I Will Always Love You
By: Alisha
Chapter 1: Take me instead!!!
"So Jack... What are your feelings about Kate?" Juliet asked with a pondering look on her face. Jack took a few seconds to ponder before deciding to open his mouth to speak. "Well I love..." He started to say but he saw out of the corner of his eye Sawyer and Kate walking together holding hands and that just opened up the wounds of his slowly healing broken heart. "I couldn't care less about what she does..." He said with a spite of anger. "So you don't feel responsiblility for her life." Juliet asked taking Jack's hand. Jack just replied automaticly without thinking about what the question could mean. "No I don't. That's Sawyer's job isn't it?" He said as he got up in a huff as he saw Sawyer kiss Kate. He was about to go over their and stop him when all the sudden he saw her kissing him back. "I'm going back to my tent." He said with a hint of hurt in his voice. "I'm sorry Jack." Juliet said as he walked into his tent.
Within minutes Juliet walked into her tent and grabbed her walkie talkie. "Ben... Ben come in." She said with a hushness in her voice. "What?!?" The walkie talkie replied. "I asked Shephard a bunch of questions about Austin and he seems to have lost his love for her. He seems to think Ford loves her now, so with Shephard not caring about Austin's life we just need to Ford out the way which should be easy and then we can use her for the research purposes." She said and all the sudden a voice cracked from the walkie talkie. "Good... How many days until we take her by force." "Give me until tomorow morning to get her to come on her own... Then you can come in and take her by force."
The hours passed by and soon it was about 5:00 in the morning when Ben and his others decided to storm in. Kate was the only one in her tent so it was easy to grab her. Thats when she screamed. It was such an ear peircing scream that the entire camp heard it. But everyone else was to scared to get out of their tents let alone do anything. Everyone else was terrified except for Jack. As soon as he heard that scream that he knew could only have come from Kate he jumped off of his bed of leaves and sprinted out of his tent.
Sprinting to the spot where her tent was. He surprised Ben and a couple of the other others as they tried to carry Kate out of her tent squirming. She couldn't scream because of a gag. "I suggest you let her go NOW!" Jack said forcefully to Ben and Zeke. "Sorry Jack I cannot do that." Ben said with an evil gleam in his eye. Jack looked at Ben with an angry smirk. "You better let her go or else." He said menacingly and Ben retorted. "You wouldn't actually hit a man in a wheelchair would you?" Jack took another step forward. "No but... If you don't let her free I will make an exception."
Kate looked at Jack surprised and so did Juliet. "I thought you said you didn't feel responsibility for her. That was Sawyer's job, remember." Juliet said surprised and with each word Kate felt her heart breaking more... She felt really bad for hurting Jack so much. Jack walked over to Juliet and grabbed her shoulders. "So you did this... Look Juliet I may be upset with her but still that doesn't mean that I will not protect her. So Juliet I want you and the others to remember something. Remember this." He started and Kate felt tears come to her eyes.
"I WILL protect her with every fibre in my body. I will use anything I can grab to protect her. I will not let you touch her, let alone hurt her. So if you want to take her somewhere you have to go through me first. I love her so very much, and when you love somebody like that you will do anything to make sure the person doesn't get hurt. So if you wanna take her. Go ahead, But it'll have to be over my dead body." He said as he punched Zeke in the face. Zeke stumbled back and loosened his grip on Kate. Jack kicked Danny into the chest and he also let go of Kate.
Jack grabbed Kates arm and pushed her gently so she was behind him. He glared at the others as Kate struggled to remove her gag. Jack could sense what she was doing so he ripped it off of her. "Jack... Do you really mean all of that?" She asked after taking some gulps of air. Jack nodded. "I do, even if you don't love me anymore." Kate felt her heart melt and she started crying. "But Jack I do lo..." All the sudden her voice cut out when a click of a gun was heard.
Jack stared in the direction Kate was and he saw Juliet, with a gun in her hand, pointed directly at Kate. "Wait Juliet. Don't do anything to hurt her please." "Relax Jack its just a tranquilizer gun. We need somebody for our research preferably somebody who wont be missed when and if the planes come to find you." Jack had to thing of something quickly because Juliet's finger was on the trigger.
"WAIT!" Jack screamed and Juliet turned to him. "What?!?!" He took a step forward infront of Kate. "Take... Take me... Take me instead of her." Kate gasped. "No Jack!" Jack whispered into her ear. "Go towards your tent and be safe. Grab my gun its in my back pocket. If they try to follow you shoot them! Do not come back for me." Kate gave a cry as she grabbed the gun. "Why do you have a fully loaded gun in your pocket." Jack laughed. "Lots of reasons... If an animal tried to hurt you, If the others came and tried to take you, If Sawyer got to rough and tried to take advantage of you..." Kate felt her heart break as he said the reasons. "To protect me." She asked and Jack nodded.
Kate backed up towards her tent as Jack bargained with Juliet. "Don't hurt her... I'll come willingly aslong as you don't hurt her or take her." Juliet nodded. Jack sighed in relief. "So she can go back into her tent and just promise not to come after me." Jack asked and Juliet shook her head. "I'm sorry we have to knock her out." Jack looked at Juliet. "NO YOU CAN'T" He said trying to protect her but Juliet shot him with the tranquilizer dart. "JACK!!!" Kate screamed bending down to him. "Kate... I lo...ve you." Jack said drifting in and out of unconsious. "I wil.. Alway.s love you." He said before he completely fell unconsious.
Kate flew to the ground as Zeke hit her with a huge metal stick. He crushed it down onto her body as the others picked up Jack. "JACK! I LOVE YOU SO MU!!" Kate screamed but was cut out by another hard metal whack over her skull and she fell unconsiously fast.