Chapter 5

The Following takes place between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM.

Events occur in real time.

8:00 AM

Tony, Jay, and Jack made it to the hostipal in the city of Hermosillo. The medics had unloaded Jack and began working on reseting his broken bones and taping them up. Tony stayed with Jay until they were done with Jack, which the medic said it would take lil over a half hour if everything was going well. Tony arranged a car for them while he was looking after Jay, so they could leave immediatly when Jack was awake.

8:10 AM

Chloe sat in the hostipal room, the doctors had told her she had to stay there a few hours, just to make sure the wound wouldnt cause any problems. Chloe had gratefully obliged, knowing full well that people were out there to kill her, and being here surrounded by guards and doctors made her feel safe. She rested on the bed, comfortably, she flipped the tv on in the room, switching to CNN.

"...former president palmer was found dead late last night..." She heard that and tuned in fully. Concerned now, she knew palmer was one of the ones that knew the truth about jacks' 'death', and now he was dead. She wondered if Tony knew yet, or Michelle. They propably did, if not they would find out soon. She kept watching CNN for anything else that might be of interest.

8:20 AM

Michelle was forced into the interogation room at the airport for her strange behavior on the offical there.

"My plane leaves in 40 minutes, please can we get this over with" Michelle begged with frustration in her tone.

There were 4 men there conversing in french, elaborate french, to the point where michelle couldnt understand, they basically ignored her. Michelle hissed in frustration, she needed to get to Toronto, and she would be very angry if they made her miss her plane.

8:30 AM

Jack had all his broken bones set back into their proper positions and they were casted as well. Luckily his legs were not broken, but one was fractured, nothing to worry about at the moment, but it would hurt to walk on, the doctor reccomended that he stay off it for awhile. He knew full well that he wouldnt follow the doctors' reccomendation, but didnt tell the doctor that because hed propably be forced to stay there longer. There was still at least 3 more hours driving time to get to the border alone, and then propably another hour to get to Los Angeles. He was short on time.

Tony and Jay walked in then. Jack smiled weakly standing up, wincing in the pain from his leg. He was also a little dizzy, but that didnt stop him from walking towards the 2 infront of him.

"You get a car?" Jack asked looking at Tony then wrapped his arm around Jay, in a half hug.

"Yea" Tony smiled. "Hows my lil buddy?" Jack asked messing with Jays' hair and looking down at him.

"Im fine..." He mumbled, he hated and loved at the same time when Jack did that too him, he tried to remove Jacks' hand playfully. Jack stopped laughing quietly.

"We better get going" Tony interupted the two.

"Yea" Jack replied, Tony led them out to the car he managed to get. It was a cheap old jeep, but it worked, thats all that mattered at the moment.

"Talk about a piece of junk" Jack commented.

"Hey it runs!" Tony shot back going towards the drivers' side.

"Im driving this time..." Tony smiled as he jumped into the drivers' seat.

"Haha very funny" Jack knew were he was with that comment and helped Jay into the back seat. Jack got into the front passenger seat.

"Why is it so important that we get to Los Angeles so quickly?" Jay asked as they were getting off on the road again.

"We got some important matters to take care of Jay, nothing for you to worry about" Jack answered.

8:50 AM

Kim had just gotten up and moved to the bathroom. She knew Chase was long gone of to work now. She had time off now, maternity leave, She had just had a baby girl a month ago. She named her Ryley, and was keeping her busy, during the night and day. Kim had just gotten a few hours of sleep before she woke up on her own just then. She moved to the bathroom and cleaned up some.

She moved to Ryleys' room quietly, trying not to wake her up in her few precious moments of silence. She then saw a black man come threw Ryleys' window, she was instantly paralyzed with fear. What was going on? She wondered. She saw the man hover over the crib, picking Ryley up. How dare he! She thought, rage building up. She went into protective mother mode then, rushing in the room and taking Ryley away from the man. When she did Ryley started screaming and crying. She coo-ed the baby setting her down quickly before the man had a chance to do anything. Ryley was still crying insanely. Kim turned around just in time to see the butt of the gun slam into her face, making her stumble backwards, avoiding the crib as much as she could. She backed up into the corner as the man turned the gun around adding a silencer onto it. Kim was crying silently as the gun was shoved back into her face, pointing at her forehead.

"Kim Bauer right?" The man hissed in a low tone. Kim looked at him oddly, how did he know her name? that concerned her a little. She didnt answer him.

"Answer me!" He hissed pushing the end of the gun into her forehead a little.

"Yes yes..." She whimpered with fear. She looked into the mans' eyes, that was the last thing she saw. Then the man pulled the trigger. Her body fell limp to the floor, The man left. Ryley was still crying insanely from her crib.

9:00 AM