"Jack I know you, you would not let millions of people die." Tony said looking at him, his eyes half closed.

"You hit something there Tony eyes dilated and heart rate increased." Michelle came over the ear piece.

"What?" Jack said confused how would millions of people die.

"Oh you don't know. She was using you Jack, like she always does." Tony began, "See we were looking for you and her and in the process we ran into a plan her people had concocted. They are going to . . . "

Jacks mind wondered to the last time he was at CTU. It was after capturing Sanders and all of the other emotional crap of that year, especially that day. He was interrogating the currier, Michaels. Kim came to visit to let Jack know Chase was not mad and wanted to see him. She walked into the room and Jack had just finished with Michaels unsuccessfully. He was taking a break and Kim walked in to talk to him.

Michaels some how got his hands free and grabbed a gun off one of the guards watching him. Before Jack could react Michaels had grabbed Kim and had her at gun point. His body tucked behind Kim's giving no one a clean shot to take him out. Jack had his gun pointed at him, waiting for the opportunity.

Tony walked into the room with others everyone had their gun drawn pointed at Michaels and Kim. Tony told him, "Put it down there is no way out of here."

Michaels said, "Me and her are going to walk out of here or she's dead. Now drop your guns like good little boys unless you want daddy over there to have to wipe his daughters brain matter off his face."

Jack lowered his gun still waiting for the shot.

Michaels knew there was no way out of the place alive, the minute he walked out of the room someone would shoot him. But that wasn't his mission, his mission was to get caught and inflict the worse pain possible on Jack, and it was not physical pain. "This is the last time I say this then she goes, put the guns down."

Jack looked at Tony and said, "Tell them to put there guns down." Tony had been brought back from federal holding after being pardoned by the President. They needed bodies to work the floor at CTU and Tony was able bodied.

"I can't Jack." Tony said without breaking his attention on Michaels.

Michaels pulled back on the trigger. Jack was standing close enough that when the bullet went through Kim's head it grazed his arm. But he didn't feel it, he felt the warm brain matter and skull fragments fly onto his face. His daughters brains on his face and shirt. He raised his gun and fired the entire clip into Michaels who was dead after the first bullet connected with his head. When Jack finished he slumped to the floor holding Kim's dead body in his arms. Holding her as blood, gray matter, and other stuff leaked out of the huge exit hole in her head. He just rocked back and forth for awhile getting all of it all over his clothes.

Jack's mind jumped to that night. He was at home, home was not the same pictures of Teri and Kim haunted him. Kim's stuff taunted him. He sat at the table staring at the gun, one bullet that's all he needed. He was entranced by the gun as he drank, never taking his eyes off it, never stop thinking about it. He wanted to end it, but a part of him the part that wanted to survive struggled with the other half. So he sat staring at the gun thinking about it, but his body unable to pick it up and pull the trigger. Why not what was there left to live for? He still had his blood soaked clothes on, not having the energy to take them off. The skull fragments and brain matter wiped off his face onto the shirt before he left CTU. He was surprised they let him leave after killing Michaels. All Tony had to do was drop his damn gun and this would not happen. Michaels was not going to get out all they had to do was let him go for a few, Jack would have been able to track him down again and get him He was no threat to the U.S. at the moment, his virus gone and all means of inflicting major harm disappeared. Tony had been more than willing to sacrifice millions to save his wife earlier, but he couldn't sacrifice a few people, that's what the death toll would have been if they let Michaels go till they could grab him again when he didn't have Kim.

The scene ran over and over again having a dreary feeling of familiarity holding another person he loved dead body. Teri and Kim all he ever loved gone because of him because he failed them both more than that one time, but that one time was the last time. He never should have gotten Kim the job at CTU what was he thinking. She would not of been in that situation if she had been working at a private business.

He heard the door open but he did not look over he didn't care who it was, it wasn't Kim. He heard the familiar voice, "Hi Jack."

He could see the gun in his peripheral vision pointed at him, he didn't care maybe this was the solution. He didn't take his gaze off his gun, she took it as him getting ready to go for it, she still had not know what happened to Kim. "Why don't you move away from the gun."

Jack still just sat staring at the gun never taking his eyes off it, this was it, all he had to do was reach for the gun and it would all be over, but his hand wouldn't move. He noticed the warm water running down his face, how long had that been happening.

Nina walked in the room and noticed Jack continuing to stare at the gun, she noticed the tears running down his face, and than the blood on his shirt. She was not sure what happened. She waited two more people came in from the downstairs to help, they were going to kill Jack if he did not do what they want, but by the looks of it he would of enjoyed death. Nina walked over to him cautiously she grabbed the gun off the table that had him so entranced. That broke his trance and he looked up at her, feeling nothing, but yearning for death.

"What happened?" Nina asked him.

He didn't answer he just stared off into space again, wishing death to come to end it all, even if Kim wasn't dead, what did he have left to live for? The next terrorist, they will keep coming and coming and eventually they will win, everything continued on and on yet he was always in the same situation.

Nina placed the barrel of her gun to the back of Jack's head and watched there was no emotion in his eyes he stared at her, his eyes willing her to pull the trigger. "It's not going to be that easy Jack." She said pulling the gun back. She didn't expect him to attack her, but he did. He jumped out of the chair and grabbed her throat and began o squeeze it till he was blocking all air from entering or exiting.

Pissed off his eyes looked like nothing she had ever saw from him. He was not the Jack she knew, even when he had wanted to kill her he still kept a humanity in his eyes, that was gone. She was scared fighting him trying to break his grasp. Through clinched teeth he said, "This is all your fault. Why did you have to come into my life?"

One of the men ran over and smashed the butt of his gun hard into Jack's head. Dazed Jack still held Nina's throat tightly until the second blow that knocked him unconscious. Nina fell to the ground where Jack lay gasping for breath still scared of Jack even if he was unconscious. When she gained her breath back she knew he hit the breaking point, he just needed help going into the right direction. "Grab him were leaving."