A/N: NAOMI!


"Um guys… I don't think that's Penny…" Angel said as he stared at the woman.

"Who is she?" Jin asked Desmond after a moment of silence.

"I have no idea," Desmond insisted as he looked up from the woman, who was clearly not Penny.

"Well she seems to know you dude, or your name at least," Hurley muttered.

"That usually coincides with knowing someone," Angel pointed out as he glanced from Desmond to the woman. "Are you sure you don't know her?"

"I've never seen her before in my life!" Insisted Desmond as he reached down to cradle the woman's head. The woman started coughing and muttering something too low for anyone to hear.

"Hey she's speaking Spanish!" Announced Angel as he leaned in to hear.

"Estoy Muriendo, Estoy Muriendo " the woman muttered in pain.

"What's she saying?" Asked Charlie as he tried to figure out Spanish.

"'I'm dying,' she's saying, 'I'm dying,'" Hurley translated in horror.

"Why?" Asked Jin confused.

"Oh god!" Cried Charlie as he pulled her black vest away. Sticking out of her side was a tree branch. "The branch she must have hit it on the way down!"

"Look for things to help! We don't have much in the first aid kit because of Garret!" Desmond yelled

"Will she be okay?" Asked Hurley.

"Just go!" Hurley ran off into the forest to look for help. Angel stared at the protruding stick… this was not going to be good.

"We should get her to Jack ASAP!" Insisted Angel as he bent down.

"No, we cant move her!"

"So we let her bleed?" Cried Charlie. Everyone was at their wits end. Hurley was helplessly digging through leaves and Jin looked panic stricken.

"Then we should bring Jack here," Angel insisted once more. "Or James, he has medical experience!"

"There's no time! It's eight hours one way! She'd be dead by the time he got here!"

"Then I'll run!" Announced Desmond.

"Are you out of your mind!" Cried Angel.

"It's going to be dark soon, who knows what's out in this jungle!" Persisted Charlie, "In case you've forgotten there are people on this island trying to kill us!" Angel's head popped up,

"Wait what?" But yet again he was ignored as the argument continued.

"Well nobody knows we're here!" Cried Desmond. Everyone jumped as Hurley shot a red flare into the sky.

"Well they'll know now," Angel said as everyone stared at Hurley.


James sat on the beach next to Rhys and Garret. The three boys were watching an intense game of ping pong. Martina and Averi we're playing each other. Averi was of course hopless at it, but kept insisting on playing another round. When either Rhys or Garret interfered, telling her she was going to lose she threatened them with the make shift paddle. That shut both boys up reasonable.

"I think we should stop," Martina insisted with a smile as she wiped some sweat from her brow. "You're making Garret loose all his mangos."

"I stopped betting for Averi a while ago, we all did. We've just been watching… but if Jack was here I bet I could trick him into betting some painkillers." Averi stared at Garret and pointed her paddle at him,

"Don't joke!" She snapped as she waved the paddle around. Rhys stood up quickly and snatched the paddle away,

"Stop waving that thing around before you hurt someone, namely yourself." Averi rolled her eyes,

"I'm not that uncoordinated." A round of laughter echoed in the small group. "Fine, maybe just a little…"

"A little?" Jokes Martina, "Anyway, let me see if I can nab you some advil," she glanced at Garret who stared up at her hopefully.

"Really?"

"Yeah, you have to be good though."

"I'll be the best person in the world! This shoulder is killing me!" James cracked a smile before standing up and walking off. Everyone else seemed too caught up in their own world to notice him leave. He walked over to Juliet who seemed to be doing laundry.

"Are you really doing laundry?" He asked as he looked down at her. She smiled back and pulled a blue shirt out of the pool of water.

"Yeah, it's my job… kind of like hazing," she joked. "Why you want to help?"

"No, I'm good." Inisted James, "I'll just watch you suffer." Juliet let out a light chuckle and put in another shirt. James watched her lazily as she scrubbed the shirts clean. The sounds of angry footsteps alerted him to other presences. It was Sun and Kate, Sun looked furious, while Kate looked almost scared in a strange way.

"I want to know about your reaserch!" Demanded Sun. At first James had no idea what she was talking about, then he remembered, Juliet used to be an Other. She was part of the group who kidnapped, Jack, Kate and Sawyer. "What happens to pregnant women on this island!" Exclaimed Sun once more.

"You're pregnant?" Asked Juliet as she stood up next to James. Sun backed away a bit after noticing James, but she still had fire in her eyes. "Are you sure?" Juliet asked again.

"I asked you a question! Everyone else might be alright with you washing the clothes and eating our food but I want to know what's going on!"

"Hey! Calm down!" Demanded James as he moved infront of Juliet,

"James, it's okay," Juliet insisted.

"Answer me! Why are you doing experiments! What happens to pregnant women!"

"They die," Juliet said. James and Sun both looked shocked. "They all die."

"Sun, come on let's go," Kate said as she pulled Sun away. Before turning away she gave a pointed glare at Juliet.

"They all die?" James mimicked Juliet.

"Yes, they all die."


Angel watched on silently as once more Charlie and Desmond continued their ritual dance of an argument. Just as Desmond was about to storm off a rustling was heard in the bushes. Everyone looked around and suddenly a man with an eye-patch and a grey jumpsuit appeared. Angel stared at the man, he wasn't at the beach camp…

"Who the hell is that?" Asked Angel, suddenly the man with the eye-patch sprinted away. Jin looked back at Desmond and sprinted after him.

"Jin!" Yelled Desmond as he ran after the Korean man. Charlie followed suit and Angel followed. When they arrived Jin had the man pinned against a tree.

"Who are you!" Demanded Desmond as he pulled out his gun. There was no response.

"He's the man who shot Sayid," Charlie informed the group. "Kate told us he lived out in that station Locke blew up."

"He's an Other." Angel stared at the man as they continued to converse with each other. This was one of the men who kidnapped Jack. What Angel wanted to know was how he ended up out here. Angel was pulled out of her thoughts as the eye-patch man tried to help the woman. He claimed the branch had punctured her lung… things just got even more interesting.

Sun sat alone as she watched the red sun deepen as it lowered itself into the sea. She turned slowly to look at Claire and Melissa, both of whom were looking after baby Aaron. Melissa was sitting on the bed, giggling with Claire as she laid Aaron down for bed. Sun wondered if she would ever get to see her child, or if she would die like all the others.

It had been long past nightfall and finally the eye-patched man had finally helped the woman, with assistance from Desmond.

"Give her a day to reccouperate," He told them.

"A day?" Charlie asked incredoulous. "Her lung was punctured."

"Wounds are a bit different on this island… I did as I promised, let me go." The man walked away.

"Are you kidding me?" Charlie asked. Here we go again, Angel thought. "You can't just let him go!"

"We have to make a strecher and carry her back to camp, we don't have time for a prisoner!" Desmond exclaimed. Suddenly Jin started looking around for something, then he ran off.

"Where's he going!" Cried Angel as they followed him. Jin had cornerd the eye-patch man against a tree.

"Jin let go!" Yelped Desmond as he pulled the struggling Jin off of the man.

"Phone," Jin stated as he held out his hand, in it was the satilite phone, which the eye-patch man must have stolen. Charlie snatched the phone and stared at it wide eyed.

"You stole this?" He asked.

"How could you respect me if I didn't try," shrugged the man.

"How about I take your other eye would you respect that?" Threatened Charlie in a low voice.

"Sorry what?" Taunted the man. Charlie lunged forward, but Jin and Angel held him back.

"Charlie no!" Cried Angel as he yanked Charlie a few feet back.

"This is a mistake!" Charlie yelled at Desmond, "We can't keep letting these people go!"

"We gave him our word!" Cried Desmond. There was a moment on tense silence the Desmond spoke, "Go on, get out of here."

Hurley and Angel sat by the woman as the others made the stretcher. Angel had his eyes closed and was pretending to sleep. He cracked his eyes open to see Hurley on the phone,

"Mom?" He pretended to say. Suddenly the woman started coughing again. Angel fully opened his eyes and moved to a sitting position.

"Where am i?" The woman asked in a british accent.

"Take it easy," Hurley started.

"Where am I?" She asked again, this time more demanding.

"Your on an island," Angel told her soothingly.

"Are you here to rescue us?" Asked Hurley as he leaned in. "Are there more of you, can you make your phone work?"

"Who are you?" She asked.

"Hugo Reyes," Hurley told her, Angel looked up, surprised that Hurley wasn't his real name. "And this is Angel…"

"Oh. Um Lockhart, Angel Lockhart. My boat crashed here a few days ago…"

I crashed here on Oceanic Flight 815, did you find out the truth? That we're alive? Are you here to rescue us?" Hurley persisted with questions.

"815?" She asked, "the one from Sydney? How? I thought you were all dead? They found the plane…"

"Right it's a long story, but we're not dead!" Hurley exclaimed. "Come on, let's get you back to camp."


~8 hours later~

Gavin laid out on the sand, he was trying ridiculously hard to sleep, but he couldn't. He considered trying to wake up Sawyer, but the last he saw of him was when Sawyer was with Kate. And as hot as Gavin thought Kate was, he didn't want to walk in on her and Sawyer having sex. He looked away from the starry sky when he heard a motion, he turned his head to Sawyer's tent to see Kate leaving it. Gavin grinned, Sawyer was a dog. He slowly made his way to wake up Sawyer, figuring now was a better time then before. Just as he opened the tent flap, Sawyer did as well. They looked at each other for a few seconds before Sawyer spoke,

"What the hell do you think your doin'?" He asked as he glared at Gavin.

"Wakin' you up, have a good night?" He asked as he let Sawyer out of the tent. Sawyer rolled his eyes as he stood up,

"It was…"

"Where you going?" Gavin asked.

"To take a piss, why you wanna come?" Gavin raised his eyebrows and Sawyer,

"Not particularly, no. But I'll walk with you, I can't sleep."

"Tried countin' sheep?"

"I've tried counting everything… hey what are they doing?" Gavin gestured towards Hurley, Jin and Angel who had all appeared out of the jungle. The three seemed to be lowering something into one of their tents. Sawyer turned to look at them?

"What the hell are you all doin'?" He asked.

"What the hell are you doing?" Asked Hurley. Gavin watched as Angel and Jin both stared at Hurley.

"Goin' to take a leak," Sawyer said calmly as he tried to look inside the tent.

"What the hell is he doing?" Hurley asked and nodded towards Gavin.

"Going for a walk, why do you care?" He asked Hurley

"I don't."

"Then stop askin' me questions," snapped Gavin.

"What are you all doin' out here at this hour?" Sawyer asked again.

"Same as you, going to take a leak," Hurley lied. Gavin wanted to laugh, he was so obvious, and it didn't help his case that Angel and Jin looked so confused every time he spoke.

"Well alrightly then," Sawyer said suspiciously as he walked off. Gavin shot a look at the others before following. The two made their way into the bushes. Gavin stopped and leaned up against a tree as Sawyer walked a bit farther. Suddenly a small light flooded the area. Gavin spun around and saw Sawyer with a gun pointed at Locke, who was holding a flashlight. Gavin made his way to stand next to Sawyer.

"Hello James," Locke called. Sawyer lowered the flashlight and Gavin stared at Locke. How did he know Sawyer's real name was James, he never told anyone that. It took years for Sawyer to tell Gavin that!

"What the hell are you doing here?" Sawyer demanded as he raised the gun once more.

"Looking for you actually," Locke said as he turned off the flashlight.

"You were looking for him in the middle of the night?" Asked Gavin as he crossed his arms.

"Yes, I was." Locke told Gavin who fixed at glare on Locke.

"Okay then… you want to explain to me why you joined the Others?"

"He joined the enemy? What the hell?" Gavin exclaimed, "How'd he manage that?"

"I didn't join them," Locke placated, "I infiltrated them."

"Forget this," snapped Gavin, "This is turning into a spy movie!" Sawyer nodded his head in agreement,

"So your undercover in the Others. Give us one reason why we should believe you."

"Because a few hours ago I snuck into Ben's tent and kidnapped him," Locke explained.

"He's the guy who kidnapped you!" Gavin exclaimed as he put two and two together. "How'd you manage that?" He asked Locke. Gavin was eagerly interested to see how an old man could kidnap Ben while Sawyer couldn't do shit.

"I told you, I'm undercover! Now look, I've tied him up in the jungle." Sawyer stared at Locke,

"And you came all this way to tell me this?" Sawyer asked as he waved his hands and the gun around. Gavin took the gun from Sawyer; those two had had incidents before with guns misfiring. There was no need for that to happen now. As Locke stepped forward to speak Gavin pointed the gun at him, he noticed the crazy glint in his eyes as he spoke,

"Because this man beat you and kidnapped you. And I want you to kill him." Gavin lowered the gun a bit before speaking,

"You kidnapped him, why can't you do it?" He snapped at Locke.

"I'm not a murderer."

"Neither am I!" Yelled Sawyer.

"Except for that man you killed in Sydney…" Locke trailed off. Gavin looked between Sawyer and Locke. By look on Sawyer's face, he did kill someone in Sydney. The real question was how did Locke know?

"The have files on us, all of us…" Locke said as he glanced at Gavin.

"You've been gone for what, four, three days? And you discover these people have files on me and my friends?" Gavin cried, "We just got here, there is no way they knew that!"

"They do. They know all about your past Gavin," Gavin raised the gun at Locke once more.

"Shut up," he ordered with a dark tone to his voice.

"They know about all of your friends… there's a lot on those siblings…" Gavin raised the gun to shoot at Locke, but Sawyer snatched the gun from Gavin.

"Enough," he whispered. Sawyer then turned his attention to Locke, "You know what I think? I think when you disappeared you told Ben about them on the boat."

"Their files were there when I arrived," Locke told him, "But don't you want to know what was in them?" He asked the two men.

"No," they snapped at the same time, but then they both mentally reconsidered.

"Very well then. I guess I shouldn't have come. Don't tell anyone I was here," With that Locke started walking away into the forest.

"Stop!" Gavin yelled out, but Locke kept walking. Sawyer then pointed the gun at Locke,

"He said stop!" Locke however kept walking. "Dammit!" Sawyer cursed.

"Okay, I lied, I want to know what they have on me," Gavin confessed as he watched Locke walk away.

"What do you suppose me do Mac? Go after him?"

"Why not. We have the gun?" Sawyer sighed and the two ran after Locke.

"I swear, if this is a goddamn trap,"

"You'll kill me?" Gavin finished with a grin. "It's just like old times partner."


It was morning at Riena was helping Charlie gather fruit and water for something. He wouldn't tell her what it was, she was suspicious, but he seemed like a nice guy and all.

"Charlie," she said softly. Charlie turned to look at her, "look." She pointed to Martina and Jack, both of whom were walking towards the kitchen where Charlie and Riena were.

"Hey, when did you get back?" Jack asked as he put down some water bottles he was carrying.

"Jack, hey, we got back last night, er early this morning," Charlie said quickly as he gathered more food. Martina shot Riena a confused glance, who shrugged in response as she bit into an extra papaya.

"I heard you guys went camping," Martina offered in hopes of getting more information. She tossed her long dark hair over her shoulder and waited for Charlie's response. When he didn't she added, "What were you guys doing out there. The beach isn't fun enough for you?"

"We thought we'd explore the jungle…"

"Didn't you hear about Averi and Rhys?" She asked suspiciously. She didn't know why anyone in their right mind would go off there. Jack seemed to agree,

"Really, the jungle?"

"Ah well, we went down the beach too. It was all for male bonding you know. We brought Angel along," Charlie added as he gave a quick smile to Martina who shorted with laughter. I bet he enjoyed that, she thought.

"Right, well invite me along next time you guys go…"

"Sure thing!" Charlie called. He quickly sped away back to where the others were. He handed the food to Jin who went to give it to Naomi. "We have to tell Jack," Charlie insisted.

"He's right," Hurley added, "Jack should check out her wound." Desmond shook his head,

"Can you give me your word that Jack can be trusted? That he spent ten days with the Others and nothing happened to him? And that woman he's been spending all his time with, Juliet, not just two weeks ago had all your friends in cages. Naomi, you heard what she said, if we keep her safe she's our way off this island. So given that do you trust Jack?" There was a silence. "So bring me someone you can trust." Desmond walked away from the group quickly.

"So who do we trust?" Hurley asked. "Sawyer?"

"Are you kidding me?" Charlie said, "No, not Sawyer. What about one of your friends?" Charlie asked Angel who shrugged.

"…I would say Garret, but he's injured. We don't need to worry him."

"What about his sister, Averi?" Hurley asked as he glanced at where Averi was talking with Claire, Skye and Melissa.

"She'd tell Garret and Rhys, that's her boyfriend, in case you didn't know."

"Well what about him?" Charlie asked, "I mean you don't see him blabbing Averi's secrets do you?"

"No, I guess not… but he's really not," He was cut off by Charlie raising his hand.

"I'll go talk to Rhys and Hurley, you talk to Sayid, then we'll bring them back here."


Sawyer, Gavin and Locke had been walking for hours. By now Sawyer's feet were sliced up from stepping on branches and rocks. Gavin however was still wearing his shoes from the crash, so his feet were unscathed, but they still hurt.

"Should have put some shoes on," Snickered Gavin as he pushed Sawyer a bit. Sawyer glared and shoved him back,

"You think?" Sawyer paused and walked up closer to Locke. "What else was in that file they had on me?"

"Not much, just that your parents died when you were very young, but I doesn't say why your father shot your mother, then himself. That must have been hard for you." Sawyer stopped and Gavin was able to catch up.

"What else?" Sawyer asked as he continued walking.

"High school transcripts, a criminal record. You have one too," Locke said to Gavin who muttered a 'no shit.' "All the con jobs you were arrested for," he continued to Sawyer, "I guess that's why you use an alias huh? Why did you choose the name Sawyer?" Sawyer had moved so fast, neither Locke or Gavin could react. He smashed Locke with the gun, drew Locke's knife and held it to his throat as he pinned him to the ground.

"How stupid do you think I am? I've been conned before!" Sawyer yelled. Gavin took a few steps back, knowing better to interrupt his rage. "Do you think we're just going to follow you through the jungle?"

"James please you have to trust me! I'm taking you to kill Ben!"

"Why can't you kill him yourself?" Sawyer yelled.

"Because I can't, I can't!" Locke cried. Gavin took a step forward and placed a hand on Sawyer's shoulder, which was immediately shaken off. "That's why I came for you." Sawyer stood up and moved back to stand next to Gavin.

"Look," Gavin said, "he's not killing anyone for you! We'll bring this Ben guy back to camp, understood?"

"Yes. But Sawyer will change his mind."


A/N: I know you're all probably wondering why Rhys? Well I figured his reaction to Naomi might be a bit funnier then Garrets. Plus what's he going to do when he finds out who sent her?