"What did you tell them?" He spoke calmly, although it was clear he didn't like what he was doing.
"I told them nothing."
"Don't lie to me."
"I'm not lying, you know I don't lie." He tried, hoping that their friendship would cloud his judgement, they were partners after all. That was what scared Daniel the most, Joel his partner, wouldn't be doing this himself, it was someone higher up making him, someone who wouldn't take pity. like Joel would.
"You lied to your brother." As soon as he said this Daniel's face dropped, he didn't want to get into this, not with Joel anyway. "You told him that we were in charge of this entire operation, you lied to impress him. If you can lie to your dear little brother, what's to stop you from lying to a nobody like me?" Joel's words stung, but he tried to ignore them.
Daniel responded frantically. "Yes I lied to my brother. But remember, today is the first time Ive seen him in over twenty years, he is a stranger." He was regretting the words as soon as he spoke them, but he needed to convince him. "I can lie to a stranger, but I wouldn't lie to you."
Joel walked right up to Daniel, their faces were merely inches apart.
"Even if I believe you it doesn't matter. They won't believe you. They know that there are people looking for them bomb, and they believe that you are the weak link that told them about it."
"Who are they?" Daniel asked, sensing he did have Joel on his side after all, seen as he wasn't saying 'we.'
"Charlie and his men."
At the very mention of Charlie Daniel's face dropped. He was in it now, knee deep. Charlie was the person who had orchestrated the entire thing, and he wasn't going to be happy when he realised that some little nobody working for him had compromised the entire thing.
"Well... tell him I'm telling the truth then." Daniel stammered, his fear showing.
Joel looked down, he knew Daniel wasn't going to like the next piece of information. "They will get the truth from you... they have already put plans into motion."
"What are you talking about?" Daniel snapped, thinking the men were going to hurt him.
"Don't worry, they wont hurt you, at least not yet." He said, knowing what Daniel was thinking about. "But they will make you talk." He paused to check his watch. "And soon."
With that the two false government agents grabbed his arms and led him out of the room. He was walked down a corridor and into a room. The room was averaged sized, but looked bigger because it was empty. The men pushed him forwards and closed the door behind him, locking it. Daniel looked around for a way out but it was four walls, and nothing else. And with his hands still cuffed behind his back it was pretty useless trying anything. He slumped down against one of the cold cement walls and began to think about what Joel had said.
How did they intend to make him talk if they didn't hurt him?
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Tony dialled the hospitals number with a shaky finger, praying he wasn't going to be told that Jack hadn't made it. A chirpy woman answered the phone.
"Hi, my name is Tony Almeida, erm... I work for C.T.U. and I think that someone tried to contact me from this hospital." As he spoke the words he realised how stupid he must sound.
"I'm sorry sir but a number of people could have called for you, but we have no way of finding out whom, do you have a name?" She asked, genuinely trying to help.
"Er... no, but I think it may concern a patient their."
"Oh, well if you have the patients name it may narrow it down a little!" She laughed, trying to ease the tension evident in Tony's voice.
"Jack Bauer." As he spoke the words he closed his eyes, fearing the worst.
"Ah, I see. Please hold Mr. Almeida, I wil get someone more informed on the matter to speak to you." With that the voice was gone and elevator music was played down the line. He wondered why she needed to get somebody else to tell him about Jack. It wasn't hard, he thought, if he is dead then he is dead.
After a few minutes waiting a male voice came on the line.
"Hello?"
"Hi yes, erm, they were getting somebody to speak to me about one of your patients Jack Bauer."
"Right, well Mr. Almeida, we've got our security on it already-"
Tony interrupted, not understanding.
"Security? What are you talking about?"
"Mr. Bauer was taken from the hospital under false pre tense, and an ambulance was also stolen."
"What!" Tony said, confused and shocked, it was the last thing he expected.
"A nurse saw the whole ordeal, a doctor claimed he was transferring him, but she checked the data and no transfer was requested, and we later found out that he was not a doctor from this hospital." The man tried to hide his embarrassment as he spoke, what had happened wasn't going to do them any favours.
"What are you telling me here? That Jack was abducted from the hospital!?"
"Yes sir." He said quietly.
"Listen, I need you to send all of your surveillance over to C.T.U., and get local law enforcement's involved, and I want you personally, to update me on anything you find, okay?" He said, anxiously.
"Sure."
Tony hung up the phone and roughly grabbed his hair in frustration. Surely things couldn't get any worse. All of a sudden the thought hit him like a truck, Kim! He had sent her to the hospital to see Jack, where was she now? Had she been taken too He frantically picked up the phone while pressing re-dial, and waited for the worst.