Chapter 10

The following takes place between 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM.

Events occur in real time.

1:00 PM

Tony had driven the jeep back to Kims' house and was trying to figure out where Jack had gone, he couldnt have gotten that far on foot. He stopped in at a diner and asked if they had seen anyone that fit the description of Jack. They said yes but he had left and they didnt see what direction he went in. Tony scanned the area for any signs. He then noticed a gun shop just across the street, maybe Jack tried to get himself armed knowing that was a way. He walked in the store glancing around it was erie quiet. He had a slightly bad feeling in his gut about this as he moved further into the store. He scanned the area, finding no one. He found that very odd, he walked up to the counter and peered into the back room since the door was slight ajar. He was shocked to find a man fallen, with a puddle of blood underneath his head. Tony sighed as he found another fallen one but this one had no blood aside from the blood coming from his nose. This one looked like he was just knocked out cold. Tony jumped over the counter like it was a hurdle in a track field. He knelt down to the man shaking him slightly. He stirred and jerked away staring at Tony.

"I need your help" Tony asked. The man seemed slightly fearful by this as he sat up and questioned what he needed. Tony explained about Jack and if the man had seen him.

"Yea he took a rifle off the shelve and demanded ammo for it and also a hand gun...I laughed at him thinking he wasnt serious about it then he hit me with the butt of the rifle...thats all i remember" The man explained.

"How long ago was that?" He asked.

"It was 10 to one when he came in" The man answered. Tony nodded in understandment.

"Thank you" Tony smiled weakly then stood up and bolted out the doors looking around.

He knew Jack couldnt have gone far. It was just a little past 1 now and with what the man had said it had propably just happened just before he himself had arrived. Tony looked in the one alley scanning the area. He walked down it slowly approaching a large dumpster. He peered behind it to find something he hadnt expected. Jack was laying there, looking like he had sat down and just toppled down from there. He was unconcious, blood flew freely from his blood stained shirt and neck, creating a pool of blood underneath him. Ther also was a large bruise on the side of his head like someone had decked him with something like a crowbar by the shape of the bruise. No weapons were on him, which Tony thought was odd, the man in the store said he had taken a rifle and a handgun. What happened? Tony asked himself as He knelt down to him pulling Jacks' torso and head into his lap, shaking him slightly to see if he would stir. But he didnt. Tony sighed in concern as He hoisted Jack into his arms and carried him to the jeep, setting him in the back seat.

1:20 PM

Secretery Heller had recieved a phone call about his daughter being in a car accident, he could go to the hostipal as soon as he had wanted but he was working towards it. Finally he had made it down to the parking lot and pulled open his car door to get in. He was meet with a man in all black, holding a gun with a silencer on it, in the drivers' seat. Before he had the time to react to anything the man pulled the trigger lodging the bullet into his head, killing the secretery of defense instantly. His body fell limp to the floor as the man got out of the car, grabbing the body and throwing it in the back seat. He then proceeded to get in the car again and drive off with the vehicle.

1:30 PM

Chase was working with Mark on the lead that they had gotten, they were waiting for the identification process to come back in. Chase got a phone call on his cell just then, it was Tony, the caller ID said. He pulled away from Marks' station and went to a more private area answering his phone.

"Tony?" He asked knowing it was him but just double checking.

"Yea, Chase, I found Jack, Im coming back to CTU now with him" Tony said quickly.

"Alright, Youll have clearance to get in by the time you get here" Chase stated. They both hung up. Chase then called down to the guards that watched the parking lot and informed them that Tony and another visitor were coming and they were to be granted access to see Chase. Chase was being very discret about Jacks' presense knowing what would happen if they had found out he was alive, he knew that there was a mole in CTU, and something very wrong was going on.

Chase took a deep sigh then regained his composure heading back to Marks' station. He had gotten the identification up on the prints that they found on sight and were believed to be the ones that planted the bomb. The profile was put on the screen. Chase stared at it in horror.

"Jack Bauer...Isnt he dead?" Mark said reading the profile slightly. The profile was marked deceased on it, but how.

"Yes hes dead..." Chase stated in astonishment, though he knew that Jack was alive and well. It was more of the astonishment that the prints were his. Then it just hit him, Tony was bringing jack here. They would arrest him on sight! Fuck, he thought to himself.

1:40 PM

"Tony" Chase called his phone again. Tony could sense something wrong in his tone and rate of voice.

"Whats wrong chase?" Tony asked.

"The Kodak theatre bomb today, we have jacks' prints, everyone thinks he did it, and are questioning now the incident involving his 'death', you cant bring him here" Chase spat out quickly.

"O Shit" Tony muttered under his breathe.

"My thoughts exactly" Chase said.

"That means i cant take him to a hostipal either, Shit...Chase im going to need some help" Tony said.

"Why would he need to go to a hostipal?" Chase asked. Tony explained how he found Jack, and the fact that he hasnt awoken yet.

"Okay, ill call you back with something alright?" Chase said then hung up. Tony hissed in frustration as he hung his phone up and threw it into the passengers' seat.

1:50 PM

The man that had killed Secretery Heller arrived at the hostipal that Audrey was at. He parked into the parking lot and walked out casually, heading into the emergency room. He tracked Audrey down, going into her room. Audrey got a bad feeling about the man all in black. She looked confusingly at him. He pulled out the same gun he used to kill Secretery heller with and pointed it at Audrey.

"Come with me" He hissed in a low deep tone. Audrey being frightened listened to him as the man escorted her out casually back to the car.

He opened the back car. Audrey nearly screamed then when she saw her fathers' dead body in the back. She at least remembered what her father had looked like, she turned around to the man as he pointed the gun to her head and pulled the trigger. As she fell limply the man caught her before she hit the ground with her dead corpse and threw it into the back onto the Secretary's body.

2:00 PM