Chapter 2: Going back

She didn't know why but she kept on running, it was the only thing she could do at the moment although she knew it was the wrong thing. She didn't know how many time had already passed by since she and Sawyer had escaped, since she had talked to Jack.

She remembered her meeting with Jack, their first meeting after the others had kept them. When Juliet had put the sack over her head and ask her to come with her she had been so frightened, didn't know what she would expect. And then after the blond woman had removed the sack from her head she first had no idea were she was and why. Her eyes had needed some time to accommodate to the new light. And then she had seen him, Jack.
Now thinking again about it she couldn't describe what she felt finally seeing him after such a long time. It had been overwhelming.
After such a long time, yes, for her it really has been a LONG time. Actually it has been only six days in which she hasn't seen Jack, but for her it has been an eternity. She never had felt so lonely, so frightend her whole life as she felt in these six days. Not only because the others had kept her in that terrible cage and because Ben had told her that the next days would be very hard for her but especially because all these time she had had no idea where Jack was and if he was ok. She had missed him so much.
It was strange. All her life she had tried to be independent, tried to get along quite well without anyone. But now?
Jack had been the first person she had met on the island after the crash, the first person she had talked to and since then he had been around her all the time, there had been no day since the crash when she not at least had known where he was, or what he was doing. Even when Jack asked her to stay in the hatch to take care of the bottom she couldn't follow his wish, she needed to follow him.
She remembered when she woke up in this kind of bathroom after the others kept them, and she remembered the feeling when she found out that she was alone in that room. Separated from her friends, separated from Jack.
Suddenly the pain in Kate's heart became so bad that she needed to stop, she couldn't go on running away and she didn't want to.

„Come on, Freckles! We have to hurry up!", Sawyer screamed in Kate's direction when he realized that she had sudden stopped running.

„I can't!", Kate answered under tears.

Sawyer looked confused at her. He couldn't believe what she just said.

„I have to go back!", Kate cried determined.

Sawyer looked now incredulous at her.

„What?"

Kate came a few steps in Sawyer's direction.

„I have to go back!"

„What the h are you talking about, Freckles, we HAVE to hurry up. We don't know how much time we still have till..."

He looked in Kate's face and then he saw it, the expression on her face, THIS expression.

„You want to go back for HIM, right?"

Tears run over Kate's face.

„I'm sorry, Sawyer, I...I can't..."

„But it was the doc who wanted you to run, right?! So what the h..."

„I know what Jack said", Kate said determined. „But...I should have never left him behind, I...I need to go back!"

„You are crazy! If you go back they'll kill you!", Sawyer screamed determined and looked imploring at Kate.

She was looking terrible. Her arms were dirty and strewn with several bleeding wounds. Her clothes and hair was all sticky with sweat and her face was wet with tears.

„You're maybe right, Sawyer. If I go back they'll kill me", she breathed deeply, „but if I don't go back...this will kill me as well."

Sawyer looked shocked at her. There it was again that expression on her face, that...
"Jack expression". He had seen it so often in Kate's face, but the most intensity it had when the others had kept them and she was looking in Jack's eyes for such a long moment before the others had put the sacks over their faces. They have all been so afraid, so unsure about what the others were planning to do with them, if they'll kill them within the next minutes, but all the time she just had looked at HIM, no single second she had wasted her time with looking at him, with finding out if he is ok, not to forget that she run away with the doc as soon as he asked her to although he was lying injured and in pain on the ground after the others had shot on him.

„Sawyer?"

Sawyer tried to forget his thoughts and looked now again at her.

„The doc...Jack can take care of himself, they won't kill him!", he came a few steps in her direction. „But you know, they'll kill ME as soon as they'll get the possibility to!"

Kate looked at Sawyer. She saw the pain in his face, the anger.

„I know, but I didn't ask you to come back with me, I just said that I need to go back!"

TO BE CONTINUED

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