Jack awoke to a bang in the house. He looked over to his side Kate wasn't in the bed with him. He jumped out of bed and put on a pair of boxers and a shirt, her ran down the stairs to see nothing.

The room was dark the front door was closed and locked. He couldn't hear anything, there was no noises coming from anywhere in the house.

"Kate?" Jack called out as he went to the back up the stairs to get his gun from his bedroom.

There was no response. He walked back down the stairs. Looking in each room for any sign of Kate, but there was none.

Her purse and shoes were still in the same place as she had left them so she didn't leave. Jack tried the light switch the power had been cut. He picked up the phone... Dead.

"Who are you!" Jack demanded.

Once again no response from the dark.

He made his way toward the back of the house. He looked out the window, there was a black SUV in the road. Unless the neighbors had got a new car in the past few days there was someone here.

He continued to look around the house. He ran back upstairs to get his cell phone to call the cops.

"I wouldn't call the cops Mr. Bauer. See I wouldn't like that one bit and I'm sure your girlfriend here wouldn't like that either." Came an middle eastern voice.

"Where are you and what do you want." Jack yelled from the top of the stairs after getting his phone.

"You ruined the plans of an attack a few months back that cost me money. I want that money but I know I will not get it. So I need something else." The voice came again.

Jack not wanting to risk his or Kates life did not call the cops but CTU.

"Almedia." Tony said picking up his phone.

"Tony its Jack." Jack said. "Someone is at my house, they cut the phone lines and the power and Kate is missing."

"Alright, I will send Smith and Richards over to your house they should be there in about 6-8 minutes try and keep the guy in the house." Tony said walking over to Smith to give him the orders.

"Thanks Tony, I owe you one." Jack said.

"You owe me more then one, but we will talk about that later." Tony said hanging up.

The lights Jack had tried earlier came on, the living room was still dark. Jack stood at the top of the stairs his gun in hand looking around him to make sure the man was not behind him.

"JACK!" Kate yelled at the top of her lungs.

"Kate where are you?" Jack yelled back to her not knowing where she was and if she was hurt.

It fell quiet again. Smith and Richards wouldn't be here for another 5 minutes Jack knew he needed to lure out the man that was holding Kate.

Jack went down a few steps, then there was a gun shot and a thud. Jack froze his mind racing with ideas what could have happened. The lights came on in the living room below him.

Jack then saw Kates lifeless body on the ground around her a pool of blood. The man was the one who escaped from the complex months before.

"Mr. Bauer." The man said looking at Jack.

Jacks eyes just stared at the woman he loved dead. His mind went back to the night he found Teri. Another woman he loved was lost.

Jack raised his gun to shot the man, he wanted him dead for what he had did to his life. But before he could shot the man shot him.

Jack tumbled down the stairs landing to the cold tile of the living room. Just then Richards and Smith came busting though the doors and shot the man without question. Richards ran back outside to get the EMTs

"Jack." Smith said pushing on Jacks wound. "The EMT's will be here in a few seconds. Just hold on."

"Stay with me Jack." Richard said to Jack.

Jacks eyes fluttering trying to stay awake. Thinking of Kim and his soon to be grand daughter, how much he loved them.

His eyes closed.

"WE'RE LOSING HIM!" Smith yelled as the EMT's came running into the room.

THE END.