Thanks for the reviews :) This is a very short chapter I'm afraid. But I should update fairly soon.
"Are you stupid?" The harsh voice cut across the jungle like glass, making Sawyer jump. He'd been entranced by the beating of his heart and the thumping of his boots on the undergrowth. He was not aware that he was being followed.
Locke held his face impassive as Sawyer turned to face him with a look of thunder in his eyes. "Because that's what it looks like. Running off into the jungle to find her when there's a beach full of men who want her dead." Locke's words were light and even as Sawyer's temper flared.
"Well what would you recommend? Leaving her here on her own? That would be a brilliant idea, wouldn't it? She's the island's Miss Stability, she wouldn't last five minutes."
"You underestimate her Sawyer. Her drive for survival is stronger than you think."
Sawyer's answer was cut short before he could give it by a gunshot. He dropped to the ground, seeing Locke do the same.
"I guess you underestimated me too Locke." Kate's voice was unshaken as she climbed down the tree. As Sawyer picked himself up off the ground, he noticed the blood gushing from Locke's leg. Kate had shot him. He backed away slowly, noticing the gun was still her hand.
Noticing Sawyer's reaction, Kate smiled sadly. "He's not a good man Sawyer."
Looking at Kate from an entirely different light, he noticed for the first time how frightening the steel in her eyes could be, and how well trained her reflexes were. "So you shot him?"
This did make Kate smile. She looked down at Locke, her eyes threatening more than her movements ever could. "Are you going to tell Sawyer what you did, or shall I?"
Locke, who hadn't made a sound since Kate had shot him, didn't say a word. He was staring off into the distance, looking at something which neither Kate nor Sawyer could see.
"Guess that means I'll do it." Coming closer to Sawyer, close enough that she could collapse against him, she looked into his eyes, losing herself for a second. "He sold us out Sawyer. Me, you, Jack. He even told them about Charlie's being an addict."
Sawyer looked at the man lying on the ground, the bottom half of his left leg soaked in his own blood. Locke was crazy, sure, but to sell them out? Sawyer didn't get it. "Why?"
"To get them to leave him here. He thinks the island is special, that he's destined to be here." Kate's voice was thick with disgust.
"So he sold us out to stay on this heap of rock?" Looking around him, Sawyer couldn't understand it. "Why would anyone want to stay here?"
Softly, with so much apprehension in her voice that Sawyer wanted to pull her into his arms, Kate whispered, "Why are you here Sawyer?"
Instead of hugging her, he slung his arm across her shoulders, bringing her body just close enough so he could feel her heat. "I got me a pretty girl." Hearing her laugh and seeing the bright smile that lit up her face as she rolled her eyes, he laughed himself. "She just don't know it yet."