Jack moved away quickly and went back to the room. He sat on the bed wondering how much longer he had. They knew he wasn't at the jail how could he explain it? Damn them for throwing him back like this. Damn everyone for doing this to him, why couldn't they just let him be and let him live his life. It was almost normal with the Salazars they didn't expect anything out of him other than for him to do his job well. They didn't want him to be this way or that way, just do your job. It always looked so simple when he was on the heroin too. There was no right or wrong, no expectations, no emotions, just the drug induced state where feeling anything was impossible.

With that revelation he got off the bed and walked to the bathroom to take a shower. When he finished he stood in the cold room waiting for himself to dry off enough to get back into the scrubs. He began to wish he had a towel or something to dry off with as he was starting to get cold again. He was looking at himself again in the mirror when Nina walked in again.

She heard him in the bathroom and walked in, "Jack why didn't you say something I would of gotten you a towel and some other clothes." She said staring at his beaten body.

"It's fine. I was just checking out the damage done anyways." Jack sat down on the closed toilet seat and tried to redress a few of his wounds. Except his right hand was having a hard time doing it by itself. Nina watched the struggle for a few minutes and then she went over to aid him in doing it. She took the gauze and tape away and said, "Let me." She gently dressed the different wounds and than helped him put the sling back on for his left arm.

When she finished she said, "Let me go see if I can't rummage some clothes for you to put on."

Nina found Steven who was a little bigger than Jack in both height and weight, but his clothes would fit better than James who was smaller than Jack. "Can I barrow some clothes for Jack. Flannel pants and maybe a long sleeve shirt?" She asked Steven.

"Sure you get anything from him yet?"

"No. I don't know what happened but something did." She said staring down the hallway to where Jack sat waiting.

Steven went to his room and grabbed some clothes and gave them to Nina, "Here. They'll be a little big, but I guess that's kind of good with all the damage done."

"Thanks Steven." Nina returned to Jack. Jack put the pants on and said, "I don't need the shirt. I'm going to lay back down I think." He was tired and in pain from the movement of the day.

Nina saw the pain in his eyes and felt for him. Her shoulder ached, but she was not as bad off as he was. "Ok. I'll get you something to drink and maybe some music." She said leaving him.

Jack walked over to the bed and lay down pulling the covers over himself. He lay in the bed looking at the ceiling wondering why Nina had not questioned him yet about the jail break.

Nina returned with a small radio and a bottle of Corona she remembered Jack liked that sort of beer. "Here." She handed the cold beer to him.

Jack sat up and took a long pull on it. "Thanks."

"I managed to grab this radio from the captain along with a Beatles CD."

"Thanks." Jack said drinking more of the beer, it felt nice going down his parched throat.

"Anything else?" She looked at him almost seductively.

"Yeah." Jack finished the beer already placing the bottle on the dresser. "We need to talk."

"About what?" Nina said confused wondering if he heard her in the hallway with Steven.

"I'm just really fucked up in the head right now." He said looking at the wall. "I can't get the picture of Kim's death out of my head. Nor can I get holding Teri's lifeless body in my hands out of my head." He was still staring at the ceiling. Nina thought he had an almost glazed look to his eyes. He continued, "I don't know who I am anymore or who to trust. Everyone at one point has betray me. CTU, the government, and you and yet here I am. Everyone I've loved has been killed at least that was what I thought."

Nina was about ready to ask, "What is Teri or Kim still alive?" She knew they weren't but he said at least that was what I thought.

"I hate myself. So much. Ever since the day. I look at myself in the mirror and I hate myself more than I ever hated you or anyone else. You killed my wife and unborn child. Yet a part of me still cared for you. It hurt so bad when I lost Teri not just because I lost her and my child, and my second chance, but because I lost you too. Nina I had cared for you, I was almost willing to leave Teri behind and be with you, but I felt like I owed her and Kim an attempt to work it out. I still loved her and I always will, and that hurts to. But the worse thing of it all is I still have these feelings for you. Hatred, lust, maybe even a slight caring now. And I shouldn't."

Nina didn't know what to say to this confession she hadn't expected it. She sat down on the bed in shock.

Jack continued, "I'm no longer who I use to be. I don't see me when I look in the mirror. I look at what everyone else wanted, a cold hearted killer, a once junkie, a no one."

"Jack what do you want me to say?" Nina said not knowing what to do.

"Nothing." Jack said laying down in the bed. "Nothing. There is nothing left." Jack closed his eyes and tried to drift off to sleep.

"I'm sorry." Nina thought of the only thing she could say.

Jack smiled as he lay on the bed with his eyes closed, "It's to late now."

"We need to talk." Nina decided to confront him now.

"About what?" He said still with his eyes closed.

"I know you weren't in jail those days. I checked on it."

Jack didn't act angry or shocked like she thought, "So you want to know where I was?"

"Yes. I need to know because they will find out soon and they will want answers and if I can't give them they will find them themselves."

"I was enjoying the company of one big ars man who loved beating the crap out of me even after I curled up in a ball and cried out in pain." Jack said the smiling coming off his face.

"And?" She said knowing there was more.

"Nothing." Jack opened his eyes.

"Jack they will find out about whatever you said."

"So what's your point?"

"They'll kill you."

"And your point is?" He said not betraying any emotion.

Nina looked at him and saw nothing looking back at her. She missed the emotion in his eyes she use to see. She had helped do this to him. She had helped break the only decent man she ever knew. She felt sorry for him, and seeing him in this state made her want him, she leaned in slowly and kissed him. She was shocked when she felt him kissing her back. She gently moved on top of him making sure not to put any weight on him. They kissed fiercely each needing the other. All of the sudden Jack stopped, but Nina continued on. She started to pull his pants off as she kissed him.

Jack felt her hands go to his pants and he tried to move out from under her, but her legs were blocking his exits, and she continued to kiss him. Part of his mind screaming for him to get away from her while the other enjoyed it. Nina felt him moving under her trying to weasel out she thought to herself, no you don't not after that. She was working on getting her pants off when she sat on his legs. She looked at him and his eyes were still dead, she was angry with him for not showing any emotion for the moment.

She got her pants off and lay back down holding her weight up with her arms. She began to kiss his chest passionately. She felt him erect and she smiled to herself she kissed him on the mouth mad that he was not returning it. She moved up and let him enter her. She looked into his eyes and still saw nothing. She was getting angry so she started to push roughly trying to hurt him to get something out of him. In the heat of the moment she placed her arms on his ribs putting her weight on them. Jack screamed out in pain as she pushed down on his broken ribs, he felt the bones pushing on his flesh. Nina continued on, through his pain. She removed her hands and stared down at him seeing his eyes full of pain. When she was done she got off him and lay next to him out of breath, "Sorry." She said finally.

Jack lay on the bed in pain he was trying to block it out the actions had caused him much pain both mentally and physically. Nina looked over at him an still saw the pain in his eyes. She got up and went to the bag the doctor had given them. She found the liquid Demerol and a syringe she pulled some out and walked over to Jack with the syringe. She inserted the syringe before he knew what was happening. He tried to pull his arm away as she pushed the plunger down and let the drug into his system. Jack looked at her with anger in his eyes. She knew his policy on drugs in his system after the heroin addiction and yet she still did. He felt the drug as it slowly took over his body he felt himself relax and the pain go away. Nina watched as his eyes glazed over. She wanted to get the truth out of him before they found out, they being her boss's. She sat on him again holding him down. "Jack where were you those days?"

Jack glanced up at her his eyes glazy from the drug, "I told you."

"But where?" Nina said looking at him not wanting to have to hurt him to get the answer but she needed to know.

"With a big arshole who liked to beat the crap out of me as you see."

"Where?" She said moving her hand up to his shoulder resting it gently on it showing him she would hurt him to get the answer.

"I don't know." He answered in a slurred voice the drug fully having control now.

Nina looked him in the eye and watched them fill with pain as she pushed down on his broken collar bone. Jack screamed out in pain he tried to raises his right hand to push her off but she grabbed it with her other hand and held it tightly, Jack's weak body no match for her. "Don't make me have them come in and restrain you Jack. I have to know where you were." She lifted her hand off his shoulder and she could feel him breathing heavily in pain.

Jack looked up at her and said, "So your going to hurt me too now again? What you guys didn't have enough the first time you broke me so lets break the broken Jack again, and hey why not one more time." He said his anger present.

"Where were you Jack?" She put her hand over his ribs she they both knew the pain that already caused him.

"Get off me." He said trying to push her off by thrusting, but he only caused himself more pain.

James was down the hall and he had heard Jack cry out in pain twice now. He didn't know if Nina was in the room with him so he ran down to check on him. He opened the door and saw Nina bottomless on top of Jack holding one of his right arm down while the other rested on top of his ribs. Nina noticed him enter the room and gave him a look of anger, he backed out saying, "I'm sorry I didn't know you where here."

After he left Nina went back, "Jack come on." She said rubbing her fingers gently over his broken ribs.

He glared at her, she almost laughed as he would have if he were on her end looking at his drug hazed eyes, and his obvious inability to win this time.

She pushed down lightly than harder. He screamed out again trying to move his right arm from under her grasp frantically. When she stopped he closed his eyes and she thought for a second he had passed out, but he opened them a minute later the tears of pain falling down his cheeks, almost breaking her heart.

"Please Jack tell me."

He glared still saying nothing. She grabbed his shattered fingers and squeezed them until he passed out from the pain. She got off him and got dressed again. She walked out of the room almost crying herself, she hated herself for doing this, but she had to know. She had to know what she was dealing with. If he said stuff she might have to protect him or even kill him, she wasn't sure which direction she would go. While she was outside the room tears coming down her face her cell phone rang. She answered it clearing the tears away, "Hello"