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Chapter 7 – Lost
Jack's POV
"Did you find anything?" I asked. I was now at CTU and the top priority was now to find Tony and Michelle. I had assumed the position of CTU director until I was needed out in the field, then Curtis would take over.
"No," Chloe replied, "it doesn't look like they went through any main streets or highways."
"Alright, then make a list of any unaccounted vehicles in the west parking lot of the airport." I told her.
"That will take forever, and there would be like a million possibilities!" she argued.
"Just do it Chloe, that's an order!" I replied angrily. Geez! Doesn't she just know when to let it go?
"Look Jack, I know you must be dipped in a whole lot of guilt, but you can't just blow your top off for no reason!"
"Chloe…" I started.
"…I mean I know Tony and Michelle were your friends…"
"Chloe…"
"….and Tony saved your life today….."
"Chloe!" I exclaimed. I sighed, gosh, doesn't she know when to just SHUT UP! "Just…, just get that list for me." I told her quietly.
I walked away and I could just feel Chloe roll her eyes at me. I walked over to Edgar and said, "Who's in charge of managing active protocol?"
"Um, I think it's Keri Turner," he replied, and pointed her out to me. Keri Turner? I feel like I've heard that name before.
"Thanks," I said and walked up to her. "Ms. Turner?" I asked her.
She turned around and said, "Yes."
"I need you to add this to active protocol," I told her, handing her a floppy disk.
She took the disk from me and said, "Alright," as if I was a complete stranger who just walked up to her out of the blue, "you're taking over as Director of CTU?" she asked.
"Yeah," I said, extending my hand out to her as common courtesy, "I'm Jack Bau…"
"I know," she interrupted. "I was here when the nuclear bomb went off, and you and Michelle were on your little goose chase, against protocol."
Now I remember her, she was that annoying little analyst who was demoted to another department after a couple weeks. Tony told me about how she was the reason that most of our plans to get the chip proving that the Cypress recording was fake, were foiled.
I withdrew my hand and said, "Just do what I told you, and add a security lock to module three."
"I don't have that kind of clearance," she said.
"Fine, then I'll just ask Edgar to do it," I said, and began to walk away.
"I could do it better than Edgar, if you could just give me the clearance," she said.
"Just stick to protocol Ms. Turner," I told, getting very annoyed.
"Oh, so now the famous Jack Bauer is going to going to lecture me on protocol?" she retorted sarcastically. "Talk about irony?"
I turned back to her and said, now very angry, "You want a different clearance? Well, what do you have right now?"
"Level three," she said, arms crossed and with an annoying smirk on her face.
"Well, then congratulations, you now have a level two." I told her, and watched the smirk on her face die away.
I walked away and she followed saying, "But you can't do that, you're only here on a provisional basis."
"True, but I'm still in charge, and I don't trust you," I told her. And I walked away from her and headed up to Tony's office. Even though it was now my office temporarily, and it was supposed to be Michelle's, I still thought of it as Tony's office. And some day it's going to become his.
"Jack," Curtis called hovering over Chloe's chair with Edgar working on a computer right next to her, "I think you might want to take a look at this."
I walked over to them and Edgar said, "It's an old barn where our government agencies store extra computers; there was a gray van with no plates which just left the barn almost half an hour ago."
"And it matches on of the unidentified cars in the west parking lot of the airport," Chloe said, "what are the odds?"
"Alright, I want you to check every satellite image, gas station, and possible pit stop to see if you can track the van." I said
My mind raced to what Tony and Michelle must be going through. I'm pretty sure that they were the last person either one of them would want to be stuck in this situation with.
Tony's POV
Lenten and Jordan were arguing in the front seat of he van as we drove away from the barn, and Michelle and I were tied up in the back seat.
"Michelle," I whispered to her, "I think I have a plan."
Her face lit up, "What is it?" she whispered back.
"Well, you're not exactly going to like it," I said, and to my displeasure her ever so small smile died away and she sighed.
"Well," I continued, "He said that we were going to Long Beach, right? Well on the way we're going to drive by a lake pretty soon." (A.N.: I know that there probably aren't very many lakes in L.A., but that's why it's called fiction.)
"How do you know that?" Michelle asked.
We had driven to Long Beach for our first weekend away together, just the two of us; we had been dating for about two months. We stopped off on our way for some food; it was about 6:30, sunset time. We were going to get back in the car a drive away to Long Beach, but we decided to spend the evening on the dock, due to the beautiful sunset by the lake.
And of all of the fathers and daughters, who were going boating on that very dock, that very evening, guess which one it was. Jack and Kim, and to their surprise they found us making out on the dock. They were the first ones to know about us.
They came up to us from behind and said all of a sudden, "Having fun?" It caught Michelle off guard so much; she nearly toppled off the dock and into the lake if I hadn't had my grip on her.
I would always remember that for the rest of my life. I felt a knife stab my heart as I realized that she didn't remember, how can she not? Or is she just saying that because she didn't want me to know that she still remembered.
"We went to Long Beach for our…" but I cut myself off there once I actually comprehended what I was saying.
She paused and looked up at me, and just for that one second, our eyes met and I saw something familiar in her eyes. I couldn't make it out, but it reminded me of when I first met her. She forced herself to drag her eyes to the floor and said, "Oh," she paused, "what about the lake?"
"Well, if we could create a distraction, we might be able to drive the car into the lake."
"Are you crazy? With these ropes restraining us, it'll be impossible to make it out alive! That's your plan for an escape?" she asked, disappointment clear in her voice.
"Do you have any ideas?" I asked, anger filling my voice.
She sighed, "No, what do we do exactly?"
"Okay, so this is how it's going to work…"
Michelle's POV
I held my breath as Lenten and Jordan stepped out of the van. The back window of the van was cranked open a little bit. We managed to break an empty beer bottle in the back without Lenten or Jordan noticing. And there was too much noise from their arguing, the wind blowing and noise on the boardwalk to hear the glass break.
So we managed to chuck a bit of broken glass out the window and onto the tire without Lenten or Jordan noticing, so now the tire was punctured.
The two had gone outside to check what was wrong with the tire. They had parked the car on the dock and locked all of the doors. We couldn't get out and the only way to drive the car
Now we were alone in the car, with the keys in the ignition.
"Quick, get a piece of broken glass from the back," Tony said. A handed one to him and he used it to cut our ropes.
He went up to the front seat and said, "grab his phone, and get in the front seat," he ordered hastily.
"I still don't get it, why the lake?" I asked him while I got in the front seat and fastened my seat belt.
"Because then we can't be tracked," he replied, "if we escape and stay in the city, they'll easily find us."
That's when I saw Lenten look back and realize that we had gotten free from the ropes.
"Tony! Hurry!" I exclaimed. He started the car, turned it around and drove straight into the lake.
I squeezed my eyes shut and the last thing I remember is everything going black…
Tony's POV
"Michelle!" I exclaimed trying to wake her up. She had hit her head on something in the car, and had been knocked unconscious.
The door had gotten stuck in the water so I grabbed her and we climbed out of the window, quickly swimming to the surface of the lake.
My eyes settled to the land on the other side of the lake, I put my arm around Michelle's waist and swam to the land.
Once we had reached it, I pulled her up on the ground and checked her pulse. She was still breathing, but it wasn't steady.
"Michelle! Can you hear me?" I asked rather loudly. I looked up and around for help and was only greeted by silence. We had reached a part of land, probably right off the highway where it was only jungle and forest. (A/N: A.K.A: same place where Kim had her little cougar incident.)
I opened her jacket and furiously pumped her chest with no avail. I put my hands on her face, opened her mouth and tried breathing air into it.
Still no avail. I tried pumping her chest again, and once I had given up hope, she slowly turned her head to the side and coughed up some water.
I sighed in relief as I saw her eyes slowly open.
Jack's POV
"Jack," Curtis called, "I think you should take a look at this." I walked over to his station.
"The gray van we were talking about was just found in the lake, witnesses say two men had gone out to check a flat tire and in the meantime a couple fitting Tony and Michelle's description drove the car into the lake. No bodies were found."
"Alright, send a team to the dock and widen the search parameters around the lake." I said.
I wonder what they were doing right now.
Michelle's POV
"Ouch!" I exclaimed as another thorn cut my leg. Great, just great. I hate the woods: plants, thorns, wild animals, and more ways make yourself bleed.
Lenten's phone wasn't charged so we couldn't make any calls, and now we were hiking through a jungle with no direction and no way to find CTU before Marwan finds us first.
"Another thorn?" Tony asked, who had several scratches on his arms from thorns himself.
"Yeah," I muttered. We had been walking for about half an hour straight now and still had no idea where we were, and I had to keep slapping myself to keep me awake.
Tony, seeing this, said, "Look, there's a cave over there; I think we need a break."
"Sure," I replied sitting down in the cave, followed by Tony. I sat with my back against one of the walls, and he sat with his back against the wall opposite me.
I watched him struggle to keep awake… and lose. His eyes slowly closed shut and I could feel mine do the same.
This was the Tony I had married, I hadn't seen him since his arrest, but he was back. So what was the problem? Like Jack said, all he needed was some time, just like Jack, now he's back. But it scared me. Would he stay? Would he even forgive me for leaving him? Would things ever go back to the way they were?
These thoughts overwhelmed me as I slowly drifted off to sleep as well, escaping from reality, just for a little while…
O.K., kinda short, but I had to post something. I will be on vacation for the next two weeks or so, the next chapter will have to wait a little longer. So when I come back, I WANT REVIEWS! Thanks.