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About The Long Road Home...
Throughout the progression of "24" as a series, the relationship between Jack + Kim Bauer has been a tour de force, providing many of the show's most gutwrenching, emotional and authentic moments. Both of their personal journeys throughout the series have been, in large part, a desperate effort to return to one another and keep each other safe, hence the name of this fanlisting.

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A Brief History of Jack + Kim...
When we first meet these characters, although Kim loves her father immensely, she has very little idea who he truly is or the kinds of horrors he's faced working for the government. This all changes quickly when Kim and her mother, Teri, are kidnapped by terrorists in an effort to undermine Jack's efforts, as an agent of Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit, to prevent the assassination of David Palmer, a high-profile presidential candidate. Throughout the rest of the day, Jack risks everything - his career, his freedom and his life - to rescue his family and bring them back to safety. Kim begins to realize what a committed, brave and fearless person her father is.

During the course of his rescue, Jack relied heavily on the support of two of his closest associates from CTU, Nina Myers and Tony Almeida, to help him evade capture and provide him with information. Kim and Teri follow Jack's lead, placing their lives in the hands of Nina and Tony. This proves to be a tragic mistake, when Nina is revealed as a traitor, who sold information and her relationship with Jack to the highest bidder. In the course of her attempted escape, she murders Teri.

Teri's death drives a wedge between Jack and Kim. Although intellectually, Kim knows that Jack could not have prevented what happened, she can't help but blame him for her mother's death. She finds it too difficult to move on from the loss as long as Jack is a presence in her life, because she is constantly reminded of her grief. This is very difficult for Jack. After the death of his wife, he resigned from CTU, unable to continue working there with the reminder of Nina and her crimes hanging over his head. Kim is all he feels he has left, and when she won't see him, this only pushes the knife in deeper.

Jack is called back to CTU eighteen months after Teri's death when LA is threatened by terrorists with a nuclear bomb. During the course of this day, Kim is dealing with problems of her own. The family with which she is employed as an au pair shows its true colours when the father turns out to be an abusive psycho who beats his daughter and his wife, and Kim tries to take the little daughter away from the family. Jack struggles to do his job and stop the bomb while trying to ensure his daughter's safety. Even though it goes against agency regulations, he tells Kim about the bomb and to leave Los Angeles.

Although CTU finds the bomb before it is set to go off, the bad news is that it cannot be defused. Jack volunteers to pilot a suicide mission into the Mojave Desert so that the bomb can be detonated without any collateral damage. When Jack tells Kim he won't be coming home from the mission, she realizes how much time she's wasted being estranged from her father and how much she loves him. Thankfully for Jack and Kim, Jack is able to parachute from the plane after George Mason offers to take the plane in himself.

When Kim discovers that her father is indeed alive, she vows that everything will be different from then on, and that the two of them will repair their damaged relationship. She promises Jack she will come home and take care of him.

Three years later, Jack is still working for CTU, and so is Kim, now a mature young woman. CTU can never go without a major crisis for long, and soon the Bauers find themselves in the midst of a potentially lethal virus threat. During the course of this threat, Kim proves she truly has inherited all of her father's values and guts when she goes out into the field, and Jack realizes that his daughter is a woman of will and her own mind. He has never been prouder and they have never been closer.

Jack and Kim's relationship hasn't always been easy, but through it all, they have both learned that all anyone really has in their lives is the people they love. After everything they've been through, nothing will ever tear them apart .