The Prisoner (Part/1)
Two men stood over the beaten prisoner. The prisoner's eyes filled with fear. Jack leant forward to see the damage done by Sayid. The prisoner named Henry shrank back from Jack.
"What are we going to do?" Asked Locke
"I don't know, nothing if he won't let me close enough to see what's wrong" Jack replied
"We can't just leave him, Jack" Locke said
"Well, what do you suggest we do?" Jack asked impatiently
Locke fell silent.
"Well then!" said Jack "Just let me do my job"
"What about Lucy?" Locke asked, looking down on Henry.
Jack thought for a moment. Lucy, was only a medical student, but she had been the only one able to convince Sullivan, that Hives were not life threatening.
"How'd we get her down here without people asking questions?" Jack asked.
That was a valid point that John had missed. Lucy wasn't a member of Jack's loop; in fact she barely spoke to any of them. If she went down the hatch, other people would want to.
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"I'll get her" Locke replied "Steve should know where she is"
"Hey Steve" Locke shouted to a man picking fruit.
"Hey John, what's up?" Steve replied turning around to face the older man.
"Oh, the usual" John replied "You couldn't tell me where I could find Lucy?"
"Erm…Yeah, she's probably with Tracy, I could go get her if you want" Steve said, brushing off his trousers.
"Yeah, if you would" Locke smiled at how easy it had been "Could you tell her we need her back at the hatch!"
"Sure, John, Catch you around!" Steve said as he sprinted toward the beach.
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Lucy walked in the dark and damp underground stronghold. This had once been considered they're one chance of survival up against "The Others", but these "Others" never came.
"John?" Lucy shouted unsure. "John?"
"In here" came a voice from an area that she could only describe as a living room.
Lucy walked in, to see a small man in an orange shirt, lying on the floor. A hand clamped down on her shoulder and made her jump.
"John?" Lucy said "What's going on, who is this?"
Locke put a finger on her lips.
"Jack will explain" He said
"Rousseau seems to think this man is one of them!" Jack said entering the room "Sayid, seems to agree with her."
"Who did this to him?" Lucy asked horrified
"Well, John and Sayid both thought we needed some answers, so they locked him in the armoury…." Jack trailed off
"Sayid did this?" Lucy asked
Both nodded in unison.
"And is he?" She asked glaring "One of them?"
"We don't know?" John said simply, shrugging
"Sayid, didn't do it properly, he just flipped out, we had to get him out" Jack sighed
"He just kept saying that he was one of them!"
"So you just let him do it, let him torture some poor idiot, just because he lost his bimbo of a …"
"That's enough!" Jack snapped "You're not here to pass judgement …"
"Then why am I here?" Lucy interrupted "You bring me down here, you show me this and you expect me to be all 'Poor Sayid', what if this guy is innocent..."
"What if he's not" Locke cut in
Henry stirred.
"He won't let me or anyone else for that matter, anywhere near him" Jack explained "Maybe he'll let you, like before with Sawyer and his band-aid changes"
"You asked me to come down here and do your job, because you frightened some guy half to death, that's …"
"Your job, as a medical student" Jack hissed
Lucy narrowed her eyes.
"Your not God, Jack, what makes you think you have the right to tell me what to do, or question my morals!"
"You two sound too much alike" Locke sighed " Lucy, it isn't for you to decide who's right or who's wrong, but it is your job to help people, and here's is someone who needs your help!"
Lucy sighed; she knew Locke was right, even thought she didn't want to admit it.
She bent down next to Henry.
"Hey" she said softly "I'm Lucy, who are you?"
"My name is..."
"Henry Gale and he's from Minnesota!" Jack spoke in a mocking tone
Lucy rolled her eyes at Jack.
"Shut up Jack-ass, I wasn't talking to you!"
She looked at the many bruises already showing on his battered face.
"Jack, I need some equipment if you expect me to help him" Lucy snapped
Jack looked at Henry, who dropped his eyes nervously. Jack left the room, leaving Henry with Lucy and John.
The room filled with an uncomfortable silence for a few moments, while Jack was absent. Jack re-appeared holding a bag.
Jack opened his mouth to say something, but Lucy cut-in
"I believe silence is golden, don't you?"
Locke nodded in agreement and Henry smirked. Jack rolled his eyes and handed Lucy the bag. Lucy opened it and set out a bottle of iodine and some tissue. She took a tissue and soaked it in iodine.
"This is gonna hurt!" Lucy said as she pressed the tissue gently against one of the many wounds on his face.
Henry flinched with pain and let out an involuntary hiss of pain.
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"There you go, all done" Lucy announced standing up and throwing away the last of the waste.
"Thank you!" Henry replied looking solemnly at the floor
"Are you alright?" Lucy asked kneeling down beside him
"Well, let me see, I'm held captive by people who think I'm trying to kill them, in a place where a loud noise keeps happening, and no one will tell me what it is, I'm stranded on an island somewhere, my balloon crashed and my wife is dead; but other than that I suppose I can't complain" Henry remarked looking up at her face
He looked at her simple features, her high cheekbones, her tanned cheeks, flecked with freckles, her black hair hanging in a loose plat and her azure eyes framed with black eye liner. He was surprised that she still wore make-up.
"You know, we're sort of in the same boat!" Lucy started "I mean, unless your in Jack's loop, you don't get to know much, unless they consider you useful and then that's different; I'm stuck on this island, and instead of being considered an other, I'm waiting for these "Others" to come and kill me."
She caught Henry's eye.
"You people are seriously paranoid" Henry replied
"You don't know what has happened to us" Lucy said
"Do you?"
"Do I what?"
"Do you know, I mean seriously how well do you know these people?" Henry questioned
"I do know" Lucy replied "I've been here"
"You admitted it just now, you only know what they decide to tell you and you just seem to go along with it" Henry remarked
"You're wrong" Lucy said with venom "You're wrong"
"Am I, because from what I can see, and from what you say, you're pretty oblivious, but I suppose ignorance is bliss"
"You don't know as much as you think" Lucy snapped
"I don't?" Henry repeated "Well let me ask you something, would you have known about me if they hadn't needed you?"
"I would have known…"
"Eventually" Henry cut-in "They consider me a risk and still how many people actually know about me?"
"I don't have to listen to this" Lucy told him, as she got up and went for the door
"Go, but you know that I'm right; you've been thinking it"
Lucy turned to face him
"And what would you know about what I think, you don't know me" Lucy spat
"That's true, I don't know you, but I know you can see what's wrong with this place and still you won't do anything to change it, you're lazy"
"I am not" She shouted
"You are, either that or you're a coward, afraid of a fight that might just give you people what you need, a proper leader" Henry argued "I don't see why you let the doctor call all the shots"
"We don't"
"You do, is there any sort of democracy, do actually settle things together or do you all just do as Jack says"
"You know, saying all these things to me won't change my views, it's just looks bad on the 'You being innocent' front" Lucy informed him and she left the room.
She leant against the door, knowing what he said was true. They were all things she and many others had been thinking for a long time.