What she knows Pt 7
Sorry that the update on this one has been slow. For some reason my Beta thinks she has a life :)
Jack
Awakening, he keeps his eyes closed as he listens to the noises around him. Many years of similar situations has taught him to be fully aware before he let anyone know he was no longer unconscious. After 18 months in a Chinese prison, you learn a few things. Number one of them being, feign unconsciousness as long as possible.
Concentrating, he hears two muffled voices. “A bed?” he thinks. “Okay, I’m on a bed” Quickly flicking his wrists he realizes he’s not restrained. “Good”. Confident he’s not being held hostage, he slowly lets his eyes open. Immediately flinching against the light he lets a soft moan escape his lips as his eyes squeeze shut in pain.
“Jack?” He hears a hesitant voice. Immediately the room goes dark as he feels someone beside him.
“Jack? Open your eyes” A dull throb has made itself at home in his skull. Groaning again, he slowly peeks at the voice through his eyelashes.
“Tony?”
“Yeah, open your eyes for me. I need to check you out”
Opening his eyes completely, he exhales a sigh of relief as he realizes the room is now completely dark.
“Tony, what are you doing here?”
“Oh I don’t know” He whispers and leans in. “For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to come when called” Tony smiles and lets his hand rest on Jack’s chest.
Finally aware of his surroundings, Jack looks around the darkened room. His mind finally catching up to him; “The tracker” he whispers.
“You remembered”
Nodding and then groaning from the stupidity of moving his head, he lets out a hiss through his clenched teeth.
“Don’t move. That’s a pretty good concussion you’ve got going there” Rolling up Jack’s sleeve, he quickly inserts a needle into his arm “Don’t worry, this is just for the nausea”
Immediately rubbing his arm, Jack gives him a soft “Thanks”
Patting him on the chest, Tony says “No problem. So you wanna tell me what you’ve gotten yourself into now?”
Groaning Jack rolls onto his side. “You don’t even want to know”
He feels Tony shift on the bed beside him. “Actually, I need to know. I need to know what you and that sister of mine have gotten yourselves into that is serious enough for her to activate the plan”
Jack’s eyes go wide with shock. His mind reeling he asks “Chloe?”
“Alive” He hears Tony sigh “She activated the Railroad a few hours ago”
Falling back against the bed, Jack runs his hand down his face “Damnit!”
He hears the rumble of Tony’s laugh. “How’d you think we knew to come?”
Sighing Jack sits back up. “I didn’t really think. I just knew I had to activate the tracker”
“Well brother, we wouldn’t have even known to look if she hadn’t called”
Exhaling, Jack nods.
“So for now, you need to rest.” Tony looks at his watch “Eliot should be here in a couple of hours.” Grimacing then, “Or … “ He sees Tony’s face scrunch into a perfect imitation of a Chloe pout. “If he let Parker drive…. Soon”
The look on Tony’s face causes Jack to chuckle loudly before grasping his head with a grimace.
“I hope you haven’t blown anything up”
Hearing nothing, he looks at Tony’s ashen face. “Shit..” Then he chuckles again holding his head.
With one last pat to Jack’s chest, Tony stands up to leave. “Yeah. Well, we don’t do anything half assed”
Nodding, Jack lets his head fall back to the pillow. Closing his eyes, he hears Tony exit the room and the door shut softly behind him. Letting his body relax into the bed, he lets his mind wander. His thoughts immediately back to that morning in Stillwater.
June 2007
Rubbing his hand, he looks down at the scar tissue. Shaking his head he smirks at the boldness that is Chloe O’Brian. She tagged him. “She friggin tagged me!” He thinks with an amazed shake of his head. Pulling on his jeans, he exits the bedroom. Once in the hallway he hears the muffled voices of his friends. Following the noise and the smell of coffee he enters the kitchen.
“Looky looky, Sleeping Beauty is awake”
Giving Tony a glare he gets the brightest Dinozzo smile in return.
“Morning Jack”
“Chloe” he nods.
Jethro hands him a mug and he takes a seat. Inhaling the coffee, he takes a sip and grimaces. “This stuff will grow hair on your tongue.
Jethro just grunts and says “Drink up”
Chloe slides into the chair beside him and bumps her shoulder into his. Whispering “you okay?”
Nodding, he squeezes her thigh with his hand.
“Good. We have a plan to work on” she says.
Looking around the room, he pins each one with a glare. “Does this have to do with the minor surgery you three decided to do on my hand?”
Having the good sense to blush, Chloe mumbles a “Yes”.
Grunting in the corner of the room, Jethro walks over to the table and sits down. Rolling up the sleeve of his sweatshirt he holds out his hand to Jack. Taking it, Jack studies it and turns it over. He sees a small incision on top of the man’s hand as well as another on the wrist. Both held together by a few stitches.
“What the hell?” Jack mutters. His eyes going dark as he looks around the room, noticing Tony and Chloe have the same marks on their hands and wrists as well.
Sighing, Jack demands “Talk”
Present
Blinking in the dark room, Jack swings his legs over the side of the bed and holds his head in his hands. “This is bad” He thinks. If Chloe activated THE plan then that meant all of them were now on the run.
Hearing voices outside of the room, he gets to his feet and opens the door. Walking out, he grimaces slightly at the light, but walks into the living room. Suddenly he has an armful of a blonde. Letting out an oomph, he hisses slightly at the pain in his ribs.
“Oh! Sorry Jack” The blonde mutters. She steps back out of his arms and quickly starts poking at his ribs.
“ow shit! Parker!”
Giggling, the blonde hugs him again “Just checking” she says.
Hugging her tightly to him, he whispers “It’s okay. When did you get here?”
“Just in time I’d imagine” A deep voice behind him says.
Turning, Jack lets a smile creep across his face. “Eliot”
Nodding, the other man takes his hand and pats his back. “So I hear we have a problem”
“I need to know where Chloe is” Jack demands.
“The plan has already been activated Jack” Tony said. Running his hand through his hair, he looked at his friend with troubled eyes. “We won’t know until she is somewhere safe.”
Slamming his fist down onto the table Jack looks around the room furiously “We need to know now!” He says through clenched teeth.
Feeling a hand on his shoulder, he looked up into the ice blue eyes of Jethro Gibbs. “Jethro, we have to find out.”
Squeezing Jack’s shoulder, Gibbs shook his head slightly. “Jack, you know that’s not the plan.”
“I don’t give a damn what the plan is, we need to find her”
Sitting, Eliot looks at him. “We won’t know unless she activates her tracker. Which she won’t, because it is not. Part. Of. The. Plan. Jack”
“I don’t give a damn if it’s part of the plan or not. Where are we on finding her.”
“God Damnit Jack” Tony stood in front of his friend. “You damned well know she is not going to check in until she is where she is supposed to be. As much as I hate this, you know I’m right. It’s what we decided.” Angrily, Tony stared at Jack. Continuing, “Chloe activated the railroad for you. Not her. For you. So unless you want to royally piss her off and screw any chance of either of you getting out of the country, I suggest you deal with that until we’re done.”
Sighing, Jack drops his head to his hands. “I know” he whispers. “How long before she checks in?”
Tony looks down at his watch. “My guess? At least 24 hours. That’s the plan Jack. That’s what we all agreed to. We have to give her time to get to her safe house.”
“And then what Tony? “ Jack pleaded.
“And then we wait. If she’s in trouble, she’ll activate her tracker. But…” Shaking his head he says “You know she won’t until she absolutely has to.”
“So what now?” Jack looks intently around the room.
Clearing his throat, Eliot says “Now, we have approximately 12 hours to get you to the next stop.”
“Which is?” Jack asks
“Which is not something I’m going to tell you” Eliot growls. “You know this. So don’t give me a hard time, Bauer. These safeguards are in place for all of our protection. You damned well know none of us knows the entire railroad. We each know our parts. That’s it.” Taking a deep breath he leans into Jack. “And you know your part is to shut up and listen”
Jack
Awakening, he keeps his eyes closed as he listens to the noises around him. Many years of similar situations has taught him to be fully aware before he let anyone know he was no longer unconscious. After 18 months in a Chinese prison, you learn a few things. Number one of them being, feign unconsciousness as long as possible.
Concentrating, he hears two muffled voices. “A bed?” he thinks. “Okay, I’m on a bed” Quickly flicking his wrists he realizes he’s not restrained. “Good”. Confident he’s not being held hostage, he slowly lets his eyes open. Immediately flinching against the light he lets a soft moan escape his lips as his eyes squeeze shut in pain.
“Jack?” He hears a hesitant voice. Immediately the room goes dark as he feels someone beside him.
“Jack? Open your eyes” A dull throb has made itself at home in his skull. Groaning again, he slowly peeks at the voice through his eyelashes.
“Tony?”
“Yeah, open your eyes for me. I need to check you out”
Opening his eyes completely, he exhales a sigh of relief as he realizes the room is now completely dark.
“Tony, what are you doing here?”
“Oh I don’t know” He whispers and leans in. “For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to come when called” Tony smiles and lets his hand rest on Jack’s chest.
Finally aware of his surroundings, Jack looks around the darkened room. His mind finally catching up to him; “The tracker” he whispers.
“You remembered”
Nodding and then groaning from the stupidity of moving his head, he lets out a hiss through his clenched teeth.
“Don’t move. That’s a pretty good concussion you’ve got going there” Rolling up Jack’s sleeve, he quickly inserts a needle into his arm “Don’t worry, this is just for the nausea”
Immediately rubbing his arm, Jack gives him a soft “Thanks”
Patting him on the chest, Tony says “No problem. So you wanna tell me what you’ve gotten yourself into now?”
Groaning Jack rolls onto his side. “You don’t even want to know”
He feels Tony shift on the bed beside him. “Actually, I need to know. I need to know what you and that sister of mine have gotten yourselves into that is serious enough for her to activate the plan”
Jack’s eyes go wide with shock. His mind reeling he asks “Chloe?”
“Alive” He hears Tony sigh “She activated the Railroad a few hours ago”
Falling back against the bed, Jack runs his hand down his face “Damnit!”
He hears the rumble of Tony’s laugh. “How’d you think we knew to come?”
Sighing Jack sits back up. “I didn’t really think. I just knew I had to activate the tracker”
“Well brother, we wouldn’t have even known to look if she hadn’t called”
Exhaling, Jack nods.
“So for now, you need to rest.” Tony looks at his watch “Eliot should be here in a couple of hours.” Grimacing then, “Or … “ He sees Tony’s face scrunch into a perfect imitation of a Chloe pout. “If he let Parker drive…. Soon”
The look on Tony’s face causes Jack to chuckle loudly before grasping his head with a grimace.
“I hope you haven’t blown anything up”
Hearing nothing, he looks at Tony’s ashen face. “Shit..” Then he chuckles again holding his head.
With one last pat to Jack’s chest, Tony stands up to leave. “Yeah. Well, we don’t do anything half assed”
Nodding, Jack lets his head fall back to the pillow. Closing his eyes, he hears Tony exit the room and the door shut softly behind him. Letting his body relax into the bed, he lets his mind wander. His thoughts immediately back to that morning in Stillwater.
June 2007
Rubbing his hand, he looks down at the scar tissue. Shaking his head he smirks at the boldness that is Chloe O’Brian. She tagged him. “She friggin tagged me!” He thinks with an amazed shake of his head. Pulling on his jeans, he exits the bedroom. Once in the hallway he hears the muffled voices of his friends. Following the noise and the smell of coffee he enters the kitchen.
“Looky looky, Sleeping Beauty is awake”
Giving Tony a glare he gets the brightest Dinozzo smile in return.
“Morning Jack”
“Chloe” he nods.
Jethro hands him a mug and he takes a seat. Inhaling the coffee, he takes a sip and grimaces. “This stuff will grow hair on your tongue.
Jethro just grunts and says “Drink up”
Chloe slides into the chair beside him and bumps her shoulder into his. Whispering “you okay?”
Nodding, he squeezes her thigh with his hand.
“Good. We have a plan to work on” she says.
Looking around the room, he pins each one with a glare. “Does this have to do with the minor surgery you three decided to do on my hand?”
Having the good sense to blush, Chloe mumbles a “Yes”.
Grunting in the corner of the room, Jethro walks over to the table and sits down. Rolling up the sleeve of his sweatshirt he holds out his hand to Jack. Taking it, Jack studies it and turns it over. He sees a small incision on top of the man’s hand as well as another on the wrist. Both held together by a few stitches.
“What the hell?” Jack mutters. His eyes going dark as he looks around the room, noticing Tony and Chloe have the same marks on their hands and wrists as well.
Sighing, Jack demands “Talk”
Present
Blinking in the dark room, Jack swings his legs over the side of the bed and holds his head in his hands. “This is bad” He thinks. If Chloe activated THE plan then that meant all of them were now on the run.
Hearing voices outside of the room, he gets to his feet and opens the door. Walking out, he grimaces slightly at the light, but walks into the living room. Suddenly he has an armful of a blonde. Letting out an oomph, he hisses slightly at the pain in his ribs.
“Oh! Sorry Jack” The blonde mutters. She steps back out of his arms and quickly starts poking at his ribs.
“ow shit! Parker!”
Giggling, the blonde hugs him again “Just checking” she says.
Hugging her tightly to him, he whispers “It’s okay. When did you get here?”
“Just in time I’d imagine” A deep voice behind him says.
Turning, Jack lets a smile creep across his face. “Eliot”
Nodding, the other man takes his hand and pats his back. “So I hear we have a problem”
“I need to know where Chloe is” Jack demands.
“The plan has already been activated Jack” Tony said. Running his hand through his hair, he looked at his friend with troubled eyes. “We won’t know until she is somewhere safe.”
Slamming his fist down onto the table Jack looks around the room furiously “We need to know now!” He says through clenched teeth.
Feeling a hand on his shoulder, he looked up into the ice blue eyes of Jethro Gibbs. “Jethro, we have to find out.”
Squeezing Jack’s shoulder, Gibbs shook his head slightly. “Jack, you know that’s not the plan.”
“I don’t give a damn what the plan is, we need to find her”
Sitting, Eliot looks at him. “We won’t know unless she activates her tracker. Which she won’t, because it is not. Part. Of. The. Plan. Jack”
“I don’t give a damn if it’s part of the plan or not. Where are we on finding her.”
“God Damnit Jack” Tony stood in front of his friend. “You damned well know she is not going to check in until she is where she is supposed to be. As much as I hate this, you know I’m right. It’s what we decided.” Angrily, Tony stared at Jack. Continuing, “Chloe activated the railroad for you. Not her. For you. So unless you want to royally piss her off and screw any chance of either of you getting out of the country, I suggest you deal with that until we’re done.”
Sighing, Jack drops his head to his hands. “I know” he whispers. “How long before she checks in?”
Tony looks down at his watch. “My guess? At least 24 hours. That’s the plan Jack. That’s what we all agreed to. We have to give her time to get to her safe house.”
“And then what Tony? “ Jack pleaded.
“And then we wait. If she’s in trouble, she’ll activate her tracker. But…” Shaking his head he says “You know she won’t until she absolutely has to.”
“So what now?” Jack looks intently around the room.
Clearing his throat, Eliot says “Now, we have approximately 12 hours to get you to the next stop.”
“Which is?” Jack asks
“Which is not something I’m going to tell you” Eliot growls. “You know this. So don’t give me a hard time, Bauer. These safeguards are in place for all of our protection. You damned well know none of us knows the entire railroad. We each know our parts. That’s it.” Taking a deep breath he leans into Jack. “And you know your part is to shut up and listen”