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Chapter 5
14:00:00pm
“Jack.” Chloe called over to where Jack was standing talking to Tony. “Jack!”
“Chloe, not now!” Jack replied angrily, turning back to Tony.
“But Jack…”
“Chloe, I said…”
“But it’s Laura Henley!” Jack turned round, staring at Chloe for a moment before realisation hitting him and he pelted over, grabbing the phone.
“Laura?” He asked urgently.
“Jack, oh my god, Jack!” Laura cried gratefully.
“Laura, are you alright? Where are you?”
“I’m on Greenhill Road,” Laura panted urgently. “I was being held in number 54 Freeman.”
“What about the people holding you?” Jack replied, quickly scribbling both addresses onto a pad.
“One’s dead, the other was unconscious, he could be awake by now, I chained him to the bed.” Laura replied, looking both left and right before turning. “Jack, I’m turning onto Hark.”
“Ok, Laura I want you to keep moving. One second.” He turned to Chloe. “I need the map involving Hark and Freeman.”
“Ok, Jack.”
“Laura, I’ll give you directions in a second and a place to go. I’ll have Chase come get you ok?”
“Yes, I understand.” Laura replied.
“Got it Jack. It’s right next to the broad walk.” Jack leaned over and looked at the map.
“Ok, Laura, at the end of Freeman, which way did you turn onto Hark?”
“Left.” Jack checked the map, running his finger across the screen.
“Ok, keep going straight until you hit the beach. Then, when you do, I want you to turn right; I need you to go along until you get to the Shutters Hotel. Go to the first floor bathroom and wait in a stall. We’ll get you from there.”
“Ok.” Laura nodded to herself. “Jack…”
“Yes?”
“Get here quickly.”
“We will. We’ll be fifteen minutes at most.”
“Ok.”
“Laura, before you go, stay in among the most populated areas along the beach.”
“Ok. Bye Jack.”
“See you soon.” Jack ended the call, turning to Chase who was currently leaning over Kim’s desk, pointing out something.
“Chase.” Jack said, walking swiftly over.
“Yes Jack?” Chase asked, standing up straight.
“We just got a call from Laura Henley. She’s managed to escape. I need you to go pick her up.”
“That’s great!” Kim interjected.
“It is.” Chase replied, turning his back on Kim and smiling knowingly to Jack. “Where is she?”
“She’s on Hark at the moment, heading towards the beach. I told her to go to Shutters Hotel. She’ll be in the ground floor bathroom, go in there, send in a worker, I don’t care, just get her back here. I want you to drive evasively on the way back. She could have information that can help us. She saw their faces. If anyone asks on the way out, do not tell them where you’re going. We could have a mole.”
“Alright. I’ll leave now.” Chase smiled at Kim then nodded to Jack, and set off towards the exit.
“Kim, I want you to set up a tactical team. Send them to 54 Freeman. They will find two men, one dead, one maybe unconscious but he could have woken up. They’ll both be in a bedroom.”
“Alright.” Jack nodded and set off back to his office, he had a report due in five minutes and he hadn’t even started it. Opening his office door, he went straight to his desk, and started typing.
14:15:44pm
“Well, good afternoon Mr President.” The material bag over the President’s head and ripped off the gag over his mouth. “I hope you’ve been kept, well, relatively comfortable.”
“You’ll all died for this.” The President snarled.
“Not before you Mr President, if you do not meet our demands.” The man replied.
“Who am I speaking to?”
“You may call me ‘Ves. Everyone else does.” He laughed. “I am sorry I have kept you so long without any information, but I have had a few things to deal with.”
“What do you want?”
“We want all the information for five of your close friends Mr President.” He pulled out a list and placed it in front of the President. “I believe you know all of these people.” He added. “Sir.” He ended sarcastically.
“These are the leaders of five of the worlds most powerful countries.”
“You’re not a stupid man, Mr President, and neither am I. I know that. England, France, Germany, Italy and China to be exact.”
“I don’t see what you want from me.”
“I want all the information in the White House files. All their locations on a general basis, their families, their closest friends, their dirt. We know your government have all of these things.”
“I won’t do it.”
“Then you will die, publicly.”
14:21:42pm
Laura ran along the beach, her shoes slipping around madly. Stopping for a moment, she pulled them off and gripping them in one hand, continued to run down the beach. Running up the hot concrete steps into the Beach entrance of the Shutters Hotel. Pulling her shoes back on, she walked into the Hotel and looking around, gaining a few scared or concerned looks on the way, headed straight for the bathrooms. Letting the door fall closed behind her, she turned around, stopping dead when she saw her reflection.
It was no surprise she had received a few odd looks, she should have received more from the state she was in. Hair all over the place and two long cuts running the length of her cheeks. Running a hand through her hair, she ruffled it into a desirable state and walked quickly into the end stall. Placing the lid down she sat down, holding her head in her hands and breathing deeply, her hands, or maybe it was her head, shaking violently. She couldn’t tell how long she was sitting there, but after what seemed like moments, the door to the bathroom opened.
“Miss?” Laura stood up and opened the door.
“Yes?” Laura whispered.
“Miss… Kenley is it?” Laura smiled slightly.
“Close enough.” The receptionist smiled.
“There’s a man here looking for you. He said you’d be here.” She explained.
“What does he look like?” Laura asked, taking a deep breath.
“Tall, well built, short hair.” The receptionist gave Laura a wicked grin. “Extremely handsome.”
“Did he give a name?” Laura preyed that the answer was the one she wanted.
“Chase Edmunds.”
“Ok, thank you very much.” The receptionist turned to leave before turning back. “Miss, those cuts, are you sure you’re ok?”
“I’ll be fine, thank you for your concern.” Laura smiled as the receptionist nodded and left. Laura looked into the mirror, leaning over, she turned on the tap and let her hands run under the water before splashing water on her face. Looking back into the mirror, she looked as presentable as she ever was going to in the state she was in. Taking a deep breath, she pulled open the door and walked out into the lobby. She saw Chase immediately, leaning on the reception counter, gaining quite a considerable amount of attention from the women around him. He looked around, stopping as soon as he saw Laura. Pushing himself to standing he walked over, stopping in front of her and brushing the hair from her face.
“Roughed you up a bit huh?” He asked softly.
“You could say that.” She nodded. “Can we get out of here?”
“My car’s out the front, let’s go.” Gripping the top of her arm, he led her quickly through the lobby and out of the front entrance. Leading her to the right, he unlocked his car and opened the passenger side door.
“Are you always this much of a gentleman?”
“Only to Damsels in distress.” Chase laughed, holding the door open.
“Well, thank you white knight.” Laura smiled, stepping up to get into the car but stumbling backwards. Chase moved from the door and put an arm around her waist.
“Are you ok?”
“Just in some pain. I’ll be fine.” With Chase’s help, Laura got into the car and as Chase shut the door, she looked down at her shirt; a long red stain was slowly drying. She lifted up her shirt, a shallow cut running the width of her abdomen. She covered it quickly as Chase climbed into the car, the door making a light click as he closed it behind him, starting the ignition and pulling out of the parking lot. When safely on the road, he looked over at Laura.
“How many injuries do you have?” He asked calmly.
“Not many, I’ll be fine. They needed to move me before I had anything too bad.” She lied, looking out of the window to avoid his eyes.
“We’ll be back soon. I have to take a bit of a scenic route, but it won’t take too long.” Laura nodded; complete relief washing over her for the first time since ten o’clock that morning.
14:35:57pm
“Mr President, I believe I have given you enough time to think about this.” Aves stated simply.
“You do not understand Mr. Ves. I do not have all that information off the top of my head.”
“How would you get it?”
“That information is stored in tens of different places, I would need over ten signatures.”
“How long will it take you?”
“I cannot do that.” The President argued. “I have been kidnapped, I am probably no longer even the President, under the twenty fifth amendment; the Cabinet may have replaced me.”
“It hasn’t been on the news. I have someone watching all major channels.”
“They may not have announced it yet. Sometimes, in a time of crisis, they will hold off informing the public.”
“Can you find out if this is in place?”
“I can, but it will take time.”
14:40:34pm
“Kim, how we going on that team?” Jack asked into his speakerphone.
“They’ve just arrived at the house.” Kim replied. “Entering now.”
“Patch me in please.”
“Sure.” Kim brought up her com unit and linked Jack in. “You’re on.”
“Thanks Kim.” Jack listened as the signal came in.
Entering the bedroom now. We have two men down, I repeat, two down. One dead, and the other is still unconscious.
“Tactical, I want a photo of each men sending over immediately. I want as much time on this as possible.”
Doing that now. Should be with you in about a minute.
Jack linked up his speakerphone to Chloe’s phone.
“O’Brien.”
“Yeah, Chloe it’s Jack, there are some photos coming through for you, I need you to get them on image processing as fast as possible.”
“Ok Jack.”
Sending the photos over now Jack.
“Great, thank you.” Jack plugged his headphone and set off down onto the floor, walking straight to Chloe’s station. “Kim, can you get over here?” Kim got up and walked over to Chloe’s station, leaning on the desk next to her father. “I want you to look at the photo’s of these guys, tell me if you saw them as well.”
“That’s fine.” Kim replied.
The pictures came up slowly and surely, two pictures, one man had a thin face with wispy dark hair. Jack spoke into his earpiece.
“Tactical, can you open the first man’s eyes and tell me their colour.” He listened carefully.
First man has blue eyes, I repeat, blue eyes. Second man has brown eyes, repeat, brown eyes.
“Thank you.” Jack watched as the second photo came up, this man was much bigger, his features rounder and his hair was thick and dark brown.
“I recognise the faces, dad,” Kim explained. “But I only partially saw them.”
“It’s alright.” Jack nodded to his daughter and spoke again to his earpiece. “Bring them both in, make sure our live one stays alive, I want him straight into interrogation.”
Sure Sir. We’ll be back in fifteen.
“I want you to leave two men, get them to go to the buildings on either side, check if anyone heard or saw anything.”
Right. We’re ready to head back in a minute. They’re just moving the men now.
“Ok, come straight to me when you get in.” Jack pulled out his earpiece and turned back to Chloe.
“Those running through our system yet?” Jack asked.
“Yeah, what were the eye colours?”
“Blue for the first, brown for the second.”
“Great, I’ll add that in. It shouldn’t take more than half an hour.”
“Any way we can speed this up?”
“If I send one of them to another station, it may speed it up.” Chloe reasoned.
“Alright, Kim can you handle it?” Kim nodded.
“Send the second over Chloe, I’ll open it up.” Kim jogged back to her desk, opening up the image processing screens and setting up the system.
“Jack.” Jack stood up straight and turned around, standing in the doorway was Chase and Laura. Jack ran over, stopping a metre from them.
“Laura.” He muttered. Laura smiled, she wanted to fling her arms around him and let him tell her it would all be ok, but looking past him, she saw that Kim was watching, most people were watching.
“Jack.” She replied calmly.
“Are you ok?” He looked at her carefully, taking in the cuts on her cheeks, her bruised face, the blood cleverly nearly hidden by her jacket on her shirt. Laura however, smiled.
“I’m fine.” Jack looked her up and down.
“You don’t look it.”
“She had trouble getting in the car.” Chase added. Laura looked scandalized.
“You little snitch.” She smiled, almost playfully which sent a bolt of jealousy through Jack, which he couldn’t understand.
“Chase, can you run the floor while I take Laura to medical? Kim and Chloe are running a profile search on both the men that were holding Laura.”
“Sure Jack.” Chase began walking across the floor when Laura called out.
“Chase!” He looked back; Laura smiled warmly to him.
“Thank you.” Chase smiled, and continued on his way to Kim.
“Come on, I’ll take you down.” Laura nodded to him, following him across the floor.
“So, this is where you work?”
“This is CTU.” Jack nodded.
“I guessed that part from the guard saying welcome to CTU, Miss Henley.” She laughed; Jack noticed her arm across her stomach.
“How badly did they hurt you?” He asked quietly.
“Not badly.” She shrugged. “They must have realised I wouldn’t talk.” Jack stopped; it was only after a few steps that Laura realised he wasn’t walking with her. She turned, looking at him with a smile.
“Something wrong Jack?” Jack opened the door to the room next to him.
“In here.” Laura smiled, confused, and walked confidently into the room.
“These men are organised Laura,” Closing the door, he looked up at the security cam and walked towards it, turning it to the wall. He stayed facing the wall, crossing his arms over his chest.
“Jack, come on, what’s this about?”
“You saw what happened on our last mission, Laura, you know what I’ve could tell you from other mission. You know they wouldn’t have stopped at a few cuts across the face.” Jack turned around and stepped towards Laura, but as he took a step forward, she immediately took a step back.
“Laura?”
“Jack, please,” Laura bit back tears as she stared at the man she had been praying would save her. “Don’t make me do this.” Jack watched her as she continued to back away, step after step until she hit the wall, a hiss coming from her as she did so.
“Laura.” He whispered, taking a slow step over. He continued carefully as she looked down avoiding his eye, something that in his time with Laura, he knew she tried not to do for fear of looking weak.
He stepped up to her, placing his thumb under her chin and lifting her face to meet his, leaning in to kiss her, she twisted her face away, something that in his time with Laura, he had never seen her do. Laura bit her lip, trying to stop her shaking, trying not to cry in front of Jack.
“Laura…” He whispered, running his finger down her jaw. Laura looked up at him. “What did they do?” Laura shook her head as Jack swore to himself, why wouldn’t she say. Grabbing her by the arms he pressed her against the wall, the only way he knew to get information from someone. Laura sobbed, coiling away as much as she could, twisting and turning frantically to get away from Jack’s grasp, but as his arm hit across her chest with her twisting, she yelped and collapsed under him. Jack’s tight grasp on her arms held her tight as he pulled her back to standing, letting go of her arm, he slowly moved his hand to her stomach, watching her carefully. Grasping the bottom of her shirt, he lifted it, inch by inch, the sound of her teeth chattering from fright in his ears as he unveiled a long red cut, dried blood surrounding it. He inhaled deeply before lowering the shirt, moving his hand up until he reached the top button. Prising it open, and the next, he unveiled more and more skin until another three slashes were discovered.
“Oh god.” He murmured. Laura wrenched her other arm out of his grasp and did up the buttons. Gritting his teeth, Jack took hold of her face until she looked him in the eye.
“Is this all?” She said nothing. “Laura, is this all?” He growled. For a moment she was silent, her eyes brimming with fresh tears.
“No.”
“What else?” He growled.
“My back.” She breathed.
“Turn around.” Laura did as she was told, holding her breath as he lifted the jacket and shirt exposing the wounds.
“That it?”
“No.”
“No?” Jack was shocked. How could she have hidden so many injuries? “Where else?”
“My legs.” Jack crouched down, looking at the trousers.
“There’s no cuts there.”
“There wouldn’t be.” She whispered.
“Why?” Jack asked.
“They weren’t on.” Jack stood up straight, staring in shock at her.
“Laura…” He began, the information and conclusion spreading through him like a forest fire until he could feel himself shaking. He didn’t even need an answer, he knew it already, but somehow, the question spilled over his lips before he could stop them. A deadly whisper that wouldn’t have been detected with any electronic devices ever created. His voice so venomous that even he could feel every ounce of hatred inside it.
“Did they rape you?”
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