Author Notes: Usually I don't use this because it would be too organized and pre planed. But I'm introducing a new character and since he is going to play an important role I guess I should give background on him. Dan is a CTU agent that got transferred over after season three. He works with Chloe, Jacks assistant this year, to help with the tracking of Jack and Chase. He was sent over to watch Jack by Chappell. That's all I know now and don't be surprised if it ends up changing in the end. Oh! Almost forgot OVERUNDERSTANDING ROCKS. Lyrics from their first CD is included in this. OH DISLCAIMER: None of the characters in this story besides those I make up are actually mine they belong to fox and whoever. You get the point.

The following events occur between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. The events occur in somewhat real time.

6:00 a.m.

Treadstone took out his cell phone and dialed the number he had memorized. The phone rang three times before someone answered.

"CTU. Dan speaking."

"Dan can you talk?"

Dan recognized the voice and looked around to see if anyone was in the room. Chloe was there, but she was to busy to notice him. "Yeah."

"We have Bauer. We broke him, but he and Nina both said he would not know the sources where the information came from. You said he would. I need to know the sources so I can kill them. So why doesn't he know or are they lying to me?"

"Sir he should know. They do usually keep those things from Field Ops but Jack and Tony are friends, and Tony knows Jack likes to know all the information in the mission and were it came from incase he needs to double check it while he's in the field. He should know." Dan whispered into the phone so that Chloe wouldn't notice. She didn't seem to notice him, but he would not talk again while she is in the room.

"Fine. You better hope for your sake. I don't want to have to tell Jack there's another mole in CTU." Treadstone said in anger as he hung up the phone.

"Shit. He's lying to us, him and Nina both. I knew I shouldn't have trusted that b$@ch. I should have killed her as soon as I heard she called Bauer. When we're done I want you to kill them both. PAINFULY." Treadstone ordered Chris.

6:05
The guard looked into the room to see why Nina was screaming. He had orders not to open the door for her, but it did look like Bauer was convulsing. He was shaking all over the place and in the condition he was in he would not be doing that for the heck of it because it would have hurt to much. The guard made a split second decision; he was trained as an EMT before he joined Treadstone to fight for the cause. So he could start to handle it until the doctor got here. He radioed that Jack of was having convulsions and they needed a doctor here. He opened the door and ran over to Jack on the mattress.

Before he could react Nina smashed him over the head with a chair. She took his gun, radio, and cell phone. "Common Jack we gotta go!" Nina said as she bent down to help him up. "Can you walk or do you need help?"

"I don't know!" Jack said through clench teeth as every movement of his body made him want to pass out, but he fought to keep from doing so.

Holding a gun in one hand and trying to hold Jack up in the other Nina started to walk out of the room when another guard appeared. She fired two shots hitting the guard in the chest. She leaned Jack against the wall and went to grab another gun. She ran back grabbed Jack and handed him a gun. "If you have to use it. Just not on me. Remember we have a deal."

Jack took the gun and let it hang at his side with his arm. He knew he needed her to get out of here alive and out of Mexico. He was in no shape to try it himself, and as much as he hated it he had to rely on her.

They walked down the corridor and turned the right direction to lead them to the steps. At the steps there were four guys waiting for them. Both Jack and Nina fired at the same time killing the men. They managed after some struggle to get up the stairs. And to their luck the black Van was still inside the barn. Nina walked to the back of the van opened it and helped Jack into the back. She ran to the front and smiled as she saw the keys in the ignition. Starting the van she pushed down on the pedal and the van emerged through the barn doors. Shattering them as it went through. They were almost out of here. As she drove down the dirt road leading to main road men began to fire at the back of the van. She heard Jack moan in pain.

Jack felt a sharp hot pain erupt in his right side. He moaned in pain as he reached his hand and felt down to were the pain was. Warm blood seeped out of the bullet wound.

"Jack what's going on back there?" Nina said nervously.

"I'm hit. F**K. I think it's just a flesh wound. I should be fine as long as we stop soon so that I can get the bleeding to stop." Jack said through clench teeth because it hurt.

6:20 a.m.

Kim was tired. She had been working for a day straight already and all she wanted to do was go home and sleep. She was worried about her father, but at the same time she was pissed at him for lying to her. She was tired of him always put himself at risk. He never understood how much he meant to her. He was never there when she was child and after her mother died he turned cold to everyone. She had hope that Kate might be able to bring some of the light back to his heart, but it only made him turn darker. Than he went on the mission with the Salazar's and she lost him than. He withdrew from everyone. No one knew he had a drug problem, and everyone understood when they found out why he had the problem. He didn't turn to anyone for help, and he lied to her and that hurt her.

She was at the point where she could no longer sit by and watch her father try to kill himself. When her mother first died she was scared for him because he would sit there and stare at the desk draw with the gun in it. She knew what he was thinking, but he never did it. No he had to kill himself the hard way. Taking missions where he may not come back alive, flying nuclear bombs over the desert to explode, and now risking everything to get information from the woman who killed her mother. When he came back she was going to talk to him, and depending on how he reacts she may give up on him.

Michelle walked over to Kim who was staring at the screen of her computer, but not typing anything. "Kim why don't you go home. You've been here since yesterday. Why don't you and Chase leave for a few hours and go relax. We can handle things here. I know you want to be here for your father, but you look like hell and you need to take sometime off. Both you and Chase."

"I know Michelle, but I can't leave with this still going on. It doesn't matter where I am I'll still worry about him."

"I know. But you need to go home and rest. Leave for a couple of hours and than come back. I'll call you if anything happens."

"Ok. I need to eat something anyways." Kim said as she got up and went to get her coat.

Michelle had already talked to Chase and told him to go home with Kim and try to get her to relax some. She didn't want to send Kim home alone incase something happened, and Chase was only looking for a satellite which she could do herself.

The couple walked out together and Chase opened the door for Kim to his Ford F-150. They drove off in the early mourning hours to go home.

6:30

Chris ran up to Treadstone. He did not want to be the one to tell Treadstone, but no one else would. "Sir they escaped."

"What? How did this happen?" Treadstone said as his face turned beat read with anger.

"I'm not sure sir. The guard radioed that Jack was having a heart attack and know Jack's past that was possible, but somehow Nina got both of them out of here. She took the van. We are trying to chase after them, but we lost them before the sun came up and were still trying to find them.

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Nina was happy the lost the guys finally. She drove off the road hoping to be able to cross the boarder. They were only about twenty minutes from the border so she should be driving across it soon. She grabbed the cell phone she took off the guard and called Tony. The phone rang five times before he answered.

"Almeida"

"Tony don't hang up or scream"

Tony knew the voice as soon as it spoke. "Where's Jack? What have you done with him?"

"He's here in the back. I got him. He's fucked up though. I didn't do it Treadstone did. Don't let anyone know I called. CTU has a mole and I'm not sure who it is. We are going to stop off at a hotel as soon as we cross the boarder which should be any moment now. I'm going to get Jack squared away and than I'll call you back. The deal is that I help Jack escape and tell you what Treadstone is planning and you let me go. I'll tell Jack and give him all the details and leave him at the hotel for you to pick up. As soon as I can leave him I'll call you with his whereabouts." Nina said and than turned the phone off.

"Jack you still with me back there?" Nina asked as she drove. She hadn't heard from him in awhile and was worried. He didn't answer her. She looked back and saw that his chest was moving up and down so he wasn't dead. That was a good sign. She drove across the boarder and went a few more miles before she saw a hotel.

Pulling into the parking lot she parked the van in front of the hotel office. She went inside and rang the bell hoping that someone was there at this hour in the mourning. After a few moments someone emerged from the back.

"How may I help you?" The man asked.

"I need a room for today only. My husband and I need to take a break before we head back up to L.A. How much will that be?" Nina said.

"Sixty. All we have left is singles. Will that be ok?"

"Of course. Do you have one on the first floor? My husband is afraid of heights, really afraid."

"Yeah room 106. I just need you to feel this out." The man said as he pushed across an index card asking for name, credit card number, and other miscellaneous information.

Using a fake name and credit card number Nina filled out the index card and pushed across to the hotel man and gave him a hundred. "If anyone asks we weren't here. Ok? You haven't had anyone new today yet. It's important husband out there is a FBI agent and this is are first vacation in years and we don't want anyone to bother us. So you never saw me Ok?"

"Yes ma'am."

Nina new that the man might keep it a secret but she didn't care because once she got Jack to where she could leave him without worrying about him dying he was on his own. She shouldn't even be helping him. She should have left him in the van and took the next flight out of the U.S. The longer she stayed the more she felt like she'd never leave.

She walked back out to the van and pulled it in front of her room. She backed it in so it would be less of a distance to move Jack into the room. She opened the back grabbed the sleeping Jack and pulled him out of the van. Grabbing his arms and putting on around her before she pulled him out of the van. She walked to the room, balanced Jack against her and tried to open the door. She got the door opened and carried Jack into the room laying his almost lifeless body on the bed. She took his shoes, shocks, and paints off; leaving only his boxers on him. She checked the gunshot wound. He was right that it wasn't too serious it just had to stop bleeding. His chest was all sorts of purple and clearly painful.

She walked outside and closed and locked the door. She drove the van a few miles away and parked it in a Wal-Mart parking lot. She ran inside of Wal-Mart and bought two first aid kits, and a bottle of peroxide. She caught a taxi back to the hotel. When she unlocked the door and found Jack where she left him lying on the bed.

She walked over to him and looked at him. His face was covered in blood, his chest was purple and red from bruises and blood, but at the same time he looked so peaceful. He looked like he use to after they got done making love. He would fall asleep and his face would have this happy peaceful look on it. When you saw him sleeping you would not believe it was the same man that killed so many people, and suffered so much in his life.

She walked into the bathroom and found a set of towels. She grabbed both set and turned the water on in the sink. She waited for it to turn warm and than she wetted one of the towels with the warm water. She went to Jack and began to wipe the blood off his face and chest. She must have wiped too ruff around the knife incisions because his body tensed for a second and then went limp again. After she wiped the blood away from the cuts she gently began to wipe around the bullet wound. It had entered through the front and exited out the back. Jack was right it didn't hit anything important, just a flesh wound and she figured as long as she could stop the bleeding he'd be ok. She took the bottle of peroxide and poured it first on the cuts and when she did Jacks eyes opened and he screeched in pain. Nina tried to hold him down the best she could, and she told him, "This is going to hurt worse, but I have to disinfect it. Hold on." She said as she poured the rest of the bottle on the gunshot wound. Jacks back arched in pain and his eyes bulged for a second and than he fell back asleep. Nina went to dressing the wounds. His wrists were really bad, she wiped them softly with the warm towel, but she did not want to put peroxide on them. She wrapped his hands and wrist in gaze.

When she finished she noticed how tired she was. There was no where else to lie down do she locked the door, and laid on the bed next to Jack. She couldn't remember the last time they lay together in a bed, but it felt good. Sometimes she wished she could erase the past. Other times she wondered what it would have been like if she meant Jack before he meant Teri. She fell asleep contemplating these worthless thoughts.

6:55 a.m.

When they reached home Kim went to the CD player and put on the CD she bought a week ago, and has still not listened to. Chase would tease her about her music taste because he liked country and she liked everything, but country and gospel music. When she felt like she did today music like OverUnderStanding soothed her. She sat on the chair and listened to the lyrics that meant so much to her.

When life isn't just what you need You go just go from point A to B The world is so slow You don't know which direction you will go

You wonder why life is like this You ask if your life is helpless All you can do is look up and say Will there be any skies in the cloud today Why is it so cloudy today What is it that makes me feel this way It turns my dreams to nightmares It makes my pain come down like rain

Now trepid puddles line the streets The water soaks right through your feet Cars pass you by Filled with couples that make you want to cry You ponder all your bad choices And listen to there voices When they tell you to say Will there be any sky's in the cloud today

Why is it so cloudy today What is it that makes feel this way It turns my ladders into slides and my mistakes into my guides It makes my pain Come down like rain

I swimming in my tears And hiding behind my fears I'm hanging on to dreams that I hold dear Because my situation clear That I'm drowning in this pain I've no where to place my aim All these hearts are roundless slaves My pain comes down like pouring rain This flood of tears can not be tamed My heart will always go unflammed.

Chase stood in the doorway and watched the woman he loved cry silently to herself. He wanted so bad to go over and hold her and promise here everything will be fine, but he knew if he interrupted she'd stop letting her feelings out. So he sat and watched as his heart broke with hers.

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