Chapter 9
Marie walked out of the room, and Mr. Warner followed her. She was not sure where to go from there. She had expected him to do something anything that would make the torture more enjoyable, but it was not what she wanted. It did not fit the dream; it was not what she expected. She wanted him crying and begging and he was not. He sat silently staring at the wall. She walked back in the room with a plastic bag in her hand.
Kate saw her sister and asked, "What is that for?"
"You'll see. Where is the duct tape?" Marie asked.
"Over on the table."
Marie walked over to the table and grabbed the duct tape. Everyone in the room knew what she was going to do and no one tried to stop her. She put the bag over Jack's head and dug taped the bottom sealing it off.
Marie sat back and watched in satisfaction. It took only a few seconds before the air was all out of the bag and Jack started to struggle against the ropes to free his hands to try to rip the bag off. Marie continued to watch in satisfaction as Jack struggled more and more desperately trying to find a way to get the bag off to breathe oxygen again.
Kate ran up to him and began to rip the bag before her sister could fight her. "God Damn it Marie. We can't kill him." Kate said getting ready to fight her sister.
Jack sat in the chair gasping for air. His face was red and his chest heaving with every shallow breath.
Marie walked up to him with a scalpel in her hands. "Now that was fun wasn't it Jack. Funny to see you fight for your life and yet unable to save yourself. I wish I was there when you could not save your wife or your daughter; would have been interesting."
She took the scalpel and cut the ropes away from Jacks arms. Jack did not have the energy to fight or even move. He tried to push himself up from the chair, but his body would only acknowledge the attempt with a rush of pain. He had no will left to fight; he had nothing left to live for, so why bother. He sat in the chair and said nothing. He hung his head in defeat.
Marie bent down and cut his feet free, "Get up." She ordered. He just sat there like he had been and did nothing. Marie grabbed a fist full of his hair and said, "Get up now."
Jack slowly stood; the pain ran through his body. He gritted his teeth to take the pain. Marie wanted him to fight to do something to make this more enjoyable, but he just stood there teetering back and forth.
"Jack are you ready to join your wife and daughter?" She asked trying to get a spark out of him. She continued, "It must have been one hell of a scene to see you just sitting there letting Kate her kill your daughter. I heard you did nothing."
Jack moved faster than a man in his shape should have been able to. He was on Marie before she could even comprehend he was coming at her. He had his hands around her throat and was squeezing tightly. Looking into her bulging eyes, he could see the fear. She could see the cold sociopath that lived in everyone coming through Jacks eyes.
Kate tired to pull him off her, but she could not break his grip from around her sister's neck. Marie was scratching at him trying to make him stop, but Jack did not feel any of it. He had one thing on his mind and nothing else mattered.
Amber ran over to the table and grabbed the only weapon she could find, the air nail gun. She yelled at Kate to move and she aimed at Jack. She fired and the nail went sailing through the air into the lower left side of Jacks back. His grip loosened for a moment. Just long enough for Marie to take another breath, than her wind pipe was quickly closed off again by his hands.
Getting desperate now to save her sister Kate grabbed on to the nail that was sticking into Jack and pulled it out. This time Jacks body finally began to feel all of the abuse it had taken and his grip was released and he fell to the ground grabbing his side. Blood oozed out of the small hole covering his hands. He tried to stand up again to continue his quest to kill Marie, but Amber ran up and with all her might kicked him in the rib cage sending him back to the floor.
Marie was on the ground gasping for air. Kate went over to help her up and as soon as she was able to breath without gasping she walked up to Jack who was on the floor still and kicked him in the balls. Jack moaned in pain and rolled over onto his stomach.
Marie walked over to the chair and sat in it. "Mother Fucker almost killed me." She was still stunned by the events that occurred. "He is a psycho mother fucker."
Mr. Warner walked in with three people. Kate recognized one of the three. Mr. Warner saw Jack on the floor and Marie in the chair, confused as to what was going on he asked, "What happened her?"
Amber noticing that the others were there and said, "Marie learned why you don't play with him."
"Mother Fucker almost choked me to death. He wouldn't have stopped if they hadn't shot him again with the nail gun."
The woman that came in with Mr. Warner laughed and said, "Why did you let him free? Are you that stupid?"
Marie Warner was pissed at this woman laughing at her and got up and went to fight with her when her father stopped her, "Marie I would not do that if I were you. This is Mandy."
Marie stopped in front of Jack who was still on the floor in pain. She was pissed so instead of picking a fight she had a thirty percent chance of winning she kicked the immobile Jack Bauer; who just groaned. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---
Tony and Jim were looking over the spread sheets and data from Warner's company and nothing was sticking out besides the transaction from a few years ago. Tony called Michelle and asked, "Can you check out all of the companies on the thing you sent me about Warner and see if they are all real. Try to find something with it. I need to call the hospital again and see if I can't get Kim, Chase, and Darla transferred to our clinic. I don't like having them in the hospital; it's not as safe as it could be."
"Yeah. Be careful Tony." Michelle said worried about her husband. She was not sure what she would do if something happened to him. That is why she loved it when Jack worked at CTU because Jack would always go on the dangerous things and Tony would stay back. She knew it was wrong of her to be happy that Jack would put himself in danger, but Jack chooses too, and Tony might choose to but she loved him. Jack was just a good friend. She began to worry about Jack. No one had heard from him since earlier and by the sounds of it he was not in the best of situation, if what Jim was telling them was true.
"I will be don't worry honey. I'm going to take a team with me. I'm going to take Jim with me incase Darla is awake. I don't want her to clam up." Tony said.
"Fine. Call me when you get there and when you are on your way back."
"Sure. Good bye."
Tony got up and he and Jim walked down the corridor to the team that was at Mr. Warner's house. "Guys I need you for awhile longer. I want you to come with me to pick up the three injured people and than I would like you to add to the security of the clinic. As you know Jack's daughter Kim and Chase were injured, along with another person. There safety is the most important thing to us right now."
The drive over to the hospital was uneventful. Tony half expected rockets and anything else because this was yet another one of those days where nothing ever goes right. Nothing works out and someone always has to get hurt, someone other than Jack. At the hospital he talked to the doctors responsible for the three injured people. Each person was in critical condition, but should make it. After a short argument with the doctors, Tony was able to get them to allow the three to be transferred to the clinic at CTU. ----------------------------------------------------------------
Jack was still on the floor. And softly cursed as he thought about how all the woman of his life where now coming back to haunt him. He half expected Kim to jump into the mix, but she was dead, and with this thought he closed his eyes and wished for death. He had no right to be alive, when he had aided in the death of the two people he loved most in life. With this thought he struggled to stand up. He slowly pushed himself up so that he was on his hands and knees. With the aid of the wall he pushed himself into a standing position. Noticing his movement the women and Mr. Warner looked over at him.
Mandy looked at him and said, "Nice of you to join us Jack."
Jack glared at her. He took a few tentative steps towards her when the men she brought with her walked over to him. When one of them got close enough for Jack to be able to connect to him Jack threw a punch. The man was not expecting Jack to be able to stand without using the wall to balance so he was not ready for Jack's punch and was taken off guard. Jack connected with the side of the mans head stunning him. The next man came at Jack who ducked out of the way of a punch and returned it with a left uppercut to the jaw. Jack grabbed his left hand in pain. He had forgotten about the hole in it and the broken fingers. He could only focus on the pain for a moment because the other man was coming after him again.
The man connected with a right hook to Jacks head. The punch hurt, but it was not hard enough to stun Jack. Jack acted like he was going to fall down and instead threw a punch hitting the man in the abdomen and Jack finished him off with a right uppercut to the jaw knocking the man back onto the floor. The other man was still on the floor; Jack thought he might have broken the man's jaw.
Before he could celebrate he had Mandy to deal with. She and Amber were coming towards him. Jack knew there was no way he could take both on at one time with one hand. When Amber reached him she tried to hit him in the shoulder but Jack caught her hand with his left hand. His face showed the pain, but his mind did not register it. He took his free right hand and blocked her left punch and than sent his elbow into her head. Stunning her enough to send her to the floor.
Before he could react Mandy had managed to hit him in the head. Her punch had enough force behind it that it sent Jack's head back into the wall. Before he could react again Mandy had sent a quick combination of left and right punches to his abdomen. The punches sent Jack to the ground gasping for air. A moment latter Kate was standing over him repeatedly kicking him in the head, arms, legs, abdomen, anywhere she could hit him at.
Jack used his arms to cover he head, but all they did was soften the blows. After what seemed like forever Mandy pulled her away from Jack. Kate fought her, but there was no way she could have won against Mandy, and if they did they would have server reparations for it.
Jack rolled over onto his stomach and tried to not pass out. At that moment Marie came up to him and kicked him hard in the back. Jack groaned in pain and Mandy looked over from where she was holding Kate back to see Marie standing over Jack pulling him over to his back. She bent down and hand her knees resting on his chest as she had her hands around his throat squeezing it tightly. "Don't like that do you." She kept saying to him. Jack tried to fight her but his vision was blurring and his eyes were watering from lack of oxygen. He tried to move her hands from his throat, but even when her grip loosened he still found it hard to breathe because she had all her weight on his chest.
Noticing that he was about ready to pass out Marie got off him and said, "That's what you get." She than spit on him. Jack lay on the ground trying to breath. Every breath was a tease to his lungs that were dying for more oxygen.
Mandy let go of Kate and walked up to Jack. She helped him stand and with most of his weight on her she said, "We'll be leaving now."
Mandy allowed the two men she brought with her to take on helping Jack out to the car. She followed closely behind. Amber came running up behind them, "Can I come with you?" She needed a new job and this woman she knew of and respected.
"Who are you?"
"Amber. I helped get Jack originally. I actually came up with most of the plan."
"No. I'll keep you in mind though." Mandy said trying to be nice.
The men had Jack loaded into the SUV. Mandy hopped in the back with one of them. She knew what Jack was capable of, he took Ira Gains down not to long ago, and not to long ago he successfully stopped the attack her boss's had planned. He survived the Salazar's and killed Nina Myers last year, all while dealing with a drug habit. She was not going to fail this one. She had only failed once in her job, and that was not really her failure, she was just associated with Gain's failure. They had forgiven her though, and she knew she was untouchable because of her ability to do what others could not do. As she sat in the SUV with Jack between her and one of the men she took her phone out and called the number she was given, "We have it. Go in. Kill them all."
They sat out front of the house and Jack could see through the front window men in swat gear rushed the Warner home. A few minutes later it was quiet. He continued to look on in wonder, it some ways he was hurt that Kate was most likely dead, but in others he knew if they did not kill her he would of eventually. With that thought he saw the woman he knew as Amber come out with a man in swat gear at gun point. Kate trailed behind her clearly wounded.
Mandy looked at the man in the front and told him, "Get out and deal with this. I want the women alive."
The man got out of the SUV and looked at Amber, "How in the hell did you manage that?" He asked in amazement.
"I know what I'm doing. Now you are going to tell your boss that Kate and I are walking out of here, alive. That is it." Amber yelled back at him.
"Give me a second to have a talk with her." The man answered.
He walked up to the SUV window. Keeping her gun on Jack Mandy said, "Tell her if she still wants a job it's hers, and we'll let Kate go with the promise she'll never speak of this, we'll kill her later of course. CTU knows of her involvement or will after they find the bodies."
The man turned from the window and said, "You still want the job?"
Amber surprised at the offer yet still kind of cautious answered, "Yeah as long as neither Kate nor I get killed."
"Than we have a deal?"
"I guess so." She said pulling the gun away from the man. She stepped away from him and waited for something to happen.
Mandy took her gun off Jack and fired out of the open window hitting the man in swat gear in the head. Jack jumped at the sound of the gun so close to his head. When he jumped Mandy had the gun back on him already, ready to shoot him if he tried to escape.
The man looked at Amber who stood in shock and said, "You coming?"
Amber followed him down to the SUV and hopped in the passenger side. She looked back and did not know what to say or do. She was still shocked.
Mandy stated, "Never send men to do a woman's job. Isn't that right Jack?"
She said nudging his hurt shoulder with the barrel of her gun. He clinched his teeth in pain. He did not answer her; he was trying to figure out how he was going to get out of this mess. He knew that short of a miracle his body would not be able to carry him away from it there was to much damage done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
Marie walked out of the room, and Mr. Warner followed her. She was not sure where to go from there. She had expected him to do something anything that would make the torture more enjoyable, but it was not what she wanted. It did not fit the dream; it was not what she expected. She wanted him crying and begging and he was not. He sat silently staring at the wall. She walked back in the room with a plastic bag in her hand.
Kate saw her sister and asked, "What is that for?"
"You'll see. Where is the duct tape?" Marie asked.
"Over on the table."
Marie walked over to the table and grabbed the duct tape. Everyone in the room knew what she was going to do and no one tried to stop her. She put the bag over Jack's head and dug taped the bottom sealing it off.
Marie sat back and watched in satisfaction. It took only a few seconds before the air was all out of the bag and Jack started to struggle against the ropes to free his hands to try to rip the bag off. Marie continued to watch in satisfaction as Jack struggled more and more desperately trying to find a way to get the bag off to breathe oxygen again.
Kate ran up to him and began to rip the bag before her sister could fight her. "God Damn it Marie. We can't kill him." Kate said getting ready to fight her sister.
Jack sat in the chair gasping for air. His face was red and his chest heaving with every shallow breath.
Marie walked up to him with a scalpel in her hands. "Now that was fun wasn't it Jack. Funny to see you fight for your life and yet unable to save yourself. I wish I was there when you could not save your wife or your daughter; would have been interesting."
She took the scalpel and cut the ropes away from Jacks arms. Jack did not have the energy to fight or even move. He tried to push himself up from the chair, but his body would only acknowledge the attempt with a rush of pain. He had no will left to fight; he had nothing left to live for, so why bother. He sat in the chair and said nothing. He hung his head in defeat.
Marie bent down and cut his feet free, "Get up." She ordered. He just sat there like he had been and did nothing. Marie grabbed a fist full of his hair and said, "Get up now."
Jack slowly stood; the pain ran through his body. He gritted his teeth to take the pain. Marie wanted him to fight to do something to make this more enjoyable, but he just stood there teetering back and forth.
"Jack are you ready to join your wife and daughter?" She asked trying to get a spark out of him. She continued, "It must have been one hell of a scene to see you just sitting there letting Kate her kill your daughter. I heard you did nothing."
Jack moved faster than a man in his shape should have been able to. He was on Marie before she could even comprehend he was coming at her. He had his hands around her throat and was squeezing tightly. Looking into her bulging eyes, he could see the fear. She could see the cold sociopath that lived in everyone coming through Jacks eyes.
Kate tired to pull him off her, but she could not break his grip from around her sister's neck. Marie was scratching at him trying to make him stop, but Jack did not feel any of it. He had one thing on his mind and nothing else mattered.
Amber ran over to the table and grabbed the only weapon she could find, the air nail gun. She yelled at Kate to move and she aimed at Jack. She fired and the nail went sailing through the air into the lower left side of Jacks back. His grip loosened for a moment. Just long enough for Marie to take another breath, than her wind pipe was quickly closed off again by his hands.
Getting desperate now to save her sister Kate grabbed on to the nail that was sticking into Jack and pulled it out. This time Jacks body finally began to feel all of the abuse it had taken and his grip was released and he fell to the ground grabbing his side. Blood oozed out of the small hole covering his hands. He tried to stand up again to continue his quest to kill Marie, but Amber ran up and with all her might kicked him in the rib cage sending him back to the floor.
Marie was on the ground gasping for air. Kate went over to help her up and as soon as she was able to breath without gasping she walked up to Jack who was on the floor still and kicked him in the balls. Jack moaned in pain and rolled over onto his stomach.
Marie walked over to the chair and sat in it. "Mother Fucker almost killed me." She was still stunned by the events that occurred. "He is a psycho mother fucker."
Mr. Warner walked in with three people. Kate recognized one of the three. Mr. Warner saw Jack on the floor and Marie in the chair, confused as to what was going on he asked, "What happened her?"
Amber noticing that the others were there and said, "Marie learned why you don't play with him."
"Mother Fucker almost choked me to death. He wouldn't have stopped if they hadn't shot him again with the nail gun."
The woman that came in with Mr. Warner laughed and said, "Why did you let him free? Are you that stupid?"
Marie Warner was pissed at this woman laughing at her and got up and went to fight with her when her father stopped her, "Marie I would not do that if I were you. This is Mandy."
Marie stopped in front of Jack who was still on the floor in pain. She was pissed so instead of picking a fight she had a thirty percent chance of winning she kicked the immobile Jack Bauer; who just groaned. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---
Tony and Jim were looking over the spread sheets and data from Warner's company and nothing was sticking out besides the transaction from a few years ago. Tony called Michelle and asked, "Can you check out all of the companies on the thing you sent me about Warner and see if they are all real. Try to find something with it. I need to call the hospital again and see if I can't get Kim, Chase, and Darla transferred to our clinic. I don't like having them in the hospital; it's not as safe as it could be."
"Yeah. Be careful Tony." Michelle said worried about her husband. She was not sure what she would do if something happened to him. That is why she loved it when Jack worked at CTU because Jack would always go on the dangerous things and Tony would stay back. She knew it was wrong of her to be happy that Jack would put himself in danger, but Jack chooses too, and Tony might choose to but she loved him. Jack was just a good friend. She began to worry about Jack. No one had heard from him since earlier and by the sounds of it he was not in the best of situation, if what Jim was telling them was true.
"I will be don't worry honey. I'm going to take a team with me. I'm going to take Jim with me incase Darla is awake. I don't want her to clam up." Tony said.
"Fine. Call me when you get there and when you are on your way back."
"Sure. Good bye."
Tony got up and he and Jim walked down the corridor to the team that was at Mr. Warner's house. "Guys I need you for awhile longer. I want you to come with me to pick up the three injured people and than I would like you to add to the security of the clinic. As you know Jack's daughter Kim and Chase were injured, along with another person. There safety is the most important thing to us right now."
The drive over to the hospital was uneventful. Tony half expected rockets and anything else because this was yet another one of those days where nothing ever goes right. Nothing works out and someone always has to get hurt, someone other than Jack. At the hospital he talked to the doctors responsible for the three injured people. Each person was in critical condition, but should make it. After a short argument with the doctors, Tony was able to get them to allow the three to be transferred to the clinic at CTU. ----------------------------------------------------------------
Jack was still on the floor. And softly cursed as he thought about how all the woman of his life where now coming back to haunt him. He half expected Kim to jump into the mix, but she was dead, and with this thought he closed his eyes and wished for death. He had no right to be alive, when he had aided in the death of the two people he loved most in life. With this thought he struggled to stand up. He slowly pushed himself up so that he was on his hands and knees. With the aid of the wall he pushed himself into a standing position. Noticing his movement the women and Mr. Warner looked over at him.
Mandy looked at him and said, "Nice of you to join us Jack."
Jack glared at her. He took a few tentative steps towards her when the men she brought with her walked over to him. When one of them got close enough for Jack to be able to connect to him Jack threw a punch. The man was not expecting Jack to be able to stand without using the wall to balance so he was not ready for Jack's punch and was taken off guard. Jack connected with the side of the mans head stunning him. The next man came at Jack who ducked out of the way of a punch and returned it with a left uppercut to the jaw. Jack grabbed his left hand in pain. He had forgotten about the hole in it and the broken fingers. He could only focus on the pain for a moment because the other man was coming after him again.
The man connected with a right hook to Jacks head. The punch hurt, but it was not hard enough to stun Jack. Jack acted like he was going to fall down and instead threw a punch hitting the man in the abdomen and Jack finished him off with a right uppercut to the jaw knocking the man back onto the floor. The other man was still on the floor; Jack thought he might have broken the man's jaw.
Before he could celebrate he had Mandy to deal with. She and Amber were coming towards him. Jack knew there was no way he could take both on at one time with one hand. When Amber reached him she tried to hit him in the shoulder but Jack caught her hand with his left hand. His face showed the pain, but his mind did not register it. He took his free right hand and blocked her left punch and than sent his elbow into her head. Stunning her enough to send her to the floor.
Before he could react Mandy had managed to hit him in the head. Her punch had enough force behind it that it sent Jack's head back into the wall. Before he could react again Mandy had sent a quick combination of left and right punches to his abdomen. The punches sent Jack to the ground gasping for air. A moment latter Kate was standing over him repeatedly kicking him in the head, arms, legs, abdomen, anywhere she could hit him at.
Jack used his arms to cover he head, but all they did was soften the blows. After what seemed like forever Mandy pulled her away from Jack. Kate fought her, but there was no way she could have won against Mandy, and if they did they would have server reparations for it.
Jack rolled over onto his stomach and tried to not pass out. At that moment Marie came up to him and kicked him hard in the back. Jack groaned in pain and Mandy looked over from where she was holding Kate back to see Marie standing over Jack pulling him over to his back. She bent down and hand her knees resting on his chest as she had her hands around his throat squeezing it tightly. "Don't like that do you." She kept saying to him. Jack tried to fight her but his vision was blurring and his eyes were watering from lack of oxygen. He tried to move her hands from his throat, but even when her grip loosened he still found it hard to breathe because she had all her weight on his chest.
Noticing that he was about ready to pass out Marie got off him and said, "That's what you get." She than spit on him. Jack lay on the ground trying to breath. Every breath was a tease to his lungs that were dying for more oxygen.
Mandy let go of Kate and walked up to Jack. She helped him stand and with most of his weight on her she said, "We'll be leaving now."
Mandy allowed the two men she brought with her to take on helping Jack out to the car. She followed closely behind. Amber came running up behind them, "Can I come with you?" She needed a new job and this woman she knew of and respected.
"Who are you?"
"Amber. I helped get Jack originally. I actually came up with most of the plan."
"No. I'll keep you in mind though." Mandy said trying to be nice.
The men had Jack loaded into the SUV. Mandy hopped in the back with one of them. She knew what Jack was capable of, he took Ira Gains down not to long ago, and not to long ago he successfully stopped the attack her boss's had planned. He survived the Salazar's and killed Nina Myers last year, all while dealing with a drug habit. She was not going to fail this one. She had only failed once in her job, and that was not really her failure, she was just associated with Gain's failure. They had forgiven her though, and she knew she was untouchable because of her ability to do what others could not do. As she sat in the SUV with Jack between her and one of the men she took her phone out and called the number she was given, "We have it. Go in. Kill them all."
They sat out front of the house and Jack could see through the front window men in swat gear rushed the Warner home. A few minutes later it was quiet. He continued to look on in wonder, it some ways he was hurt that Kate was most likely dead, but in others he knew if they did not kill her he would of eventually. With that thought he saw the woman he knew as Amber come out with a man in swat gear at gun point. Kate trailed behind her clearly wounded.
Mandy looked at the man in the front and told him, "Get out and deal with this. I want the women alive."
The man got out of the SUV and looked at Amber, "How in the hell did you manage that?" He asked in amazement.
"I know what I'm doing. Now you are going to tell your boss that Kate and I are walking out of here, alive. That is it." Amber yelled back at him.
"Give me a second to have a talk with her." The man answered.
He walked up to the SUV window. Keeping her gun on Jack Mandy said, "Tell her if she still wants a job it's hers, and we'll let Kate go with the promise she'll never speak of this, we'll kill her later of course. CTU knows of her involvement or will after they find the bodies."
The man turned from the window and said, "You still want the job?"
Amber surprised at the offer yet still kind of cautious answered, "Yeah as long as neither Kate nor I get killed."
"Than we have a deal?"
"I guess so." She said pulling the gun away from the man. She stepped away from him and waited for something to happen.
Mandy took her gun off Jack and fired out of the open window hitting the man in swat gear in the head. Jack jumped at the sound of the gun so close to his head. When he jumped Mandy had the gun back on him already, ready to shoot him if he tried to escape.
The man looked at Amber who stood in shock and said, "You coming?"
Amber followed him down to the SUV and hopped in the passenger side. She looked back and did not know what to say or do. She was still shocked.
Mandy stated, "Never send men to do a woman's job. Isn't that right Jack?"
She said nudging his hurt shoulder with the barrel of her gun. He clinched his teeth in pain. He did not answer her; he was trying to figure out how he was going to get out of this mess. He knew that short of a miracle his body would not be able to carry him away from it there was to much damage done. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------