SOS Part 2
Disclaimer: I don't own LOST.
A/N: Ok so here is part 2.
Chapter 1
Sawyer heard the footsteps behind him but didn't make any indication of it.
Jack looked at him in disgust and he couldn't place how Kate was feeling. Locke just rested against the nearest tree as Jack prepared to confront Sawyer.
"Get up." Jack said.
"Nice to see you too." Sawyer replied.
"I said get up." Jack said, and he kicked him in the leg. Sawyer got up.
"What is your problem Doc?" Sawyer said more as a statement.
"Take us to the guns, now." Jack said without missing a beat.
"What makes you think I'd give you guns?" Sawyer said
Jack pulled out his gun and pointed it at Sawyer.
"Now." Jack said sternly.
"What? You gonna shoot me? Last month you couldn't even torture me and now you think you can shoot me?" Sawyer laughed.
Jack ignored Sawyer's comments and just continued. " Michael is back. He knows the exact location of the Others. We need guns."
At the mention of Michael, Sawyer perked up. "Michael's back?" Sawyer asked in disbelief.
"Yes." Jack replied.
Sawyer looked at the ground for a second then he reluctantly said, "All right. I'll let you have the guns on one condition."
"You're not coming Sawyer." Jack said.
"When do you say who comes or not? Are you letting Freckles come this time?" Sawyer asked, frustrated.
"Yes I'm letting Kate go this time."
"You're willing to risk her life again after what happened last time?" Sawyer asked incredulously.
"You know what Sawyer? I am sick of your crap. I want the guns now." Jack repeated.
"You're letting me go. That's the only condition."
"No. You can't go. You want revenge because Zeke shot you. Ana's not coming for that reason as well." Jack said
"Now you just wait a second. So I can't come because of revenge yet here you and Michael are going into the jungle again for the same darn thing." Sawyer narrowed his gaze.
"We are not going in for revenge. We are getting Walt back." Jack said coldly.
"Jack you and I both know that you are going in for revenge. I was there remember? You are scarred for life because of what happened to Kate. You can't believe that those creatures had grabbed her and hurt her. You can't deal with the fact that you weren't there to save her. You have to redeem yourself and get revenge. Well you know what? You aren't the only one that wants it. And I am going to get it." Sawyer told him. He knew he had just used his own feelings against Jack and that Kate would probably take it as Sawyer's feelings but he didn't care at this point. He knew he had hit a nerve with Jack because Jack had lowered the gun and walked away for a couple of moments.
Itwas too much for Jack. Sawyer had hit exactly how he was feeling. He knew that Sawyer had known so well because he felt the same way. How could a man like Sawyer love Kate the way he did? He knew they both loved her for different reasons, but he just had always hoped that Kate wanted Jack's love, not Sawyer's.
Jack walked back to Sawyer slowly with his eyes on the ground the whole time.
He slowly, as if saying the words were painful, said, "You can come."
"All righty then. That's all I ask. Now you all can go run to the hatch and I'll come find you after I get the guns."
"We need five." Jack told him and he left. He figured Kate was behind him but as he looked back only Locke was following him. Kate had stayed to talk to Sawyer.
Jack shook his head and they made their way to the hatch.
Chapter 2
"I'm not letting you follow me to the guns Freckles. I'm not that stupid." Sawyer told Kate as he was starting out to get the guns.
"I know." Kate replied as she followed him.
"Then why you following me? You miss me?" Sawyer asked her.
"Far from it Sawyer." Kate calmly said.
"Did you have fun on your little jungle date with Doctor Laugh—A-Lot?" Sawyer asked. They were still walking around but as long as Kate was following Sawyer he was just going to randomly walk around until she left.
"It wasn't a date Sawyer. We were trying to find Walt." Kate said.
"Sounds like your mission failed. So what happened?" sawyer asked. "You were out there for a day."
"Yeah so?"
"Well there must have been time for something to have happened." Sawyer prodded. Maybe nothing had happened between Kate and Jack during the trek and he still had a chance.
"Well we did get caught in a net at one point. But it was no big deal." Kate said
"You what!" Sawyer whirled around to face her. He quickly regained his composure. "Well there ya go. You've been holdin out on me Freckles."
"I don't have to tell you everything that happens in my life Sawyer and you know that. You hold out on me a whole heck of a lot more than I do."
"Yeah Yeah." Sawyer muttered and continued walking. "Dontcha think you should be getting down to the hatch in case Ana and Jack are getting it on down there?"
"You are so thick Sawyer." Kate shook her head and left without saying another word
Sawyer watched her go and then finally started back to get the guns.
Five guns. Who was all coming? Surely it was Jack, Kate, Michael, and himself. Locke couldn't go because of the crutches. Maybe Ana was coming? Well that would be nice, He decided. He hadn't really talked to Ana since before they had gotten back here.
Chapter 3
Jack was checking on Ana, who was still asleep.
Then he decided to check on Michael, who was also asleep.
Then he had nothing else to do so he just sat on the chair waiting for Kate and Sawyer to get back. What were they doing anyways? He tried not to worry about it but he couldn't help it. He had just barely gotten finished practically baring his soul to Kate and then they hadn't had a chance to finish and then now she was with Sawyer. She was way to complicate for him.
Then she came through the door.
"Hey." Jack stood up.
"Hey." Kate looked at him and then went to the kitchen area for a drink.
"So.." Jack had no idea what to say. What were you and Sawyer doing? Yeah that wouldn't be too obvious. He rolled his eyes.
"What?" Kate asked from the sink.
"What what?" Jack asked her.
'What what what?" Kate asked, now smiling.
A wide grin came across Jack's face as he said, "What what what what?"
"What what what what what?" Kate started laughing.
As you can imagine, they did this for about five minutes until finally they couldn't continue because they were laughing so hard.
"I lost my place." Kate laughed.
"So did I!" Jack was laughing as well. They had sat on the ground about two minutes into it.
Sawyer walked in at that moment and saw them laughing on the floor and he snuck past them to Michael so he wouldn't have to talk to Jack or Kate, Since Michael was still asleep, he eavesdropped on the two from the room.
Jack finally got up and held out a hand for Kate to take. She took it and they stood apart within inches of each other and he didn't let go of her.
"I meant what I said last night." Jack told her in a soft voice.
Kate looked down from his gaze. It was beyond her how one second she could feel so happy and the next feel so uncomfortable. It wasn't a bad uncomfortable, it was just uncomfortable. She looked back up at him.
"I didn't mean what I said last night." Kate finally spoke but her voice cracked half way through.
Jack's grasp on her hand grew tighter.
Then Sawyer chose that moment to walk in on them.
"Alll right break it up. Don't want a love fest on the kitchen floor." Sawyer said in his usual drawl. Jack sighed sadly and let go of Kate's hand.
Kate was obviously embarrassed. "Um Sawyer.. when did you get here?"
"Couple a minutes ago. Why? You 'fraid I heard something? Don't get all worked up Freckles. I heard it."
"Did you bring the guns?" Jack asked unresponsive to Sawyer's last comment.
"Course I did. Who all's comin?" Sawyer asked, bringing out his bag and dumping out the guns.
"Me, Kate, Michael, and you."
"What about Ana?" Sawyer nodded towards her.
"Nope. She got shot in the leg." Jack said.
"Then why do we need five guns? I can do the math doc. There's four of us going and you already have a gun." Sawyer said.
"My gun is staying here.' Jack said.
"There's still one gun left Jacko." Sawyer said.
Jack went through the guns as he distributed them to Kate and Sawyer and gave one to himself. He took the remaining two and went in to wake up Michael. Sawyer followed him curious about the fifth gun. Jack took the fifth gun and put it in his backpack as he looked at Sawyer. Sawyer finally got it. Jack had tricked him into giving him an extra gun.
"Now you just wait here a minute." Sawyer said.
"What? I asked for five and you gave them to me. You didn't say I had to actually give them to people. Don't worry Sawyer, I'll take care of it." Jack said with a hint of a smile as he woke up Michael.
Sawyer just wanted to wring Jack's neck right there but lucky for Jack, Michael woke up.
"We're leaving in about five minutes Michael." Jack informed him before giving him a gun and leaving the room.
"Hey Mike." Sawyer said.
"Sawyer." Michael smiled. "It's good to see you again."
"Now don't you go smiling at me Mikey." Sawyer hated it when people were actually friendly to him and Michael actually had the impression of them being best of friends ever since they had been stuck on that raft alone together all night.
Michael was undaunted and his smile just grew more.
"So you didn't find Walt?"
Michael's smile quickly vanished. "No." He said sadly. "That's why we're going out. Sawyer I just don't know what to do. I've only been his father for two months and I've had to deal with this. I mean imagine what they have done to him." Michael was on the verge of tears.
"Hey, Mike don't beat yourself up. It's not your fault. I was there remember?" Sawyer couldn't believe he was comforting Michael. What had gotten into him?
"Yeah what help you were." Michael muttered as he got his stuff ready.
"Now we've been through this before. I couldn't' help it that I got shot!"
"You're right…" Michael admitted and they both walked out to meet with Jack and Kate.
Jack had just finished talking to Locke and giving him a gun.
Jack looked at the three of them. "You ready?"
Of course, no one was. No one wanted to be here. No one wanted to be in this situation.
Chapter 4
Michael led the way for them and they made good time. They went to a place that none of the other three had ever seen.
Michael stopped and shushed the other three who had been in a heated discussion over who had the best ability of seeing the farthest. Don't ask how they got into that discussion.
"Look, eyesight doesn't really matter at the moment does it?" Michael glared at the three.
Kate couldn't help herself and she burst out laughing. Sawyer walked over to Michael for he had lost the argument having to use glasses to read.
"Ok. Look through those trees. What do you see?" Michael pointed.
"Sawyer sees nothing." Jack smiled.
"I see Walt." Sawyer glared at Jack.
"Walt?" Jack completely forgot about the former conversation as he looked for Walt.
"This is what we are going to do." Michael was taking charge and the other three really didn't mind it all that much. "We are going to surround the area. It looks like Walt is alone right now but you never know. We must be prepared for anything to happen."
"Kate can't be alone." Jack objected.
"Fine. Kate can go with you." Michael complied.
Sawyer just rolled his eyes and they all went to a spot.
Kate grabbed on to Jack's arm suddenly having a fear of being seen by the Others.
"Hey, we'll be ok." Jack reassured her.
"I-I know." Kate tried to give a smile but she failed.
He took her hand in his. "I won't let anything happen to you."
All she could manage was a small smile at him and he squeezed her hand and looked around very tensely. He could barely see Sawyer from across of him and Michael on the side. Walt was sitting next to this weird shaped rock talking to himself. Jack couldn't make out what he was saying but it sounded like gibberish to him. Jack glanced at Michael who looked ready to go out there and get Walt. But it couldn't be that easy could it?
"Walt!" Michael shouted and ran to his son.
Walt jumped up in surprise and whispered something unintelligible.
"It's me! Your dad!" Michael said and he grabbed Walt and hugged him.
"Michael!" Jack yelled and he quickly let go of Kate and ran and grabbed Michael and Walt and pulled them to the side. Sawyer dashed over to them
"What the heck were you thinking!" Sawyer asked Michael.
"he was happy to see his son." Jack said.
Kate stood looking for any sign of an other around. Luckily, there wasn't any.
"Guys, this is a little too easy don't you think?" Kate asked.
"Kate's right. This is way too easy. We need to leave now." Jack said, and they quickly walked back to the hatch.
No matter what Michael said to Walt, he wouldn't stop whispering in gibberish.
When they reached the hatch, Jack checked Walt over and he seemed fine except for the fact they couldn't understand him.
Epilogueish
I could probably make this into a three-shot if Ireally wanted to. But I really don't want to. So you have to deal with my little epilogues…sorry.
Walt would not stop talking in gibberish but finally he started talking normal again after having a strange encounter with the imposter Gale.
Ana soon recovered from the wound she had gotten and she never forgot about it. She secretly planned gale's demesne.
Things were normal again with Kate and Sawyer and Kate and Jack. Jack and Kate were together a lot more than Sawyer and Kate did and Sawyer sort of knew that Kate was not his anymore. But she never was his anyways so he moved on to Ana.
