Hi readers!
Sooooo sorry I haven't updated in ages, but I have been really busy. I also restarted this chapter about a million times! (Once... I was just exaggerating)
Also, in a few days I'll be going on holiday, so I won't update for a week! But I'll try to write whilst I'm there, so I can type it up when I get back.
As usual, I don't own 24.
Enjoy :D
Chapter Eleven: Emergency.
Michelle's head pounded as she prised open her eyelids. Once her head had stopped spinning, she took in her surroundings.
She recognised it as the refreshments room, where, only a few hours ago, she and Tony had shared a passionate moment, before Jack and Chloe interrupted.
There was a sharp pain in her ankle, which she hadn't noticed before now because it wasn't one of the most pressing matters at hand. Gingerly, she attempted to put weight on it, yet grimaced in pain as she did so.
Using tables as support, she limped over the door and tried to turn the handle.
Achieving nothing, she knocked on the door before calling out "Hello? Is anyone there?"
Only silence answered her. As she sat on a nearby chair, her head began to spin with nausea.
Ugh. She thought miserably, Not a good time for morning sickness!
Chloe typed furiously on the keyboard. Apparently, her television program had started five minutes ago. "Stupid, idiotic lockdown." She cursed under her breath, before noticing a flashing icon at the corner of her computer screen.
Hesitantly, she clicked on it, opening a program showing a jumble of numbers and letters which only a computer expert like herself could decipher.
"Curtis!" she called over her shoulder, to where he was conversing with several other members of CTU staff.
"Yeah?" he asked once he was next to her.
"I may be able to get the doors open in the next few minutes." She said, slightly enthusiastically, which was unusual seen as she was hardly ever excited about anything.
"Great, do you need any other IT personnel to help?"
"No, they won't be able to help. I'm fine by myself." She replied.
"Ok, well if you do they are-"
Chloe however, interrupted "I said I'm fine. Who knows, I could have done it by now if I wasn't talking."
Giving up, he retreated from the desk. She really was in a bad mood.
The only thought that kept Chloe from punching the computer screen was: If I hurry, I may be able to watch the end of NCIS.
Why is it that when I need to get somewhere urgently, someone is always in the way! Jack thought as he ran along the corridor towards the medical rooms.
"Jack!" someone called from somewhere, but he ignored them. At the present time, all that was on his mind was to find Tony and Dr. Marks (If that was even her name.) Both Michelle and Tony had already had a tough day, and the events occurring were only going to make it worse.
Eventually, after what seemed like a lifetime, he reached the glass doors and swung them open.
Dr. Marks was nowhere to be seen, yet to Jack's alarm; Tony was lying on the hospital bed, eyes closed.
Jack immediately rushed over, checking his pulse. There was a slight heartbeat, unsteady and weak, but a heartbeat none the less.
Shaking his shoulders slightly to try and wake him, he asked "Tony, can you hear me?"
His bleary, brown eyes opened as he couldn't help but think, How many times have I woken up in this damn room?
Blinking to rid his vision of fog, he realised Jack was talking to him in a serious tone.
"Did you see where Dr. Marks went?"
Shaking his head, he replied "No, she must have left after she drugged me."
Out of the corner of his eye, Jack noticed the needle on the medical tray.
"Ok, can you stand up?"
Moving to a sitting position, Tony hesitantly tried to stand up. Luckily, Jack was there to break his fall as his legs immediately gave way.
"No, it looks like you can't. At least not very well." He concluded.
Apparently, opening the doors (that was meant to take five minutes) was taking a lot more time than Chloe estimated.
"Excuse me?"
She glared up at the newcomer, irritated to be interrupted in her work.
The woman had short red, almost pink, spiky hair and was wearing a nurse's uniform.
"Can I help with something, because I'm kind of busy here?"
"Yes, when will the doors be opening, because I have a meeting I need to go to." She inquired.
Chloe sighed exasperatedly "Believe it or not, we all have things we'd rather be doing than being stuck in here. You can call yourself a cab in advance Dr...?" She left her last sentence a question, leaving an opportunity to know her name.
"Marks."
"Phones are over there." She inclined her head towards a table over the far side of the room, before returning to her work.
As part of the system check, the computer cycled through a building threat check, notifying her of any dangers.
Just about to check her watch, she was surprised when an icon blipped in one of the rooms on the map.
Warning, Lethal Threat Detected. Room 26.
The refreshments room.
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There will be more Michelle in the next chapter! !
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