Chapter 5
Chase and Kim reached the Marina and began to ask all of the people they could find if they had seen someone like Jack or the woman recently. Some said they had seen the woman, but were not sure which boat was hers and others hadn't seen either. When they reached the last boat the person said yeah, he saw both of them and they took off on a yacht. Not sure which one it is because there were around six of the same model that took off at the same time, but they might be able to get something from the harbor master if they can find him, though he probably is out cold being a Friday night and all.
Kim asked, "Is there any way you might be able to take us to a few of the boats. It's my father and I'm worried about him."
The man looked at her and said, "I can't tonight, but if you come back tomorrow I can. I have no fuel on-board. I just got back from going to the Bahamas."
"Thank you. What time tomorrow?"
"How about around noon?"
"Thank you very much, Sir."
"No problem young lady. Anything I can do to help. You seem to care about your father very much." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
Jack lied down on the ground still in pain. His breathing was almost normal but it hurt to breathe. His body ached and his mind tried to focus, but his eyes kept closing trying to go into a slumber. He willed his body to keep awake.
Darla noticed the struggle Jack was having to stay awake and the pain he was in. She walked over to her goody bag and grabbed a bottle of a clear liquid and a syringe. She walked up to Jack who tensed the moment she touched him. "Jack if you want, I can give you this it'll take your pain away?"
Almost non-audible Jack mumbled, "No don't. Please."
"Fine. Jim help me get him on the bed. Then go outside and make sure no one is coming."
The two struggled to pick up Jack and carry him over to the bed. When they got him there they gently laid him on his stomach. Darla uncuffed one of his hands and used that cuff to cuff him to the bed. She rolled him over on to his back and said, "I'm sorry."
Jack looked at her in confusion. He did not know why she was sorry.
A phone began to ring and she jumped at the sound. She was not expecting her cell phone to ring. It was for only emergencies. She answered it, "Darla."
"Darla it's the President. Did everything go fine? Is Jack ok?" The president said in a worried voice. He was the one who gave the go ahead on using Jack. He was worried that something might have happened that Darla couldn't stop.
"He's alive sir. As you know we had to make it look like we were really trying to get information from him, and as discussed there was only one way. But when the people got her, she refused to allow him to live unless she got some sort of payback. She wanted to see him in extreme pain. I had to let her do some things in order to gain her trust. He's alive and breathing." Darla tried to explain.
"God. Will you be able to keep him alive long enough to get enough information to find out what you need to?"
"Yes sir. I have to go. If someone gets in, no one will live." Darla said as she hung up the phone.
Jack looked at her. He was truly confused as to what was going on. Darla took her hand and pulled her black sweater up so that it was covering her hand and she wiped the blood away from Jack's face. "Sleep now. I'll explain later. I will be here when you wake up."
Jack looked at her confused, but his body could no longer stand being conscious so he closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Darla walked out of the room and told Jim, "Watch after him. Come and get me when he wakes up. I'll be in my room making some calls." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
David Palmer was worried. He originally did not want to use Jack without telling him, but in some ways he had to. He was pissed at Jack when he found out about his journals, but what did he expect? Jack had kept them safe and only a few people actually knew about them. When it came down to it the information in the journals were worthless to anybody. The stuff was done and over, and that did not prove that any of these events actually occurred. Palmer looked at the NSA director and asked, "Do you think she can pull this off, and keep herself and Jack alive to tell about it?"
"Sir, she is our best. Jack trained her himself. If anyone could do it she could." The NSA director said like a father would have when his daughter raised to the top of the business world. That's what intelligence community was, business. It was a cutthroat business, and failing meant death. Everyone who entered knew it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
Chase and Kim drove to Kim's apartment. When they entered Chase looked around to make sure no one was their and all the windows were secured. After that they sat down and watched TV together. Kim laying her head on Chase's shoulder. Chase raised his hand and ran it through Kim's hair. At around 1:00 in the morning, Kim finally fall asleep, and shortly after Chase joined her in sleeping.
Kim woke up suddenly startling Chase. She looked at the clock on the TV and saw it was nine in the morning. She got up and went to take a shower. Chase went and started to make breakfast so that when Kim got out of the shower he would have the food ready.
When Kim came out of the shower she suddenly felt hungry. She smelled what Chase was cooking and complimented him on it. Chase was a great cook. Kim devoured her food and waited for Chase to get ready. She was anxious to start looking for her father. She called CTU and told Tony where they were going out on a boating trip, just in case they needed them. Chase was always on call so when he was going to be away from home for long periods he usually would call in. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
Jack woke up, and started to cough. Each cough caused him to grimace in pain. Every little movement of his body sent pain through it he sat up and looked around the room. He was still on the boat and still in the same room. He noticed the man Darla called Jim sound asleep in a chair. Jack looked at his chest and ribs, they were all sorts of purple and blue. Looking at them made them hurt more. He tried to block out the pain, and when he finally go his mind to focus on something else, he noticed how hungry he was. At that thought the door opened and Darla walked in.
She smiled at him and said, "Nice to see you are awake." She went to Jim and gently shook him awake, "Jim why don't you go sleep in a bed, I can take over the watch for a few hours."
While Jim left the room Darla walked over to Jack and began to examine him. "You have some broken ribs, and you'll need some stitches, but you'll live." She said knowing she had to explain what was going on.
"That's fine and dandy, but what the hell is going on?" Jack said remembering her conversation with the President.
"I'll tell you when the time is right. Are you hungry?" She said avoiding answering his question.
"Yeah." Jack said knowing that he couldn't get the answer to his question until she was ready.
"Good. I'll go make something to eat." She said leaving the room. While she was gone he tried to find something to free himself. He didn't like being held as a prisoner. He hated not having control of the situation, and he did not have control of anything right now.
She came back with a bowl and a cup in her hands. "I hope oatmeal is ok. We don't have much of anything else." She said handing him the bowl.
He took it from her and set it on his legs. It was hard to try to eat trying not to let the bowl fall and use his one un-cuffed hand to scoop up the oatmeal.
She noticed the struggle and asked, "Do you want me to help you?"
"No. I got it." Jack said. He didn't want her help. "Are you going to tell me what is going on?"
"Later. Wait until Jim gets back. Eat first." Darla said still postponing the inevitable. "Your daughter is beautiful." She said trying to make small talk.
"Thank you. Is she okay?" He said with the note of worry in his voice.
"Yeah. Jim dropped her off at her car and then she went to CTU, left with her boyfriend and from there I'm not so sure." Darla was lying because she didn't want him to know she had read his journals.
"How do you know all of this?" Jack said, wondering if CTU had yet again another mole.
"Don't worry. I have someone looking after her to make sure nothing happens to her." Darla said trying to reassure him everything is fine.
Jack was almost through is oatmeal. Darla looked at him and asked, "What happened that day?" Both of them knew the day she was referring too.
"I don't know. Somehow they got an upper hand." Jack said, really not knowing how he survived or how they knew his team was there.
Neither spoke for awhile. She stared at him eating. Inside she felt joy at seeing him alive. He was her first love. She still loved him. When he left she was hurt, not only physically by the Drazen family, but mentally. Somehow she got it in her head that he was going to take her with him, and leave his wife in the U.S. for her. Now she knew better, she knew he cared for her, but that was in another land and another time. They were different people now.
Jim knocked on the door before he entered. "I decided to just take a shower. I'm not real tired right now." The truth of the matter was that he didn't like to leave her alone with Jack. He knew what effect Jack could have over her, and he worried about her. She was after all the only person in the world he trusted.
"Thanks Jim. I hate doing this, but you know. . ."
Jim cut her off and said, "I know. I'll cover the hallway again."
When he left the room and closed the door Darla took a deep breath and started to think about where to start. She didn't know where to start so she got up and ran to her room grabbing the box that Jamie brought back with her last night.
When she entered the room again Jack had set the bowl on the dresser next to the bed and was waiting patiently for her to speak. She took out a few of the contents of the box and Jack noticed them automatically.
"How did you get those?" He said.
"One of my people picked them up last night. This is part of the equation. A few months ago word got out that there might be somebody in the government who had taken it upon themselves to create, no develop terrorist groups. Some of these groups were recruited and made to attack the U.S., like the nuclear bomb incident, so that someone or something could prosper more. We aren't sure who it is, but we had this chance. I was approached by a woman and asked for help. They know I was close with you and you had these journals and other things they wanted, and not only that, but information worth a lot. They wanted me to get these from you so they could use them later to sell things, and possibly get control of you. They tried with Kate Warner, but you didn't take the bait. After they approached me I spoke with someone I know and trust and he kept it to himself. He went to the president secretly and got his permission for this operation. No one but the President, him, and my team know about this operation because this group runs high in the government. The president originally didn't want to use you, but we had no choice. So I had to make it look like I captured you, and the only way to really get you without worrying about someone hurting you was to get you to come with me willingly. You would do that if I had your daughter. Than I had to make it look like we were trying to get information out of you and the rest you know." She looked at him and tried to read some sort of emotion off him. She saw the anger, and at the same time understanding in his eyes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------
Kim and Chase were on their treasure hunt. The boat owner had been ready for them like he said. Chase took some equipment he carried on him with him, binoculars and other useful things. They both thanked the man and started to look for any sign of Jack.
Kim was anxious to find anything. She had talked with the Captain who had contacted the coast guard and other places in help of finding out about the location of the ships and when they had taken off possibly. He told her his son worked for the coast guard so he could easily get that information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------
Tony and Michelle were back at CTU another day there. It always felt like they practically lived at CTU. Tony lost count at the number of nights he has spent at CTU. He sat at his desk tired wishing he was back home asleep or watching the Cubs. Michelle ran up with two cups of black coffee.
She handed Tony his and sat down, "Where do we go from here? We have no leads as to where Jack is."
"I need to call the president and see if he can get me the information I need." Tony said taking a drink of his coffee. He sat his mug down and picked up the phone. He dialed the number to the presidents phone.
"Hello, it's Tony Almeida director of CTU. I need to speak to the president about Jack Bauer." Tony said hoping to get through.
A few minutes later the president got on the phone, "Mr. Almeida. How may I help you?"
"Sir, Jack was grabbed last night and I have a possible lead on who grabbed him. Chase thinks it is a woman he trained over in Kosovo." Tony didn't want to give the president all of the facts of the situation because he was worried that it might get Jack in trouble.
"Well Tony. I can not release that information to you. I'm sorry but we got rid of all records to deal with that time. Too much trouble could come of them. And Jack Bauer is not a CTU problem anymore. He is a civilian and this has noting to do with terrorist by the sounds of it." The president answered.
"Sorry to bother you sir." Tony said hanging the phone up confused. Usually the President was willing to do anything for Jack. The way he snubbed Tony was really unusual, but he thought about it and the President was right. Jack didn't want their help, and it is not their problem they have to focus on other matters. Like a new terror alert that came in this morning. A group is emerging and wants to make a mark on the world by a bomb threat. Tony looked at Michelle and conveyed everything he just thought.
She agreed with him and they both started to figure out how to stop the next terrorist threat. Michelle thought about how funny this was. Events like this has become routine to them.
Chase and Kim reached the Marina and began to ask all of the people they could find if they had seen someone like Jack or the woman recently. Some said they had seen the woman, but were not sure which boat was hers and others hadn't seen either. When they reached the last boat the person said yeah, he saw both of them and they took off on a yacht. Not sure which one it is because there were around six of the same model that took off at the same time, but they might be able to get something from the harbor master if they can find him, though he probably is out cold being a Friday night and all.
Kim asked, "Is there any way you might be able to take us to a few of the boats. It's my father and I'm worried about him."
The man looked at her and said, "I can't tonight, but if you come back tomorrow I can. I have no fuel on-board. I just got back from going to the Bahamas."
"Thank you. What time tomorrow?"
"How about around noon?"
"Thank you very much, Sir."
"No problem young lady. Anything I can do to help. You seem to care about your father very much." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
Jack lied down on the ground still in pain. His breathing was almost normal but it hurt to breathe. His body ached and his mind tried to focus, but his eyes kept closing trying to go into a slumber. He willed his body to keep awake.
Darla noticed the struggle Jack was having to stay awake and the pain he was in. She walked over to her goody bag and grabbed a bottle of a clear liquid and a syringe. She walked up to Jack who tensed the moment she touched him. "Jack if you want, I can give you this it'll take your pain away?"
Almost non-audible Jack mumbled, "No don't. Please."
"Fine. Jim help me get him on the bed. Then go outside and make sure no one is coming."
The two struggled to pick up Jack and carry him over to the bed. When they got him there they gently laid him on his stomach. Darla uncuffed one of his hands and used that cuff to cuff him to the bed. She rolled him over on to his back and said, "I'm sorry."
Jack looked at her in confusion. He did not know why she was sorry.
A phone began to ring and she jumped at the sound. She was not expecting her cell phone to ring. It was for only emergencies. She answered it, "Darla."
"Darla it's the President. Did everything go fine? Is Jack ok?" The president said in a worried voice. He was the one who gave the go ahead on using Jack. He was worried that something might have happened that Darla couldn't stop.
"He's alive sir. As you know we had to make it look like we were really trying to get information from him, and as discussed there was only one way. But when the people got her, she refused to allow him to live unless she got some sort of payback. She wanted to see him in extreme pain. I had to let her do some things in order to gain her trust. He's alive and breathing." Darla tried to explain.
"God. Will you be able to keep him alive long enough to get enough information to find out what you need to?"
"Yes sir. I have to go. If someone gets in, no one will live." Darla said as she hung up the phone.
Jack looked at her. He was truly confused as to what was going on. Darla took her hand and pulled her black sweater up so that it was covering her hand and she wiped the blood away from Jack's face. "Sleep now. I'll explain later. I will be here when you wake up."
Jack looked at her confused, but his body could no longer stand being conscious so he closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Darla walked out of the room and told Jim, "Watch after him. Come and get me when he wakes up. I'll be in my room making some calls." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
David Palmer was worried. He originally did not want to use Jack without telling him, but in some ways he had to. He was pissed at Jack when he found out about his journals, but what did he expect? Jack had kept them safe and only a few people actually knew about them. When it came down to it the information in the journals were worthless to anybody. The stuff was done and over, and that did not prove that any of these events actually occurred. Palmer looked at the NSA director and asked, "Do you think she can pull this off, and keep herself and Jack alive to tell about it?"
"Sir, she is our best. Jack trained her himself. If anyone could do it she could." The NSA director said like a father would have when his daughter raised to the top of the business world. That's what intelligence community was, business. It was a cutthroat business, and failing meant death. Everyone who entered knew it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
Chase and Kim drove to Kim's apartment. When they entered Chase looked around to make sure no one was their and all the windows were secured. After that they sat down and watched TV together. Kim laying her head on Chase's shoulder. Chase raised his hand and ran it through Kim's hair. At around 1:00 in the morning, Kim finally fall asleep, and shortly after Chase joined her in sleeping.
Kim woke up suddenly startling Chase. She looked at the clock on the TV and saw it was nine in the morning. She got up and went to take a shower. Chase went and started to make breakfast so that when Kim got out of the shower he would have the food ready.
When Kim came out of the shower she suddenly felt hungry. She smelled what Chase was cooking and complimented him on it. Chase was a great cook. Kim devoured her food and waited for Chase to get ready. She was anxious to start looking for her father. She called CTU and told Tony where they were going out on a boating trip, just in case they needed them. Chase was always on call so when he was going to be away from home for long periods he usually would call in. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
Jack woke up, and started to cough. Each cough caused him to grimace in pain. Every little movement of his body sent pain through it he sat up and looked around the room. He was still on the boat and still in the same room. He noticed the man Darla called Jim sound asleep in a chair. Jack looked at his chest and ribs, they were all sorts of purple and blue. Looking at them made them hurt more. He tried to block out the pain, and when he finally go his mind to focus on something else, he noticed how hungry he was. At that thought the door opened and Darla walked in.
She smiled at him and said, "Nice to see you are awake." She went to Jim and gently shook him awake, "Jim why don't you go sleep in a bed, I can take over the watch for a few hours."
While Jim left the room Darla walked over to Jack and began to examine him. "You have some broken ribs, and you'll need some stitches, but you'll live." She said knowing she had to explain what was going on.
"That's fine and dandy, but what the hell is going on?" Jack said remembering her conversation with the President.
"I'll tell you when the time is right. Are you hungry?" She said avoiding answering his question.
"Yeah." Jack said knowing that he couldn't get the answer to his question until she was ready.
"Good. I'll go make something to eat." She said leaving the room. While she was gone he tried to find something to free himself. He didn't like being held as a prisoner. He hated not having control of the situation, and he did not have control of anything right now.
She came back with a bowl and a cup in her hands. "I hope oatmeal is ok. We don't have much of anything else." She said handing him the bowl.
He took it from her and set it on his legs. It was hard to try to eat trying not to let the bowl fall and use his one un-cuffed hand to scoop up the oatmeal.
She noticed the struggle and asked, "Do you want me to help you?"
"No. I got it." Jack said. He didn't want her help. "Are you going to tell me what is going on?"
"Later. Wait until Jim gets back. Eat first." Darla said still postponing the inevitable. "Your daughter is beautiful." She said trying to make small talk.
"Thank you. Is she okay?" He said with the note of worry in his voice.
"Yeah. Jim dropped her off at her car and then she went to CTU, left with her boyfriend and from there I'm not so sure." Darla was lying because she didn't want him to know she had read his journals.
"How do you know all of this?" Jack said, wondering if CTU had yet again another mole.
"Don't worry. I have someone looking after her to make sure nothing happens to her." Darla said trying to reassure him everything is fine.
Jack was almost through is oatmeal. Darla looked at him and asked, "What happened that day?" Both of them knew the day she was referring too.
"I don't know. Somehow they got an upper hand." Jack said, really not knowing how he survived or how they knew his team was there.
Neither spoke for awhile. She stared at him eating. Inside she felt joy at seeing him alive. He was her first love. She still loved him. When he left she was hurt, not only physically by the Drazen family, but mentally. Somehow she got it in her head that he was going to take her with him, and leave his wife in the U.S. for her. Now she knew better, she knew he cared for her, but that was in another land and another time. They were different people now.
Jim knocked on the door before he entered. "I decided to just take a shower. I'm not real tired right now." The truth of the matter was that he didn't like to leave her alone with Jack. He knew what effect Jack could have over her, and he worried about her. She was after all the only person in the world he trusted.
"Thanks Jim. I hate doing this, but you know. . ."
Jim cut her off and said, "I know. I'll cover the hallway again."
When he left the room and closed the door Darla took a deep breath and started to think about where to start. She didn't know where to start so she got up and ran to her room grabbing the box that Jamie brought back with her last night.
When she entered the room again Jack had set the bowl on the dresser next to the bed and was waiting patiently for her to speak. She took out a few of the contents of the box and Jack noticed them automatically.
"How did you get those?" He said.
"One of my people picked them up last night. This is part of the equation. A few months ago word got out that there might be somebody in the government who had taken it upon themselves to create, no develop terrorist groups. Some of these groups were recruited and made to attack the U.S., like the nuclear bomb incident, so that someone or something could prosper more. We aren't sure who it is, but we had this chance. I was approached by a woman and asked for help. They know I was close with you and you had these journals and other things they wanted, and not only that, but information worth a lot. They wanted me to get these from you so they could use them later to sell things, and possibly get control of you. They tried with Kate Warner, but you didn't take the bait. After they approached me I spoke with someone I know and trust and he kept it to himself. He went to the president secretly and got his permission for this operation. No one but the President, him, and my team know about this operation because this group runs high in the government. The president originally didn't want to use you, but we had no choice. So I had to make it look like I captured you, and the only way to really get you without worrying about someone hurting you was to get you to come with me willingly. You would do that if I had your daughter. Than I had to make it look like we were trying to get information out of you and the rest you know." She looked at him and tried to read some sort of emotion off him. She saw the anger, and at the same time understanding in his eyes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------
Kim and Chase were on their treasure hunt. The boat owner had been ready for them like he said. Chase took some equipment he carried on him with him, binoculars and other useful things. They both thanked the man and started to look for any sign of Jack.
Kim was anxious to find anything. She had talked with the Captain who had contacted the coast guard and other places in help of finding out about the location of the ships and when they had taken off possibly. He told her his son worked for the coast guard so he could easily get that information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------
Tony and Michelle were back at CTU another day there. It always felt like they practically lived at CTU. Tony lost count at the number of nights he has spent at CTU. He sat at his desk tired wishing he was back home asleep or watching the Cubs. Michelle ran up with two cups of black coffee.
She handed Tony his and sat down, "Where do we go from here? We have no leads as to where Jack is."
"I need to call the president and see if he can get me the information I need." Tony said taking a drink of his coffee. He sat his mug down and picked up the phone. He dialed the number to the presidents phone.
"Hello, it's Tony Almeida director of CTU. I need to speak to the president about Jack Bauer." Tony said hoping to get through.
A few minutes later the president got on the phone, "Mr. Almeida. How may I help you?"
"Sir, Jack was grabbed last night and I have a possible lead on who grabbed him. Chase thinks it is a woman he trained over in Kosovo." Tony didn't want to give the president all of the facts of the situation because he was worried that it might get Jack in trouble.
"Well Tony. I can not release that information to you. I'm sorry but we got rid of all records to deal with that time. Too much trouble could come of them. And Jack Bauer is not a CTU problem anymore. He is a civilian and this has noting to do with terrorist by the sounds of it." The president answered.
"Sorry to bother you sir." Tony said hanging the phone up confused. Usually the President was willing to do anything for Jack. The way he snubbed Tony was really unusual, but he thought about it and the President was right. Jack didn't want their help, and it is not their problem they have to focus on other matters. Like a new terror alert that came in this morning. A group is emerging and wants to make a mark on the world by a bomb threat. Tony looked at Michelle and conveyed everything he just thought.
She agreed with him and they both started to figure out how to stop the next terrorist threat. Michelle thought about how funny this was. Events like this has become routine to them.