Chapter 11
Sherry's phone rang. She jumped out of shock. She was expecting it to ring, but it still scared her. She grabbed it and answered, "Hello?"
The man's voice on the other end asked, "Do we have a deal?"
"Yes, when and where?"
"Just keep driving straight. At the next turn, turn left. And drive straight. I'll tell you when to stop."
Sherry did as she was told. Out of nowhere, she noticed the brake lights of a van. The back door opened and she saw a woman standing in the van with a gun. The man said to her over the phone, "Don't worry. Just keep driving straight. The woman will not shoot you as long as you listen to me."
Sherry drove on in fear. She saw the flash before she heard the sound. There was no sound, but the sound of the bullet going through the window hitting Kate in the head. Sherry screamed in terror as pieces of Kate's skull and brain flew onto Sherry's face. She screamed in terror.
"Keep driving if you want Jack, Mrs. Palmer ."
"You . . . You . . . killed her. Oh my God. You . . ."
She saw the woman who shot Kate come back to the open doors of the van. She held Jack.
"Would you like Jack now?" The man asked.
"Please don't hurt me or him. I thought we had a deal."
"Tell your husband to back off or this will happen to you."
The woman shot Jack in the back, just above his heart. She let go of Jack who fell out of the van crashing into the ground. Sherry swerved quickly as to not hit Jack. She ran into the ditch on the side of the country road and began to cry in terror.
Jack felt the bullet enter and exit. Then he felt himself falling, and the hard collision with the ground. He lies down on the ground in immense pain. He could feel the warm liquid pour out of the wound on his chest. He struggled to breathe and to stay conscious, but he was too tired, and all he wanted to do was close his eyes and sleep.
Sherry ran up to him as she hung the cell-phone up and squatted next to him. "Jack, can you hear me? Look at me Jack. Stay awake. I'm going to get you to the hospital. Jack, listen to me, you stubborn man, you cannot die now. We still have to stop the bad guys, like with the nuclear bomb. Come on Jack."
Sherry dialed 911 and frantically told the operator approximately where they were at and how serious Jack was. She took her coat off and put his head in her lap. She tried to apply pressure to the bullet wound. There was already a great amount of blood on the ground. With one hand, she pressed hard on the bullet wound and with the other she gently stroked his cheek begging him to stay with her.
Jack could no longer take it. He closed his eyes and the world went dark.
The ambulance arrived five minutes after the phone call. Sherry was covered in Jack's blood when the medic took Jack away from her. They were frantically working on him. She was surprised they got there so fast. She got into the ambulance with them, refusing to let go of Jack's hand. When she first meant him she hated him. He expected so much from David and almost made David lose his chance at becoming president with his absurd demands for Palmer to play dead the last hours of the primaries, and she hated him even more the first few hours she met him on the day of the nuclear bomb attack. By the end of that day she had nothing, but respect for him. This man was incredible in her eyes. Not only had he been tortured less than a few hours before he got to her, he had died, yet he continued to fight on. He not only continued to fight, but he stopped a war, saved David's presidency, and her life all while on the verge of a heart attack that kept him out of work for awhile.
In the ambulance, she noticed how pale he looked and she began to pray for him. Sherry had not prayed in a long time, but she felt the need to pray for a friend. One of the medics said, "Ma'am he was more than just shot. How did this happen?"
"I don't. I was driving and they. . ." Sherry couldn't bring herself to say anything. She was almost in shock. She just sat there staring at Jack, praying he'd be fine.
The ambulance reached the hospital. They pulled Jack out of it and the medic began to give all of the information the doctors needed. One of the medics took Sherry to a waiting room and said, "The police will have some questions for you. If you don't mind, I would like to look you over real quick. You are covered in blood, and you might be in shock."
Sherry sat in a chair. The woman took her pulse and blood pressure. Everything seemed fine besides the brain and skull fragments stuck to her face and the blood over her from Jack.
The police arrived and began to question Sherry.
"Ma'am, do you have any identification on you?" The female officer asked.
Sherry said, "It's in my purse. I left it in the car with . . . Kate."
"So you know the woman in the car?"
"Yes. Her name is Kate Warner."
"What is your name ma'am?"
"Sherry Palmer."
"The president's ex-wife?"
"Yes."
"So what happened Mrs. Palmer?"
"I don't know. I was looking to something for a friend and I ran into Kate. She was hurt. I got a phone call from a man and he said that he had Jack and was willing to trade him for Kate. I said I was willing to do so, and Kate was willing to. I did what the person told me, and I didn't see the van because it was too dark out and they did not have their lights on. When I got up to the van I saw the brake lights come on, and the back door opened. The back was lit up from my headlights and I saw a woman with a gun. The man told me over the phone to keep driving straight so I did, and then she shot Kate. She then shot Jack, who was in the van, and he fell out and I swerved so I wouldn't hurt him, then I called the police."
"It is okay ma'am. Is there anyone who might know why they had . . ."
"Jack Bauer is his name."
"The man who saved your husband during the primaries?"
"Yes. That is him."
"Does anyone know where Mr. Bauer was before, or who I am guessing kidnapped him?"
"You would have to talk to CTU."
"Fine ma'am. That is all I have for now. I'll need you to come in later to give a statement, but take your time. I think I have enough to work off from here, and you look like you need some time. If you want, I can get one of the nurses to get you some clothes to change into, and a place to wash up."
"If you would, please." Sherry said sitting in the chair in shock, running the events over in her head again.
She heard over the public address system, "Cold Blue in the ER. All available doctors needed." Her blood ran cold. She knew it was Jack and she knew cold blue meant he had flat lined. She began to allow the tears that were in her eyes to begin to fall. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Amber looked on at Mandy in shock at what she had done earlier. "Do you think that will stop them from coming after us? Investigating us?"
"Probably not, but it go rid of the annoying little shit that was Jack Bauer and Kate Warner." The man in the front seat answered. "I thought you said she was good, Mandy?"
"She still has a lot to learn. She will be. You know I'm never wrong." Mandy answered in Amber defense.
"Sure as long as she doesn't turn out to be like the one you used with Gaines. God was she horrible."
Mandy shot him an ugly look. He knew better than to talk about her. Mandy had deeply cared about her, and still mourned her death. "So where are we going?"
"To the bosses and see what they want us to do next. I'm not what their big plan is, but as usual, their one-track minds want Palmer out of office. I really hope they get over that and move on. The man only has a few years left, and in my opinion he has not done that bad."
"We're not allowed to have opinions." Mandy snapped at him.
"We are a little touchy today. Is it PMS time?"
"I swear to God if you don't shut up, I will kill you."
"Fine. I'll be quiet. Damn you're no fun."
Mandy stewed in the back. Ever time she had to work with this guy things went wrong or bad. The man was good at what he did, but he was too immature and just irked her. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
Tony left Kim's room to go see if Chase had waken up yet. When he entered Chase's room, he noticed the nurse was arguing with Chase.
"What's going on?" Tony demanded.
The nurse looked at Tony and answered, "Mr. Edmunds wants to get up and leave."
"Chase, are you crazy? You were just wounded pretty bad earlier and now you want to get up and leave. Lie back down."
"I can't Tony. Jack is still out there."
"Chase, what are you going to deal with? Run up to the people and try to take them on with your injuries? You don't have a chance. Don't worry, we are working on finding him."
"But you haven't found him. I promised Kim I would find him. I can't let her down."
"We will find him. If you go out there we will have to focus not only on finding Jack, but keeping you safe. We need to keep all our resources on finding Jack. Chase, you know you can't find Jack on your own wounded like this. Listen to me for once and let us do it."
Chase looked at Tony with anger in his eyes. He was tired of Tony and Jack both thinking he could not handle himself. He knew what he was capable, and he was almost as good as Jack. He knew he hadn't reached Jacks capability yet, but he knew he would one day. He learned from the best. "I've been through worse in the past, remember? I was tortured with fists and a shovel, shocked with a cattle prod, shot through the hand by Hector, and then had gasoline poured over the wound. If you're going to compare me to Jack, I'm almost the same as him. Jack would have been killed in Mexico if it wasn't for me sniping Ramon Salazar, or worse, Jack getting killed at the prison by one of the rioters."
Tony looked at Chase and he could see the anger in his eyes. "I know what you are capable of Chase. But at the moment Kim needs you. She is worried sick about you and her father. Why don't you see if this nice lady will allow you to go over to her room and you can comfort her? And when we get something on Jack I'll come get you and we can go after him together."
Chase looked at him, knowing what Tony had said was true. He gave up and said, "Does my sister know about this?"
"No. We didn't call her. I completely forgot. You had Kim down as your emergency contact and I've been running back and forth all day. If you want, we can call her and she can bring Angela over."
"No. No need to worry her. I'll go see Kim. I'm sure Angela is asleep already, and I don't want my sister to wake her."
"Fine. Kim is next door. I need to go over and talk to Darla. But first run through with me what happened. Kim told me some stuff. I just want to try to get the entire picture before I go and question Darla."
Chase ran through all of what had occurred over the past day.
Sherry's phone rang. She jumped out of shock. She was expecting it to ring, but it still scared her. She grabbed it and answered, "Hello?"
The man's voice on the other end asked, "Do we have a deal?"
"Yes, when and where?"
"Just keep driving straight. At the next turn, turn left. And drive straight. I'll tell you when to stop."
Sherry did as she was told. Out of nowhere, she noticed the brake lights of a van. The back door opened and she saw a woman standing in the van with a gun. The man said to her over the phone, "Don't worry. Just keep driving straight. The woman will not shoot you as long as you listen to me."
Sherry drove on in fear. She saw the flash before she heard the sound. There was no sound, but the sound of the bullet going through the window hitting Kate in the head. Sherry screamed in terror as pieces of Kate's skull and brain flew onto Sherry's face. She screamed in terror.
"Keep driving if you want Jack, Mrs. Palmer ."
"You . . . You . . . killed her. Oh my God. You . . ."
She saw the woman who shot Kate come back to the open doors of the van. She held Jack.
"Would you like Jack now?" The man asked.
"Please don't hurt me or him. I thought we had a deal."
"Tell your husband to back off or this will happen to you."
The woman shot Jack in the back, just above his heart. She let go of Jack who fell out of the van crashing into the ground. Sherry swerved quickly as to not hit Jack. She ran into the ditch on the side of the country road and began to cry in terror.
Jack felt the bullet enter and exit. Then he felt himself falling, and the hard collision with the ground. He lies down on the ground in immense pain. He could feel the warm liquid pour out of the wound on his chest. He struggled to breathe and to stay conscious, but he was too tired, and all he wanted to do was close his eyes and sleep.
Sherry ran up to him as she hung the cell-phone up and squatted next to him. "Jack, can you hear me? Look at me Jack. Stay awake. I'm going to get you to the hospital. Jack, listen to me, you stubborn man, you cannot die now. We still have to stop the bad guys, like with the nuclear bomb. Come on Jack."
Sherry dialed 911 and frantically told the operator approximately where they were at and how serious Jack was. She took her coat off and put his head in her lap. She tried to apply pressure to the bullet wound. There was already a great amount of blood on the ground. With one hand, she pressed hard on the bullet wound and with the other she gently stroked his cheek begging him to stay with her.
Jack could no longer take it. He closed his eyes and the world went dark.
The ambulance arrived five minutes after the phone call. Sherry was covered in Jack's blood when the medic took Jack away from her. They were frantically working on him. She was surprised they got there so fast. She got into the ambulance with them, refusing to let go of Jack's hand. When she first meant him she hated him. He expected so much from David and almost made David lose his chance at becoming president with his absurd demands for Palmer to play dead the last hours of the primaries, and she hated him even more the first few hours she met him on the day of the nuclear bomb attack. By the end of that day she had nothing, but respect for him. This man was incredible in her eyes. Not only had he been tortured less than a few hours before he got to her, he had died, yet he continued to fight on. He not only continued to fight, but he stopped a war, saved David's presidency, and her life all while on the verge of a heart attack that kept him out of work for awhile.
In the ambulance, she noticed how pale he looked and she began to pray for him. Sherry had not prayed in a long time, but she felt the need to pray for a friend. One of the medics said, "Ma'am he was more than just shot. How did this happen?"
"I don't. I was driving and they. . ." Sherry couldn't bring herself to say anything. She was almost in shock. She just sat there staring at Jack, praying he'd be fine.
The ambulance reached the hospital. They pulled Jack out of it and the medic began to give all of the information the doctors needed. One of the medics took Sherry to a waiting room and said, "The police will have some questions for you. If you don't mind, I would like to look you over real quick. You are covered in blood, and you might be in shock."
Sherry sat in a chair. The woman took her pulse and blood pressure. Everything seemed fine besides the brain and skull fragments stuck to her face and the blood over her from Jack.
The police arrived and began to question Sherry.
"Ma'am, do you have any identification on you?" The female officer asked.
Sherry said, "It's in my purse. I left it in the car with . . . Kate."
"So you know the woman in the car?"
"Yes. Her name is Kate Warner."
"What is your name ma'am?"
"Sherry Palmer."
"The president's ex-wife?"
"Yes."
"So what happened Mrs. Palmer?"
"I don't know. I was looking to something for a friend and I ran into Kate. She was hurt. I got a phone call from a man and he said that he had Jack and was willing to trade him for Kate. I said I was willing to do so, and Kate was willing to. I did what the person told me, and I didn't see the van because it was too dark out and they did not have their lights on. When I got up to the van I saw the brake lights come on, and the back door opened. The back was lit up from my headlights and I saw a woman with a gun. The man told me over the phone to keep driving straight so I did, and then she shot Kate. She then shot Jack, who was in the van, and he fell out and I swerved so I wouldn't hurt him, then I called the police."
"It is okay ma'am. Is there anyone who might know why they had . . ."
"Jack Bauer is his name."
"The man who saved your husband during the primaries?"
"Yes. That is him."
"Does anyone know where Mr. Bauer was before, or who I am guessing kidnapped him?"
"You would have to talk to CTU."
"Fine ma'am. That is all I have for now. I'll need you to come in later to give a statement, but take your time. I think I have enough to work off from here, and you look like you need some time. If you want, I can get one of the nurses to get you some clothes to change into, and a place to wash up."
"If you would, please." Sherry said sitting in the chair in shock, running the events over in her head again.
She heard over the public address system, "Cold Blue in the ER. All available doctors needed." Her blood ran cold. She knew it was Jack and she knew cold blue meant he had flat lined. She began to allow the tears that were in her eyes to begin to fall. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Amber looked on at Mandy in shock at what she had done earlier. "Do you think that will stop them from coming after us? Investigating us?"
"Probably not, but it go rid of the annoying little shit that was Jack Bauer and Kate Warner." The man in the front seat answered. "I thought you said she was good, Mandy?"
"She still has a lot to learn. She will be. You know I'm never wrong." Mandy answered in Amber defense.
"Sure as long as she doesn't turn out to be like the one you used with Gaines. God was she horrible."
Mandy shot him an ugly look. He knew better than to talk about her. Mandy had deeply cared about her, and still mourned her death. "So where are we going?"
"To the bosses and see what they want us to do next. I'm not what their big plan is, but as usual, their one-track minds want Palmer out of office. I really hope they get over that and move on. The man only has a few years left, and in my opinion he has not done that bad."
"We're not allowed to have opinions." Mandy snapped at him.
"We are a little touchy today. Is it PMS time?"
"I swear to God if you don't shut up, I will kill you."
"Fine. I'll be quiet. Damn you're no fun."
Mandy stewed in the back. Ever time she had to work with this guy things went wrong or bad. The man was good at what he did, but he was too immature and just irked her. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------
Tony left Kim's room to go see if Chase had waken up yet. When he entered Chase's room, he noticed the nurse was arguing with Chase.
"What's going on?" Tony demanded.
The nurse looked at Tony and answered, "Mr. Edmunds wants to get up and leave."
"Chase, are you crazy? You were just wounded pretty bad earlier and now you want to get up and leave. Lie back down."
"I can't Tony. Jack is still out there."
"Chase, what are you going to deal with? Run up to the people and try to take them on with your injuries? You don't have a chance. Don't worry, we are working on finding him."
"But you haven't found him. I promised Kim I would find him. I can't let her down."
"We will find him. If you go out there we will have to focus not only on finding Jack, but keeping you safe. We need to keep all our resources on finding Jack. Chase, you know you can't find Jack on your own wounded like this. Listen to me for once and let us do it."
Chase looked at Tony with anger in his eyes. He was tired of Tony and Jack both thinking he could not handle himself. He knew what he was capable, and he was almost as good as Jack. He knew he hadn't reached Jacks capability yet, but he knew he would one day. He learned from the best. "I've been through worse in the past, remember? I was tortured with fists and a shovel, shocked with a cattle prod, shot through the hand by Hector, and then had gasoline poured over the wound. If you're going to compare me to Jack, I'm almost the same as him. Jack would have been killed in Mexico if it wasn't for me sniping Ramon Salazar, or worse, Jack getting killed at the prison by one of the rioters."
Tony looked at Chase and he could see the anger in his eyes. "I know what you are capable of Chase. But at the moment Kim needs you. She is worried sick about you and her father. Why don't you see if this nice lady will allow you to go over to her room and you can comfort her? And when we get something on Jack I'll come get you and we can go after him together."
Chase looked at him, knowing what Tony had said was true. He gave up and said, "Does my sister know about this?"
"No. We didn't call her. I completely forgot. You had Kim down as your emergency contact and I've been running back and forth all day. If you want, we can call her and she can bring Angela over."
"No. No need to worry her. I'll go see Kim. I'm sure Angela is asleep already, and I don't want my sister to wake her."
"Fine. Kim is next door. I need to go over and talk to Darla. But first run through with me what happened. Kim told me some stuff. I just want to try to get the entire picture before I go and question Darla."
Chase ran through all of what had occurred over the past day.