"Okay, everyone, listen up," Horace announced to his security team. "We don't know yet if another attack is coming. So everyone needs to be ready for your security assignments, okay? Make sure you're in contact with your team leaders. LaFleur's got search parties out, but the hostile's got a good jump on us. We're pretty sure he used this fire as a diversion in order to escape."

"I'm sorry," Adonia cut in. "But if he was locked up, how did he start the fire?"

"Who are you?" Horace asked.

"Adonia Sterling. I'm new."

"Well, Adonia, the way he started the fire is he had help, okay? Somebody torched that van and then that somebody let him out of his cell. And since the security cameras didn't pick up any hostiles crossing the perimeter. That means it was one of us." Horace turned to another security person. "Baxter, I want a full report on clean up, A.S.A.P."

"You got it boss."

Adonia looked at Jack, who seemed extremely concerned. "I'm sure he's fine," Adonia said under her breath.

Jack put his hand on Adonia's shoulder. "I know," he said. "But we might not be."

Then, Adonia saw a van pull up and Jin stepped out of the driver's side. To her surprise, Dare also got out of the van. Adonia ran up and watched as Dare and Jin went around to the side of the van and Jin pulled out a body – a child.

"Who is it?" Adonia asked. Dare didn't respond, she seemed too intent on following Jin as he carried the kid into the hospital. "Dare!" Adonia grabbed Dare's shoulder and whipped her around.

"It's Ben!" Dare snapped. She turned back and followed Jin into the makeshift operating room.

Adonia stopped walking for a moment, then she caught up with Dare. "Sayid did this?" she asked.

Dare nodded. "He shot him in cold blood."

"Cold blood? Ben's not exactly innocent."

Juliet was in the hospital and started hooking Ben up to IVs.

Dare looked furious. "He's a goddamn kid, Adonia! How can you be like that?"

"How can you be like that?" Adonia shouted back. "He shot Desmond, threatened you and possibly your son. Sayid did us a favor."

"I'm going to have to ask you both to leave," Juliet said seriously.

"I'm not leaving," Dare said immediately. "I'm a nurse."

"Now, we both know that's not true. Adonia and Jin, please leave. I need to have a word with Genavieve," Juliet said. Adonia looked annoyed, but Jin led her out anyway.

"I know this is hard for you," Juliet said once they were alone, "but if you want to keep lying to everyone, you need to stop caring about Ben's wellbeing so much. I read your file, Genavieve. I know Ben's your father."

Dare swallowed hard. "Don't say-"

"I'm not going to," Juliet assured her. "I'm trying to help you. And right now, Ben needs space. So please leave."

Dare placed the back of her hand on her forehead. "Fine," she said, "but I want to know if anything happens, okay?"

Juliet nodded and Dare left.

Adonia, Jin, and to Dare's surprise, Roger were all standing outside the hospital door. "How is he? How is my boy?" Roger asked Dare.

"Juliet's doing all she can. All we can do is wait," Dare replied with a forced smile.

"Where is the doctor?" Jin asked.

"The Looking Glass until Friday," Dare answered.

Twenty long minutes later, Sawyer walked up and looked at everyone gathered. "How is Ben?" he asked.

"We don't know," Roger answered.

"Let me see if I can get an update for you," Sawyer said.

"Thanks, Jim," he said.

Sawyer started to go inside and said, "Roger, do you happen to have your keys with you?"

"Yeah, why, what do you need?" he asked, feeling around his pockets for them. "I must have left them at the house."

"That's okay, don't worry about it." Sawyer went inside.

Miles walked up and said, "I'm going to need you to come with me."

"Who?" Adonia asked.

"All of you. Except him." He pointed to Roger. "Horace wants to see you."

Dare saw he was lying, but followed him anyway. He led them into a house where Jack, Kate, and Hurley were already all inside.

"What is this?" Dare asked. "A party?"

Miles shut the door. He picked up the rifle and cocked it.

"You're telling us we're under house arrest?" Jack asked.

"No, you're all free to leave whenever you want, but I'll shoot you in the leg," Miles said.

Jack sighed. "And whose idea was this?"

"Who do you think?" Miles asked.

"Sawyer is just doing his job, Jack," Kate said.

Dare was avoiding eye contact with Adonia – their fight earlier had obviously not blown over yet. Adonia was itching to know what Dare was keeping from her and why she wasn't as angry at Ben as Adonia was.

Hurley was in the corner staring at his hand. Miles said, "What the hell are you doing, tubby?"

"Checking to see if I'm disappearing," Hurley said.

"What?"

"Back To the Future, man. We came back in time to the island and changed stuff, so if little Ben dies, he'll never grow up to be big Ben, who was the one who made us come back here in the first place. Which means we can't be here, and therefore, dude, we don't exist."

"You're an idiot." Miles sat.

"Am I?"

"Yeah, it doesn't work like that. You can't change anything. Your maniac Iraqi buddy shot Linus, that is what always happened, it's just we never experienced how it all turns out."

"That was really confusing," Hurley said.

"Yeah, well, get used to it," Miles responded. "But the good news is that Linus didn't die, so that means the kid can't either. He'll be fine."

"Didn't look like he was going to be fine," Kate said. "What if you're wrong?"

"Well, if I'm wrong," Miles said, "then I guess we all stop existing and none of it matters anyway, then does it?"

Sawyer came in and said, "Doc, I need you to come with me." He looked really flustered.

"Come with you where?" Jack asked.

"Juliet said the kid's losing blood and we ain't got none to put back in him. So we need you to show us where he sprung a leak."

"No," Jack said.

Dare stood, her anger just about to boil over.

Kate stared at him.

"What?" Sawyer said.

"No, I'm not coming with you," Jack said with contempt.

"If you don't come with me, Jack, the kid's going to die."

"Then he dies."

"You can't do that!" Dare shouted. Sawyer turned and walked away.

"What the hell are you doing?" Kate asked Jack.

"Making sandwiches. I figured everyone should be getting hungry right about now."

"He's just a boy, Jack. You can't just let him die."

"You heard Miles. We can't change what's already happened. This has nothing to do with me."

"Unless you're the one who is supposed to save him," Dare said.

Adonia walked up to Dare and said, "Thirty years from now, that little boy is going to be the man that locks me, Kate, and Sawyer in a cage and Jack in a room because he needs surgery. And then we have to go and beg Jack to save his life so they won't kill Sawyer. We've already done this. Jack's saved Benjamin Linus' life once and he doesn't need to do it again."

"This is our fault," Dare said. "We brought Sayid back! We caused this!"

Jack spoke up. "When we were here before I spent all of my time trying to fix things. But did you ever think that maybe the island just wants to fix things itself? And maybe I was just getting in the way?"

"You know," Kate said, "I don't like the new you. I like the old you who wouldn't just sit around and wait for things to happen."

"You didn't like the old me, Kate."

Kate and Dare exchanged a look before walking out of the house together. "Hey, where are you going?" Miles asked, derelict in his duties.