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Kim walks downstairs. She looks a little pale but at least she managed to sleep last night. Still, she needs coffee.

She orders the coffee and tries to decide what she might want to eat.

The coffee appears and with it is an envelope.

Kim's confused and doesn't recognize the handwriting. She opens the envelope and finds a letter.

She reads the first paragraph, not sure who this is from and then the truth becomes increasingly clear.

You just don’t need someone like me in your life. I’m sorry. I'm unBound. I'm going home. By the time you read this letter I will have committed suicide. Tony.

"No," she whispers. Just like her dreams, like what she couldn't stop and it was all her fault and if she wasn't there he'd still be alive and she couldn't stop him, couldn't stop it, couldn't stop it, couldn't stop it...

Her eyes widen and her skin feels like she just jumped into a frozen lake. Hands tingling, her head feels weird, the Bar's spinning, light-headed, nauseated and she wants to scream but makes no sound as she falls to her knees.

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Jack turns from the letter to the others who have arrived; he pales, seeing Chris, but pushes it out of his mind. There are more important things to worry about; most importantly, getting everyone organized, particularly after hearing everyone discussing who's bound, who's not... Someone has to take charge.

"By the sound of it that's exactly what he's done. We need to go after him. Now. I'll need either or both of you to come with me, as I'm Bound--I don't think the door would let me out otherwise. Chase, you should come too in case we need to carry him back. And we need someone to get a healer--Ryan can you do that while Elaine stays with Kim?"

Ryan nods and Elaine sits down near Kim.

Sara nods quickly. "You know where he lives?"

Jack nods. "Hopefully if we're going together, though, the bar will let us out near his apartment." He doesn't want to think what they'd do if they didn't.

"So who is going with us?"

"I'll go." Sara isn't taking no for an answer.

"I am," says Chase, though Jack's already counted him in.

"Okay, then we need to go. Now." He turns and heads toward the door and-- The door. He can see the door.

He walks up to it, touching the door handle, turning it...and it won't open. He jiggles the handle--still locked. "Dammit!"

"Jack. Let Chris or Sara try. They're unBound."

Chris watches this and resists the urge to shake her head.

"Let me try, I'm UnBound, it should work for me."

And it does. She turns the handle and holds the door open for the other three.

"All right." Sara picks up her kit and hurries to the door, standing opposite Chris.

She glances at Jack. "Fearless leaders first."

Jack shoots Sara a quick, level stare, and walks through the door. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/_abpo/11388.html)

Chase nods and moves over to stand beside Jack.