LOST Captives
Chapter II
Lift Up Your Eyes
John Locke walked on the beach of the Fuselage camp...looking outwards twoards the vast openess of the Ocean, a sharp stick in his hands...he was fishing. Hurley stood next to him with a net, they were quite a team, almost as good as Jin was by himself. "Alright, you go out and try to catch some of the larger ones in that net, then come back here, we'll combine our catches and I'll take the guts and gills out." Locke explained to Hurley, who was listening attentively. They both set out into the dark blue water, Locke speared every fish he could, and came back with almost seventeen fish in twenty minutes, Hurley was able to catch about thirteen fish in his net. "Alright then, I'll get the guts and gills out..." Hurley nodded and walked away from the beach, going twoards his tent. John sat on the sandy beach, cutting out the guts of the fish with his hunting knife, it was good to be out of that hatch,for good. He looked outwards and saw the ocean, he smiled slightly as the sunlight brightened the beach, then his face turned grim, as he saw a figure appearing in the ocean, he didn't know what exactly it was, but he was certian whatever it was...it needed to be brought to shore. He got up from his position and ran twoards the beach and Sayid, who was busy talking to Charlie, "Sayid...There's something in the water, we need to go get it..." Sayid looked at John and followed him to the shore, saying to Locke "John, in what direction was it in?" Locke pointed twoards the small, raft like, object and said to Sayid "Right there...It looked like it was comming straight twoards us from the north." Sayid looked around and said "The Others took our boat...We have nothing to go out and retrieve it..." John looked at him and said "So we wait?" Sayid nodded and answered "Yes...It looks like that dot is maintaining afloat and could make it to the shoreline, we should not be worried..." John nodded and turned to Charlie,saying quickly "I want us to be ready for anything that thing may be...The Others, Rescue, anything, even if it's empty...We need to be prepared.." Charlie looked at him and said "Well, I thought that all of the guns were in the Hatch, but now that it's just a crater in the ground...we've officially don't have any guns..." Locke's eyes widened and he said to Charlie "Wait..Sawyer's stash...Do you know where it is?" Charlie anwered "Yea...Kate told me where it was before they left, it was quite funny when I found out..." John was heasitant to trust Charlie, but he nodded and said "Lead the way..." Charlie smiled slightly and lead Locke twoards Sawyer's tent. When they went inside, Charlie took the blanket on the sand off and saw the piece of metal over the hole, he took the piece of metal off and saw the guns, only a few pistols left, Locke turned to Charlie and said with a short smile "It was right under our noses,in the place we least expected it...James is a true con-man..." Charlie took one of the guns and handed it to John, then getting the rest and bringing it out to give to some others, Sayid, Desmond, and Jin. Charlie looked at John and said "What?Don't I get one?I lead you to the bloody stash and you don't even-"John stopped him and gave the last pistol to Charlie, with a small smile on his face.
Sawyer looked at Kate and said "We're going south?If I could see our beach from there Island then-" Kate stopped him and said "That's not our beach...That's the Tail Section.." Karl got up from his position and said to them "Keep going South and you'll hit the Pala Ferry, Then we'll walk back to your beach..." Sawyer looked at him and said "Who said we'll trust you?Could be a trap..." Karl shook his head and said "I'm not one of them, I don't agree with anything they are doing, and neither does Alex." Kate looked at him and said "The ferry was where we were captured...We can get there soon..." Sawyer shook his head and said "No..We're sailing this boat twoards our beach, going around the Island...Alright!" Kate nodded and the three started to row again..the power of three people rowing and the sail carrying them was able to propell them faster, past the tail section of the Plane..which was sticking straight out of the water like a giant tower. The boat was getting closer to the Fuselage beach, it would take awhile though.
Jack Shepard woke up to the sound of voices...he was in the same cage Sawyer was, and his head was still throbbing from when the Others knocked him out. He stood up and fell back down, his head was spinning, and the new light wasn't helping either. He was able to make out several faces, and was shocked to hear an australian accented voice, he looked up and yelled to whoever was there "Who are you!?" The voice answered Jack a few seconds later "I'm the flight attedant from the Plane, Oceanic Flight 815". Jack shook his head violently and said "I don't remember your name..." She smiled and said slowly "Cindy...", Jack looked at her and said "What are you doing here, Where am I?" Cindy answered to Jack "I can't answer anything, we're as confused as you are...They say we're here to watch..." Jack shook his head and yelled "What am I? An experiment? If you have something to watch, then go watch it!" Cindy was taken aback by that outburst and said slowly "No..We're here to watch you..." Jack layed back down onto the ground and said to her, rubbing his face with his hands "You're being forced to do this?You're just...going to listen to them and HOPE you get released!?" Cindy shook her head and flashed him a smile "It's much more complicated than that..." Jack looked at her and asked the flight attendant "Is it?"
Hurley came out of his tent with a bottle of water and saw five people standing with guns in their hands, Desmond, Jin, Charlie, Sayid, and Locke, they all looked slightly worried about what exactly the dot which was getting closer was. They were prepared for anything though, after the death of Mr.Eko and the capture of Kate, Sawyer, and Jack, things were getting a little more secure around the Fuselage beach, and without the security of the Swan, they were more worried now than when Rousseau came and said "You have only three choices, Run, Hide, or Die..." The dot started to get closer and closer, and the small sail of a boat started to be seen, three bodies were seen rowing twoards them. "I hope this isn't the "Hostiles",Brotha.." Charlie looked at him and said "We call them the "Others" and I'll be happy to kill some of them..." Sayid looked at Charlie and said "You already have, have you forgot Ethan?" Charlie looked at him and said "You would have done the same thing if he kidnapped Shannon instead of Claire..and if I'm correct you tortured one of them, and he escaped.." Sayid looked at him angrily and was about to say something when Locke interrupted "Hey!You two need to set aside your anger if we are to keep together..."Sayid turned twoards the ocean and said "I hope this plan works.." Locke nodded and waited for the boat to approach,saying slowly to Sayid "...So do I...". "Duude..We've got ourselves the militia now?" Locke turned to Hurley and said "We think that little dot might be the "Others" and that's why we are taking precautions.." Hurley shrugged his shoulders and said "Well..I'm not to keen in joining the Rebel Alliance right now, alright General Solo?" Hurley chuckled slightly and then reversed his smile when none of them were laughing, just looking at the sea as the dot began to look like a boat. When the boat came ashore, the five Fuselage survivors all sighed with relief when Kate and Sawyer jumped out of the small boat, there were hugs and smiles until Karl got up out of the boat to five guns being pointed at his face, Locke looked at him and said "Who is he?" his gun pointed straight at Karl's head. Kate looked at them and said "He was one of them, but he escaped with us and we were able to get here." Sayid looked around and asked to Kate and Sawyer, putting his gun back onto his belt "Where is Jack?" Sawyer shook his head and answered "The Doc is still on that Island, he had to do some surgery.." Locke looked confused and put his gun away, asking them "On who? The Tailes?" Kate shook her head and said grilmy "...Henry.." Sayid's eyes widened and he said "Henry is alive?Why would Jack operate to save his life when he almost killed us..." Kate answered "Because they were going to kill Sawyer if he didn't do it..." Sawyer looked at her and said "You didn't tell me that part..I would rather be dead than have that son of a bitch still breathing.."
Locke stood up and said to all of them, his voice was loud "Everyone! I am going somewhere..I got some information before Mr.Eko was killed by "The Monster" Yes, the monster that made all those noises on our first night here..Before he died he said to me "Lift up your eyes and look North,John..." And I will...I'll be heading north all the way to the opposite side of the Island, not on the shoreline,not through any detours...but through the Dark Territory and to wherever Mr.Eko wanted me to go." He looked at Desmond and Sayid and said to everyone "A few of us went to the Pearl, a Dharma montoring station, there were monitors and Sayid fixed them to see other stations...We saw a man in one of them, with an eyepatch. Now I am sure that when I get to wherever north is, I think I will find out information to get us to wherever Patchy is...and I'm sure he'll be expecting us, It will be dangerous..If anyone wants to volunteer to come, I will accept.." He finished and heard Sayid say to him "I will go.." John nodded and was greeted by another voice,Desmond "I'll go,Brotha.." and then another voice was heard "I guess I'll be going then.." Hurley said,comming back from where he went off to. Locke looked at them and said "Alright..We leave at sundown..We make camp near the Pearl for the night and we set off for the north at night." They all agreed and went off to pack, execpt Locke, who looked at Sawyer and said "Good to have you back,James.." Sawyer nodded his head and said "It's kinda good to be back here, better than gettin' pounded by the "Others" muscle. Locke turned and said to James Ford "We found your stash of guns...clever spot.."Sawyer laughed and said "...A con-man's gotta be clever, Colonel.." Locke shook his head slightly and said "You'll be joining us then?" Sawyer smiled slightly and looked at Locke,saying to him as they walked to their seperate tents "Hell Yea.." Kate looked around and walked twoards where she slept..it was a long time since she had slept there, and she wasn't feeling up to any adventures at the moment. In about four hours though, the six members of the group gathered on the beach, the setting sun and the fires lit in the Fuselage camp lit up the growing darkness. Locke looked at all of them, all of them armed, even Hurley was equipped with one of Locke's hunting knives, and he said to them "We're all going now, if anyone wants out...I won't think any less of you, for you all have shown that we can survive this out..and discover the secrets of this island.."None of them raised their hands to get out. Locke flashed a grin and said to them "Alright then...let's get going.."
Jack was asleep now...he had grown used to the hard ground of the cage, and he had grown used to the visits he had been getting by the rest of the Tail Section who were captured by the Others. One day though, Ben walked out of the building next to the cages and walked twoards Jack's cage, Ben had obiously recovered very well from his operation, and for Jack's behavior he was giving him a treat. Ben walked Jack out of his cage alone, no cuffs, no bags, because Jack knew that there was nowhere to run. Ben brought Jack into a small room, and sat him down infront of a television screen. Ben looked at him and said with a smirk "Have fun watching this..It's an old one, but it's interesting." Ben walked out of the room and into the main hallway where the room was connected to, a glass window seperated the hallway from the room, a console that controlled the TV was in the hallway, and Ben was standing there, pressing buttons and flicking switches, and then picture on the screen appeared..the octagon shape of a Dharma Symbol appeared and under the symbol, letters said "Orientation-Station 6 of 6-The Hydra" Jack watched attentively as the familiar face of Dr.Marvin Candle appeared on the screen, he was wearing a dark black suit with a black tie, and his face was slightly worn. He said in the film "Greetings, I'm Dr. Marty Waxman and this is the Orientation film for Station 6 of the Dharma Initiative, Station 6 or the Hydra, is a Zoological station, where species of all kinds are to be studied in perpetuity in two seperate facilities off the main Island. The underwater section of the Hydra is to study aquatic beings, it is essential to keep any and all water mainframes online at all times to insure that there is not anothe valve malfunction, that is what the Emergency override switch is for. By now, you are familiar with the Pearl and it' surrounding area on the Island, you may also know that after your previous tour of duty in the Pearl, you were picked up by the Galaga at the Pala ferry, This submarine is to be used for commuting to and from the Hydra station on the small Island and the underwater facility. The land Hydra area is to be used for the study of Bears and other mammals, there are barracks for you and your team and an adequete amount of food and supplies, including a fully operational medical Operating room, similar to that in The Staff. Because of this, you should make the animals your top priority. From the contacts in the Flame station, you will be able to keep any escaped animals out of the vicinity of any other stations with a security system we have installed on the main Island, this system is controlled by the personell in the Flame. With our joint efforts, you and your teamates in other stations will be able to research and learn the great mysteries of the Island. On behalf of the DeGroots, Alvar Hanso, and all of us here at the Dharma Initiative, Thank you...Namaste, and good luck.."The film on the TV stopped, and Jack shook his head slowly,He heard the voices of two people outside the room in the hallway, he could see Ben and Tom pacing quickl y around the hallway, talking about something important. "If he survives than he might tell them where the real camp is." Tom said quickly to Ben, it sounded like whispers to Jack due to the thick window looking out into the hallway. Ben shook his head and said "Karl won't tell them where it is...he's too afraid that we'll come to get him, and we will..." Tom smirked and answered to Ben "Should I bring Alex?" Ben slowly smiled evily, and said back to Tom, looking at Jack in the room "No...put her in the cages..and alert Bea at the decoy camp that the operation will be going as planned, I want a team ready within the our, I want you to lead,Tom...and take the Galaga.."Tom nodded his head and turned, leaving the hallway. Ben watched Jack in the room as he just sat there, wishing that he could get the hell of this Island.