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Chapter 26: "A lucky hit."

Boone looked around and noticed a machine. He came over to it narrowing his eyes and advanced his hand to try on of the buttons. Ana glanced at him and seeing what he was doing she yelled:

"Boone, no!"

But it was too late. He pushed big, red button and the door closed with a loud bang cutting their way outside off. Ana's eyes widened and Boone froze immediately.

"Oops."

"This..." she started slowly "is not... good."

Boone risked to glance at her and she let out a heavy breath and ran her hand through the hair.

"Sorry." He announced quietly and Ana just shook her head sighing.

"Maybe, if I push it again." he said moving his hand back to the button, but she was quick to grab his hand.

"No!" she objected holding his wrist "Don't."

He glanced at her and she stared him in the eyes. They were gazing at each other for a while, until Ana cleared her throat and let go of his hand.

"So what are we gonna do now?" she asked feeling uncomfortably. He looked around and cursed under his breath.

"Maybe the others will go down here..."

"Yeah..." Ana snorted rolling her eyes "We'll be waiting for a while before they do."

Boone sighed heavily and she sent him a confused look and sat down on the floor, her back against the wall. He looked down at her and in a second he was resting beside her.

In the meanwhile

"What's takin' them so long?" Sawyer asked trying to not sound really concerned "They should have been out by now."

"Maybe we should check on them?" Locke offered matter-of-factly "Maybe something's wrong..."

"No, they're fine, I'm sure." Jack said firmly glaring at the bald man. "We'll wait for'em ten minutes more and if they don't get out by the time, we'll go after them. Deal?"

Sawyer, Kate and Locke nodded staring down in the darkness of the corridor.

Later

"What are you thinking about?"

Ana let out a quiet chuckle and responded:

"I'm thinkin' 'bout the way of getting the hell out of here."

Boone nodded smiling and turned his gaze on the locked door, that was opposite them.

Just then Ana decided, that it's time to do it finally. She was pulling the market too long. It's the moment.

So she swallowed hard and sighed.

"I'm sorry." she stated not looking at him.

"For what?"

"I'm sorry, that..." she stopped swallowing once again hard. "...that I kissed you."

Boone frowned and glanced at her with surprise. She let out a heavy breath and added:

"I shouldn't have done that."

He looked actually shocked, that she blurted out with it right then, when they were locked down in some kind of a hatch. He didn't forget, that she had done it, but he thought she wasn't gonna say or do anything about the fact.

"Uh..." he started still frowning "It's all right."

Just then she finally managed to look him in the eyes.

"Really?"

He nodded slowly and she forced out a little smile looking away.

"Thanks."

Boone wasn't exactly sure for what she was thanking him, but he didn't really care. It was very important to him, after all, that she decided to talk about it eventually. He was glad she didn't just ignored it.

"It's getting cold." She announced hugging her arms to her chest. He stared at her and smiled. A good way to change the subject.

He was thinking just a second before he grabbed the hem of his blouse and pulled it over his head leaving himself just in a t-shirt. She glanced at him and frowned surprised, to say at least.

"What're you doing?"

He sent her an amused look and handed his blouse to her. She gazed up at him softly. He was offering it to her.

"What about you?"

"I've got a t-shirt, can't ya see?" he asked smirking. Ana sized him up and finally managed to react.

"Thank you." She stated with a grateful smile and took his blouse from him. She put it on feeling the pleasant warmth.

"Better?"

"Yeah." She breathed and hugged her knees to her chest resting her chin on the top of them. He glanced at her smiling softly and then turned his gaze back on the door, just waiting for them to open.

Later

"Okay, that's it." Sawyer announced getting up from his spot on the ground "I'm goin' down there."

"Wait, just wait one more minute…." Jack said picking himself up too.

"A minute? Listen, doc, something's clearly wrong and I ain't waitin' even one damn second more."

And with that he came over to the entrance of the hatch.

"I'll go with you." Locke said out form nowhere.

"I didn't ask for a back-up, but as you want, Mr. Clean." The Southerner said sarcastically as he started making his way down the corridor.

"You and Kate should stay put up here." John told the pair "We'll bring them back."

In the meanwhile

"You ever thought we'd be okay?"

Boone looked at her, a hint of amusement on his face.

"What?" he chuckled and she fixed him with her serious stare.

"After everything I did and all…"

And he suddenly understood, what she meant. She still wasn't over Shannon. And he was not too. He knew that there wasn't everything right in the relationship between him and the Latina, but it just wasn't his fault, that he cared about that girl. Even though she killed his stepsister. His great hatred for her seemed to be gone when his eyes first met her and it was like he didn't want to believe she was the one, who caused the death of Shannon. No, she didn't cause her death. The others did. If Ana wasn't scared of them she wouldn't….

"Hey, Boone…"

He snapped back to reality and glanced at her.

"Yeah?"

"You seem to be disconnected."

"Well, that would be, because I am."

"What's wrong?" She asked quietly and he shook his head.

"Nothin'.. it' just…. Your question surprised me a little bit…"

She nodded with understanding and ran a hand through her hair.

"And have you ever thought, that we'd be okay?" he asked her suddenly and she gazed at his profile, this weird feeling in her stomach.

"Honestly, I haven't." she admitted truthfully and he glanced at her, his eyes softening ever so slightly.

"But we are… I mean, we are okay… aren't we?" Ana asked quietly still staring at him. He felt that something was squeezing his throat and he looked deep into her eyes, that were searching for an answer impatiently.

Before he knew, what he was doing ,he started moving forward, leaning closer and closer with every inch. She hesitated just a second before deciding to do the same. Not thinking about anything else, about the others' reaction, about consequences…They could practically feel each other's heavy and hot breaths and…

"Ana!"

She flinched and they quickly pulled back and picked themselves up forgetting about his intend. They both ran over to the door and started pounding.

"Hey! We're here!"

They heard someone approaching and eventually there was a pounding on the other side of the door.

"You guys there?" Sawyer called. Ana let out a heavy breath with relief.

"Yeah!" she said loudly "Get us out of here!"

"How did you get yourselves locked there anyway?!"

Ana looked at Boone and he smirked and called:

"It was a lockdown! C'mon, do somethin'!"

"What?!"

"I don't know!"

"Locke!" they heard Sawyer yelling "Get over here! I found them!"

After a while somebody's voice ringed out.

"So where are they?"

"They're locked up in that room." The Blonde man stated "Any ideas?"

Later

"And?" Ana asked with hope standing close to the door, Boone beside her.

"Nothin'!" Sawyer called and they groaned with annoyance.

"Beautiful!"

"All right, guys! You need to tell us, what the heck did you do?" Locke called and Ana chuckled and said ignoring Boone's glare.

"We pushed the button in machine, that's in here. By an accident."

"What?! And now you're tellin' us that?" Sawyer yelled angrily.

"Oh, c'mon, Cowboy, stop bugging and start thinkin'!" she told him with a hint of amusement in her tone.

"Yeah, chica, easy to say, harder to do!"

"Maybe I should try another buttons of that machine." Boone offered suddenly and Sawyer snorted loudly.

"Yeah, Hick! You do that! And maybe you're never gonna get out of this room!"

"Actually, it's the only way." Locke announced firmly "Try."

Boone let out a heavy breath and came over to the machine. He stared down at the buttons and closed his eyes. He pushed one of them blindly.

"Something's happening?" he asked not opening his eyes.

"Nope." Ana said quietly. Boone groaned and pushed another one. Nothing. He sighed furiously and Ana laughed.

"Maybe, I'll try, uh?"

He glanced at her and shrugged.

"As you wish."

She came over to him and looked through all the buttons. She moved her hand up and pushed the smallest, yellow one.

There was a noise, a terrible noise and something creaked. Boone and Ana looked around, but everything looked as normal as always.

"Well… you didn't make a lucky hit..--" he said smirking, but he wasn't able to finish his sentence, because suddenly once again there was a noise and a creak and eventually the door opened. They looked at each other and ran out from the room. Ana almost collided with Sawyer and Boone barely managed to stop before hitting the wall.

"You were saying something?" Ana asked him with a teasing smirk on her face. He looked at her and raised his eyebrows

"Yeah, I was about to say 'good job.' " He grinned and she rolled her eyes smiling.

"Yeah,… right."

Just then Sawyer noticed, that she had Boone's blouse put on herself and that he was just in his t-shirt. Locke perceived the glare, that the Southerner's face had and immediately decided to move.

"Okay, we should get going." he said already walking along the corridor.

They rest of them followed him and they soon made their way to the entrance. Ana was about to climb up, when Sawyer grabbed her arm shaking his head and staring up with a frown on his face.

"Wait…"

"What's up?"

He shook his head once again and called:

"Jack!!"

No reply.

"Kate!"

Locke, Boone and Ana gazed up too and suddenly somebody appeared up there looking down the corridor.

"Sawyer?!" the person yelled.

"Oh my God," Ana breathed "Michael…"

Later

"I'm gonna go up first." Boone stated after a while of silence. Ana glanced at him and shook her head.

"What if--"

"Hey, don't ya worry. I'm gonna be fine." He assured her smiling a little "When I call you, the next person will go up, okay?"

Sawyer rolled his eyes, but nodded anyway, juts like everyone else.

"All right, so… I'll be waiting for you up."

And he jumped up at the ladder, that was hanging a meter or two above the floor and he started climbing up. When he finally made his way up he saw Michael standing there with a gun in his hands.

"Nice to see ya, man." He greeted him and Boone smiled.

"So how's life?"

Michael smirked and responded looking away:

"Bitchy."

"Did you find any sign of Walt?"

The other man hesitated and swallowed hard shaking his head no. Boone sent him a sad glance and looked back down the entrance.

"Go on!" he called loud enough for them to hear him.

Sawyer sighed heavily and looked at Ana.

"Come on up, cupcake."

She smiled at him and he helped her to jump on the ladder.

"Thanks, Cowboy." She breathed while slowly making her way up the long corridor. She finally made it to the entrance and Boone noticed her and grabbed her hand helping her get out. He supported her holding her shoulders. when she was trying to not lose her balance.

"Hey, Michael." She nodded to him eventually and he forced a smile. After another five minutes Sawyer and Locke were out of the hatch and they were all standing in a group considering what they should do.

"So you didn't find their camp?" John asked and Michael shook his head gazing down at the grass. Ana sized him up suspiciously and looked around.

"Have you seen Jack or Kate?"

He glanced up at her and frowned.

"No… And they were here with ya guys?"

Boone and Sawyer looked at each other weirdly and Locke narrowed his eyes and said:

"Yes, they were."

Michael tried to wear a surprised facial expression as he replied:

"Well, I haven't seen them."

"What are you doin' here?" the Southerner growled at the confused man dryly.

"What do ya think? I'm lookin' for my boy!"

"How come you're suddenly here? Near that hatch… Just where we happened to be. And suddenly Jack and Kate are gone…" Ana started looking at the man distrustfully and he glared at her in response.

"You're suspectin' me 'bout somethin'?"

"No." she replied firmly staring at him calmly "I'm just askin. And why are you so nervous?"

Michael's glare hardened even more and he looked away swallowing.

"You gotta know, that I had no choice… I just had to do it." He stated seriously looking down at the ground. "I'm really sorry, but…"

Just then the whispers ringed out everywhere around them. Ana's eyes widened as she was staring at the group of the people coming out of the jungle, pointing their guns at them. Sawyer and Boone stared at Michael in disbelief, while Locke was standing as calmly as always.

Fake Henry and Pickett was leading and behind them there was at least fifteen people more. The fourth of them were restraining Jack and Kate as the captives.

"We're meeting again." the fake Henry said smiling at them silly and nodding towards Sawyer, Boone and Ana. "Let me introduce myself. I'm Benjamin Linus."

Jack and Kate stared in shock at Michael and Boone moved closer to Ana glaring at the other.

"Good job, Michael. Now you're allowed to see your son."

"Where is he? Where's Walt?!" Michael shouted shaking his hands nervously and walking over to the others.

"He's fine. He's on the boat." Ben reassured him holding his hands up "You did your job well. And we are the people, who keep their promises. You were supposed to bring your friends here to have your son returned. We're going to the boat now to give you him back." And he nodded to Pickett, who immediately took the clue and started coming over to Ana, the others were following him.

"Here's my favorite island girl. Hello again" Pickett said and was about to grab her arm, when Boone pushed him away forcefully.

"Back off!"

The other two men grabbed Sawyer from behind tying his hands up together.

"Son of a bitch!"

"Actually, I'm Zeke." One of them said smirking and put the gray bag over the blonde man's head.

The older man with long, gray beard came over to Pickett and asked with the same insane smile, like the rest of them had:

"Do you have a problem here?"

"Well, Tom, the cowboy here has." Pickett answered pointing at Boone, who was now a lock between Ana and the other two men. Just then she noticed, that Locke was already taken away and that Jack and Kate had the bags put on their heads too. She grabbed Boone's elbow and he glanced back at her.

"Move away." She said firmly and he looked at her in disbelief.

"What?!"

"Please… just… there's too many of them."

His eyes softened and a look of powerlessness appeared on his face, as he slowly backed away from her and let Pickett restrain her. And he was watching like she was having her hands tied up. Just then a young, dark-haired woman came over to him. She was different from the rest of the others. She had an innocent eyes and a delicate facial expression.

"I'm so sorry." She mumbled quietly after a while of staring at him and started tying his hands up too. Ana stared at him and he was shocked to actually see a fear in her gaze. They were holding each others' gazes until the same bag was put over her head and after a second the same thing happened to him and he wasn't able to see anything any more, but the darkness of the gray material.

A/N: Now I'll be having the Thursday, Friday and the weekend all free from school! Yay! So maybe I'll update at the Thursday! But - maybe!! And please, LostFreakJ, I'm really glad you like my story, but don't You wait so long for me to update! :D Because I'm not promising anything. :P

Next chapter: Ana wakes up in the cage to find Boone in the opposite one… She also meets Juliet, who's not really keen on her. They are informed that there's no way of escaping, because they're on the other island. Juliet tells Ana that someone's expecting her... .