We've been off the cost of the Island for over a day. And to tell the truth, I'm getting kind of cranky. Jin is nuts about this boat and keeping Sun safe. He rattles on and on in Korean, and, believe it or not, I've begun to pick up on a few phrases, like "baby" and "sick". Sick is what Sun has been, hacking into the toilet under the deck, over the side of the boat, but luckily nowhere anyone puts their feet. Sayid has been especially annoying, sitting patiently, looking over the old maps of Rousseau.

"What are you even doing?" I ask him.

"I am trying to determine our exact location," he answers, annoyingly patient.

"I though those maps weren't drawn to scale, that it was impossible to figure out locations from it."

"Theoretically, I should still be able to place locations on it accurately." He makes a mark with a red pencil.

"Are we gonna talk about it yet?"

"Talk about what?"

"Oh, I don't know, Sayid. Maybe the giant flash of purple light and the massive loud noise causing Island vibrations?"

"No, we're not going to talk about that yet," he answers making another mark on the map. Sun approaches, crouching down beside us.

Jin stands above her and says something in Korean.

"My husband says it's time to leave," Sun translates. Jin speaks again. "He doesn't think Jack and the others are coming. It's been over a day since we lit the fire. They should be here by now."

Sayid puts down his pencil. "Jack knows we're out here. He's counting on our signal. Perhaps he's not able to see the smoke. If he's North of us, the mountains would block his view." He stands and points to the cliffs we climbed two days ago and continues speaking as Sun translates. "We need to sail forward along the coast, clear the mountains, and start another signal fire."

Jin stops Sun's translating and walks up to Sayid. "No!" he protests.

"I told Jack I would light a fire," Sayid says, looking Jin in the eye. "I'm not abandoning him."

Sun translates this for Jin, but he cuts her off. I can't make anything out other than Sayid's name and at the end of the argument Sun turns back to Sayid. "My husband thinks we have to do as he says because he's the only one who knows how to sail. But he's wrong. I can help you sail the boat."

Wow, didn't see that one coming. I guess Sun is finally starting to stand up for herself. She's come a long way from the crash two months ago, where he treated her like a piece of property.

Sun steers us for over an hour to the other side of the cliffs. Jin coops himself up below deck, slicing and dicing fish for the four of us to eat. I'm sitting at the helm of the boat, because that's where I'm the least dizzy. It also provides a lookout for the Island. It doesn't take long and I spot something in the distance and I hold the binoculars up to my eyes.

It looks like a boat dock. What the hell? "Sayid!" I call, jumping off my perch and running over to him. "Look." I hand him the binoculars and point towards the dock. Sayid hands the binoculars to Sun, who spots the dock and calls Jin up in Korean. When he gets here, Sun hands him the binoculars and Jin finds the dock.

"Why should there be a dock all the way out here?" Sun asks.

"Others," Jin says, handing the binoculars back to Sayid.

"The dock's decaying," Sayid tells us. "It's overgrown. It looks like it hasn't been used in quite some time. Whoever built it, they're not here now." Sun translates and Sayid continues, holding the binoculars up to his eyes. "Let's bring the boat in. We'll tie it to the dock and build a fire on the beach. The visibility's excellent. Jack will be able to see us for miles around."

"Safe?" Jin asks him.

"Yes, Jin. Of course it's safe." But Sayid exchanges a look with me. This whole trip wasn't safe. We went into it without a definite plan. There's no telling what we could do if they actually showed up.

Sun docks the boat and Sayid jumps off instantly. I follow, but Sun and Jin linger on the boat, making sure it's properly docked. When my feet hit the wood, it feels sturdy, not at all decaying. A giant sign sits on top of the dock, naming it, Pala Ferry.

I jog up to Sayid. "You gonna let me in on the big secret?"

He continues walking to the tree line and starts grabbing firewood. "Jack and the other's aren't coming."

"What are you talking about?" I say, grabbing a fallen branch.

"I'm almost certain they've been captured. It wouldn't take them this long to reach us, and there's no way that last fire wasn't visible."

"But that doesn't mean they've been captured."

"There are tracks all over the dock, as fresh as yesterday."

"Why didn't you say anything?"

"I didn't want to alarm Jin. This is something he would not allow. It is why I didn't want Sun to come along."

"So what's your plan, then?"

"I will tell you momentarily. We need to get back. Sun and Jin will get suspicious."

Sayid managed to mumble his plan to me as Sun carried small gas cans off the boat and Jin gathered wood. It's a good plan, but that doesn't mean I like it.

Sun drops a third gas can in front of the fire, which is going to be massive, if not bigger than the signal fire we had going at our camp of a month.

"What else can I do?" Sun asks.

"Help your husband. We need as much wood as we can find," Sayid answers.

"We're building quite a large fire."

"We have to make sure Jack will see the smoke."

"Why are you lying to me, Sayid?" Our heads jerk up and Sun is looking between us both, but mostly at Sayid.

"And what would you know about lying, Sun?" Sayid asks.

"You're putting our lives in danger," she says, turning around to leave.

I hate lying to her. "Sun, wait," I call, jogging up to her and stopping her. "Sayid thinks Jack's group was captured by the Others. There are tracks all over the dock, as recent as yesterday."

Sun looks over to Sayid who's looking rather sheepish about getting caught. "You said this dock was abandoned," she says to him.

"That would be part of the lying you mentioned," he says.

"You're not building this fire for our people," Sun realizes. "You're building it for the Others."

"I suspect that when they see the smoke they'll send a scout party to investigate. By then it will be night. When they arrive, Tia and I will ambush them. She will take two of them hostage, and I'll kill the rest."

"Two?" Sun asks.

"One to make the other cooperate," I explain.

"What do you need me to do?" she asks.

Sayid's eyes are full of apology. "I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to ask you to lie to Jin for another twenty minutes."

"Why?"

"Because once the fire is lit it will be too late to go back."

Sayid pours the last of the gas on the fire and I light a match and drop it onto the wood. It sparks flame immediately and the wood catches quickly with the help of the gasoline. We walk away over to where Sun and Jin are standing.

Sayid perches against a tree and Jin approaches him. "Gun," he says, holding out his hand.

"I don't think I understand," Sayid says.

Jin calls for Sun in Korean and then explains himself. Sun translates. "He knows what we're doing. He knows it's a trap. He says he understands English better than I think he does. He knows I betrayed him."

Jin finishes, then turns back to Sayid. "Gun," he repeats.

Sayid reaches behind his back and pulls out a pistol from the butt of this cargo pants. "Can you handle one of these? It's an automat—,"

Jin expertly handles the gun, checking the mag, replacing it and loading the chamber. Yeah, I think he knows how to handle it.

"I think you'd be safer on the boat," Sayid says to Sun. She starts to leave, but he stops her. "Sun, if by chance they get past us, there's another gun. It's inside the blue tarp beneath the galley counter."

"If they get past you that means my husband is dead. And I won't care anymore."

"As I said," Sayid repeats. "The gun is inside the tarp."

Night falls and Sayid, Jin, and I crouch in the underbrush, waiting for the Others. The plan is still mostly the same, only now, Jin will help me take prisoners. Sayid's role remains the same.

After two hours of crouching in the dark I hear Sayid whisper "I don't think they're coming."

BANG BANG BANG!

Three gunshots fire from over at the boat. Over where Sun is hiding. Jin is up immediately and Sayid and I follow, running to the dock. Jin calls Sun's name as we run, but the boat takes off from the dock, with Sun still inside. When we reach the dock, bullets are shot at us from the boat, barley missing us. I take cover behind the thick rails and start shooting back.

First they took Claire, and luckily, I got her back, but there's no way I'm going through that again. They're not taking Sun. Soon the boat is too far away for me to make a shot in the dark.

Jin gets up from his cover and runs to the edge of the dock, jumping into the water as Sayid yells "No!"

Soon the boat is at a far distance, but I hear another gunshot and then a splash into the water. I hear Jin call for Sun many times.

Eventually, though I hear Sun's voice call back and I fall to my knees, grateful that my friend is alive. Sayid bends down beside me and covers my shoulders with his arms. "You're shaking," he says to me.

"She's alive," is all I can say. I see what I assume is Sun and Jin in the dark, embracing each other in the water.

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