Chapter 7
When the boat reached land Kate jumped off and hugged her father who was awaiting her arrival.
"I was getting worried. You were gone for so long. I thought maybe something went wrong. I was getting ready to go out and look for you guys myself. The bosses were getting worried. Did you get him alive?" Bob Warner asked worried.
The two men came up behind Kate with Jack, who made no attempt to fight them. At the moment Jack was on cloud nine and not coming back down. The life around him did not mean anything only this pure ecstasy feeling he got from heroin.
Watching the men carry Jack to the car, "We had an opportunity and I took it." Kate said finally answering her father.
"What do you mean? I though you were not going to deviate from the plan?" Mr. Warner said in anger.
"His daughter and her boyfriend ran into us heading to the boat. I took advantage of the opportunity." Kate answered coldly.
"What did you do?"
"I killed them both and made him watch, and made sure he was just out of reach so he could try and stop it, but fail. He pleaded like the coward he is for his daughter's life. When I shot her, he squeezed his eyes close like a coward."
"They are not going to like this. It is going to take a lot more work to keep him contained." Mr. Warner said, "And deviating from the plan might have caused some problems. No innocents were supposed to get killed, just Darla and her men."
"It was always going to be hard to control him. This had to be done. He deserved it, look what he did to our family, to Marie, to me. He used me and then cheated on me. Now let's quit debating it and get him in the car before the drug wears off."
The two men had Jack in the car. One of them sat in the back with his gun pointed at Jack awaiting any sudden movement. The other man sat in the front ready for anything. They both had been warned about Jack and his capabilities, and they were not going to allow him to get the better of them.
Jack lay on the floor of the limo on his back. If he were actually able to feel pain he would have complained about his current position. Lying on his back was added to the pain of the already too tight cuffs. His mind was slowly clearing and he began to remember the feeling of coming back to reality. It did not physically hurt, but mentally it was like losing everything again. All the pain came rushing back as if it were the first time he felt it, he lost the happy feelings and would be jilted back into the world of pain again.
Kate looked at Jack and noticed the alertness slowly coming back. She knew his alert look. When they were together she always saw his eyes searching the crowd, listening for a noise, or anything in that manner that was dangerous. He was the angry cobra and was always ready to strike out. The only time he was ever relaxed was when he was asleep. He tried to hide all of this, and he was good at it, but once she got close to him she was able to notice the differences. When she saw him all of the anger came back and she wanted to see him in pain. He had hurt her so bad after a year of trying to get to him, and he acted as if that year meant nothing.
Now at Mr. Warner's house, the man in the front exited the limo with the driver. Each man opening up the door of the side they were on.
Kate and her father each exited the car through the left door, which was the one closest to the house. The man left in the back got out and began to pull Jack out by his legs. Once he had Jack out of the car the other man began to help him carry Jack back to the pool house that was also a guest house. Once inside, they went to the basement room that normally held the chemicals for the pool, but Mr. Warner had recently hired an outside company to take care of the pool so he no longer needed to store the chemicals. The men laid Jack's immobile body on the cold cement floor.
As the men laid Jack on the floor Kate walked into the room and ordered, "Secure his feet with some rope. Make sure he is very uncomfortable."
One of the men walked to the back of the room to a work table that had various instruments on it. He grabbed the rope on the table and tied it tightly around Jack's ankles and then took the extra and pushed Jack's legs back so that they were barely touching Jacks butt. He took the loose end of the rope and tied it tightly around the metal chain between the cuffs. He had it so that as Jacks legs tried to relax they would pull on the metal chain, which would in turn pull on the already too tight cuffs. -------------------------------------------------------
Tony waited on the shore for the coast guard boat to dock. Patiently he waited wondering what has happened and who is behind it this time. How could Kate be behind it? Was she like her sister and actually a part of the Second Wave organization?
The boat finally docked and Tony's friend walked Jim down the walk to the dock. "Hey Tony, so you don't call me for like five months and then out of the blue you hand me a huge mess." Tony's friend said.
"Ian. I'm sorry. I had no one else to turn too. How did the injured ones look?" Tony asked worried about Kim and Chase.
"They all have a fight ahead of them. I wish them luck." Ian answered.
"I'll take him off your hands. If you need some information for your report call me at CTU." Tony said referring to Jim.
"Sure, no problem." Ian answered letting Jim walk towards Tony.
Tony escorted Jim back to the SUV and opened the back of the car helping Jim get into the back, where Ryan Chappelle was already awaiting him. Tony did not want him to come along, but the only way he could get Chappelle to allow him to investigate the situation was if he tagged along. Chappelle wanted to make sure it was not just an investigation to find Jack, but the people responsible for the shootings. Tony was surprised that Chappelle had even allowed CTU to try to find Jack because he usually would be accusing Jack of jumping the fence and going to the other side. Chappelle was one of the many people who did not like Jack for multiple reasons. The reasons differed among the people the most popular would be his history of turning those in who took kick backs, and his ability to get things done.
Chappelle started to try to interrogate Jim, "What is your name?"
Jim politely replied, "I will not talk to you. I mean no disrespect, but I do not know you or now if I can trust you. I will only talk to Tony Almeida."
"How do you know you can trust him?" Chappelle said trying to antagonize Jim.
"Because instead of more of her goons showing up the coast guard did." Jim answered in a flat tone.
Chappelle face flashed with anger for a moment. Tony sat in the front trying not to smile.
When they arrived at CTU, the three men entered through the back and went into one of the back rooms. Tony was taking all of the extra precautions because of the possible threat of moles and government traitors. If there was a threat, the people always had a way into CTU Tony had began to think. Paranoia was always a good thing in his business.
In the room Tony stood against the wall and looked at the man. "So talk. I got you out of there tell me something that will help me find the people."
"May I see proof that you are in fact Tony Almeida?" Jim answered.
Tony pulled out his CTU identification. and held it up for Jim to examine. "Happy now. Talk. My friend picked you up with two of my best people hurt, so it is not looking good for you right now."
"Have you called the President yet?" Jim asked.
"No. I need to know if you are wasting our time before I will do that."
"I'm sorry about your people. This was not supposed to happen. We never expected them to want Jack or try to kill us nor for the two to come along."
"Why don't you start from the beginning and we can go from there?" Tony asked patiently.
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The drug finally was wearing off. Jack could feel both the mental and physical pain again. He felt the pain of the cuffs digging into his wrists as his legs tried to un-flex and lay on the floor. The memory of watching Kim came back and all Jack wanted to do was kill Kate and everyone else. He no longer had an allegiance with anyone. The president had put his daughter and him in harm's way without asking, Kim was dead, and Jack could not let that go without paying him back.
Kate walked into the room asking mockingly, "Comfortable?"
Jack did not look at her nor acknowledge her in the room. If he would have looked, she would have noticed the pain in his eyes and the anger that ran through him.
"Jack, are you not talking to me again? Is this going to be like our relationship? Are you going to hide inside? Nope, I don't think so. This is because you won't be able to hurt me this time, and hiding inside won't be easy because you are about to become very uncomfortable. I am getting all I lost because of you back. My sister is no longer the super psycho Muslim. She still has her Muslim believes, but she is less likely to follow the Koran. You see you took that out of her. The rules now only apply in certain situations. She cannot wait to see you again. She'll be here after the CTU people leave. I know they will be here to look for you and me. The funny thing is that I am in Brazil right now. Having my fingerprints scanned in, they will only have records of me traveling around Brazil, perfect alibi."
Beingonfused Jack held onto the hope that maybe Kim survived, "How are they going to trace all of this back to you first, to know to search the two houses?"
"Darla's friend, Jim hid like a coward and Tony got to him before my men could. He is spilling his guts at the moment." Kate answered not letting on the fact that she failed at killing Kim, Chase, and Darla.
The hope left Jack quickly. He moved trying to make his legs come closer to his body to try to stop the cuffs from digging into his wrist, but the muscles were fatigued and starting to burn. Jack could feel the warm blood trickle down his wrist.
"It hurts, doesn't it? Every muscle in your legs burning, and the cuffs making your wrist burn and slowly cut off circulation to the point that your fingers start tingle. The warm blood from the cuffs cutting into your wrist slowly dripping down your arm."
Jack tried to ignore her and also did not admit that he in fact felt all of this. "So are we just going to sit here and you torment me by talking to me and tell me what a horrible person I am?"
"Possibly. I kind of enjoy this. Almost as much as I enjoyed watching you squeeze your eyes shut while I killed your daughter, like the coward you are. I find it really funny that you can look death in the face, and you can walk into situations where you have about a two percent chance of surviving, but the thought of opening up or looking at your daughter before she dies makes you cower away. At the same time you are afraid to be alone. You have run from woman to woman in your life. First Teri, than Darla while you were Kosovo, back to Teri, than when she got tired of you, ran to Nina. When Teri took you back you ran to her, then Nina killed her and you ran into me. When you were away from me and undercover with the Salazars, you ran to Claudia. Can you really not be without a woman? Are you really that weak?"
Jack's face flashed with anger and the mention of his daughter's death. He fought with the cuffs to try to free his hand or just move enough. The image of him slowly killing Kate came to mind and yearned for the moment.
"Oh, I hit a nerve. Surprised you still have them. I thought you were almost like a robot. You see America calls the Jihad fighters crazy and brainwashed because they can kill others without feeling bad. But look at every good American soldier, such as yourself, how many people have you killed? How many women and children have died because of you? Does that ever bother you? And how could you be pissed at Nina, Drazen, or me for killing your family? You killed or injured some of mine and Drazen's family, and Nina was doing her job, just like you."
Unable to contain his anger anymore Jack yelled out, "The difference is that all the faces of those people who I have killed haunt me. Even those I enjoyed killing. And in return I have pain more than enough. I lost my wife, unborn child, and now my only living child. I have sacrificed everything to save others, and I always try to do things so I do not have to kill people or harm them, but that is not the way the world works. Some people have to get killed and I have only killed a few innocent people. How many innocent people did the Jihad fighters kill, or Drazen? How many innocent people was your sister going to kill? Remember her putting the gun to your head and getting ready to pull the trigger? I remember it because I shot her to save you."
"But then you used that pain to get information from her."
"If I had not done that, millions of people would be dead today, including you and your family." Jack answered back.
Kate walked up to him and pulled his head up by his hair. She looked in his eyes and for the first time since she knew him she saw them full of pain and anger. She let go of his head and walked over to the corner were there was a chair. She sat quietly listening to his breathing slowing as the adrenaline had sped it up. She watched him slowly struggle to keep his legs close to his body, and yet failed each time. -----------------------------------------------
Tony called the President and he confirmed most of the information and sent his condolences for the injured people. Tony called in Chappelle and told him he need to get warrants to search both Warner homes and find the whereabouts of Kate Warner. Chappelle told him he would call a judge friend of his and get the warrants. Tony called in two S.W.A.T. teams to help with the search and then walked down to Michelle.
"Michelle, I need you to quietly look up the whereabouts of Kate Warner. Is she at home, has she been to work? Any travel that has been unusual? Anything." Tony asked.
"Sure. I assume you are leaving otherwise you would do this yourself. I'll call you the results." Michelle paused, "Be careful Tony. Too many people have been injured already."
"Don't worry. I will be careful, call me if you hear any information about the injured people." Tony did not want to think about them so he did nor refer to them by name. With that Tony took off towards the equipment room. He wanted to get a bullet proof vest and brief the two teams. He would go with them to Kate's house first and then drive over to Mr. Warner's. He hoped to find Jack at one of them, but he doubted it. ------------------------------------------------------------
Palmer became worried when he found out about Jack's daughter. He knew what Jack was capable of, and he had unintentionally put Jack's daughter in danger. On top of that he felt bad for it. He should have known better. Jack would never forgive him, at the same time any hope of finding the people in his administration that are dirty or in the CIA or NSA were slim. He decided to call in the cavalry. The one person he could always trust to find out who was against him. He dialed the number he had memorized, "Sherry, it's David. I need your help again." He said when she picked the phone up.
"I'm in California right now David. I can't really get there to talk to you." Sherry answered.
"I'll brief you now. As you know I have people in my administration working against me, and now there are some possible CIA and NSA people that are against me. I need your help to find them. Please do whatever it is that you do. I know I have asked a lot of you recently, but the one plan I had just failed, and I need your help."
"David you know I will help you whenever I can. I'll start to look into it." Sherry answered, still the devoted wife, even if she was the ex- wife. "I don't know if I can find the CIA and NSA agents, but at least the people in your administration and then I can go from there."
"Do you still have your bodyguards?" David asked worried about her well-being. He knew her looking into it would bring her into possible danger.
"Yes. I know they are loyal to me too, so don't worry about extra protection." Sherry said, knowing what her ex-husband was thinking. -------------------------------------------------
Jack was still on the floor and his hands had become numb. His eyes were watering from the pain of his burning muscles in his legs. Kate stood up and grabbed a knife off the table she held it to where Jack could see it and walked up to him. She could sense his body tensing getting ready for her to do something to cause it pain, but she did the opposite. She cut the rope tied to the cuffs free. His legs flew to the floor and relief started to come over him. She paged someone on her cell-phone and a few moments later, one of the two guys entered the room.
"We need to move him back to the back room so they won't find him." Kate said walking over to the shelving unit and pulled it out.
The man dragged Jack into the room and laid him on another cement floor. Kate walked in the back with him and ordered the man, "Close it behind you and make sure you cannot see any light coming out from the bottom of the shelves."
When the shelves closed, Kate sat down on the floor Indian style across from where Jack was lying.
"You knew they are going to find this room?" Jack asked with satisfaction in his voice.
"No they are not. This is outside of the house foundation. They have no way of knowing it exists. No floor space was lost, and the light is blocked off. They are not going to find you Jack. No one is going to find you until we let them." Kate said with the satisfaction of being able to break every hope Jack had. "Oh, and don't try anything when they get here because this room is sound-proof. When my father had this place built, he had the builder secretly build this room for himself. He had a place to hide and play his guitar without bothering anyone."
Jack lay on the floor, and thought to himself, at least my legs aren't tied to the cuffs anymore. The pain was slowly subsiding, but he knew that it would not all go away. His calf muscles were probably pulled and that would cause problems with escaping. -------------------------------------------------------------------
Tony arrived at Kate's house. He and the team began to search it. It took them only ten minutes before they knew no one was there. He ran back outside and hopped in his car and drove the twenty miles to Mr. Warner's house. Last time he was there he had broken off the wedding of Marie and her fiancé, who she had killed later that day.
The other team had just arrived and was getting ready to conduct their search. Mr. Warner was more than happy to oblige. "You know my daughter is not here. I haven't seen Marie since the day at CTU." Mr. Warner answered making it seem he was assuming they were looking for Marie who had recently broken out of prison.
Tony looked around and walked back to the guest house. Mr. Warner followed him into the basement. Mr. Warner explained the emptiness of the room, "I recently switched from having a private pool man to a company to handle it. The old guy stored all the chemicals down here, and since I don't need them any more I got rid of them. I gave them to the man I fired. He was screwing up the pH and other things all of the time, and I could not allow that to continue."
Tony's cell-phone rang. "Excuse me please." Tony said as he took it out of his pocket. He answered it, "Yeah?"
"Tony, Kate is in Brazil according to their records and ours. She has been there since sometime last week. Traveling around from city to city, they even have her on the new finger scanner. There is no way she could have done any of this."
"Are you positive?"
"She has spent money on her credit card and we have her finger print in the system and it matches what Brazil sent me."
"OK. Maybe he was mistaken. We'll be back soon." Tony said before he hung up his phone. He looked at Mr. Warner and said, "Sorry to disturb you sir."
"No problem. Anything I can do to help my country."
A though occurred to Tony and he decided to ask Mr. Warner, "Are you still freelancing for the CIA?"
"Yeah. I wanted to quit after the thing with Marie, but I felt like I had to do so much more to make up for it, so I didn't quit."
"Thanks for your time. And I'm sorry about all this." Tony said walking out of the basement.
When the boat reached land Kate jumped off and hugged her father who was awaiting her arrival.
"I was getting worried. You were gone for so long. I thought maybe something went wrong. I was getting ready to go out and look for you guys myself. The bosses were getting worried. Did you get him alive?" Bob Warner asked worried.
The two men came up behind Kate with Jack, who made no attempt to fight them. At the moment Jack was on cloud nine and not coming back down. The life around him did not mean anything only this pure ecstasy feeling he got from heroin.
Watching the men carry Jack to the car, "We had an opportunity and I took it." Kate said finally answering her father.
"What do you mean? I though you were not going to deviate from the plan?" Mr. Warner said in anger.
"His daughter and her boyfriend ran into us heading to the boat. I took advantage of the opportunity." Kate answered coldly.
"What did you do?"
"I killed them both and made him watch, and made sure he was just out of reach so he could try and stop it, but fail. He pleaded like the coward he is for his daughter's life. When I shot her, he squeezed his eyes close like a coward."
"They are not going to like this. It is going to take a lot more work to keep him contained." Mr. Warner said, "And deviating from the plan might have caused some problems. No innocents were supposed to get killed, just Darla and her men."
"It was always going to be hard to control him. This had to be done. He deserved it, look what he did to our family, to Marie, to me. He used me and then cheated on me. Now let's quit debating it and get him in the car before the drug wears off."
The two men had Jack in the car. One of them sat in the back with his gun pointed at Jack awaiting any sudden movement. The other man sat in the front ready for anything. They both had been warned about Jack and his capabilities, and they were not going to allow him to get the better of them.
Jack lay on the floor of the limo on his back. If he were actually able to feel pain he would have complained about his current position. Lying on his back was added to the pain of the already too tight cuffs. His mind was slowly clearing and he began to remember the feeling of coming back to reality. It did not physically hurt, but mentally it was like losing everything again. All the pain came rushing back as if it were the first time he felt it, he lost the happy feelings and would be jilted back into the world of pain again.
Kate looked at Jack and noticed the alertness slowly coming back. She knew his alert look. When they were together she always saw his eyes searching the crowd, listening for a noise, or anything in that manner that was dangerous. He was the angry cobra and was always ready to strike out. The only time he was ever relaxed was when he was asleep. He tried to hide all of this, and he was good at it, but once she got close to him she was able to notice the differences. When she saw him all of the anger came back and she wanted to see him in pain. He had hurt her so bad after a year of trying to get to him, and he acted as if that year meant nothing.
Now at Mr. Warner's house, the man in the front exited the limo with the driver. Each man opening up the door of the side they were on.
Kate and her father each exited the car through the left door, which was the one closest to the house. The man left in the back got out and began to pull Jack out by his legs. Once he had Jack out of the car the other man began to help him carry Jack back to the pool house that was also a guest house. Once inside, they went to the basement room that normally held the chemicals for the pool, but Mr. Warner had recently hired an outside company to take care of the pool so he no longer needed to store the chemicals. The men laid Jack's immobile body on the cold cement floor.
As the men laid Jack on the floor Kate walked into the room and ordered, "Secure his feet with some rope. Make sure he is very uncomfortable."
One of the men walked to the back of the room to a work table that had various instruments on it. He grabbed the rope on the table and tied it tightly around Jack's ankles and then took the extra and pushed Jack's legs back so that they were barely touching Jacks butt. He took the loose end of the rope and tied it tightly around the metal chain between the cuffs. He had it so that as Jacks legs tried to relax they would pull on the metal chain, which would in turn pull on the already too tight cuffs. -------------------------------------------------------
Tony waited on the shore for the coast guard boat to dock. Patiently he waited wondering what has happened and who is behind it this time. How could Kate be behind it? Was she like her sister and actually a part of the Second Wave organization?
The boat finally docked and Tony's friend walked Jim down the walk to the dock. "Hey Tony, so you don't call me for like five months and then out of the blue you hand me a huge mess." Tony's friend said.
"Ian. I'm sorry. I had no one else to turn too. How did the injured ones look?" Tony asked worried about Kim and Chase.
"They all have a fight ahead of them. I wish them luck." Ian answered.
"I'll take him off your hands. If you need some information for your report call me at CTU." Tony said referring to Jim.
"Sure, no problem." Ian answered letting Jim walk towards Tony.
Tony escorted Jim back to the SUV and opened the back of the car helping Jim get into the back, where Ryan Chappelle was already awaiting him. Tony did not want him to come along, but the only way he could get Chappelle to allow him to investigate the situation was if he tagged along. Chappelle wanted to make sure it was not just an investigation to find Jack, but the people responsible for the shootings. Tony was surprised that Chappelle had even allowed CTU to try to find Jack because he usually would be accusing Jack of jumping the fence and going to the other side. Chappelle was one of the many people who did not like Jack for multiple reasons. The reasons differed among the people the most popular would be his history of turning those in who took kick backs, and his ability to get things done.
Chappelle started to try to interrogate Jim, "What is your name?"
Jim politely replied, "I will not talk to you. I mean no disrespect, but I do not know you or now if I can trust you. I will only talk to Tony Almeida."
"How do you know you can trust him?" Chappelle said trying to antagonize Jim.
"Because instead of more of her goons showing up the coast guard did." Jim answered in a flat tone.
Chappelle face flashed with anger for a moment. Tony sat in the front trying not to smile.
When they arrived at CTU, the three men entered through the back and went into one of the back rooms. Tony was taking all of the extra precautions because of the possible threat of moles and government traitors. If there was a threat, the people always had a way into CTU Tony had began to think. Paranoia was always a good thing in his business.
In the room Tony stood against the wall and looked at the man. "So talk. I got you out of there tell me something that will help me find the people."
"May I see proof that you are in fact Tony Almeida?" Jim answered.
Tony pulled out his CTU identification. and held it up for Jim to examine. "Happy now. Talk. My friend picked you up with two of my best people hurt, so it is not looking good for you right now."
"Have you called the President yet?" Jim asked.
"No. I need to know if you are wasting our time before I will do that."
"I'm sorry about your people. This was not supposed to happen. We never expected them to want Jack or try to kill us nor for the two to come along."
"Why don't you start from the beginning and we can go from there?" Tony asked patiently.
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The drug finally was wearing off. Jack could feel both the mental and physical pain again. He felt the pain of the cuffs digging into his wrists as his legs tried to un-flex and lay on the floor. The memory of watching Kim came back and all Jack wanted to do was kill Kate and everyone else. He no longer had an allegiance with anyone. The president had put his daughter and him in harm's way without asking, Kim was dead, and Jack could not let that go without paying him back.
Kate walked into the room asking mockingly, "Comfortable?"
Jack did not look at her nor acknowledge her in the room. If he would have looked, she would have noticed the pain in his eyes and the anger that ran through him.
"Jack, are you not talking to me again? Is this going to be like our relationship? Are you going to hide inside? Nope, I don't think so. This is because you won't be able to hurt me this time, and hiding inside won't be easy because you are about to become very uncomfortable. I am getting all I lost because of you back. My sister is no longer the super psycho Muslim. She still has her Muslim believes, but she is less likely to follow the Koran. You see you took that out of her. The rules now only apply in certain situations. She cannot wait to see you again. She'll be here after the CTU people leave. I know they will be here to look for you and me. The funny thing is that I am in Brazil right now. Having my fingerprints scanned in, they will only have records of me traveling around Brazil, perfect alibi."
Beingonfused Jack held onto the hope that maybe Kim survived, "How are they going to trace all of this back to you first, to know to search the two houses?"
"Darla's friend, Jim hid like a coward and Tony got to him before my men could. He is spilling his guts at the moment." Kate answered not letting on the fact that she failed at killing Kim, Chase, and Darla.
The hope left Jack quickly. He moved trying to make his legs come closer to his body to try to stop the cuffs from digging into his wrist, but the muscles were fatigued and starting to burn. Jack could feel the warm blood trickle down his wrist.
"It hurts, doesn't it? Every muscle in your legs burning, and the cuffs making your wrist burn and slowly cut off circulation to the point that your fingers start tingle. The warm blood from the cuffs cutting into your wrist slowly dripping down your arm."
Jack tried to ignore her and also did not admit that he in fact felt all of this. "So are we just going to sit here and you torment me by talking to me and tell me what a horrible person I am?"
"Possibly. I kind of enjoy this. Almost as much as I enjoyed watching you squeeze your eyes shut while I killed your daughter, like the coward you are. I find it really funny that you can look death in the face, and you can walk into situations where you have about a two percent chance of surviving, but the thought of opening up or looking at your daughter before she dies makes you cower away. At the same time you are afraid to be alone. You have run from woman to woman in your life. First Teri, than Darla while you were Kosovo, back to Teri, than when she got tired of you, ran to Nina. When Teri took you back you ran to her, then Nina killed her and you ran into me. When you were away from me and undercover with the Salazars, you ran to Claudia. Can you really not be without a woman? Are you really that weak?"
Jack's face flashed with anger and the mention of his daughter's death. He fought with the cuffs to try to free his hand or just move enough. The image of him slowly killing Kate came to mind and yearned for the moment.
"Oh, I hit a nerve. Surprised you still have them. I thought you were almost like a robot. You see America calls the Jihad fighters crazy and brainwashed because they can kill others without feeling bad. But look at every good American soldier, such as yourself, how many people have you killed? How many women and children have died because of you? Does that ever bother you? And how could you be pissed at Nina, Drazen, or me for killing your family? You killed or injured some of mine and Drazen's family, and Nina was doing her job, just like you."
Unable to contain his anger anymore Jack yelled out, "The difference is that all the faces of those people who I have killed haunt me. Even those I enjoyed killing. And in return I have pain more than enough. I lost my wife, unborn child, and now my only living child. I have sacrificed everything to save others, and I always try to do things so I do not have to kill people or harm them, but that is not the way the world works. Some people have to get killed and I have only killed a few innocent people. How many innocent people did the Jihad fighters kill, or Drazen? How many innocent people was your sister going to kill? Remember her putting the gun to your head and getting ready to pull the trigger? I remember it because I shot her to save you."
"But then you used that pain to get information from her."
"If I had not done that, millions of people would be dead today, including you and your family." Jack answered back.
Kate walked up to him and pulled his head up by his hair. She looked in his eyes and for the first time since she knew him she saw them full of pain and anger. She let go of his head and walked over to the corner were there was a chair. She sat quietly listening to his breathing slowing as the adrenaline had sped it up. She watched him slowly struggle to keep his legs close to his body, and yet failed each time. -----------------------------------------------
Tony called the President and he confirmed most of the information and sent his condolences for the injured people. Tony called in Chappelle and told him he need to get warrants to search both Warner homes and find the whereabouts of Kate Warner. Chappelle told him he would call a judge friend of his and get the warrants. Tony called in two S.W.A.T. teams to help with the search and then walked down to Michelle.
"Michelle, I need you to quietly look up the whereabouts of Kate Warner. Is she at home, has she been to work? Any travel that has been unusual? Anything." Tony asked.
"Sure. I assume you are leaving otherwise you would do this yourself. I'll call you the results." Michelle paused, "Be careful Tony. Too many people have been injured already."
"Don't worry. I will be careful, call me if you hear any information about the injured people." Tony did not want to think about them so he did nor refer to them by name. With that Tony took off towards the equipment room. He wanted to get a bullet proof vest and brief the two teams. He would go with them to Kate's house first and then drive over to Mr. Warner's. He hoped to find Jack at one of them, but he doubted it. ------------------------------------------------------------
Palmer became worried when he found out about Jack's daughter. He knew what Jack was capable of, and he had unintentionally put Jack's daughter in danger. On top of that he felt bad for it. He should have known better. Jack would never forgive him, at the same time any hope of finding the people in his administration that are dirty or in the CIA or NSA were slim. He decided to call in the cavalry. The one person he could always trust to find out who was against him. He dialed the number he had memorized, "Sherry, it's David. I need your help again." He said when she picked the phone up.
"I'm in California right now David. I can't really get there to talk to you." Sherry answered.
"I'll brief you now. As you know I have people in my administration working against me, and now there are some possible CIA and NSA people that are against me. I need your help to find them. Please do whatever it is that you do. I know I have asked a lot of you recently, but the one plan I had just failed, and I need your help."
"David you know I will help you whenever I can. I'll start to look into it." Sherry answered, still the devoted wife, even if she was the ex- wife. "I don't know if I can find the CIA and NSA agents, but at least the people in your administration and then I can go from there."
"Do you still have your bodyguards?" David asked worried about her well-being. He knew her looking into it would bring her into possible danger.
"Yes. I know they are loyal to me too, so don't worry about extra protection." Sherry said, knowing what her ex-husband was thinking. -------------------------------------------------
Jack was still on the floor and his hands had become numb. His eyes were watering from the pain of his burning muscles in his legs. Kate stood up and grabbed a knife off the table she held it to where Jack could see it and walked up to him. She could sense his body tensing getting ready for her to do something to cause it pain, but she did the opposite. She cut the rope tied to the cuffs free. His legs flew to the floor and relief started to come over him. She paged someone on her cell-phone and a few moments later, one of the two guys entered the room.
"We need to move him back to the back room so they won't find him." Kate said walking over to the shelving unit and pulled it out.
The man dragged Jack into the room and laid him on another cement floor. Kate walked in the back with him and ordered the man, "Close it behind you and make sure you cannot see any light coming out from the bottom of the shelves."
When the shelves closed, Kate sat down on the floor Indian style across from where Jack was lying.
"You knew they are going to find this room?" Jack asked with satisfaction in his voice.
"No they are not. This is outside of the house foundation. They have no way of knowing it exists. No floor space was lost, and the light is blocked off. They are not going to find you Jack. No one is going to find you until we let them." Kate said with the satisfaction of being able to break every hope Jack had. "Oh, and don't try anything when they get here because this room is sound-proof. When my father had this place built, he had the builder secretly build this room for himself. He had a place to hide and play his guitar without bothering anyone."
Jack lay on the floor, and thought to himself, at least my legs aren't tied to the cuffs anymore. The pain was slowly subsiding, but he knew that it would not all go away. His calf muscles were probably pulled and that would cause problems with escaping. -------------------------------------------------------------------
Tony arrived at Kate's house. He and the team began to search it. It took them only ten minutes before they knew no one was there. He ran back outside and hopped in his car and drove the twenty miles to Mr. Warner's house. Last time he was there he had broken off the wedding of Marie and her fiancé, who she had killed later that day.
The other team had just arrived and was getting ready to conduct their search. Mr. Warner was more than happy to oblige. "You know my daughter is not here. I haven't seen Marie since the day at CTU." Mr. Warner answered making it seem he was assuming they were looking for Marie who had recently broken out of prison.
Tony looked around and walked back to the guest house. Mr. Warner followed him into the basement. Mr. Warner explained the emptiness of the room, "I recently switched from having a private pool man to a company to handle it. The old guy stored all the chemicals down here, and since I don't need them any more I got rid of them. I gave them to the man I fired. He was screwing up the pH and other things all of the time, and I could not allow that to continue."
Tony's cell-phone rang. "Excuse me please." Tony said as he took it out of his pocket. He answered it, "Yeah?"
"Tony, Kate is in Brazil according to their records and ours. She has been there since sometime last week. Traveling around from city to city, they even have her on the new finger scanner. There is no way she could have done any of this."
"Are you positive?"
"She has spent money on her credit card and we have her finger print in the system and it matches what Brazil sent me."
"OK. Maybe he was mistaken. We'll be back soon." Tony said before he hung up his phone. He looked at Mr. Warner and said, "Sorry to disturb you sir."
"No problem. Anything I can do to help my country."
A though occurred to Tony and he decided to ask Mr. Warner, "Are you still freelancing for the CIA?"
"Yeah. I wanted to quit after the thing with Marie, but I felt like I had to do so much more to make up for it, so I didn't quit."
"Thanks for your time. And I'm sorry about all this." Tony said walking out of the basement.