Jack, Kate, Hurley, Dare, and Adonia worked at the Dharma Initiative for a week. They got updates on Sayid from Sawyer every once in a while. Sawyer soon informed them that the Dharma people had voted on executing Sayid.
The same night of their decision, Dare was walking back to the house that she and Adonia shared when she smelled something burning. Moments later, a bus – set aflame and moving fast – crashed right into a Dharma house. Panic struck. People poured out of their homes. Security was immediately asked to meet.
"Be safe!" Dare called after Adonia, who was running out of the house pulling her coveralls on.
Adonia looked back and gave a thumbs up.
"My son! Where is my son!" Dare whipped around to see Roger running towards the fire. He pulled a security guy aside and started yelling.
Dare started looking around. She wasn't sure if you could change the future, but she didn't much fancy the idea of never being born. As she was walking back, searching for Ben, she passed Jin. She heard Sawyer on his walkie and only heard him say Sayid had escaped. Suddenly, Dare realized who exactly would set a bus on fire and send it hurtling towards a house. Someone who would allow others to be mindlessly hurt in an effort to get what he wanted.
"Take me with you," Dare said, grabbing Jin's shoulder.
"But, it's for security only!" He started walking away, towards the closest bus.
"I'm not asking," Dare replied. She hopped into the passenger's side and Jin got into the driver's seat. They drove into the jungle, following a narrow road for five minutes until finally they saw the dark outline of a figure who quickly dove into the underbrush.
Dare and Jin hopped out and looked around. Sayid came out of the jungle, hands up innocently. "It's okay," he said. "Sawyer let me go."
Phil came back on Jin's walkie and said, "Has anyone seen the prisoner?"
"Let me just check in with Sawyer first," Jin started to say. Sayid knocked him out with the butt of a gun.
Dare fled. She prayed Sayid wouldn't shoot – she didn't believe he would kill her, but he wasn't beyond shooting to maim. She took to the jungle. Twenty feet in, she turned and listened. She heard Sayid speaking. Was he talking to Jin? Suddenly, a shot rang out. Dare gasped. If Jin died, it would be like it happened twice for Sun. Dare crept out of the woods and positioned herself behind the van. She spied Jin but couldn't tell in the dark whether or not he'd been shot. Then, she looked farther up the road and saw a body in the headlights. Sayid was gone.
She ran to Jin and checked his pulse. He was still alive. A second later, his eyes fluttered open. He pressed his hand against his forehead.
"You okay?" Dare asked.
"Yes." He looked around and spotted the body in the headlights. "Ben."
"What?"
"Ben." Jin pointed to the body.
Dare stood. She heard Jin get on the walkie. She ran towards the body and saw that it was indeed young Benjamin Linus. He was still breathing, but Sayid had shot true – the bullet had barely missed his heart. "Help me," Ben whispered.
"I will," Dare answered. "It's going to be okay." She lifted Ben's body and Jin opened the side door of the van. Dare laid him on the seat. "Let's go," she said. "We have to get him to the sick bay."
