Part Two

Alex:

She glanced at the clock again... it still flashed dimly '15:16'. Why wouldn't it go faster?
There was only one thing to think about now... the cremation at sunset. Alex needed to talk to Ben now... though she resented the thought of talking to him again.

Alex timidly put her head around the corner to see Ben reading a book. He was reading 'Carrie'.
"Juliet wanted me to read this book... in the book club!" he said loudly, turning around to stare directly at Alex.
She jumped slightly... how did he know she was there?
"Ben..." Alex sighed, avoiding his glaring eyes as she stepped fully into the room "...I need to talk about... about Carl and his... the cremation... this evening!"
Ben put down his book flat down on a small coffee table before looking over the back of the chair.
"You're not coming!" he finally said.
Alex stared at him, wondering if she'd heard him right.
"What?" she asked, nervously yet terrified that Ben had just said what she thought he said.

Kate

Sawyer had that look upon his face that told all. his forehead was scrunched and his eyes apeared to be deep in thought.
Kate impactiently waited for a responce.
"Sawyer?"
Kate was starting to feel rushed, she had gained back a great deal of her strength and was egear to get a move on and run, in an attempt to fix everything.

Sun

The rain had stopped by morning. Jin and Sun took turns breaking camp while one or the other were watching the Others.

Jin looked around. He seemed satisfied and grabbed the Other male. "Okay, Juliet, we go now." Jin said in broken English.

Juliet just nodded and grabbed the Other male on the other side of him. They all started out again with Sun at their backs, her gun once again trained on Juliet's back. They were out no more than five minutes when Sun's stomach started revolting again.

"Oh no," she moaned. She leaned over and retched. Loosing all the breakfast she had eaten. Everyone stopped watching her. Jin wanted to run to his wife and help her but they both knew it was impossible since neither wanted the Other's to escape or take control of them.

Juliet just had a sly, knowing smile. "Do you need help, Sun?" Juliet asked.

Sun just glared at Juliet and shook her head no. She retched again. Juliet looked at Jin and held up her water filled canteen. "At least drink the water, Sun. It will help wash out your mouth."

Jin looked at Sun and nodded. He knew that Juliet, herself, was drinking from it so he didn't think it would contain anything harmful. Sun took it and drank. She took another mouthful, swished it around her mouth and spit it out.

"Thank you, Juliet." Sun said, handing back the canteen. "I am okay now, Jin. Let's keep going. The sooner we get back to camp the better."

Sawyer:

She was waiting for him to say it. Everything will be alright. Funny how just a few words, or the absence of them, could change someones whole perspective of life. He sighed, lost in his thoughts, unable to let go of the grip he had on her. He swore in that moment he wouldn't let anything happen to her again. He'd die first. Jesus Christ, he would die first.
"I..." he sighed "I don't know what to do. I can't lose you again..."
He looked deep into her eyes.
"Let's just...go back to camp."

Kate:
"What?!" Kate asked in a partially frustrated tone.
"Sawyer, if we go back, they will know that I am not returning. I have to get ride of this tracker or do what they say!" Kate stood her ground and looked into his carfing blue eyes. The angst between them was evident. Kate was tired of running for the sake of being safe. She wanted to fight; there was no chance in hell she was giving up. "What do you not understand about that, Sawyer? I don't exactly have a bunch of options lined up in front of me to choose from. Do you wanna die? cause that's going to happen unless we can figure out some other way."

She saw his still frail demeanor tense up. No longer was she planning to take the easy way out, not that she ever had before. The circumstances were different; more so than ever before. Kate didn't expect Sawyer to tell her what to do, she didn't want him to. But she wanted his impute and consent; although she didn't think is necessary, she desired his assistance. Despite telling the truth, she lied, she didn't tell him everything. The truth was that she knew they would kill him, and she would not let her careless actions of not doing what they say, or not fighting be the cause of his death. Even the thought of him not being by her side mad her sick, him being dead would make her life no longer worth living.

Alex:

"You're not coming!" Ben repeated, turning back around and getting off of his chair.
"Why?" Alex demanded, her voice shaking.
"Because..." Ben began "...It's no place for you, Tom and Nicole are going too and it's not-"
"IT'S NOT WHAT?" Alex yelled ", I HAVE TO... I have to be there... you don't understand!"
"Maybe you're right Alex... maybe you're wrong but I don't care about what you say. You are not going!"
"Why are you doing this?" Alex snapped.
"Doing what?"
"THIS! PUNISHING ME!"
"I'm not punishing you!" Ben laughed thinking it was silly for Alex to say that.
"Or is it because you hated him... because you hated me... BECAUSE YOU CAN'T BARE FOR ANYONE ELSE TO BE HAPPY BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!" Alex stared coldly at him.
Ben turned around, his back to Alex.
"I don't hate you, I'm your father!"
"IF YOU WERE ANY SORT OF FATHER TO ME YOU'D LET ME GO!"
"IF I WASN'T YOUR FATHER YOU'D BE DEAD!" Ben spat.
"I RATHER I WAS!" Alex screamed back at him, tears of anger nestling on her eyelashes.

Alex continued:

Ben looked back at Alex. She was standing there, tears silently falling down her cheeks, desperately wanting him to say something. Alex was looking at him, angered yet with such emotion.
"Alex... please don't say that!" Ben said, moving closer to Alex who looked away from him the moment he moved.
"It's true!" Alex cried, quickly looking back up at him.
"You don't wish you were dead... neither do I because I love you! It's unconditional love Alex!" Ben stood right in front of her, looking down so deep in thought and caring but regret.
"I need to say goodbye!" Alex whispered.
Ben nodded but didn't acknowledge anymore than that.
"I know!" he finally whispered.
Alex looked up at him and did something she hadn't done for as long as she could remember. She couldn't understand why.
Alex moved forward and hugged Ben tightly, resting her head on his chest, still crying silently.
Ben looked up and away from Alex. Guiltiness was building deep inside.

Alex continued :

Ben looked back at Alex. She was standing there, tears silently falling down her cheeks, desperately wanting him to say something. Alex was looking at him, angered yet with such emotion.
"Alex... please don't say that!" Ben said, moving closer to Alex who looked away from him the moment he moved.
"It's true!" Alex cried, quickly looking back up at him.
"You don't wish you were dead... neither do I because I love you! It's unconditional love Alex!" Ben stood right in front of her, looking down so deep in thought and caring but regret.
"I need to say goodbye!" Alex whispered.
Ben nodded but didn't acknowledge anymore than that.
"I know!" he finally whispered.
Alex looked up at him and did something she hadn't done for as long as she could remember. She couldn't understand why.
Alex moved forward and hugged Ben tightly, resting her head on his chest, still crying silently.
Ben looked up and away from Alex. Guiltiness was building deep inside.

Alex:

"Where did I go wrong?" Ben asked himself out loud. Alex didn't look up. Ben let out a laugh ",I guess I haven't been the best father Alex!"
She smiled tensely, pulling herself away from Ben.
"I need to go!" Alex said desperately and frenzied ",I have too!"
Ben sighed shaking his head sorrily. He couldn't bare to see the tears in his daughters eyes so he turned around to look out the window. The sunshine streaming through. Slowly he walked to the window sill and leant upon it with his hands, his back hunched and taut.
Alex gradually made her way next to Ben and looked up at his face which stared so hard out the window.
"Maybe if we just talk and maybe then you can-" Alex begun to suggest timidly, staring so anxiously at his eyes which ignored her.
"No Alex! Don't... I've already said it... and i'm sorry but you're not coming!"
"I need to say goodbye!" Alex demanded more frantically and urgent, pushing him firmly so he was forced to look at her, hoping so much he'd change his mind, hoping so much she understood why!
Ben shook his head ",No!"
"You're doing this because you didn't like him! Why did you even-"
"I didn't hate him!" Ben interrupted stubbornly ",he was changing you!"
"Everything changes!" Alex cried.
"He driving you away... you spent your time in the jungle, at night you disappeared into his house and by morning you were in the jungle!"
"He wasn't driving me away, you did that yourself, Dad!"
Ben watched silently as Alex disappeared away from him.
As she disappeared Ben picked up the walkie which was on the sill.
He held it to his mouth and sighed before pressing a button.
"Kevin... tell Isabel," Ben paused ",I've changed my mind!"

Kate:

No longer could she find the words to say what she needed to. Promises were only lies people made to satisfy the person at the moment. She stared in false disgust at him, wondering why he couldn't understand that she couldn't make the promise. He would do anything for her, and she would do anything for him... Kate couldn't make any promises knowing she would later possibly be faced with a circumstance were she couldn't keep it, all to make sure he lived.
Kate felt his hands on her face and questioned everything. Her mouth was pinched shut, her green eyes sunk back into her face and she squinted them. She backed away from him, needing some distance. The tears swelled up inside her, all the anger and sadness was overwhelming... But she held it in.
"Let's just go find Rousseau." She said solemnly.

As they went off, still on their guard, the presence of one another was daunting; it was as if there was a barrier of love. The walls they each had built around themselves to protect themselves, never allowing themselves to trust or care… they were so thick and tall they were next to impossible to break down. There love for each other was the very thing that made it so hard to do what the other asked. Neither of them as ever been in a state where they were soo willing to be so sacrificial of some one else.

The clouds began to move in and the sky became grey in an instant. The wind picked up pace and the trees moved ever so slightly in an easterly direction. Sawyer walked with a limp, yet she could tell his injury was improving.

After several minutes without talking, they stopped at a stream to get some water. The stood a few feet apart, Kate watched as Sawyer washed away some remaining crusted blood on his face. Without thinking, Kate walked over to him and began to help him.
Tenderly, she ran her wet fingers along his unshaved cheeks and washed the blood away. Her eyes didn't look at one particular feature of his, she gazed as if she was just taking in his very presence.
She heard him breath softly and she lifted her sure eyes to his and looked direct into him, as if she saw right through to his soul.
As the grey skies surrounded them and dimmed everything around them she took his face in her hands.
Lightly, she touched her lips to his and inhaled his breath. His sent was intoxicating. His skin against hers and is lips intertwined with his wad all she could have ever wanted. Her eyes closed and she forced herself into him. No longer needing air to sustain her life, it was him just being there that made her live. He was the only person on her mind.

Sun

They walked for at least two hours when Juliet said she needed to change the bandages on the Other's wound. Sun translated to Jin. Jin nodded and they sat, both Sun and Jin holding their guns on the other couple.

"Well, are you going to say anything more?" Sun asked in Korean to the Other male. "You speak our language, you try to take me hostage, Jin shoots you and you decide to speak no more? What is your name? At least tell us that."

The man just looked at Sun. He said nothing.

Sun turned to Juliet. "Well, he tried to rescue you so you must know him. What is his name?"

Juliet looked at the man and looked back at Sun. "I cannot tell you anything about him, Sun."

Alex:

Everything was wishing, everything was hoping, everything was wondering!
Alex stormed into her room clearly agitated and frustrated. He couldn't admit it! WHY COULDN'T HE ADMIT IT?
She slammed the door shut, and stormed around with such fury. The frustration was perplexing. Everything he said, everything he had told was lies! She should hate him, Juliet should hate him, everyone should hate him! But now every time she felt she cared, every time she thought he cared was mock up just to manipulate her... make her think he cared... make her feel he cared! He never cared, never!
He didn't understand. He didn't feel. He didn't know.
Frustration was erupting as Alex jerked her hands furiously through her hair, clasping her hands together at the back of her neck. Pacing angrily round the room would not suffice for the amount of resentment she felt for Ben, for everything, everyone!
Tense and agitated, not knowing what to do she hit the door with her hand, striking it into the door hard.

Alex sighed tense and irritated still but what could she do? Alex leant on the door with the elbow, resting her head on her hand.
She didn't understand! Why couldn't he admit it? He always hated him! He always couldn't bare for anyone else to be happy! He couldn't admit it!

Alex Flashback

"Ursa Theodorus... the teddy bear!" Carl declared, smiling happily up into the starry sky.
"The teddy bear?" Alex grinned, raising her eyebrows to Carl's suggestion.
Alex laid closely next to Carl so their elbows brushed together which were behind their heads.
"Yeah, the teddy bear!" Carl said again, shifting on the wet grass so he leant on his side with his elbow.
Alex turned her head and stared up into the stars concentrating hard.
Silence brushed over the pair and they both returned to look up into the dazzling night sky up ahead of them.
"I spoke to Nicole today, she had argument with Ethan again!" Alex said still staring at the stars.
"815?" Carl asked, barely moving his lips. Alex nodded.
"He's moving her off the project now... he says that she can't work in the team no more and is going back to the hydra!"
"She was at the staff right!" Carl asked, moving his head to look at Alex who nodded again.
"She didn't want Ethan to take the baby!" Alex said simply.
"Alex... the kid will get a better life here, better than theirs on that beach!" Carl said reassuring Alex not to worry.
"They're taking a child away from it's mother... that's not right!" Alex jerked and bolted up straight.
"She told you that too right... but Alex, a life here is better than theirs and you know it!" Carl sat up too and shifted so he sat very close to Alex.
She stared down at her feet, Carl was right again.

Alex:

She opened her eyes which were red from crying. She wanted to move. She wanted to do something. She couldn't do anything. In one moment she realised how much she risked... and how much she lost, all for nothing it seemed. Alex hit her head lightly on the wall.
She was sitting on the wooden floor boards in a corner of her room, hugging her knees tight up to her chest as if she was using them as a shield for herself from the world, from the island. Then she began to wonder, whether their lives were worse than hers, worse than this!
She thought about what Ben had done, what Tom wanted to do and wondered what she wanted to do. Ben had murdered the person who killed his love, his child! Tom had wanted to slaughter the person who he blamed for his son's death.
This is what they did, that is what her people do. She knew it was true, she was one of them too... but she still didn't know what to do. She wasn't one of them... she wasn't a murderer, but no matter how hard she fought it she knew it, 'Eye for Eye'.

Alex Flashback

Alex peered down the lit up corridor from the darkness. She could see into a bright room with a operating bed laid out. There were people gathered around it in medical overalls all preparing.
She gazed down the sides on the corridor and set her eyes upon a door which was tightly shut, but she knew who was inside.
When she was fully sure that no one in the bright room was concentrating on anything apart from what was happening in there, Alex was ready to make her move.
She recoiled back into the darkness and she prepared to run, but as she did so, a firm hand grabbed her shoulder

Claire

"the two of you sond like a bunch of school kids," claire said in a ferm but caring alstralian acsent. "we cant all be the hero. we each have our oun role here, this is real life not a telivishion drama, we need to do what we can to survive."

she took a quick look down at the newly found hach which sent a rush of shivers up her spine.

"if we open that hach all that will happen is we will have eaven more problems then we need right now." claire continued, " every ones still recovering from what had happened at the last hach. And frankly, i would rather have the others come and open it, becuse i care about you two and i dont want anything to happen to you."

claire once again looked down at the hach, this time she foght back the chills and softly placed her hand on the door, as she did so the rusted hinges holding it to the metal platform on the ground crumbled. the door swiftly broke off leaving it in claires hand. as she pulled it aside, she and the others gathered around and peered down the now open hach, to discover it was mearly a hole in the ground no more then ten feet deep.

"I think that we should head back to camp." claire said with a bit of a chuckle deep inside her accsent.

Alex Flashback

As she felt the hand grab her shoulder she swung around in shock but actually sighed in relief. She pushed a loose bit of her out of her eyes before smiling at Juliet.
"What are you doing here Alex?" she questioned, smiling back altthough they both knew something was wrong.
"I thought Ben might be out here... seeing as he wanted this to happen!" Alex said stubbornly back.
Juliet paused ",Maybe you should go home Alex... your father's there and I know he wants to see you!"
Alex nodded, stepping out of Juliet's path who continued to walk down the corridor towards the people all dressed up in medical clothes.
Alex stared and watched her walk away, Juliet looked over her shoulder, a sign of warning in her eyes before looking back around.

Alex Flashback

She slowly pushed the door to and looked over at Claire lying peacefully in the bed; it wouldn't stay like that for longer. She peered back outside to double check no one was around. They were all busy preparing. How could they do this? She saw one person with an injection ready in their hands.
Alex mumbled something to herself before rushing towards Claire on the bed, something had to be done and if she was the only person who could see it... so be it.
"Wake up!" she whispered, checking over her shoulder with a constant fear that someone was silently watching her.
Claire stirred on the bed but didn't wake up.
"Wake up!" she repeated louder.
Claire opened her eyes and stared right at Alex seemingly confused.
"Who are you" Claire asked but Alex shushed her, carefully trying to keep the noise down low.
"They'll hear you!" she warned her, pushing her arm down as she tried to point at her, "you have to get out of here!" she said, still holding Claire's arm.
"What?" she replied, even more confused which added to her dazed face.
"You have to get out of here, now!" Alex repeated, more anxious just to get her out as fast as she could.
"What? No, no, no, I can't leave!" Claire started to say, moving away from Alex but she had to.
"Yes you can!" Alex said beginning to take Claire's shoulder and pull her from the bed.
"No!" Claire moaned but Alex continued to pull her out, "No, what are you doing?" Claire asked as Alex pushed her towards the door.
She pulled it open, Claire tried to move but Alex held her firmly still.
"Don't scream," Alex whispered ", they're going to do it tonight!"
"Do what?" Claire looked around puzzled, "What are you talking about?" Claire asked loudly as Alex turned her around and shut the door.
"You're going to die; they're going to cut him out of you!"
Claire stared at Alex as if she was crazy ", I can get you back to your camp but we have to leave now okay!"
"No, no, no, hey, you're lying. You're lying, okay. I'm sure about this, okay," Claire tried to pull herself away but Alex held Claire still even though she was struggling ",stop it!" she mumbled as she put a cloth over Claire's face.
Slowly she began to fall limp as Alex backed into a corner, holding her still.
"You'll thank me for this one day!" Alex whispered as Claire slowly closed her eyes.
Alex now was struggling to support Claire without letting her fall as she awkwardly opened the door. No one was looking her way. She positioned Claire over her back and held her arms tightly around her neck before running quickly out the door and across the other side of the corridor. She didn't look behind; she began to run faster and faster towards the exit!

Jin

Jin didnt know what to do now. Juliet wasn't saying who the man was, and the man was keeping his silence. They were quickly approaching camp (I figured it was about time because they've been walking for over a day, and it only took them a few hours to get there in the first place) and Jin hoped that maybe Sayid would be able to get the truth out of Juliet and the man. Once they were back to camp Sun could rest and work in her garden. Jin thought that she probably missed her garden since she was so used to being there every day.

He could tell they were really close. He was thinking so hard about going back to camp that he didn't notice the others had stopped. Then he saw the man. He looked familiar. What was his name again, Pete? Paul? Paulo, that was it. Jin hadn't really liked the man, and he could tell most others didn't either. And he could never pronounce his name. It always came out as Pah-low.

The man came up to them. "Sun?Jin? Where have you been? Where's Jack? Everyones been going crazy. Who are these people?"

Jin was annoyed by this man. He had too many questions. He looked at the man" Not..now.. Pah-low", he said. He brushed past him as the group of 4 walked through some trees and out onto the beach.

Sun

Finally they were back at camp. "Home sweet...whatever." Sun thought. Then they got bombarded with questions from Paulo.

"Not..now..Pah-low." Jin had said to him. Sun smiled a little at that. He was an annoying little man.

They walked onto the beach and saw Sayid. "Sayid!" Sun called out. Sayid came running. He and Paulo, who followed behind their group onto the beach, took the injured man. Sun explained what had happened.

"Has Claire, Charlie, Hurley, Sawyer, Kate, and Jack come back yet?" Sun asked.

"No, you are the first to arrive." Sayid replied. "We are considering taking out a search party.

"We need you and possibly Locke to interrogate our 'guests' fist, if you will." Sun told him. "They are Others."

"This one," Sun said gesturing to the man, "knows how to speak Korean and they both know I am pregnant."

Sun turned to Jin. "Perhaps we should rest a bit, eat a bit, stock up and go after our people."

Jin

"Yes."Jin replied , "That is.. good idea." He was trying really hard to speak English. He knew it wasn't perfect, not even close, but he also knew Sun appreciated when he tried.

" What are we going to do with Juliet?" he continued in Korean. It was easier to have long conversations that way."Should we leave her here for Sayid to interrogate, or have her lead us to the others camp, to see if Jake, Kate, and Sayer are there? I don't want to take the man, I dont trust him at all and we don't even know who he is."

Alex:

It would take too long to make it back to the beach, back to the where the rowing boat was. It was too far away to make it in time.
Carl's body may have been moved but then it might not have been. Alex shuddered at the thought that he was lying there, all alone, no one next to him, no one with him. She stopped frantically running about her room and sat down on the bed. She didn't even have that photo anymore which she took with her, it was ruined anyway. Alex wiped her finger just below her eye, wanting to brush away any tears, but it was hard not to cry now.
"I love you Carl!" she whispered, somehow hoping he was listening.
Alex sat there, her hands on her lap, staring at the floor silently. She didn't move, her mouth hung slightly open and she looked so confused. She was. The more she thought about it, the more it hurt to think.
Tears began to fall down her cheeks.
This couldn't be it now could it? Could this really be what it was going to be like?

Moving on a bit) Alex:

The jungle now seemed cold and had an eerie attribute which she'd never noticed as much before. Everything seemed taller, everything appeared darker... everything was different somehow. She wanted to dodge as far past the trees as possible and carefully step over the roots. Cautiously she walked through the trees in unfamiliar territory. She felt like a stranger no matter how many times she had walked through the muddy tracks. She received an odd sense from everything, nothing seemed familiar, everything was different yet she couldn't quite place what.
Suddenly Alex froze, shivers were sent up her spine.
'CARL!'
Alex spun around, expecting someone to be there, no one was. She was alone.
'It's ok... it... it will be ok Carl!'
Alex spun back, still, no one was there.
'Carl, please...Relax Carl... take a... take a deep breath... and breathe... it's going to be ok... they'll find us... they'll take us home... they'll fix you... they'll save you... I don't care if I have to go back... I just want you!'
Alex spun around, taking a few steps as she did so but still no one was there. She began to shake slightly and shuffle on her feet nervously. She was petrified.
'Hey...hey!! Don't do it...don't hurt her! It won't bring him back kid, ok?'
Alex spun again, still alone... the words echoed in her head.
'Listen to me kid, whatever the hell you're feelin right now-'
"SHUT UP!" she screamed but nothing happened, the words still echoed through the jungle.
'It won't bring him back kid'
"STOP IT!" she screamed again, spinning around, expecting there to be someone but she was alone. No one was there. Alex brought her hands to her head, screaming inside to block out anything!
'C-Carl'
She put her hands tightly over her ears, muttering to herself. Terrified.
She collapsed to her knees at the trunk of a tree, tears streaming from her eyes.
'WHY'D YOU KILL HIM? WHY'D YOU KILL CARL?'
"Stop it!" she cried, her back hunched as she sat of her knees "Stop it!"
She began to shake her head, trying to stop them, trying to stop it. Everything echoed repeatedly, she tried to shake it off but couldn't.
'Don't do it...Don't do it...Don't do it...Don't do it...'

Sun

Sun smiled lovingly at Jin. "He is trying so hard." she thought.

"Yes, Jin," Sun began. "we should take Juliet with us and live the Other man behind for Sayid. Besides, he would only slow us down since you shot him." Sun laughed at the memory of him shooting the man who threated her and their baby.

"Why don't we go to our area and 'rest'" she smiled seductively at her husband.

Juliet

when Juliet arrived at their camp she seemed surprise how well they managed to survive. she felt bad for them. she knew what it was like to be held captive on this island, and wanting to go home so much. she saw how much everyone cared for each other. Juliet didnt really care about anybody except for Alex and her sister Racheal. just the thought of both of them made her want to break down. But she didnt she remained calm. she looked around to see if Alex was here but there was no sign of her. sun and jin started talking. Juliet was extremly smart...thats why shes a part of the "others" she knew a lot of things. she also knew Korean, she listened to Sun and Jin
" What are we going to do with Juliet?"
."Should we leave her here for Sayid to interrogate, or have her lead us to the others camp, to see if Jake, Kate, and Sayer are there? I don't want to take the man, I dont trust him at all and we don't even know who he is."
Juliet didnt know if she wanted to stay here or go back "home" Ben knew she wasnt coming back without Alex. maybe her plan of pretending not to know Robert wasnt going to work. but she hated him! he was a horriable person...in a way she was glad he was shot. she wondered if Ben sent him out here to bring her back?
"Why would he?" she thought...he was supposed to be getting punished. Juliet watched as sayid looked at Robert then back to Juliet. then sun started to speak.

Alex:

She was shaking, terrified, alone, tears streaming down her cheeks. Alex felt like someone was screaming at her and she could do nothing to stop it, helpless and pleading. Her ears were ringing with screams.
"Please, please, please," she mumbled, "please!"
But nothing happened. Life was merciless and cruel. Alex dropped her hands into her lap and rested against the tree. She closed her eyes tightly and begun to mutter something to herself quietly under he breath.

Alex Flashback

Alex didn't know whether it was the humidity of the jungle or the fear that someone was watching and that someone knew which was making her sweat.
Claire was getting seemingly heavier every step she took, she had to muster all her strength just to take a step! She kept looking over her shoulder... someone was there.
She began to her walking and tread more carefully, not even breaking a twig. Suddenly she spun around.
She managed to make out a face through the bushes who was staring directly at her. She stared closer.
"Carl?" she asked, just making out his face.
He stepped out from the undergrowth and quickly towards her.
"I told you not to do this!" Carl said agitated at her actions ",We have to get away from here, get away from her... let 'em take her... it'll be better for the kid!"
"They were going to kill her Carl!" Alex replied outraged.
"You don't know that-"
"You think they were going to let her... don't you think the others will wonder where the hell her baby is when she gets back to their camp?" Alex snapped.
Carl stepped close to her ",I know you're trying to help... but you will get yourself into more trouble, the moment Ben decides enough... you know what will happen!"
Alex looks away from him, he was right.
"I know you were trying to help... they won't see it like that and you know it!" Carl sighed as he took Claire off of her back, Alex let go of Claire's arms and folded her own. Carl laid Claire down on a slight slope and then quickly turned back to Alex.
"We have to go!" He took her arm and pulled her slightly, hoping she'd follow but she dont move.
"They're gonna kill her and that'll be my fault.. because I couldn't get her back to her camp!" she looked at Carl hopefully but he sighed.
"That isn't the way!" he pulled Alex again, but she only moved slightly.
"They'll kill her... I said I'd get her back to her camp Carl!"
"I know... but this wasn't the way."
Alex didn't say anything.
"they'll be coming soon...we have to go now!"
He tugged Alex's arm and this time she followed reluctantly. She looked over her shoulder and Claire still lying unconscious.

Jin

Jin laughed at the tone of his wife's voice. "Yes that is very good idea." As they walked off to their tent, Jin coulnd't help but think about what would happen the next day.

Alex:

She opened her eyes and looked nervously around her as if she was somewhere different. Now the silence was eerie.
She staggered to her feet shakily and steadied herself using the trunk of tree. She looked around the jungle again, the sun still managed to stream through the jungle canopy and make her squint as she stared upwards.
Alex stepped away from tree and looked over her shoulder thinking someone was there. Cautiously she began to walk, still turning to warily look around.

Alex:

She could have been walking for two hours, she could have been walking for three but it didn't matter because the sun was going down. Every step she took it got darker. The sun began to disappear into the mountains to west which only left a glow in the sky above. Alex felt herself walk quicker and quicker, she began to wonder if she'd even gone the right way now. She should've reached the ocean by now. And then she heard it. The crashing of the waves on the shore. Alex stopped and looked straight ahead, the path looked impassable because of the trees and bushes but the ocean was there. Suddenly, she ran, fighting her way through the bushes which scratched her bare arms and she pushed them away. She staggered and stumbled through the bushes and finally fought her out and burst out onto the beach.
She stared out into the sea, there was nothing but sparkling water, wave after wave and nothing ahead.
She took a few more steps and let the waves crash at her feet, soaking the bottom of her legs but it was relaxing.
"A-hem!" someone coughed behind her.
Alex spun around, splashing the water as she did so.
"I thought Ben told you not to come here Alex!" the female voice droned on.
Alex didn't speak.
"Alex... did Ben tell you not to come here?" she folded her arms and looked at her.
Alex nodded, avoiding her eyes.
"Then what are you doing here Alex?" she questioned.
Alex didn't reply to the blond haired woman. Her arms still folded.
"Alex?"
"I have to be here Isabel!" Alex snapped at the woman!

Sun

Jin and Sun started to walk hand in hand towards their tent.

"Sayid?" Sun called over her shoulder. "May we leave those two with you over night?"

"Of course, Sun." Sayid replied. "I will make sure 'our guests' are quite comfortable." He had a sly smile on his face.

Juliet

"Sayid?" Sun called over her shoulder. "May we leave those two with you over night?"

"Of course, Sun." Sayid replied. "I will make sure 'our guests' are quite comfortable." He had a sly smile on his face.

After what felt like ages, they finally made it to the bunker. Robert slowed them down. Juliet wished him dead. Juliet and Robert already knew about "the hatch" after all, there were hidden cameras in there. And they each had to watch over them sometimes. Sayid unlocked a room and Juliet went inside. She knew it would only be one night. She needed time to clear her mind anyway. Robert tried to make an escape but Sayid held a gun at his head.
"Don't think I won't shoot you." he said calmly to the man. Robert went inside. Sayid slammed the door shut.
"What are you doing here Juliet?" Robert asked.
"I was looking for Alex...why did you come after me? Does Ben know you have escaped?
"No he doesn't...I had to leave...I didn't want to die"
"Well you deserve to die...and why the hell did you follow me?"
I...I don't know I thought it would be safe here." it was an awkward moment of silence.
"You can have the bed." Juliet replied due to his injury. Robert got into the bed and closed his eyes. Juliet could have sworn she heard a light snore the moment he put his head down. Juliet tried to make herself comfortable on the hard floor.

Alex Flashback

"C'mon quick!" Carl whispered a few steps ahead of Alex as they ran through the trees ",We gotta get back before they know!"
"How do you know they don't already?" Alex questioned, gaining distance so she ran next to Carl.
"I don't..." Carl slowed to stop "...I'm just hoping Alex!"
"HEY, WHERE YOU TWO GOIN'?" a loud angry male voice bellowed from in front of them.
Carl tugged on Alex's sleeve as Pickett jogged up to them.
"Yeh dad was looking for yeh!" he growled at Alex but was glaring at Carl.
"We were going back there!" Alex replied with confidence, pulling her arm away from Carl.
"Oh... and you were comin' from where exactly?" Pickett asked, looking the pair up and down. He knew they were lying.
"We were having a walk!" Carl said quickly before anyone else could say anything!
"At night?"
"Uh-huh!" Carl nodded.
Pickett raised his eyebrows.
"And where'd you walk?" Pickett snapped at them, feeling increasingly sly.
"Around!" Carl said at ease.
"Around... happen to go past the staff?" he questioned with grin on his face.
Alex stared at him.
"No!" Carl said without letting out any clue of what had happened.
"So Juliet didn't see you there Alex?" Pickett smirked.
"I went to see if Ben was there!" Alex fired trying to protect herself, and Carl now.
"You just said you didn't go there!" Pickett eyed them coldly ",And Alex, you know Ben's not gonna be there!"
Neither of them replied. There was nothing they could say to make it better. Anything they said would make it worse.

Sun

Sun and Jin were in each other's arms in the aftermath of their love. Sun looked deeply into Jin's eyes.

"I love you." Sun said. "I am actually glad we were forced here. If we weren't we may not be they way we are today. I don't just mean the baby either."

She snuggled closer to him. "This is what we needed. We just didn't know it. We needed to be away from Father. Away from that life. Away from the life we come from and away from the life we thought we were going. You are my only love. Soon we will be a complete family."

Sun sighed a content sigh. "What are you thinking right now?"

Charlie

Charlie frowned. He'd almost been exited at the prospect of a new hatch... Something new for them to discover, he'd just started picturing how it would be to head back to the beach and tell Jack he'd found a hatch. So he could have been in charge of it's investigation and-
"Dude?! Charlie? You in there somewhere?"
Hurley swung his hand infront of Charlies face. He'd been so lost in his little daydream that Charlie had forgotten everything around him, and the looming prospect of the sun setting and the night starting.
"Okay okay. Cool it." Charlie nodded. "What a waste. Lets go."

Jin

"I am thinking..." Jin couldn't quite put what he was thinking into words. He was thinking about how their marriage was almost ruined. How he knew she had almost left him. He was thinking about all the times he had come home and she had questioned him about where he had been, and he couldn't answer her. It had killed him inside , but he knew if he told her anything, her father would have him literally killed.

He knew he was lucky for the crash. It had repaired his marriage, and brought him a child,even though the doctor said that Sun could not get pregnant. He had been so angry then. He needed a child. And now he would have one.

"..I am thinking about you.. how much I love you. How much we will love our child. Ever since we ..um.. " He struggled to find the word,"crashed here things have been so much good- I mean better.. I am so happy." He smiled at his wife. He knew he was making her happy by speaking English. He was quite pleased with himself actually. He thought he was getting pretty good at it.

Sun

Sun started to cry and buried her head in his chest. "These are happy tears, husband, not sad tears." she told him when she had looked up to see concern in his eyes.

"You have made me a very, very happy woman, wife, and mother-to-be." Sun told him.

Sun laughed softly. "Little Aaron is going to have a playmate soon."

Jin placed his hand on Sun's bare belly. Sun placed her hand over his and their fingers interlocked over their child nestled in Sun's womb. A family of three.

"Hmmm...I'm hungry, Jin." Sun said in a husky voice.

"Oh...I'll get you something to eat." Jin started to get up.

Sun placed her hands on his shoulders and forced him back down. "I didn't say for food..."

Alex Flashback

Pickett stopped his questioning tone and turned vicious and spiteful.
"So which of you did it?" he demanded aggressively.
Neither of them answered.
"WELL!" he hollered loudly ",Who let her go?"
Alex felt Carl tug on her arm apprehensively, trying to pull her away from Pickett and to hopefully break into a run.
"Ben 'n' an Cole have got the tape, you might as well just say it now!" he looked at the pair, he didn't know who did it.
Alex didn't know whether she should be relieved or worried that Ben was looking at the tapes. She had the feeling someone was watching and now it was most probably true.
"Did you say who let her go?" Carl asked curiously, Alex stared at him wondering what he was doing.
"Yeah, oceanic survivor, the blond one who Ethan had!"
"No... don't know, haven't seen any of them from the beach!" Carl replied casually.
"Then-"
"DANNY!" Pickett turned around at the sound of the woman's voice and smiled ever so slightly to see Colleen sprinting towards them.
"Ben and I... we've just re-watched the tapes!" she said to him slightly out of breath before pulling Pickett away from Carl and Alex.
"Ben's gonna kill me!" Alex muttered to Carl, tilting her head towards him.
"Don't go back then!" Carl whispered back.
"I have to!"
"This isn't your fault... they can't blame you!"
"It was me who let her go Carl!"
Carl was about to mutter back but stopped as Pickett came back towards them.

Alex Flashback

Alex stared as Pickett came close to them. He seemed frustrated and wanting to lash out at anyone, but that was normal!
"Ben wants to see you... both of yeh!" he sighed taking a gun which was tucked in his back pocket.
"Can he not make it here?" Alex replied sarcastically as they began to walk, only to receive a shove from Pickett as they walked past him. Alex stumbled but carried on walking.