Dysfunction
Jack was reminded, sitting in the back of a van, why he had chosen to severe ties with his family members.
He had taught his team members a number of life lessons that he'd learned the hard way. One of them was that family was where you found it. The members of CTU Los Angeles were from all different walks of life, all different backgrounds and places in time. Yet there had been lasting relationships that had been formed between them. Romances, certainly, but more importantly alliances and supports that would never be shaken. He'd taught his agents that they themselves were family.
So he didn't need his.
Especially he didn't need his complete asshole of a brother, who currently had both he and his estranged father at gunpoint in the back of a van.
Jack didn't exactly love his father, but that was apathy. He was pretty sure, when this was done, he was going to kick his brother's ass into the next continent and then some. That man, he hated without reservation.
He didn't dare say anything, not with the other henchman in the back of the van. But he knew they had to do something.
Because he knew that his real family -- the one at CTU -- would be looking for him. And even though he was only close to a select few, he knew that he commanded the loyalty of all of them. Every last one respected him. Jack took that as a large responsibility, but now he knew it meant that they'd come for him. Probably in large numbers.
Which would also pull them off the hunt for Fayed. That made him twitch.
But it wasn't like he could tell them to stay on mission. He simply had to worry about saving himself, and his father, and then he could worry about things at CTU and the hunt for the four remaining nukes.
He eyed his father.
Who would have thought that it would come down to the two of them.
He had taught his team members a number of life lessons that he'd learned the hard way. One of them was that family was where you found it. The members of CTU Los Angeles were from all different walks of life, all different backgrounds and places in time. Yet there had been lasting relationships that had been formed between them. Romances, certainly, but more importantly alliances and supports that would never be shaken. He'd taught his agents that they themselves were family.
So he didn't need his.
Especially he didn't need his complete asshole of a brother, who currently had both he and his estranged father at gunpoint in the back of a van.
Jack didn't exactly love his father, but that was apathy. He was pretty sure, when this was done, he was going to kick his brother's ass into the next continent and then some. That man, he hated without reservation.
He didn't dare say anything, not with the other henchman in the back of the van. But he knew they had to do something.
Because he knew that his real family -- the one at CTU -- would be looking for him. And even though he was only close to a select few, he knew that he commanded the loyalty of all of them. Every last one respected him. Jack took that as a large responsibility, but now he knew it meant that they'd come for him. Probably in large numbers.
Which would also pull them off the hunt for Fayed. That made him twitch.
But it wasn't like he could tell them to stay on mission. He simply had to worry about saving himself, and his father, and then he could worry about things at CTU and the hunt for the four remaining nukes.
He eyed his father.
Who would have thought that it would come down to the two of them.