Title: A Walk in the Dark

Author: Vegeta7423, co-written with lurking-in-the-shadows

Summary: What happens when Sawyer and Kate get separated from the group? What will Sawyer do when something goes horribly wrong? How will Kate react?

Rating: PG-13

Timeline: Takes place between Episode 10 "Raised by Another and Episode 11 "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues".

Disclaimer: We do not own Lost, that honor belongs to J.J. Abrams and ABC/Touchstone TV. If we owned Lost, Kate would be with Sawyer and Jack would fall off a cliff.

Author's Notes: This is a Sawyer/Kate fic, and, while Jack is not hated, he is not praised either. There will be swearing, violence, sexual tension, and a healthy dose of angst. You have been warned.

Prologue

There was a murmur amongst the crowd, a whisper amongst the survivors that the pregnant girl was missing, probably dead, snatched right out of their midst. Charlie, the crazy man who said he was a rock star, had been taken too. So when Jack decided to form a search party, nobody disagreed. They were all afraid that the man who had kidnapped the pair would come back to attack the rest of them. The imposter who had told them he was Ethan Rom, the man from Ontario.