Jesse pulled up outside he friends house. He was already outside waiting for her. He walked up to her car smiling, as he usually did, she had never once seen him not happy. "Help me with him please." She said getting out looking at Jack.
"I bet he's cute when he's all cleaned up. What did you do to the poor man?" Allen joked.
"I stabbed him with scissors, but at the time I thought he was going to kill me." Jesse said.
"You didn't?" Allen said still smiling.
"Yes. The rest was done by the people after him."
Allen was a big man, not huge, but bigger than Jack. He opened the passenger door and grabbed Jack who was sound asleep, "Sound sleeper I see."
"I think he's on some drug. Not sure what."
"By the looks of it some heavy sedatives." Allen had been a drug therapist for a long time working at the local rehab center to help people over come their addictions.
Allen carried Jack inside into the guest room. He laid the unconscious man on the bed and said, "I'll get a warm rag and some water. Maybe get some of the dried blood off his face." He said leaving Jesse alone in the room with him. She looked at Jack and noticed how ruggedly handsome he was. She smiled looking at him, if they had meant under other circumstances she would have been fully attracted to him probably trying to get his phone number.
Allen returned with a bowl of warm water and a cloth. The first aid kit already sat on the nightstand next to the bed. "Do you want me to do it so you can relax some?" He asked.
"No I got it." Jesse said taking the bowl from him.
"He's good looking isn't he."
"I think he's straight Allen."
"Doesn't mean he won't swing." Allen joked.
"Funny." She said as she gently wiped the dried blood off his face noticing the new bruises he must have gotten in the fight with the man at her house. When she finished she looked at the different cuts on his face, and she knew some of them needed stitches but she was even going to go there. She moved down to his abdomen. She wiped the blood of his chest, the water was turning a pinkish color from the amount of blood. She pulled the tape back on the wound on his lower abdomen and she almost got sick when she saw the gunshot wound.
Allen saw that and walked over, "Maybe you should let me look at that. You know I did go to med school to become a shrink."
Jesse stepped aside almost ready to get sick. She watched Allen as he gently messed with the wound. She noticed the pain looked on Jack's face but he was not waking up this time.
"Looks like people been hitting this a lot."
Jesse smiled slightly she had once herself.
"That was mean. But if you must, and it was mean for him to take you at gun point." Allen said gently wiping the blood away trying to see if the wound was done bleeding yet. When he finished he walked to the bathroom and found some rubbing alcohol. "Jesse I'm going to need your help. This is going to hurt him, but I have to get something in there to keep it from getting infected. I'm going to hold him down. I need you to pour the alcohol into the wound."
"Sure." She said taking the bottom from Allen. Allen put his hands on the man's shoulders making sure not to have his hand over the incision on his shoulder. He pushed down with all his might when Jesse started pouring the alcohol on the wound.
Jack felt the hot burning pain and opened his eyes trying to push the man off him by pushing himself up, but the man just held him down. Jack moved his arms up but they were still taped together. Jack cried out in pain and than passed out again.
"That's done." Allen said smiling still even though he saw worry in Jesse's eyes.
"Is he going to be ok?" She asked looking at the wound bubble.
"Yeah he'll live. If that's what you are asking." He said. "I'll lift him up so you can dress the wound I don't think he'll be waking up soon."
Allen easily lifted Jack into a sitting position. Jesse quickly wrapped the gauze around his lower abdomen until he had thoroughly covered the wound. When she finished Allen laid Jack back down.
"What about the wound on his leg?" Jesse asked.
Allen had just noticed the belt the man had been using as a tourniquet of a sort. "Help me get the pants off him."
"Allen this isn't for a free peek." She joked with him.
"Funny. Come on lady you know you want to see it too." He joked back.
"Come on if he wakes up he'll be thinking I took some perverted lady captive and she brought me to her perverted friend's house."
Jesse undid Jack's zipper and button and pulled the pants off him. She was happy to see he was wearing boxers. She looked at the wound and said, "Just dress it?"
"Yeah it looks pretty good." Allen said.
Jesse quickly dressed the wound and than covered Jack up with a blanket. She was sure they had sorted him out the best they could at the moment.
"You gonna keep him taped up?" Allen asked.
"Yeah. I don't know what is with him yet? For all I know he is a cold blooded killer."
"Than why are you helping him?"
"I think there is more there, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. I'm sure there is more of a story there. I mean when I stabbed him with the scissors he could of shot me very easily or even hit me. He didn't. He walked me down the hall and secured me to the chair with duct tape. Than he pulled the scissors out."
"You got yourself a strong one here with a high pain tolerance. Any idea when he took the drug?"
"No." Jesse said. She turned the TV on in the small room and sat in a chair and watched the news reporting about the crazed man who took her captive and the destruction in his wake. She always found it funny how the news blew everything out of proportions he was not crazed at least she hadn't seen it, and the only destruction she remembered him causing was to himself as he tumbled down the hill in front of her car. She wasn't even sure if the man had killed David Palmer, if he had than there is some destruction but what happened at her house was not his fault. She thought about her dog and felt sad. She hoped Jack was ok. If the cops got there she hoped they took him a veterinarian.
Jesse was entranced in thought when she was taken out of it by Allen yelling he was turning on the new CD he got. Jesse laughed he had to play it loud enough for his closest neighbor a mile away to hear. She thought, great this will wake him up for sure. She looked at Jack who was still asleep.
She looked away and thought about what she was going to do? She couldn't very well keep adding the fugitive in the bed. He had to face the music whether he did it or not. Why was she helping him? Even she wasn't sure why, there was just something there, something that begged her to help him. She was staring off thinking she never noticed him open his eyes and look around the room.
Been given 24 hours to tie up
Loose ends to make amends
His eyes said it all I started to
Fall and the silence deafened
Head spinning round no time to
Sit down just wanted to run and
Run and run
Be careful they say don't wish life
Away, now I've one day
Jack woke up hearing the music. He was listening to the lyrics unable to do anything else. He knew his dry cracked voice wouldn't get the woman's attention. He wondered where he was. He went to sit up but felt the pain in his side so he laid back down giving in to the pain. He stared at the ceiling trying to figure out his was out of it all. He had to get into contact with CTU and let them know everything was related it had to be, somehow. He was still to tired to think about it, so he listened to the lyrics again thinking about them.
And I can't believe
How I've been wasting my time
In 24 hours they'll be
laying flowers
on my lie, it's over tonight
I'm not messing no I
Need your blessing
And your promise to live free
Please do it for me
He thought to himself how many times he was sure he wouldn't be coming back, this was one of those times. He had so many people after him now how would he ever get out of it all. They would be gunning for him, and he was sure Aharon would come around once he thought Jack had gone through enough and he would sick another group of people on him. That was if Seth and Teddy didn't break off on their own. With so many groups after him, the condition he was in, and being held captive if that's what you could call it he had no way of escaping it all. This was another one of those days he would have to probably give Kim one of those good by speeches, and the lyrics to the song weren't helping him.
Is there a heaven a hell and will
I come back who can tell
Now I can see what matters to
Me it's as clear as crystal
The places I've been
The people I've seen
Plans that I made start to fade
The sun's setting gold thought
I would grow old, it wasn't to be
Jesse noticed that the man was awake. She almost jumped when she saw him looking around the room confused. She closed the door quieting the music some. "How do you feel?" She asked walking over to him.
"Like I was run over by a semi truck and than dragged twenty miles behind it." He said looking at her taking in her beauty.
"So your alive." She smiled at him.
He thought she had a nice smile, a warm smile. "I'm sorry about earlier. I never should have dragged you into this."
"Yeah you got that right Bauer."
Jack looked at he confused how did she know his name.
"Your drivers license and your all over the TV." She said noticing the look on his face.
"My pants where are they?"
"Over there. I doubt they'll be wearable though."
"Did you search the pockets and the wallet?" He asked now worried.
"No. Why should I?" She asked noticing the worried look come over his voice.
"They found us somehow at your house, and it was way to quick for any satlilite to track us." He said.
Jesse knew what he was saying and she went to his pants and looked through the pockets finding nothing. She went through his wallet she retrieved from her car and when she looked through where the money was she found the small tracker that looked like a battery. She held it up for him to see.
"I got to get out of here. You'll be in danger if they think I'm here." He said sitting up clinching his teeth to stop from crying out.
Jesse walked up to him and pushed him back down gently, "No you don't. First of all you can barely move, and secondly I'm not letting you leave. I don't know what I'm going to do with you yet. Turn you over to the cops or help you. Either way you are mine. You took me hostage earlier and I'm not going to let you escape that easily."
Jack looked at her shocked by her statement. "Than you have to get that somewhere else. They will be here soon." He said scared.
"I'll have Allen drive it into town and drop it off somewhere." She said walking out of the room to find Allen. When she opened the door Allen almost fell through he was leaning against it eavesdropping. "Allen." She said smiling at him.
"Sorry. You have naked man in my house what do you expect." Allen said smiling at Jack.
"Do me a favor drive this into town somewhere and make sure it stays moving so that they will follow that."
"A tracker?" He asked, "And I thought those were just on movies."
"Thanks Allen."
"I'll grab some food while I'm in town." He said leaving but grabbing Jesse and taking her with him down the hall. "Are you sure you want me to leave you here alone with him?"
"Yes I have the gun. He's barely able to move at the moment, I think I can take him." She smiled at him sure of herself.
"Fine, but call me if anything happens."
"I will thanks again Allen."
"No problem. It's not every day you have a handsome fugitive in your house." He joked.
