Chapter 2: Discovering the Nasty Truth
Hurley stumbled over to Charlie and Sawyer, feeling quite anxious about what had had just overheard them plotting and not wanting to let them know. "Uh, hey dudes, anyone up for a game?" He shook the golf club in his hand in the air.
"Not now, tubby, we're busy. Find someone else." Sawyer replied, shooing Hurley with a hand.
"Sorry buddy, but we are kinda busy. Later though, I promise," Charlie reassured him.
"Yeah, okay," Hurley walked back to his tent with his head held low and dropped the golf club. Then he saw Kate and Claire finishing up with the laundry they had been doing all morning. I gotta tell 'em. Even if Sawyer pummels me or Charlie disowns me as a friend, he thought, I mean, I'd wanna be warned if someone was plotting to find a way to-, he halted, not wanting to finish that thought. Then he put on a confident mask over his worried face and marched over to Kate and Claire.
"Hi Hurley," Claire smiled, while hanging up some damp shirts.
"You come to help us, Hurley?" Kate asked.
Hurley searched his mind for the best way to express the plot set against them, "No, I mean, I have something important to tell you guys."
"Oh, what is it?" Claire responded politely, she was in a good mood from having the freedom to walk around without holding a baby for once.
"Well Kate, Sawyer plans on making you forgive him for whatever he said to you," Hurley said.
"Whatever it is it won't work. I'm gonna make sure he suffers for what he did," Kate said sternly, folding her arms
"What did Sawyer say, Kate?" Claire asked, but Kate just shook her head to dismiss the question.
"Claire," Hurley began again, "there's something you have to know too. Charlie," he paused looking for the best way to put it, "He, uh, wants to, um, take the relationship to 'the next level' or you could say…," he bent down to Claire's ear and whispered, "…the 'nasty'."
Claire's happy-go-lucky expression dropped to embarrassment and confusion, "What?
"Charlie wants to have inter-."
"I know what Hurley meant!" Claire fumed at Kate.
"Don't tell them I told you two! They'll exile me from ping-pong, golf, cards-"
"Don't worry Hurley; we'd never do that. We're just glad you warned us of our immature boyfriends," Kate stated.
"Thanks, dude. I'll be chillin' with Jin and Sun if you two need me for anything," Hurley strolled over to Sun and Jin's tent and began making faces at Aaron, who gave him a look as if to say 'WTF?'
Claire looked at Kate then to Charlie and Sawyer who were now intensely rummaging through Sawyer's stash, "So what's our move on this 'Secret Conspiracy of Claire and Kate'?"
Kate smirked Claire, "We're gonna play their little game."
Claire smirked in agreement and they began making plans of their own.