A/N: I am sorry that it took so long for me to post this episode. Once a week will probably be the best I will ever be able to do. Anyway, thank you my faithful readers and reviewers. Once again, I would be thrilled to get more (at least 5) reviews!

Basicmoista: Thank you! I hadn't realized I had that discrepancy. If you look back to the first episode, I've made a few changes there so that the story is now more logical. Thanks again for your great reviews!

Day 6 Episode 4

The following takes place from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Chloe O'Brian tried to wiggle her toes and found that she couldn't. In fact, she couldn't feel her fingers or toes after several hours of having cords around her wrists and ankles. Her legs felt tingly, stiff, and weak from sitting in the same position for some time. Luckily, though, when Hans had re-tied her hands after she had used his computer, he tied her wrists in front of her so she could still work. His laptop was in reach, and she couldn't resist the comforting feel of the keys. She dragged the laptop toward her and quickly scanned all the programs and files on his hard drive. There was a lot of information on his computer. There were a lot of little things too, and she wondered if they were stored anywhere else besides his computer. She'd wanted to see if she could figure out what the terrorists were planning, but most of it was written in German. Oh well. She was about to put the computer down when a flicker of movement caught her eye. She hastily, but quietly, shut the laptop and shoved it towards Hans's empty chair. She lowered her eyelids enough so it looked like she had fallen asleep, but open enough that she could still see what was going on. Through her partially closed eyelids, she saw two men sneak up behind Hans's chair.

"He's not here." The first man muttered to his partner. Chloe wasn't sure why he was suddenly so interested in Hans's position. But Chloe wasn't the top analyst at CTU for nothing, and she soon had several theories forming in her head, none of which looked very good for Hans. The two men looked at each other as if their worst suspicions had been confirmed. Quietly, the two men pulled pistols from holsters under their jackets, and sneaked off the same way she had once seen Jack do. Only, Jack was better she subconsciously reminded herself. Suddenly it all fell into place.

"Wait!" Chloe cried. The two men turned. She needed to buy Hans more time.

"What?" one of the men asked.

At the same time the other one said, "We'll be back. You can talk later." The two men stared at each other, as if trying to decide whether or not to stop. Chloe prayed they would. Luck, which had eluded her for most of the day, now seemed to be on her side.

"Well?" the taller man growled. Chloe froze, she hadn't actually thought about what she was going to say. The way she saw it, there was only one card she could play.

"I'm not Audrey Raines."

Commercial Break

Jack and Curtis pulled into a parking lot about a quarter mile away from the warehouse. Four black SUV's with shaded windows pulled in right after them. Jack shoved open the door, got out and walked around to the trunk. Curtis got out as well and joined him. Both men slipped on their ear buds and tested them.

"Audrey? Can you hear me?" Jack asked.

"Yes." Audrey replied, sounding calmer than she felt.

"Okay, do you have satellite feeds or heat sensitive schematics on the building?"

"Almost." Audrey said, and Jack could hear frantic typing the background. He couldn't help comparing her with Chloe, with whom he worked as a seamless team. Not only would Chloe already would have had the feeds up, and she would have been three steps ahead of him.

"All right, I've got it."

"Is the northwest entrance cleared?" he asked wondering if this German that Chloe had convinced was trustworthy. Given her usual amount social intelligence, he wondered briefly how she had managed to convince this guy without offending him off the face of this earth. Maybe though, he reflected, it was the same way she got him to trust her so well.

"Yes."

"Good," he told her. He turned to Curtis and his men. Curtis had laid a schematic of the building on the hood of one of the SUV's. Jack ran over the plan one more time, until he was sure that everyone understood. Because the building was so well guarded, the success of the mission depended on every agent carrying out their part perfectly.

"Audrey, are you ready?" Jack checked. Every agent included the ones on the computers too. Although Jack trusted Audrey, he was far more comfortable with Chloe behind a computer than Audrey.

"I'm ready."

"Okay, all we're waiting for now is a signal from Chloe."

Commercial Break

"You're not Audrey Raines?" the taller man echoed, "then, who are you?"

"A friend of hers," she thought about how she could work Hans into it, "uuuhhh, Hans found this out, and he was going to use me to, uuummm, trap the real Audrey. Because we were friends, so he was going to make me lure her in." Chloe was lying through her teeth, and she didn't think she was very good at it.

"Where is he now?" the shorter man asked.

"Oh, uuuhhh, he had to go prepare some stuff." She said. To her ears it sounded more like a question, but the men seemed to believe it.

"Well, that sounds good," he continued, "Hans seems very competent. We'll just go back and watch for Bauer." He turned to leave, and before Chloe could process what was happening, he whipped around, pulling a gun from his coat. He leaned toward Chloe and hissed, "Yeah, right. You little liar."

Chloe knew what he was going to do an instant before he did it. But, her hands and feet were bound, so she had no way to prevent it. The man straightened up and slammed the handle his gun hard into the back of her head. She slumped forward, unconscious.

Commercial Break

"There's still no word from Chloe. Maybe she's in trouble and can't send a message." Jack told Audrey, "is the northwest door still unguarded?"

"Yes, but…Jack, I don't like this."

"Damnit, Audrey! I don't like this either, but it's Chloe in there, and I'm going to do whatever it takes to get to her! Are you going to work with me or not?" Jack exploded. He turned to Curtis and his men and signaled for them to head to the northwest corner.

"I'm with you, Jack. I'll always be behind you." Audrey assured him.

"I'm going in."

Hans returned to Chloe's cell to find her slumped over, with a large bruise forming on the back of her head. Hans quickly looked up and scanned the area for any sign of movement. He was pretty sure that Chloe wouldn't give him away, but she hadn't conked herself on the back of the head either, so Hans knew to be careful. He wondered when Jack Bauer was going to come. Chloe always spoke with such pride when she said his name. She didn't know it, but Hans had noticed that her whole tone and attitude changed when she talked about Jack. She became more confident and calm. It was clear that she placed total trust in him. He looked down at her still features. Even while she was unconscious, she was frowning.

With his back pressed to the wall, Jack stretched out his arm and pushed open the door. There was no one behind it. Jack and Curtis led their teams into the building. Bam, bam, bam. Caught by surprise, the German terrorists whirled around and returned the shots. The other agents fanned out and tried to give Jack sometime to get in to the main part of the building where Chloe was being held.

"Jack! On your left!" Curtis yelled from where he was fighting. Jack turned to his left and shot the terrorist who had attempted to shoot him from behind a large box. Jack moved on as quickly as he could.

"We're in." Jack whispered to Audrey as he ran. Although Jack could not see it, Audrey's hand was clenched so hard around her desk that her knuckles had turned white.

Hans heard the first shots and knew that Jack Bauer had arrived. He stood back and watched as his fellow Germans ran towards the fight. The shots came closer and closer. He looked down at Chloe. He couldn't just leave her there, in the confusion of the firefight, she'd get shot. So, he scooped her up and made for an exit which was now unguarded. Many of the Germans had left their positions at the doors to go join the fight. He tightened his grip on Chloe and ran for the door.

"Hey you! STOP!" Jack bellowed. Swiftly, he slid his gun into his holster and sprinted toward the man carrying Chloe. He was prepared to tackle him if he needed to. Jack could hear the firefight behind him and prepared to spring. But before his feet had left the floor, a shot was fired right behind him.

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