Chapter 32: Debris
At SD-6"What happened? Where's Sydney?" Jack asked hiding his growing concern behind business-like inquiry.
"We were ambushed on our way to Boyer's office." Dixon stated unable to look Jack in the eyes. It had happened so quickly that he still didn't exactly know what happened.
"Where was the back up?" Jack asked wondering how Sark could ever have allowed such a thing to happen.
"They were waiting for us at Boyer's office. No one could have anticipated that attack. The attack was deliberate and well planned out. Boyer only gave us an hour notice to get to the office…"
Marshall careened around the corner and into the hallway. He wasn't able to stop quickly enough and he slammed into Jack. Jack grabbed Marshall before he could fall onto the ground. "Mr. Bristow, Dixon…I found them…Sydney and Sark." Marshall spluttered out waving a disk in the air.
Jack who still had Marshall's arm, shoved him into the nearest conference room. Dixon followed. "Tell me what happened!" Jack ordered Marshall.
"I wanted to go over the audio feed just before the car crashed to see find out what happened." Marshall tried to explain.
"What car crash? I thought it was an ambush?" Jack asked. He was beginning to get the pained look that always happened when Marshall was around.
"There was an ambush, then there was a car crash…" Marshall said getting very uncomfortable under Jack's stare.
"The beginning. Start at the beginning." Jack ordered pinching the bridge of his nose with thumb and forefinger and taking deep breaths to avoid exploding.
"We were on our way to Boyer and Associates when Sark noticed that we had a tail. Then I had to explain why we weren't able to break into their security system and then Quinn explained that it was virtually impossible to break in…" Marshall stressed the name of Quinn making his dislike of the Agent evident.
"Marshall!" Jack growled out warned him that his patience running out.
"Well, then we find out that it's Boyer's security guys that are tailing us and then bam! Sydney and Sark was attacked." Marshall said hitting his hand against the table for effect.
"So it was Boyer that's responsible for the attack." Jack said eyes dangerously gleaming the promise of retribution.
"Well I thought so at first but then the audio wouldn't make sense. Sark communicator was still active after they were taken. We've been receiving a audio feed until about 5 minutes ago." Marshall played the audio that had been recorded. They listen to Sark and Syndey's rescue and the helicopter ride. Marshall had filtered out the helicopter noise so that they could hear what was being said.
Jack sat back in his chair and listen to the doctor's words as he greeting the arrival of the helicopter.
"What happened?" A voice asked a little out of breath as if he was running.
"These two have been in a car accident." Another voice said.
"How bad is she?" Sark's voice asked.
"Has she been unconscious the entire time?" The first voice asked?
"I tried to wake her she didn't respond." Sark's voice responded. "Is she going to be ok?"
"I'm going to run a few test before I can make an assessment." The first voice said not answering.
"Can I speak to you a moment?" Sark asked.
"What is it Mr. King?" The second voice, obviously not the doctor asked.
"I would like to know the name of the man who saved me and Sarah."
"It's Casey, Brian Casey." Casey said. There was a slight pause and the slight sound of two hands meeting in what would most likely be a handshake.
"Thank you Mr. Casey, there aren't many people I would trust with my life or Sarah's, if there is anything I can do for you in the future…" Sark said in gratitude.
"I was only doing my job." Mr. Casey said. "I know that you have a lot of questions you want to ask but I'm not at liberty to answer them. Please have Dr. Hawthorne take a look at you and then Mr. Boyer will answer any questions you have."
"Wait, one more question." Sark said raising his voice slightly as if Mr. Casey had moved away. "How safe are we here?"
"This building is safer then the inner sanctum of the White House." Casey said.
"Sir, the doctor is ready for you now, please come inside the house." A women's voice said.
The audio ended.
"Sark must have turned off the communicator." Marshall explained the ending of the audio feed.
"Should we send in a retrieval team?" Dixon asked.
"No, Sark made it a point to let us know that he trusts Casey. They're safe where they are. Dixon, I want you to find out everything you can on the people behind the ambush."
"Don't you want me to do a search on Brian Casey?" Dixon asked.
"No, know everything I need to know about him." Jack said cryptically standing up and leaving the room.
