Hey folks! It took me a while to write this chapter as I had to find a decent map of the US as im from England, i dont really know what its like so i had trouble planning their routes... Ohhhh SUSH! You'll find out as you read!

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Kate and Sawyer had now been walking through the forest for half an hour. They had covered a bigger distance than both of them had expected, but they were walking fast to get as far away from the cops as possible.

"They will be searching for us by now, they will be looking at all the highways I expect" Kate thought aloud.

"Well good job we aint stupid enough to use them" Sawyer said.

"Doesn't this remind you of the island?" Kate said, her thoughts wondering to the long treks that they took on the island.

"Suppose, apart from we didn't have all the fed's in the country following us then" Sawyer said, then he realised his mistake, Kate's expression went from light and happy to darkened and scared. "Oh hell, Kate I didn't mean to bring them up" He started.

"Its ok" Kate replied "I cant just live like i'm on the island, or just live like were on our own, there after us, after me, and I need to face up to that. It's just, after living with you I felt so safe, and know there here." She said, sitting down on a fallen tree, burying her head in her hands.

Sawyer sat down next to her. "It's my fault Kate" He said, his eyes clouding with guilt "If I hadn't got a lift from that son of a bitch traitor Jack. They never would have come for us. They wouldn't have found us."

"Its not your fault Sawyer" She said, she felt bad that he was blaming himself "If you had got a lift from Jack or not, they would have probably, in fact not probably, they would have sent him round to the house, it would only have delayed things by a few days"

Sawyer didn't say anything for a while but then he mutter, so softly Kate could only just hear him "Suppose your right"

The Sawyer stood up and cleared his throat "Well then Sassafras, unless you're planning to turn that tree trunk into a rocketship, let's get going."

"Ok" Kate said, smiling she was glad that it hadn't effected him that badly, or it didn't seem to have effected him that badly.

Within the next 10 minutes they had left the forest and were now faced with a rocky, hilly area. It seemed to be unhabited, dry and open to the elements.

"If I remember correctly, that should eventually take us to the border." Sawyer said, looking around him.

"Which side?" Kate asked him.

"Kentucky" Sawyer replied. "When we get through we can find a motel or something, cheap that won't ask too many questions"

"Ok, looks pretty dry down there" Kate said "One of us should head back to the last point of the stream and get some water, it was only about 2 minutes in"

"Ok" Sawyer agreed "But were going together, were not splitting up"

"Sawyer it's only 2 minutes into the forest" She said, raising her eyebrows at him.

"God you look so sexy when you give me that look" He said, smirking.

"What look?" Kate said, raising her eyebrows again.

"That look. That Sawyer your so stupid look"

"Well you are, its only two minutes, ill be back soon I promise." She said before giving him a quick kiss.

"Well you better be now!" He shouted after her as she ran back into the trees.

Sawyer did feel stupid. She was only going about two minutes into the forest, if she needed help he could run there in 30 seconds. But he couldn't help being so protective of her, she was a strong fiery girl, strong and confident she didn't need his protection and Sawyer didn't need to give that Kate his protection, it was the small, sad, scared Kate he could see when he had looked at her, the flash of vulnerability and fear in her eyes when he had told her that the FBI had been on his doorstep, that was the Kate he needed to protect, and he would do anything it took to protect her.

Sawyer heard a rustle coming from the bushes, he jumped up pulling out his gun. He span around, keeping the gun out in front of him, no more sounds came from the trees, he was just about to put the gun away when Kate stumbled out of the trees. She looked over at him and rolled her eyes.

"Put the gun back in your pants Sawyer" She commanded, putting the four bottles they had brought with them into the rucksacks, freshly filled with water.

"Ill go first" Kate said, heading into the rocks. "It seems pretty solid, should be safe to walk over"

"You just lead the way Thelma" Sawyer said gruffly, he was pissed off that she was taking the lead, it made him feel useless. But after a few minutes of staring at the view he decided it wasn't so bad after all.

"Quit staring at my ass Sawyer" Kate commented, without even turning around.

"Don't flatter yourself Sweet cheeks" He said, how the hell does she do that? How the hell does she know what i'm doing, he thought, its like she's got some inbuilt radar in her ass or something.

"I wasn't but you were" She joked like a schoolchild.

"How do you know?" Sawyer asked her.

"Because," She said turning around "Your totally predictable"

Sawyer didn't say anything until she had turned around and continued walking, the he ran up behind her and swept her high into the air, she started to squeal and kick her legs wildly, but Sawyer had a strong grip on her.

"Put me down!" She squealed as he spun her around in the sky.

"You didn't predict that did ya?" He laughed, throwing her over his shoulder in a fireman's lift.

"Put me dooooooown!" She pleaded, giggling hysterically.

Sawyer carried on walking for a while, enjoying the warm wriggly weight on his shoulders, though the high pitch squealing in his ear was something he could live with out. He playful slapped her ass and then dropped her down to the floor.

"Ill get my revenge for that" She said huffily and started off further into the rocks.

"Lookin forward to it already Freckles" He smirked and followed her.

Apart from a short stop later in the day for some of the food they had left and drink, they walked for a near 10 hours until at 6pm they found what looked like some caves in the edge of the rocks.

"We should stop here." Kate said "Its not dark yet, we could carry on, but these are the only caves we have seen, we might not find anything else we can stay in if we carry on"

"I'm not sleepin in no cave" Sawyer said, looking at her like she was crazy.

"What's bad about a cave Sawyer?" Kate said rolling her eyes.

"Well… I'm worried about the kind of creatures that might be sleeping with me in that cave and the only thing I wanna be sleeping with is you" He said.

"God Sawyer you have to turn everything into sex" Kate complained "Anyway we haven't seen any animals around here, ill go in first if your that scared."

Kate headed into the cave holding up a flashlight and was closely followed by Sawyer.

"Well this caves deserted so you don't have anything to worry about" She said, holding back the many mocking comments she wanted to make.

The cave was quite big, there was room for their sleeping bags in the corner and room for Kate to unpack her things so she could sort out clothes that were clean and not and so on, laundry. It made her feel so normal again, apart from the small fact she was in a cave. Sawyer had gone to get some food for a fire and he'd been gone quite some time, it was getting dark know, Kate hoped he would be back soon. Almost on cue Sawyer walked through the door his arms full of wood. They made a pit from rocks that where laid around the cave and started the fire burning. They ate the last of the food that they had with them and sat down in their sleeping bags.

"Have you got any family? Or anyone that would help us, you know give us a place to stay?" Kate asked Sawyer staring into the fire.

"No, got an uncle somewhere might be in jail. Off his head most of the time, that's why they wouldn't let me stay with him, ya know" Sawyer replied.

"Yeah" She said, feeling angry with herself that she had brought it up again. "Well you don't need to ask if I have, cause I aint"

Both of them sat in silence, trying to avoid the question that had been buzzing around in both of their heads since they had started out on the run, where would they go? They had no where to run to, no where to stay. They couldn't keep running forever, their money well Sawyers money would run out eventually. Then It would be over, they'd be stuck with no where to go, just a wait until the feds found them.

"I know!" Sawyer shouted out, Kate jumped up in shock from this outburst "When I was a kid, these foster parents I had used to take me to this cabin holiday place, it was like all secluded, like holidays nutters take when they want to get back to being 'natural'."

"We could go there?" Kate asked him.

"Yeah… I mean it would only be for a while a month tops, they are only open in the holidays, summer vacation, thanksgiving and Christmas. So its just turned September now right?" He planned "Well we could stay there until thanksgiving then, I don't know but it's a plan for know"

"Sounds safe for the while" Kate considered "Where abouts is it?"

"Maine, pretty out in the countryside, we used to get there driving through from West Virginia, where they lived then, up trough Pennsylvania then New York so she could go shopping" He said with loathing, Kate was going to try and stop him but he pushed on "And then right through to Maine, but we cant do that, to risky you could be recognised heading through all those states, especially New York."

"So how will we get there then? Its going to be dangerous whichever way" Kate said.

"I thought we could go up through Ohio the along the border of Canada, not to far in we don't want to go any further than possible, along the border until we reach Maine."

"Clever Cowboy" Kate said turning round and kissing him, she was so lucky to have such a great… well what was he? Was he her boyfriend? Kate was confused, but she was lucky to have him. Kate discovered she was cold and stood up to edge nearer to the fire.

"I'm not a cowboy freckles I'm a caveman" Sawyer said "Me caveman, Kate Cavewoman, us bed!" He said swinging his gun around like it was a club, flexing his muscles like a caveman. Kate just rolled her eyes at him but within seconds she had gone back over to him.

One of these nights they were really gonna need to get some sleep.