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Title: Me and the Boys
Summary: Sun meant to poison Jin not Michael, and Kate didn't really want to Take Sawyers spot on the raft, what happens when Jin decides to stay with Sun and Kate does go?
Chapter 2: Forgotten Good-byes
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Michael woke up to his son saying that there was someone here. He gets up telling Walt to stay in the tent then he walks over to Sawyer and asks who the lady was.
"She's got to be the French chick." Sawyer says quietly.
Michael watches her as she tells her story and says that people were coming for them.
He went back to working on the raft when Jack comes by and asks how many people it would take to get it launched today and he replies everybody.
Twenty minutes later there was a group of people pushing it unfortunately the mast breaks off. Michael blames Sawyer who goes storming off into the jungle. Kate at his heels.
Jack hadn't been there when it happened he was with Hurley and Sayid talking to Danielle. But he hadn't see her follow Sawyer. She hadn't talked to him since yesterday in fact he hasn't even seen her around yet today.
Jack looked at Michael who was sitting drinking water. "Hey is Jin still going?" Jack asks looking at Sun and Jin eating fish together.
"Nope." Michael replies taking a bite from a mango.
"Then who's going in stead?" He asks but was interrupted by Sayid.
"Jack, are you ready to go and get dynamite?" Jack looked up at him and nodded.
"Hey good luck." Michael says giving Jack a one armed hug.
"Same to you."
"See you soon." Michael says.
"Yes you will." Then he turns to Walt. "Hey, guy, take care of your dad okay?"
"I will." Walt replies giving Jack a hug.
Jack laughed and then left saying a last good-bye.
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Kate and Sawyer get back from making a new mast, they put it up and then everyone starts pushing the raft again Kate looks around for Jack, she wants to say good-bye, but she can't see him anywhere.
So they get on the raft as it ends up in the water.
"Bye Vincent!" Walt calls. And everyone else says good-bye and waves some chasing after it as it goes around the island.
"We did it!" Walt cheers jumping up and down.
"What'd I say?" Michael says hugging Walt as the sail is hoisted.
Kate takes one last long look at the island longing for at least a good-bye from Jack. But she didn't get it. She looks along the beach he is no where to be seen.
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It was two days after the raft left Jack was very worried about Kate he hadn't seen her any where.
He went up to Sun. "Hey Sun." HE said. She was in the kitchen with Jin.
"Hello Jack."
"I was wondering if you know where Kate is." Sun's smile disappeared and she frowned looking confused, this couldn't be a good sign.
She walked around the table and looked up into Jack's eye, he was stressed, worried and exhausted. "You don't know?" She asked.
He was scared now. "Know what?" HE asked.
"Well, as you know Kate wanted on the raft, and well when Jin deiced not to go…"
"She went." He said suddenly realizing the truth. Sun nodded. He looked like he was about to cry then he walked away punching a tree, kicking the sand and jumping on a log.
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. "So, what's this stuff even do?" Walt asks looking at the radar.
"Well, the transmitter sends out an SOS in case someone's listening. And if there's anything out there, we'll see it on this radar screen here." Michael replies switching a few switches, Kate gets up and watched him. "Here we go. C'mon, someone find us."
When nothing happened they sat back down disappointed.
It was getting dark out. Kate sat with her feet in the water; she lay on her back and watched the stars.
Sawyer and Michael were arguing over turning the radar on, Michael was afraid the battery would run out. She was surprised Walt could sleep with there constant bickering.
"I turned it on a little while ago"
"Sayid said every hour"
"We're 15 miles out. We could be here for weeks. If that battery runs out..."
"The man said every hour" Michael sighs and switches on the equipment.
"Nothing." Sawyer says.
"Five minutes no more." Michael said sitting next to Kate.
"Aye, aye. You know what I like about you, Mike? You've got the patience of a saint."
Kate knew what was coming. "Sawyer don't even start." She says looking at him.
"No, Kate I want to know why I got the patience of a saint, why Sawyer?"
Kate sighed and got up walking to the other side of the raft sitting next to the sleeping Walt.
"I've seen the way he talks to you -- the way he runs around, does whatever the hell he wants. I'd have showed him the back of my hand a long time ago."
"You would, huh?" Michael said annoyed.
"Hell of a lot cheaper than a shrink." Sawyer shrugged.
"Is that what your father did to you? Show you the back of his hand?" Michael stood back up. Kate rolled her eyes.
"My daddy never got a chance to beat me. He shot himself and my mum when I was 8." Kate looked at him, he was looking away from Michael and didn't expect to catch her eyes, but when he did he saw that she pitied him so he looked back at Michael.
"Is that why you want to die, man?"
"What?"
"Since the day you told me you wanted on this raft, I couldn't figure it out. Why does a guy who only cares about himself want to risk his life to save everyone else? The way I see it, there's only 2 choices -- you're either a hero or you want to die."
"Well I ain't no hero Mike." Just as he finishes a bleep comes from the radar screen. Kate jumps up and walks over to them.
They look at the screen as a red dot gets closer to them.
"Something's out there." Michael says smiling.
Walt gets up and walks over to them. "It's closer. It's closer. Give me the damn flare gun"
"Now hold on a sec!"
"I'm telling you, it's closer. I'm telling you, look!"
"I've only got one flare!"
Kate looks around. "I don't see anything." She puts a hand over her eyes.
"Well the hell are you supposed to see, if you haven't noticed it's dark!"
"What is it? Is it a ship?" Walt asks smiling.
"We don't know, little man. We don't know." Michael puts a hand on Walt's shoulder.
"We have to fire the flare." Sawyer says. But kate doesn't feel right about this.
"I don't know if that's such a good idea."
"Freckles are you looking to get us rescued or not?" Kate flashes him a look and shakes her head. Then she keeps looking around this time with at torch in her hand.
"We don't know what it is. It could be anything -- a piece of floating junk. We don't even know if Sayid's radar works." Michael says.
"Have you ever known that guy to fix something up that don't work?"
"It's moving away!" Walt says.
"Floating junk that knows how to steer, huh?" Sawyer asks smirking at Kate.
"We're moving. It doesn't make..."
"Look, are you going to give me the damn gun, or am I going to have to take it?"
"What are you going to do? Shoot me?'
"It's almost gone!" Walt exclaims. "Dad!"
"Please God." Michael says before firing the flare. Kate shakes her head fiercely. It was a bad thing to do and she knew it, but all the same she lowers the sail.
It was silent for about two minutes before the bleeping started again and the red dot started towards them then everyone but Kate was jumping and whooping. She grabbed Walt covered his mouth and hid behind the mast.
"Walt, I can tell you now that they are not here to rescue us, so please just be quiet until we hear them say something that proves that they are okay?" Walt looks her in the eyes.
"Okay." He whispers.
"Do you trust me?" She asks.
Walt nods and ducks even lower.
"What's going on? What are you folks doing this far out here?" A scruffy voice said. Walt looks at Kate.
"We were, we were -- the plane crashed. We were on the island for months, man." Michael's voice could also be heard.
"Plane crash, huh? How about that?" the other voice said.
"We were on an island -- oh, flight 815 -- hey, where are we?" Michael said jumping from one thing to the next.
"Well, it's a good thing we found you." The man said.
Walt looked up and Kate and she mouthed, 'not yet.' He nodded and lowered his head again.
"Yeah, yeah, we survived and there's a whole group of people on the island..."Sawyer started.
"Well ain't that something." The man interrupted.
"Yeah!" Michael calls out excitedly.
"Only the thing is that we're here to take Walt. Where is he?" The voice said. Walt looked up at Kate in surprise, who just swallowed motioning for him to go farther under the mast.
"What? What did you say?" Michael said looking.
"Where's your boy?" Another voice said.
"Dawson we don't have much patience so just give him to us and then we'll leave, we won't even kill you."
"Where is Walt and Kate for that matter?" Sawyer said looking around.
"What the hell is going on? Whoa re you people?" Michael asked. Kate was looking at a box of fruit, maybe if she kicked it into the water the pople would think that Walt jumped over board, and she could just say that she tried to stop him but when he heard them he jumped. So she did she kicked it. Walt looked at her obviously knowing her plan.
"What was that?" Sawyer asked.
"Walt no!" Kate screamed jumping up. "Walt what are you doing?" She yelled again as Walt got as far under the mast as he could go.
"Walt!" Michael yelled running to the other side of the raft.
"Walt!"
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A/N: Ha ha cliffhanger!!
Coming up: Does Kate's plan work? Will the raft get away? What is Jack doing?