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[theredshirts]

July 10, 2012
9:03amWalking up to his office, Bill takes a seat behind his desk, looking at the phone for a moment as he drops Bauer's file on his desk. The government file had been out of date, of course, and so he'd had analysts run data-mining on him. He'd been both surprised and not surprised when Jack's name had come up as joint owner of a

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[chelleuncurled]

Palmer's dead. Michelle's not sure if her nausea is from the news or a recurrence of morning sickness

[theredshirts]

He's not expecting her to pick up as quickly as she does; the phone had hardly rung once. "Hello, Michelle? It's Bill Buchanan," he says, a little awkwardly. He hasn't spoken to her since the funeral after all, and this isn't exactly the kind of circumstances he would have chosen to reunite with her.

[chelleuncurled]

"Bill," she meant to call him so many times, but she didn't know what to say. Their relationship was still a question mark in his mind and she didn't think she'd ever be ready to turn it into an ellipse. "It's good to hear your voice," she finally says.

She has the feeling this is about Palmer's death and not her birthday. "Do you need me to come in?"

[theredshirts]

There's a second's hesitation before he realizes she's thinking that they need her at CTU because of her experience, not because of her connection to Jack. "We do. We...have a suspect in the Palmer assassination," he says, slowly. Damn, he should just come out and tell her, but somehow it's harder to do than he would have thought.