24: The Challenge (1/1)
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knitwitficsFandom: 24
Characters: Nina Myers, Jack Bauer
Rating: PG
Summary: It's remarkably easy to learn all she needs to, just watching him.
Challenges: Written forfanfic100 in the 24 - General Series category, prompt #4 - Insides
Originally written: November 8, 2005
Characters: Nina Myers, Jack Bauer
Rating: PG
Summary: It's remarkably easy to learn all she needs to, just watching him.
Challenges: Written for
fanfic100 in the 24 - General Series category, prompt #4 - InsidesOriginally written: November 8, 2005
It's become her habit to watch him through the glass windows of his office, when no one else is watching her. Her computer's perfectly placed to allow her to steal long looks, and her ability to touch-type means she doesn't even have to stop typing to do it. Ironic that her desk--the desk of the second-in-command, the position most useful for her purpose--is the one placed so perfectly to allow her to do it. In a way, that's why it doesn't bother her that she doesn't have an office of her own; it could have spoiled the view. Really, it's as though someone planned it this way, set everything up so that when she reached this position, she'd be even better placed to her job. Her real one, that is.
It's remarkably easy to learn all she needs to, just watching him. No difficult conversations, trying to tease out information about his thoughts, his feelings, and not give away her true purpose, never seem too nosy. Really, all she has to do is watch, to learn everything she needs to know about him. To see what's behind that shell of honour and duty and principle, see what lies deep inside. More of the same, sure. But also enough to see that he can be a first-class hypocrite, if he wants to.
Not that that bothers her at all; she likes him all the better for it. It's nice to see that he has weaknesses like anyone else, and not just so she can exploit them. And she does like him; likes him a lot, actually. It's easier to play the part and be bossed around because of it. He wants to be right all the time, wants to be domineering and boss her around, use her for his own ends--even if those ends usually have something to do with protecting the city, in the end--fine, she'll let him. She'll toe the line, putting up a weak protest but doing what he wants anyway, because it plays right into her hands. His illusion of control makes it easier to manipulate him after all.
And manipulate him she will. He's her last big challenge, the last step before she can stand at the top of the hill and know that everything she needs is beneath her feet.
She got inside CTU; her first big test, thought naturally she had help with that. People her employers tapped to provide references, add her new name to school databases and give her a plausible, work-appropriate backstory. She'd been nervous when she started but now she fits inside CTU's skin so well, she's the last person they'd think to suspect. The last cell they'd think could turn cancerous.
Worming her way deeper inside CTU, she's starting working her way into him as well. She's his second-in-command, his most trusted partner, the person he asks to do everything that he can't leave to someone else. There's not much further to go except to get inside one more thing: his bed. Get into his heart and she'll own him, a coup not only because of what it means for her real job, but because there's a part of her deep down that wants him, badly. Wants to feel his mouth and hands on her, wants to feel him moving inside her, the pleasure all the keener because she'll know she's accomplished everything she could have. And when that day comes and he brings her to her climax, she knows it won't just be a cry of pleasure that will escape her lips, but one of triumph.
All she needs is time, and the right circumstances, some of which are falling into place even now. Just a little more time, and she'll be so far in, it'll be like she's always been there. A part of him, a part of CTU. Inseparable.
It's remarkably easy to learn all she needs to, just watching him. No difficult conversations, trying to tease out information about his thoughts, his feelings, and not give away her true purpose, never seem too nosy. Really, all she has to do is watch, to learn everything she needs to know about him. To see what's behind that shell of honour and duty and principle, see what lies deep inside. More of the same, sure. But also enough to see that he can be a first-class hypocrite, if he wants to.
Not that that bothers her at all; she likes him all the better for it. It's nice to see that he has weaknesses like anyone else, and not just so she can exploit them. And she does like him; likes him a lot, actually. It's easier to play the part and be bossed around because of it. He wants to be right all the time, wants to be domineering and boss her around, use her for his own ends--even if those ends usually have something to do with protecting the city, in the end--fine, she'll let him. She'll toe the line, putting up a weak protest but doing what he wants anyway, because it plays right into her hands. His illusion of control makes it easier to manipulate him after all.
And manipulate him she will. He's her last big challenge, the last step before she can stand at the top of the hill and know that everything she needs is beneath her feet.
She got inside CTU; her first big test, thought naturally she had help with that. People her employers tapped to provide references, add her new name to school databases and give her a plausible, work-appropriate backstory. She'd been nervous when she started but now she fits inside CTU's skin so well, she's the last person they'd think to suspect. The last cell they'd think could turn cancerous.
Worming her way deeper inside CTU, she's starting working her way into him as well. She's his second-in-command, his most trusted partner, the person he asks to do everything that he can't leave to someone else. There's not much further to go except to get inside one more thing: his bed. Get into his heart and she'll own him, a coup not only because of what it means for her real job, but because there's a part of her deep down that wants him, badly. Wants to feel his mouth and hands on her, wants to feel him moving inside her, the pleasure all the keener because she'll know she's accomplished everything she could have. And when that day comes and he brings her to her climax, she knows it won't just be a cry of pleasure that will escape her lips, but one of triumph.
All she needs is time, and the right circumstances, some of which are falling into place even now. Just a little more time, and she'll be so far in, it'll be like she's always been there. A part of him, a part of CTU. Inseparable.
