The following takes place between 1:00 a.m.-2:00 a.m.

1:00 a.m.

"Good mourning Gentlemen and Ladies. I have called you together on the matter of the coming events. But first let's welcome our new friends from Hamas. They have joined Treadstone and are willing to abide by the rules as long as they are guaranteed the occasional help and funding with their fight against the infidels. Tonight we have a serious matter on our hands. It has come to my attention that someone has tipped of the Americans as to our plan of attack. They have not yet told when or where, but they are in the process of doing so."

An Asian man interrupted and asked, "Who is this someone?"

"I will deal with this someone and the person who is paying her. This could cause problems in our plan and if it does the consequences will be grave. I have told all of you to screen the people who you trust and to make sure you can trust them. The person who is doing this is not to be trusted. She has backstabbed everyone she has ever worked for and that makes her not trustworthy, but someone still trusted her. But that is not the problem. She has called in the man who has once before ruined one of our plans. Jack Bauer. This man seems to be unbeatable. His wife has been killed, he has died and came back to life, and he has beaten a heroin addiction. This man is not to be taken lightly. He is very good at what he does. There is one advantage though. If we can get the woman to cross Jack than we can possibly detain him. I say detain him because he is a good asset. He is a friend of the Presidents. This could possibly be used. Plus I mean no ill will towards him. He has ruined our plans, but that was because of bad planning and hiring people who were ill-equipped to do the job. No harm will come to this man at this moment in time. He has a great deal of information to offer. No harm will come to the woman Nina Myers either. She is able to get to Jack in no way any of us could possibly imagine. Am I understood?"

Everyone around the table and on the monitor agreed with him.

"Now the matter of Nina Myers. I will not point out who hired her, but you are to try to get her to change sides again and help us. This should not be too hard because she does this all of the time, and Bauer if given the chance will kill her. Contact Nina and get her on our side."

1:15 a.m.

Jack felt at ease in some weird way. He knew that the bug and tracer in the watch was worthless, and he held very little hope on the other ones. Nina was good and she knew the procedure. In some ways he wondered what she had planned. Nina did not do anything unless it had something in it for her. That is what made him take the assignment. There was no real civic duty in it because he has paid more than his share of civic duty; no it was pure curiosity as to what she had planned. Saying goodbye to Kim was hard. Every time he left her something bad occurred because of this every timehe left she would look at him as if he would never return. He almost had not returned a few times, and nothing would make this time any different probably. He probably just signed on to another one of those days. The one that starts early and never ends, and when it ends something new is missing from him, and he gains nothing in return. But he would continue on with fighting through those days because this was his punishment for not saving Teri. This was his reparation he had to continue to survive until he was killed.

The traffic was very light at this early hour and the trip to the airport took only ten minutes. It was simple drive and close to CTU, which surprised him Nina would have it that close to CTU. While driving Jack had checked his mirrors to make sure that no one was following him, and he did not notice anyone.

Pulling into the airport he thought about Teri and all of the women he has loved. It occurred to him every woman he ever loved died. As he stopped the car his phone rang.

"Jack"

"Hi Jack. Listen carefully to my instructions. I want you to take your wallet out of your pocket, the keys out of the ignition, and your watch off. Hand them to the man that is walking up to the car. Than get out of the car leaving the cell phone on and in the seat. Follow the man's directions and do not try anything."

The man Nina spoke of approached the car. He held a gun out pointed at Jack. The man was taller than jack and bigger. Jack did everything Nina asked. As he was getting out of the car a small Cessna airplane landed on the small landing strip of the air port.

The man with the gun ordered, "Put your hands behind your head and lean up against the car." Holstering his gun the man walked up to Jack and patted him down taking Jacks gun and extra ammunition. He than ordered, "Take your coat, shirt and pants off."

Jack reluctantly did as he was told. He felt funny standing in the parking lot with only boxers on, he though of a smart comment to make, but it wouldn't help the situation.

The man with the gun escorted Jack to the plane. The pilot handed Jack a new shirt, pants, socks and shoes. Jack put them on and climbed into the small plane.

The man with the gun shut the door and the Pilot took off.

The man that took Jack's stuff grabbed the cell phone out of the car and drove to towards LAX.

1: 30

Jack looked at the pilot. He was older than Jack. He was paying attention to the flight gears more than Jack. This led Jack to conclude that he was not worried about Jack trying anything. Yelling over the engines Jack inquired, "Where are we going?"

The pilot looked over and said, "Somewhere in Mexico. Than I don't know. The lady will let me know. What is this all about anyways? I get woke up from bed and some person pays me nine thousand dollars to fly and get you. With have the money they give me clothes for you. Did you break out of prison or something?"

"No I didn't break out of prison. I'm not sure what this is all about. I'm just doing as I am told." Jack did not want to let on to too much information incase the pilot was more than what he claimed to be, and incase he was what he claimed to be.

They sat in silence as they flew to Mexico.

1:35

Michelle ran up the medal steps to Tony's office. "Tony they got both sets of bugs and tracers."

"How did that happen?"

"They had Jack change clothes and took everything with them. I think the guy who took them is going to LAX to make us think Jack is doing so. Should I have him picked up or allow it to go through?"

"If we pick him up Nina will know, and that might cause some problems, but if we don't we lose Jack and any hope of knowing what is going on." As he said that his phone rang.

"Almeida"

"Hi Tony! I figured you had him wired and or had a tracer on him. You must think I'm stupid. How are things? I heard you got married to a co-worker. Thought you might have learned your lesson but you just love your co-workers. Well I gotta go meet Jack and get paid."

"We had a deal!"

The phone line went dead. "Try to pick the guy up. Now! Tell whoever it is the most important thing right now."

"I'll make the call."

Picking up the phone Tony called the president to apprise him of the situation. "Mr. President this is Tony Almadia. We have a slight problem. Nina got both sets of wire and tracers. And we don't know where Jack is going."

"How is this possible?" Palmer questioned.

"Nina is not stupid and I figured she knew we would try something. She was ready for us. She had Jack change clothes and leave his watch with someone. We are at the moment trying to pick that person up. Hopefully he will still have the wires and tracers on him and he knows where Nina is having Jack go."

"Thanks for the update. Call me as soon as you get something new. I want to stay briefed on every move of this operation."

"Yes Mr. President."

1:55
Noticing that her father left in a hurry after the President came, and the way that Michelle ran to Tony's office Kim felt a sick feeling in her stomach. She knew that her father took another dangerous assignment. She walked up to her husband Chase and asked, "Do you know what my father is up to?"

"Word is that the President asked him to accompany him to China for the summit to help the secret service in protecting him." Chase replied.

"Do you buy it?"

"It seems real."

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