Kate ran back to Jack's room frantically looking through his drawers to find where he kept his gun. She found it and returned to the steps. Rick was on his way up. She pointed the gun at him and said in a calm voice, "Let him go now or I'll shoot you in the chest."

"Kate you can't shoot me. Put the damn gun down before you piss me off." Rick's right arm was in a cast from Jack breaking it. He reached out with his left hand to grab at the gun as he walked towards Kate, "Kate I'm sorry I didn't mean to hurt you earlier I was just stressed."

"Stop now or I will shoot you Rick." Kate looked at him, unsure if she could shoot, but she was not going to let him get the gun.

Rick kept walking up the stairs he was a foot away from her when he saw her start to squeeze the trigger. He did not stop if she was going to shoot him than he was already screwed. She pulled the trigger. He laughed as he heard the click. "Opp's" He said smiling at her, anger in his eyes.

He yanked the gun out of her hand and smashed her with his cast. She fell to the ground with a scream of pain. Jack fought the men downstairs harder trying to get them off to kill Rick.

Rick grabbed Kate's hair and pulled her down the steps. When they reached the bottom he kicked her in the stomach and said, "I told you to give me the damn gun before you pissed me off."

Jack broke free from one of Rick's thugs and lunged at Rick. Tackling Rick to the ground Jack began to continually punch him in the face causing his nose, lip, and a cut above his eyebrow to bleed. Jack had no intention of stopping till Rick was dead, but one of the thugs took out a gun and had Kate in his arms, with the gun pressed against her temple. The other smashed a metal bat into Jack's back causing Jack to fall to the ground.

When Jack turned around to attack he saw the man holding Kate. This stopped Jack in his tracks, all of his anger coming out as he breathed heavily through his mouth staring at the man holding Kate with death in his eyes, daring the man to try something.

Rick got off the ground coughing. He spit out three teeth on to the floor and said to Jack as blood dripped out of his mouth, "I was going to just leave you alone, but now your going to pay. And she's going to watch." Rick pointed at Kate who had blood coming off a cut above her right eye.

Kate pleaded, "Don't hurt him." But her please only made Rick madder.

"Come on Jack where did all your fight go?" Rick pleaded.

Jack knew if he tried to fight more with Rick he would not be the only one to feel the consequences. Jack stood looking at Rick wanting to rip him apart, but was not going to put Kate in danger by doing so.

Rick walked up to Jack. He grabbed the baseball bat from the man who held it and smashed it hard into Jack's abdomen causing Jack to stumble back gasping for breath. Jack stood back up a minute later and waited for more.

Rick took the bat and swung connecting with Jack's head causing Jack to fall to the ground dazed with blood pouring out of a gash in the back of his head. Jack lay on the ground pain surging through his body. He fought to keep his eyes open. He lifted himself up to one arm and was getting to his knees but before he could Rick walked behind him and kicked him hard between the legs in the groin.

Jack fell back to the ground groaning in pain. He lay on the ground curled, up his eyes shut trying to block out the immense amount of pain he felt.

Rick taunted, "You aren't all that big and bad now are you, you little pussy." Rick lifted Jack's head up by grabbing a fist full of hair he looked at Jack who had blood running down his face from a gash. Rick took his cast arm and smashed it hard against Jack's head letting go of Jack's hair. Jack feel to the ground unconscious.

Rick told the other two men, "Let's go. Kate if you scream when we walk outside I will walk back in here and kill him."

Kate knew Rick meant it. He had never been a fan of Jack's, and she did not blame him at first because she would always have a place in her heart for Jack because they had gone through so much together in the first day they meant. She listened to Rick and did not fight them as they took her to the back of Rick's SUV.

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Bob Warner was pissed, how dare Jack tell him he could not speak to his daughter. He got on the phone and called his contact in the CIA. The CIA kept tabs on some of it's more important people who left, and Jack was considered to be one of those people. Bob got Jack's new address and drove over to the house pissed off.

He got out of his car and walked towards the town house. He reached the front door that was cracked he knocked first, but after a minute of no answer he walked inside. When he walked in he noticed Jack on the ground, a small puddle of blood around Jack's head. Bob's first reaction was to search the house to find Kate. He searched the downstairs than the upstairs and did not find his daughter anywhere. He walked over to Jack, kneeling down he felt for a pulse and was relieved when he found one. He tried to wake Jack up, but got no reaction from the unconscious man. Bob walked to the kitchen and filled a cup full of cold water. He walked back out to Jack and poured the water over Jack's head.

Jack jumped awake shaking his head, immense pain shooting from the back of his head to his eyeballs. It felt like if he could just put a hole in his head to let the pressure out it would be worth it. He blinked a few times trying to figure out what was going on. He saw Bob Warner and asked, "Where's Kate?"

Bob looked down worried, Jack's face was covered in blood, and he could barely tell the man had blonde hair because of the blood, "I was hoping you knew that. What happened?"

Bob helped Jack sit up so that Jack was slouching against the wall. Jack cleared the fog out of his head and said, "Rick and two others came over. How could I have been so careless?" Jack said angry at himself.

"What Rick did this?" Bob said confused. "He would never do anything like this. What were you doing with Kate?" Bob looked at Jack, he knew Kate still loved Jack and wondered if Rick caught the two together.

"Kate called me earlier crying. Rick hit her and she wanted me to come pick her up. She looked so horrible he more than just hit her once. I brought her back here. She went upstairs to take a shower, and I thought the knock at the door was the delivery guy with food. Other than that I never got more out of her because Rick and two other guys showed up at the door." Jack pressed his hand against the back of his head flinching in pain. The blood had stopped coming out.

"I got to go find her." Jack said trying to stand up. When he got to his feet he was a little wobbly.

Bob grabbed Jack's arm to help him from falling back down. Bob was not sure if he believed Jack, but someone sure had beat the crap out of him, and Jack seemed adamant about finding Kate. "You can't go anywhere. I'll call the cops."

"They won't do anything and if they do they won't do it quick enough." Jack wrenched his arm back.

"You can't go anywhere looking like this?" Bob said giving in to the man, unwilling to fight him because he knew what Jack meant, and he knew Jack was his only way of finding his daughter.

Jack looked at himself, his shirt was covered in blood. Jack walked to the steps than upstairs. He turned the faucet on in the sink and stuck his head under it clearing some of the blood out of his hair. He flinched multiple times as he gently cleaned around the gash in his head. Taking his shirt off that was matted to him from the drying blood he grabbed a clean one and put it on. He walked back downstairs ignoring the pain he felt as he walked. "Let's go." Jack said ready to get Kate back.