"Well well well, just what do we have here?" He paused for effect, knowing Nina wouldn't show fear even if she held it. He hoped for a look of apprehension or concern in the very least but got nothing.
"Nina Myers... I shouldn't be surprised to find you here, with the people trying to prevent the thing you yourself worked so hard for. Do you have no honour?" He spat, his voice becoming more clipped as he got more aggravated with her presence, she must have sold them out. Nina didn't speak up to defend herself so he continued.
"You know, he was suspicious of you right from the start, Mandras. I understood why, we all did; you have no allegiance to anyone but yourself. However, I convinced him you were good for the job, you had the information we needed, and when you were taken down, you gave nothing away. We were so sure of your skills, we knew we didn't need to worry. Now I'm thinking we overestimated you. This so called legend," he growled, "chained to a seat in a ditch. Doesn't exactly sound impressive, does it?"
Again no response, he didn't expect anything more. He knew she would be running her situation through her mind, looking at it from all angles, deciding the best way to deal with this situation. She would be thinking out how to manipulate the outcome already. He just knew it.
He paced around for a moment as he tried to calm down, he was sweating heavily and it wasn't just from the sun. Anton and Pezel stood still at the top of the hill there guns out, just waiting for the order. But they knew she wouldn't be killed, they were sent to bring back survivors and finish off the one they didn't need. Whether she was on your side or not, Nina was always an asset.
"Who's this?" Kalah asked, pointing to Jack with his shoe, hoping the distraction would help him stay calm; he had been given an important task to complete, he didn't want to screw it up.
"Jack Bauer." Nina said, no emotion in her voice. It sounded empty.
Immediately Anton pulled out a small computer device and began scrolling through the list of names. He read through it twice then shook his head to Kalah, who cocked his gun. Nina realised his intentions and rapidly began to protest.
"What are you doing, he is a highly regarded federal agent!" The sheer surprise at what they were doing was very clear in her voice.
"You know how this works Nina. He isn't on the list. We don't need him."
"He isn't on the list because he has been inactive over a year. He still holds a vast amount of classified information despite this. You can use him," she added, unsure of why she was trying to save Jack. After the way he had tried to humiliate her earlier on the plane, she should be watching this with glee. But she couldn't, she just didn't know why.
She put it down to the mere fact that she knew these people would not be pleased to see her, but with Jack around the odds of her staying alive were increased. As much as he would like to kill her, she knew he wouldn't. He still had to think of the millions of people her information could save. She needed him if she was going to survive this.
"Why are you so desperate to save him, if he is a fed?" Kalah asked, genuinely confused. He didn't wait for an answer, he knew they had to hurry things along. He tuned to his two men and ordered, "Anton bring the car, were taking them both with us. Pezel do another quick search for survivors, there's gotta be more than these two."
The two men hurried away and Kalah crouched down next to Nina, she didn't take her eyes off his gun, she wasn't going to miss her chance to escape if it came. Only it didn't, Kalah knew her too well to make a slip like that.
"If he is useless, he'll get a bullet. Just like you," he taunted mockingly, "only you might get one anyway, for p!ssing Mandras off by being involved in this mess. I can't wait to see the look on his face when he sees you here. Your supposed to be in prison. It's not hard to figure out what's happening here, he will want to burn you at a stake."
Nina let a small smile form on her face, showing him his words were ineffective. It worked, as he stood back up and began pacing again, his eyes falling on her and Bauer every few seconds. He finally herd the sound of the jeep and relaxed some, the sooner they were out of here the quicker they could assess the damage done to there plans. From there on they could work on making sure there hard work pulled off. This day would go the way they planned, to the tiniest detail, he would make sure of that.