Sawyer leaned up against the tree and looked out. Seemingly his gaze was blank and he wasn't seeing anything. It was partially true, but he was seeing Kate. She was sitting there, away from everyone but close enough so that she was still within range in case of trouble. Separated yet connected. Not close enough to make a real connection but close enough to not feel alone. She liked to sit like that. And tonight she had the airplane. She was holding it up, looking at it like a cherished prize.

Sawyer was seeing all of this, yet not seeing. He was taking in the detail while thinking. He was thinking about what she must have been like before the crash. He subconsciously ran a hand through his hair. Would she have even given him a second glance if it weren't for the island? Would he have wanted her for anything more than a one-night stand?

The loud laughter coming from camp brought him back to Earth. He walked further away from it and sat down next to Kate. She immediately, protectively, put up the toy plane.

"Hey Freckles." Sawyer said as he sat down. He rolled up his pant legs so that they wouldn't get wet, with the water lapping at his legs.

"Hey Sawyer." Kate said. They both continued looking straight ahead. Making side vision glances at each other everyone once in a while. For a bit they just sat in silence until the sun was almost completely sunken in the sky and it was dark.

Finally, seeing an outline of a person carrying a torch coming towards them Kate spoke up. "Who do you think that is?"

Sawyer looked over at the figure. "Figuring you're out here, all alone and helpless I'm betting it the doctor." He smirked, though he did get the slight urge to knock Jack in the fact, just for good measure, especially when he clearly came into view.

"Look at this. Kate's knight in shining armor. What have you brought for us Galahad?"

Jack looked at Sawyer but ignored his remarks. He turned to Kate who had resumed looking into the water. "I thought you might want a little light out here." He said putting the torch into the ground.

Kate looked at him and smiled. "Thanks. I appreciate it." She said almost preoccupied.

Jack continued standing there for a little while. Almost as if waiting for an invitation to sit down but Kate was once again in her own land. After a while he walked away.

"Some bothering that pretty little head of yours?" Sawyer asked almost lazily. It wasn't in his nature to show genuine concern.

"It's been a year." Kate said almost in a whisper.

"What's that?" Sawyer asked.

"A year."

He turned his head to her slightly. "What's been a year?"

Kate bit her lip as if thinking about saying something. She knew she could tell him. He already knew she'd killed a man. So could he. Yet she felt protective over Tom. "Nothing."

"Sounds like you need an emo band." Sawyer thought about leaving but figured sitting her, after making an absolutely idiotic comment was better than going back to camp.

Sawyer woke up and looked around. Everyone else was sleeping. Then he heard a rustle. What the hell was that? It better not be that stupid kid, waking him up. Or a goddamned boar. Then he heard a sob. It almost sounded like an inexperienced sob, if there ever was one, of someone not use to crying.

Well whomever it was needed to get the fuck over them self and go somewhere private to cry. People were trying to sleep here. And it was getting closer. It better not be that skinny bitch with the dead brother…Shannon. But she knew how to cry. But then again she probably knew how to fake it to. Sawyer closed his eyes, whoever it was better shut up because he was going to sleep.

Sawyer opened one eye. "Freckles what the fuck are you doing?" He asked opening both eyes.

She looked at him; like she was shocked he was awake. "Sawyer!"

"Yeah! Who the hell did you think it would be?" He asked annoyed. "And why the hell are you crying?"

"I'm not. Got something in my eye. I was coming to see if you had eye drops." She said defensively.

"Your eyes should be shut damn it." He sat up. "You're going to come to my tent, in the middle of the night mind you, walking in Amity Island, and then tell me your looking for eye drops? Eye drops!" He tried to keep his voice low. He didn't want to wake people up. "I know the doc, has some eye drops."

Kate looked at him. "Look I'm sorry for waking you up. I was just walking, and I don't even know what possessed me to come by here." She started to turn.

"Where the hell you going?"

"Back to the caves." Kate said turning back around to him.

Sawyer rolled his eyes. "Damn it Freckles." He scooted over and took off the blanket over him and threw it beside him. "You can stay here."

Kate looked at him puzzled.

"Just come and go to bed for the love of God! I'm tired but I don't want you walking around here in the middle of the night. Your stupid enough to get yourself killed."

She continued to look at him.

"What do you think I'm going to rape you? I'm going to bed." He turned over grabbing his shirt and putting it on. "Night Freckles."

Kate stood and looked at him for a while. Why the hell had she come here? Finally she went and laid down beside him turning away from him and quickly falling asleep.

Sawyer woke up the next morning to see Kate sound asleep beside him curled up. 'Figures' He thought to himself. She'd wake him up then sleep longer than him. He unceremoniously threw his other blanket over her and walked out. He went to get firewood.

Michael came up beside him. "Why's she in there?"

"Why's who where?"

"Why's Kate in your tent?" He asked grabbing a branch.

Sawyer rolled his eyes, feeling like he was in high school again. "Hell if I know. She came wandering round last night and woke me up. I didn't want her going back through the forest to the caves told her she could sleep there."

Michael looked at him suspiciously. "You sure?"

"Yeah I'm sure!" Sawyer grabbed some wood and went and put it in a pile. He grabbed a water and went back to his make shift tent.

Kate had just woken up. She rubbed her eyes and stretched looking around. It took her a second to realize where she was. The events of last night came rushing back to her and she felt like a complete idiot.

Sawyer looked at her. "Care to tell me why you came out here last night?"

Kate shook her head grinning slightly, reminding him of a negative little mermaid. Not that he had ever watched that movie.

"Figures." He said changing his pants and shirt and leaving the cave again.

Kate stretched again and then laid back down pulling the covers back up.

Sawyer turned back to see her going to sleep again. The girl takes over a tent and won't leave. She better not make a habit of it. He liked his space and he liked his sleep.