LostFreakJ: "I'm so sorry it took me so long to review!" that's okay, I was being patient. :)
"""LOL, yeah, seen S.W.A.T. Actually, every movie with Michelle in, except Battle In Seattle. :P' So have I. :D" OMG, fellow Michelle fan? :D" Hell yeah! She's my # 1 forever! :D
"Still have to mention though, where's Locke?" Hey! Don't push me! :P Just kidding. You need to be patient, I didn't forget about our Mr.-always-calm-no-matter-what! xD
"And now I really really want spaghetti... :D" Me too! xDD
"Can't wait for next chapter! :)" Then here it goes! :D I'm SO sorry, that it took me that long this time, but the school and lots of other things just won't leave me alone.. :(
Chapter 29: "Let's go home then."
It was a dark and a creepy place. It was cold inside and he started shivering. He remembered, that he gave his blouse to her. And now she was gone and he was left there alone... Completely alone. He thought he would drive crazy! Not knowing, what to do or think he was just sitting in the corner hugging his knees to his chest and thinking... thinking till it started hurting him. All the memories showed in his mind and the only thing he wanted right then was to get up and scream! He wanted to shout as loud as he can and as long an he would be able to. He remembered Shannon's death, his first meeting with her, shooting Zack, arguing with Sawyer, her kiss, the others, her kiss and the cages... He buried his head in his hands praying for this to be over, so he could turn back the time and so that she could be still alive...
Boone woke up feeling a strong headache. Still not opening his eyes and not knowing what was going on he managed to turned on his other side gasping. Where was he? He raised hands to his face and rubbed his eyes. He opened them after a while and saw that he's laying on the ground, he must have fell.
Boone picked himself up to the sitting position. When he finally was fully awake, he was able to get everything back together. It was just a dream... just a dream. It was about the worse nightmare he's ever had. It didn't equal to the one with Ana and Pickett, when he was about to kill her in the middle of the jungle. And what actually turned out to be truth. And in that one she was already dead...
He got up quickly and came closer to the rods, so he could see her cage. She wasn't there... He started panicking. What if that nightmare was true?
"Ana!" Boone called not expecting and answer at all. Then he looked down and noticed the basket with fruits. He frowned and knelt down to be able to slid his arm between the rods. He reached for mango and took it narrowing his eyes. What was all that about? Where was she…?
In the meanwhile
Once again she entered Danny's house and he led her to the table, where the spaghetti was already prepared.
"You were sure I'd come, weren't ya?" she asked him, a hint of amusement in her voice, as she glanced at him. He grinned nodding and he advanced the chair for her, so she could sit. She frowned a little, but didn't say anything taking her place.
"When did you turn into a gentleman?" Ana asked after a while, as he sat down on the chair, that was opposite to hers. He looked at her with almost hurt eyes and this surprised her, to say at least. It actually shocked her.
She shook her head and ran a hand through her hair.
"Sorry…" she murmured and he looked away.
"It's nothing." Danny reassured her "I should have known, that your opinion about me is …. Well, can't really blame you, I guess..."
Ana stared down at her hands actually feeling guilty. Not really knowing why, she looked up and said:
"I'm glad you're here."
He glanced up and a huge smile formed on his face. She smirked back at him and after a while he decided to remind her of a warm meal, that was served in front of her. She seemed to not notice it any more.
"Ana…?"
"What?"
"I thought you were hungry. I know it's not the best thing to eat on the breakfast, but…"
"Danny… " she interrupted him smirking "It's the best, goddamn, thing I've even seen since the plane crash."
He let out a quiet laugh and nodded in understanding. Ana smiled at him and took a fork in her hand.
Later
Sawyer woke up and the sun dazzled him. He picked himself up rubbing the back of his head. Kate was already awake and she was watching him. What was her problem now?
"G'morning, Freckles. I didn't figure out ya for a morning person, to be honest."
She giggled and rolled her eyes.
"Maybe ,because I'm not a morning person… I think it's already midday." She responded smirking.
Sawyer yawned and leaned against the wall.
"I want to be out of here. I wonder where Jack is."
'Here we go again.' Sawyer thought. Was she still talking?
"He can take care of himself, I'm sure he's fine, Kate."
"Yeah… I hope so." She said in low voice, so he almost didn't hear her. "What do that bastards want us for? We're just locked up for no good reason and what? What's their point?"
"What's it with you and all those questions, huh? I know, as much, as you do. Besides, you won't really get to ask about nobody else, but Jack? You don't care 'bout Lucy and Metro at all?"
Did he really ask her that? Unbelievable….
Kate looked like Sawyer has just smacked her across the face. She swallowed hard looking either shocked or confused.
"I…uh… I do. I mean I just--"
"All right, forget I asked ya anythin'." Sawyer growled and got up form his spot on the bench. Just then a few of the others showed up, .. with Pickett in the front. The southerner clenched his fists as soon as he saw him. It's like the man is everywhere, and at every damn time Sawyer hates him more.
"Enough of this idling already." One of them said opening Kate's cage. "You're gonna sweat today."
In the meanwhile
"So who is really your friend?"
Ana almost choked with pasta at this question. She quickly swallowed it and glared up at dead serious Danny.
"What the hell do ya mean, Dan?" she snapped and he looked like he was trying to calm her down by the look in his eyes.
"I'm just asking… curious."
"Well, then hold your horses, Cowboy, because you're movin' forward too far." Ana said dryly, suddenly loosing all the sympathy he managed to get back.
'Can you believe it? All this shit he's done and now he's back in my life and I'm acting like nothing really happened' Ana thought squeezing the fork a little too hard.
"Besides, I am sure, that you know everything about Boone and about what happened to me on this island. I'm sure they told ya everything." She added coldly and Danny narrowed his eyes.
"Then you're wrong. Who the hell do ya think I am, huh, Ana? I may be a chauvinistic pig and idiot for you, but you should know that one thing..- I'm not a liar. And I wouldn't ask ya about all this if I knew it. Even if I was a liar I wouldn't do this shit to you!" he protested loudly and Ana laughed sarcastically.
"Oh, please! Don't make yourself look like a poor, innocent boy! Coz you see.. you're the one, who has an incredible talent to hurt and lie to people, no matter if one of them is a mother of your child!"
"It wasn't my choice! You have no idea, how hard it was for me!"
"You, you, you!" she mumbled coldly glaring at him with pure hatred "You're the only one, who was suffering! Of course!"
"I did not say that!"
Ana snorted and got up.
"Y'know, what? I have no idea, what made me agree on this whole shit!" she growled and started walking away to the door, but then she felt his hand grabbing hers and she looked back just to give him a hard punch across his face. And he did something, what really surprised her. He didn't even move, just cocked his head to the side after the hit and then he stared back at her.
"Do that again, if you want." Danny stated, his eyes not expressing any pain or anger, but sadness and regret. Ana frowned glaring up at him, like at the crazy man.
"Excuse me?" she snapped and he repeated with the same low and calm voice again:
"Hit me again, if you feel like it. I totally deserve it."
That caught her off guard. Her glare softened, ever so slightly and she let out a heavy breath, wanting to turn back the time, then she would never let Jason reach to his pocket and kill their baby and then she would never let him leave…
Danny looked down at her and she smiled a little. He reciprocated it and after a while he rubbed his cheek and said with tone slightly amused:
"That hurts, actually…"
She laughed and shook her head.
"You deserved it."
"Hugely!" he then admitted smirking "So uh… you're gonna finish your meal or--"
"I may consider it." Ana said glancing at the table.
Later
"So here's the deal. You see these rocks here?"
Sawyer and Kate turned their glares from Pickett to the rocks.
"You're gonna chop them loose." He told Kate pointing at her. Then he looked at Sawyer. "And you're gonna--"
"Wait a sec, boss. I ain't gonna do nothin'! Nor she is!" the Southerner blurted out and Kate gave him a warning look, that he totally ignored. Pickett raised his eyebrows and shook his head. Then he looked up and smirking he came over to him and gave him an electric shock with a stun gun. Sawyer shivered automatically and fell on the ground holding his chest. Kate stared down at him, a pure confusion and anger in her eyes.
"If you talk to each other, you will be shocked." Pickett continued totally not paying any attention to Sawyer "If you touch each other, you'll be shocked. Actually if you do anything, what pisses me off and you will be shocked! Is that clear?"
Kate sent him the most hating glare, she was able to and he smirked at her.
"So get to work."
Later
"You have any idea where are my other friends?" Ana asked Danny, when she was so full of spaghetti, that she couldn't take another bite.
"Other friends?" he asked looking actually surprised. "I thought it was just you and …Boone, right?"
She frowned looking at him suspiciously.
"Uh..no. Four more."
"Four?"
"Yeah. Jack, Sawyer, Kate and John Locke."
"I didn't know…"
"You didn't?"
"Are you starting again?" he asked bitterly and Ana looked away and shook her head.
"Can you find out, where are they?"
He stared down, then back at her and after a long minute he slowly nodded.
"I'll try. But I'm not promising anything, Ana."
In the meanwhile
After an hour of moving rocks, Sawyer and Kate were finally allowed to get back to the cages. They were dirty, hungry, thirsty and tired.
Sawyer sat down on the ground and leaned against the cage wall, just as Pickett locked Kate up. He walked away leaving them alone again.
After a moment, Kate walked up to the rods and called him. He looked up and raised his eyebrows questioningly.
"You okay?" she asked staring at his half-bare chest, where Pickett gave him an electric shock. Sawyer snorted and smirked.
"Hell, yeah, Freckles! Never better, actually!" he said sarcastically and closed his eyes, his famous smirk still plastered on his face. Kate rolled her eyes smiling and sighed sitting down.
"Why don't we try to escape?" she asked hugging her knees to her chest.
"Uh… because we wouldn't make it even to the beach. Well maybe we would, but then we'd be riddled from the bullets." Sawyer answered simply cocking his head to a side and grinning to himself. Kate chuckled, but after a while her smile faded and she gasped in surprise, suddenly realizing something.
"Sawyer-- …We need to run."
He looked at her and snorted.
"What?"
"We gotta go now!"
"Not that I don't wanna, but how do you wanna do that?" he growled staring at her with raised eyebrows. Kate blinked quickly and looked up noticing a space between the rods.
"Maybe I'll fit…" she said to herself and Sawyer narrowed his eyes.
"What you doin', Freckles?"
Kate didn't answer and she just started climbing up.
"Hey!" he called lowly "Get down! Kate, now!"
Too bad, that she didn't listen. After a minute she was out of her cage and was already walking up to his one. She picked up a big stone form the ground and hit the padlock with it.
"Stop it, dammit, Kate!" Sawyer said louder getting up. But she ignored him once again and finally smashed the padlock completely and opened his cage.
"Come on! Get outta here!"
"What the hell are you doin'? You crazy?!"
Kate groaned and got in. Then she grabbed his arm and wanted to tag him along with her, but Sawyer pulled it out of her grasp hissing. She stared at him long and hard and asked:
"You wanna wait here for them to kill us? I ain't gonna do that and I'm not gonna let you do that, as well, so quit fooling around and come with me!"
He let out a snort mixed with a chuckle as he gazed at her in disbelief.
"There's just two of us! We have no guns, we're tired and drained! How d'ya wanna escape, huh?"
"I don't know! At least, we gotta try.. We'll find a boat or something--…"
"Whoa, hey now, Freckles. First we need to find Ana and Boone." Sawyer protested and Kate rolled her eyes looking away.
"And Jack." She added and he shook his head unmeantly.
"Yeah, and the doc too…" he murmured staring down at her "But don't you try to go anywhere away from me… We need to stick together, no matter what, you gottit?"
Kate smiled softly and nodded. When she didn't stop grinning he asked:
"What's so funny?"
She looked up and said:
"Looks like you don't hate me as much as I thought you did."
He laughed quietly.
"Looks like it, Kate. I never actually did."
Kate smiled softly up at him and before she knew, what she was doing and before he knew, what was going on she grabbed the both sides of his face with her hands and kissed him lightly taking his breath away. He gave in under the influence of the moment, but it didn't last very long.
Sawyer pulled away pushing her back gently.
"We should get going." He stated quietly and walked out of the cage leaving her confused.
Kate swallowed and ran a hand through her hair following him.
In the meanwhile
Jack was sick of sitting in that room. However he still was refusing to talk or eat. He didn't really know why. He knew it wouldn't make them to let him out.
This torture started effecting him more and more. And suddenly, when he thought he was gonna die here, in this room, the door opened. He narrowed his eyes and got up from his spot on the floor. Coming over to it he was breathing heavily.
Jack poked his head out of the room at the corridor and he didn't notice anybody. Has just somebody actually helped him? He got out and closed the door quietly behind him.
Running down the corridor, he was thinking just about one thing. Who the hell did that? Who decided to help him and why? Maybe it was just a cheap trick? They probably have tons of cameras here and soon they'll find out about his escape anyway…
Thinking, that he's not really safe on the corridor he entered the first room, that he noticed. It was a small place, it looked like a monitoring room. The monitors were covering the whole front wall.
Jack frowned staring at them. Suddenly his eyes stopped and he felt his heart in his throat.
Kate was kissing Sawyer in the cage. Jack blinked quickly to make sure if he's not just seeing things. Unfortunately he was seeing very clearly. And when he started thinking about smashing this monitor somebody interrupted him entering the room and Jack turned around quickly to stand face to face with Benjamin Linus.
"Hello, Jack."
In the meanwhile
"So I'm here just because you wanted to feed me or there's something else behind it?" Ana asked quietly, her eyes expressing seriousness. Danny looked up at her and let out a deep breath.
"Y'know… the same thing again…" he said and she narrowed her eyes.
"You mean what?"
"I mean you coming' back home."
"Danny…"
"I know, what you said 'bout it, but dammit Ana… just start thinking clearly."
"What?" she snapped and he looked away quickly.
"Your mom misses you."
Ana's gaze softened immediately as Danny stared back at her and she just knew he was not just telling lies.
"You seen her?" she asked after a while and he sent her an 'oh please' gaze.
"Of course I have."
"And she knows about your job and …. Dharma and the island and that you're here?"
He gazed down at the floor and shook his head.
"She doesn't."
Ana snorted slightly. Of course she doesn't. How in the world he would tell her about the whole shit he's in.
"I know, what you're thinkin' Ana, but--"
"You don't know!" she blurted out glaring at him.
"I know you too long…" he responded quietly and she snorted again.
"You don't know me at all, Danny. You just think you do. Well, guess what? You're wrong… Again." she added and got up sighing. "Time's up. I want to go back."
He stared up at her, his eyes pleading her to wait and give him a chance.
"If you turn me down, then you'll never see your mom again and you'll never get off this rock." He stated loudly and she just shook her head and started walking away "But if you come home with me, then maybe there's still a chance to rescue your friends."
She was trying to ignore him, completely ignore him… well that was her intend…until…
"Boone, as well!"
She stopped immediately and slowly looked over her shoulder at him. Danny was standing practically right behind her.
"You can save him, if you go back." He continued, though Ana had a feeling he didn't really like, what he was saying to her. But probably he thought it was the only way to make her agree.
And it worked…
"You actually believe, that I'm gonna be able to get him and the others off this island?"
He just nodded simply.
"I'm sure."
She stared at him long and hard trying to look through his eyes to catch a glimpse of truth there.
She knew she would do everything to help Boone, Sawyer and the others. Everything…
"All right, then. I guess I'll have to trust you again."
Danny grinned and he looked like a man, who's just won million dollars.
"Let's go home then." He said happily and she smiled a little, but then…
"Uh…one more thing."
"Whatever you want."
"I need to see Boone."
In the meanwhile
Jack turned around quickly to stand face to face with Benjamin Linus.
"Hello, Jack."
His breath was taken away, just like a while ago. This was really the last thing he needed then.
"I guess you've seen it already. I am really sorry for you. I always thought she would pick you, not Sawyer."
"Shut up! Jack yelled at him clenching his fists. Ben blinked and stared down.
"I'm wondering how did you get out of your room, doctor Shephard…"
"Oh really?" Jack laughed sarcastically "I think you exactly know how! You wanted me to see them!"
But Ben just shook his head at it and held up his hands.
"I had no idea that you…"
"Shut up!" Jack yelled again shivering. He knew he wouldn't handle another meeting with neither of them… Sawyer, nor Kate… He needed to get off here…And he remembered his conversation with Juliet.
"If you do something, we'll let you out, Jack.
"What do you want me to do?"
"You need to carry the operation on Ben."
Jack shook his head and gritted his teeth hard.
"You still want me to carry that operation?"
A/N: I'm so, so sorry it took me so long… A lot of things push at me now… :(
Next chapter: Danny leads Ana back to the cages and she talks with Boone, who's not really happy when he hears what she wants to do. Sawyer and Kate try to find the others, but they're caught. Jack's operating on Ben…
