The following events occur between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.

1:00 p.m.

Tony Almeida sat in his office. He was not sure what to do. He tried to call Jack back, but the cell phone he called with was shut off. Jacks phone was out of order, and no one was home at his house. Kim and Chase made it to the office and were working on tracking down the man that visited the President today. So far no one knew who he was, or how he ever meant Wayne Palmer. No one knew where Wayne Palmer was nor the President. This would be the first time that the President of the United States was kidnapped. This was worse than a president being assassinated because the assassination is usually from afar. Not only did this guy get past security and the secret service he was able to smuggle the president out without anyone noticing for awhile. Heads would roll, but that was not the issue. He had to find Jack, and the President. He had no leads and still didn't know if he could trust everyone at CTU.

"Michelle is everyone here?" Tony said after he called Michelle and she answered the phone.

"No. Jack and Dan are missing."

"Dan?"

"He took off a few hours ago and still is missing."

"Did you contact the police about a possible situation out at Jack's house?"

"They are on their way over to check."

"Don't tell Kim. If she asks tell her that her father is flying to D.C. and will call her later."

"Ok. She'll be pissed if he shows up and she finds out we lied to her."

"Oh well. Remind me to talk to Jack about transferring her somewhere else. This whole hiding from Kim thing is sort of unprofessional and I don't think Chappelle would be very happy about it if he knew."

"Fine. But I doubt that's a good idea Tony. She is good at her job. One of our best now and she does not allow her personal problems to get in the way."

1:10

Driving up to the abandon building Treadstone got out of the van and opened the big garage door. The van drove in and the door was closed by people inside behind it. Treadstone looked around the building. He had gotten it cheaply earlier that year and had it under a false company name that should not be able to be traced to him. They had it remodeled to fit their needs. They had two rooms made into holding areas, and a computer room that had all the latest computers, software, and some of the best hackers. It was funny with what you could get with money and good connections.

One of the men escorted the President to a room where they decided to hold everyone in the same room for the time being. They might have to separate people and they'd need the other room for that, or if they had to interrogate someone again.

When the door opened Nina Myers stood up from the chair and saw a man with the President. Her mouth would have dropped if she had not trained herself not to react to such things. She never would have figured someone could kidnap the President, or there wasn't anyone crazy enough.

The President walked into the room and said, "I knew you would have had something to do with this." He said angrily. "I never should have allowed you to go free the last time."

"Wait a second. I have nothing to do with this. I am not here by choice." Nina said in her defense.

"You mean to tell me that you not only helped them kidnap Jack earlier, but now you have nothing to do with them?"

"Yes sir. If you have your sources check I was the reason Jack was still alive."

"Was?"

"I'm not sure if he still is sir. I parted from her a few hours ago. I do not know his condition now. I figured they got to me, so they have gotten to him."

As she was saying this the door opened again and a woman who had clearly been through hell entered the room. The guards ordered everyone against the wall. Everyone in the room complied, and than two guards dragged the unconscious body of Jack Bauer. The President stared at Jack for a second; he was looking to make sure his chest was still moving. The men dropped Jack roughly on the floor and one of them kicked him and than turned and walked out.

As soon as the door closed Kate ran to Jack. She was worried about him because he had still not woken up, nor moved. His face had a huge bruise on it that was swelling, and there was a cut also from the kick. The cut was bleeding, but not as bad as the cut on the back of his head. She didn't have any loose clothes she could use so she asked, "Can one of you help me get his flannel off so that I can use it to try to stop the bleeding on the back of his head."

The president walked up and helped her take Jacks shirt off. The white shirt underneath already had blood around the neck region. Kate ripped a strip of the shirt off and placed it against the big knot at the back of Jacks head that was bleeding. She took the rest and used it to rest his head on.

"What happened?" The president asked.

"We were at Jacks apartment when these men and my sister came in. She kept hitting Jack and he just kept trying to get up until she kicked him in the head." Kate finally looked at the people in the room and she was shocked, "Mr. President what are you doing here?"

"I wish I knew."

She saw Nina and could not place her for a moment. When she finally did she did not say anything. She felt anger towards Nina. She had caused so much pain in the man she loved, and she had caused him to be how he was.

Jack was slowly becoming conscious. In his mind he was sitting on the couch at the house and Teri was there asking him what he would do if she died before him. She use to do that sometimes. It creped him out, and would piss her off some times because he would bring up the fact that he was more likely to die before her, but to make her happy he would say he would live in misery and never even look at a woman again. She would tell him that she would not want that. She wanted him to try to find someone new to take care of him. She knew if she had died he did not deserve to be alone. He would always love her, but he had to share his love with the world. He told her he couldn't ever love anyone else. He had cared for Nina, but he had never loved her. But than in the middle of this memory the President voice was asking, "Who is your sister? And what does she have to do with this?"

Jack felt a pain in the back of his head. It felt like a migraine was coming on and his eyes rolled in his head. He groaned as he opened his eyes and closed them again because of the pain in his head. When he opened them again he saw the President, Nina, and Kate looking at him. For a moment he thought he was dreaming, but than the memory of what happened earlier came back.

He slowly sat up and asked, "Where are we?"

"We don't know Jack. How are you?" The president asked.

"I'm fine sir. How are you here?"

"You don't know?"

"Know what sir?"

"I was captured earlier. It seems my brother was helping someone out."

"Shit." Jack said under his breath, "That must have been the situation. Are you ok sir?"

"I'm fine. It's you I'm worried about. You look like hell."

"I am fine sir. I have been through worse."

"That I'm not so sure of."

At that moment the door opened and Treadstone walked in. "Good everyone is awake. Jack we have to quit meeting like this people might start talking."

Treadstone motioned for two guards to grab Jack. When they walked over to Jack; he stood up and followed them like they wanted. He didn't want to cause problems he had to find where they were and get the President out.

"What now Treadstone?" Jack said when they left the room.

"You're going for a ride. Now that you know we have the president and your girlfriend I want you to pick some people up for me. My friend here demands that you go with her, she wants her friend to be the first person he sees when he is free."

"Who's that?"

"Your friend from your apartment."

"Marie. Great sounds like fun."

"Well, excuse me I have to make a call."

Treadstone took his phone out of his pocket and dialed a number, "I want to speak to Mr. Chappelle. This is the man who has the president."

"This is Chappelle."

"For the President I first want the following people released into the custody of Jack Bauer. I want the man from the nuclear bombing a few years ago, I want Scott Green, and Cal Munch freed within the hour. I want them all waiting Agent Bauer at the front gate of the prison they are being held at. I know they're all at the same prison so it should not be hard. If you try to follow or prevent him from bringing them back I will send you a piece of the president, and will continue to do so every half hour until Bauer is back here with them."

"Sir. I have information that Agent Bauer is missing at the moment."

"I know where he is and I will send him with an escort to pick the men up. You have twenty minutes now."

"That's not enough . . ."

Treadstone hung the phone up and gave Jack the keys to one of the vans. "Marie he's set to go."

She walked up to Jack who was trying not to show that he was in any pain at all.

"Let's go" She said motioning her gun towards the van.

1:30

Kim looked around CTU. This was the second or third time in the past two days that CTU had called everyone in because of a situation. She couldn't believe that the President had been kidnapped. That was the first of that happening, and this wasn't a movie like Air Force One. These people called and had demands. She was working on the release papers for the three people they ordered to be let free. It was weird in the fact that none of them had anything to do with the other. She took a minute, while one of the other tech people were transferring the needed data to her, she called Kate. She had talked to Kate earlier after the fight with her father, and she knew Kate was going to see her father, or at least try. She dialed Kate's number and the phone went directly to the voice mail. That was weird because Kate never turned her cell phone off.

Kim and Kate started to talk after Kim learned about Kate and her father's relationship. At first she hated Kate because this was the first woman after her mother, and all children even older children dislike their parents first after a parent's death or separation. But Kate had taken Kim out shopping and to lunch one day and they talked. Kate had lost her mother early on too and understood Kim's feelings. The two bonded and began to confide in each other. Both trying to help Jack get out of the slump he was in.

Kim wondered how the meeting went. If she had to choose she would like her father to go with Kate. Kate was a nice person, but her father as stubborn and still hurting horribly from her mother. Kim began to wonder where her father was. He would have come in even if he was ordered to stay at home. He would never sit out on something like this.

1:35

After the men came in to get Jack Kate began to get scared again. She loved Jack very much and she was afraid of what they might be doing to him. She saw how he looked and didn't think he could take much more. He was pretty beat up and she knew his body would not accept as much punishment as he had made it seem to be able to. She sat on the floor in the corner by herself. She did not want to talk to Nina and was still shocked at being in the same room with the President. Jack had told her about him and how great of a man he was, but it was the President, he was like the queen of England, and she wasn't sure what to call him or anything. She began to feel bad because here she is kidnapped and she's worrying about what to call the President.

Palmer walked over to Kate and sat next to her. "Are you ok?"

"I'm fine Mr. President."

"Call me David please. I've been President for more than four years now and it's still feels weird to me when people call me Mr. President. So David please."

"I'm fine David."

"You and I both know that you are not fine. The man you seem to love has just been taken captive with you, and now they have taken him to an unknown location. He looks horrible as is, and you are worried that he is too stubborn to give in if they happen to interrogate him again. You are scared shitless and there is nothing you can do about it."

"Well yeah. But I have gotten use to, or at least accustomed to Jack always being in danger. Every time I think that he isn't going to do it again. He had learned his lesson and would stop putting himself in danger. I think he truly believes that he has to. No one else can do it so he has to do it."

"That sounds like Jack. But I feel guilty because I'm usually the one asking him to put himself and his family in danger again. This time I gave him a choice, but that is not the truth. When I asked Jack for help I took any choice he had away." Palmer said.

"You two don't really know Jack do you." Nina said from the other side of the room. She hated to her about how much of a boy scout Jack was. "Jack took the job because that is what he is good at. He is great at killing people, and getting information from them. He is great at escaping dangerous impossible situations. It isn't that someone asked him it's that he gets bored with normal life so he goes off and does this. It is like the housewife's one cigarette a day. It keeps his life from being boring. After his wife died it became his mission in life. He takes every mission with the hope that maybe he will be killed because Jack can't do anything the easy way, even suicide. He can not quit so he continues to take on situations in which he might not return with the hope that he will die and that is not quitting or suicide, its dying in the line of fire. That is Jack period." Nina said in a matter of fact way.

"Even if that is correct Jack never compromises. Because if you compromise once you'll do it again thinking it was ok." Palmer said in the defense of his friend.

"Jack compromised today. He gave up the information on Treadstone in order to save his own life, and the non-threaten life of his daughter. He broke, and spilled his guts to Treadstone. I was there I saw it." Nina said in an angry voice.

"He was being tortured and what do we have on Treadstone. They're an organization that is unifying all of the terrorist groups around the world. It is run by a man that no one has ever seen until today." Palmer argued.

1:45

Jack drove the van and an uneasy feeling started to settle in. He knew Marie hated him and Kate and she would happily kill both of them. On top of that he was sure that one of the people he would be picking up would be the terrorist who he interrogated a few years ago. The man might still believe that his son is dead, on Jacks order. If that was true than Jack had a serious situation on his hands. He did not know how to escape the situation.

Jack pulled in front of the prison and put the van in park. He looked at Marie and wondered how such a nice looking girl could do the things she had done. Marie didn't have a traumatic childhood; the only problem with it was her mothers death other than that it was happy. Jack asked, "What now?"

"We wait they should be out any moment. When they come out you will get out of the van take the keys from the guard. You will put the guys in the back. And walk through the back to the front. You will hand me the key than I will unlock them. You will drive back to the place."

A group of guards and three men in chains came through the front gate. Jack got out of the van and walked up to the guard. The guard looked at him. The three guys walked past the guard. Jack asked, "May I have the keys please."

The guard handed Jack the keys and watched as Jack loaded the three guys in the back and moved to the front seat. Jack handed Marie the keys and put the van in drive and took off.

He drove for a few minutes to an abandoned oil field and stopped as Marie had instructed him when he got back into the van. Both of them got out of the van and meant at the back of the van. She ordered, "Open the doors, unlock the guys and than get out."

Jack stepped into the back of the van. He unlocked the guys and than stepped back outside. The terrorist Marie knew stepped out behind him and looked at Marie, "How is this?"

"Treadstone and I made a deal. I would deliver Jack alive and help him out for money and you release."

"How did he get my release?"

"He has the president in his possession. He captured him earlier today."

"We cannot kill this man?"

"No. Jack must not be killed. But . . ." She didn't even finish the sentence before the man punched Jack in the stomach.

Jack feel to the ground having the wind knocked out of him and the cuts from earlier agitated. He sat on the ground for a moment unable to breath. When he finally could breath again his entire body ached from his broken ribs, and gun shoot wound. The man walked over to Jack and grabbed him by the hair, "You killed my son. I should kill you, but Allah says that once a deal has been made I must stand by it. Instead I will find your child and kill her."

Jack proclaimed, "Your son is still alive. It was all a ploy to get you to tell me what I wanted."

"No I saw my son get shot."

"He's alive. They did not shoot him, they shot at him, but they did not shoot him. I couldn't sanction that even if I wanted to. Call your wife."

"He is telling the truth. I talked to our people when I escaped your wife and family is living with the group. Everyone is fine." Marie said not wanting her friend to think his son was dead.

"I still want him dead."

"We can after Treadstone is finished with him."

The man took a pair of the chains and chained Jack with them. He helped Jack into the van and sat him next to the other two guys in the back. Jack was breathing hard and his chest was heaving with the pain of breathing. Marie drove the van towards the abandoned warehouses.

She called Treadstone, "The trade went off good. We have Jack restrained in the back. Had a problem with him, but we fixed it. We should be there shortly."

"Good. Make sure Jack stays alive. If I want to deal with the president I need him to be alive."

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