Authors' Note: review answerin' time...
Jack-rocks: my field of expertise...suspense...muahahahha...glad u like it
Bobdabuilder0804: mmm...for me to know and you to find out...hehehe...
Mav32: o good im not alone with my cruelty towards fav characters...anyways...yep...i like jack...alot...for his breaking the rules...and badass attitude...the intensity...OO...its just great...
Chapter 2: 10:00PM - 11:00PM
10:00 PM
Jack felt a liquid inside of his mouth. He coughed some the liquid out within his ragged breathes. He got a small taste of it, he knew it was blood. He coughed some more as blood came from his lungs up through his throat into his mouth, filling it more with each cough. He spat it out hoarsely making it drip down his lower lip and chin, dripping slowly down his neck.
This concluded the thought that the bullet had clipped one of his lungs, which was one of his thoughts. He knew the bullet went right through him, this blood he was coughing up though made it certain that he was bleeding internally.
The initial shock from the bullet hitting him, and the wave of pain that had so suddenly paralyzed him of movement had begun to wear off. Now it was just the immense pain centered around his chest, just left of his right shoulder. He still focused soulily on breathing. His vision was becoming rather blurry, and his eyelids felt as if there were weights on them trying to push them down, though he kept them open the best he could. He started to get the sensation of coldness. He knew he was dieing.
10:07 PM
Mason had not left his spot from the meeting place, his ride, the ambulence was still there. They were saying that they think Mason should go back to CTU, but he refused. He kept telling the drivers' that the Drazens' would call any second with Jacks' location, as agreed.
Finally his phone rang, he fumbled it within his fingers before he could open it up and bring it to his ear.
"This is Mason" He answered trying to sound confident, to mask his worry that the Drazens' had gone back on their agreement.
"Jack Bauer is at an oil field on 102nd street" It was Andre.
"What about Jacks' Daughter?" Mason asked quickly.
"You better hurry" Andre replied, avoiding Masons' question. He then hung up.
Mason let out a small hiss in frustration, He then turned around and jumped into the ambulence, his ride, and told them to go to the address he was given by Andre. He was slightly worried by the way Andre had ended the call with 'you better hurry', why end it like that? what had they done to jack? or was it something to do with Kim? This whole situation was very puzzling to him.
10:15 PM
Mason had arrived at the given location where Jack was supposably. He stepped out glancing around, it was lighted by street lights only, fences around the whole area. Then He spotted a pole. There was a figure limply leaning against it. Mason cautiously approached the poorly lighted being.
It was Jack, he had soon realized. "Jack!" He called out and at once He rushed over to Jack. Who was sitting on the ground, legs stretched out infront of him. His left arm limp hanging above his head, handcuffed to the top of the pole. His head leaning back on the pole. His eyes seemed to be glazed over, like he was very tired and about to just dooze off. Mason took note of the small ammount of blood on his forehead, also blood running down from his mouth. Jack did not respond. He heard Jacks' struggle to breathe from a few feet away even.
"Jack!" Mason called again, slightly short of breathe as he knelt down to Jacks' level. Quickly and clumsily he reached into his pocket pulling out a set of handcuff keys. He shakingly uncuffed Jacks' hand. Jacks' arm just fell literally, as if he had no control or energy left in it, to the ground. Jack slowly turned his head, his zoned-out stare turned onto Mason.
"thought...the...trade...did..nt...happen..." He stuttered through his hoarse breathing. Mason then finally caught sight of the small hole in Jacks' shirt.
"It did Jack..." Mason replied then placed his hand over the whole. He felt a warm sticky liquid. He pulled his hand away to get a look at the liquid, it was red. It was blood, as he had feared. He looked at Jack, who was drifting into unconsciousness more and more as the time passed.
"Stay with me Jack" He said, he grabbed Jack by the shoulders and as gently as he could he moved Jack into a lying down position.
"Get A Stretcher!" He yelled jerking his head to the drivers of the ambulence. He turned his attention back to Jack, he literally ripped Jacks' shirt off the front of his chest, so he could get a better look at the wound.
"they...have...kim...we...have...to...get...her..." Jack mumbled. His eyes were dangerously close to closing, he was blinking slowly, with each time his eyes opened slower, and lower then before.
"Dont worry jack, we will, Just Stay awake" Mason said, though he had no idea on how they were going to do that.
10:24 PM
"This is Tony" Tony answered his phone, while also trying to figure out where Kim was.
"This is Andre Drazen..." Andre replied calmly. "I wanted to make things clear..." He continued.
"Things clear about what? The trade was a success was it not?" Tony asked confusingly.
"Yes the trade went well, but I am speaking about our escape..." Andre said.
"You have everything you want, we arent following you..." Tony stated, rather confused at what he was getting at.
"We have Jacks' daughter, as you propably already know" Andre continued.
"Yes, what do you want with her?" Tony interrupted.
"Well lets just say, she is our ticket out of here, if any of your people come after us, we will kill her, and as soon as we are safely at our desired location, we will set her free" Andre ended the phone call on that.
10:30 PM
Jack was pushed into the nearest hostipal emergency room on a stretcher. He had a breathing mask over his face, and he had was unconscious by now, from the blood lost. Mason helped the doctors wheel him into the trauma room then was forced out by the doctors so they could do their work. They had started immediatly with putting an IV in Jack and putting all this chemical stuff in, and to get him stablized.
As soon as Mason was satisfied, for the most part, that Jack was in good hands, he entered the waiting room. He pulled his phone out and dialed CTU, specifically Ninas' workstation.
"This is Nina?" Nina answered.
"Its Mason, im at the hostipal..." Mason stated.
"At the hostipal? what happened!" Nina asked, worry evident in her tone.
"I found Jack, the Drazens' did their part of the deal, but failed to mention that they had shot Jack, either before or during the trade..." Mason sighed heavily. He heard Nina hiss in anger on the otherside before she had answered.
"How badly is he hurt?" Nina finally said slowly.
"Pretty bad..." Mason lowered his head staring at the floor. This shouldnt of happened, they should have had more control over the situation.
"Will he live?" Nina asked, preparing for the worst answer.
"I dont know yet, when i found him, he had lost alot of blood already..." Mason replied sorrowfully.
"What should i tell Teri?" Nina asked, knowing Teri would come to her and ask if she could talk with Jack.
"...The truth..." He sighed softly. "Bring her here, Come with her, when you and her get here I will go back to CTU...alright?" He asked.
"Ok..." Nina spoke softly, she was on the verge of crying.
10:37 PM
Nina finally found Teri, she was back in the conference room. Teri was facing the wall, back to Nina.
"Teri?" Nina asked, knocking on the door. Teri turned around smiling, she had been waiting to be able to talk to Jack. She wanted so badly to talk to him, make sure he was okay. Her expression turned from a happy one to a slightly sadden and confused one, once she saw Ninas' saddened face.
"Nina...whats wrong?" She asked standing up from the chair and walking towards her.
"We found Jack..." Nina started.
"O! Good! Let me speak with him!" Teri smiled weakly. Ninas' expression only gotten more saddened by this.
"Is he alright?" Teri asked after a minute of silence, and her reading Ninas' expression.
"I dont know yet..He is at the hostipal now..." Nina sighed heavily looking at the floor, not being able to bear Teris' reaction. Why had it have to be her that broke the bad news to Teri? Of course, she thought, she had to be the only one Teri trusted, since she knew nearly nothing about Jacks' work at CTU, she didnt know who to trust, aside from Nina, who she learned to trust.
"Take me to him" Teri said. Nina looked up seeing she had started to cry softly.
10:45 PM
Mason had been sitting in the waiting room, rather impatiently for several minutes now. He had hated hostipals, especially the waiting rooms, just waiting there, on the edge of sanity, wondering if your friend, or lover, or whatever person was alright. Hoping that they were alright. He found that he did like Jack alot within the last several minutes of contemplating. He knew it would be a big lost to CTU if he had died, a loss of a collegue, and a friend. He hoped Jack would some how pull through this. He knew Jack was too stubborn to not fight. Yes, it was a well known fact that Jack was stubborn. So stubborned that He would break the rules, on various occasions to do what he felt was necessary. Of course he was right all the time, and he managed to keep his job. Which amazed Mason. Mason wished he was more like Jack, quite often.
10:58 PM
Nina and Teri had just arrived at the hostipal that Mason told them to go too. They meet Mason in the waiting room. Mason told them that the doctors had yet to come out of the room he had left Jack in, nor has he had word of Jacks' status.
As Mason was about to leave, He watched as a herd of doctors moved out of the trauma room, pushing Jack on the gurney and a bunch of machines on wheels into another room. He looked to Teri and Nina who were watching this in shock. One of the doctors had approached them.
"Mrs. Bauer?" The doctor
11:00 PM