Chapter Seven - Imprisoned

At CTU, Tony was back in control of himself, Michelle needed him to be at his best.

He was listening to Jack, over the radio, as he planned the raid. Tony's heart was going at twice the normal rate. After the raid Michelle would be put into a CTU car and brought back to him. It would be over.

"Tony, are we all ready at your end?"

"Yeah Jack, you're good to go."

"Ok, all teams, go go go!"

Tony listened to the raid on his head-set, his hands balled into fists.

"They're not here!" Jack shouted after a couple of minutes.

"What! They're there Jack, look again!"

"No Tony there isn't anyone here. Hang on a moment." Tony waited impatiently for Jack to speak again, "We've found a bag of Michelle's and Nick's things, including their shoes Tony, so they were here but they've been moved."

"Damn it!" Tony slammed his fists down on the table hard and clenched his teeth.

His worst nightmare was coming true.

Michelle and Nick had been force into the back of a van and driven away after being search at the warehouse, the ride was unpleasant but not long, so they couldn't have gone very far.

The doors opened and the sudden light blinded her. Arms reach in and dragged her out onto the road. They had parked in front of a rundown farmhouse, but Michelle and Nick were not lead inside. Round the side of the house a set of stone steps lead down into what was once a wine cellar but was now a prison. Michelle was pushed to the ground then tied up.

The door was bolted as the last man left, locking them in and the sunlight out.

"Nick?" Michelle said in barely more than a whisper.

"I'm here" she squinted in the darkness and saw his outline on the other side of the cellar.

"How are you tied?"

"Legs tied together with rope, both arms tied behind my back, you?"

"Same. Any chance of you getting free?"

Nick hesitated. "Not easily."

"So what do we do?"

"We wait, CTU will be looking for us, we give them an hour, and then if they don't come we find a way to free our selves."

Silence fell leaving Michelle with only her thoughts for comfort. Without the GPS chips CTU would find it hard to follow, they might not even know that she and Nick had left the warehouse.

She pushed those thoughts aside and tried to get more comfortable, her arms was being held at an awkward angle and the rope was cutting into her ankles and wrists. After several minutes of struggling, Michelle accepted that this was as good as it was going to get and gave up.

Time dripped by slowly, Michelle was just about to call out to Nick again when voices and footsteps were heard Light filled the room as the door was unlocked and opened. Two men Michelle had not seen before entered the cellar, one pulled a fold-out chair across the floor and sat directly in front of Nick while the other stood, looking down at Michelle.

The first man lent back on his chair and grinned. "So what do CTU know about us?"

Nick said nothing, and the second man gave Michelle a hard kick to the stomach, she cried out in pain, but she too said nothing. "You will tell us," the first man continued calmly, talking only to Nick this time. "I'll let you in on a secret: we don't really need both of you" The man who had kicked Michelle pulled her up from the floor by her hair and push a gun to the side of her head, "so you can either tell me, or watch my good friend here blow her brains out."

Nick's eye flicked from the first man to Michelle, "CTU know you're planning to use suicide bombers sometime today and that Ash Calorman is you leader."

The two men grinned at each other. "You know nothing!" The men laughed again. "And we were worried about the infamous CTU!"

"Enough." A third man now stood in the doorway, he glared at his companions who left immediately. The new-comer had shoulder length black hair, which was pulled into a ponytail, he took a step forward and spoke to Michelle and Nick, "CTU raided the warehouse and found nothing, you were followed that far, but I'm sure you knew that already." He paused letting the news sink in. "I have been told to tell you: do not try to escape, this building is heavily guarded and we have been ordered to shot to kill if you cause trouble." He gave them both a look of the deepest loathing, as though he would like nothing more than to kill two federal agents, and then left.

Michelle looked over at Nick.

If CTU had raided the warehouse, they had not know that she and Nick were no longer there, so they would not know where they had been moved too. Michele felt sick; the hope of being rescued had left her.

"Ok," Nick said, "if help isn't coming then we will have to get our selves out of here."

Michelle was about to say: 'how?' but a sneeze echoed through the cellar, both Nick and Michelle froze – they were not alone.

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