Jack's mind was gone from the cold and the pain when he heard something approaching. The bugs of the night had already come and tormented him. He was sure at any moment a wolf or whatever they had in these parts would come to finish him off. He was so cold, but he was fighting himself to stay awake he knew what would happened if he fell asleep. He felt the hand gently touch him and he tried to talk, but he was so cold his mouth only shook and the words were in decipherable.

Colonel Thomas Anderson had gone out looking through the woods for Jack after Trisha came to him about Jack being missing. He found Jack in the same woods they had been in the other day. He walked over and touched Jack gently to see if he was even still alive, the pulse was weak but than he saw Jack's jaw moving. He grabbed out the knife from his pocket and cut Jack down. He wasn't able to grab Jack before he fell to the ground. The Col took of the coat he had on as it was about fifty degrees out and cold, and draped it gently over Jack as he reached down and grabbed Jack's arms pulling him up and dragging him back to the Jeep. He put Jack in the passenger seat and refixed the coat over him so when they drove into the camp Jack would not be fully exposed. He was worried about setting Jack's back against the seat as he had seen they had clearly lashed the him, but he had to there was no other way to get him back to camp. He drove quickly as he saw Jack shaking uncontrollably in the seat next to him, Jack's lips were a light blue color and his skin was pale white and freezing to the touch.

The guards let him in taking notice of the CID man in the passenger seat. The Col drove directly to the medical building and got a doctor to come out and a blanket. They wrapped the blanket around Jack gently and loaded him onto the stretcher. The doctor and nurse moved Jack inside. The Col went inside to see where they were taking him and once they assured him they would call him as soon as they got the patient stable the Col left to go back to his office.

The doctors laid Jack on his stomach and put the heating blanket over him so that they could control how they brought Jack's temperature back to normal, to quickly and the blood cells would explode from the sudden expansion. They slowly warmed him up again, Jack shaking through the process feeling as if they were trying to freeze him more as his body could not comprehend what was going on. The doctor had to sedate him as he was trying to move and fight. When they got Jack's body temperature to a level that he was no longer in danger for heart failure, or any of the other symptoms that accompany hypothermia the nurse went to gently cleaning the dried blood on Jack's back. When she finished the doctor looked at the cuts and decided to stitch a few of the worse ones up. When he finished they covered Jack with the warming blanket again and left him to rest.

Trisha was searching the camp again when word of someone finding Jack got back to her. She rushed to his tent not to find him there. She knew the next logical place he would be so she rushed to the hospital. She found him after searching the hallways asleep in a room. She walked in and saw him on his stomach with a warming blanket over him. She walked over and lifted the blanket up to see him lying under it completely naked and his back cut up. She knew what it was from and she quickly put the blanket back down.

A doctor walked into the room and asked, "Can I help you miss?"

"I'm Captain Trisha Fager JAG. He's my partner."

He smiled at her remembering who she was he didn't' have much connections with JAG, but he did remember her after she introduced herself. "He's lucky." The doctor said taking Jack's blood pressure and checking his vitals.

"Why's that?"

"No major frostbite nothing has to be amputated." The doctor said slowly turning Jack over onto his back and flashing the light in his eyes. He must have gotten the response he wanted because he pushed Jack back onto his stomach and was getting ready to leave, but Trisha interrupted him with a question.

"Why is he so out of it?"

"Earlier he was fighting. I don't think he understood that we were warming him. The body has a funny reaction when it has been in the extreme cold and has gotten acclimated or even slightly acclimated as you start to warm it again it thinks it's getting colder when reality your really just defrosting it. He started fighting us and I assume it was over that. We sedated him so we could finish the process and tend to his back without him having to feel all of it also."

"So he's going to be fine?"

"Should be going to be painful when he wakes up and it looks like this is the only beaten he's taken recently. But he should be fine. I'd recommend a lot of rest and relaxation." The doctor said looking back at Jack who was still out of it.

"Who brought him in doctor?"

"Colonel Thomas Anderson." The doctor said, "If that is all I really need to get on my way more patients to see."

"Thank you doctor." Trisha walked over and put her hand gently on Jack's check it still felt cold even though it now had some color to it. She ran back to her tent quickly to grab her work she was going to move to the hospital for now on she was watching him day and night to keep him out of trouble or to keep trouble away from him. She was working on a case of a soldier missing work therefore dereliction of duty when Colonel Anderson walked into the room.

"It's a pleasant surprise to find you here." He said walking in.

"Where did you find him?"

"About twenty yards from where they picked you two up yesterday."

"Do you think he was out there all night?"

"Probably."

"Who do you think did it? It has to be the same people who been messing with him the past few days."

"I don't know."

"You still think it's outsiders?"

"Yeah no one on the inside has any reason to deter is investigation."

"But how did they get on base, how did they know his tent, and when to hit it?" She said looking at him. She had a theory of her own, and Jen was behind it all. She had been trying to get to Jack the past few days and the night she finally did this happened?

"I just can't think of anyone in camp that would have a stake in it. Maybe a person helping them on and off, but not actually behind the actions themselves." The Colonel said looking at Jack who stirred slightly in the bed.

Trisha decided to shut her mouth and said, "Yeah I guess that makes sense." She had another theory hatching in her mind at the moment. She looked over to see Jack's eyes open halfway and he was clearly struggling to figure out where he was. She walked over and gently touched him.

She felt really bad when he flinched away, "It's ok Jack. You're in the hospital. It's ok." She said seeing the confusion on his face. "Colonel Anderson found you this morning."

Jack's eyes closed again and he was back to sleep as quickly as he had woken up. She went back to her chair and the Colonel excused himself to go do some more work.

Jen was at her post when she got a call over the radio that Colonel Thomas Anderson wanted to see her. She left her partner at the post and ran to the Colonels office doing the entire little report in of snapping to attention saluting and saying the right words than lowering the salute only after he returned it.

"Have a seat Sgt. Zoey or should I call you Jen?" He smiled at her.

Jen sat down and looked at him, "I don't know what you are talking about sir."

"Stop the bull crap ok. I know who you are have your record right here." He opened the file for her to see. "I know you are investigating my men and I know CTU sent you and I'm pretty sure Jack is your decoy boy. He takes all the heat off you while you sneak in the back door am I right?"

Jen didn't answer him she wouldn't give Jack away like that not now.

"Don't' answer I know the truth. Take this deal back to your people as I know you have already found out about all of our little extra-circular actives and even knew about the little party for Jack last night. What gets me is he use to be one of you guys and you played right into our hands and helped us. You got him drunk than made sure he would be tired enough not to hear the men come to his tent. You are one cold hard bitch and CTU is one cold hearted bastard cuz this isn't the first time that they've done this to him. So this is what you're going to do. Go back to your people and tell them we will help them bring down the people we are dealing with or at least help them get someone inside their group, but it's not going to be easy since they've been calling for a certain somebody's blood. That's why I went out and got him this morning because he's a powerful bargaining chip. Seems he pissed the people off by first killing their leaders family, taking their leader hostage, than finishing him off along with his sons in L.A. later on. He even stopped the agent they turned against him and the hole little plan to pay the people back. They want him so bad that they were willing to give me anything I wanted, but I held off because he was one of yours. You talk to your people and see if they are interested in a deal."

"I will sir." Jen said getting up. "Anything else?"

"Why don't you do it now. Here's the phone." He handed her the phone and dialed the number.