The following events occur between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m.
Treadstone phone began to ring in his pocket. For a moment it startled him because only three people had the number to the phone and he wasn't expecting any of them to call him.
"Hello." He said incase it just happen to be a wrong number.
"Treadstone it's me."
He knew the voice automatically. This was the man that was colder than he was. This man was willing to kill or betray his own brother just to become President or even on lesser note to show that his brother is not smarter than he is, which of these things motivated him, Treadstone was not sure of, but as long as this man was on his side it didn't mater. "How may I help you?"
"I'm going to help you. I know Jack and Nina escaped and they know the plans for tonight. I think we should go to plan B. But you already knew that. I can get you Jack, Nina, and Jacks daughter. She caught Dan rifling through Jacks papers, and if she mentions it to her father he'll know about Dan, and than Dan will give me up. So I'll find a way to get the three out of CTU and back into your custody. Have your guys meet our friend in the old capital building. Getting in is your responsibility I'll get you into the White House and show them how to take the Tunnels through." The voice said over the phone.
"You truly are a man without a soul."
"I know that's why you like me so much because I'm a reflection of yourself. And that's why you fear me because I'm loyal to none." The man said before he hung up the phone.
A minute after he hung up the phone Dan came in with a cup of coffee for him. "Sir. Here's your coffee. Is everything going as planned?"
"Yeah. Where still continuing with the plan. If David cancels the speech tonight we'll wait until he does give the speech." The man said trying not to give anymore information to Dan as possible. He did not like Dan nor did he trust him. There was something about someone who would betray the people they know for money. Money was not an important thing in life to him, and a person willing to sell their soul for it was not worth trusting.
9:05
Jack sat in a chair in the integration room wondering how he could be sitting back here with Nina. He had sworn to her he would kill her one day, and now he had to trust her, and had trusted her with his life. When the two guys first showed up he figured she called them, even if she did help him get free, she might have changed her mind. But now he sits in a room with her, trusting her more than he trust others. If she wanted him dead she could have done it, and that was a scary thought to think she saved him.
A medical person from the clinic next door came into the room. When he looked at Jack he said, "You just can't stop from getting messed up once a year can you. I think they should just give you a person to follow you around. Fix you on the spot." The man said jokingly as it was known how much Jack has sacrificed and the wounds he has received over the past few years doing his job.
The man began with Jacks wrist. After the man got done cleaning the wounds with alcohol, which Jack wrenched back in pain from, he put a lotion on them to help with the rope burn and than went on to bandage them. He next looked at Jacks gun shot wound. It was superficial, but having been broken open again it needed a new bandage. The rest of Jacks wounds were tended to and the medical man handed Jack a prescription of codeine. "Here take these, they'll help the pain. It looks like you have a few broken ribs and that's going to hurt more and more, but your lucky because none of them punctured your lung. But do not take them with any alcohol."
The man exited the room as Tony and Michelle entered. "We need to know what's happened and what all you both know. Michelle will take Nina next door for interrogation. I'll take you Jack. As soon as I'm done Kim would like to see you."
Michelle and Nina got up and walked to the room next door. Michelle praying that Kim did not come looking for her father. This was a disaster waiting to happen Michelle thought to herself.
"Jack how are you doing?" Tony asked to begin with. He never felt quite comfortable debriefing Jack. Normally he wouldn't do it, but on the rare occasion he had to, like today when they did not know who to trust.
"I'll live Tony. How's Kim? Does she know Nina's here?"
"No she doesn't know Nina's here. I have Chase keeping her busy. And she's a little hurt Jack."
After that Tony took Jack through all of what happened. Jack tried to describe Treadstone and everyone else he came in contact with. He backed up what the pilot had said. Michelle was doing the same thing with Nina.
"Michelle you and Tony are married correct?"
"Yes."
"Did you know he went out with me right before?"
"Yes. He told me. He was very reluctant to get into another relationship. But we're not here to talk about that." Michelle said with a hint of anger in her voice.
Nina decided to leave that alone for now. She never really liked Tony, but she had to have someone to feel in for Jack while he was still with Teri. Had the events not occurred, Nina figured Jack would be back with her within a year. While Teri was his love, she could never understand his world. He couldn't tell her about the hard week/month in the office because she would not understand. Imagine if he told her "Honey I've had a bad month at work. Not only did my entire team get killed on a secret mission, but I killed one of the major officials in Kosovo. Victor Drazen." She would have been sickened by it.
9:35
President Palmer sat in his office, the oval office, and thought about the announcement he just made and the ramifications of canceling the State of the Union without allowing the American people to know the reason other than a National Security matter came up. In the past there has not been a single president he can think of that has canceled the State of the Union address. He was now in his second term of office and he was thinking of making it his last. He liked his job, but he had not time to spend with his growing children, nor did he have a private life. He and his girlfriend were now in the public eye and he couldn't even take her out to dinner because of the problem of security. He wanted to be normal again sometimes, but if the American people wanted him to run again he would. He has devoted his life to making America a better country and doing what the American people want so if they still wanted him he would continue.
Palmer debated as to whether or not to call to see how Jack was doing. He knew that Tony went to get Jack, but not the condition of his friend. He felt bad for asking Jack to go back in and help them out, but he had to. He knew even just asking Jack would make him do it. He truly respected Jack because of his willingness to give up everything for his country. Sometimes Palmer thought the man was just crazy.
Palmers secretary came over the intercom system on the phone and said, "Sir I have Mr. Almeida on the phone. He needs to know what you want him to do about a Nina Myers?"
"Put him through."
"Hello Mr. President. I believe that your Chief of Staff has already updated you on the situation with Jack?"
"Some of it. But what's this about Nina Myers?"
"Well, Mr. President it seems that Nina helped Jack escape. She even helped us when some of Treadstones people caught up with them at the hotel she took him to. She is the one who informed us of Treadstones plans. She wants to be let go in return."
"But she did put Jack in the situation she helped him escape from correct?"
"Yes sir."
"Hold her until we are sure there will be no attack on the U.S. after that she is to be detained for her dealings with the virus and Salazar's last year."
"Yes sir. Thank you sir."
9:40
After Tony got of the phone with the President he went down to Kim and told her she could see her father now. He walked her back to the conference room her father was resting in. He wanted to make sure that she stayed clear of the room Michelle and Nina were in.
Kim walked into the room and saw her father whose face had a huge bruise on it. He looked almost as bad as he had the last time he had be captured and tortured by the businessman. She hugged her father and decided to wait to have her conversation with him until they got home. She would not let go of him until Chase walked into the room. She had almost completely lost her father so many times that she thought she'd be use to it by now, but she couldn't deal with it. She thought earlier that it would not effect her because she lost the man she use to know after her mothers death, and she once thought he would come back, but now she wasn't so sure of it.
Tony walked back into the room and said, "Kim why don't you take your father home."
Jack started to argue with Tony, but Tony interrupted him and said, "Jack you've been through hell again you need to rest. Look at you, you can barely walk. We have stopped the attack for today. Go home they'll still be here tomorrow. If anything happens you'll know because I'll call you. Chase take these two home."
As they were exiting the room Kim heard the voice that made her blood run cold. Nina Myers was at CTU. Kim was infuriated she pushed past Tony and went into the room she heard Nina's voice coming from.
"What's she doing here?" Kim said angrily at Michelle.
"Kim your not suppose to be in here." Is all Michelle could say because she felt the same as Kim did. This woman caused so many people pain that she did not deserve to live, but Michelle was not the one to make those decisions.
Nina said in her defense, "I saved your father."
"You put him in that situation to begin with." Kim said trying not to lunge at Nina and try to rip her throat out.
Jack hobbled into the room and grabbed Kim's arm, "Come on Kim. Lets go." He said gently.
"No! This woman not only killed Mom, tried to kill you, but she helped Treadstone capture you and torture you. Why are you sticking up for her?"
"Kim I'm not sticking up for her." Jack said with a hint of hurt in his voice that he couldn't hide. He hated Nina as much as Kim, but at the same time he could not kill her right now because she had saved him.
"Dad I'm so tired of it. She gets away with everything and no one does anything about it. You all let her."
"Kim please let's go." Chase said trying to stop her before she said something that she would regret or that would be the truth that would hurt Jack too much.
Jack walked in front of his daughter. He was holding all of his feelings in, but inside it felt like someone had killed his wife again. He stood between Kim and Nina to make sure that Kim would not try to lunge at Nina because she would have not chance in a fight against Nina.
"Kim she's not getting away this time. I promise you she'll be charged for her dealings with the Salazar's and the virus last year." Tony said trying to get Kim to walk out of the room.
At that moment Nina got out of her chair and grabbed a knife she had hidden on a necklace in her shirt. She put the knife to Jacks throat, who was only a few feet away from her, before anyone could react. "What do you mean I am not going to get away this time? We had a deal. I help Jack out, tell you Treadstones plan, and than I'd go. I even came on good faith and answered your questions."
"Nina put the knife down. There is no way out of here. If you leave you'll have Treadstone after you. He wants you dead you helped me escape." Jack said.
"Well if I'm going to die minds as well take you with me than. But than I already killed you once didn't I Jack? Isn't that what you wanted to say Kim? I can see it in your eyes." Nina inquired. "Now Jack and I are walking out of here. Don't follow us. If you do I'll make him wish I killed him, and on the second time I will kill him."
The two slowly walked to the elevators with Tony, Chase, Kim, and Michelle standing in the hallway watching them as they went. As soon as the elevator opened Nina and Jack entered and she pushed the button to take them to the parking garage. In the parking garage she found on of the many cars CTU used for field ops and other task. She knew inside under the passenger seat there was a key. She had Jack grab the key and open the trunk. In the trunk there was the standard issue 9 mm berretta and three clips of ammo. She grabbed the berretta and threw the knife in the trunk. Pointing the berretta at Jack she said, "You drive."
Jack pulled out of the CTU underground parking garage and turned right as he was instructed to. As he drove down the road he asked, "Where are we going to?"
"You still own the old house?"
Jack wanted to say no, because he hadn't been there since the night Teri died. He could never get rid of the house, though, he just couldn't it was the one place that Teri still existed. Almost everything was the way she left it besides the fridge and cabinets that Kim and her Aunt cleaned out. Otherwise nothing was touched. "Yes."
"That's where we are going."
"Why there?"
"I need a place to lay low for awhile. I need to get in contact with my people and get a way out of this country and into hiding. No one will expect us to be there."
9:55
As soon as the elevator closed Kim took off towards the steps with Chase in tow. Kim was running so hard and fast that even Chase couldn't catch up to her until she was in the lower garage and in her car getting ready to follow her father.
"Kim what are you doing?" Chase yelled to her.
"I'm going to get my father?"
"She'll see you and kill him."
"I'll have to take that chance. Now either get out of my way or I'm going to run you over."
"Kim let me drive. I'm trained to follow people and be discrete about it. I'll take you to your father and we'll get him together."
Kim knew he was right. She hopped out of her SUV and ran to the passenger side. As soon as her door closed Chase reversed the SUV and was on his way to follow Jack. It took a minute before they caught up to where they could actually see the car, a CTU car which they could tell by the green license plate numbers which started with C. They followed behind the car at a discreet distance. Nina never noticed them.
9:57 9:58 9:59
9:00 a.m.
Treadstone phone began to ring in his pocket. For a moment it startled him because only three people had the number to the phone and he wasn't expecting any of them to call him.
"Hello." He said incase it just happen to be a wrong number.
"Treadstone it's me."
He knew the voice automatically. This was the man that was colder than he was. This man was willing to kill or betray his own brother just to become President or even on lesser note to show that his brother is not smarter than he is, which of these things motivated him, Treadstone was not sure of, but as long as this man was on his side it didn't mater. "How may I help you?"
"I'm going to help you. I know Jack and Nina escaped and they know the plans for tonight. I think we should go to plan B. But you already knew that. I can get you Jack, Nina, and Jacks daughter. She caught Dan rifling through Jacks papers, and if she mentions it to her father he'll know about Dan, and than Dan will give me up. So I'll find a way to get the three out of CTU and back into your custody. Have your guys meet our friend in the old capital building. Getting in is your responsibility I'll get you into the White House and show them how to take the Tunnels through." The voice said over the phone.
"You truly are a man without a soul."
"I know that's why you like me so much because I'm a reflection of yourself. And that's why you fear me because I'm loyal to none." The man said before he hung up the phone.
A minute after he hung up the phone Dan came in with a cup of coffee for him. "Sir. Here's your coffee. Is everything going as planned?"
"Yeah. Where still continuing with the plan. If David cancels the speech tonight we'll wait until he does give the speech." The man said trying not to give anymore information to Dan as possible. He did not like Dan nor did he trust him. There was something about someone who would betray the people they know for money. Money was not an important thing in life to him, and a person willing to sell their soul for it was not worth trusting.
9:05
Jack sat in a chair in the integration room wondering how he could be sitting back here with Nina. He had sworn to her he would kill her one day, and now he had to trust her, and had trusted her with his life. When the two guys first showed up he figured she called them, even if she did help him get free, she might have changed her mind. But now he sits in a room with her, trusting her more than he trust others. If she wanted him dead she could have done it, and that was a scary thought to think she saved him.
A medical person from the clinic next door came into the room. When he looked at Jack he said, "You just can't stop from getting messed up once a year can you. I think they should just give you a person to follow you around. Fix you on the spot." The man said jokingly as it was known how much Jack has sacrificed and the wounds he has received over the past few years doing his job.
The man began with Jacks wrist. After the man got done cleaning the wounds with alcohol, which Jack wrenched back in pain from, he put a lotion on them to help with the rope burn and than went on to bandage them. He next looked at Jacks gun shot wound. It was superficial, but having been broken open again it needed a new bandage. The rest of Jacks wounds were tended to and the medical man handed Jack a prescription of codeine. "Here take these, they'll help the pain. It looks like you have a few broken ribs and that's going to hurt more and more, but your lucky because none of them punctured your lung. But do not take them with any alcohol."
The man exited the room as Tony and Michelle entered. "We need to know what's happened and what all you both know. Michelle will take Nina next door for interrogation. I'll take you Jack. As soon as I'm done Kim would like to see you."
Michelle and Nina got up and walked to the room next door. Michelle praying that Kim did not come looking for her father. This was a disaster waiting to happen Michelle thought to herself.
"Jack how are you doing?" Tony asked to begin with. He never felt quite comfortable debriefing Jack. Normally he wouldn't do it, but on the rare occasion he had to, like today when they did not know who to trust.
"I'll live Tony. How's Kim? Does she know Nina's here?"
"No she doesn't know Nina's here. I have Chase keeping her busy. And she's a little hurt Jack."
After that Tony took Jack through all of what happened. Jack tried to describe Treadstone and everyone else he came in contact with. He backed up what the pilot had said. Michelle was doing the same thing with Nina.
"Michelle you and Tony are married correct?"
"Yes."
"Did you know he went out with me right before?"
"Yes. He told me. He was very reluctant to get into another relationship. But we're not here to talk about that." Michelle said with a hint of anger in her voice.
Nina decided to leave that alone for now. She never really liked Tony, but she had to have someone to feel in for Jack while he was still with Teri. Had the events not occurred, Nina figured Jack would be back with her within a year. While Teri was his love, she could never understand his world. He couldn't tell her about the hard week/month in the office because she would not understand. Imagine if he told her "Honey I've had a bad month at work. Not only did my entire team get killed on a secret mission, but I killed one of the major officials in Kosovo. Victor Drazen." She would have been sickened by it.
9:35
President Palmer sat in his office, the oval office, and thought about the announcement he just made and the ramifications of canceling the State of the Union without allowing the American people to know the reason other than a National Security matter came up. In the past there has not been a single president he can think of that has canceled the State of the Union address. He was now in his second term of office and he was thinking of making it his last. He liked his job, but he had not time to spend with his growing children, nor did he have a private life. He and his girlfriend were now in the public eye and he couldn't even take her out to dinner because of the problem of security. He wanted to be normal again sometimes, but if the American people wanted him to run again he would. He has devoted his life to making America a better country and doing what the American people want so if they still wanted him he would continue.
Palmer debated as to whether or not to call to see how Jack was doing. He knew that Tony went to get Jack, but not the condition of his friend. He felt bad for asking Jack to go back in and help them out, but he had to. He knew even just asking Jack would make him do it. He truly respected Jack because of his willingness to give up everything for his country. Sometimes Palmer thought the man was just crazy.
Palmers secretary came over the intercom system on the phone and said, "Sir I have Mr. Almeida on the phone. He needs to know what you want him to do about a Nina Myers?"
"Put him through."
"Hello Mr. President. I believe that your Chief of Staff has already updated you on the situation with Jack?"
"Some of it. But what's this about Nina Myers?"
"Well, Mr. President it seems that Nina helped Jack escape. She even helped us when some of Treadstones people caught up with them at the hotel she took him to. She is the one who informed us of Treadstones plans. She wants to be let go in return."
"But she did put Jack in the situation she helped him escape from correct?"
"Yes sir."
"Hold her until we are sure there will be no attack on the U.S. after that she is to be detained for her dealings with the virus and Salazar's last year."
"Yes sir. Thank you sir."
9:40
After Tony got of the phone with the President he went down to Kim and told her she could see her father now. He walked her back to the conference room her father was resting in. He wanted to make sure that she stayed clear of the room Michelle and Nina were in.
Kim walked into the room and saw her father whose face had a huge bruise on it. He looked almost as bad as he had the last time he had be captured and tortured by the businessman. She hugged her father and decided to wait to have her conversation with him until they got home. She would not let go of him until Chase walked into the room. She had almost completely lost her father so many times that she thought she'd be use to it by now, but she couldn't deal with it. She thought earlier that it would not effect her because she lost the man she use to know after her mothers death, and she once thought he would come back, but now she wasn't so sure of it.
Tony walked back into the room and said, "Kim why don't you take your father home."
Jack started to argue with Tony, but Tony interrupted him and said, "Jack you've been through hell again you need to rest. Look at you, you can barely walk. We have stopped the attack for today. Go home they'll still be here tomorrow. If anything happens you'll know because I'll call you. Chase take these two home."
As they were exiting the room Kim heard the voice that made her blood run cold. Nina Myers was at CTU. Kim was infuriated she pushed past Tony and went into the room she heard Nina's voice coming from.
"What's she doing here?" Kim said angrily at Michelle.
"Kim your not suppose to be in here." Is all Michelle could say because she felt the same as Kim did. This woman caused so many people pain that she did not deserve to live, but Michelle was not the one to make those decisions.
Nina said in her defense, "I saved your father."
"You put him in that situation to begin with." Kim said trying not to lunge at Nina and try to rip her throat out.
Jack hobbled into the room and grabbed Kim's arm, "Come on Kim. Lets go." He said gently.
"No! This woman not only killed Mom, tried to kill you, but she helped Treadstone capture you and torture you. Why are you sticking up for her?"
"Kim I'm not sticking up for her." Jack said with a hint of hurt in his voice that he couldn't hide. He hated Nina as much as Kim, but at the same time he could not kill her right now because she had saved him.
"Dad I'm so tired of it. She gets away with everything and no one does anything about it. You all let her."
"Kim please let's go." Chase said trying to stop her before she said something that she would regret or that would be the truth that would hurt Jack too much.
Jack walked in front of his daughter. He was holding all of his feelings in, but inside it felt like someone had killed his wife again. He stood between Kim and Nina to make sure that Kim would not try to lunge at Nina because she would have not chance in a fight against Nina.
"Kim she's not getting away this time. I promise you she'll be charged for her dealings with the Salazar's and the virus last year." Tony said trying to get Kim to walk out of the room.
At that moment Nina got out of her chair and grabbed a knife she had hidden on a necklace in her shirt. She put the knife to Jacks throat, who was only a few feet away from her, before anyone could react. "What do you mean I am not going to get away this time? We had a deal. I help Jack out, tell you Treadstones plan, and than I'd go. I even came on good faith and answered your questions."
"Nina put the knife down. There is no way out of here. If you leave you'll have Treadstone after you. He wants you dead you helped me escape." Jack said.
"Well if I'm going to die minds as well take you with me than. But than I already killed you once didn't I Jack? Isn't that what you wanted to say Kim? I can see it in your eyes." Nina inquired. "Now Jack and I are walking out of here. Don't follow us. If you do I'll make him wish I killed him, and on the second time I will kill him."
The two slowly walked to the elevators with Tony, Chase, Kim, and Michelle standing in the hallway watching them as they went. As soon as the elevator opened Nina and Jack entered and she pushed the button to take them to the parking garage. In the parking garage she found on of the many cars CTU used for field ops and other task. She knew inside under the passenger seat there was a key. She had Jack grab the key and open the trunk. In the trunk there was the standard issue 9 mm berretta and three clips of ammo. She grabbed the berretta and threw the knife in the trunk. Pointing the berretta at Jack she said, "You drive."
Jack pulled out of the CTU underground parking garage and turned right as he was instructed to. As he drove down the road he asked, "Where are we going to?"
"You still own the old house?"
Jack wanted to say no, because he hadn't been there since the night Teri died. He could never get rid of the house, though, he just couldn't it was the one place that Teri still existed. Almost everything was the way she left it besides the fridge and cabinets that Kim and her Aunt cleaned out. Otherwise nothing was touched. "Yes."
"That's where we are going."
"Why there?"
"I need a place to lay low for awhile. I need to get in contact with my people and get a way out of this country and into hiding. No one will expect us to be there."
9:55
As soon as the elevator closed Kim took off towards the steps with Chase in tow. Kim was running so hard and fast that even Chase couldn't catch up to her until she was in the lower garage and in her car getting ready to follow her father.
"Kim what are you doing?" Chase yelled to her.
"I'm going to get my father?"
"She'll see you and kill him."
"I'll have to take that chance. Now either get out of my way or I'm going to run you over."
"Kim let me drive. I'm trained to follow people and be discrete about it. I'll take you to your father and we'll get him together."
Kim knew he was right. She hopped out of her SUV and ran to the passenger side. As soon as her door closed Chase reversed the SUV and was on his way to follow Jack. It took a minute before they caught up to where they could actually see the car, a CTU car which they could tell by the green license plate numbers which started with C. They followed behind the car at a discreet distance. Nina never noticed them.
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