Chapter 9

Shannon and Sawyer were the last ones up at the golf course. They walked back to the beach, Sawyer with his arm around Shannon.

When Shannon got back to the beach, Claire came running over to her.

"Shannon! Oh thank God I found you! It's Boone!" She screamed panicked.

"Oh my God! What happened?" Shannon asked. She pulled away from Sawyer and ran over to Claire.

"Michael found him out in the jungle. He was unconsious." She spoke quickly and panicked.

"Where is he?"

"At the caves. In Jack's medical area."

Shannon sprinted to the caves, both Claire and Sawyer following behind.

Jack was there checking his injuries and treating him.

"Jack! Is he alright! What happened to him." She had tears in her eyes when she saw him, in the state he was in. Sawyer came and held her comfortingly. Claire was right by her side as well.

"He'll be ok Shannon. As for what happened we're not sure. He hasn't woken up yet, but there's a good chance he won't remember anything anyway. Michael found him out in the jungle unconsious. His stomach is all bruised too." He told her.

She went and kneeled by his side, tears still in her eyes. She lightly ran her fingers through his hair, before leaning over and hugging him. She held him close for several minutes, before gently kissing his cheek and then pulling away.

Claire came over.

"He's going to be fine Shannon" She said comfortingly. She got up. "I've got to go get Aaron back from Sun."

Shannon wiped the tears from her eyes and nodded her head.

Once Claire left, Sawyer came and sat down next to her. He pulled her into a comfort cuddle; she cried into his shoulder. He softly ran his fingers over her back. They remained like this for atleast fifteen minutes.

Sawyer noticed that there was only a few pieces of firewood in the pile by the fire pit. He knew Shannon would be staying here tonight, and that she wouldn't leave Boone's side until she was certain he would be ok, so he figured he better get some more firewood for tonight.

"Sticks" He spoke softly. She looked up. "I know you're going to want to stay here for the night" She nodded. "But your're going to need more wood than that" He nodded his head towards the pile, or lack of pile. "I'm going to go get more wood for tonight.

"Ok" She said slowly as she nodded just as slowly.

He got up, leaned over and gave her a kiss on the top of her head, then left.

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He was chopping a pretty big log when he heard rustling in the bushes. He turned to see who or what it was. He was a bit surprised to see Ana Lucia come walking over to him.

"Howdy Lucy. What brings you here?"

She kept walking until she was standing right in front of him. Then she wrapped her arms around his neck and crushed her lips against his. He tongue was fighting to get into his mouth, but he wasn't letting it.

"Oh my God!"

Ana pulled away, knowing that know she definately wouldn't get what she wanted, but hey, maybe this was better. They both looked to see who it was.

It was Claire; and Kate was with her.

"Sawyer! How could you! Especially now!" Claire shouted.

"This isn't what it looks like!" Sawyer tried to defend himself. Kate just looked at him questioningly.

Ana tried to sneak off. "Don't you dare leave!" She kept walking, but he had to try to explain to Claire, so he just let her go.

"Oh yeah! Then what is it! You think its ok to makeout with Ana?"

"I didn't make out with Ana. I was out here chopping wood. There was 'bout two pieces over at the caves, and I knew Sticks was going to stay there, no matter what anyone said, so I came to get wood. Then Ana comes out of the bushes, walks over to me and tries shoving her tongue down my throat. I would never do anything to hurt Shannon." He called her by her real name, not 'Sticks', you know he's serious.

Claire still looked a little weary about the whole thing, as did Kate, but decided to let it go; atleast until Boone got better.

"You better atleast tell her what happened. But wait until Boone's better!" She commanded.

"I will. But neither one of you better tell her either." He said strictly.

"I won'y promise I won't say anything to her" Kate began. "But I promise I'll wait until everything with Boone is over to say anything"

Sawyer knew that was as good as he was going to get.

What no one knew, was that Sayid had followed Ana out here, and had watched everything that had happened from behind some bushes. He saw the whole thing, and from his angle he could see Sawyer trying to push her away, and get her off him. He went back to camp once he saw Claire, Kate, and Sawyer leave.

A/N: Please Review! Hope you liked it! I liked the way it turned out..

Coming Up: Will Sayid tell anyone what he saw & defend Sawyer? Will Boone remember anything when he wakes up? & more!