Stand-alone
WE’RE HEADING IN THE SAME DIRECTION, SO NEVER LET IT GO (AO3 | FFN)
While endeavouring to get justice for Renee and Hassan, Jack decides to enlist the help of someone other than Ricker. The question is whether he will accept or put a bullet through his skull instead.
WAKE ME UP WHEN (DECEMBER) ENDS (AO3 | FFN)
A combination of an unconventional Christmas movie and a coma offers Jack a strange way to process the day he has just endured.
LET THE FIRE CATCH UNTIL I’M BACK TO ASH (AO3 | FFN)
Tony finds himself on the edge of life and death and makes a choice he knows he will regret.
Crossover with Lucifer.
AND I’LL STAY WITH YOU, THE WALLS WILL FALL BEFORE WE DO (AO3)
In the wake of one of the hardest days of her life, Renee makes a discovery that changes everything.
THESE BATTLE SCARS DON’T LOOK LIKE THEY’RE FADING (AO3 | FFN)
She shouldn’t see them as a reminder of what happened. She should see them as a reminder that she’s still breathing. But she can’t.
A few months after that horrible morning, Michelle makes a change.
HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ALL I KNOW AND ALL WE HAD? (AO3 | FFN)
She couldn’t believe it had actually worked. Not just once, but twice.
Nina resurfaces in a way that nobody could have anticipated.
YOU BETTER SINK YOUR TEETH BEFORE I DISAPPEAR (AO3)
As if Tony hadn’t been worried enough about things going wrong today, Nina Myers escaping CTU custody had to be one of the least expected and worst possible scenarios.
Especially knowing that she’s a vampire.
And that Jack is one, too.
David and Robert have had a long-standing business relationship, but this time, Robert won’t budge on David’s price hike.
So, David decides he has something different to offer him: Tony.
Crossover with The Cleaning Lady.
THERE’S NO RESIDUE OF A TORTURER INSIDE OF YOUR EYES (AO3 | FFN)
Everyone knew who Rosalind Dyer was.
Well, they knew of her idea of a leisurely pastime.
But nobody had seen her yet.
Before Rosalind Dyer met her fate and got arrested in Los Angeles, she had her first brush with authority in Washington, DC.
Crossover with The Rookie.
OH, A STORM IS THREATENING MY VERY LIFE TODAY (AO3 | FFN)
Tony and Michelle go on the run at the start of Day 5, and their lives soon evolve into turmoil. But David is there, waiting to catch them as they fall, and they have no choice but to let him.
It’s only when Jack is called in by the FBI that they finally have the chance to come home.
WOULDN’T YOU RATHER BE A WIDOW THAN A DIVORCEE? (AO3)
Even years later, despite the variety of cases he’d taken, defending Victoria Keenan still haunts Bobby. He’d searched for information about her, but she’d seemingly disappeared off the face of the Earth.
But when he stumbles upon a photo of Audrey Raines, he realises that maybe she hasn’t hidden her tracks after all.
Crossover with The Practice.
IT’S YOU AND ME, WON’T BE UNHAPPY (AO3)
Four years after his imprisonment, Russia has agreed to allow Jack’s return to the US in exchange for another prisoner, a Russian spy. Jack can’t possibly think of anyone who is as valuable as him, but he goes along willingly anyway.
Not only is the prisoner familiar to Jack… she’s also powerful enough to make him reconsider his plans.
Collaboration with @more-comfortable-in-hell.
Crossover with Covert Affairs.
I WOULD FIX THIS IF I COULD, I’D CHANGE THIS, YOU KNOW I WOULD (AO3 | FFN)
“There’s only one person I’m going to speak to: Jack Bauer.”
Crossover with Covert Affairs.
Annie calls in a certain CTU Los Angeles agent to finally get the truth out of Lena Smith. Nina Myers. Whoever she really is.
But little does she know, even locked in an interrogation room, they’re all still pawns in her game.
WHERE ARE YOU NOW? I CAN HEAR FOOTSTEPS, I’M DREAMING (AO3 | FFN)
After Day 6, Jack learns that he hasn’t lost everybody after all.
I CAN’T SEE ME LOVING NOBODY BUT YOU (AO3)
Day 4 doesn’t happen.
Can Tony and Michelle still find their way back to each other?
THE SLIGHTEST BIT OF LIGHT AND I CAN SEE YOU CLEAR (AO3)
Tony and Michelle decide they need a fresh start after Day 4, and things seem to finally be looking up.
Until Michelle discovers that exposure to the Cordilla virus may have had some lasting effects after all.
And rather monstrous ones at that.
TAKE ME DOWN INTO YOUR PARADISE (AO3)
Four years after Day 3, Jack is back at square one.
He has no job and the relationship he thought would heal him is gone.
But when he returns to LA, he learns his friends have changed more than he thought.
BUT THAT’S ENOUGH FOR NOW, HE SHOULD HAVE NEVER LEFT YOU BROKEN (AO3 | FFN)
Larry decides that enough is enough, and pulls Renee out of her cover with Laitanin.
BE CAREFUL MAKING WISHES IN THE DARK (AO3)
“So, I’ve heard you want to testify Myers was with you when Teri Bauer was killed.”
There was something in Milton’s expression, something almost predatory, that sent a shiver down Tony’s spine, but he wasn’t about to let him see that. “That’s right.”
“Why?”
“Because that’s what happened.” Tony stood by that version of the events but had a terrible feeling in his gut. And for good reason.
“I will be blunt with you, agent. I know you’re lying.”
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Nina makes a mistake. Milton cleans it up. Tony wants to help but soon realises there’s more to John Milton than meets the eye.
Collaboration with @more-comfortable-in-hell.
Crossover with The Devil’s Advocate (1997).
I THOUGHT I’D NEVER FEEL THE SAME ABOUT ANYONE OR ANYTHING AGAIN (AO3 | FFN)
Again, Tony could see that there was no ulterior motive to any of what David was saying. He could trust him.
And really…did he have a choice?
David saves an unlikely member of Tony’s family on Day 5.
SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO? (AO3 | FFN)
“So…so what does this mean?”
“You can choose.” Bill spoke again just as Jack opened his mouth. “And I know where your mind is headed, but I’m here, along with a few other people, because we don’t want you to die yet, Jack.”
Jack sees his friends when he visits purgatory after Day 7.
IF YOU WERE BORN AGAIN, WOULD YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE LIKE YESTERDAY? (AO3)
Tony wasn’t exactly sure why Vanessa Diaz broke him out of prison, and in all honesty, the thought of living in the free world as a fugitive was no more appealing than solitary confinement.
But the man she takes him to will give him a chance he never thought he’d have.
Set after 24: Solitary.
Crossover with The Booth at the End.
YOU SAID THE WORLD’S ALREADY FULL ENOUGH OF DEFEATED PEOPLE AND YOU WOULD NOT BE ONE (AO3 | FFN)
Jack shoved her against the wall, pinning her by the throat. Renee stood alongside him, pointing a gun at her. She didn’t react, instead staring into Jack’s eyes. He couldn’t see a single shred of the warmth and kindness of the person he once knew. The gaze was stony and harsh, as though the past six years had taken every sense of humanity and faith within her and crushed it.
“What happened to you?” He asked desperately. “Michelle, what the hell happened to you?”
One month after Day 3, the unthinkable happens, and Jack watches darkness take over Michelle like he’s never seen. The problem isn’t that she can’t get herself out of it.
It’s that she doesn’t want to.
SHUT UP AND PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS (AO3)
“Larry, seriously? If you want to…I’m down. After all…what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, right?”
A very hungover Larry and Renee find themselves struggling to piece together what happened on their wedding night.
Including how Jack Bauer was involved.
SO I’LL LOVE WHATEVER YOU’VE DONE AND I’LL FORGET THE RECKLESS THINGS WE’VE DONE (AO3 | FFN)
As he turned to leave, he stopped in his tracks when he heard a sudden noise. It wasn’t very loud. In fact, Tony wondered if he’d just imagined it, maybe the air-conditioning kicking in or something. But that uneasiness in his gut returned. He walked to Tech 3, now seeing a petite shadow through the privacy glass of the door.
Why was she in here?
“Nina?”
NO MATTER WHAT THE FUTURE BRINGS, YOU’RE BOOKED, AND LAWD YOU’RE BOUND (AO3)
You’re cursed, Jack. Everything you touch, one way or another, ends up dead.”
Even hours later, the words still echoed in his mind, a sick, sinking feeling in his chest.
Set immediately after Day 6, Jack discovers just how true that is.
Crossover with Lucifer and The Booth at the End.
YOU LOOK LIKE YOURSELF, BUT YOU’RE SOMEBODY ELSE (AO3)
Jack Bauer resurfaces in Los Angeles a year after Day 8, only to find that the person who’d been the final straw, the final trigger for the rage inside of him, is still very much alive.
Only trouble is, she has no idea who he is.
Or who she is.
Crossover with Bosch.
Day 3 AU, where Michelle isn’t the only one Tony’s thinking about in the Chandler Plaza Hotel.
A FAMILIAR FACE (AO3 | FFN)
Damon and Stefan get a little confused when they come across an FBI agent with a more-than-slight resemblance to their dear mother.
Crossover with The Vampire Diaries.
JUST BREATHE, YOU’LL BE OKAY (AO3 | FFN)
“It was funny they realised, how the timeline of their relationship, from beginning to end to beginning again, could be characterised by the nightmares they were experiencing at every stage, with one traumatic event seamlessly flowing through to replace the next. But it was special too. The nightmares they each suffered had formed an intricate bond between them. When one would suffer, the other would comfort. A balance. Like they were made to be there for each other.”
Tony and Michelle from Day 2 to Day 5 through nightmares.
ON DEATH ROW (AO3 | FFN)
One-shot set in an AU where Tony pays the ultimate price after Day 7.
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT (AO3 | FFN)
“The phenomenon whereby a minute localised change in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere.”
In which Chloe O’Brian handles the breaching of her hard drive a little differently in the year following Jack Bauer’s apparent death.
MORE HELL LOOPS (AO3 | FFN)
In general, if one has a guilty conscience when they die, they go to Hell, where they are stuck living through their Hell Loop, a twisted repetition of their most guilt-ridden memories. If one can forgive themselves from their guilt, then they may go to Heaven, unless of course, the Devil says otherwise.
i.e. various Hell Loops of characters from 24 that I didn’t explore in my cross-over series.
You don’t need to have seen Lucifer to understand this, effectively it’s a study of the morals and actions taken by certain characters.
Crossover with Lucifer.
At no point over the last eight years had Michelle ever reminisced about the virus outbreak. But the sight of her son’s bloody nose had changed everything, and propelled her back to that horrific day.
Set post Day 4, in an AU where Tony and Michelle got the life they wanted after leaving CTU.
aka: the fic where we address the fact that CTU is a very stressful workplace, and hey, I don’t know, someone should check in on these characters’ brains once in a while.
ANOTHER WAY (AO3 | FFN)
Sometimes people take a different path to what was originally planned for them, but fate always has a funny way of making sure they arrive at their intended destination.
In which, Michelle Dessler drops her car keys at the start of Day 5.
IN YOUR BLOOD (AO3 | FFN)
An altered reality of the first episode of season 3, where instead of heroin withdrawals, Jack has to battle with controlling his biological transformations.
Series
Duology covering Day 4 and Day 5 where Michelle briefly dates Neil McCauley after her divorce.
Crossover with Heat (1995).
HE COULD BE A SINNER, OR A GENTLEMAN (AO3) *
Inspired loosely by The Devil’s Advocate (1997), a no Day 3 AU where Tony and Michelle are transferred to the FBI.
Collaboration with @more-comfortable-in-hell.
SHE LOOKS LIKE A FLOWER BUT SHE STINGS LIKE A BEE (AO3) *
Collaboration with @more-comfortable-in-hell.
SHE WILL ALWAYS BE THE ONLY THING THAT COMES BETWEEN ME AND THE AWFUL STING (AO3) *
Michelle goes missing after Day 3, and where she’s found will make Jack and Tony question everything they thought they understood about the world around them.
A supernatural AU.
IF IT WAS SAFER ON THE GROUND, WE WOULDN’T BE ON A BOAT (AO3) *
Michelle x Renee AU set after Day 8.
A trilogy entailing the shock and aftermath of an ever-so-slightly altered Day 5.
TIME HEALS (SOME) WOUNDS (AO3)
A trilogy of fics entailing Chloe and Tony trying to rebuild their lives after the events of Legacy.
THE DEVIL AND JACK BAUER (AO3)
A set of duologies, with the first being the interaction between Lucifer and a 24 character, followed by their interaction in the afterlife.
Crossover with Lucifer.
One shot collections
MY SHADOW’S THE ONLY ONE THAT WALKS BESIDE ME (AO3) *
A collection of one-shots set in a daemon AU of 24, in no particular order.
Collaboration with @more-comfortable-in-hell.