Disclaimer: Yup, still own crap.

A/N: Well, after this chapter there is only one left to go for!! It is truly going to be a bittersweet moment…But that is not for right now. Right now we are going to see how long I can actually sit down at this computer and type at one time. (This is being typed right after uploading the previous chapter.) I'm sitting at the two-hour mark right now, and I sense a snack break coming on after I finish rattling on here. Thanks to everyone who bothered reviewing the last chapter, and to whomever read this paragraph. It's always good to know someone's listening when I'm rambling. Now, here is the next chapter of Someday!

5:00-6:00AM

5:00 Chris looked at Jack, who was peeking over the top of the crate. He shrank back down and looked Chris' way. They both held each other's gaze for a moment, during which Chris was praying that Jack didn't get hurt because he was his ticket to getting Shawn and Stephanie out of here. Jack readied his gun, and Chris followed suit. Jack gave a quick nod and spun around the side of the crate, and fired at Randy. Chris took off towards the north wall, which was one of the two undamaged walls remaining.

"What the fuck is happening now?" Randy yelled as he ran for cover. Jack squatted back down behind the crate and checked how many bullets he had left.

He felt like slapping himself.

He'd given Chris the gun with more bullets.

"Shit." He muttered, and shoved the clip back in the pistol, knowing that this was the only clip he had for this gun. He felt the wind of a bullet pass by him, and moved over to the right a little and peeked around the corner.

"Bauer." Randy muttered. "Nice trick Bauer!!" he yelled. Chris peeked over the top of the crate he was hiding behind. He backed up slightly, and aimed the gun at Randy's head. He fired two shots, and missed on both of them.

"Holy shit!" Randy yelled before he could stop himself. He quickly regained his composure and moved. "Who's your friend, Jack?" he bellowed, as he dodged another bullet from Jack.

"Couldn't tell ya, why don't you ask him yourself?" Jack yelled back. He saw something moving from the corner of his eye, and in a flash, he was aiming the gun and firing at it before actually checking to see who it was.

Luckily for him, it was only Flair, who had been trying to sneak up on him.

"Hope you weren't counting on that old man to end this gunfight!" Jack yelled. Randy's face twisted into a snarl. Chris aimed at Randy again from his new spot and fired about five shots at him this time. Again, missing every one.

Randy growled and put a timed bomb on one of the crates not far from Stephanie and Shawn. He'd wanted to save using that until they had gotten off the helicopter, but oh well.

He happened to glance over in Chris' direction, right as he peeked over the edge to try and aim again. Randy felt his jaw drop.

"Irvine?!" He yelled. Chris smiled.

"The one and only!" Chris hollered back and fired three more shots at Randy, before realizing that he was now out of ammo. He silently cursed as he realized that Jack had all of the ammo. Jack was shooting very slowly, only one or two bullets at a time, and very long gaps in between. Chris happened to glance at a black object next to Randy and crouched behind the box to ponder on what it was.

"Dave where the hell are you?" Randy yelled, after barely missing the past five or six bullets. Batista raised the shotgun and hit him in the back of the head with it.

"Right here." He muttered. He turned to see Shawn and Stephanie staring at him strangely. Stephanie was first to move.

"Mr. Bauer?" she asked. Jack raised his head, and looked for her. The gunfire had stopped, but that didn't mean it was safe.

"Stephanie? Are you all right?" he asked, looking for her. He saw her standing next to a huge man, and aimed for him. Right at that second, Chris realized what the black object on the crate close to Stephanie was.

"Stephanie, get down!!" Chris bellowed, taking off across the warehouse and waving his arms like a madman to get to her. Jack stood up and yelled for Chris to get back. She whirled around when she heard her name being yelled, and smiled slightly when she saw Chris. Batista shoved Stephanie, and almost literally tossed Shawn farther down next to a crate right as the bomb went off. Chris was thrown backwards from the blast, as was Jack. Pieces of crates and everything else went flying everywhere.

"Oh God." Chris said, quickly climbing back to his feet, and ignoring the pain that he felt in doing so. He ran over to where he had seen Stephanie last, and arrived at about the same time that Jack did.

"Stephanie!" Chris screamed into the rubble. "Shawn!!" He started to toss things around, and he started to dig through some of the rubble when he heard another gun cock behind him. He looked at Jack for a moment, and they both turned to look behind them at the same time.

5:27 Standing before them, clad in complete black, topped off with a trench coat and semi-automatic weapon was none other than…

Hunter.

Chris cursed under his breath, knowing that they had let down their guard at the exact wrong time.

Hunter didn't look much different than he had the last time that Chris had seen him. The only difference really was that right side of his face was badly disfigured from what Chris guessed would have been burns. That was the only real skin that you got to see of him, since he was wearing gloves and long sleeves. He smiled at Chris' reaction.

"Surprised to see me?" he asked. Chris shrugged.

"Not really." Chris said. "Bad things always have a habit of reappearing." Hunter smirked.

"They do, don't they?" he asked. "Who is you little buddy over here?"

"Jack Bauer." Jack answered. Hunter looked at him for a moment.

"Bauer…Bauer…I've heard that name before." He muttered, and then shrugged. "Toss your weapons my way." He said. Jack reluctantly tossed his gun at him. Chris had dropped his gun earlier when he was running towards Stephanie. He turned and looked back at the rubble from the bomb.

"Please let them have made it." Chris thought.

"All right, now walk about three steps towards me." Hunter said. As the men were stepping forward, Batista was shoving Shawn out the side door, and holding a hand over Stephanie's mouth.

"Go and get into the black Blazer on the east side of the street." Batista whispered. "Take Shawn with you, I'm going to help Chris." He finished, and shoved her through the door before she could ask him why or argue with him. Hunter snapped his head around when he heard the door slam, and smiled when he saw Batista standing there with a shotgun in his hands.

"Ah, I see that the reinforcements have arrived." He said, and Batista walked over to him. He turned back to Jack and Chris. "Lace your hands behind your heads and get on your knees, boys." Chris could do little more than glare at him as he did as he was asked.

"Where's Randy?"

"Over there." Batista said, pointing. Hunter nodded.

"Good, go and wake him up."

5:36 Shawn and Stephanie quickly headed over to the Blazer that Batista had pointed out to them. They both quickly climbed inside, and Stephanie helped Shawn untie his hands.

"Why the hell is Batista helping Chris?" Shawn asked. Stephanie sighed.

"I have no freaking clue."

"Did you know that Chris was alive before this?" Shawn asked her. "I noticed that you only just smirked when you saw him." Stephanie looked away from him.

"I figured out about fifteen minutes after you told me that he had been killed." She said. Shawn sighed.

"That was nice of you to tell me," He said sarcastically.

"I didn't know if Batista was on our side or not!!" Stephanie yelled at him. "And I wanted Chris to still have the element of surprise if he showed up-which he did." Shawn shook his head.

"We still don't know which side Batista is on. He could've been lying to you just now. We don't know what he is doing." Shawn said.

5:50 Chris gently put his palm up against his nose to see if it was bleeding or not. He figured that it was broken, but he wasn't quite sure if it was bleeding. He winced as his ribs began to ache from the beating that he was receiving. Batista merely watched as Chris got the shit kicked out of him. He was holding a gun to Jack to make sure that he didn't go anywhere. Randy was sitting on the other side of the room, trying to regain his senses.

"What's it like to have my life, Irvine?" Hunter asked, as he kicked him in the nose again. Chris cried out and rolled away from him. "Huh? What's it like?" Chris winced, and tried to suppress the wave of unconsciousness that was coming over him.

"You've got my girl," he started, kicking Chris in the balls. Chris let out a horrible howl of pain and clenched his fists. He didn't even feel the pain from his hand anymore.

Go figure.

"You've got my job," Hunter continued, and kicked him in the ribs again. Chris felt all of the air that was in his lungs just shoot out of him. He didn't think that he had been in this much pain his whole life.

"And now…you've got the son that I was going to have." Hunter said, and went to one knee while straddling the bloody and bruised Chris. He wrapped his hands around Chris' neck.

"So, what are you going to give back to me, Chris?" Hunter asked, slowly tightening his grasp. Chris began to squirm against his hold. He vaguely remembered something like this happening on the first day from hell.

5:59 "What are you going to give back, Chris?" he screamed at him. Chris glared at him through his good eye, since the other one was swollen shut and almost black.

"Enough!" Jack yelled.

"I don't think so, Jack." Hunter snarled. Chris looked over at him for a second, and saw the regret that was on Jack's face.

The regret that quickly changed to horror.

Right as two bullets struck him.

6:00

A/N2: Well, that chapter didn't go exactly as planned, and wasn't quite as long as it should have been. If things were jumpy towards the end, that's because I'm getting sleepy and my butt is asleep from not moving for so long. Hey, don't complain!! You got two chapters to the same story in ONE DAY!! Oh my God, it is another record!! Seriously, though, thank you reader for staying with me for so long on this story. The next chapter will be our last together (on this tale at least), so please review!! (I'm hoping to have the last chapter up sometime tomorrow [Sunday 8-22], but we'll see how it goes.) Please review, and thanks for reading!!