Chloe pulled up outside the gas station with a list of booze already in her head '…I need vodka, vodka and more vodka, check! I need some of that rank tropical stuff my mother keeps buying me…I must like it because I keep finding empty bottles in the bath tub…check!...erm…beer is good, I will get some of that too…' with that she stepped out of her car with full intentions of draining the shop dry of alcohol.

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Jack went to Chloe's work station but she wasn't there, he looked in the conference room, she wasn't there either, he even shouted her name into the ladies restroom, still no joy although Nadia did come out and give him an evil glare. He finally came to the conclusion that he should ask Bill where she had gone.

"Bill? Have you seen Chloe? I can't find her anywhere. I need to talk to her!" a slight sound of desperation could be heard in his voice.

"She went home jack, 20 minutes ago. She said she was tired and needed some rest. She did look pretty wiped out"

"I thought she might have waited for me to get back before she left…i guess I was wrong…does she still live in the same apartment?" Jacks face seemed to be turning unhappier by the minute.

"Yea as far as I know she does..(phone rings)..Excuse me Jack its Karen I need to talk to her.."

"Sure Bill. I understand"

Jack did understand better than anyone could have realised. He had been waiting all day to be alone with Chloe to talk to her about how much he missed her and how he feels about her. Hell he had been waiting for over a year to do it.

Jack could be a patient man when he wanted to be but his patience was running dangerously low. He had to see her. So off he went in search of the elusive Chloe O'brian

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When Chloe finally got home she practically crashed through her front door, knocking over a lamp in the process. Chloe had been told she was clumsy before but she never did believe it, not even now. Although the crates of beer and bottle's of vodka probably didn't make her look like the most refined woman in the world.

She placed all the alcohol she had bought in the fridge and then went to take a shower.

Chloe loved showers, she would stand there for 40 minutes at a time just to numb out the world around her and tonight was know different. She seemed to melt into her own little world and because of this she failed to notice that she now had a surprise guest sitting on her sofa. One Mr Jack Bauer, who had grown inpatient after waiting at her front for 20 minutes while constantly knocking like a gormless idiot.

Chloe stepped out of the shower, got changed, dried her hair and made her way to the kitchen. She was in for a big shock.

As she turned the corner out of her bedroom Chloe noticed that the lamp she knocked over earlier was now neatly back on the side table. She knew something wasn't right and reached for the phone. Just then she heard a voice, a man's voice, a low, sexy, raspy voice, she knew it was Jack instantly.

Chloe turned into the kitchen and saw him, Jack Bauer, the love of her life. Standing up against the kitchen counter and looking around her apartment with a bemused look on his face.

"So Chloe by the looks of things you have either opened your own night club or have become a booze hound! Which is it?" the look on Jack's face seemed to indicate that he was being serious.

Chloe couldn't answer her tongue seemed to be glued to the roof of her mouth. She was dumb struck at seeing him, there, in her apartment, in her kitchen. Chloe had seen Jack during the day but they were only short fleeting moments not long enough for it to sink in her mind that he was actually back. Then suddenly she snapped out of it.

"What the hell are you doing in my house Jack? and what gives you the right to start snooping around in my personal stuff?" her face was etched with anger.

"Chloe, I'm here because there are some things we need to talk about, some really important things that need to be…" before Jack could finish Chloe cut him off.

"…and I am not a booze hound! I just had a bad day, I'm pretty sure you had a really bad day, worse than mine in fact.." god jack wouldn't you be having a bad day if the person you loved in secret for years suddenly turned up again out of the blue totally ruining your life long plan of staying in denial.

"Okay Okay i get it you had a bad daybut Chloe I have to…I need to tell you…oh god I don't know how to say this"

"Jeeze jack would you just spit it out already I haven't got all night" you sexy, adorable, hunk of a man…I missed you so much.

"Ermmm maybe we should have a drink..might loosen me up abit. Today has been tough" Oh why can't I just tell you I think you're beautiful and wonderful. That I missed you so much I thought my heart was going to burst.

"Okay I suppose a couple of drinks couldn't hurt" I'm glad you're staying.

"Yea? Great" I WILL TELL HER!! I WILL TELL HER!!