Chapter 14

Ten minutes later Andy and Jack entered CTU. Jack stormed in, past Bill and headed towards the interrogation rooms.

"Where the hell is he going?" Bill asked Andy.

"Where do you think?" Andy replied sarcastically.

Jack burst in through the door. "Where is she!?" he yelled, as he grabbed Luke by the collar.

"I…I told you" he stuttered.

"Oh yeah, that hell hole of an apartment. She wasn't there. In fact nothing was there apart from some homeless guy."

Luke looked bewildered. "Yeah and guess what" Jack snarled. "The guy said of your men brought a house off of him somewhere outside of L.A. So you're going to tell me now where she is."

Luke was stunned. "Wh…what are you talking about Audrey was meant to be there. She has to be there."

Jack tightened his grip on Luke. "Don't lie to me. Now where is Audrey!?"

"I don't know! I'm telling you the truth I swear!" he whimpered.

Something in Luke's eyes told Jack he was telling him the truth. "Alright, we have a description of the man who brought the house. Here is a picture". Jack took the sketched picture of the suspect from the folder that he was carrying. Luke looked at it flabbergasted.

"Who is it?"

"That's… that's Simon Craig." Jack took a step back, shocked. "We'll need you to phone him so we can get a location" Luke simply nodded. "I'll be right back with a phone" Jack turned and headed out of the room, resting his back against the wall. Simon Craig. Where had he heard that name before? Then it hit him.

Andy stepped up to him. "What did Luke have to say then?"

"He claims that he had nothing to do with the buying of the property. He says the man is called Simon Craig."

"Well that's great, we've got a new lead, so why do you look some down?"

"Because Andy, this wasn't some random kidnapping." Andy looked at Jack confused. "What I mean is its personal with me. I sent Craig down 7 years ago for drugs. When I arrived to take him in, his wife got caught up in friendly fire and was killed. He blamed me for his wife's death."

"And you think Craig is getting his revenge by taking Audrey?"

"Yeah I do. I'm going to get a phone for Luke so we can get a location. I need you to get that set up alright?"

Andy nodded and walked off. Jack walked over to Chloe. "Chloe I need you to pull up everything you can on Simon Craig."

"Alright" she replied.

Jack headed back to the interrogation room, to find Andy already there setting the phone line up. Jack walked over to Luke. "Right you need to keep him on the phone for at least a minute, so we can get a location. Alright?"

"Yeah okay" Luke dialled Simon's number.

"What" said the voice from the other end of the phone?

"Simon it's me. Give me an update on Audrey."

"She's fine." Jack's heartbeat returned to normal. "For now anyway. Now Luke why don't you let me talk to Jack, who im sure is listening to this conversation."

"What are you talking about? No one is here."

"Really? Well then if Jack doesn't talk within the next five seconds I'll kill Audrey."

"Five" There was nothing.

"Four" Again there was no word.

"Three."

"Two" Jack's mind was buzzing and he finally spoke. "Simon its Jack."

Simon smiled. "Oh, im so glad you could join me Jack. Long-time no speak."

Jack's blood began to boil. "Simon, let Audrey go she has nothing to do with this. This is between me and you."

"Ha!" Simon laughed. "Jack this has everything to do with Audrey. You took my wife's life and now, finally, I have someone you really love and care about. Unless you get me that $15 million, Audrey will be killed." With that the line went dead.

Jack was silent. "Did we get a location?"

"No we didn't get an exact location. But we know roughly the area where she may be. There is an abandoned house out there and my guess is she will be there. How much time have we got?"

"Forty-five minutes. We need to go NOW!"

TBC…..