Chapter Nine – Leading
"You ruined my life Doc" Sawyer said, shaking his head, "You ruined it all",
"It's because of him" Jack said, pointing the gun at Richard, "He wants the island for himself and he'll do anything to do it",
"No Doc, your wrong" Sawyer disagreed, "Your the one",
"Who would even tell you a thing like this" Richard asked,
"My father, he told me what you are, what your doing" Jack held the gun at him and Richard put his hands in the air,
"Put the gun down Jack" Richard said calmly,
"No, not until your dead" Jack replied,
"I thought your father was dead?" Sun asked, confused, she was sure he'd mentioned something about his father dying and the whole point of him getting on that plane was to take his father home,
"No, the island brought him back" Jack told her, "He's alive".
"The island can't bring people back to life" Richard corrected him, he had never seen it been done before, so it must have been impossible.
"No, he's alive and because of you-" Sawyer cut in,
"Because of you, we're back where we started, stuck on this damn island again, we have no civilsation, how are we supposed to get back this time Jack, how are we supposed to reverse everything, what's done is done, I told you that and you didn't listen, you listened to that lame excuse of a scientist and look where you got us?" Sawyer asked, he didn't have much against Daniel as a person, but he was so angry.
Jack shook his head and pulled the trigger, but at the same time, so did Sawyer...
Hurley stopped in his tracks, the gun fire echoing throughout the forest, he turned round and looked back the way he came, he couldn't leave them, he would just deal with the black smoke himself.
Hurley started on his way back to the beach....
"I found it, I found it , I found it, I found it, I found it" Lisa screamed, her voice getting higher by the second,
"Calm down" Louise told her and put her hand on her shoulder's, "What have you found?"
"A Radio" Lisa screamed and got the attention of the rest of the camp, they all started whispering at the thought that they were going to get rescued, but Louise put her hands up and shook her head,
"There's a good chance if it's been in the water that it won't work" she told them, "Does anyone know what to do, help?" she asked, Nicky put his hand up,
"I know how to work them, was on a boat for two years" he explained, Louise nodded and gestured him over with her hand, Nicky nodded back at her and then ruffled his brother, Sam's hair before walking over to the two girls.
"Turn the radio on" Charles Widmore demanded, "See if you can find a signal anywhere", the other man nodded and put the radio on, they had been searching for a message that Ajira flight passengers 316 may have left, but so far there was nothing
"So, if we move this here and press this here" Nicky was talking to himself, well Louise assumed that because she didn't have a clue what he was doing or what he was on about, press here, move this, move that, he was supposed to be making this work, not taking it apart.
But Nicky was a fast worker and it was soon working and got to a channel instantly,
"Say something, see if any ones there" Nicky handed it to Louise, Louise took it from him and then pressed on the button he was pointing too and spoke in to it,
"Hello, th-this is Ajira flight 316, is anyone there" Louise stuttered, there was no reply, but then only when Nicky moved her finger from the bottom did the static return and they could hear a persons voice on the other side, but it was very faint, Louise looked at Nicky and he took it from her and extended the antenna.
But then the communication was gone,
"Try it again" Nicky told her, reassuring, Louise nodded and then pressed the button down again, she said it more clearly now, but having the whole camp watching her really didn't do anything for her self-esteem,
"Hello, this is Ajira flight 316, is anyone out there?", she let go of the button and then they waited,
"This is Rescue Ship 016 and could you give us a lock down on your locations?" the man on the other side asked, everyone sighed in relief and then Louise said,
"We're on an island, on the beach, I'm not sure exactly, our plane went off course" she explained,
"Okay" the man replied and tapping could be heard, "We've got a lock down on your position and we'll be there as soon as we can",
"Thank-you" Louise choked, she looked back the at the group, tears of relief in her eyes and nodded at them, everyone cheered, but then the sudden noise of machinery shook the camp and Louise and the others looked round for it's source, but there was nothing there , just the agonising noise.
"Hello" the man asked, "Is anyone there?", he put the headset down and then looked up at Mr. Widmore, "Their gone, must of lost signal" the man explained to him,
"Did you get their location?" Charles asked, the man pointed to the place on screen, "Fantastic" Charles Widmore replied, "That island will be mine before you know it",
"We are still going to save them, right?" he asked, Charles looked back at the young boy,
"Of course" Charles replied and then walked out of the control room.
The darker boy from across the room stood up and walked over to where the control panel was and looked at the screen
"I don't trust him" Walt proclaimed,
"Me neither mate, but as long as we can get there, maybe there will be a chance we can save everyone"
Walt nodded, he knew his dad was dead, was never coming back, but that didn't mean he couldn't help, he knew they had went back to the island, knew something was wrong, knew he had to help.
James sat back, thinking of why he'd came here....
Frank was over-excited, like a small child getting his birthday present, but today he was going back to work after his disappearance, going back to fly Ajira flight 316.
"Good luck my brother" James said and handed Frank his case before he bolted out the door and to his car, he hadn't seen his brother this excited since his first job, flying an air bus from Canada to England.
He hadn't flew properly since the day oceanic flight 815 had crashed and even though James didn't know why, he was happy that his brother was happy...
"I'm sorry, I have to go" Walt protested, "If their there, then I need to help them, somethings wrong and I know I have to help, know I have to be there" Walt explained,
"Please, why help them, they did nothing for you" his grandmother protested, Walt shook his head,
"They were trying to protect me, protect us all" Walt explained to her, "Now I have to protect them, well try, if I don't, will I live with the guilt if no one comes back?, will I watch as their body's are discovered at the bottom of the ocean?" Walt asked, "Again!"
"Your father is dead Walt, you do understand that, right" his grandmother tried to reason with him, change his mind, but he wasn't listening,
"I know that, but the others might not be" Walt proclaimed and then left, his luggage in hand.
His grandmother watched as he walked down the path and in to the taxi, she was proud of him really, but scared at the same time....
"Toby, calm it" Louise told him as people ran round in terror, all screaming at the top of their voices. The black smoke had appeared out of nowhere, flew in to their camp like a torpedo, ripping everything to shreds, leaving nothing but a few leaves.
Louise tried to keep everyone calm, tried to show them the way to this hatch, Allana and Caesar had found, but none of them listened to her. They would rather make it worst and even though the black smoke had gone for now, people kept screaming, kept shouting, some could even be heard from inside the forest because they'd run so far away.
A few minutes passed, and the screaming quietened, but only by a few syllables. Louise wove her way through the crowd and found Merrick, who seemed to have the biggest mouth there and would surely be able to shut everyone up and make them listen to her.
"SHUT UP" Merrick shouted and everyone did, instantly, they all looked over to him and he looked at Louise expectantly,
Louise didn't much like being the centre of attention, but now she knew it was expected of her,
"Allana and Caesar found a hatch" Louise explained, "I suggest we go there, get away from the smoke",
"Who are you to tell us what to do?" one of the men yelled and a few started to agree with him, but then Nicky piped up,
"Well she could just let you all die out here with that thing or you can go to the hatch and have a chance at survival, unless you think you can lead us better" Nicky suggested, the man slouched back in to the crowd, trying to become unnoticed and was obviously defeated.
"I say we go" one of the women at the front said, people started nodding their heads, but then a scream from one of the other survivors who had run in to the woods run through the tree's and rang in their ear's,
People started panicking as the screaming worsened and the sound of machinery started getting louder,
Louise started shouting at them to follow her and they did obediently, panicking was not going to help anything.
"This island will throw unimaginable things at you my friend" Jacob assured Richard,
"I have no doubt it won't" Richard proclaimed and took a swig from his canteen, he wish it was alcohol, maybe then it would be able to drown his sorrows,
"They'll always be here" Jacob told Richard as he watched them, "People who live and die here are always kept here in spirit, never leaving the sides of their friends, always there to watch over people, guide them on to the right path" Jacob explained,
Richard nodded, he didn't really believe in spirits and ghosts, but the last few weeks, since Jonathan had died, the last of his original crew, he always felt as if they were there with him, sitting at his side, but he knew he would never be able to see them, hear their voices for along time, maybe another few hundred years?
"How long till we get to the boundary?" Walt asked as he looked at the screen,
"A few more days yet I would guess" James explained to him, "Maybe you should take a break, have a lie down, we're going in the right direction, everything is going to be fine" James assured him,
Walt nodded, he was a little tired he had to admit, "Call me if anything new comes up" he said,
"Yes sir" James replied and Walt walked out of the room, down the corridor.
"Wallace?" Charles asked from his office, Walt stopped, he was still getting used to that name, he knew Charles would of found out if he'd told him his real name, some way or another.
Walt walked back over to the door of his office, "Yes, Sir?" he asked,
"Are there anymore updates" Charles asked, not turning to look at him,
Walt shook his head, "Nothing sir, but James said we should be there in a few days tops",
"Brilliant" Charles replied to him and then raised his hand in a gesture to tell him to go.
Hurley fell a few times on his way back to the beach, each trip costing him precious time.
Hurley literally flew out of the tree's and landed face first in the sand, but no one noticed him, they all looked like they were mourning, head in their hands, some faces streaming with tears.
Hurley pushed himself up and went over to one of the groups, but he could see no one, Sun, Frank, Ben, Sawyer, Richard, Luca, they were gone, not even Miles was still there,
"Hey aren't you Hurley?" one of the others asked him,
"Yeah dude, where they all gone" Hurley asked, his voice fast,
"I don't know man, gun shots, it was horrible, I don't know where they went" he shrugged,
"Why are you all standing here then, why aren't you looking for them" Hurley asked, confused,
"We don't know what to do, we have no leader, at all, Richard was in shooting range, we don't know if he's alive or not and then that Jack-"
"Jack's here" Hurley asked, his face almost flooded with relief, he had survived the bomb, but then the other broke the bad news,
"Yeah, man, but he said that Richard killed you and then you weren't there, Jack shot at Richard, that other guy, Sawyer shot too, then this cloud of smoke" he explained,
Hurley was clueless, why would Jack say something like that, he was fine, alive, Richard was one of the good guys.
"Just because you haven't got a leader, don't mean you can't go look for them, split up in to groups or something" Hurley suggested, he didn't like the feeling that this was all his fault.
"What next?" Allana asked, Hurley looked over to the survivor of the new plane which had just crashed,
"Why are you still here?" Hurley asked them, "Don't you have another crash site survivors to take care off?", Hurley didn't mean to be judgemental, but it seemed that once the leader left, then nothing could be done, everything was going wrong,
"Who cares" Allana asked, "They were never my responsibility" she shrugged,
"Who cares, Jack never had the choice, we were never his responsibility, but it's because of him that we lived through the hell this island took us through" Hurley told her, "Just because their not your responsibility doesn't mean you can let them die" Hurley shook his head and then did something he never thought he would ever do, especially on this island, he took charge.
I might take a little longer to update now because I got GSCE's next week, science modules, but I'll try and do the next chapter soon :)
