1 year later

Chloe was back to being Jack's assistant at CTU and the been only friends and colleagues since that day that Jack stormed from her hospital room to be with Audrey and their child. Luckily the boy survived the bug he had caught and the life had been pretty boring outside of work until she met Tim – a lawyer whose wife had been killed in a driving accident a few years before they met. And today Jack was meeting him for the first time after getting the same information about Tim as she had. They'd been going out for a couple of months and Jack was nice enough to keep his distance after learning that there is someone new in her life. She was done for the day and was collecting her things when Jack woke her from her thoughts.

"Penny for your thoughts?"

"Oh, they are more expensive than that." Chloe smiled.

"A dollar?"

They had begun to walk out of the building together and into the parking lot.

"Ok, ok, I was just thinking how great everything is now that we both have someone and that Keith is history and it's not quite so boring outside of work which is you know always crazy, crazy," said Chloe when reaching her car and opening the front door of the driver's side.

"Yeah, I know."

"So, you know the address and we'll see you soon, right?" said Chloe, already in the car, ready to pull the door closed.

"Yeah, I have the address, but Chloe, are you sure about you and him?" Jack asked not foreseeing how Chloe would react.

Chloe got out of the car but kept a safe minimum distance with Jack and got hysterical: "You know what Jack? Yes, Yes, I am sure. Because I have a right to be happy, and marry and get children like you have Jack. And I'm almost forty and my biological clock is ticking and although it's none of your business, Tim and I have decided to have a baby and I'm already off my pills."

By the time she finished most of their colleagues from that shift had poured into parking lot and stared at her with their eyes widened. (Most of them didn't think those two ever talked about anything other than work). So Chloe jumped in her car and drove off, leaving a very distraught Jack behind.

'I'm already off my pills' was the sentence that kept playing in his head the whole way to Tim's place to have a relaxing grill in the yard 'and talk about making babies'. Jack couldn't get the images of those two 'trying to have a baby' out of his thoughts. "Almost forty," Jack said out loud, "she's only 34 years old for god's sakes". He wanted to start thinking how to put an end to this silliness cause her Clo was definitely not ready to have a child. Especially with someone she…HE hardly knew. But he was already at the address Chloe gave him, he parked the car, took the red roses and a pretty expensive wine with him and got out of the car.

Jack's and Tim's first meeting went the way Chloe was afraid it would go: neither of them liked each other from the start. So when Jack called her few days later and wanted to come over to her place she couldn't say no. So she sat on the sofa in the dark and waited until there was knock on the door. Chloe went to open it and found Jack at her door a very determined face on.

"Can I come in?"

"Sure"

"Why the hell is it so dark in here. Ok, I gonna go straight to the point. I want you to leave Tim"

"What?" Chloe knew he didn't like him and she was pretty sure he wouldn't like anyone she decided to date but to come her late at night with this kind of request? Chloe didn't know if Jack could get any more insolent.

"I know how it sounds, but listen to me...Something is off about this guy. I did a little bit of digging and found his last address and talked to his previous neighbour."

"Jack…" Chloe started, Jack already getting on her nerves.

"Chloe, listen to me. I'll say my piece and if you are still not convinced, I'll leave you alone, OK?"

"Okey" Chloe sighed and sat down on a sofa, defeated.

"So I talked to the neighbour and he thinks that Tim himself run over his wife. Before you start yelling, let me explain. He noticed that after the 'accident' Tim was impatient with moving on with his life and few days later he already saw some woman enter his house late at night and going away the next morning. I'm telling you Clo', this whole thing smells dirty to me". Jack finished, waiting for Chloe to say something.

Chloe stands up and motions him to leave.

"What, you're not going to even consider it?"

"No."

"Why?"

"Cause the whole thing sounds ridiculous, you don't know what happened in that marriage Jack. But I am getting to know Tim very well and I know he will be fabulous father and a husband"

"Chloe…" Jack stepped closer to her and put his hands on her shoulders and started shaking her, "A father and a husband, Chloe, are you crazy? You have gone out with him only for a day and you want him to become your husband" asks Jack, incredulous.

Chloe got free from him and went to the front door, opened it and motioned impatiently for Jack to leave. He did so, without both of them saying anything anymore.

Jack was sitting in his living room, drinking whiskey. Audrey was out with Trevor, their 7 year old son. Actually she had just left, when there's a loud banging on his door. Jack immediately took out his gun under the sofa pillow and went to look who it was. Seeing that it was Chloe who probably had waited in her car for Audrey to leave, he tucked the gun behind him in his jeans and opened the door.

Chloe stormed in, demanding to know where Tim was.

"What did you do to him? Where is he?" Chloe cried out, visibly upset.

At first Jack thought of acting like he didn't know anything, but she was so upset and was having none of it.

"Where is he?"

"I'm sorry Chloe, he's dead."

Jack watched as colour faded from her face and she kept crying and saying "No". When Jack tried to close the distance between them and comfort her, she suddenly run to Jack and started beating him all the way crying "How could you?". Jack let her have it and when she became to tire, he tried to hug her and but she wasn't having none of it.

So fought free of him and stormed out into a rain storm.