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Title: Taking the Plunge
Author: Xandra73

Rating: NC-17

Characters: Jack & Nina

Summary: Jack is in need of a friend.

Disclaimer: Nothing of 24 belongs to me. Just playing.
Author’s note: My thanks go
to Catch22Girl my never-ending source of encouragement and
inspiration.
---
"No, Jack. You can’t
come over. I told you not to push me."
She sounded so tired. Jack wished
he could talk to her in person, not like this over the phone.
"But it’s Thanksgiving,
Teri. And it’s been almost three months. Maybe we could..."
Teri interrupted him. Her voice
was muffled, like on the edge of crying. "No. I... I can’t.
Don’t you understand? It’s too hard. We’ve already
tried so often." For a few seconds he only heard her
breathing. With a steadier voice she continued, "I know it’s
Thanksgiving. I’m really sorry, I just don’t want to
see you at the moment."
"But..."
"Jack, you can’t come
back. Please. Don’t call again," she cut him off and
ended the connection.
Jack's grip on the phone tightened
while he stared at the handset. He had been fooling himself. Why
had he been so sure she would be ready by now? How could he have
believed that a lousy excuse like a national holiday would be
able to solve his problems? This wasn‘t going away, just
because he wanted it to. With a disheartened sigh he put the
handset back in its place. He closed his eyes and leaned back,
trying to relax a little. It wasn‘t working.
A knock on the door tore him out
of his thoughts. Jack reluctantly opened his eyes and saw Nina
standing in front of his office, waiting. He sat up in a hurry
and tried to compose himself. He wasn‘t in the mood to
answer any curious questions.
"Come in."
"Hi, Jack. I‘ve got the
Hampton file you wanted," she said after she‘d entered
and handed him the disk.
Jack saw the concern in her eyes
and avoided her questioning look. He already regretted
telling her about his plans to call Teri.
"Thank you," he answered
brusquely and took the disk. He inserted it into the drive and
started opening files, trying to look busy. But Nina was still
standing in front of his desk and he knew she wouldn‘t leave
before he said something.
Finally he looked up. "Anything
else?"
"What did she say?" No
chit-chat. Nina came always straight to the point. That‘s
what he liked so much about her. Usually.
"Who?" It was just
stalling, Jack knew that. But he wasn‘t willing to give in
so easily.
"Come on, Jack. I know you
talked to Teri before I came in. Didn‘t you? What did she
say? Is she ready to talk?"
"No."
Jack knew Nina only wanted to make
sure he was all right, but he didn’t have the energy
to talk about this right now. It amazed him how much strength he
had pulled from the hope he had put in this one phone call over
the last few days. Now it almost felt like his life’s
essence had been drained from him.
"Oh. I’m so sorry, Jack.
I really thought she would," her voice was full of sympathy.
"Look, Nina, I don't have
time to talk about this now. I need to get back to work."
Without another word he turned back to his monitor and continued
scanning through the files. Ignoring her.
"Okay. If you don’t want
to talk about it, don’t," she answered irritated.
"I’m done for today. Everybody else is gone already and
the guys at Division have taken over the holiday shift. I really
hope you won’t decide to stay here all night."
He just shook his head.
"Happy Thanksgiving, Jack."
When she realized he wouldn’t
say another word, she gave up and left the room.
---
‘Damn. What the hell is
happening?’ Nina pondered while she walked down the
stairs from Jack‘s office to her workstation. Every day Jack’s
behavior towards her became more and more frustrating.
While she began clearing up her
desk, she tried to decide what to do.
Jack had started to slip out of
her grasp since he separated from Teri and so far any action she
had taken to prevent it had failed.
Her employers wouldn’t be
very happy about this turn of events. Her assignment was pretty
much clear cut, why wasn’t it as easy to carry out?
‘Win Jack Bauer’s
complete trust.’
Nina had been working on this for
over a year. Her employers had taken great interest in Jack from
the first day he’d arrived at CTU to be the new Special
Agent in Charge. She was his second in command, so it never had
been difficult to keep a close eye on him. They made a very good
team and he trusted her like nobody else at CTU. Over time they
had eventually become friends.
She had to admit she enjoyed
working alongside Jack. Maybe even more than she should.
Four weeks ago her assignment had
been slightly altered. Since Nina worked only on a need-to-know
basis, she never got enough information to know about the bigger
picture. But her employers had hinted that Jack might not be
working for CTU that much longer and she had a good chance
to take over his position when the plan was put into
effect.
Her share of work was to slowly
distance him from his co-workers. Discredit his reputation.
Become his only confidant. In a very discreet way, of course. She
was allowed to take any actions necessary, she just had to be
sure her cover stayed intact.
Which shouldn’t be too hard
to accomplish. Jack wasn’t the easiest guy to get along with
in the first place.
The fact that he had been promoted
to be Special Agent in Charge of CTU Los Angeles, without ever
having set one foot into this office before, had always been a
disadvantage.
His...unorthodox ways of working,
undoubtedly acquired during his time with Delta or SWAT, had
clashed more than once with the much more by-the-bookish way of
thinking from his superiors at Division or his subordinates here
at CTU.
People like George Mason or Ryan
Chappelle would never learn that fighting terrorism could not be
done by the book. This was a new kind of war, which asked for new
ideas and the ability to understand the enemy.
Maybe that was why they made such
a good team. Jack was a lot like her.
'And maybe that's why I've
always been so attracted to him... Damn, stop that!’ she
thought. Yes, she had fantasized how it would be with him, she
couldn’t deny it. But normally she managed to suppress those
thoughts. She was a professional and part of her job was to stay
in control. Being distracted by emotions wasn’t usually her
style.
She closed her eyes and rubbed
them, trying to concentrate on the problem at hand.
Nina wondered when her latest move
would pay off. Seeding suspicions about bribed agents had been
easy. Jack had gone for the bait almost immediately. Being
the gentleman that he is, he took the case out of her
hands so she wouldn’t get into any trouble.
In some ways he was so predictable.
Even though it was the right thing
to do, exposing those agents, he would piss off more than just a
few people from here all the way to Washington. ‘Losing a
few sources of information will be more than worth it,’
she thought. They were easy to replace.
All of this didn’t help her
current problem though. What could she do to prevent him from
retreating from her? First he had just been very quiet during
their infrequent after-work drinks at the bar across the street.
But for the last two or three weeks he’d constantly found
excuses to avoid any sort of private talk or interaction at all.
Telling her about calling Teri had been the only exception.
Nina looked back up to his office,
while an idea was forming in her mind.
‘Maybe I should invite him
over for dinner?’
The concept felt odd to her. She
had never invited him to her apartment before. It always had been
the office, or the bar. Thinking about it left a tingling
sensation in her stomach. Was that excitement? Maybe the idea
wasn’t so good after all.
‘Yes it is. If you let him
sit here like this all night you will make things worse.’
She made up her mind and went back up the stairs.
After Jack had called her in, Nina
stood in the doorway to his office, suddenly unsure what to do if
he declined.
"Jack...," she hesitated.
When she saw he wasn’t avoiding her gaze this time, she
continued, trying to let it sound as casual as possible. "Well,
actually I don’t have any plans for tonight. Would you like
to join me for dinner? Don‘t worry, nothing fancy. Since
I've been here all day, I obviously haven't had time to cook, but
we could order something, maybe Chinese?"
She smiled a little bit uneasy and
watched him contemplating the invitation. The seconds stretched
like minutes.
"Okay."
Nina breathed out and her smile
widened. "Great. 8 p.m."
---
Two hours later Jack sat in his
car and looked up to the lighted windows of Nina’s
apartment, still wondering what had gotten into him to accept her
invitation.
Originally he’d planned to
get completely drunk in the filthiest bar he could find. Well, if
he was fully honest with himself, waking up in his car after
Thanksgiving like he usually did under those circumstances, wasn‘t
a very appealing thought.
He’d always liked Nina’s
company. Not only at work. He was a very private person, but over
the last year, they had developed a very nice friendship. She was
a very confident, intelligent and good looking woman. He would be
a liar if he’d said he wasn’t attracted by her. But he
was her boss and a married man, so of course he’d always
kept a tactful distance. ‘In another life, we would have
been the perfect match,’ he thought.
‘Maybe it is time to start
a new life.’ An idea that had haunted him for a while.
Even allowing this thought to enter his mind felt like giving up
on what he was struggling to get back. He wasn’t sure if he
was ready to strike a new path already.
Jack glanced at his watch: 8:20 p.m.
- time to go. He grabbed the bottle of wine he’d brought
with him and left the car.
---
Dinner had been spent almost in
silence. Nina had tried to open up a few conversations, but Jack
had responded only sparsely while picking at his food. They had
managed to talk a little bit about work, but nothing more. Now,
sitting in the living room with a glass of wine, the silence
started to get very uncomfortable.
"I don’t understand why
you want to burden yourself with my moody company. I’m sure
you have better ways to spend Thanksgiving than this," Jack
said apologetic.
"Mmh. Actually I don’t.
Thanksgiving should be celebrated with family or friends. And I
consider you a good friend, so I think this invitation was most
appropriate." she smiled. "Seriously, I think it would
have been a mistake to let you go home alone tonight. I thought
that maybe we could talk. Or not. As you like. But maybe it would
help, to talk about what’s on your mind."
"I would rather not."
She reached over to him and laid a
hand on his arm. "I thought we were friends. It hurts to see
you block me out like this, you know? Maybe talking about it
would give you another perspective on things. I’m just
worried, Jack."
He squeezed her hand and nodded.
"I know," he gave her a reassuring smile. "but I
believe that I should be able to handle this on my own."
After a short silence he added. "I just don’t know how."
He drained his glass of wine and
Nina filled it up again.
"I think you are trying too
hard." She carefully offered. "You scare her away.
Maybe you should stop thinking of her for a while. Find some
distraction. Either she changes her mind, or it’s over. It’s
as simple as that. You just hurt yourself by drowning in
reproaches and self-doubt. Maybe you should try to move on."
Jack looked at her skeptical,
weighing in his mind what she‘d just said. "I
don’t know. You’re probably right. It’s really
scary to suddenly lose the one constant in life you ever had."
He shook his head.
"I can’t believe I let
this happen. Over the last few years it seems I obviously wasn’t
very good with dividing work from private life. I thought it
would help, if I transferred to CTU. You have no idea how glad I
was when Richard offered me this job. Working for CTU gave me the
chance to be home more often and to spend more time with my
family." He smiled bitterly. "And suddenly Teri and I
realized how much we’ve grown apart."
Nina had always wondered what
reasons Jack could have had to take such a desk job like he had
at CTU. Being the Special Agent in Charge was about organizing
and overseeing operations, not taking active part in them. In her
opinion he was way too much the hands-on type of guy for such an
assignment.
"Teri wanted me to open up to
her and I couldn’t make her understand that I can’t
tell her certain things about myself. She accused me to retreat
and not even trying to work on our relationship. That I should
stop for a minute and think about her and Kim, not always myself.
How could she say that? That’s all I ever did!"
Jack looked at Nina as if in
search of affirmation. She just smiled and nodded to reassure him.
"I never wanted to burden her
with my problems. I don’t want her to know how dangerous it
can be. I don’t want her to worry about me the way she would..."
He looked into his glass of wine and took another sip.
"It’s not just that,
Jack, isn’t it?" Nina asked when he didn’t
continue talking.
For a few seconds he just stared
at her.
"No," he sounded tired.
"I’m afraid. I’m terrified the truth might scare
her away. That she would look at me in disgust if she knew what
I've done and what I've let happen. I want her to believe I have
a secure and safe job, working for the government. I can‘t
show her this part of me ever. She wouldn‘t understand."
He ran his fingers through his
hair.
"I really don't know what to
do. She told me that if I don't change we're through and I can't,
I just can't. May'd b'd been fooling myself all those years,
thinking that I could have this kind of job and a happy family at
the same time."
Jack looked at her again.
"You’re probably right.
Maybe it would be better if I just let her go."
---
Nina wasn’t sure what to do.
Jack had stopped talking a few minutes ago and just stared into
his empty glass. She wondered what was going on in his mind at
the moment. He looked like he tried to decide how to continue.
Not with this conversation, but his life.
Maybe opening a new bottle was a
good idea.
Making up her mind, she walked
into the kitchen to get the other bottle of wine which stood on
the fridge.
He took the separation from his
wife much harder than she‘d expected. Teri should be happy
to have Jack as her husband. Nina envied her. She would give a
lot to have someone who cared about her that much. Especially if
that someone was Jack Bauer.
She wished Jack could finally
accept that he and Teri had no real future. They were living in
different worlds. If he’d just opened his eyes and looked
around, he would realize how many better choices he had. Like her.
Sometimes she wished she was the person she pretended to be. It
would make things so much easier.
When she came back into the living
room she found Jack still sitting on the sofa, his face now
buried in his hands. Nina put the bottle on the table and sat
down beside him. Carefully she put a hand on his back.
"Jack?" she whispered.
"I...it’s just... I
never thought I could feel so lost," he answered reluctant
after a while.
"Oh, Jack. Don’t do this
to yourself. I thought talking about it would help. I had invited
you over to cheer you up, not so you could work yourself
into a depression."
"I know. And it does help. I’m
sorry," he said with defeat in his voice.
Nina carefully pulled him out of
his hunched position and wrapped her arm around his shoulders,
trying to convey some comfort. She was a little surprised he wasn’t
shoving her away. Instead he leaned into her shoulder, obviously
calming down.
She stroked his hair and felt his
comforting hand on her knee. She closed her eyes, savoring the
moment of closeness. They’d never been this close for this
long. She could smell his cologne and feel his pulse beat against
her. Her usually unwanted desire for him came back in a rush and
her pulse began to speed up. Should she make the first move, or
would it destroy ethinthing she had accomplished?
She let her fingers slowly trail
along his hairline, then she placed a soft kiss on the top of his
head, which was still leaning against her shoulder.
After a while she felt some
movement from him. At first she thought he was trying to
find a more comfortable position, but then she realized what he
was doing. He was carefully stroking her thigh. Had he noticed
her little signals? A satisfied smile appeared on her face,
knowing he wasn’t able to see it. When he started to
hesitate, obviously unsure about her reaction, she murmured into
his ear: "Don’t stop."
Encouraged by her words, his
fingertips slid under her skirt, moving slowly upwards. Nina
spread her legs a little as an invitation, bathing in the
sensation of his touch. When she sighed in pleasure he finally
turned around and looked at her. She felt like she could lose
herself forever in those blue eyes. She wanted to taste his lips.
As if reading her thoughts, Jack
reached out and laid his hand on the back of her head, pulling
her closer. He opened his mouth and his tongue touched her lips,
begging for a way in. Once granted entry, Jack’s kiss turned
more demanding and explored hungrily every part of her mouth. A
wave of hot desire washed over her and she returned his
passionate kiss with the same ferocity.
She felt his hands move under her
shirt, touching her. His fingers slipped under her bra, cupping
her breasts, caressing them gently. Her nipples got hard under
his touch almost immediately. A smile appeared on his face.
Jack let his hand slide down over
her body and started to deepen the kiss again, even more greedily
than before. She could feel his fingers gliding over her skin,
tracing a line from between her breasts to her bellybutton and
further down below. Never breaking the kiss, Nina sat up on her
knees to pull up his shirt. While their tongues intertwined he
reached under her skirt, his finger moved past her panties and
let it glide into her wetness. Ecstasy was ripping through Nina’s
body as he started to stroke her. A loud moan escaped her into
Jack’s mouth, while she found a firm grip in his hair.
Like in a haze she heard him
whisper. "Do you like this?"
"Yes," her voice was
nothing more than a soft hiss. "Bedroom. Now." she
insisted with a fervent voice.
----
Somehow they had made it into the
bedroom, partly kissing, partly undressing each other. Now they
stood in front of the bed, almost naked.
Nina’s wet lips were swollen
from their voracious kissing. Just the thought of diving into
them again, aroused Jack even more. She was breathtakingly
beautiful as she stood in front of her large bed,
surrounded by darkness, just the light of the moon softly
touching her bare shoulders.
She reached for her skirt, the
last piece of clothing that needed to be removed and started to
push it down in a provocatively slow pace.
His longing for her touch became
almost too painful as another wave of arousal swept over him.
"I need you, Nina."
A seductive smile appeared on her
lips while she eagerly looked at his fully erect cock. Then she
let the skirt drop and kicked it away.
"Take me."
----
Jack stepped closer, until their
bodies almost touched. He placed a kiss on her shoulder, before
he captured her mouth again. His fingers moved down her back,
along her spine, just barely touching her skin. He grabbed her
buttocks and squeezed them, letting a finger run along her cleft.
Nina enjoyed the sensation of his
touch, drinking in the kiss. Her fingernails trailed along his
biceps, moving to his chest and over his flat belly. She loved
the way his chest hair tingled when she moved through it. When
she brushed over his shaft she heard a sharp hiss. An invitation
she would never let pass, so she grabbed it more tightly, moving
her hand back and forth. She could feel him getting harder, a
bead of pre-cum appearing at the tip of his cock.
She couldn‘t resist, she
wanted to hear herself say it. The words she never thought she
would ever get a chance to speak: "Come for me, Jack."
"No," he panted. "Not
like this."
Nina just smiled. When she started
to go down on her knees, she suddenly felt one of his hands on
her arm, keeping her up. The other reached for her still stroking
hand and pushed her away.
"Lie...down," he
mangaged to press through clenched teeth, then he shoved her
roughly onto the bed.
Jack spread her legs apart and
looked at her hungrily how she lay sprawled before him. Nina
could feel his hardness pressing against her leg. A wave of heat
rippled through her body.
"What are you waiting for?"
Nina groaned impatient. She finally wanted to feel him inside her.
Breathing hard Jack laid his hands
on Nina’s knees, positioned himself between her legs and
pushed into her. He waited a few moments to let her adjust, then
he started to thrust. Very slowly at first, then faster, finding
a common rhythm.
It didn’t take long and his
whole body tensed, then he erupted inside her, with a scream of
pleasure, finally finding release. He was panting heavily, as his
orgasm was ebbing away. When he’d recovered a little he
leaned forward and kissed her.
"I’m sorry. I‘m
usually not that selfish," he murmured sheepishly.
"Don’t be," Nina
whispered and pulled him down besides her. She turned towards him
and studied his features. The thin layer of sweat on his face and
body and the smell of sex in the air was a luscious combination.
"As far as I’m concerned
we still have the whole night," she murmured.
Jack captured her mouth for a
long, slow and deep kiss. He started kissing her neck, her
shoulders and working his way down to her breasts. He softly
kissed her still hard nipples, licking them playfully. Nina
squirmed in pleasure under his touch. His hand slid over her
body, exploring every inch of it.
Then he opened her legs wider,
stroking her thighs slowly, his tongue still playing with her
nipples. Nina’s squirming increased and a loud moan of
pleasure escaped her lips. Then she felt his finger entering. He
started to stroke her clitoris, circling it slowly with his
fingertip. Her arousal started to build quickly. She threw her head back and let out a low
moan as a shudder racked her body. Reaching out with her hands she tried to steady
herself and found a grip in the rumpled sheets. Her body tensed
and arched and with a scream she let her orgasm finally overtake
her, consume her completely. She was still breathing hard when
the waves of pleasure slowly ebbed away and she opened her eyes.
Jack was sitting upright on the
bed, looking at her.
"What are you doing?"
she whispered.
"Admiring your beauty."
A little smile appeared on Nina’s
lips, when she saw how his cock had started to harden again. She
pushed herself up and kissed him, while she wrapped her hand
around it and started to stroke, bringing it back to its full
erection.
"Let me be on top this time,"
she said lasciviously.
--
Rays of light from the morning sun
were streaking across Nina’s bedroom. She was sitting on her
bed looking out of the window, tryin bri bring order into her
whirling thoughts.
‘What the hell are you
doing?’ she had to ask herself. This was completely
insane. ‘You need to be in control of things if you want
to keep your position at CTU.’
She was paid very well to keep a
low profile and to fit in. To observe, to pass on information,
without stirring any doubt or suspicion. 'Well, I certainly
stirred something last night,' she snickered to herself and
then sobered as she realized the enormity of what she'd done.
‘
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