Chapter 66

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Note: Teri is from 24, Bianca and the characters she mentions are from "All my children." I've slightly altered them for my own purposes.

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The Joker was ofcourse right about one thing, Jack Bauer was willing to move Heaven and Earth to rescue his daughter from Hell. He didn't have superpowers, but he had experience, skills. Jack's wife Teri, Kim's mother, wanted to go with Jack on this upcoming rescue mission. Jack didn't like this idea, Teri wasn't an experienced soldier like Jack, but she was a mother bear. One day, Teri began talking to a young woman named Bianca, who had the same problem.

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Teri: My husband feels I shouldn't come with him to rescue our daughter.

Bianca: I know how you feel. A lot of my loved ones are trapped there. My family was, complicated.

Teri: Unless your daughter tried to release a plague I think I have you beat.

Bianca: No, neither of my daughters ever did that. But one, Gabby. She was 13, raped by my enemy JR. Gabby got pregnant, had an abortion. Apparently that means she wound up in Hell.

Teri: I can see why you want to rescue her. I take it your husband objects too?

Bianca: My wife actually.

Teri: I stand corrected.

Bianca: Anyway Maggie was like a second mother to Gabby and Miranda, but she fears for my safety as well. But my mother, my sister Kendall. Babe, Adam, Ryan, Greenlee. I know they all made mistakes, particularly regarding adultery, but they don't deserve to suffer for all eternity. JR and Michael on the other hand.

Teri: Who's Michael?

Bianca: The man who raped me, that's actually how Miranda was concieved. When Michael attacked me again, I shot and killed him.

Teri: I was raped too. We were being held hostage, Kim and me, one of the guards decided to rape Kim. I offered myself in her place. When this guard was ordered to kill us, I shot and killed him in self-defense.

Bianca: I guess our stories are pretty similar. We're both mother bears fighting for our cubs.

Teri: Yeah. I haven't seen many people from my world yet. There's president David Palmer, he's one of our leaders here too. And then there's Audrey, my husband and Audrey were lovers after I was murdered.

Bianca: Wow, that's got to be awkward.

Teri: Well, at least Audrey didn't murder me, so I like her better than I like Nina.

Bianca: Miranda made it here with me, as did Maggie. David and Anna, they were our friends, sometimes David was an enemy. Mind boggling that he got away, and so many didn't.

Teri: I take it he's not a good person.

Bianca; He could be, sometimes. But more often he listened to the devils on his shoulder more than the angels. Still, is Anna can forgive him, and we do need doctors like him.

Teri: How good are you with a gun?

Bianca: Not very. I'm out of practice, I haven't even touched a gun since I killed Michael.

Teri: My husband taught me. I was never even sure how good I was, maybe protecting Kim was just the motivation I needed. Anyway, we're all being encouraged to train, in case we're attacked.

Bianca: And if we want them to let us come along on rescue missions, we should be ready. Want to go to the range.

Teri: Yes, I do.