Authors' Note: O this fanfic is going to a very cruel side of me...lol

bobdabuilder0804: yea...arent we all lol

Jack-rocks: thanks mate, i go for suspense...and yea i had to make mason seem somewhat nice in it, since everyone pulls him off as a jerk...

Mav32: o good lol...thanks

Chapter 3: 11:00 PM - 12:00 PM

11:00 PM

"Mrs. Bauer?" The doctor approached the 3 people.

"Yes...Hows my husband?" Teri stepped forward to speak with them.

"We were able to stablize him, but he needs surgery to stop the internal bleeding, and to inflate his lung again, the surgery should take 2 hours at most" The doctor explained. Teri just listened intentively, not saying a word. Just taking it all in. Nina and George stood behind her and just listened as well. After the doctor was finished, Teri remained silent, Nina moved up to the doctor.

"Thank you" She said, then he left. She knew Teri would propably have said it as well, if she wasnt in a shocked state of the whole thing. Nina turned around to Teri and lead her to the chairs they were at before. George said a quick good bye to them both and headed back to CTU.

11:10 PM

"This is Almeida." Tony answered his work station phone.

"Hey Tony, Its George" George Mason said. He was calling Tony so he could get updates on the situation with everything.

"Hey, Hows Jack?" Tony asked.

"Hes in surgery now, he should be fine" George answered. He heard Tony sigh in relief on the other end.

"Have you got any leads on the where abouts of Jacks' Daughter?" George got to the point.

"Yes, Andre Drazen called CTU about 40 minutes ago, he will let Kim go once they get to their desired location, without any troubles from us trying to find them..." Tony explained.

"So how will we know if they even release Kim?" George asked.

"I dont know..." Tony answered, slightly lost with the situation infront of him. He had been debating weather or not to go after the call, that he had been lucky enough to record, and trap the signal.

"Did you track the call?" George asked.

"No, i didnt know what to do, but i did record the call and trap the signal so we could still trace it" Tony said.

"Trace it, Tony" George ordered simply.

"Yes" Tony started the trace on it.

"Im about 10 minutes out from CTU now" George ended the call.

11:26 PM

"Have they found kim yet?" Teri asked in a slight sniff, wiping tears that were falling rather freely from her eyes.

"I dont know yet" Nina stated the truth. She really didnt, for once, she wouldnt have to lie to Teri. Like she had been earlier today. She sighed heavily as her cell phone rang.

"I will be right back" She said standing up from her chair and walking away, far enough so Teri couldnt ease drop on her conversation then she answered the phone.

"Myers." She answered.

"Nina, did they find jack?" Andre asked.

"Yes, hes at the hostipal now, seems like he survived his encounter with you" She said.

"Make sure he doesnt leave the hostipal...ever..." Andre implied order of Nina having to kill Jack. Nina felt her heart skip a beat at that question. Why her. Why did it have to be her. She didnt know if she could do that. Not that, it would be the ultimate betrayal.

"Does it have to be me?" Nina asked, she didnt want to put her former-lover to his death. She still cared in friends-sense about Jack. She just couldnt kill him.

"Yes, or you will be the one that dies..." Andre said coldly. Nina felt a chill go down her spine. Just great, talk about the toughest of all choices, your life, or your best friends'.

"Can you do it?" Andre asked.

"Yes..." Nina mumbled, this was going to be hard. Emotionally above all other things, but she choose her life over Jacks'. She hung up the phone, staring at the floor for a minute. Contemplating her situation, how had it escaladed to such a huge thing so quickly. First it was just a harmless job, it wasnt suppose to go this far. But it had, and at such a fast rate she could barely keep up with it. If only she could go back to the beginning and just not accept this job, she wouldnt be in this situation.

11:40 PM

George Mason made is way to CTU, heading up to the bullpen. He went straight to Tony's desk.

"Have you got a location yet?" George asked Tony, who was intentively working on it.

"Just a few more moments George" Tony said without looking at him.

"What do you plan on doing with this information George?" Tony just had to ask that question, he was very curious about it.

"We are going to get Kim back" George said confidently, scanning at the computer screen.

"But if they figure out we are after them, they will kill her" Tony stated only the obvious.

"They wont know its CTU..." George said. He had a strange plan, that was rather risky, but if it worked, it worked. He figured it was the only option, thinking they would just kill her anyways.

11:55 PM

Nina finally returned to Teris' side. It took her awhile to regain her composer, and enter the same room of the wife of the man who she was about to kill. Over the day she had gained Teris' trust, and now she was just going to throw it all away, by ripping their intier family apart. That hurt almost even worse then the fact that she had to kill Jack.

Jack. The man she once loved initimately, though she knew her fantasies would never come true, because he was a married man. But still he was still a good friend. One of her best friends matter of fact, and just the idea was haunting. She didnt know if she could actually do it. She knew this was the ultimate betrayal, but the sad fact was that she valued her life more then she valued his. She feared the Drazens, she finally admitted to herself. Fear was what was driving her to do this, to kill Jack. Fear of Death, Fear of Torture, Fear of Fear itself. That was all it was Fear, and she hated it. She wished she was more like Jack, who would do anything for his country and his family, even if it ment his own life. But the sad truth was she wasnt like that, and now it was causing her more suffering then she could ever imagine, and only more after she completed her terrible task that awaits her.

12:00 PM