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This is my idea for the start of season 6. It takes place about 5 years after season 5 and it’s based off my own season 5 finale, “A Life Worth Living,” so it’s slightly AU but mostly still works (although by the time I publish this that may be different.)

I just posted the first segment, which can be found here.

A few things to note:

1. As some of you may recall from the end of “A Life Worth Living,” Tony Almeida died a hero at the end when he took Jack’s place on a suicidal mission to destroy the nerve gas. The Tony in this story is Jack and Audrey’s 4-and-a-half year old son.
2. In the epilogue to “A Life Worth Living,” Audrey mentioned that a good friend of her father’s, then-Senator Robert Peterson, was challenging Vice President Gardner for the Republican nomination for president, and that she and Jack were going up to New Hampshire so she could help with his campaign. Peterson is now president, with one year left in his first term of office.
3. As Jack predicted five years earlier, Audrey got her wish to become the first female Secretary of Defense in US history. She had been Acting Secretary for two months following the sudden and unexpected death of Secretary of Defense William Korman, who had designated Audrey as his predecessor when she was his Undersecretary for Policy and close confidante. She was confirmed to the post in her own right yesterday, following a fairly contentious Senate debate. The main objection to her was the fact that she never served in the uniformed military, which her supporters felt was a code phrase questioning her qualifications because of her gender. Jack’s extralegal activities at CTU and her own role in the events of day 5 were also examined. The Senate confirmation process has received a lot of attention from the news media in recent weeks.
4. The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) resigned in protest when Audrey became Acting Secretary of Defense and was nominated by the president to replace Korman. Following Audrey’s recommendation, Peterson tapped Bill Buchanan to replace him. Bill hired Chloe O’Brien to serve as the Chief Information Officer for DIA.
5. Jack has been laying low for the last few years, taking care of Tony and working hard to be the husband and father that his job at CTU prevented him from being the first time around. But he is starting to get restless, and the recent media spectacle has made him start to feel inadequate, making him more aware of the stigma that goes with being a stay-at-home dad. He and Audrey agreed that he would start looking for a job now that Tony’s in preschool, and he is going in to DIA later today to meet with Bill about a possible opening in the Counterintelligence Division. Or at least, that’s what he told Audrey.
6. Kim Bauer, now 29 and still estranged from her father, is a second year law student at UCLA. She just got back from a 5-week comparative justice summer program in Europe, and stopped off in DC for a night to visit a friend on her way back. She is flying back to L.A. at 7:30 this morning.
7. Curtis Manning is now the Director of CTU Los Angeles. He is flying to DC for a nationwide conference of CTU directors. His flight is expected to arrive at 5:37 this morning.
8. The circumstances regarding Secretary Korman’s death are still being investigated.