UNEXPECTED SPARK: Chapter Two

Name: Unexpected Spark Part Two
Subject: Chana
Characters owned by: LOST

Summary: Ana and Charlie reflect on what they've done but something happens that lead them on a mission to the jungle together…

Ana buttoned up her shirt and sighed to herself as she grabbed a cereal bar from the side. What had she just done? What she and Charlie had done together wasn't right. They didn't love each other...but then again-did that matter? She leant down on the side and chewed in to her bar feeling confused. Since when did love matter? Since when did that do her any good? She shuddered at the word. Love? Love was just a word. Nothing more. A lie if anything. There was no love here.

Charlie shuffled in the room placing on his vans and coughed awkwardly as he stood back up straight and looked at Ana Lucia. She stared back at him, emotionless. What could they say?
"I uh...I should..." Charlie stuttered as he indicated to the door, "Get back and..."
"Yeah," Ana interrupted as he struggled, "I should probably wait for Jack to come back and...do what Jack does."
Charlie managed a small smile as he wandered slowly over to the door, "I'll see you then."
"Yeah. See ya," she said quietly taking another bite from her bar.
Charlie smiled weakly. He wasn't sure what he had done meant something. He despised Ana. So why had he slept with her? Was it a moment of weakness? Desperation? Or was it just because he was lonely, just like her?

But before Charlie could even exit the hatch a worried looking Jack and Locke with a serious Sayid came entering, pushing past Charlie and muttering to each other.
Ana swallowed her food and looked up, "What is it?"
"I'm talking to him!" Jack warned to the others.
"Fine Jack but he's not gonna change his story," John replied folding his arms.
"We should go out there," Sayid added in a serious tone that intrigued Charlie who interrupted the group.
"Go where?" he asked.
"The jungle. They've taken somebody," Sayid answered.
Jack pointed a finger at Sayid, "You're gonna let the whole camp find out!"
Charlie's heart raced, "Who? Who's been taken?" he demanded.
Ana rolled her eyes.
"Sun. Sun's been taken," Locke answered staring Charlie in the eye. Charlie glared. He knew Locke still hated him but,
"Why Sun?"
"We don't know," Jack replied entering the code to the room 'Henry' was in.
"What are you gonna say to him?" questioned Charlie further.
"We'll find out shall we?" Jack responded swinging the door open. He glared at the little wounded man in front of him, "Hello 'Henry'."
Charlie and Ana watched from a distance as Locke and Jack entered the room while Sayid waited at the door.

Charlie looked worriedly at Ana, "What about Jin?" he whispered to her. She shurgged. She didn't know.

"Jack...what are you all doing here?" Henry questioned.
Ana glared at Henry. She knew he was up to no good.
Charlie noticed her uneasiness and knowing full well the guy tried to kill her yesterday he asked, "Are you ok?"
"Fine," she smiled weakly.

"Sun Kwon, Henry. Sound familiar?" Jack asked feeling furious at the moment.
"No...should I know of her?"
"How about when you planned to kidnap her, Henry? When you formed your little plan?!" he almost yelled.
Henry seemed taken aback.
"Jack-" warned Locke.
"Speak to me, Henry. Where have your people taken her?!"
Henry looked at him blankly, "I don't know what you're talking about. I have no people."
"DON'T PLAY DUMB WITH ME!"
Henry winced at the sound of his voice, "What do you want from me, Jack. I'm just a normal guy."
Sayid spoke up, "Tell us Henry, what if you were one of them? What would you do with one of us? Where would you take us? Surely, you can answer that?"
Henry looked blank.
"Use your imagination," Jack added.
Henry smiled and soon began laughing as everyone watched in confusion.
"If...If I was one of them?" he asked. He cleared his throat, "I don't know...I'd probably take him...or her in this case back to my camp.." he looked at them all, "Hide her away, set up obstacles to stop you from getting to her," he swallowed, "And set up an ambush along the way."
He laughed again, "But I'm not 'One Of Them' am I? I don't know who these people are." there was a glint in his eye that made Ana shiver.

Jack glared at him and stood as he closed the door and gathered around with the others.
"I don't trust him," Ana started.
"You don't trust anyone," Charlie added, "But I don't trust him either."
"You think I trust that guy?" Jack asked, "Look-at least we have a lead, right?"
"Jack. He could be leading you in to a trap." Ana protested.
"Oh really?" Jack retorted pissed off and angry.
"He's dangerous."
"When he's in there-how is he dangerous?" asked Sayid.
"Because...because he tried to kill me," Ana answered swallowing back the pain.
"It's true," Locke responded, "I came in, he was strangling her. If I had been any later…."
Ana looked down at the floor, "We can't leave him here alone."
"I'm going out there," Jack said defiantly.
"You're needed here, Jack. Push the button, watch Henry," Ana replied strongly.
Locke stuck his lip out in thought, "I'll stay too."
"Right. Me and Sayid can go out and-" Ana started before being interrupted by the Brit beside her.
"Woah, woah. Where am I in all this?" Charlie asked annoyed.
"You want to come?" asked Ana surprised.
"Of course I do. What else is there to do?"
"Fine, you can come," Sayid replied, "We three will go out and look for Sun. We need to watch out for traps and be alert."
Charlie nodded, "Terrific."

Jack looked over at Locke as the other 3 prepared themselves, "I think we should tell Jin."
"If we tell Jin, he'd want to go too," Locke objected.
"He has a right to know, John."
"I'm telling you, Jack, if you tell Jin Sun's missing he'll go crazy."
Jack sighed and wiped his face.

Sayid handed Charlie a gun, "Only use it if in dire emergency." he handed one to Ana and looked at her seriously, "You too."
Ana sighed and looked at Charlie in the corner of her eye, he was staring at her, "What?"
"Nothing," he answered.
She exhaled again, "Come on. Let's go."

LATER---

The three trekked along the field, Sayid in front, Ana second and Charlie trailing along last staring at the back of Ana-Lucia trying to figure her out.
She turned around and looked at him, "Why do you keep staring at me?" she demanded.
"I'm not. Don't flatter yourself, love,"
She rolled her eyes, "You're so annoying."
"I'm annoying?"
"Yes, YOU are."
He walked closer to her as they trekked up a hill, "You won't want to hear my long line of knock knock jokes then. Now, those are annoying."
She couldn't help smirking, "Just keep digging," she muttered.
He breathed in deeply and looked at her jeans in the waistband of her belt.
"Are you checking me out, Pace?"
He laughed, "Are you kidding, Cortez? No, I'm looking at your gun."
"Now why would you be doing that?"
"No reason."
She stopped and faced him as they paused by a large tree, "You were looking at it for a reason."
"Nothing really."
She raised an eyebrow.
"I was just thinking, that's all."
"About what?"
"About Shannon."
She sighed and rubbed her forehead in frustration, "What about her?" though she knew the answer.
"Well, the last time you did use a gun you shot her in the stomach," he pointed out. Probably not the best move.
She grinded her teeth, "And the last time you used a gun, Charlie?" she fought back. He glared at her, "As I thought," she said as she turned back around and continued walking.
He rolled his eyes and followed.

Sayid was ahead of them now. He bent down and tried to look for a track. But none showed, "How do they drag a grown woman through the jungle and not leave one single trail?" he muttered to himself.

"So he strangled you?" Charlie called after her, "Good for him."
She felt daggers shoot from her eyes, "You're quite the charmer."
He sniggered, "And good ol' Locke came to your rescue," he muttered his name with hate.
"Don't you like John?"
"No," Charlie answered simply, "And you do? I can just imagine it now-Mr and Mrs Nutjob. I tell you what, for your wedding I can get you a suitcase full of knives. Or would you prefer shotguns?"
"You're sick," Ana snapped at him.
"I'm sick? And you're not?"
"Well I must have been to have ever slept with you!" she said hurtfully spinning around and looking him up and down with disgust.
"Well I'm not exactly happy with it either," he pulled a face.
"Then...what are we doing?!"
"I don't know," Charlie shrugged.
Then silence.
Ana looked down, "Is it because Claire knocked you off?" she asked.
"No," he replied, "I don't think so," maybe a slight lie, "Is it because Jack knocked you off."
"No, I do NOT like Jack," she made clear.
"Is it the guy in the hatch that got to you?" he asked.
"Maybe. Probably..."she swallowed back the tears, "Yes."
He looked at her.
"I was gonna kill him. After all it's what I do right?? But...I couldn't. I don't know what's wrong with me," she sighed and looked down again then glanced at Charlie, "Maybe I do have a heart after all."
He cocked his head slightly, "Of course you have a heart. You don't show it but deep, deep, deep...deep down there's probably one there somewhere."
She laughed slightly, "I'll take that as a compliment...I think."
He smiled at her. Feeling what he had not long ago. But then something caught his eye. A doll? It was! A little toy doll! What was it doing all the way out here? He bent down, "Hey look!" he said to Ana as he picked it up.
"CHARLIE DON'T!" snapped Ana.

But it was too late. Sayid wasn't in sight to witness it but before the pair could do anything they were swept up together in a big net and held up high swinging against a tree, held close together.
Ana glared at him as they came face to face in the net,

"Wait to go, Dumbass!"

TO BE CONTINUED