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Day 6 Episode 5

The following takes place from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

It all seemed to happen in slow motion. Hans, still carrying Chloe, fell forward, as Jack leapt towards him. Jack pulled the man off Chloe without registering that he was dead. Her eyes were closed, and her wrists and ankles were bound. He pulled her out of the way, behind some filing cabinets, and slapped her quickly on the face and untied her bonds. The sudden impact had woken her, and she opened her eyes, looking dazed.

"Jack," she asked numbly, "they thought you would come because they thought I was Audrey."

Jack stopped, confused, and raised his eyebrows. Jack didn't know what to say, and an awkward silence grew between them. Realizing that she was still weakly propped up against a dusty cardboard box, he extended his hand toward her.

"Can you walk?" Jack asked Chloe. Silently, Chloe nodded. He helped her to her feet and peered out from behind the filing cabinet.

"Coast is clear." He whispered. Tentatively Chloe stepped out behind him. And then she saw Hans. A look of surprise was eternally frozen on his round, youthful face. Her knees gave out, and she would have fallen if Jack hadn't grabbed her at the last moment. Deciding that she was unfit to walk by herself, Jack slung her unceremoniously over his shoulder and ran toward the door.

"Hurry, hurry!" Schmidt whispered anxiously, glancing over his shoulder at the distant fight. His partner, an older and more experienced man kept calmly putting papers in his briefcase. His ice blue eyes swept over the mess surrounding the computer.

"I'll destroy the files here, you go get Hans's laptop. I saw it by his chair." He said in his same calm, detached manner.

"OK, Andre." Schmidt sped off as Andre Kreis leaned toward the computer.

Commercial Break

Chloe couldn't stop shaking. Inwardly, she cursed herself for doing so. She hated to show any signs of physical or mental weakness. She tensed up her muscles to try to stop her trembling. Holding her in place with both his arms, Jack used his foot to kick open the door. He burst out into the bright sunlight, causing him to squint for a moment, until his eyes adjusted from the darkened interior of the warehouse. He spotted Agent Waters standing a little ways off, and beckoned him over. Jack set Chloe down and looked her in the eyes.

"Are you okay?" he asked, "are you cold?" He pulled off his grey jacket, exposing his black bulletproof vest, and put it around her shoulders.

"I'm just…" But apparently Chloe couldn't think of what she was, so she just said, "No, I'm fine." But she didn't remove his jacket.

Jack turned and looked up as Agent Waters came over. " James," he said, "take Chloe over to the SUV's. Give her any medical attention that she needs. Keep her safe. I'm going back in."

"I'm fine!" Chloe snapped as Agent Waters reached for her. "Jack? Don't you want me to run comm?" She asked.

"I've got Audrey on that." Jack replied.

"Oh." Chloe said. An awkward moment followed, but Jack brushed it aside, and Chloe watched as he ran back into the building.

Schmidt grabbed the laptop and darted back to the control room in the rear of the building. Unbeknownst to him, he was being watched. As he left, Jack Bauer slipped into the shadow of the wall and followed him to the back. Though he tried to walk as softly as possible, Jack worried that his boots echoed too loudly in the now silent warehouse. Twice, Schmidt stopped abruptly and turned around, the second time pulling out his gun. The fight in the rest of the warehouse seemed to be over, and an unnatural silence fell over the place. He followed Schmidt down a winding hallway to the back of the warehouse. Johann Schmidt pushed open the door to the control room and turned away to hand Andre Kreis the laptop. In that split second, Jack darted in the door and quickly hid behind a cluster of shelves filled with boxes, which effectively hid him from the rest of the room. Schmidt closed the door and looked at his accomplice.

"Are you ready yet?" Johann asked.

"Almost." Andre replied stuffing a few more papers, then the laptop, into his bag.

"You have all the receipts? They clearly said they didn't want to be implicated—"

"Don't worry about it," Andre replied, "if they do find anything, it will not be enough for them to even grasp the idea of what we're going to do. All right…let's go!"

Before they could even touch the door handle, Jack leaped into sight and fired two shots. He was not aiming to kill, but his shots produced the desired effect: both men froze.

"Put your hands where I can see them," Jack growled from behind the behind the bookcases. The two men reluctantly raised their hands above their heads. But Jack hadn't counted on the instability of the shelves. Jack was about to step out from behind the shelves when Andre Kreis yelled something in German. Before Jack had time to react, they'd shoved the shelves in towards him. Heavy boxes and heavier wood and metal shelves clattered down on him. The Germans dashed from the room, throwing the switch as they left, and plunging a battered Jack into complete darkness. He heard the lock click behind them and swore.

Commercial Break

"Jack? Jack!" Audrey asked worriedly. She received only silence as an answer. She turned to the closest person to her; a new computer techie named Simon, and snapped at him to bring up as many satellite feeds as possible.

"All right, ma'am," he said in his slow, deep, and calming voice, "shall I get Mr. Buchanan or Ms. Hayes on the line?" He asked

"Yes," she said distractedly, "and, call me Audrey."

"Yes, ma—I mean…Audrey," He nodded and reached for the handle of the receiver, then quickly put it down. Hearing this, Audrey turned from her computer to Simon.

"Here she comes," he said, pointing toward the stairs. Karen Hayes was indeed descending the stairs from her office on the second level. Audrey wasn't sure whether she trusted Karen, but she was sure that she would rather have talked to Bill Buchanan. He, at least, would have understood where she was coming from. But time was critical for Jack, so she couldn't pick and choose.

Karen Hayes had been made co-director of CTU after the way she had handled the Logan issue. To Audrey's surprise, she and Buchanan got on famously, directing CTU as a seamless unit. She was now walking towards Audrey with her usual kind expression on her face.

"I just heard a clatter in the background, and now Jack isn't responding." Audrey said.

Calm as usual, Karen went through all the possibilities, saying that Jack might have been in a situation where he couldn't talk.

"No," Audrey said, "He would have tapped the ear but to let me know that he was okay."

"Well then," Karen said, picking up a headset, "Agent Bauer? Can you hear me?"

Commercial Break

Chloe sat shivering in the SUV's. She wasn't sure why she was still shaking. It wasn't like this was her first time out in the field, granted though, she hadn't enjoyed herself immensely last time she was. She heard a cell phone near her ringing, and, out of habit, picked it up.

"O'Brian," she was startled to hear how tired she sounded.

"Chloe?" It was Karen Hayes.

"Yes?" Chloe said stiffly. She still hadn't forgiven Karen for her numerous grievances during the Logan affair, most of which had to do with not believing Jack.

"How are you holding up?" She asked kindly. It bothered Chloe that she was always so nice. It made her harder to hold a grudge against.

"Fine." Chloe replied, "Why are you calling?"

"We're trying to contact Jack? Do you know where he is?"

"He went back into the warehouse. He was trying to catch some of the Germans. That was about half an hour ago. I haven't seen him since." Try as she might, she couldn't hold a grudge at Jack's expense.

"Oh…I'll call you back." Karen hung up

Jack Bauer vainly attempted to shift some of the boxes which were pinning him down. After much painful squirming, he managed to extricate himself from the mess. Shaking his arms out, he quietly stepped into the main warehouse. A terrorist was hunched over a computer, making last minute file transfers. Jack took aim, but before he could shoot, the young man turned around to check to door to the control room. There was something familiar about that face.

"Spenser?" he gasped.

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