On the first Day, Nina fled the state
She really hadn't wanted to do it, but circumstances forced her to kill Teri Bauer. If she had been more careful, if she had kept quiet instead of telling her that she was heading to Germany, then Teri would have survived.
"I'm leaving now, Teri, someone will find you soon," she had said, and both of those were very much the truth. If Teri thought it meant that she was going to survive, then it made things easier for the two of them as Nina aimed the gun at her back. Two bullets later, and the world had changed forever.
Suddenly, Nina was on the move and she knew that she had limited time before she was discovered and before Jack would return from the docks. It was hard, not just because of the exhaustion but because she loved the adrenaline rush she felt from it all even if she was equal parts terrified at the same time. Sometimes she would wonder why she was wired the way she was.
As she came across guard after guard, she shot them with no hesitation, almost as if to make a statement that security was a facade. That there was no security, not for people like her and not from people like her.
Climbing into her car, the distance between the parking space and the exit seemed to be the most distant of all so far that night, and she was sure that a black SUV would appear out of nowhere before she could even begin to drive off. The first time she saw Jack after the death of his wife, was when she passed him a few moments later, noticing a look of pure fury on his face.
On the second Day, Jack laid in wait
It had been some hours since the nuke had been destroyed out in the desert, along with a plane and the mortal body of the heroic George Mason. Sacrificing himself to save millions before war had been narrowly averted to save millions more. Nina Myers was about to leave CTU, to go into exile in another desert.
As she was escorted out of the holding room, Nina was exhausted but she still revelled in her victory. Yes, she had to stay put in North Africa for a while, lying low until her escape plan could be put into action, but things were much better for her than they had been twenty hours previously. Jack had promised to hunt her down no matter what, moments after she had failed to kill him and remove one of the biggest threats to her survival but she put that out of her mind. She was sure that he would bide his time, just like she would bide hers, allowing her to think that he had simply forgotten and moved on enough not to care about his revenge. However, as Jack appeared suddenly from around a corner, she realised that she was wrong.
Jack had been stood near the room for some time, just waiting for the guards to begin the short journey to the rear doors of the building. He had wanted to shoot her as soon as he could see her face, see the pale green eyes he had once gazed lovingly into as he committed an act of hate. Instead, he watched as she was slowly moved closer to him before he took a deep breath and emerged from the shadows. The guards had reacted quickly, but they couldn't stop the two bullets he managed to fire. One missed her entirely, but the other struck her straight in her heart, and she was dead before she hit the floor.
On the third Day, they've an alternate fate
This was the end and both of them knew it. Moments before, she had raised her gun and threatened his daughter, only for him to shoot her for real this time. No flak jacket, no pretense. Now Kim had left, and it was just them two alone, in the room where Teri had been killed. Almost as if it was meant to be. He walked closer to her, and time seemed to move like molasses before he stopped and spoke.
"You don't have any more information, do you Nina?" Jack asked although the answer was obvious. They both knew she had no idea, that she had been using the possibility to help her survive. Still, she was a fighter who never gave up if there was still some sort of chance.
"I do," she replied weakly, hating how her voice sounded. She had always known that the game had to come to a conclusion at some point, they were never going to move on with both of them still in the world. Still, she had no intention of going out pitifully, like some wounded animal put out of its mercy by the hunter. That was why her hand drifted towards her gun even though it was impossible for her to reach it.
"No, you don't," Jack had replied and he was about to shoot in order to win the game, to avenge his wife who would never have wanted revenge in the first place. Suddenly, a noise from elsewhere in the room as another actor appeared on stage.
"Bauer, what are you doing?" Chappelle spoke, his eyes darting between the two before they settled on Jack, who turned to look at him and made a fatal mistake. With every last bit of strength she could muster, Nina lunged for her gun just as Jack realised what she was doing and, with perfect synchronicity, two bullets crashed into two foreheads.
They had always thought one would find victory. Instead, both tasted defeat.