"John, Daniel is coming down now." James informed him.
"Great." John muttered under his breath, Daniel would be here just in time to see everything go to pot.
Grabbing a bottle of water from another young soldier working for him he twisted the cap off and began to empty it onto Jack. Within seconds Jack jumped awake; trying to comprehend what was happening and why he was wet. It took a few moments for him to get his footing, and as he lay on his back looking at the men groggily he began to smile to himself. Tony and Chloé had escaped. H e looked at the remaining soldier who was tied up and let out a slight chuckle, Tony had gone to town on the tape, they were definitely well restrained. He just hoped they had got out okay.
"Where are they?" John demanded, staring at Jack.
Jack looked up at him, defiance searing through his glaze.
"Where are they?" He boomed, startling one of the young soldiers, who had now freed the last man.
If he could have moved his arm he would had shrugged, instead he just stared at the angry man. John swung his heavy combat boot into Jacks bandaged stomach, causing Jack to gag in pain. He rolled over onto his stomach to shield it from further abuse and began to cough up blood uncontrollably. Blood had soaked through the bandage in the spot where he was hit.
"Fine, have it your way." Was all John said as Jack continued to cough up blood. "James?"
John nodded to him, and James took this as his instruction to proceed. He pulled out a syringe and approached Jack, still coughing. He inserted it in his upper arm and pushed down hard on the plunger. Seconds later Jack lay still, now asleep under sedation.
James retracted the syringe and backed away, as he did this Daniel entered the room. He was a tall man, at least six foot. He had short blond hair with his fringe flicked up. His blue eyes were piercing, and he had a thick frame, he wasn't skinny, nor lanky, but well built. He looked around, then directly to John, and frown upon his face. Ignoring the introductions Daniel started,
"What happened here?" His voice was deep and authentic, the type you could easily recognise.
"Ahem, two of our hostages overpowered the guards and escaped." He said, looking embarrassed.
"What about him? What happened to Jack?" He asked, John easily recognised a hint of panic and worry in his voice as he approached Jack and wondered why he was bothered.
"He was at C.T.U. as we had planned. As we predicted, he put up a fight, this was the only way we could take him down."
Daniel pulled Jack onto his back slowly, and looked at the bandages, the patch of blood that had soaked through, then the blood that had been coughed up on the floor. "This happened recently?" He asked, pointing to the blood on the floor.
"Yes, he was... being uncooperative. Why are you concerned?" John replied, curious as to why he was so concerned about Jack.
Daniel didn't reply right away, instead he approached John, and in one swift movement had him pinned against the concrete wall with one hand squeezing hard against his neck, the other had grabbed a fistful of his hair.
"John, your plan is already crumbling to your feet. Not only did you lose two of our hostages, you disobeyed a direct order. I told you to keep him unharmed, did I not?" His words came out fast and deep, emphasising his anger.
Still trying to suck in breath John managed to nod his head. Daniel's lips turned up into a smile and he released his iron grip from Johns neck. Instantly he pulled out his Smith & Wesson and put two bullets through John's throat. Once satisfied John was dead, after watching his still body for a few moments, he turned around to face the other soldiers and instructed,
"Anyone else disobeys me will die. Anyone hurts him and they will die. Are we clear?" The men nodded, nervously. "Good. I'm glad we all understand. Now, what has he had?"
James came forward. "A simple sedative, he will be out for around half an hour."
"Okay. We are clearing this place out. I want him in the back of my truck in fifteen minutes. Be careful when you move him. I want everything else left behind, just clear out the men. We will meet at a new location."
"Sir, why change location?" Asked James.
"Those two agents escaped, I want to be in a more secure location." He said sternly, annoyed the boy had interrupted him.
"Lets get too it." The men set off to work, and Daniel watched intently as two soldiers manoeuvred Jacks body into a position where they could move him without causing further injury. Once satisfied everything was going smoothly, he left the room to find an empty one, where he opened his mobile. He dialled the number he was most familiar with and waited for the familiar answer.
"Hello?"
"Joel, its me. I'm on my way, I've got Jack."
He waited a moment as he listened to the person on the other end of the line give instructions.
"Yes, once me and Jack are out, I will detonate it. There will be no survivors or evidence."
He hung up, and headed to his truck, getting ready to leave.
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Tony opened the door to C.T.U and let Chloé through first. After the constant whining about her arm throughout the entire journey back he was pleased at the thought of getting away from her.
"Okay, go straight to the clinic. I'll find Chappelle, try straighten everything out." As Tony said this he stopped as he noticed the sight of the building, or what was left of it.
"Tony!!!!"
The scream echoed throughout the large room and pulled Tony from his thoughts. He turned to see Michelle run up to him. He flung his arms around her and the two began to hug each other as tightly as possible.
"Oh baby I was so worried." She cried.
"Me too sweet, me too, but I'm fine."
They pulled away from each other as Chappelle approached.
"Tony, I see that you and Chloé have returned." He stated. Tony nodded.
"Then where is Jack?" He asked, confused.
"Ryan, we'd better do this in my office.... I have a lot of information.
Ryan nodded and headed round to corner to find Tony's office. Once inside he sat down, and began to rely the events back to the two senior agents on site, other than himself.
Before he had barely started Kim burst into the room.
"Sorry to interrupt ..." She paused, out of breath from running from one end of C.T.U. to the other. "Tony?!" She exclaimed, surprised at his return. "Is my father back too?" She asked.
"Erm... no Kim, he's not." He said, trying to smile but knowing he couldn't lie to her.
Interrupting to prevent Kim from making the next logical connection, that Jack was still captured Michelle asked, "What's the news?"
"Well, some new faces entered the building and Adam wants to speak to you, he has identified one of them. But that's not the news, the warehouse, it just exploded!!" She cried out, obviously excited and in shock at the same time.
"What!" Tony asked, stunned.
"Yeah, the cameras we were able to hack into showed us visual coverage of it all. It just.. blew up!"
"Okay," Michelle interrupted, not wanting Kim to realise Jack was in there, "Kim, take a break, I'm going to see what Adams got." She turned before she left and looked at Tony, a knowing look, telling him to be careful what he said in Kim's presence. Michelle and Kim left and Tony continued to tell Chappelle about the possible bomb threat.
She trudged her way over to Adams terminal. Adam looked up, nervously.
"Where's Kim?" He asked quietly.
"On a break, what have you got?" She wasted no time, she knew it was something they didn't have to spare.
He clicked on a few buttons and a image came up on the screen. Michelle noticed the blue eyes and blond hair and he reminded her of Jack for a split second, before she focused her thoughts back onto her task.
"I put the image through the local server, and it gave me a name. I was unsure about the result, so I ran it through a screener, and pulled up the file on the name and they all matched."
"So, who is it?" She asked, wondering why he had triple checked the name in the first place.
"Its a Daniel Bauer... Jack listed as his next of kin. Michelle they're... brothers."
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