Pushing her way through the awkwardly heavy door she saw Jack hunched over his desk, seemingly asleep. A pen was lodged between his fingers and his head was resting over some documents. Chloé stood and watched , now encountering on of her moral dilemmas. Should she wake Jack? If she did he would probably snap at her and be grumpy because he was tired. But, she pondered, if she left him to sleep he wouldn't know she was early. She pondered these thoughts for a few moments before deciding to wake him, he shouldn't be sleeping on the job, she decided.
She approached slowly as though he were a bomb set to go off at any moment, and shook him awake. Jack jolted awake immediately, and after wiping his mouth he stood up to stretch his arms and back while letting out a loud yawn, he then proceeded to try and smooth the creases out of his white shirt. Chloé watched apprehensively until he thanked her for waking him, which made her immediately relax.
"You know Jack, you could get into a lot of trouble for sleeping on the job, and its hardly professional...." Jack tried to ignore Chlo's annoying moan of the day and paced around the office, trying to awaken himself, uninterested in whatever she was whining about this time. Still, she continued on, despite his lack of interest.
"Chloé, I have a major headache, and hearing your voice isn't making it go away." He stated bluntly.
This stopped her and she stood with a frustrated look across her face before storming off towards her station. Trying to get her nagging complaints from his mind he checked his watch and smiled, 5 am, he could go home soon, once Tony got here. At this he left his office and went down to the central area of CTU, looking around for Tony.
Tony wriggled about in the cramped confines of the boot, struggling to free his hands, but it seemed the harder he tried the tighter they became. He decided to change his plan of action, and listened intently over the sounds of the car for whatever activity was going on, and try to figure out who these guys were and where they were taking him. He could hear somebody talking, but no responses, so he guessed somebody was on a phone. Straining to hear anything, he only got the last sentence of the call, but didn't like it one bit.
"The attack is already in place, and we will intercept the second package." The unknown gruff voice said.
Tony felt the pit of his stomach drop, he could only assume they were talking about attacking CTU.
Trying to concentrate on listening harder he found that what he was really doing was trying to preoccupy his mind from letting the image of Michelle creep back into his mind. He prayed she was okay and that they hadn't taken here too, that somebody would find her. He guessed that he was due in CTU around now, and Jack would be eager to leave after his shift. Maybe he would get suspicious and drive over to their home to see what was taking him so long. He hoped he would.
Jack couldn't find Tony around, so he headed to the doorman, who informed him Tony hadn't checked in. Sighing, Jack leaned onto the wall staring out of a window, where he noticed a silver object glimmer through the last of the nights darkness. Curious he headed back upstairs to the window over there, it took a few moments, but again it shone defiantly against the night. This time Jack recognised it as the lens from a sniper. Trying to remain calm he picked up the phone and tried to make an internal call, but an pre recorded operators voice informed him all calls were locked. Now panicking, Jack ran down to the analyst area of CTU.
"Adam-" Jack called, but was immediately cut off by Adam, who, without looking up from his terminal screen yelled:
"Jack we got a big problem here, all computer systems are down and I can't filter it out."
"The phones are locked as well and there's a sniper outside, probably had reinforcements. Were under attack"
"What? Oh my God, how many personnel are in?"
Jack thought for a moment then gravely replied, "1 man on the door, you, Scott and Kim down here, Chloé upstairs, and me and Baker on field ops, no security."
"What? 7 people, only 2 from tactical? What are we going to do?" He asked, visibly scared.
"You get Kim and Chloé out of here with Scott, me and Baker will have to come up with something, fast. Take them down to the defence shelter past the conference room. Once you have got them out of here, I want you to come back and try to get a message over to division or LAPD, at the moment all communications are out."
Adam nodded, nervously, then Jack said, "Go now Adam. Fast as you can, we need to end this before it starts."
Again he nodded in response, too scared to talk. For the first time in 3 years, he had herd fear in Jack Bauer's voice.
Why oh why, out of all the characters on 24, did they name, 'HER' Chloé, my name?!! Lol.