A resident doctor walked into Jack's room and finally started to look at and tend to the other wounds the man had suffered. He noticed most of them had already been tended to. From the x-rays they took to find where the bullet was lodge he noticed the broken collar bone had been pulled out of place again. He quickly fixed back into place trying not to rip the stitches out in the back or the shoulder. When he finished he marked on the chart what he did and left the man in the room asleep. He noticed the guards outside the room and outside the doors of the unit and began to wonder exactly what was going on.

Once Kate was off the phone with Tony and out to her car she called David Palmer, "Sir it's Kate."

"What is it that is so important this late at night?"

"They found Jack sir."

"They who."

"CTU."

"And?"

"I guess he's in the intensive care unit at a hospital down south."

"What happened?"

"I don't know sir I'm calling in all my contacts now."

"Fine. Get me a report in the morning on his condition so that I can make a recommendation as to where to proceed with his case."

"What if he can't do the job sir?"

"Than he'll enjoy spending the rest of his life in prison." Palmer said in a cold tone.

It took Tony and Chase three hours to get to the hospital were Jack was at. When they walked in they showed their badges to the nurse at the reception desk and she escorted them to the intensive care unit, where they again had to show identification. They were than led to Jack's room.

Chase looked in and saw all the bruises on Jack and the breathing machine. He bit his lip in an attempt to hide his anger. "Do you know who did this to him? I thought they just shot him, he's be beaten to hell too."

"They did just shoot him." Tony said closing his eyes trying to keep Chase from seeing the guilt he felt.

"Why do you think they shot him?" Chase asked not noticing Tony's reactions.

"I haven't a clue." Tony lied he had an idea, but Chase was not one to need to know it. Tony saw Kate and them walk in and Tony said, "Why don't you go get us a hotel. We can take shifts till he wakes up. You can have the first shift."

Chase looked at Tony for a second and than he saw Kate come in with a really big guy and another average size man. "What's Kate doing here?" Chase asked confused.

"It's nothing. Go get a hotel room for us somewhere close and sleep some because in the morning you are going to be the one watching him."

"Sure." Chase left Tony still confused as to why Kate Warner would be down, she and Jack had broken up a long time ago, and it wasn't like she really should see Jack, as she was a civilian.

After Chase left Kate walked up to Tony, "Wish I could say it was nice to see you again. You can go back to CTU now, we can handle the rest."

"You must think I'm an evil ba$tard. I am a ba$tard but not an evil ba$tard. I'm not leaving him alone with you people again. I would not be the least bit surprised if it came to light that you had tipped them off about what you had him doing because you saw something bigger and better. And if not than your people are pretty incompetent because they should have covered their tracks better, and in that case I'm not leaving his security up to you because your people quite frankly suck." Tony said in a hushed whisper.

"I can have you escorted out of here right now." Kate said not backing down to him.

"Do it. I dare you than let me go tell everyone about your lovely job. What you did to him not once but twice. Let's see what the American public thinks of that."

"Than you'll be put in jail for treason."

"Wouldn't be the first time." Tony said challenging her to throw him out.

"Fine you can stay, just don't get in the way. We have to get answers."

"Well you minds as well sit down and wait because I don't think he'll be talking any time soon." Tony said moving out of the doorway to give Kate her first real glance at the damage done to Jack.

Kate showed no emotion when she saw him hooked up to the various machines, but inside she was worried for her once lover.

The doctor came and briefed Kate and Tony on Jack's condition. He left them to discuss whatever they had to discuss among themselves.

Kate's henchmen sat outside the room waiting their order. Kate looked at Jack and ordered, "Grant, restrain him to the bed. His right arm and legs will do it."

"What are you doing Kate, if he wakes up he's not going to be able to move."

"You never know with Jack."

"LOOK AT HIM KATE" Tony yelled loosing his temper, "Look at him how in the hell is he going to walk. Please let me know he has over a twenty stitches and staples in his back, his lung collapsed, and he has a chunk of his rib cage missing. Please how in the hell could he move without pain let alone walk on his own?"

"Fine." Kate said giving in she knew it was over cautious but she had already screwed things up once and she wasn't going to do it twice. "But Grant stays here with him."

Grant was the huge arshole of a man that kept Jack company at the place that does not exists. (YES HE GOT A NAME FINALLY RAN OUT OF WAYS TO SAY HUGE ARS MAN)

"That's just a great idea so when Jack finally does wake up the person he sees is this arshole." Tony said looking back at Grant. "Great I think if that was the first face I saw even just waking up in the morning I'd probably close my eyes again and pray for death."

"Tony stop it." Kate said angry he was being so childish. "You and Chase can stay in the room with him if you wish."

"Fine." Tony said, "Oh and thanks for letting us 'stay' with him." Tony said sarcastically as if they would do anything else. Tony sat in a chair by Jacks bed feeling the fatigue overtake him. Kate left the room to find a doctor and discuss when they could move Jack at the earliest.

Grant took the only other chair in the room and watched Tony as if at any moment he would pull a gun out and shoot everyone in the room. Tony felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. He knew he wasn't suppose to have it on in the hospital especially in the intensive care unit, but Michelle was suppose to call him with any more information she might have gotten and she also wanted to know Jack's status.

"Hey baby." Tony said into the phone glancing at Grant who was watching him even closer now.

"Tony how bad is he?"

"I think it looks worse than what it is. He should be fine you know Jack always the fighter." Tony smiled at the happy memories of the past.

"How much can one man go through." Michelle said to herself.

Tony wanted to ask if she got any more information on Jack, but he knew the arshole was eavesdropping so he asked, "You know that cause I was working on earlier before I left."

Michelle thought, he was getting super before he left not working on anything, "Is someone listening in." She said figuring what Tony wanted.

"Yeah that one. Did any more information come up on it?"

"No I haven't gotten anymore. What the cop told me is pretty much everything we know."

"Ok. Well if you get anything else patch it through Milo he can work the case out."

Michelle almost laughed on the other end, Milo hadn't worked for CTU in quite some time. He had been there when Michelle first started and left shortly after. But she knew Tony was just telling her to give him any information via his secure email account. "Do you have a lab top on you?" She asked.

"Chase has the laptop." Tony said smiling because he knew Michelle knew what he wanted.

"Be careful Tony, and watch out for Jack."

"I will. Bye baby." Tony said into the phone before he hung it up. When he put the phone back in his pocket he looked over at Grant who tried to act as if he weren't listening and Tony smiled and said, "It's the old lady what can I say she can't go a day without me."

Grant grunted and went back on his vigil of Jack. He was determined to see any slight movement.