[OOM:
The Price of Success.]
The door opens and a man walks in, fiddling with his cellphone until he realizes that he's not quite where he thought he was. At first glance he'll look famliar, but on second glance, people who know him may notice something...different. It's not just the longer hair, neatly combed down; not just the slightly rounder
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Jack Bauer.
He just walked in, and younger too than the one she has seen here. Very interesting. Nina couldn't help but stare slightly. She was sitting at the bar wearing a trim black dress suit with a martini in hand.
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Jack looks around, trying to get his bearings and failing; at least until he spots a familiar face.
"Nina!" he says, making a beeline for his second-in-command, feeling a little relieved. At least he's not alone here, and if he had to pick anyone from CTU to be here, it'd be her. Even if things were kind of...awkward between them recently. "God, am I glad to see you."
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"Oh my god, Jack. You're here too!"
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...That's the moment when he realizes that not all the patrons look quite...human. He blinks searching his memory. He doesn't remember getting hit on the head or anything like that...
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"Hey, Grampa!" she says cheerfully.
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Grampa? The fuck?
Jack smiles a little awkwardly; this place just keeps getting weirder and weirder, and while he knows he should using his training, try to blend in, he's not entirely sure what he should blend in as.
"Uh, sorry, miss, but I think you've got the wrong person," he says, with a slightly embarrassed laugh.
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"Yeah, I'm Jack Bauer, but...I don't have any grandchildren," he says, slowly. Putting aside the fact that if he did have any grandchildren at the moment, Kim would be grounded until she was thirty, this girl looks about the same age as Kim is, which puts it into the not-biologically-possible category.
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Coming to stand next to him, Ryan gives him a nod before pausing to light his cigarette. "Jack."
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"Ryan," he says, coolly, trying to regain his composure. He might not have a clue where he is or how he got here, but he's sure not going to show that in front of Chappelle.
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Besides, Chappelle is acting weird. Five minutes before he was chewing Jack out and now his attitude is so...casual. It was like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde or something.
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She's carrying it over to a chair when she spots Jack near the Bar.
At this point her pregnancy is not obvious, but there's a kind of weariness visible in her expression.
"Hey Jack," she says, taking a seat at the Bar.
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"Uh, sorry, have we met?" he asks.
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"You're not Jack Bauer, are you?"
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