I'm not supposed to be writing this because I have three different reports due Monday but I got a sudden burst of inspiration that I was missing. Enjoy!

Flashback

"Mr. Bauer I can make the pain stop if you tell us what we want to know."

Jack said nothing as he retreated inside himself. He hadn't talked in nine months, why should he? He had no one and nothing left to live for.

Even Kim told him she was better off without a father than one who kept putting her in danger.

Jack gave up hope that the government would come looking for him, they didn't care. It was probably better for everyone that he died during one of his long interrogations.

"Mr. Bauer I will ask you one last time, what are the names of the agents from your government working here in China?"

Jack ignored him. He could tell them what they wanted to know, give in and not be tortured for at least a little while. But all he had left was the information he wouldn't give them. It was the only way he knew he could seek revenge at the moment.

Jack watched as the man interrogating him picked up the bucket of gasoline and poured it onto his right hand.

Jack knew what was coming, and began to retreat inside himself further. He focused on what they had taught them in training. Find a memory to go back to and stay there.

As the man came closer to him with the now lit match, only one word came to mind.

Audrey

She was the woman who haunted his dreams at night and the woman he constantly thought about every time they brought him into this cold room to torture him.

In his cell he would wonder where she was now. It broke his heart to think that she might have moved on in his absence.

These where the thoughts that he knew would drive him crazy, but still in the lonely confines of his cell these thoughts were incapable of being shut out completely.

The only thing that kept him going day to day, that made him struggle to stay alive, was seeing her one more time. If only to tell her he was sorry for all the pain he had put her through in the past.

The thought that their second chance had been taken away, made Jack hate the Chinese even more for what they had done.

Sometimes he would let himself dream that he escaped from china. They opened the doors to the ship he had spent so long on after the U.S. government exchanged his release and she would be there waiting for him.

Just as the man lowered the match to his hand, the door swung open and in walked Graham.

It could've been another trick by the Chinese, they had done it before with various people, but this seemed different.

Graham pulled a chair in front of Jack and sat down. He was dressed nicely in a suit and Jack knew this had to be some sort of business deal.

"Jack, good to see you again but I must say, you aren't exactly looking you best." Jack gave no answer and stared at a spot on the wall.

"Dad felt it was best for you to be here, that way you wouldn't wreck any of our plans. You see, Logan was just the beginning of everything. Having you around, well you have a habit of getting involved where you shouldn't and ruining hard worked plans."

Graham waited for him to say something but Jack looked a hundred miles away.

"I saw Kim the other day. She's getting on just fine without you so don't worry." Jack looked up but said nothing before dropping his head down.

"I've been keeping tabs on her, just as a precaution. In case something happens, like an insurance policy."

Jack knew that Graham was trying to get him agitated and he fought the urge to hit him.

"In fact I've been keeping tabs on all of your friends Jack. Chloe, Bill, Curtis, Palmer, Diane and her son. All the ones who aren't dead that is."

Jack ran back what Graham had said in his head. He never mentioned Audrey. Surely if Graham had found out about Diane he would've found out about Audrey. Their relationship wasn't the secret it once was any more.

Recognition soon came across Jack as he realized what Graham was hinting at.

Jack glared at Graham who was now grinning widely, and he wanted nothing more than to punch him.

"She couldn't be dead, she just couldn't!" Jack thought. He could feel his heart breaking.

"Audrey..." Jack's voice cracked but Graham heard him all the same.

Graham sat up and grinned even more. "Ah yes I almost forgot. What good is a prisoner who refuses to talk? No physical torture would break you, as much as the Chinese want to believe. But mental, well either they'd drive you even more insane or get you to give them everything you know."

Jack waited for Graham to continue, his heart beating nervously in his chest for what was to come.

"I had a better idea though. You see, while you've been here Audrey's been the one pushing for the government to demand your release. She finally gave up taking the direct approach and began going through back channels. Of course I had my people track her every move. That was until about six months ago when she began to get closer and closer to finding exactly where you were."

"You should thank me Jack, because Cheng wanted to kill her. But I had a better idea. I slipped a crucial piece of information about where you were, actually your exact location, under her door. I knew it would be the push she needed to walk right into a trap. She probably saw it coming, after months of searching and the answer simply appears one day. But she didn't care, didn't listen to the protests of her father, and came running straight to China."

Jack was both relieved that she hadn't moved on, and angry at that he was the reason Audrey would break so many protocols.

It wasn't like Audrey to be so reckless and Jack wondered just how much she'd given up trying to find him.

Graham watched Jack's emotion turn from anger to self pity and knew he was getting through.

"Where... Audrey?" Jack asked softly, but menacingly.

"Oh she's just down the hall I think."

Jack tried to push himself into a standing position, but he was too weak and fell back into his seat. He knew the danger she was in being here, the things the prison guards could do to her, and he knew he had to save her...somehow.

"How could you do this?" Jack asked.

"I didn't do anything to her Jack, you did. You should know by now that she is and always will be a target for your enemies to use against you. Haven't you learned anything from Teri's death?"

"Fuck you"

Graham got up and started walking to the door. The two guards moved to open it.

"And now Jack you will be responsible for her death as well."

Just as Graham was walking through the door, Jack charged at him and knocked him to the ground. Once Jack was on top of him, he punched every part of Graham he could before being pulled off by the guards. The guards strapped him back into the chair and beat him until he was just about unconscious.

Graham said one last thing to him before leaving. "Whatever happens to her now, is your fault."

Jack whispered the words "I'm sorry Audrey, so sorry" before falling unconscious.

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