Hi lostie readers. First I just want to say Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry and Ensurdigun.
I really am, I was very busy starting at Morrisons and doing other bits I neglected this.
So now im back I will hopefully get back to normal.
Also want to dedicate this chappie to Lucy (Beres, and her brill Dr Who fic Utopia which is in fact brill) and Alex at work who is as addicted as me :P.
Right wont make you wait much longer just gotta say Don't own it Don't Sue.
Sophie's breath caught in her throat, she looked up at Hurley who was now avoiding her gaze.
"Well after the whole Clair being attacked thing, I thought I'd make a list of everyone who survived, and then when I got the manifest from Sawyer I checked the list. 46 on the manifest and 47 of us"
"Who, who wasn't on the manifest Hurley?" her eyes drifted down to the sand.
"You where right… Ethan's not on the list."
She sighed deeply and looked back up to Hurley. "What? How can he not be on there… unless…"
"He wasn't on the plane." Laura surmised.
Sophie turned to look at where he was stood before, to see Boone and Locke talking, minus Ethan. "He was there a minute ago." She muttered.
"Have you told Jack?" Laura directed at Hurley.
"Yeah I told him before, he was kinda busy with Clair, and she was freaked out by the attack last night. Jack said she and Charlie are moving to the beach."
Sophie turned back to face them. "So Charlie and Clair are in the middle of the forest, alone? With Ethan being found out as an impostor?"
Hurley and Laura realised what she was saying and ran towards Locke and Boone.
"Hey I'm glad you guys could make it." Sophie walked towards her newly arrived party guests, to see them all smiling happily.
"Sophie!" Becky ran forward and embraced Sophie tightly, before being spun around in a hug.
"Bex, I'm really glad you're here I'm in desperate need of moral support." She looked down to see Becky in light skinny jeans and a sparkly colourful top. "Wow you look amazing."
"Well not quite so much as you, in your stunning yellow dress, how on earth is Seth going to keep his hands off you." She smiled and pulled a small blue box out of her bag "Oh and on that note, happy 14th birthday."
Sophie opened the box to reveal a small heart shaped lock and key necklace covered in diamantes.
"Oh Bex, its gorgeous, thank you so much." The girls once again ended up in a hug.
Sophie ran into the trees as fast as her legs would carry her, she had to find Clair and Charlie, she had to stop Ethan, but she didn't know how.
She couldn't let him hurt them, they where her friends.
Sophie could hear people shouting after her, and she knew that Jack would kill her, but she had to try.
Running as fast as she could, she darted through the endless amount of trees, bushes and grass.
She stopped to catch her breath, when she heard voices.
"I don't know. Footprints. At least three distinct sets all over the place. It looks like there might have been a struggle." It was Locke, she hid behind a bush. She could just see Jack standing next to Locke.
"What? What is it?" he was looking round franticly.
"Drag marks. Here. And Here." He pointed to the ground with his knife.
"Claire and Charlie, they were together."
Locke shook his head "I think they've been taken."
"Claire!! Charlie! Claire!" Jack yelled making Sophie jump, she immediately clasped a hand over her mouth to contain the small squeak that she almost let escape.
"Jack. Jack." Locke looked around; he put his finger to his lips, "Shhhh."
"This doesn't make any sense. How can one man drag off two people, one of them pregnant?" Jack was clearly getting annoyed.
"You're asking the wrong question. Not how, why."
"You think it was Ethan." Sophie resisted the urge to shout "Duh!"
"It certainly feels like it was Ethan, doesn't it?" Locke was now focusing on Jack.
"By himself. How?"
"We can't account for all of our people. And, more importantly, who's to say they're even our people?" no way to miss the accusation in that statement.
"What?"
"Sayid said there were others." Sophie sat up a bit to listen closer.
"Sayid said we're not alone." She furrowed her eyebrows in thought.
"Semantics." Locke turned to look around again.
"Sayid's injured. We're not even sure where he went. He's delirious." 'When did that happen' Sophie thought.
"I'm just telling you what the ground is telling me."
"So which way is the ground telling you they went?" Jack was defiantly aggravated.
"Jack, we don't know what's going on here."
"We know enough." Jack almost shouted.
"We need to prepare. We could be back at the caves in 10 minutes, organize a search party, and get wea..."
"Which way did they go, Locke?" Locke points with his knife. Jack ran towards the jungle.
"You can come out now." Sophie sighed; you really couldn't get anything past Locke.
"You where right, I am loud," she smiled "But are you sure you should have let Jack go alone?"
"He's a big boy. Besides do you think I could have kept him here against his will?"
"No I guess your right." She walked closer to Locke. "What happened to Sayid?"
"He was attacked yesterday, he came back today delusional, he should be alright. You heard us then?"
"Yeah sorry I didn't mean to eavesdrop" She blushed slightly.
"I'm going back to the beach to assemble a search party, are you coming?" He started walking towards the beach.
"No I'm just going to catch up with Jack. I'll see you later okay Locke?"
"Fine, but be careful."
Sophie and Seth where dancing together on the dance floor, her yellow dress was flowing around, and her new necklace was sparkling in the disco lights.
"Wow Soph, you look beautiful." He whispered in her ear, as he held her close.
She couldn't help the deep crimson blush that crept across her face.
"You wanna go outside for some air?" She nodded, mainly because she couldn't actually get words past her lips.
Once outside the cool air seemed to help with the talking. "Thanks for coming Seth, I really appreciate it."
"No problem, I'm actually kinda glad you invited me." He turned to look up at the stars; Sophie came and stood next to him admiring the beauty of the studded sapphire sky.
"And why is that?"
She turned to look at him; as soon as their eyes met Seth took a step towards her and captured her lips.
"Sophie Mari Fortis, you better not be doing what I think your doing!" Sophie pulled away quickly, biting her lower lip and desperately trying to suppress the deep blush creeping across her face.
"Daddy, did you really have to?" He walked up to the now separated 'love birds' grinning.
"Your only fourteen, maybe you should take things slow." He walked off leaving both parties blushing.
"Jack, Jack are you there?" Sophie emerged from the dense bushes into a new clearing.
She hadn't taken two steps when it started to pour it down with rain.
"Aarrgh!" she ran towards the hollow roots of a nearby tree for shelter and breathed deeply to catch her breath.
She was looking out at the rain falling heavily down in front of the tree. She was lost in thought for at least ten minutes thinking about what Sayid had said. There are other people on the island.
As the rain died off she was about to step out when she heard a 'click' behind her.
Sophie closed her eyes and sharply inhaled a breath, a feeling of dread in the bottom of her stomach.
"Don't scream, I just wanna talk"
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