Ben did not even wait to be invited in. He sat down on the couch quietly as if he owned the place. He has a white envelope in his hands.
"What the hell?" Sawyer could not hide his displeasure.
"Are you going to watch Pickett's execution?" He asked as if he were talking about a movie on TV.
Sawyer and Locke looked at each other, but did not say a word.
"Are not you going to answer me?" This was Ben's way of trying to disguise his nervousness.
"What did you come here for, Ben?" Locke asked straight.
"I already said." Ben picked up a biscuit that was on the table and ate. "Pickett will be dead in ..." He looked at the watch on his wrist. "..." forty minutes. They need someone connected to Kate to be there. "
"And why are you inviting us, you decided to suddenly become our friend?" Sawyer asked ironically.
"I thought I'd call Jack, but I can not see him here." He always kept the same serious expression as ever.
"So I guess we should go, James." Locke turned to Sawyer, smiling.
"Are you .." Sawyer would ask if John was crazy when he realized: Danny would pay for what he had done to Kate. Sawyer wanted to witness this, oh, how he wanted to.
Ben left the envelope on the coffee table, got into the car and Locke and Sawyer followed him. They were on their way to Arrow Station.
Juliet was awake at the sound of the bell ringing but did not bother her. She still had her hand held by Kate, and she did not want to take it away so as not to wake her. She turned on the bed and could see that Jack's eyes were open too.
"She really made us spend the night tight in that little bed, right?" Jack said laughing and Juliet laughed at the comment.
"Yeah, she really did." Juliet smiled at the sleeping Kate and kissed her head.
"Thank you so much, Juliet." Jack spoke softly. "For helping me with her. So many times I would not know what to do and you were there."
"It's all right." Juliet grinned. "Sometimes all a girl needs is another girl to talk to."
"This is so true." Jack laughed. He looked up at the ceiling and sighed before continuing to speak. "You know, Juliet, I'm thinking of going back with Kate to camp today, or no later than tomorrow. It does not make sense in being here."
"You can have life so much more comfortable here." Juliet looked at Jack as she stroked Kate's hair.
"We do not want to have a life here, Juliet." Jack controlled his voice. "We want to get off this island, come home."
"Jack, you know as well as I know how long this can take." Juliet's eyebrows furrowed in an expression of sadness.
"She needs to recover." Jack was worried about Kate. "She will not be able to get here."
Juliet and Jack noticed that Kate was awake listening to the conversation.
"Good morning, little one." Jack stroked Kate's cheek with his fingers. "Did you sleep well?"
"Stop talking about me like I'm not here." Her voice was drowsy, her face sulky and a few tears appearing in her eyes. It was hard for Kate to wake up in a good mood in those days.
Jack laughed. He knew Kate was like that when she woke up. "Awn, is anyone in a bad mood today, huh?" He began to tickle her.
"Stop." She tried to get out of his ticklishness, but she was already laughing.
Jack put his arms around her and gave her a long kiss on the brunette's cheek. Juliet smiled at the cute scene.
"Hey, you want to have breakfast in bed, honey?" She asked. It was an excuse for her to get out of there and leave them alone.
Kate nodded, her mood a little bit better.
"Ok, I'll be right back." Juliet got up and left the room, leaving Jack and Kate more comfortable without her presence.
She was excited to see Sawyer, she was already getting used to sleeping with him, as much as she always kept him from trying to do anything else in bed.
Juliet wondered when they would finally be together when she passed the room and it was empty. The pillows and blankets that Sawyer and Locke had worn during the night were still there, but they were not. They had left no messages. Juliet worried.
She went to the kitchen to make Kate's promised breakfast in bed, but she could not stop thinking about where Sawyer was now and why he left without telling her.
Kate snuggled into Jack when Juliet left. Jack did not expect that. He looked at her, looking so neatly in his arms and kissed her forehead.
"So you're not mad at me anymore?" He asked jokingly.
"I still am." Her voice was still sleepy. "But your embrace is so good." Her eyes met his. Eyes so bright, that so many times he saw crying, were now smiling at him. He could not resist.
"So you're using me, baby?" He spoke softly into her ear, teasing her as his hands slid down her hips. Kade nodded slowly, not taking her green eyes from his. "I think I can accept that." One of Jack's hands rose to the back of Kate's neck, and he bent his head slowly to fit his lips to hers. Jack saw Kate closing his eyes and he kissed her a little more intensely. The most delicious lips he had ever kissed. He stopped before Juliet came back, when Kate snuggled into him again, as she had been before.
"Ready to eat, honey?" Juliet entered the room with a large tray and placed it in front of Kate. It had various kinds of fruit, chocolate cake, bread with butter, waffles and orange juice. She had it right because she knew that Kate was not eating right, maybe with several options the brunette would become more enthusiastic about food.
"How many options!" Kate looked at Juliet in puzzlement.
"It's for you to try them all, okay?" Juliet tried to encourage her to eat. "Jack can help you finish if you let him." She winked at him, Juliet wanted him to have a good breakfast too.
Ben parked the car. Sawyer and Locke landed and looked around. The Arrow Station gate was already open and you could see some people coming in. They waited until Ben walked through the door so they would dare to enter as well. They followed the flow of people who walked through the endless corridors until finally they arrived in the exact room.
Danny was gagged and handcuffed in a chair. He wore only a pair of slacks, and he seemed to have gotten quite a lot because his body was full of marks. He looked exhausted and in pain.
Despite the situation it was impossible for Sawyer or Locke to feel sorry for that damn man who had made Kate suffer so much. What Sawyer most wanted was for him to feel more pain, to feel the dread he made Kate feel.
Ben indicated them some chairs for them to sit down. It was still a few minutes to go.
Locke was wondering how they would kill him. Was it poisonous, electric chair, shot in the head? As much as they felt that the Others had no human feelings, at that moment it was the only part of being there that they liked: the knowledge that they would not spare Pickett from suffering.
Ben sat down on the chairs below, where apparently the people on the Council were sitting.
Pickett seemed so defeated to see all those people watching him in that situation, but when he saw Ben, his friend watching him, he collapsed to tears. No one cared, he was treated like someone invisible there.
The white-haired man who had led the Council an hour ago was standing.
"Gentlemen, we will begin the execution of Danny Pickett."