… just like that.

Then those Homeland Security people arrived. He was darn angry they'd came at first- but later that day, he was thankful to God, for that encounter brought him Karen, Karen Hayes.

The first impression of her was a serious workaholic who didn't have much time for… anything else really. But then after the major crisis was over, it seemed to him- although she was this crazy workaholic, she didn't do exactly everything by the book, she let was she believed to be the right course of action, to take charge. The same thing Bill does.

Once those 24 hours had passed, he'd found himself asking Karen out for breakfast. Even though she declined, and said rain check- it still gave him a huge thrill, and to see that smile of hers' he felt like she had just accepted his invitation.

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Some months later he found himself kneeling in front of Karen and asking her to marry him, opening up a small box with a diamond ring inside. Seeing her so over-joyed with happiness he put the ring on her as she agreed to marry him. She'd told him she loved and him and he said he did too.

That was the happiest day of his life, and he remembered the wedding like it was just yesterday- life was going just perfectly until that day…

"I don't want to go, Bill, it'll mean leaving LA, my life and more importantly you,"

"I know you wan to go Karen, Wayne needs you, who could do a better job?"

"But Bill, I need you… I can't just leave…"

"Yes you can, honey. You can do whatever you want. If you choose to go, I will support you 100, if you decide you want to stay I will support you with your decision."

"You really will?"

"Of course honey,"

"I love you,"

It was hard for Bill letting and persuading Karen to go to Washington DC. He knew he'd said the right words, for Karen was smiling a tearful smile at him.

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Jack Bauer, the day he was brought back from China, was like a day in Hell.

Having knowledge of nuclear attacks he worked hard to stop the missiles launching, and the attacks on his country.

When Bill got to talk to his wife privately in his office, Karen told him he had to be fired- when she said that all these emotions came over him. Why did his wife want him fired, from the job he loved? He knew someone was pressuring her, he just didn't know whom, because she kept denying it.

After a while Bill couldn't take anymore of what his wife was saying; having been earlier angered when she said he had to be fired, so he hung up on her in outrage. He heard the phone ring seconds later, he knew it was his wife and didn't bother answering.

He tried to take in the whole phone call conversation. Oh God, he thought afterwards, what had he just said…. what did he just do? But Bill put all his regrets aside and instead he felt himself welling up with anger, towards his wife and himself.

How can a life change so much in a matter of seconds. Bill kept thinking, as he was led out of CTU.

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Entering his home, he saw men searching through his house for anything and everything.

After an hour or so he decided to go up to his bedroom, where he saw a photo of him and his wife during their honeymoon, that tropical honeymoon… his mind drifted back to those days where he and Karen were happily together…. he let his mind wander but he was quickly brought back to reality when he heard some FBI agents entering the spare bedroom next door. He quickly got changed into more casual clothes and ran down to the living room.

As he neared the bottom of the stairs though Bill heard his cellphone ring. Pulling out the phone from his trouser pockets he flipped it open and looked at the screen.

It was his wife, so he pocketed the phone and looked up at the agents in his living room. He quickly saw an agent looking through his family photo album, so he snatched the album out of the agent's hands and argued him on the matter, in the end the agent threatened Bill, he'd lay charges if he didn't let him do his job. So Bill dropped the album and walked away stubbornly.

Hearing the home phone ring he let it go, so the answering machine would pick it up.

It was his wife again- she needed his help, she didn't know where else to turn.

The anger towards her disappeared, as she talked, he was worried, so he picked up. She thanked him for picking up but he just brushed it aside, Karen needed his help and he wanted so much to give it to her.

Karen told Bill that Phillip wanted to make an exchange, the sub circuit board, for Josh. The President had agreed to the exchange, but Jack and Karen believed it was a set up, and that Phillip would get the boy keep the sub-circuitboard and make a deal with the Chinese. Jack and Karen needed his help so he agreed.

He had just managed to intercept the car holding Jack thanks to his wife, so he was glad when the phone rang and he answered it, it was Karen.

Hi Karen.

Hi.

I've got Jack and I'm on my way.

I just…. I wanted to thank you. You didn't have to do this, you made a big sacrifice.

I'm not the only one, it wont be long till they figure out how I was able to locate Jack.

Yeah well they already have, I've just been denied access, they're probably on their way to arrest me. Listen, I don't know when they'll let us speak to each other again, so I just want you to know that I'm so sorry, and I love you very much.

Me too.

They're here. Good luck!

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As Bill and Jack arrived at the beach, Phillip's men had already taken Josh, and Doyle was critically injured from the explosive decoy FB sub-circuitboard.

Nadia told Jack and Bill to return to CTU to be debriefed, because there would be an air strike by Navy F-18 against the oil platform the sub-circuitboard, and Josh were on.

Jack and Bill didn't comply with Nadia's orders though, and with Bill's help they commandeered the CTU chopper and flew towards the oil platform.

Now I'm part of the game, the game Jack always plays. Bill kept thinking.

Jack killed the men guarding the platform retrieving Cheng and Josh. He then jumped off the platform grabbing hold a ladder connected to the chopper, later letting go and dropping down into the water. He signaled Bill to fly off without him back to CTU because he wasn't ready.

Arriving back at CTU again was quite strange for Bill. He complimented Nadia on her good work after everything that had happened over the past hours when she was in command.

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Sitting in one of the CTU Lounges he heard his cellphone ring.

"Buchanan,"

"Bill…. I…." the person on the line started before she was cut off.

"Karen… is that you?" Bill said standing up.

"Bill, I'm glad you're alright. I'm sorry…." Karen blurted out.

"Karen slow down, why… how…. are you still in holding?" Bill replied calmly.

"No Bill, Noah dropped the charges against… us, we're free." Karen stated.

"That's great, honey" Bill smiled, "Are you alright, did they hurt you?"

"Bill, I'm fine…. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have fired you, I should have stood up for you, for us…" Karen sniffled.

"Its fine Karen, I over reacted. You're more important to me than my job, I never meant to hurt you." Bill said soothingly.

"Same here Bill, I just wish I could turn back time and change things." Karen sighed.

"I know we all wish we could honey, but we can't we just have to move on."

"I know, I know."

"So, where are you now" Bill asked curiously.

"I'm in the airport Bill, I'm coming home." Karen grinned

"You're coming back to LA, Karen…. I'm…. I'm glad."

"Yeah… Oh Bill I have to go my flights boarding. I'll see you at home in about 6 hours okay. Oh and Bill, I love you and I'm sorry."

"Me too. Bye."

Funny thing fate, sometimes you can predict what's going to happen and sometimes you just have to wait and see.

A/N: This Chapter was a bit rushed, I'm sorry about that; but I hope you enjoyed it, please Review!