"Its obvious these people are planning on something. I mean, they have got the two heads of CTU, and the top programmer. They are going to do something today; something bad."
Tony felt embarrassed by Jack's remark, he hadn't figured this out, John had told him why they had been taken; yet Jack had easily figured it out in minutes, and in his present condition too. Suddenly Tony didn't feel as confident as he had before, yet he knew he was instrumental in getting them out of their situation - he was the only person capable of doing so. Trying to vent out some of his frustration with himself he sighed.
"Yea... The man who is keeping us here, John, he's called. He said that we were here because they were planning to detonate some sort of bomb in L.A, sometime today."
Jack perked up at this new information, he didn't seem to notice that Tony was chewing himself over for not figuring it out. Bringing Tony back to the land of the living from his mental scolding of himself he asked, "What type of bomb... a nuke?"
"No, no. I doubt it. He said it was something simple, but would still get the job done. Its pure speculation, but I'd guess it will be a basic explosive package, with plenty of C-4 to make sure it blasts away a large radius of land."
At this, Chloé finally piped in, "How can you be so sure? He may have been lying; this could be a trick so we think its not a nuke!" She seemed panicked, and Jack sighed, kicking himself for mentioning the possibility in front of her.
"Chloé, are you deaf, of did I not just say it was purely speculation? And, what would they gain from tricking us into thinking is wasn't a nuke? Its not like we can do anything about it stuck in here, can we?" He yelled.
"Well I'm so sorry for trying to help! You know Tony, you should really work on your people skills!" She screamed over Tony.
Jack was listening and if he were not in so much pain he would have laughed out loud at this comment. Chloé was complaining at somebody else's people skills, when in fact she had none. Seeing the look of rage on Tony's face he decided to stop the two before they really got going. Trying to sit up he said,
"Well, we need to get out of here... we can't stop the damn thing while were detained here, can we?"
Tony was about to argue until he saw the pained expression upon Jacks face as he tried to push himself into a sitting position. Jack let out a grunt of pain and fell back onto his back . He closed his eyes, angry at himself for not being able to complete such a simple task. He was in a lot of pain, and on top of that he was having trouble breathing and he had no strength, feeling weaker than he was previously. He realised he wouldn't be of much help in averting the disaster which was set to happen.
"Jack.... Jack?" Tony called gently, seeing his friend turn very pale suddenly. Jack opened his eyes slightly, it was all he could muster the strength to do. "Don't move... okay? Your going to make yourself worse." Tony ordered, hoping for once, Jack would follow his orders. Jack slowly nodded his head and allowed his eyes to close again, warmly inviting the darkness in, in exchange for forgetting the pain.
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Okay okay I know its short..... I'll try get more up soon; exams are a bummer!
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