Awake

Diclaimer: I don't own pirates or Orlando Bloom (sigh) but it is my great pride and joy to say I own the plot line, Sawyer, Alex and most importantly the one and only Katarina Sparrow now on with the story!

As the days passed at sea Sawyer became more and more concerned with how Kat was holding up. Then on the third day since Kat's incident she fluttered her eyes open.

"How ya feeling?," Sawyer asked quietly.

"Better," she replied weakly.

"Here," said Jack offering her a cup of water. Katarina sat up weakly and drank. Jack had an absolute feeling of relief sweep over him, Katarina was o.k and that was all that mattered.

"Thank you," she said laying back down "where's Alex?"

"Upstairs, with her parents," Jack replied smiling.

"Will and Elizabeth are here?!," Kat said happily. Jack just nodded and smiled.

"Kat, I know you're tired but do you remember what happened that day on deck?" Sawyer spoke delicately to Kat as she was still tired and weak.

"Alex," Kat remembered "she made me check the riggings. She saw me bleeding and wouldn't get help," said Kat angrily. Sawyer looked at Jack wondering how he would react. However Jack remained unusually calm at this and he simply nodded. Katarina drank a little more water and lie back down, she was so tired.

Katarina was exhausted for the next few days and it became a chore for her to do anything at all. However eventually it did become easier to sit up and eat. It took her two weeks but slowly and surely she gained her strength back. By the end of the second week Katarina Sparrow was able to do anything just as good as before. As Sawyer would put it, you can knock Kat down but there's not a force in the world that could keep her that way. To everyone's surprise nothing was said to or about Alex's punishment. Having Will and even more so Elizabeth on board made Jack all to nervous to send out any kind of punishment at all. As he contemplated this one evening he finally came up with a solution.

The next day he called Alex into his cabin. When she arrived she was shocked to find not Jack but Kat in his seat.

"Hi Kat, nice to see you feeling better," said Alex nervously.

"Yeah no thanks to you. Just so you know I get to decide what your punishment is for that little stunt you pulled."

"Kat let me explain-"

"No you shut up and I'll talk for a change! Do you realize what you did to me? For three days I had no idea what was going on around me. I could've been spared everything had you just got me help. I could've died Alex! If loosing that much blood didn't kill me than being out a few more days surely would have! Now I'm going to let you talk and all I want to know is why you did what you did and you'd better have one heck of an answer!"

"Kat I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I," she broke off and sighed. Then she looked Katarina square in the eye. "You have no idea what I go through on a daily basis. Beckett and Norrington are out to kill me! I've been on the run since God knows when and I never feel safe. I'm not like you Kat, I have fear, real fear that I can't control. I'm petrified of hights! I saw you so easy to climb the riggings, so cool, I was jealous. So I tried to be cool like you and wound up looking like a jerk. When you fell I knew that to get Sawyer to help I'd have to tell him everything. I couldn't do that, he's my only friend and I couldn't bare to loose him. Look I don't care what you do to me, hang my bloody skull from your bowsprit, but I am truly deeply sorry!"

"Well," said Kat slowly digesting what Alex had just said "that's one heck of an answer," Kat smiled. "I suppose there's only one thing to do, let you off the hook." (come to reality, I hate Alex with every inch of my soul which is funny cuz' I created her but I couldn't do any real damage so sorry to all of you who wanted her messed up bad.)

"What? I mean thank you but after all that you're just letting me off the hook?"

"Yeah." Katarina left Alex standing dumbfounded in Jack's office as she strode proudly out onto the deck and breathed in deep the sea air. Everything was good, Alex wasn't the enemy, Sawyer was a trusted friend and there was nobody in the world to mess up this day.

The next day as Alex, Kat, and Sawyer cleaned the deck there was a bit of tension between the trio. Although Kat had done her best to move past the incident Sawyer was still holding a grudge against Alex. Katarina found the whole thing to be ridiculous, if the two were such good friends then why was Sawyer so pissed off. Sure what Alex had done was sneaky but those two were really close, something wasn't right. They were about half way done cleaning the deck when Elizabeth showed up.

"Alex I need you to come with me real quick." Alex left with her mother giving Kat an opportunity to question Sawyer.

"Can I ask you something?," said Kat absentmindedly.

"Yeah, anything," he said smiling.

"Why are you still mad at Alex?"

"Because what she did was sneaky and low. Because what she did was mean and evil," Sawyer said in a very hurt way.

"Yeah but you guys have been friends forever, one little mishap shouldn't mess that up."

"It was what the mishap was that bothers me," he said scrubbing at the deck harder.

"That she didn't help me?," said Kat sitting back on her heels and wiping the sweat off her forehead. Now Sawyer took a deep breath , sat back on his heels and looked Kat straight in her ocean blue eyes.

"That she did something to hurt the girl I love."

AWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!! Isn't that just so sweet? I know right and don't worry there is tons more on the way so stay tuned and REVIEW PEOPLE! Thanks to all of you who have already reviewed I love it!