He was to disoriented to tell which direction the car was going or if it
was even going. The only time he knew what was happening was when the
driver took a corner to fast and sent Jack moving across the trunk in the
little room he had smashing his head against the medal bar inside. After
what seemed like an eternity the trunk had finally opened. Jack looked up
out of habit even if he couldn't see anything.
Teddy laughed as he saw the blood trickling down Jack's head, "Did you get
a boo boo?" He chuckled even harder to himself as he pulled on Jack's arms
to pull him out of the trunk, letting Jack fall the few feet to the ground.
Jack's groan was barely audible under all the duct tape.
Two more men came up and carried Jack through the warehouse to a small
room. Once they got him inside the me removed the duct tape from Jack's
legs. And waited for Seth and the others to join them before the removed
any more.
Seth walked into the room with David and two other men. David instantly
ran to his daughter who was sitting in the corner crying silently to
herself. David grabbed her in his arms and tried to consoler her, he
ignored everyone else in the room.
"Get the rest of the tape off him." Seth ordered the men.
One of the men thought to himself as he was unwarpign the tape around
Jack's eyes that it was going to hurt once he pulled it off. He pulled the
tape completely off taking some of Jack's hair with it. He pulled the tape
off Jack's mouth and Jack just clinched his teeth to keep from crying out as
more hair was ripped off his head.
"Move him to the chair." Seth ordered. There was only one chair in the
room so it really made it easy to figure out which one.
The men roughly picked Jack up off the ground and pushed him into the
chair. Seth looked at him and said, "I would like nothing more than to beat
you to death right now but I can't. WE have visitor coming soon. He would
like to talk to you than I can kill you he said." Seth smiled at him, he
relished the thought of killing Jack slowly for all he had done to ruin
Seth's life.
"Sounds like fun." Jack said sarcastically. He didn't blame himself for
what happened to Seth nor could he because it wasn't his fault. Jack may
have busted him, but in the end Seth had made the decision to take the
bribes.
Seth punched him hard angry that Jack was not playing the role that he had
dreamed up for so long. Jack was suppose to be scared begging for his life
not being a smart ars.
Jack spit blood out onto the floor. He wondered how the hell he was going
to get out of this mess his thoughts stopped when a man walked in. He was
clearly Jewish as he had one of the caps they wear on. "Jack Bauer I
presume?"
"Yes. I'm don't think I"ve meant you before?" Jack said trying to figure
the mans name so he could try to understand who he was dealing with.
"Yes sorry. My name is Aharon. You'll have to excuse Seth he doesn't
really like you."
Jack didn't answer back to that he really wanted to say, "No Sh!t
Sherlock." But he knew that might get him into a bit of trouble.
"Well It was nice to meet you Jack, but I have work to get back too. I hope Seth and Teddy won't be to hard on you while I'm gone." Aharon left the room taking Palmer with him. Aharon called back, "Don't kill him. I still need him as a part of the plan, and don't hurt him so bad he can't walk."
Aharon left and Teddy laughed as he saw Jack sit in the chair unable to do anything. He looked back a Palmers daughter who was curled up in the corner still crying, "Shut up lady." He said angry her crying noises getting to him.
She didn't she only started to cry harder. Teddy walked over to her and pulled her off the ground, "Shut up or I'll give you something to cry about." He smacked her in the face when she wouldn't stop.
Jack stood up from the chair and went to go after Teddy for hitting Nicole, but before Jack could even move past he chair Seth was their to punch him in the stomach. The punch sent Jack to the ground gasping for breath as the air was knocked out of him. He had no way of blocking since his hands were secured behind his back.
Teddy saw what had occurred and let go of Nicole who slid back to the ground crying as silently as she possibly could. She watched as Teddy walked over to Jack who was lying on the ground now, and began to kick him repeatedly in the stomach, chest, head, groin, and than Seth joined in kick Jack in the back. Nicole couldn't help as she cried louder for them to stop hitting the man she knew as the man who had saved her father during the Presidential primaries.
They both stopped and looked down at Jack who was looking worse for wear now. "Pick him up." Seth ordered Teddy who bent down and grabbed Jack's bloody body off the floor. He put Jack in the chair and held him there for a second not sure if Jack would stay sitting by himself.
Seth bent down and looked in Jack's open eyes which were full of pain, "You still with us Bauer?"
Jack spit blood out of his mouth onto Seth's face. "Yeah." He said showing no pain through his voice. Seth punched Jack in the head, the force sending him to the ground.
"Leave him for awhile." Teddy said knowing they had done a good enough inflicting pain.
They left the room. Jack lay on the ground waves of pain and nausea going through him. He had swallowed a lot of his own blood and it was making him sick to his stomach that was already hurting from the beating his abdomen took.
He felt a pair of hands gently touch his back, "Sir are you ok?"
Not wanting to scare her anymore than she already was Jack answered in the best non-painful voice he could muster, "I'm fine."
Nicole slowly helped Jack stand up. She more or less stood by him as he struggled to stand without the use of his hands. Jack felt the blood running down his face, but dismissed it, he had to find a way out. He looked around unsure of what to do. There weren't any windows, he was sure the door was locked, and he didn't see anything other than the chair in the room.
Nicole moved back to the corner when she heard people approaching the door. Jack stood watching the door wondering who was coming now.
Seth walked with Bob. They had caught him outside the building trying to sneak in. When he opened the door he saw Jack's face go to one of betrayal because he thought Bob was working with them. Seth almost laughed as he pushed the man into the room and locked the door behind him.
"What's this?" Jack asked clearly angry.
"Failed rescue attempt." Bob said feeling stupid for not being able to save them without being caught he knew Jack had done much more than he did before in worse conditions.
"Oh you're good." Jack said turning back to see where Nicole went too.
Bob was angry at Jack's comment, "At least I tried Bauer. I could have left your sorry ars here and went back to CTU and worked on the threat at hand. Instead I came here and tried to help."
"How did you find here?" Jack asked still not trusting him.
"I followed you to Palmers house, than to the other house, than to here." Bob said knowing Jack didn't trust him.
"And you just couldn't manage to call CTU at any point in this time nor keep yourself from being caught?" Jack said skeptically.
"I screwed up. I'm not as perfect as you. Ok." Bob said matching Jack's angry tone. "But not completely." He smiled he remembered the ace in his pocket.
"How that?" Jack asked wondering how the man could find anything good in all he had done.
"These. Those stupid Ba#tards forgot to check my pockets." Bob said pulling out his keys.
"Oh great, what do one of those magically open the damn door? Or maybe you'll key them to death." Jack screamed angry.
Nicole sat in the background almost laughing at the two. She had reached the point where she couldn't take much more of the stress and she snapped. She found the two men bickering at each other like two high school girls fighting over a boy to be hilarious. Jack turned to look at her as she was laughing so hard, to the point that she had tears coming out of her eyes.
Bob started to laugh with her in between his laughs he said, "No but I can get your hands free. And we can try to take them when they come back in Sherlock. By the way you look like hell."
"Thanks." Jack said angrily.
"Hey I can leave those on if you want?" Bob joked walking over to Jack. "I know how much you love to have that type of jewelry on or so I've heard." Bob joked.
"Not funny." Jack said turning around letting Bob undo the cuffs.
Jack brought his hands in front of him gently rubbing his wrist. He looked around the room for anything to help them again finding nothing. "Do you have anything else?" He asked hoping maybe Bob smuggled a gun an knife anything in.
"Nope. I guess I could key them to death." He said in a sarcastic tone.
"Better than talking me to death." Jack quipped.
"Oh your so funny Bauer." Bob pushed Jack gently tired of Jack's holier than thou complex.
"Don't touch me again." Jack warned pointing his finger threateningly at Bob.
"Or what you gonna fight me Jack?" Bob said smiling daring Jack to try anything.
"Will you two stop." Nicole yelled fed up with their bickering. "What we need to do instead of fighting is find my father and get out of here."
Jack looked to the ground in shame that he was acting that childish. "You're right any ideas?" He asked looking at everyone in the room. They heard people coming. Jack quickly stuck his hands behind his back as if he were still cuffed holding the cuffs behind him and Bob leaned against the wall. Nicole went back to her corner and sat on the floor.
The door opened and Seth and Teddy walked in. They smiled at Jack and asked, "Ready for more?"
"Maybe you should undo my hands so it's not so one sided." Jack challenged.
"Nah that'd be no fun than." Teddy said.
Seth looked at Bob and started to wonder what to do with him he would be a problem if they started beating Jack again he thought.
Bob noticed Seth looking at him and Bob said, "Hey kick the crap out of the arrogant Ba#tard for all I care. I'm just going to hold up this wall and wait for when you all feel it's a nice time to let me walk out of here."
Seth smiled at Bob, "I thought I liked you for some reason."
Teddy walked up to Jack as Seth turned around to look at them. Seth never saw Bob coming at him. Teddy was taken off guard when Jack swung his arms from behind his back and smashed a fist into his head. Dazing Teddy Jack continued with different punch combinations until Teddy fell to the ground unconscious. Jack noticed Bob was still fighting with Seth. Jack bent down and took Teddy's gun off him and told Nicole, come with me.
Bob finished off Seth grabbing his gun he followed Jack and Nicole out of the room. "Where do you think they have Palmer?"
"I don't know." Jack said, "did you see him anywhere?"
"Nope. You go that way and I'll go this way meet back in ten."
Before they could gunfire irrupted in the hallway. Jack quickly pushed Nicole in a doorway with him. Bob went to the opposite door way and they both began to fire at the men firing at them.
"We have to get out of here and come back for Palmer we can't hold them off and we don't have enough ammo." Bob said.
Jack knew it was the truth but he didn't want to leave David behind, but he also had to get himself, Bob, and Nicole out alive. "Cover fire for us." Jack yelled back.
Jack grabbed Nicole and as Bob fired down the hallway, Jack pulled her down the hallway to a door that was marked exit. Once they got out Jack began to cover fire for Bob who ran back to him. Once Bob was out the door he took off sprinting to his car they had not found. He pulled Nicole as Jack ran backwards waiting for the men to come out the door. When they never came Jack began to worry. They made it to the small patch of woods where Bob hid his car and they all got in. Bob started it and backed out of the small wood patch and drove over a hundred till he reached the main highway. He also wondered why they weren't following them.
