TITLE: Drawn Together
CHARACTERS: Kate and Sawyer
RATED: PG-13 for now... (Language, somewhat specific details)
EPISODES: After "Outlaws"
STATUS: Chapter thirteen of -?
BETA READER: Harlequin
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of LOST's characters. That privilege is entirely ABC's. (Dangit! jk.)

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You're all gonna hate me for this one...

Chapter 13

There he stood, sweaty, frustrated, and covered in dirt. The expression on his face showed that he was surprised to actually find them in the cave; sadness for a moment when he realized they were, unfortunately, together; relief when he saw they were alive.

"Jack!" Kate called out, also surprised.

She got up and ran to him, throwing her arms around him, holding him as tight as she could. He hugged her back, and Sawyer was infuriated. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity to Sawyer, they broke apart.

"You're all wet," she laughed.

"Well we did have to go through a waterfall," he pointed out, smiling.

"How did you find us!"

"Actually, Hurley was the one who inspired me to come searching here."

"Just a minute!" Hurley called from still inside the tunnel.

Kate smiled. "I'm so glad to see you." She hugged him again.

"I am too. We were afraid you two were dead."

"Yeah. Thought you were monster food," Hurley finally emerged. "So uh, this is where you two have been hiding?"

Kate laughed and broke away from Jack. "It's good to see you too, Hurley."

"Dude! Where did you get the food?"

"It was here, in those two trunks," she pointed. "Along with a lot of other stuff."

"So you finally found us, Doc?" Sawyer broke in, half glaring, half grinning.

"I don't know. Am I standing here or not?"

"Tell me somethin'. What took ya so long?"

"We had to search the whole area so, naturally, it would talk pretty long," he glared at Sawyer. "Not to mention that this place is hidden by a waterfall. It's not everyday someone could easily be found when they're hiding behind a waterfall!"

"Really. And I thought you were smarter than that, Doc!"

"You're lucky I even found you at all, Sawyer! You could've died out here! If it weren't for Hurley and me, you could've starved to death! Some people would be more grateful!"

"YOU LEFT US OUT HERE FOR ALMOST 2 WEEKS! AND YOU WANT ME TO BOW DOWN AND KISS YOUR FEET?"

"Sawyer!" Kate scowled.

"NO! BUT A THANK YOU MIGHT BE A START! THEN AGAIN, I WOULDN'T EXPECT ANYTHING FROM YOU!"

"Jack!" Kate scowled again.

"GOOD! 'CAUSE YOU AIN'T GETTIN' NOTHIN' OUTTA ME ANYWAYS!"

"Dude! I found Twinkies in here!" Hurley disrupted.

They all looked at him as he went back to his great find. Then they turned back to each other. Sawyer and Jack were glaring at each other. Kate hated the sudden tension.

"That's enough out of you two. Do you hear yourselves? You're acting like kids."

"Yeah, whatever," Sawyer muttered, sitting back on his "bed".

Kate then pulled Jack to the other side of the curtain, leaving Sawyer miserably with Hurley who munched happily on his Twinkies.

"I'm sorry," Jack started, softly. "He just could have been more grateful, you know?"

"Jack," she replied, also softly, "This is Sawyer we're talking about. The closest you'll get to a thank you is some sarcastic remark. I wouldn't even bother."

"You're right," he looked down and sighed. Then he looked back at her. "So you're okay?"

"Fine. We had the food and drinks in the trunks, and the water over there helped too," she pointed.

"How on earth did you find this place?"

"It's…a long story."

"Why did you lie to me, Kate?"

"What are you –"

"I asked you if he was telling the truth about finding a cave. You told me he was lying."

She looked down and her face flushed. She didn't know how to answer that.

"Well?"

"I wanted to explore it myself," she lied.

"And how did Sawyer get involved?"

"He followed me," she lied again.

"Kate…" he looked at her with a concerned look.

She sighed, feeling defeated. "We found the area outside this a while ago. The waterfall and the lake it pours into. But –"

"What happened to your head?" he said, as if he hadn't even heard a word she just said.

"Oh. I just bumped it a couple of days ago."

"That's not just a bump."

"It's not?"

"No," he went nearer to examine it more closely. He tilted it to both sides, then looked up to her, still holding her head. "It looks a bit infected. What did you hit it on?"

"I just bumped my head on a rock over there," she pointed to the mini-fall.

He let go of her head and went over with her and looked at the rocks. Then they both saw the jagged one that still had her blood stained on it. He looked down, sighing, disappointed and aggravated. She saw the look on his face when he saw the rock, and put a hand on his shoulder.

"There's a small part of this rock missing," he said miserably.

"It could've just broke off and fell into the water when I hit it," she suggested.

"Maybe, but for all we know, it could be wedged somewhere in your head."

She laughed nervously. "In my head? Wouldn't I have felt it?"

"No. It's only a small piece, so you wouldn't have felt it at all. I can't tell right now, but if it's in deep enough, the infection could spread to your whole body. There could be a concussion too. If that were so, you'd probably be feeling dizzy, and could pass out at any given moment."

She closed her eyes for a brief moment and opened them again, looking down.

"Thankfully, you don't seem to have either of those symptoms," he said, not noticing her. "But I do want to look at it a little closer, and in better light."

"There's more light over there," she pointed at her "bed", which had a torchbearer right over it.

"Okay," he agreed.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the cave, Hurley began to talk to Sawyer, who would much rather he stayed quiet.

"So…you and Kate have been stuck here the whole time?"

"Yeah."

"Did you guys like, do anything?"

Sawyer turned and looked at him like he was crazy.

"Sorry."

They were silent, and Sawyer was trying to hear anything he could from the other side. Unfortunately, he couldn't hear anything, because they were being so quiet. Angrily, he forced his head back against the wall, a bit too hard.

"DAMNIT!" he cried out in pain. "Son of a…" he started rubbing the back of his head.

"Ooh. Hit your head? That's rough."

He just glared at him.

"Sorry," he said again, looking down sheepishly.

Thankful for the quietness, Sawyer rested his sore head against the wall again, gently this time. Finally, he got up and headed toward the curtain. He stopped abruptly before going through them, contemplating whether or not he should go through. In the end, he decided to just go through. He'd make up an excuse once he was there.

He walked through and instantly wished that he hadn't. When he went in, he saw Kate lying on her "bed" and Jack was leaning over her. They had been kissing, and seconds after they realized he walked in, they broke apart. His eyes were bulging from his head, and his blood boiled. He was full of heated rage and could have sworn his heart had stopped at that moment. He saw Kate's face pale when she saw him, and Jack's reddened. Jack swallowed.

"I was just examining her head," he tried.

"And her tongue as well, Doc?"Sawyer almost said aloud. Instead, he said nothing. His eyes glowered at them both. He didn't know what to do. He felt like child's toy – once loved, now broken. Kate's lips trembled and she looked away from him. She knew she had hurt him. Good, he thought. He was glad to see that she knew she'd wronged him. He could've beaten the shit out of Jack right then and there, but he just turned around and stormed out. Kate looked down, closing her eyes, and covered her face in her hands.

Just don't kill me! -crouches away in fear- R-r-eveiw?