Title: The Weak Courage but Strong Love

Author: (Paige) chlackchick

Rating: PG-13

My Cliche was:  A tearful declaration of love when one of them is seriously injured/dying

“It has been five long weeks why hasn’t he come out of the coma yet?”  Chloe’s tears were running down her face and onto Kim’s shoulder. Kim had been with her everyday watching her father lay there like a vegetable.  Kim was also there, because she knew the relationship that Jack and Chloe had and want to be there for Chloe, because Chloe felt so bad about what happened five weeks ago.

Chloe could not stop thinking that the reason Jack was in a coma, is that she was weak

Five weeks ago Bill had told Jack and Chloe that they had to go to the abandoned warehouse that the terrorists were using as their headquarters, and stop them from setting off another nuclear bomb in California.  Jack, being so brave and determined to stop the terrorists, started to get a team ready. Chloe on the other hand protested against going into the field. She said, “Bill is it really necessary for me to go with Jack? Can’t I just help him from CTU; we have done it before.”  Bill could see in Chloe’s face how much she did not want to go, but unfortunately he had to say, “Yes, you have to go. I am sorry Chloe, but the only way you can help today is by being there with Jack.”

Chloe, knowing full well not to argue with Bill, stopped protesting and did as she was told.  Jack got her a vest and, as he put it on her, he could not help but think about how much he loved her and how hard he would work to protect her while they were out in the field.

When they got to the warehouse, Jack had his team surround the building.  However, he had Chloe stay with him so he could protect her himself. While receiving information from CTU about how many people were in the building and all the risk factors in this mission; Chloe fell far behind Jack hoping that she would not have to do anything extremely dangerous, but how could she have known that the further behind she was the more dangerous the situation became.  Seeing how far back she was, Jack told her to come closer, but in that split second he looked away Jack was shot in the neck.  When Jack’s team heard the shot and Chloe’s scream, they called for a medical team.  The next thing Chloe could remember was sitting in Jack’s hospital room with all the different machines keeping him alive and all she could think about was how weak she had been in the field.

Five weeks later Chloe’s hope was weakening, but her love for Jack grew stronger.  She had stayed by his side day and night listening to the doctors say how little hope they had that he would ever recover. She would cry at his bed side every night hoping and praying that someday Jack would wake up from this coma, and everything would be just fine, but that did not seem to be happening any time soon, but then the nurses would force her out of  the room and tell her to go home.  She was always the first visitor to arrive and the last to leave.

On this particular day her hope and her love would be tested to the highest degree.  It was about 2:45 pm, and as usual Chloe and Kim were sitting at Jack’s bedside talking about the different times Jack had saved them or, the world for that matter. 

When all of a sudden the heart monitor started to make the noise that Chloe had dreaded for the past five weeks; Jacks heartbeat was flat lined.  Chloe could not believe what was happening, she screamed, and yelled for a nurse to come in the room.  Finally, what had felt like forever to Chloe, the nurses and doctors came into the room.  Chloe had pushed and pulled to try to get to Jacks hand, but the nurses pulled her away and got her out of the room. Chloe stared through the glass and started to cry on Kim’s shoulder.  All she could hear was “Clear….Clear….Clear.”

Chloe finally got back into the room, and the doctors all looked at each other not knowing what else to do, while the nurse kept trying to bring him back.  Chloe got down on her knees by his hand, while the nurse kept saying, “Clear…Clear…Clear.”  Chloe was in so much emotional distress she started talking to Jack saying, “Please come back Jack, I need you.  I love you.  Please I can’t live without you, who will save the world if you die; if you die I will have to take my life as well.  Please please please come back.”  Her crying was so uncontrollable; she could not even catch her breath.  She wanted him back, she wants him to order her around, and she wants to smell him, touch him, and just be with him.  She kept thinking, “What am I going to do without him.”

Just then the doctor tells the nurse to stop the paddles, the nurse looks at him, and he at her.  He nods for her to call the time of death.  Chloe screams, and reaches again for Jack’s hand begging, praying whatever she could, “Jack, please come back you complete me, I love you, and I want to marry you and grow old with you.”  At that exact moment the heart monitor starts to beep again.  Chloe starts to catch her breath as Jack starts to cough and make grunting noises.  Chloe could not believe what she was hearing, it was so indescribable, and all she could think of doing is grabbing on to him, and touching his lips with hers.  That is exactly what she did while saying with tears running down her face, “Jack, I love you, and I never want to live without you.”  In response Jack told her in the best way he knew how, he kissed her as hard as he could, which meant, “I love you too.”  The nurses and doctors in the room could not believe what they had just witnessed.  After Jack was stable, the doctors and nurses left to give him and Chloe so time alone.  Even Kim left to give them some space to talk about what had just happened.

Chloe was still crying and Jack moved himself over on the bed to let Chloe get in the hospital bed with him.  She got in bed and rubbed right up next to him.  He started running his fingers through her hair and he kissed her on her forehead.  She turned to him and said, “I really thought you were gone, I thought I would never see you again I am so sorry this is all my fault, I should have had more courage out in the field…” Jack interrupted her saying, “It is ok do not feel sorry, your courage has gotten you through this far you have been with me this whole time, I could sense someone was watching over me. That is what kept me fighting until the end.”  Chloe started to cry harder, and Jack wiped away her tears, she said, “I love you so much Jack,” and in response he said, “I love you too, Chloe.”  That night the nurses did not force Chloe out of the room, they figured after everything she has been though she deserves to stay with him tonight.  That night Chloe fell asleep next to Jack in that small hospital bed.  She thought, “What would have happened if he died, and she would never had been able to tell him how much she loved him, and how sorry she was, for being so weak in the field.”  That morning Chloe woke up to see Jack staring at her and she asked, “What are you thinking about?” he said, “How much I love you and how hard it must have been to watch me laying here in this hospital.”  She thought to herself, “It was hard, but it was so worth it, I mean how many times did he stayed with me, or saved me, what I did seems so small, but the truth is I love him so much.”  She turns to him, and says “No, it was not that hard, my love for you kept me going.”  He smiled and kissed her again, and as they looked out the window they watched the sun rise and they both thought, “This could not get any better.” However it did get better about five minutes later the doctor came in and told Jack that he could come home at the end of the week.  Chloe could not believe how much they had been though, and now they are being rewarded, by having Jack come home so much sooner than anyone had hoped.  The doctor walked out of the room and Jack and Chloe looked deep into each other’s eyes and they shared a very passionate and very long kiss.

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