Chapter 6
Jack sat up in the bed trying to figure out whether he was more surprised or more pissed off. He hated the fact that the president volunteered him without asking. Jack no longer had anything to do with what the man wanted. He stopped that when he left CTU, yet at the same time he understood why they had to do it this way, but it pissed him off that they did. The president knew how much Jack hated bringing his daughter into anything, and that is what they did.
Both Jack and Darla jumped at the knock on the door. They both knew that meant someone was coming. Darla hurriedly took the food from Jack and stuffed it in the dresser drawer. She then went and sat in the chair next to the door.
At the moment she sat down the door opened and Kate walked in, and the two guys from last night. "Nice to see you're awake Jack." Kate said when she walked into the room.
Jack didn't say anything. He was still dumbfounded by Kate actually being here and on the other side. He never saw that coming. The fear of what happened the last time, someone who he had slept with changed sides, hit him all of the sudden.
"Jacky, boy I got a surprise for you. It looks like Kim does take after her father. She is able to get herself into more trouble than most people. Seems little Kim went looking for daddy with her boy friend, we will call Jack Jr. Jack Jr. isn't that smart though because he walked right onto a boat and then to the boat my people were on. Funny thing is Kim noticed me and wondered what was going on. She began to ask me about you, got suspicious at something, probably the paranoia she inherited from you. Now I have your daughter and Jack Jr. here to see you. I thought you would like to see her." Kate said smiling thinking about how much fate was on her side.
Jack blood ran cold. It was going to happen again and he couldn't do anything about it. "Kate, please don't. I'm sorry for whatever I did or didn't do. Please don't bring Kim into this. I'll do whatever you want. Just please leave her out of it." Jack said pleading with her.
Kate motioned to one of her men who walked out of the room and came back with Kim and Chase. Both had there hands tied behind their back and gags in their mouth. "Jack I wanted you to watch as I killed them."
Darla made a move to try to stop Kate from hurting the two, but at the moment she moved, one of Kate's guards were ready and shot her. Darla fell to the floor with a scream and laid there breathing heavily, trying not to pass out.
Kate took the gun from the guard and pointed at Chase first. She fired two shots one hitting Chase in the chest and the other piercing his shoulder. Kim screamed as he fell to the ground. Tears were in Kim's eyes. She was scared.
Jack was frantically trying to get his hands free from the cuff. He started to plead more, "Please Kate, don't please." If he thought he could he would of chewed his own hand off to save his daughter.
Kate pointed the gun at Kim. She looked back at Jack who squeezed his eyes tightly closed. Trying to block it all out and will it all away. He kept repeating, "Please don't Kate, please. I'm sorry. I'll do anything."
"Jack open your eyes or I'm going to make it very painful for her." Kate said. She wanted him to see his daughter die. "Fine, have it your way." Kate said firing a shot hitting Kim in the abdomen. Kim fell to the ground on top of Chase.
Jack opened his eyes and had tears coming out of them. He jumped out of the bed and tried to charge Kate, but his handcuffed hand to the bed would not let him reach. He looked at her and in the coldest voice Kate has ever heard he said, "I'm going to kill you."
"Jack, you aren't going to do anything. You have no chance or choice for that matter." Kate said looking at him smiling. Kate nodded at the two men. Both set their gun down away from Jack's reach and approached him.
Jack was ready he was going to fight and kill both of them. The first reached Jack and caught a right hook to the nose. He stumbled backwards grabbing his broken nose. The other charged Jack and managed to hit Jack in the abdomen, causing Jack to grimace in pain and lose his breath. By the time the man came again Jack was back up ready to fight. Jack blocked his attack and returned it with a punch to the abdomen.
The man Jack bashed in the nose walked out of the room and came back with a crow bar. The other man noticing it backed off from Jack and gave his friend room to work. The man swung the crow bar at Jack. Jack put his arm up and blocked it, but screamed out in pain as the crow bar connected with his forearm. Jack put his hurt arm against his body and was trying to block out the pain. The man came at him again this time hitting Jack in the abdomen. This hit caused Jack to fall to the ground in pain. His cuffed arm holding him off the ground. The other man walked up to Jack and punched him in the face a few times until he knew Jack was dazed enough.
Kate approached Jack she pulled a needle out of her purse and said, "I brought something for you. I knew you'd need it Jack."
Jack looked up to the syringe. He noticed the liquid and knew it all too well. He had broken the habit and now it was coming back to haunt him. He tried to fight it, but the two men were already holding him down. Kate grabbed a rubber band (sorry, I was not able to find out what the word was) and tied it around Jack's cuffed arm.
Jack was fighting with all his might. He knew what the chemical would do to him and he did not want that. But we every attempt to push the men off of him or to move his body he meant resistance. His last attempt was to say, "No, please, no."
"Jack you aren't begging are you? That is twice in one day. Maybe you have changed since you retired. But that still doesn't make up for anything." Kate said as she plunged the needle into Jack's vein. She pushed the plunger down on the needle and said, "There, you'll feel much better in a few minutes."
The two men moved away from Jack. Kate squatted in front of him so she could look into his eyes, "Feels good doesn't it? No wonder you choose it over me. Did you ever really love me Jack?"
Trying to fight the drug and keep his mind clear Jack spoke before he even thought, "No. Not one moment."
"That's what I thought." Kate said looking in his eyes, "In a moment you'll feel nothing and be happy again. I wonder if your eyes will change."
Jack could feel the drugs taking control and he kept trying to fight it, but it was like using a bucket to take the water out of the sinking Titanic. It was worthless. He finally gave in and the drug took control of his body.
Kate noticed his body go limp and said, "Good boy, Jack. See, was that really hard?"
The two men approached Jack and un-cuffed his hanging hand from the bed, and cuffed the other behind his back. Grabbing him one of the men carried Jack off the boat onto anther waiting boat.
When Jack passed his daughter's body he said, "I'm so sorry." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
When he saw Kate and her men bringing Kim and Chase on-board, Jim took off to hide in the engine room. He knew they wouldn't care if he was still alive or dead, so he knew if he hid he might have a chance of living. The moment that he heard the other boat take off he left his hiding spot and walked into the hallway where he noticed the Kim and Chase lying on the floor, he moved Kim of Chase and felt for a pulse in both. Getting a weak response in both he moved on to Darla who had also a weak pulse. He grabbed his cell phone and called the number to CTU.
"CTU. How may I direct your call?" A man's voice answered.
"Um. I need to speak to Director Almeida. It's concerning a friend of his. It is very urgent."
"Hold please." Glen said transferring the call to Tony's office. "Tony I have a caller on the phone he says it has to deal with a friend of yours."
"Fine, transfer him through." Tony said irritated with Glen. The man just got on Tony's nerves.
"Almeida speaking."
"Tony you don't know me, but I have Chase and Kim here. They are both hurt bad. We are on a boat off the coast. Is there any way you can quietly get a coast guard boat here with a medical team. I have three injured. I can explain everything that has happened the past few days as soon as I can get to a safe line."
"Is this some kind of joke?" Tony said pissed off.
"No, it's not. Seriously if you do not do this they will die. They are hurt bad and so is Darla, she knows Jack. We had him, but they took him. This was never meant to happen. The president approved this mission. Please just get the coast guard here quietly so they don't know." Jim pleaded.
"I'm going to send them. But you better be there when they get there, and Kim and Chase better be alive." Tony said feeling the adrenaline rush.
He hung the phone up and called a friend at the coast guard. Tony told him to do it as quietly as possible. "I know there are three hurt people, and one that isn't. Need to make sure the one that isn't gets me on the phone as soon as possible."
"Sure, no problem. I'm actually not that far from the boat now. We should be there within ten minutes."
"Call me as soon as you get there and get it secured." Tony said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
Jack was dazed. His mind gone away, and the drug in control. He tried to focus on something, but his mind would not allow it. His mind only focused on the joy it was feeling. It was reunited with the one thing that made it at ease and happy. The image of Kim dead ran through Jacks mind and his mind quickly blocked it out. He felt like he was floating, in reality he was. He was on a boat after all, but his mind couldn't make that logical connection.
Kate stared at Jack. She began to laugh as she looked down on him. In the back ground she could hear a debate going on between some of her men. She walked out and asked, "What is this about?"
"Why are we keeping him alive?" One of them asked.
Another went on to say, "Keeping him alive increases our chances of not succeeding. He has always prospered and on top of that you went and killed his daughter. We know what he did when he thought the Drazens had done the same."
"First of all look at him. He's stoned. He can't do anything." Kate pointed out.
"Yeah, but he won't always stay that way. He will come down." Another man stated.
"When he does we'll have him detained. The only reason why he is alive is because the bosses would like him for something even I don't know about. They need him." Kate informed the group. "So go back to work. We should be reaching land soon anyways."
Kate walked back and sat down staring at Jack. She hated the man so much. She spent a year of her life trying to get this man to love her. She had loved him at one time, but he just used her to feel the space while he waited for someone else. She found about his affair with Claudia while he was undercover and it pissed her off. That is when her father approached her about his CIA connection and the rumors, which she proved to be true. She had remembered his journals and had read a few of them. That is how she figured that he cheated on her. She wanted to hurt him, and she did when she killed his daughter. She saw him cry for the first time today, and it made her smile. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
The coast guard pulled up next to the boat and tied the boat to its railing. Six of the men jumped aboard the other boat and began to search it. When they reached the bottom of the boat they saw the bodies in the hallway. They slowly approached the room and found a man sitting next to a woman compressing a cloth to her bullet wounds. They ordered, "Put your hands up and move away from the woman now."
The man did as he was told and said, "I'm the one who called. These people need help."
One of the men approached the man and with plastic cuffs secured his hands behind his back. The man led him above. When he reached the top he said the boat was cleared and they have three injured. The medical teams rushed down to the injured. No one was dead yet, but all of them had lost a lot of blood. As they loaded Chase on top of a gurney, he started to convulse from shock. The men held him down and rushed him back to the coast guard boat. They loaded the three into the chopper and the pilots took off towards the nearest hospital.
Tony's friend approached the man and asked, "What is your name?"
"Jim. I need to a secure phone so I can speak to Director Almeida." Jim said eagerly.
"We will get to that. First I need to know what happened here." The man said.
"I can't tell you. It's classified. I need to speak to Mr. Almeida and if he wishes he can give you the detail, but we must hurry. A man's life is at jeopardy." Jim said thinking about where in the hell Jack was.
Tony's friend led the man back to the coast guard boat and gave him the secure satellite phone.
"I can't call with my hands behind my back." The man said.
The coast guard guy cuts his hand free and warned, "You try anything and I will kill you."
Jim dialed Tony's number and he picked up on the first ring. "Almeida."
"Mr. Almeida, my name is Jim. I called you earlier."
"What happened?" Tony said worried. Now knowing that Kim and Chase were in fact injured.
"A few months ago, it came to our attention that there was a problem with something. Darla, the other woman that was injured, told her boss at the NSA of the problem. He in turn went to the president who authorized the mission. We were to kidnap Kim Bauer and make it look like we were using her to get Jack to come alone. Once we had him we let his daughter go. We then were to make it look like we interrogated him, but got nothing from him. We would get our information from his journals in turn we would find out who the woman was working for in the government, hopefully bringing down the mole and the people responsible for the nuclear bombing a few years ago. You can call the President and he should confirm this." Jim said in a flat tone.
"Where is Jack at now?" Tony asked.
"I don't know. When I saw the woman enter with Kim and the other man Chase I hid myself. I knew nothing was going to work and I figured if I lived to tell about it we would have a lead on the people through the woman. Jack knew her. He called her Kate." Jim said.
The name made Tony's blood run cold. "Are you sure that was her name Kate? What did she look like?"
"Blonde hair, kind of tall, really rich looking."
Tony cursed, "Shit. Is that all?"
"For right now. I wouldn't trust anyone but the president and your wife on this one. These people work with the government and are the government in some instances."
"Fine. I'm going to have the coast guard take you to a safe house. I'll be over in a hour or so to debrief you. I have to call the President first. You better not be playing with me here." Tony said as a warning.
Jack sat up in the bed trying to figure out whether he was more surprised or more pissed off. He hated the fact that the president volunteered him without asking. Jack no longer had anything to do with what the man wanted. He stopped that when he left CTU, yet at the same time he understood why they had to do it this way, but it pissed him off that they did. The president knew how much Jack hated bringing his daughter into anything, and that is what they did.
Both Jack and Darla jumped at the knock on the door. They both knew that meant someone was coming. Darla hurriedly took the food from Jack and stuffed it in the dresser drawer. She then went and sat in the chair next to the door.
At the moment she sat down the door opened and Kate walked in, and the two guys from last night. "Nice to see you're awake Jack." Kate said when she walked into the room.
Jack didn't say anything. He was still dumbfounded by Kate actually being here and on the other side. He never saw that coming. The fear of what happened the last time, someone who he had slept with changed sides, hit him all of the sudden.
"Jacky, boy I got a surprise for you. It looks like Kim does take after her father. She is able to get herself into more trouble than most people. Seems little Kim went looking for daddy with her boy friend, we will call Jack Jr. Jack Jr. isn't that smart though because he walked right onto a boat and then to the boat my people were on. Funny thing is Kim noticed me and wondered what was going on. She began to ask me about you, got suspicious at something, probably the paranoia she inherited from you. Now I have your daughter and Jack Jr. here to see you. I thought you would like to see her." Kate said smiling thinking about how much fate was on her side.
Jack blood ran cold. It was going to happen again and he couldn't do anything about it. "Kate, please don't. I'm sorry for whatever I did or didn't do. Please don't bring Kim into this. I'll do whatever you want. Just please leave her out of it." Jack said pleading with her.
Kate motioned to one of her men who walked out of the room and came back with Kim and Chase. Both had there hands tied behind their back and gags in their mouth. "Jack I wanted you to watch as I killed them."
Darla made a move to try to stop Kate from hurting the two, but at the moment she moved, one of Kate's guards were ready and shot her. Darla fell to the floor with a scream and laid there breathing heavily, trying not to pass out.
Kate took the gun from the guard and pointed at Chase first. She fired two shots one hitting Chase in the chest and the other piercing his shoulder. Kim screamed as he fell to the ground. Tears were in Kim's eyes. She was scared.
Jack was frantically trying to get his hands free from the cuff. He started to plead more, "Please Kate, don't please." If he thought he could he would of chewed his own hand off to save his daughter.
Kate pointed the gun at Kim. She looked back at Jack who squeezed his eyes tightly closed. Trying to block it all out and will it all away. He kept repeating, "Please don't Kate, please. I'm sorry. I'll do anything."
"Jack open your eyes or I'm going to make it very painful for her." Kate said. She wanted him to see his daughter die. "Fine, have it your way." Kate said firing a shot hitting Kim in the abdomen. Kim fell to the ground on top of Chase.
Jack opened his eyes and had tears coming out of them. He jumped out of the bed and tried to charge Kate, but his handcuffed hand to the bed would not let him reach. He looked at her and in the coldest voice Kate has ever heard he said, "I'm going to kill you."
"Jack, you aren't going to do anything. You have no chance or choice for that matter." Kate said looking at him smiling. Kate nodded at the two men. Both set their gun down away from Jack's reach and approached him.
Jack was ready he was going to fight and kill both of them. The first reached Jack and caught a right hook to the nose. He stumbled backwards grabbing his broken nose. The other charged Jack and managed to hit Jack in the abdomen, causing Jack to grimace in pain and lose his breath. By the time the man came again Jack was back up ready to fight. Jack blocked his attack and returned it with a punch to the abdomen.
The man Jack bashed in the nose walked out of the room and came back with a crow bar. The other man noticing it backed off from Jack and gave his friend room to work. The man swung the crow bar at Jack. Jack put his arm up and blocked it, but screamed out in pain as the crow bar connected with his forearm. Jack put his hurt arm against his body and was trying to block out the pain. The man came at him again this time hitting Jack in the abdomen. This hit caused Jack to fall to the ground in pain. His cuffed arm holding him off the ground. The other man walked up to Jack and punched him in the face a few times until he knew Jack was dazed enough.
Kate approached Jack she pulled a needle out of her purse and said, "I brought something for you. I knew you'd need it Jack."
Jack looked up to the syringe. He noticed the liquid and knew it all too well. He had broken the habit and now it was coming back to haunt him. He tried to fight it, but the two men were already holding him down. Kate grabbed a rubber band (sorry, I was not able to find out what the word was) and tied it around Jack's cuffed arm.
Jack was fighting with all his might. He knew what the chemical would do to him and he did not want that. But we every attempt to push the men off of him or to move his body he meant resistance. His last attempt was to say, "No, please, no."
"Jack you aren't begging are you? That is twice in one day. Maybe you have changed since you retired. But that still doesn't make up for anything." Kate said as she plunged the needle into Jack's vein. She pushed the plunger down on the needle and said, "There, you'll feel much better in a few minutes."
The two men moved away from Jack. Kate squatted in front of him so she could look into his eyes, "Feels good doesn't it? No wonder you choose it over me. Did you ever really love me Jack?"
Trying to fight the drug and keep his mind clear Jack spoke before he even thought, "No. Not one moment."
"That's what I thought." Kate said looking in his eyes, "In a moment you'll feel nothing and be happy again. I wonder if your eyes will change."
Jack could feel the drugs taking control and he kept trying to fight it, but it was like using a bucket to take the water out of the sinking Titanic. It was worthless. He finally gave in and the drug took control of his body.
Kate noticed his body go limp and said, "Good boy, Jack. See, was that really hard?"
The two men approached Jack and un-cuffed his hanging hand from the bed, and cuffed the other behind his back. Grabbing him one of the men carried Jack off the boat onto anther waiting boat.
When Jack passed his daughter's body he said, "I'm so sorry." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
When he saw Kate and her men bringing Kim and Chase on-board, Jim took off to hide in the engine room. He knew they wouldn't care if he was still alive or dead, so he knew if he hid he might have a chance of living. The moment that he heard the other boat take off he left his hiding spot and walked into the hallway where he noticed the Kim and Chase lying on the floor, he moved Kim of Chase and felt for a pulse in both. Getting a weak response in both he moved on to Darla who had also a weak pulse. He grabbed his cell phone and called the number to CTU.
"CTU. How may I direct your call?" A man's voice answered.
"Um. I need to speak to Director Almeida. It's concerning a friend of his. It is very urgent."
"Hold please." Glen said transferring the call to Tony's office. "Tony I have a caller on the phone he says it has to deal with a friend of yours."
"Fine, transfer him through." Tony said irritated with Glen. The man just got on Tony's nerves.
"Almeida speaking."
"Tony you don't know me, but I have Chase and Kim here. They are both hurt bad. We are on a boat off the coast. Is there any way you can quietly get a coast guard boat here with a medical team. I have three injured. I can explain everything that has happened the past few days as soon as I can get to a safe line."
"Is this some kind of joke?" Tony said pissed off.
"No, it's not. Seriously if you do not do this they will die. They are hurt bad and so is Darla, she knows Jack. We had him, but they took him. This was never meant to happen. The president approved this mission. Please just get the coast guard here quietly so they don't know." Jim pleaded.
"I'm going to send them. But you better be there when they get there, and Kim and Chase better be alive." Tony said feeling the adrenaline rush.
He hung the phone up and called a friend at the coast guard. Tony told him to do it as quietly as possible. "I know there are three hurt people, and one that isn't. Need to make sure the one that isn't gets me on the phone as soon as possible."
"Sure, no problem. I'm actually not that far from the boat now. We should be there within ten minutes."
"Call me as soon as you get there and get it secured." Tony said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
Jack was dazed. His mind gone away, and the drug in control. He tried to focus on something, but his mind would not allow it. His mind only focused on the joy it was feeling. It was reunited with the one thing that made it at ease and happy. The image of Kim dead ran through Jacks mind and his mind quickly blocked it out. He felt like he was floating, in reality he was. He was on a boat after all, but his mind couldn't make that logical connection.
Kate stared at Jack. She began to laugh as she looked down on him. In the back ground she could hear a debate going on between some of her men. She walked out and asked, "What is this about?"
"Why are we keeping him alive?" One of them asked.
Another went on to say, "Keeping him alive increases our chances of not succeeding. He has always prospered and on top of that you went and killed his daughter. We know what he did when he thought the Drazens had done the same."
"First of all look at him. He's stoned. He can't do anything." Kate pointed out.
"Yeah, but he won't always stay that way. He will come down." Another man stated.
"When he does we'll have him detained. The only reason why he is alive is because the bosses would like him for something even I don't know about. They need him." Kate informed the group. "So go back to work. We should be reaching land soon anyways."
Kate walked back and sat down staring at Jack. She hated the man so much. She spent a year of her life trying to get this man to love her. She had loved him at one time, but he just used her to feel the space while he waited for someone else. She found about his affair with Claudia while he was undercover and it pissed her off. That is when her father approached her about his CIA connection and the rumors, which she proved to be true. She had remembered his journals and had read a few of them. That is how she figured that he cheated on her. She wanted to hurt him, and she did when she killed his daughter. She saw him cry for the first time today, and it made her smile. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
The coast guard pulled up next to the boat and tied the boat to its railing. Six of the men jumped aboard the other boat and began to search it. When they reached the bottom of the boat they saw the bodies in the hallway. They slowly approached the room and found a man sitting next to a woman compressing a cloth to her bullet wounds. They ordered, "Put your hands up and move away from the woman now."
The man did as he was told and said, "I'm the one who called. These people need help."
One of the men approached the man and with plastic cuffs secured his hands behind his back. The man led him above. When he reached the top he said the boat was cleared and they have three injured. The medical teams rushed down to the injured. No one was dead yet, but all of them had lost a lot of blood. As they loaded Chase on top of a gurney, he started to convulse from shock. The men held him down and rushed him back to the coast guard boat. They loaded the three into the chopper and the pilots took off towards the nearest hospital.
Tony's friend approached the man and asked, "What is your name?"
"Jim. I need to a secure phone so I can speak to Director Almeida." Jim said eagerly.
"We will get to that. First I need to know what happened here." The man said.
"I can't tell you. It's classified. I need to speak to Mr. Almeida and if he wishes he can give you the detail, but we must hurry. A man's life is at jeopardy." Jim said thinking about where in the hell Jack was.
Tony's friend led the man back to the coast guard boat and gave him the secure satellite phone.
"I can't call with my hands behind my back." The man said.
The coast guard guy cuts his hand free and warned, "You try anything and I will kill you."
Jim dialed Tony's number and he picked up on the first ring. "Almeida."
"Mr. Almeida, my name is Jim. I called you earlier."
"What happened?" Tony said worried. Now knowing that Kim and Chase were in fact injured.
"A few months ago, it came to our attention that there was a problem with something. Darla, the other woman that was injured, told her boss at the NSA of the problem. He in turn went to the president who authorized the mission. We were to kidnap Kim Bauer and make it look like we were using her to get Jack to come alone. Once we had him we let his daughter go. We then were to make it look like we interrogated him, but got nothing from him. We would get our information from his journals in turn we would find out who the woman was working for in the government, hopefully bringing down the mole and the people responsible for the nuclear bombing a few years ago. You can call the President and he should confirm this." Jim said in a flat tone.
"Where is Jack at now?" Tony asked.
"I don't know. When I saw the woman enter with Kim and the other man Chase I hid myself. I knew nothing was going to work and I figured if I lived to tell about it we would have a lead on the people through the woman. Jack knew her. He called her Kate." Jim said.
The name made Tony's blood run cold. "Are you sure that was her name Kate? What did she look like?"
"Blonde hair, kind of tall, really rich looking."
Tony cursed, "Shit. Is that all?"
"For right now. I wouldn't trust anyone but the president and your wife on this one. These people work with the government and are the government in some instances."
"Fine. I'm going to have the coast guard take you to a safe house. I'll be over in a hour or so to debrief you. I have to call the President first. You better not be playing with me here." Tony said as a warning.