U"ALL WERe rIGHT HE WENT GOOD TO SOON. HE WENT GOOD AGAIN BUT THIS WAS BECAUSE HE KNEW THEY WEREN"T GOING TO KILL HIM AND HE WOULD onLY SUFFER MORE, SO HE OBLIGED TO THEIR REQUEST IN ORDER TO STOP THE PAIN. HE NO LONGER IS LOYAL TO EITHER SIDE HE IS JUST OUT TO LIVE AND TO DO THAT HE MUST DO WHAT THEY WANT OR SIDE WITH NINA WHICH WILL HE DO FIND OUT WHENEVER I WRITE THE SEQUEL :::
"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."
"No." Jack said knowing either choice sucked, and he could find a better way out of this.
"Are you sure Jack?" David asked worried.
"Fu(k off. I'm not helping you after you all betray me. I'd rather die."
"Than that is what will happen Jack." Kate said pleading with him.
"Better than living with the people who betray me."
"You lived with Nina?" Kate said quickly.
"She was always open after the betrayal and she never once acted like she cared about my well being. She set it completely straight after she killed Teri." Jack said angrily.
"Take him back." David said to the big man behind Jack. "Bring him back when he's ready."
The oversized man yanked Jack out of the chair and practically dragged him all the way back to the room. Jack didn't fight he knew eventually they would kill him and he was fine with it, he had nothing left to live for, and the good part of him was showing through he felt guilty for what he did at CTU, but at the same time he felt a sense of justices too.
When they got back to the room the man wasted no time laying in to Jack. He didn't stop after awhile this time. He continued on and on. Even after Jack stopped fighting or even crying out in pain. He paused every now and then to check to make sure Jack was still breathing, and than started right back up. After hours of laying into Jack he left the room. Jack lay on the ground unable or unwilling to move he wasn't sure which it was because he knew any movement would cause him pain. He felt like laughing because he started to think about all the times he had wish he'd pass out from the pain and he never did, but that one moment when he wanted to stay awake he would pass out. He lightly chuckled to himself, but it caused to much pain so he winced a second later. He looked around the room for a way to end his life before he caved in to their demands. He knew he had no allies left, he was a lone wolf, with no one to trust nor anyone to work with or for.
Pushing himself up through the pain he saw the blanket from earlier they had left it in there. He looked at it and than at the hook. He knew what he could do. He slowly moved himself over to the blanket. He moved through the pain and began to make a noose with the blanket. When he finished he put the blanket loop around the hook in the ceiling. He knew no one was watching because they would have been in there by now. He stood on his toes and put his neck through the loop. He let his weight fall forward and lifted his legs off the ground. He felt the blanket digging into his neck. He closed his eyes as they started to water from lack of oxygen.
Tony was returning from a meeting in which they discussed further how to break Jack down more. Tony stayed quiet throughout the meeting offering no advice. He didn't want to be apart of this anymore. He had seen what they did to Jack, and he could only guess the many different ways they would use Jack once he agreed to do it. There was no doubt in Tony's mind he'd eventually say yes, it was only a matter of time.
He looked into the room Jack was in and saw him hanging by the blanket. He froze for a second before he ran out into the hall and yelled for someone. He knew he couldn't get inside the room. He screamed until Kate came out of her room, "What's wrong Tony?"
"He's hung himself. I can't get in."
Kate ran up to the door and opened it. She saw Jack hanging by the hook in the wall, and she cursed herself for leaving the blanket in there. Tony ran past her and lifted Jack up so that the blanket was no longer chocking him. Tony wasn't sure if he was still alive, but he wasn't going to let him drop back down. It seemed like forever before the bulky man got down to the room. He took the blanket off the hook, and Tony gently lowered Jack to the ground. He felt for a pulse and in those agonizing seconds Tony was sure Jack was dead. He was relieved when he felt the small pump of blood running through Jack's veins. "I got a pulse." He said.
"Stupid ba$tard." The bulky man said staring at Jack.
Tony lost he and went after the man tackling him to the ground. Soon the man had Tony restrained with is arms pined behind his back. Tony struggled against him for a few minutes until finally he stopped and said, "I'm done."
The bulky man let his arms go and got off him.
Jack was slowly regaining consciousness and heard the commotion. He opened his eyes and looked around the room, all of his hope sank. He wasn't going to kill himself, they wouldn't let that happen. He had two real options and neither seemed pleasing. He lay on the ground and coughed, causing his body more pain.
"What should we do about him?" Kate asked looking at Jack knowing he would attempt again.
"I'll be back." The big man said leaving them to watch Jack. After a short conference with Palmer he returned with a pair of plastic cuffs. He moved Jack on to his back, Jack not fighting him, and cuffed his hands behind his back. "There that should keep the stupid ba$tard from hanging himself again." The man smiled at his handy work.
"Come on Tony." Kate said knowing more trouble was coming Jack's way. "Lets go get super."
"I want to stay and watch." Tony said once he was out of the room.
"Come on. Please make this easy for once." Kate said pleading him.
"No." Tony said.
"Please don't make me call security to take you with me to get food."
"You wouldn't?" Tony questioned her but saw her face was resolute. "You were his lover Kate. You can't just sit by and watch this."
"Yes I can. I have to it's my job." Kate said grabbing Tony's arm and pulling him away from the room.
Inside the man again laid into Jack. "You stupid ba$tard trying to hang yourself. Get me into trouble, your going to pay." The man laid into Jack he stopped halfway through and said, "I'll be back. I'm tired of hitting you. I'm going to get some chick to finish this off for me because you couldn't even fight your way out of a paper bag." The man left he returned later with a golf club, a pair of pliers, and a tazer gun.
"Look new toys." He said showing each one to Jack who's eyes were half opened. One was almost to the point of swelling shut. He groaned slightly when he saw the pliers he could only guess their use. He seriously thought about saying he'd do it to stop them, and than leave and change course once he was free.
The big man grabbed the tazer pressed the button to make the electricity come out in front of Jack's face. "Looks good enough." He placed the tazer against Jack's abdomen and pressed the button. He watched as Jack shook from the electricity running through him. He stopped and did it again a few seconds later. He stopped looking at Jack, "I bet that deal looks good now doesn't it?"
Jack didn't answer him, he didn't even hear him his mind went away, it was to consumed by the pain. The man grabbed the golf club and swung hard into Jack's ribs. "That would have been a hole in one." He said laughing as Jack cried out in pain. Tears running down Jack's face clearing some of the dried blood off his face.
David opened the door to the room and walked in. He knelt by Jack who was on is back laying on his cuffed hands, "How about now?" He asked Jack whose left eye had swollen shut.
Jack thought about it, but the sight of Palmer standing over him angered him more, he spit blood out onto Palmers nice white shirt. "Jack why'd you do that?" Palmer asked looking at the beaten man. "Turn him over." Palmer order the big bulky man.
Once Jack was on his back he groaned slightly as his own weight pushed on his broken ribs. "Now Jack I'm going to do this the simple way. I have pliers here and what I'm going to do is squeeze them tightly until your finger breaks. I'll continue this up every finger until every bone is broken in your fingers. Once I get through, if I get through all ten fingers, I'll go get a vice for your arms. You will do what we want you too, it's only a matter of time and pain, you choose how much."
Palmer began with Jack's ring finger. Palmer noticed the white band around it from where his wedding ring had once been, he still had the white band from all the years the finger had not see the sun, it now didn't like to tan, and was a constant reminder to Jack what he had lost. Palmer began at the tip of the finger and squeezed tightly until he heard something crunch. Jack screamed out in pain, blood dripping out of his mouth as he did so. He wished he would pass out, but his mind was so sharp and focused on the pain. Palmer made it up the ring finger before Jack had finally passed out from the pain. "Wake him up." Palmer ordered the man who sat back and watched now.
The man woke Jack up with the little tablets that you break open. Jack jolted awake squinting his one eye that was left open. He laid his head back onto the cold ground and tried to block out the pain. Palmer began with Jack's middle finger next. He made it to the middle before Jack finally screamed out, "I'll do it." Tears were running down Jack's face to the ground. He couldn't take it anymore he just wanted the pain to stop.
"That's a good boy Jack." Palmer said patting him on the back as Jack winced in pain.
The large man carried Jack as is back to the conference room where everyone had been assembled again. Tony looked at Jack and felt worse as he saw one of Jack's eyes was swollen shut and blood was dripping down his fingers. The large man cut the plastic cuffs away from Jack's hands. Jack shook slightly out of pain, and being cold.
"Here." David pushed the contract in front of Jack who read it before he signed it.
Jack's hand shook as he signed it. He thought it was funny when they were breaking only the fingers on his left hand until now. They wanted him to be able to sign the paper and he was right handed. They always thought ahead he thought bitterly.
Giving a nod for Jack's oversized friend to leave the room as she could see the distress he caused Jack every time he moved near Jack, who flinched every time unconsciously, Kate began. "Nina Myers escaped custody earlier today."
"How did that happened?" Tony broke in to ask before Jack could.
Jack had already figured it out he may have been beaten and sore, but his mind was working over time, "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." Palmer continued, "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 slip 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 wish you were dead, and your stay here will seem like a picnic compared to what will be in store for you if you screw up. You know we have many more ways of inflicting pain, and in the end you will die a very painful lonely death. If you succeed you will eventually be allowed to go free and live a normal life again." 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 because he couldn't take much more of the beatings. They weren't going to kill him till he did what they wanted, they wouldn't even let him die.
Jack was escorted out of the room. 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?"