Jack heard Tony and he could feel a part of his old self again, something he was sure he had buried so deep that is was long gone. He could hear the mans despair and he wanted to tell him it wasn't his fault. He wanted to help Tony even if he was in such immense pain. The other Jack, the new Jack quickly beat the old Jack back down. Jack was to tired to say anything but the new Jack wanted him to say, "Fu(k you." But instead Jack rolled over onto his side facing away from Tony.

"Jack why don't I look at some of the wounds and try to dress a few? Like the one on your arm."

"GO away." Jack barely croaked.

"Please let me help you Jack."

"Go away Tony." Jack said with a clear anger and a small reserve of strength behind his voice.

"If that's what you want." Tony got up and left Jack lying on the ground. He was hurt some by Jack's coldness towards him than Tony remembered all he had just seen Jack go through and he couldn't blame him for hating him.

Tony watched from the other room. The attacks Jack had from the poison slowly subsided, the man never visited him through that time. Tony had lost track of what time it was or how long they had been there, he heard his stomach growl and he thought about going to find Kate and see if she wanted to get something to eat than the poison came to mind and he decided it was better if he just stayed hungry.

The huge man went into Jack's room once he was sure that most of the poisons was out of Jack's system. Jack didn't bother to acknowledge him when he walked it. Jack just curled up into a tight little ball and prepared himself for more pain.

"God this place smells." The man said genuinely disgusted. He left a returned with a high pressure hose, almost like the type fire men use. They had kept on every hall in order to spray out the rooms. He turned the high pressured house on and began to spray the room out. He turned the hose on Jack, which pushed Jack across the wet floor into the wall. Jack cried out in pain as the water beat his skin. It stung and added to the pain he already felt as it went over every bruise and possibly broken bone.

When the man finished he put the hose back up and returned, "That's much better. You ready for that story now?"

Jack was against the wall trying to block out all of the pain.

"Tell me the story Jack and I'll get someone in here to look over all your wounds. Possibly even give you something for the pain."

It was too tempting not to take. "Where should I began?" Jack asked barely audible and clearly defeated.

"How about when Nina grabbed you." The man said flatly though he was full of excitement inside. He hoped they had the tape recorders going.

"Can I get some no poised water first. I'd prefer it comes from the hands of Tony Almeida." Jack said pushing himself up slightly wincing in pain.

"Sure." The man said walking out of the room to get the water and Tony.

He returned with Tony who held a bottle of water. He handed it to Jack and went to lean against the far wall.

Jack struggled with the cap. He drank half of the bottle in the first gulp. He put the cap back on with is shaky hands, and pushed himself to a standing position the pain very evident on his face. Tony had to fight to keep himself from running over to help his beaten friend.

Jack slowly moved towards the chair blocking out the pain ever momvent caused. He sat in the chair and took a deep breath and began the story from begging to end. From seeing Kim being killed to now.

Tony almost gasped in multiple spots of the story. But he was shocked to hear that while with Nina Jack had not killed or hurt anyone till CTU.

"What about the time between when you decided to help Nina and the CTU hit? You did nothing?" The big man asked daring Jack to lie.

Jack looked at him not lying, "They didn't trust me a hole lot. I usually waited outside for her, or in another room. I didn't hear anything and even if I hate CTU and this country I would not kill an innocent person for the hell of it. I'm not a monster."

The man believed Jack, and than said, "I'll check with my superiors to see if they want anything else from you." The man left the room and Tony just leaned against the wall staring at Jack in amazement.

"What?" Jack asked feeling self conscious about Tony staring at him.

"I'm sorry." Tony said. "I know it won't even help with what you've been through, but I am truly sorry. They never should have let any of this happen."

"Thanks." Jack said quietly. The old Jack clearly winning the battle to surface.

The man returned to the room and said, "It was fine. They'll have more questions, but not now. Tony come with me please." The man led Tony out of the room. Jack was sitting in the chair arguing in his head with himself both sides screaming this had to end, one wanting him to kill himself the other wanting him to just do what they wanted.

Kate opened the door to his room and walked it. For a second Jack was taken back to the time when Nina came in when he was having the same argument in North Africa. "Hi Jack. You look like hell."

"What are you doing here?" He asked confused.

"Don't worry about that. I came to look at you." She said holding up the medical bag in her hands.

She walked over to Jack. She set the medical bag on the table and politely told him to, "Take your shirt off."

Jack struggled it caused pain for him to move even slightly. Kate helped him unbutton he tattered, torn, dirty, and wet shirt. Once it was off she stared at his chest. It was purple with bruises covering it, she could see old scars that were new to her eyes. She had known his body well while they were together she use to trace the scars he had with her fingers, but he had so many new ones. She could only assume they came from his time in North Africa.

She tended to all his cuts. Gently cleaning them and than dressing them. She spoke softly to him about anything she could think of. He never really answered back unless she directly asked him a question, he had always been quiet, but this was unusual of him still. He would hold his own in a conversation, and he wasn't even tempting to. She knew he was listening though.

When she finished she told him she'd be back with new clothes and a blanket for him. She left him sitting in the room. He loved to seeing her to smell her hair, feel her touch on his skin even when it hurt it was still sweet. He was taken back by her.

Kate returned with clothes and a blanket like she had said she would. She watched him dress, she could feel the slight hesitation he had, but ignored it. When he finished changing she walked over to him and gently wrapped the blanket around him. She heard a knock on the door and than it opened the big guy (WHO I HAVE YET TO GIVE A NAME) who has been visiting Jack walked into the room. "Sorry Kate I'm suppose to move him to one of the conference rooms. Mr. Palmer would like you to join us also." He said walking over to Jack who flinched when the man touched him. He led Jack through the corridors to the conference room.

When Jack walked in he knew a few of the people in the room and his face showed the appropriate shock to see David Palmer sitting at the head of the table. Tony smiled encouragingly at him. Damon and Peter also sat at the table watching Jack as he walked in noticing a completely different posture to him, he was broken again and now they just had to glue the pieces back to fit their picture of him.

"Please sit Jack." David said pointing at an empty chair.

Jack sat in the chair and the big man sat behind him waiting for any reason to hit him again, Jack was sure of it. Jack looked around confused.

"We have a proposal for you." Damon said to break the silence.

Peter went on to explain, "At this juncture of your stay with us we would like to propose a possible future for you. We would like you to come work for us again."

"Doing what?" Jack asked wearily.

"You'll learn that later if you accept."

"If I don't?"

"You'll be held responsible for everything you did, and will go in front of a military tribunal. Where you will be found guilty of treason among other things, and if your luck you'll spend a few agonizing weeks at the lovely resort we have in Cuba (I CAN"T SPELL IT), where those people will make your friend behind you look like a nun, and than you will finish off your stay with a nice bullet to the back of the head."

Jack gulped he had thought about what would happen to him. "That sounds enticing." He almost said jokingly but instead he kept his mouth closed. Tony watched Jack and he could see the struggle going on inside of him. He hoped the old Jack would win.

"So I sign my life away to you guys and work of a sentence for you. Doing whatever I will learn about later, and than what? I just work for you till I die?"

"No. Eventually after the board thinks you have paid for all your deeds you'll be let go."

"Where do I sign?" Jack asked knowing either choice sucked but in one he had a chance to live.

"Here." David pushed the contract in front of Jack who read it before he signed it.

"Anything else?" Jack asked.

"Yes now we will brief you on what we want you to do." David said flatly. Giving a nod for Jack's oversized friend to leave the room. "Nina Myers escaped custody earlier today."

"How did that happened?" Tony broke in to ask before Jack could.

Jack had already figured it out, "They let her. She doesn't know they let her, but they let her." It all made sense to Jack now everything from the time he was captured by Nina all the way to now what it all had meant.

"Correct Jack." David answered. "We will do the same for you. You will go back to her. The same old Jack. Undercover of course. You will filter information back to us all about what is going on. They will trust you know because you had a choice to stay here, but you escaped. Your time here has been top secret more or less you've been in solitary at one of the local jails."

"When do I start?" Jack asked flatly.

"Now. Damon and Peter will drive you to the jail. We will fake a jail break, hopefully more successful than the last one you did. And than you on your own. You will contact your case officer via this number memorize it." Palmer said handing a lip of paper to Jack.

"Who is my case officer?" Jack asked.

"Kate." David said.

Jack had many objections but he still feared the big man returning so he shut his mouth.

"Now if you screw with us Jack, you will be killed, and your stay here will seem like a picnic compared to what will be in store for you if you screw up." David threatened.

"I never saw this side of you while you were in office. I like it." Jack said smiling at him, getting back into character or was he going back to his bad Jack ways. Either way he knew what he had to do, and he had a purpose again in life, so he'd do it.

Jack was escorted out of the room and to an awaiting van before he left he had one more round with the big guy. They explained why he had to go through with it and this time he knew the big guy took it easier on him than before. All of the wounds Kate had so tenderly dress were broken back open. They drove him to the jail going over what he would to in order to escape. They gave him a last known location on Nina. They got to the prison Jack went to his cell and waited for the guard to come by. The guard found it weird they were going through all of this, but he was going to follow orders. Jack got his gun and used him to get out of the prison. Once outside he took off on foot towards the subway. He ran through the tunnel to a small sub station that he knew he could get out through. Once outside again he was sure he was clear of anyone chasing him. He remembered the number Nina had give him when they would separate. S he said if something ever happened he could find her through this number. Jack found a pay phone and called the number collect.

After a few long minutes of waiting he finally got connected with someone. He told them the story of his jail break and said he needed someone to pick him up. He waited down the street from the location he gave them in case they were going to kill him. He would be able to escape. The car pulled up at the corner and he saw Nina get out. He acted shock to see her he ran up to her, clearly in pain. He asked her, "How did you get free?"

"I escaped. Same as you. Come on before the cops come." Nina looked at him worried, "What did they do to you?"

Jack smiled he was back undercover. "You know they don't take kindly to traitors." He got into the back of the car with her and she grabbed his hand glancing at him.

"We'll get a doctor for you." She said glancing at him. She wiped the blood off his face, "It's amazing you can even move. God you always surprised me by your tolerance for pain, or your will to keep going." She gently touched his cheek.

She kissed him gently, and Jack tried not to seem repulsed. He had to let the bad Jack take over again or she'd see right through him again. "What can I say superman has nothing on me?"

THE END NO SERIOULSY THE END THIS HAS MORPHED INTO A NEW STORY THAT WILL COME OUT LATER. SORRY TO LEAVE U SORT OF HANING BUT I DIDN"T DO A CHLOE AND THIS IS THE END. DAS IS ALLEST.