Chapter 12 – Friend or Foe
"They would of went to one of the hatches" Janet told them, "The one with all the hospital equipment" she added, the others nodded in agreement and Hurley asked,
"Where is that?",
"Just a few miles west" Janet explained,
"Yeah, not too far" one of the others added, Hurley nodded,
"Let's go then dudes".
"Wait" Luca told them, "Me and Miles will go back to the statue, there's bound to be something there which can help us" Luca explained,
"I want to go with them though, I want to do something" Miles told her,
"You will be" Luca reassured her,
"But why the statue" Miles asked, "Why me?",
"Because Miles......you can talk to dead people" Luca told him,
"Yes, I can, but Jacob's body would have turned to ashes by now" Luca tried to interrupt him, but he kept talking, "And I can't talk to ashes" he said,
"Yes, I know, but Miles your still coming" Luca told him,
"But..." Miles looked at Hurley and he shrugged,
"Just go with her dude" Hurley told him, Miles sighed and then looked at Luca,
"How is my talking to dead people gonna help"
"Miles, your coming OK" Luca told him, "Jacob told you a lot more things then your letting on"
"He didn't" Miles argued,
"He told you where we can find Jasper" Luca said, Miles went to say something, but stopped, Jacob had told him, but he was scared, frightened if he let on to anyone, that maybe Jasper, the black smoke would come back to get him.
Luca changed the subject when there was no reply and then looked at Kate, there were two other people who survived the flaming arrows all them years ago,
"Did you see Rose and Bernard?" she asked,
"We saw them, thirty years back, they were in a sort of cabin" Kate explained to her,
"So they weren't with you when the bomb went off?" Luca asked, Kate shook her head,
"Vincent was here" Hurley piped up,
"Vincent was with Rose and Bernard" Kate told them.
"Do you think it will work?" Rose asked, "Do you think it might get them back?" Bernard nodded,
"Yeah, it might, but I don't think it can be reversed, I don't think we'll be back on the plain" he put the pan he was washing down and then looked at Vincent who sat obediently at the entrance to their little camp.
"I bet Walt would be happy to see him" Bernard said, Rose nodded in agreement, it was for the best, Vincent had been obedient to them for three years and maybe now it was finally time that they were reunited with each other.
"Should we write something" Rose asked, "To make sure they know we're OK, that we're happy?",
Bernard nodded and then took out a piece of paper, he and Rose wrote a few memo's down and then put it in under his collar.
"Now boy" Bernard told him, "You better go after them, stay with them", Vincent barked at him, as if in protest, but Bernard shook his head, "Go Vincent" he told him.
"What are you on about, we're going to be fine, a boats coming for us" Nicky argued,
"No, my friend, you and your friends are in grave danger" Desmond told him,
"Why, what have we done?" Nicky asked, he had gone outside, away from the group, he didn't want the group to really hear this, he didn't want to lower their hopes,
"A man, Charles Widmore wants the island for himself" Desmond explained,
"Why, it's just an island" Nicky was confused now,
"Did any of your group experience anything miraculous?" Desmond asked, "Was anyone sick on the plane? Then when they came here, they were fine?",
Nicky sat down on a fallen tree, his brother had suffered from severe depression, but now he seemed ecstatic, bouncy, he was different and maybe that was one of the miraculous things that this Desmond guy was telling him this island could do.
"So what's he going to do to us?" Nicky asked, there was silence on the other line for a bit and a cry could be heard in the background, a child's, then it faded away and at first Nicky thought maybe they had lost signal, but then,
"He's going to kill you"
"Seems like we've got a little traitor on board" the man said as he held Walt to the ground,
"Sorry, I just-"
"You just tried to drug me" the man finished truly for him,
"Well, what else could I do" Walt asked, "Could I really just let you kill all these people?",
The man laughed, "What are you on about?",
"These survivors, your going to kill them" Walt told him,
"No, we're not" the man argued and let him go, Walt scrambled to his feet and the man rose slowly,
"Yes, you are, that's the plan, you just don't it" Walt told him, "Everyone on this island is going to die, including us if we don't stop him".
"I really, really dislike you" Miles complained, Luca nodded in agreement, all he'd done is moan.
"Why me, why now, why can't I go and do something good for a change" Miles moaned,
"You are" Luca told him, "We're going to the statue",
"Yeah, but why?" Miles asked, Luca sighed,
"Have you ever head of the Osiris and Seth story Miles?"
"No" Miles replied.
"Can I ask you something" Hurley asked as they walked through the night,
"Ask away" Janet replied as she held the lit torch to guide their way through the long grass, they would be there soon,
"How do you do that whispering thing?" that had always confused him,
"Just something to warn off others" Janet explained,
"Yeah, but how do you do it?" Hurley asked,
"Just something we people do" Janet shrugged before she stopped,
"What's wrong?" Hurley asked,
"Hold this" Janet handed him the torch and then took a few steps towards the large pillar which sat in the ground.
Janet opened a little hatch and pressed a few switches before closing it again and walking through it,
"It's safe, come on" she urged the others, they all went through,
"What does this protect you from?" Hurley asked,
"Smoky" Janet replied as they started walking off, in to the jungle, Hurley nodded, but then got an idea,
"So if that keeps the monster out, it could keep it in as well" he said, Janet nodded,
"Yeah probably",
"So, why don't you put it in there then?" Hurley asked.
"What are we supposed to do?" Nicky asked, terror shaking his voice,
"Well lad, we'll get you out of there" Desmond told him, "Yeah man, don't worry about it" another voice said,
"But there has to be something we can do" Nicky said, "I can't just sit here and wait",
"Well, we're looking for some other people as well as you" Desmond told him,
"Who are they?" Nicky asked,
"They were on your plane" Desmond told him,
"Who?" Nicky asked,
"Jack, Kate, Sun, any of them sound familiar?",
"I think there was a women called Sun" Nicky told him, "But she left in one of the boats with our pilot Frank and then Ben disappeared along with this Locke guy" he explained,
"That ass holes still alive" the voice asked, Desmond shushed him and then asked,
"Do you know where they went?"
"No, they just disappeared with the list of passengers" Nicky explained,
"Ok" Desmond said, then Nicky heard like there was a little tussle on the other side,
"Have you seen my boy?" the other unknown voice asked, "His names-"
The signal was lost then. Nicky tried to get back, but then he got up and started making his way back to the hatch..
"Osiris was a god of the earth and vegetation, he symbolised in his death the yearly drought and in his miraculous rebirth the periodic flooding of the Nile and the growth of grain. He was a god-king who was believed to have given Egypt civilisation" she explained,
"What has any of this got to do with Jacob and Richard and all that" Miles asked,
"Listen and you'll see" Luca told him, before she carried on, "Osiris was the first child of Nut and Geb, and therefore the brother of Seth, Nephthys, and Isis. He was married to his sister, Isis. He was also the father of Horus and Anubis"
"They refer to Osiris as the great god of the dead, and he once possessed a human form and lived on earth. As the first son of Geb, the original king of Egypt, Osiris inherited the throne when Geb abdicated. At this time the Egyptians were barbarous cannibals and uncivilised"
"Like the others" Miles muttered quietly
Luca ignored it and went on, "Osiris saw this and was very disturbed. Therefore, he went out among the people and taught them what to eat, the art of agriculture, how to worship the gods, and gave them laws. Thus he helped them in many ways by inventing the arts and sciences and giving names to things. Osiris was Egypt's greatest king who ruled through kindness and persuasion"
"Like that guy got me to come to this damn island" Miles muttered again
"Having civilised Egypt, he travelled to other lands, leaving Isis to take charge, to teach other peoples what he taught the Egyptians"
"Yeah, but I still don't understand how-"
"Miles, will you just shut up, you'll see what I mean in a minute" Luca told him, getting frustrated,
"During Osiris' absence, Isis was troubled with Seth's plotting to acquire both her and the throne of Egypt. So after Osiris' return to Egypt, in the twenty-eighth year of his reign, on the seventeenth day of the month of Hathor in November or September, Seth and 72 conspirators murdered him. They then through his coffin in to the nile"
"No one through his coffin in the Nile, Jacob burned to death" Miles told her,
"Stop interrupting or I'll throw you in the water my self" Luca warned him,
"His wife and sisters found him, but Seth didn't like this and tore his brother in to fourteen pieces"
"Oww" Miles said,
"Isis once again found every part of his body, except his phallus because it had been eaten by the now-cursed Nile fish."
"What's your phallus?" Miles wondered,
"So she magically re-assembled Osiris and resurrected him long enough to be impregnated by him so that she could give birth to the new king Horus" Luca said and then looked at Miles,
He had a disgusted look on his face,
"What?" Luca asked him,
"I thought marrying your brother was bad, but then sleeping with him, when he's dead too?" Miles shuddered, that didn't sound right at all,
Luca sighed, "Isis gave birth to a son, Horus. Seth of course was not willing to surrender the throne of Egypt to the his nephew and thus a tribunal of gods met to decide who was the rightful king. The trial lasted eighty years. Eventually the throne was awarded to him."
"So Jacob is Osiris, His brother is Seth and who's this son of his" Miles asked,
"Jacob doesn't have a son" Luca told him,
"Then how does this relate to any of it?" Miles asked, he was confused now,
"It's just something that's similar" Luca told him, "Horus is someone who takes over at Osiris"
"Yes" Miles agreed,
"So who takes over after Jacob" Luca asked,
"Richard?" Miles asked,
"Yes, Richard" Luca replies,
"Right" Miles nodded, "But, why are we going back to the statue for?"
"Because, Allana asked Richard what lied in the shadow of that statue" Luca told him, she hoped he was following all this,
"So, were going to look in the shadow of the statue?" Miles asked,
"Yes" Luca told him,
"I thought you said you wanted to know where we could find Jasper?" Miles asked, that's what she had told him,
"Yeah, I know I did, but your not going to tell me" Luca said, "I saw it, your eye's, your scared he's gonna come and get you if you do, the smokes gonna get you", Miles didn't say anything and looked down at the ground as they walked through the forest.
"Really?" the man asked, Walt nodded,
"I've been here before. They tried to kill the oceanic flight 815 survivors" Walt told him,
"I heard about them, six came back"
"There were a lot more, but I came back on a boat with my father" Walt explained, the guy nodded and then held out his hand, he hadn't introduced himself yet,
"My names Andrew" he said,
"Walt" Walt replied and shook his hand.
Vincent licked his face and he tried to move his head, but the licking didn't stop and at first he thought it could be his wife's puppy, but then he opened his eye's and saw the big golden retriever looking down at him.
Jin pushed himself up and Vincent barked at him, but Jin was too interested in seeing the familiar forest which surrounded him, wasn't it supposed to work?
Weren't they supposed to be back on the plane, landing in LaX?
Vincent barked at him again and Jin looked over at him, Vincent backed away a few steps and then turned round and ran in to the jungle,
"Vincent, WAIT" Jin shouted and got up quickly and run after him.
"Will Richard be ok?" one of the others asked,
"Yeah, he will" Janet reassured him,
"Wait" one of the others said suddenly, "Where did Marcus go?",
"Wasn't that the dude who was kicking up a fuss" Hurley asked,
Janet looked back at the group and surely, Marcus was gone, he'd always been one to go off on his own, though right now wasn't the best time, he wouldn't go to far, she was sure of it.
"Why would they want to kill us" Louise asked, she thought Nicky was pulling her leg,
"I dunno, but Desmond said that this island performed miracles, made people better" Nicky explained,
"What have we done?" Louise asked, "Why us?",
"This guy, Charles Widmore, he doesn't want anyone to know about the island" Nicky said
"So, he's punishing us just because we landed here?" Louise wondered,
"Yes and I think Lisa might be in on it" Nicky told her, Louise looked over at Lisa who was sat watching the video's again with the rest of the group, she did a look a little restless, like she was hiding something almost, but she and her had been friends for along time, way before all this had happened and she was sure Lisa would never consent to that,
"Maybe I should talk to her" Louise suggested, she needed to know,
"No" Nicky said, almost commanding, "She can't find out what we know" he warned.
"You all everybody, you all everybody",
Aaron turned his head away from the picture he was drawing and then went over to the radio where the song was on,
"You all everybody, Yoou alll everybodyyy" the song ended and then the radio man came on,
"That was to remember one of the members from drive shaft who died when Oceanic flight 815 crashed, God rest your soul Charlie Pace".
Claire's mother watched as her newly found grandson strained on to the counter to listen to the radio, to the song, to the words Oceanic flight 815, did he remember it? Did he know who Charlie Pace was? Had he heard the song before?
Aaron went back to his drawing when the next song, Mercy by Duffy came on.
She looked over his shoulder at the picture he was drawing, it was a women with blonde hair, with an arrow pointing to her, saying mum and then a man with blonde hair who had the name Charlie next to him, then a drawing of himself in the middle, holding both of their hands, in the background, there was a beach.
"He's a sweet kid, I almost remember when Walt was that age" Michael told Desmond as he sipped from the hot tea he'd just been given by Penny,
"Yeah, he's a sweet lad" Desmond agreed as he watched Charlie play with his toys, he had tried to tell Penny to stay, but she told him she didn't want to lose him again and the only way that would happen, is if they left each other. Penny didn't want to let that happen. Never.
"So, you and Richard" Miles asked after about a half hour silence between the two,
"What about me and Richard?" Luca asked, Miles shrugged,
"What's your relation to him, you seem to know as much as he does" Miles told her,
"I lived with him for over six years, you get to know people" she explained to him,
"You lived with him?" Miles asked,
"Yeah, Ben decided it would be funny if Richard had a room mate" Luca told him,
"What don't he like room mates?" Miles asked,
"I don't know, but he was a secretive guy I discovered at first, then when we got to know each other, he opened up, told me more about his past, about his crew from the Black Rock"
Miles nodded, "He was like a dad to me really, despite what the others used to think" Luca explained, "I never had a dad, but Richard's a good surrogate", she added
"I didn't know my dad either, but then I met him thirty years back, it was strange seeing myself as a baby, with him, despite all the things my mother used to say"
"That must of been weird" Luca said,
"Yeah" Miles nodded.
"So, what do we do first" Louise asked, Nicky shrugged, but then suddenly, the black smoke, the monster burst through the trees and dragged Nicky away in an instant,
The group scattered at it's arrival, all running in different directions, all hiding behind trees and rocks.
Though, Louise had been so stunned, so surprised, so shocked at what had just happened, she'd literally been rooted to the spot and couldn't move a muscle.
It was a few minutes before people realised that it was gone and came out from their hiding places, Toby and Sam run over to Louise and pulled her, shocking her back in to reality, her heart beating like a drum,
"Where did Nicky go" Sam asked, tears welling up in his eye's, Louise tried to reply, tried to explain, but nothing came out of her mouth.
"Come on kids" Debra, one of the other survivors said and walked them away from Louise,
"But w-where N-Nick g-g-gone?" Sam stuttered,
"Don't worry" Debra reassured him,
Louise fell to her knees, her head was full of it, full of things she didn't want to see and then she saw something with eye's, something that would give suspicions evidence,
Lisa kneeled down and picked up the radio Nick had dropped before he'd been towered away by the monster, she was the only one who seemed unchanged by the whole thing and even seemed to mutter something to herself before standing up.
Louise saw her take a quick glance out of the corner of her eye, but then she walked away. Maybe Nicky had been right, maybe this wasn't the Lisa she knew.
"How are you feeling" Jack asked,
"Better" Richard admitted as he put his shirt back on, "What about you?"
"Minor graze, I'll be fine" Jack assured him, "And, look I'm sorry, I didn't know",
"No hard feelings" Richard shrugged quickly, "We're both alive, I guess that's something",
"I can't believe I did that" Jack repeated again, he'd said it over fifty times since he'd got there, "Can't believe I listened to him",
"We all get fooled once in our life" Richard reminded him,
"I know, but I let my father, my dead father manipulate me in to trying to kill you, the only thing the others actually had left" Jack muttered, "Ben's a different story, but Richard you are a true leader, you lead them well",
"Thank-you" Richard said and then put his hand on Jacks shoulder, Jack looked up and smiled, Richard smiled back, "Let's forget about it, the last thing we need now is to hold grudges against each other",
Jack nodded in agreement.
"I knew we shouldn't of let them go in there" James cursed to Sun who stood a few feet away from him, hugging herself with her arms, "I knew what was going to happen",
"Woof" a noise came from the forest,
"Vincent" James asked, looking up from the hole in the dirt he'd made with his foot, Sun looked up, in to the forest,
Vincent run out of the forest first, he ran to Sun and nudged her with his nose before taking a few step backs and barking,
"Vincent" a voice came from the forest, Vincent's ear pricked up and then h ran back in to the tree's,
"I know that voice" Sun said quietly, but the air was so silent, James had heard her,
Vincent barked once and then ran back out of the trees and sat next to James,
"Vincent, wait-" Jin stumbled out of the forest, grass stains on his uniform, his hand cut by the nettles, but the pain was washed away when he locked eye's with her, he was utterly speechless and was completely sure he was dreaming.
"Yeah, I'll help" Andrew nodded, he didn't want to die, had a family back home, two little girls and a wife who loved him dearly, he wasn't ready to leave them.
"Right, now we just have to find them survivors before the others do" Walt explained to him,
Andrew nodded, Walt smiled at him,
"James" Walt asked, in to the radio, "You there?".
"Lisa" Louise asked, warily, "Could I ask you something?",
"Go for it" Lisa shrugged.
"I want to help you" Marcus declared,
"I just wonder how you found me" the man in the shadow replied,
"I read something, one of my great grandfathers journal, told me about this place, about you" Marcus explained,
"Oh and your sure you want this, sure yo want to help me?" the man asked,
"Yes, I do" Marcus proclaimed.
"So, you sat and watched a man fart all day" Luca asked, slightly confused by this guys lifestyle,
"Yup" Miles replied honestly,
"I'd hate to be you" Luca shook her head in disbelief,
"I'd hate to be me sometimes too" Miles chuckled, but then fell over a tree root when he didn't look where he was going, Luca shook her head at him and then helped him up, but the screeching noise of a mechanical machine drowned from inside the jungle. And it was close.
Miss. Rika – I didn't much like the last chapter either, but hopefully I made up for it in this one.
*crosses her fingers*
I hope everyone liked it and I thank everyone for the hits and visitors :)
BTW I didn't really know what to call this chapter, so just gave it the name Friend Or Foe because it seemed to be relevant towards the end of the chapter.
