Jack held his head in his hands. How could he have been so stupid? How could he have let Tony go out by himself? He should have just killed Henderson when he had the chance, then none of this would be happening. How could he have been so fucking stupid? Now Henderson had Tony, and God knows what they were doing to him. He had to get him back, he just did.
"Damn it!" He said to no one but himself
Chloe then walked into the conference room where Jack had been sitting. Jack picked up his head.
"Hey" Jack said to the woman.
"We've found Henderson's position on one of the local satellite feeds. It looks like he's in some sort of abandoned warehouse. I'm still going over the feeds trying to find out whatever else I can. And Curtis is getting a team together to go get Tony."
"Do you think I can I go with him?"
"I'm sure he'll be fine with that"
Jack put his head back down in his hands.
"Jack, were going to get him back" she said as she looked his troubled blue eyes. Chloe put a hand on one of jack's shoulder. "its all going to be okay jack, I promise, we won't let anything happen to him" he looked into those blue eyes again, gave jacks shoulder a squeeze, smiled quickly at him and left the room.
Jack soon composed himself, got up, and left the room. He found Curtis at a CTU terminal putting together his team. Curtis looked up from his work when he saw jack
"Curtis, I was wondering if you have room on your team for me to come, on the mission I mean."
"For you Jack, I can make room"
"Thank you Curtis" Jack said sincerely, "Just tell me when were heading out"
"'Course"
Jack then walked over to Edgar's station. He saw that he was pulling up satellite feeds that showed the warehouse where Henderson and his men were with Tony. He had an infa-red scan of the building up that showed there were at least 2 men on each exit, which there was four of, and 5 people in the middle of the warehouse, a total of 13 men. Jack started to say something, but decided against it. As he was walking back to the conference room, Audrey stopped him.
"Curtis wanted me to give you these." Jack looked down at what he had been given, a typical SWAT team uniform. A black jumpsuit which was flame retardant, a Kevlar helmet, and a Kevlar vest. "He also said that the team was heading out in 5, and wasn't sure if you had your gun holster, but if you needed one, he could give you one."
"I got it"
Audrey gave jack a worried smile "be careful out there ok?"
"Yeah, I will"
Jack then went into one of the CTU bathrooms and changed out of his smelly and blood stained clothes for early that day into his new ones, which he was very happy to have. He put the jump suit on over his white undershirt and boxers, and then put on the Kevlar vest. He walked out of the stall, with the helmet and his folded clothes under his arm and looked at himself in the mirror. Being in the full swat uniform brought back memories of when he was in basic training.
He walked out of the bathroom and towards the main floor of CTU. He set his clothes down in the conference room, and holstered his gun. He walked over to where Curtis and about 10 other men, all in the same dress as he was, were standing around Curtis as he briefed them on their mission. When he saw jack, he motioned to him and told the team who he was and that he going along with them. Then Curtis sent all the men to the armored car they were riding in.
He pulled jack aside and told him the plan as they walked to the car. Curtis then got in to the drivers seat of the car, and jack into the passenger seat, with the rest of the team in the back of the armored truck.
The ride to the warehouse was one of the longest of jack's life. All he could think about was Tony. He had said that he might have a lead on the never gas, and that he was going to go check it out .Jack had offered to go himself, or to give Tony another agent to go with him, but Tony said he didn't need it, so jack didn't argue with him. About an hour later, Henderson called jack and said that he had Tony, as was going to kill him unless he got full immunity. It had been about 3 hours since then. It had been the longest 3 hours of his life. Jack looked down at his watch. It was now 12 o'clock in the morning. He looked out at the road in front of him.
Jack put his head against the head rest of the seat. If only he had gone with Tony, this wouldn't be happening; he should have sent someone with him. Jack felt a lump in his throat as he thought about where Tony was. Henderson, even for his lack of judgment in business partners, was a very smart man. Jack knew he would be trying to get as much information out of Tony as he could, and since Tony wouldn't do that, so they were probably torturing him. 'Damn it, why was I so fucking stupid?' was the only thought that ran through jack mind for some time, until he was pulled out of his thoughts by the car slowing down.
Curtis and jack both exited the car, as well as the men in the back. Curtis told the team that the warehouse was 100 yards away, and that the men would split up into 4 groups of 2, Jack and himself going along with a team, who were to take out the guards at the door, enter the warehouse, take out any other hostels, and find Tony. He also told them, that Henderson should be kept alive, and not to shoot to kill, but they had the authority to do so, if it was completely necessary. Curtis then told them that when they found Tony, to radio in, and if needed, call in for medical.
The men approached the ware house silently, under the cover of night. When they were with in 50 feet, the teams separated. Curtis went with one, and jack with another. Jack and his team took the door on the northeast side. The two guards at the door were quickly killed. The three men, now in the ware house, spilt up, to make the searching faster. To the teams' dismay, the original blueprints Curtis had briefed them on had been changed, Henderson's men making the already huge warehouse into a labyrinth. Jack, now hearing conformation that all the guards had been taken out on his radio, was fighting of the urge to call out Tony's name in hope of finding him faster, but held off, knowing that a it would make him an easy target. Just as he was about to change his direction, he heard a scream.
Jack ran towards in, hoping, and not hoping, to hear it again. But then jack heard the scream again. He ran in the direction of it. Soon he found that it was coming form a room at the end of the hallway he was in. Jack busted the door open, only to find a two men now running out of the room via another exit, and a heap lying on the floor. Jack started shooting at the men, and quickly he had taken them out.
Jack scanned the room, looking for Tony. As soon as he found the heap on the floor, he ran to it. Even through the dark, he could see that it was Tony.
Jack reached for his radio and said that he had Tony, and that the medic chopper needed to get here soon, because Tony was badly hurt.
Tony then opened his better eye a quarter of the way and tried to focus on the form looming over him. He couldn't make out the face, but some how knew it was jack.
"Tony. Tony. It's all okay now, we've got you"
Jack kneeled down next to the other man.
"Jack?" Tony said, in a muffled whisper.
"Ya, baby, it's me. I'm right here"
"Knew you come, kept telling them..." he said, jack able to see it was painful for him to talk, and that his breathing was labored. As Jack went to go take his hand, Tony yelled in pain as jack touched his broken hand and fingers.
"How bad are you hurt Tony?" jack asked, needing to know the answer
Tony only groaned either not wanting to verbalize his wounds, or not being able to.
Jack looked over the other mans body. He could see that his right hand and fingers were broken, as well as the same arm, and his left shoulder looked to be dislocated. Looking at Tony's chest, he could see all of the new bruises, welts, and cuts that marred the skin. Jack glanced down at Tony's legs. He saw that his left leg was at an angle that make jack wince. His eyes scanned the man in front of his for more injuries, finally stopping at his face. Jack could see Tony had a swollen and split lip, along with one black eye, a shattered eye socket, a broken nose, and what could have been a broken jaw.
Jack looked at Tony; his chest was barely rising now, and could see and hear Tony trying to pull in as much air as he could.
"Just hold on, ok? The medics will be here soon."
Tony looked up at jack, now being almost able to make out his face, could see what he thought was blood.
"Are you bleeding?"
"No, I'm fine Tony, don't worry about me"
Curtis then came in on Jack radio saying that the medics arrived, and that they need to know where Tony was. Jack told Curtis to send them inside, and that jack would walk them to where he was.
Jack looked down at Tony
"I'll be right back, ok? I'm just going to get the medics." then jack leaned in close to toys ear. "I love you baby" and he pressed a kiss in to Tony's forehead, and walked out to meet the medics. He quickly escorted them to where Tony was, where they put him on the stretcher, and wheeled him out of the building to the chopper they had come in.
Jack stood there, as he watched the chopper take of. As he and the medics had been walking out of the building, they told him that Tony was going to be taken to LA Memorial hospital. Jack had wanted to go in the chopper with him but knew that he would only be in the way, and that wouldn't help Tony.
