1x25

Sex, Lies and the Dharma Initiative

Shannon placed her third cup of whiskey on the table; her heart was filled with anger. Sayid was dancing with another woman, the woman that had shot her. The only one to be blamed for her infertility and the one that was now pregnant.

The world couldn't be more unfair. Her entire body hurt. She had to do something about that horrible emotional pain she was feeling.

Suddenly, she looked at Sayid's pants back pocket and realized he didn't have his gun with him this time. She ran to her tent and looked for his 9mm pistol.

She found it among Sayid's dirty laundry. She put the gun on the back pocket her jeans and went back to the party.

"You're not that bad, Sayid."- Ana-Lucia said but Sayid as actually a terrible dancer.

"You're being kind."- Sayid said. He was having fun. He loved Shannon more than she could ever imagine but his marriage was going through some issues. Lately she had been always introspective and upset, pushing him every time he'd approach her.

Ana-Lucia was a strong and beautiful woman. He had looked at her a few times. Once, when they left to look for Henry Gale's balloon, she had fell asleep in the jungle near him. Sayid had spent quite some time watching her but he hadn't done anything. That would be against his principles.

"Sayid!"- Shannon shouted in the middle of the party. "Let go of this woman right now!"

"Shannon, what's the matter with you? Why are you yelling like that?"

Shannon had the 9mm pointing straight to Ana-Lucia. She was a nervous wreck. People were watching the scene, apprehensively, avoiding to do anything that could set her to shoot the gun.

Sayid held his breath. He was thinking about a way to stop Shannon to hurt Ana-Lucia. Jack and Sawyer had just arrived with the cards to play their poker game when they saw the situation.

Ana-Lucia was in shock. She didn't know what to expect.

Sawyer nervously shouted:

"Why are you fucking pointing this gun to my girl?"

"Shut up!"- Shannon hysterically screamed. "I could point this gun to you too. You're disgusting, Sawyer. You beat up my brother. Coward!"

"There was a long time ago."- Sawyer justified. "If you want to shoot me go ahead but don't hurt Ana and our child."

Shannon hesitated. She thought about Ana's baby. Sayid noticed that. Hen noticed too that while Sawyer and Shannon were arguing, Kate slowly approached her from behind. She wanted to take control of the gun.

Eko spoke when he saw the stupidity that was going on:

"Shannon, stop this! You're not angry at Ana-Lucia or Sawyer, you're angry at yourself."

"Shut up!"- She shouted three times. "You say you're a priest but nobody on this island is what they claim to be."- She turned her eyes back to Ana-Lucia. The gun was still ready. "Maybe you don't want to give birth to a child in this cursed island."

In front of everyone's shocked eyes, Shannon took the gun away from Ana-Lucia and pointed to her own head instead.

"Noooo!"- Sayid screamed.

At this moment Kate grabbed Shannon trying to take away the gun from her. Shannon fought Kate back and one bullet was shot into the air causing panic among the people.

Sayid ran to his wife immediately and held her when she fell sitting on the sand, crying a lot.

Sawyer went to Ana-Lucia and hugged her tight in his arms. He whispered in her ear: "Hey, baby, are ya alright?"

She was quiet like she didn't have absorbed what had just happened.

The incident was enough to ruin the party mood and people started leaving to their tents. Locke decided to go back to the hatch. He felt he didn't have anything else to do there.

Sayid took Shannon in his arms and carried her to their tent. She didn't protest. She just snuggled on his chest.

Jack ran his hands over his short dark hair and cursed:

"Fuck!"

He was angry because he felt impotent to the fact that the rules in the community were not yet being followed.

Sawyer talked to him:

"Hey, doc, nothing that happened was your fault as a lot of the shit that happens in this community every day. You do your best but it is extremely hard to lead people and teach them to do the right thing."

"It seems weird to say that, Jack but Sawyer is right."- Kate said touching her boyfriend's shoulder.

"Right."- He said. "What do you guys suggest now? Go to our tents and forget about everything?"

"No."- Sawyer said. "One day at a time, doc. We're now going to get all that booze that is on the table and let's go to my tent to play poker until dawn, only the four of us, what'd ya say?

Jack's first thought was that Sawyer's idea was nonsense after what had happened but after four doses of pure whiskey, he started thinking that life was making sense again.

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"Ok "Amarillo Slin", are you in or out?"- Sawyer maliciously asked.

"Full house!"- Jack said showing them his cards and drinking one more sip of whiskey.

"Son of a bitch"- Ana-Lucia said.

Kate laughed.

"I told you Ana that my man was unbeatable."

Ana-Lucia raised an eyebrow and maliciously said:

"I bet it, Kate!"- She wasn't drinking because of her pregnancy but it was like the drunkenness of everybody else was passing telepathically to her.

They had improvised a table in the middle of the tent to play. There were three bottles of Whiskey near them. The first one was almost gone. Sawyer pulled Ana-Lucia closer and gave her a wet kiss.

"Another round, losers?"- Kate asked mixing the cards again. They're playing in doubles, Kate and Jack against Sawyer and Ana.

"Yes, of course. We're not going to stop playing until we win right, cupcake?- Sawyer said filling another cup of whiskey for him.

"I want the whiskey from your lips."- Ana-Lucia said licking Sawyer's mouth shamelessly.

Kate was feeling so hot. She couldn't tell if it was the whiskey or the brazen kisses between Sawyer and Ana-Lucia in front of them. She looked at Jack. He was filling another cup of whiskey. It was his number 5. The whiskey was taking his shyness away. He pulled Kate and gave her a long kiss that left her breathless.

"Well, brothers."- Jack said mimicking Desmond.

Everybody laughed. Ana commented:

"Man, he does it so perfect!"

"If we're going to play another round, let's make it more interesting. "

"And what do you suggest, doc?"- Sawyer curiously asked.

Jack answered right away and surprised everyone:

"Strip-poker."

Sawyer couldn't believe what he had heard.

"Doctor, ya suggesting something like this? The good doctor?"

"Maybe I'm not that good."- Jack said with a mischievously smile. "What do you say girls?"

"Strip-poker? Wow, I haven't played this game since I graduated from the police academy. I'm in!"- Ana-Lucia excitedly said.

"If Lulu don't object, I won't. Let's play."- Sawyer agreed.

All the eyes turned to Kate then. She was the only one that hasn't given her opinion yet.

"I'm not sure if this is a good idea…"- Kate said but deep inside she was thinking it could actually be fun.

"Ohhhhhhhhh"- did Sawyer and Ana-Lucia.

"Come on freckles, it's not going to be fun without you."- Sawyer provoked Kate.

Ana-Lucia slapped his ear making him scream then she smiled to Kate:

"Come on, Katie? It is just a game between "friends". What could go wrong?"

Kate turned to Jack. She noticed he was looking forward to her answer. She brought him closer to her and whispered in his ear: "Jack I can't play strip-poker because I'm not wearing anything under this dress, remember?"

"Oh!"- Jack suddenly remembered that detail that the alcohol had made him to forget. He whispered back: "Go to your tent and put some panties on, please."

"What's wrong with you, Jack? We're very drunk."- She giggled.

Sawyer and Ana-Lucia were looking at them intrigued.

"Whispering is rude!"- Sawyer said, Ana-Lucia laughed.

"Do you trust me, princess?"- Jack asked and this time he wasn't whispering.

"Alright!"- Kate finally said. "Let's play strip-poker!"

Sawyer, Jack and Ana-Lucia clapped to her.

"But first I need to do something. Be right back."

"Where is she going?"- Sawyer asked.

Jack shrugged his shoulders and said: "We're only going to mix the cards when she comes back. This is going to be an individual game, no doubles."

"It's fair!"- Ana-Lucia agreed.

Jack decided to take off his suit and one thing fell out of his pocket.

"What is that?"- Sawyer asked pointing to the object on the sand.

"Oh, this?"- Jack said picking it up Kate's ripped panties off the ground. "It's mine."- He put it back on his suit pocket.

Sawyer and Ana-Lucia laughed before they kissed again. They were practically devouring each other in front of Jack. He filled one more cup and promised himself that would be his last one otherwise he would end up naked in the game.

Kate came back soon. On the way she had to get rid of Hurley that asked her what they were up to in Sawyer's tent. She invented that Ana-Lucia wasn't feeling and Jack was there taking care of her.

She got dressed fast. She had put the silk stockings back to the box. She didn't want to lose and have to undress but if that happened, she wasn't going to give Sawyer the pleasure to see her wearing silk stockings. That was for her Jack only.

When she returned, Jack personally mixed the cards and settled the rules of the game:

"The loser will be the one left in underwear."

"What does the winner get?"- Sawyer asked.

"The winner that of course it will be me, it will be able to choose one of the losers to do the most boring tasks on camp for an entire week."

"Ya going to be the winner? Don't dream, doc. Prepare yourself to cut wood for me for a week."- Sawyer said.

"That's what we going to see!"- Jack challenged him.

The game started. Everybody was very excited. They didn't know where this "innocent" game was going to take them. But there were rules and those were being followed strictly.

Sawyer lost in the first round to Jack's joy and to the excitment of Ana-Lucia and Kate. They were both looking forward to undress him.

"Shirt off, baby. You lose."- Ana-Lucia said laughing.

"Yeah, hot stuff, take it off."- Kate said.

"But why the shirt? I could start with one shoe, then another…"- Sawyer suggested.

"No way, sweetie. If we do this way we'll never get out of here. Come on, stand up!"- Ana-Lucia demanded Sawyer.

He got up and raised his arms letting Ana-Lucia to take off his shirt. But she did that slowly, sensually, catching the other couple's attention.

"What a chest!"- Jack teased him.

"Very funny Mr. Hahaha but listen you're next to lose!"

Sawyer sat down and the game started again. The next round was intense. Ana-Lucia beat Jack's card and he also had to take off his shirt. Kate, as Ana-Lucia previously did with Sawyer, took off Jack's shirt button by button, uncovering his chest.

Ana-Lucia's eyes inevitable fell over his tattoos spread on his arms. She couldn't hide a sigh. Kate noticed but she didn't feel jealous, quite the opposite, she liked to see Ana-Lucia admiring Jack because she knew he was hers.

They continued playing and things started to get more and more tense between them. Sawyer wasn't paying attention to what he was doing anymore. He was playing really bad because he was more interested in caressing Ana's thighs under her dress.

Jack wasn't holding himself either and was kissing Kate wildly, his fingers were playing with her curly hair. When Ana-Lucia lost her first round, Sawyer and Jack became ultra tense. So far only they had lost his shirts, nothing else but Ana-Lucia would have to take off her dress and that was making them hot for different reasons.

Jack wanted to see Ana-Lucia's curvaceous body and Sawyer wanted to show off his trophy to Jack.

Kate was quiet. She didn't make any objection. Rules were rules. Ana-Lucia stood up and made a sensual gesture to Sawyer with her fingers calling him to help her with the dress but before he could get up, Kate interfered:

"No."

The three of them looked at her.

"Jack will do it."- She said. Her chest was going up and down, the tension was taking over the environment.

Ana-Lucia liked the idea but she asked her boyfriend: "Do you mind, cowboy?"

Sawyer looked at Jack and said" "Go ahead!"

Jack turned on another sip of his seventh cup of whiskey. He approached Ana-Lucia who turned her back to him. Sawyer and Kate held their breath while they watched. Jack touched the clasp of her dress and then he slowly started unzipping it until the fabric fell around her feet. Ana-Lucia was wearing now only her red lingerie.

"You're..."- He started saying but decided not to finish then. Things were still under control.

Ana-Lucia went back to her place beside Sawyer. Jack also resumed his place beside Kate.

"Let's keep playing!"- Sawyer said.

"Ok, according to the game's rules Ana-Lucia is out because she can't remove any more clothing."- Jack said.

"Oh, but I don't want stop playing. I'm having so much fun."- She protested.

Sawyer kissed her neck and played with the straps of her bra, lowing one of them a little bit.

"My girl is having fun, doc. What can I do? I'm her slave. I do whatever she wants and if she wants to keep playing I don't opposite it."

"Me neither."- Kate said. She was the only one that was still completely dressed.

"But Kate if Ana-Lucia continues playing and loses she'll have to take another piece of clothing and it will be the same to you if you lose your dress in the next round."

Kate took a sip of her whiskey and said: "I want to take the risk!"

"Kate?"- Jack insisted. He was starting to feel jealous.

"Remember that was your idea."- Kate provoked him.

"Let's stop with the bullshit and play!"- Ana-Lucia said mixing the cards again. "We haven't gotten your pants off yet, Jack."

The tent was extremely hot. The four of them were sweating a lot. Ana-Lucia wasn't drinking alcohol, only water. Her lack of care was making Jack to lose it. She was drinking from her cup purposely letting a few drops of water fall over her neckline. Her breasts were bigger due to the pregnancy, her body shape was more rounded.

Sawyer knew Jack was looking at her as much as he was looking at Kate. He was cheering for her to lose a round so he could remove her black dress himself.

It didn't take long for Kate to lose. She got up and pulled the first bow of her dress. Jack was going to help her when Ana-Lucia said:

"Jack, Sawyer must take Kate's dress off!"

"Yes, domina."- Sawyer said. But before he approached Kate, she came to him and turned on her back. Sawyer started removing all the knots of the dress fast. He slid the fabric over her body and softly touched her back.

Jack protested.

"Sawyer, you're cheating. I haven't touched Ana-Lucia at all."

"I bet you wanted, huh?"- Ana-Lucia said facing him.

Control? Jack could be anything but controlled at that moment. Now, they're both shirtless and the girls wearing her underwear. How would that story end? He was afraid to find out.

On the next round, Jack lost to Sawyer that bragged about it.

"The good doctor is losing? You better prepare to hold the wax!"

Kate smiled:

"Time to take off your pants, Jack."- She had a blanket covering her naked breasts.

Ana-Lucia giggled. She was looking forward for it. Jack stood up. Kate did the same. She went behind him and her arm involved his tummy, touching it. He shivered. Kate let the blanket go a little down bit and rubbed her breasts on his back, surprising him.

"Ana, do you think you could help me?"- Kate asked.

Ana-Lucia didn't think twice and approached Jack. Sawyer stared at her butt while she walked sensually. She stood in front of Jack and released the metal button of his pants. Jack felt his body on fire. He was extremely tense having these two women around him, eating him with their eyes. He couldn't hide his arousal.

"It seems that Jack broke the rules."- Ana-Lucia said realizing what was going on with Jack.

"Fuck the rules!"- Kate said embracing him and caressing the muscles of his back with her body.

Ana-Lucia looked deeply into Jack's eyes. His eyes were hunger. He never felt that way before not with that intensity. Sawyer shook his head.

"What is that? Game is over? No way!"- He got up and said: "Let him go, you vampires! Would ya wanna kill him? He's the only damn doctor on this island. We must keep him alive."

He pulled Ana-Lucia by the waist and slapped her butt.

"Come here, mujer. I want a kiss!"- Sawyer grabbed her, taking her easily out of the floor while kissing her. Ana involved her legs around his waist.

Jack stood there watching them. He didn't know what to say when he felt Kate finishing with his pants. He turned to her and she kissed him. He felt dizzy, his vision was suddenly blurry. The whiskey was finally done with him or this was really happening?

"Hey, you two, the game isn't over yet."- Sawyer warned taking his place back with Ana-Lucia.

Kate laughed. She was totally drunk. She got the blanket back in place and pulled Jack to sit with her. Sawyer seemed as drunk as them but the truth was that he wasn't. He had drank only three cups of whiskey and he did that slow to prevent the alcohol to get him drunk. But nobody realized that.

Jack had already drank enough and too fast. He wasn't going to resist to that madness for too long. Sawyer was enjoying to see the great and serious leader losing control and embarrassing himself.

"Jack?"- Sawyer called him."

"What?"- He asked back, confused.

"Show your cards."- Ana-Lucia said.

"Double of kings!"- He showed them with a smile."

"Mmmm...I have to sword steals."- Kate said.

"Double of Queens."- Ana-Lucia announced.

"Damn it!"- Sawyer yelled. He had lost it again. He wasn't able to make a double.

"Kate?"- Ana-Lucia said. "Now is Sawyer's turn."

Kate stood up right away but she only had one last piece of clothing to lose. Jack held her by the arm.

"Kate, no…"

"Relax, doc!"- She said. Jack felt perplexed.

From that moment on nothing seemed to make sense anymore and confused, Jack woke up the following day with the sound of a raspy voice in his ear:

"Jack, abre los ojos!"

To be continued…