The team assembled and was half way to their destination when Bob's cell phone rang. "Cooley?"
"The signal just went dead."
"They must have found it. Do you have satellite on the area yet?"
"No Adam's working on it."
"Ok help him. If they move them we need to know where, and we need to know how many we are dealing with Chloe."
"I know we are working as fast as we can."
"What happened?" Chase asked worried.
"They found the tracker."
"Sh!t. They're going to move them or kill them now."
"We are almost there." Bob said looking out the small back window.
Michelle felt even more guilty for hiding the tracker where she did, but she knew they would never look there if they happened to search Jack. "I'm sorry Jack." Michelle said. Tony had fallen asleep from the pain. She was next to Jack now who was still on the ground awake.
"I'm too sore to be pissed at you. And that last part wasn't your fault. Good spot to hide it even I didn't' know it was there." He said trying to smile even if he was still angry with her, he knew his anger wasn't going to help the situation. "How's Tony?"
"Oh he'll live. You know how he is." Michelle joked. Before both of them could laugh the door opened. Aharon walked in and smiled at them, "You come with me. Grab him." Aharon pointed at Jesse and order someone else to grab Jack.
Michelle moved back from Jack and watched as the man walked over to Jack and pulled him up. Jack groaned slightly but helped the man as much as he could. He didn't know what Aharon had planned nor did anyone else.
Jesse walked in front of the man and Jack. Aharon lead them to another room, where the man set Jack down on the ground against the wall. Aharon smiled at him and said, "We'll Jack you have completely ruined my plan. I underestimated you from the beginging and that is my fault. But now I see that I must retreat to fight again some day. But before I retreat I wanted to tell the lovely reporter you brought into this the story so she could spread the word to your government that Israel will not sit by while they spend millions buying our enemies oil helping them through their greed for oil to kill my people. Your people will face the same fate. For every Israeli killed and American and Arab will die. I will and cannot sit by anymore and let this happen." Aharon paused for effect he looked at Jesse, "You will tell the story."
"I'm not much interested in it." Jesse said not wanting to take orders.
Aharon shook his head, "She is one feisty one Jack." He went towards her and she didn't even flinch as he raised his hand and slapped her hard in the face. Jesse just glared at him. Jack pushed himself off the floor forgetting the pain he felt and tackled Aharon to the ground. They fought on the ground Jesse couldn't tell who had the upper hand but she knew who did as soon as she heard Jack scream in pain as Aharon's knee came down on top of Jack's gun shot wound. Aharon hit him a few more times and pulled out a gun, he had it pressed firmly against Jack's head. "I should shoot you now. It would make my return much easier, but I respect you. You are a man like myself, fighting for the good of your country, and I respect you for that, if you ever attack me again I will kill you Bauer."
"And if you hit her again I'll kill you." Jack answered his eyes showing no fear, pain, but not fear.
"I would have been disappointed if you hadn't said that." Aharon said putting the gun back and leaving Jack on the ground. A knock came on the door and Aharon called, "Come in."
"They are almost here sir. If we are leaving we have to leave now. They still don't have satellite coverage of the area."
"Well enough. Remember what I said Jesse." Aharon said leaving the room. Teddy and Seth came up to the door with Rick, "What do you want us to do?"
"Whatever you want." Aharon said no longer caring.
"Anything?"
"I'm leaving now. You will get your money in a few days." Aharon said walking out of the house.
Teddy, Seth and Rick walked to the room where Jack lay on the ground withering in pain, and Jesse sat next to him.
When Teddy opened the door he smiled at Jack on the ground withering in pain. Seth pushed pass him and smiled also. They were two coyotes who had found a wounded rabbit ready for their easy dinner.
Jack tried to push himself up, but the pain was too much. Jesse stood up between him and the men making it clear they'd have to get through her to get to them.
Rick smiled, "You know Jack you have good taste. I think she'll be better than your daughter. Maybe Seth here will be nice enough to let you live long enough to see me play with your daughter and this lovely lady."
"You wouldn't know what to do with either of us if you could have us." Jesse snapped.
"Oh. You are going to be fun." Rick went at her.
Jesse remembered all the stuff her father had taught her as a child. Once Rick was in range she lunged at him. She scratched his face and kneed him in the balls at the same time. He fell to the ground crying out in pain. He got up quickly and she threw two punches both hitting him in the face and busting his already broken nose again. He grabbed it and screamed in pain.
Seth came in to stop her. He was able to grab her arms when she tried to hit him and pushed her back to Teddy, "Hold her." He ordered.
Rick was on the ground curled up. Seth kicked him in the ribs twice before moving over to Jack who was still on the floor unable to move through the pain. "Well Jack here we are finally. You know how long I've been waiting for this." Seth smiled at him. Jack glared back up at him Jack's blue eyes full of anger to the point that Seth would have thought they would have glowed in the dark. He kicked Jack repeatedly and laughed as he heard cries of pain coming from Jack. The last few kicks were the strongest of them all sending Jack's battered body tumbling on the floor.
"STOP IT!" Jesse screamed loud enough that the people in the other room heard her.
In the other room they heard Jack's cries of pain. Kim brought her knees up protectively holding back tears as she heard the torment of her father. She looked at Michelle for aid, but didn't find anything but pain in her eyes too. Kate was curled up again in the corner trying to block the cries of pain out. She put her hands over her ears and pushed in trying to block it all out. Michelle walked over to her and pulled her arms away from her head and tried to console her as she was the one who needed it the most at the time by the looks of it, "Don't worry Kate you know he is one strong stubborn ba$tared."
Seth turned around to face Jesse, "Do you know what he did? Has he told you what he did to my wife?"
Jesse looked at him, "NO."
"My wife hung herself. My little girl found her mother hanging."
"How is that his fault?" Jesse said her reporting skills taking over if she could keep him talking maybe the help would get there soon enough to help them before they killed Jack.
"Well you see I needed some help I had so many little children and they cost money. And my wife didn't have a great job or a rich family and we needed to supplement our income. I took a few pay backs to do nothing that would hurt CTU or the government, but that just wasn't good enough for Jack. He had to bust us because he was the golden boy at the time. But ask him about what he did when his family was in jeopardy. He put Palmers life in danger and broke so many protocols and killed people just to save his wife. And you want to know the funny thing?" He said smiling at the memory.
"What?" Jesse said in a calm voice thinking keep him talking.
"His lover killed his wife that night. It seems Jack here loved a mole. And he most likely gave her information she never should have been privy to and you know what the government did? Nothing. Patted him on the back sorry old chap that you lsot your wife and child but good job. Forgot all about him compromising CTU, a candidate that was most likely and did end up being a president, and killing people. I took a few bucks on the side and I went to jail."
"But it's not his fault." She said trying to take the attention from Jack who was on the ground blood seeping out of different cuts.
"Yes it was." Seth said turning back to Jack who was on the ground blood falling out of his mouth onto the floor pooling with other blood coming out of his body.
Jesse fought with Teddy as she saw Rick getting up. Teddy let her go as he saw Rick grab a knife out of his pocket. He pulled the blade up and went at Jesse, "You b!tch I'm going to hurt you now."
Jesse looked at someone for help. Seth came in pulled out his gun and aimed it, he shot Rick twice in the back. Rick fell to the ground dead. Jesse stood unsure of what to do. Teddy looked at Seth and said, "We got to go finish the job. They'll be here soon."
"Go ahead this is going to take me awhile." Seth said turning back to Jack.
"Man whatever." Teddy left running out of the house.
"Back to where we were." Seth said ignoring Jesse in the room. He walked up to Jack bending down he grabbed a fist full of Jack's hair and looked into Jack's half opened eyes, pain very evident in them. "OK just wanted to make sure you were still with us." Seth slammed Jack's head into the ground. Jack groaned as his head bounced off the ground. He fought to stay conscious he didn't want to give Seth the satisfaction.
Seth stood up and began to kick Jack again. He felt the cold medal sink into his back and he fell forward putting his hand on the wall to keep him from falling. He reached behind him pulling the knife out. He turned around and saw Jesse standing there unable to grab the knife before he did. He held the knife in his hand and went after her.
Jack summoned up what little strength he had left. He pushed himself up and went after Seth before he could stab Jesse. Jack hit him where he saw the blood coming out. The adrenalin was already coursing through Seth's veins and he didn't feel the pain of Jack hitting him. He turned around to see Jack barely standing behind him ready to fight. Seth moved quicker than Jack could and inserted the knife in Jack's chest.
Jack felt the knife go in and the pain of it being pulled back out. Jack felt his knees go weak as his body could not take anymore. Seth grabbed him before he could fall two the ground and stabbed him two more times in the stomach leaving the knife in the last time.
Jesse found a gun on the floor that must have fallen away from Rick. She aimed and fired twice hitting Seth in the back sending him and Jack both to the floor before he could stab Jack a fourth time.
Jack found it hard to breath as Seth was on top of him crushing him. Jack fought to stay conscious he felt his blood leaking out under him again.
Jesse ran over and pushed Seth off Jack. She looked down and panic settled in he was bad and she knew it. She could see by the color of his skin he was going into shock, "Jack stay with me." She said pressing her hand over the wound in his chest the worse of them all. "Come on Jack talk to me. Tell me about Kim. How old is she?"
Jack looked at her his eyes conveying the how scared he was.
Kim and the others heard the gun shots and than nothing else. Kim closed her eyes she knew he was dead. They shot him finally. She started to cry uncontrollably. Tony was awake and he moved himself over to Kim. He hugged her believing the same thing she did, "It's ok Kim" He hugged her protectively.
