Nina went to one of the tech rooms and went to work on downloading all the files of CTU onto her wireless computer that was connected into a major mainframe in Germany. She had to get through the decryptions before she could start downloading. She cussed as CTU had put up more firewalls and protection to keep her out. She was a little behind on technology of the computers, they were not using the same network she had designed herself, it was all new.

A man came into the room, "We are missing one person from the people still signed in."

"Who?" Jack asked looking around.

"Chase Edmunds."

"My good old friend. Watch them I'm going to search the surrounding area's." Jack said limping out of the room.

Nina was typing away cussing the computer when she heard the door open. She swung around with her gun, but was to late. She heard the loud bang of the gun firing and felt the searing pain in her arm as she dropped her gun. She looked at the man standing in the door way.

Jack heard the gunfire and moved quickly towards the tech room Nina was in. He was sure it came from there. He reached the hallway and cautiously approached the doorway. When he got to the door he peeked in and saw Chase standing behind Nina with a gun pointed at her head, "Drop it Jack."

"Why would I do that Chase?" Jack asked smiling.

"I'll kill her." Chase said already wanting to pull the trigger.

"Go ahead. I wanted to do it myself for quite some time." Jack smiled at him.

Chase began to pull back on the trigger and Jack didn't flinch.

Nina yelled, "What the fu(k Jack? Your going to let him kill me."

"Why not you killed Teri."

Chase moved his gun off Nina quickly and fired at Jack who raised his gun and fired at the same time. Chase pulled Nina to the ground with him and Jack fell on the ground. He felt a harsh pain in his side. He reached his hand down and felt the blood seeping out of the wound. He tried to sit up but it hurt to much so he laid back down on the floor. He glanced over at Nina to see her on the ground blood pouring out of a wound on her shoulder.

Chase stood up and walked over to Jack who lay on the ground with his gun next to him. Chase kicked the gun away and said, "How many are there?"

"Fu(k you." Jack answered.

Chase put his foot on the gun shot wound over Jack's bloody had and applied some of his weight to it. Jack screamed out in pain, "How many are there Jack?"

"Fu(k you Chase."

"Get up." Chase said pulling Jack to his feet. He carried most of Jack's weight towards the conference room that he had last seen Tony, Michelle and Darren in. When he walked up to the door he heard the two men inside ask Jack, "What happened?"

Chase pointed his gun at them and ordered, "Put your guns on the ground or your both dead."

One of the men aimed at Chase and was taken down quickly by a bullet to the head. "Would you like to try now?" Chase asked the other man who did not have a chance of hitting Chase as most of his body was covered by Jack.

The man placed his gun on the ground. Tony grabbed it and pointed it at him. "God it's good to see you Chase." Tony said smiling.

"Do you know how many there are?" Chase asked.

"No."

Chase put Jack into the chair again. Michelle got up and secured Jack in the chair. "Where's Nina?" She asked.

"In the tech room she's shot she should still be there. Why don't you go get her. Darren you watch Jack. Tony lets go get the others."

"Before we do anything we really should know how many more men are out there." Tony said looking at Jack.

"He's not speaking."

Michelle couldn't stand it anymore she walked over to Jack and looked him in the eye, "Why Jack? How could you do this to everyone. This isn't you."

"You never knew me Michelle." Jack said flatly.

"You are right we never did know you. But the Jack Bauer I knew would never do this. Never. He would have killed himself before he turned."

"Well that Jack is dead." Jack said, his cold eyes almost causing Michelle to shake.

"What did they do to you?" Michelle asked looking at him not seeing the Jack she knew.

"That's a funny question." Jack smiled at her for the first time.

"We got to get moving. Darren watch Jack." Chase said as he and Tony walked out of the room.

Michelle walked to the tech room with her gun steadied. She was ready for anyone to try something. When she got to the tech room she saw Nina lying on the floor holding her shoulder. Michelle was tempted to point her gun at her and empty the clip into her. Something had changed in Jack, and Michelle knew part of it had to do with Kim, but there was much more there. "What did you do to him?"

"Who?" Nina asked lying on the floor.

"Jack."

"Nothing he didn't want." Nina smiled.

Nina thought back to when she got him back to North Africa the night Kim died. He had not struggled a bit, after he woke up with a hangover he followed whatever she wanted. She had never seen him so docile before. She felt almost comfortable with him not being cuffed. She walked him off the plane and let him go with one of her best people. She didn't check in on him until the man came to tell her he was ready. When she walked into the room Jack was quiet still, almost not there. He looked worse, he had taken a beaten, his eyes were black, and his face was swollen in different area's with dried blood. She noticed that his blonde hair was a reddish color from the blood. She walked up to him and he flinched when she touched him he had never done that before. She helped him stand, he had to put most of his weight on her, she helped him back to her room. He curled up on the bed and didn't say anything. That night he cried to himself as she held him unsure of what to do. She had heard of people being broken, but she had never actually seen it till Jack. She molded him into the person he was now after that. It was so easy she helped him see how all of his problems were because of the U.S. and his job. He could blame everyone else, and that hatred fueled him.

The next morning she woke he was still in her arms asleep. She felt like they were back in Santa Barbara again. She loved waking up with him next to her, it felt like she was achieving something. She smiled she had achieved the highest goal yet she had been there to break Jack Bauer and turn him. Her boss's would be so happy once they found out they had the super agent on their side.

Michelle brought Nina back to her reality when she grabbed her off the ground roughly moving her to the conference room Jack sat in. His eyes were drooping some his body taking more of a beating then it had been prepared for or could take. When she saw him, Nina didn't feel anything. She never really cared for him like a lover would, he was just someone who she loved to sleep with, nothing more.

Michelle could hear the gunfire outside the room and she looked at Nina than to Jack, "If any of those people get hurt I'm going to make sure both your deaths are painful."

It seemed like forever before the gunfire ceased. Michelle sat on pins and needles the entire time worrying about Tony. She was relieved when the door opened to the room and Tony walked in with Chase.

"They're all dead or wounded." Tony said looking at Jack. "I called division and there sending people over to clean up and pick up the wounded."

Michelle hugged him glad to see Tony was alive. Chase stood staring at Jack who he barely recognized. Jack still looked the same, but he had a defeated aura about him. Not the same man Chase had knew. At the same time Chase's heart ached. Looking at Jack reminded him of Kim. He missed her, and he still loved her even if it had been almost a year if not longer since her death.

Tony looked at Jack who was leaking blood on the floor now, "Medics are coming too. They'll transport him to a holding center for the night."

"Than what?" Michelle asked glancing at Tony speaking quietly.

"They want him to answer some questions." Tony said, "And I need to be there to help." Tony looked at the ground he hated to see his once friend like this.

"Than what?" Michelle knew what the cryptic language meant.

"I don't know." Tony looked up, his eyes clearly had tears in them, it hurt him to see someone he looked up to and worked with for so long, especially Jack to be like this. "I don't know what they did to him while he was away, but it had to be bad if not worse than what his own country is going to do to him." Tony left the room to go check on all of the workers who he had left to secure the area. Michelle followed him sure Darren and Chase could keep watch on Jack and Nina.

Chase waited for them to leave till he started in again. "Darren why don't you move Nina to a different room." Chase asked not breaking eye contact with Jack.

"Are you sure Chase?" Darren knew what Chase wanted to do.

"Yes. Please." Chase asked still glaring at Jack.

"We'll be next door. They should be here in ten so take your time." Darren said pulling Nina off the ground and moving her through the room to the door and out to the next room.

"Why?"

"We already did this once Chase. Have you gotten stupider?"

Chase pulled his gun and put the barrel up against Jack's head, he wanted to pull the trigger so much but when Jack looked him in the eye he saw nothing in them, not even anger or fear, nothing they were cold and dead. "What did they do? What happened after . ." Chase couldn't bring himself to say it, he couldn't say the day Kim died.

"Does it matter?" Jack asked looking at the young agent he once knew, and seeing the pain in his eyes. He remembered his feelings after Teri died, and it hit him he was almost like Nina in that situation. He was Chase's Nina in a way.

"Yes. I want to know." Chase looked at him pleading through his eyes for Jack to tell him.

"Do you know why the skies blue?"

"How is that relevant?" Chase asked angered that Jack was playing him.

"When Kim was younger she asked me and I got tired of giving her the normal explanation so I gave her the real reason. She looked at me and asked me to explain more in depth, and she understood. She really understood and was so happy and went around explaining to everyone why the sky was blue. Her face lit up. She was an angel. I lost that. I lost everything I ever loved, my angel and my love of my life. Both because of this country because of this place. What did I get in return?" Jack said raising his voice. "They were going to can me Chase. I was a has been to them after the Salazars and that day. I no longer served a purpose so they were going to cut me loose. They had cut me loose. You don't think they didn't know where I was all those years I was away? Do you think they didn't know that Nina had captured me and the things they did. Because they knew, the knew exactly where I was and they did nothing to help. Nothing. They turned their back on me, just like Stephen said they would. I understood then why he was doing it. I understood and I knew from then on I couldn't be Jack Bauer the federal agent."

"So you helped the people you tried to take down for most of your adult life?"

"Kind of ironic isn't it?" Jack smiled at him a sad smile.

"You know what they are going to do to you now?"

"I'm sure it won't be much worse than what they've already done to me." Jack said as he saw the door open to the room. Tony and three other men came in with chains.

"Can I have a few more minutes Tony?" Chase asked pleading.

"Can't." Tony answered.

Chase watched as the men uncuffed Jack and pulled him out of the chair. They chained him and then helped him out to an awaiting ambulance.

Chase felt like a kid loosing his father watching him leave again. He ran up to Tony, "Can I ride with him. He was talking to me Tony. I might be able to get some information out of him."

"Sorry I can't. It's directly from the CIA director no one is to know about him. Jack Bauer died when his daughter died. At least that's what the records will show. He killed himself that night."

"They can't do this. He's a citizen for god's sake." Chase squeaked.

"His rights no longer apply. He is an enemy combatant." Tony left Chase standing in the room glaring at the wall.