It had been a few days since Charlie killed Ethan, and the island had been mostly uneventful except for a boar attacking Sawyer. So, of course, things had to get crazy.
Jin and Sun were standing by the water. Jin was yelling about something, and Sun replied angrily. And very loudly. Those two seemed to argue about everything.
"There they go again." Jack sighed. Even Jack was getting annoyed, and, like Lena always said, he was basically a selfless robot.
"Should we do something?" Claire asked. Lena had been wondering the same thing, but what could she do? No one understood them except for each other.
Jin started to drag Sun away, and, to Lena's surprise, Micheal ran forward and shoved Jin away.
Jin whirled on Michael, looking extremely angry, and raised his fists. But before he could do anything, Sun stepped between the two of them and slapped Michael in the face.
Leaving everybody shocked, most of all Michael, Sun grabbed Jin's hand and stormed away.
"What do you think that was all about?' Hurley said to no one in particular.
"I have no idea." Lena, who happened to be standing closest to him, replied.
…
"Help, somebody help!"
Lena was once again awakened from her semi-peaceful sleep by the sound of screams and shouts.
Can't you all just let me sleep?! She mentally cursed, but those thoughts completely vanished from her mind as she saw the raft that Michael had been building on fire.
"Oh shit!" She yelled, running along with the crowd towards the burning raft.
Everyone grabbed sand, water, whatever they could use to put the fire out, but it had already spread too much.
"No, no, no!" Michael screamed, before coming to the obvious conclusion. He whirled on Sun, who had also been trying to put the fire out. "Where is he? Where the hell is he?!"
Of course, he thought Jin set the fire.
Sun shouted something in Korean and took a few steps back.
"Where is he?!" Michael shouted again.
"She doesn't understand you!" Jack yelled.
"Where is he?!
"Michael, calm the hell down." Lena exclaimed, hand on her sword just in case.
"Back off." Kate added.
"No, her husband did this, and she knows it." Michael insisted. "You're trying to protect him now, is it?"
"She was with me!" Kate yelled. Sun, clearly overwhelmed by all of this, ran off into the jungle as Michael was distracted by Walt.
"I'm going to break his damn neck!" Michael declared as he started to follow Sun. But Kate and Jack wisely held him back.
"Just take it easy, okay." Jack said. "We don't know that Jin did this." Lena frowned skeptically. As much as she wanted to believe that he was innocent, all the signs pointed to Jin being the culprit.
"Are you serious?!" Shouted Sawyer.
"Sawyer, shut up!"
"Jack, we all saw him at the beach this morning." Charlie reasoned. "And who else here would have burned it down?"
"It does't mean he torched the raft!" Jack argued.
"Then who the hell did?!" Michael shouted, louder than everyone else.
…
Lena was picking fruit in the jungle when Sayid approached her, looking conflicted.
"Hey, Sayid." Lena greeted. "What's going on?"
"I, um, need advice." Sayid said nervously. "Relationship advice." Lena stared at him for a minute and then doubled over laughing.
"Wha- it's not funny!" Sayid exclaimed.
"I know, I know, just…" And then she started laughing again, even harder than before. "The fact that you're coming to me for relationship advice is hilarious."
"You seem like the kind of person who's good with relationships." Sayid said defensively.
"I don't know what gave you that idea, but okay." Lena said. "What's your relationship problem?"
"I think I… you know, like Shannon." Sayid began. Lena felt herself deflate slightly, and then found herself wondering why she felt disappointed. "And I think she likes me as well, but her brother said she's only in it for herself…"
"Well Sayid, let Lena the Relationship Coach sort out your problems." She said, ignoring the odd feeling inside her. "The answer here is simple: Do you want to be with her?"
"Yes."
And Lena could see it. The way he didn't hesitate with his answer. The absolute certainty in his eyes.
"Then go for it."
Sayid smiled and ran back towards the beach. Lena smiled as well, feeling very accomplished and satisfied.
She only felt a little bit jealous.
…
When Lena got back to the beach, it was in complete chaos.
Michael had gotten Jin somehow, and the two of them were shouting at each other while everyone looked on.
"Michael, stop!" Lena exclaimed.
"Look at his hands!" Michael shouted. "They're burned all over! From the fire that he started!" Jin started to argue, which made Michael even angrier.
"You said something to me!" Michael yelled. He lunged at Jin, but Jack ran forward to hold him back.
"Michael." Jack said evenly.
"No, say it again man!" Michael screamed at Jin. Lena noticed Sun looking on, horrified at the scene before her. But who could blame her?
Michael broke free of Jack's grip and punched Jin in the face. Jack moved forward, but Sawyer stopped him, saying that it was their fight.
Meanwhile, the two men were in a full-on brawl, punching and kicking, full of hatred.
"Stop it! Leave him alone!"
Everyone, including Lena, turned towards the voice. Surely she was hearing things? But no, Sun was speaking English.
"He didn't burn your raft." She said, shrinking under everyone's gaze. Lena's eyes shifted to Jin, who, to her surprise, looked just as shocked as everybody else.
"You speak English?" Charlie exclaimed, breaking the very awkward silence.
"Plot twist." Lena muttered.
"Yeah, I didn't see that coming." Hurley added.
"You understood us this whole time?" Jack asked incredulously. "Why the hell didn't you say anything?"
"Your raft was already on fire when he arrived." Sun continued, ignoring the rest of the shocked survivors. "He burned his hands trying to put it out."
"Then why did he run?" Michael asked. Sun repeated the question in Korean, but Jin didn't reply, simply staring at her with a betrayed expression.
"He's not a liar!" Sun insisted.
"I wouldn't lecture us about lying." Sawyer commented. "From the look on his face, even your man here didn't know you speak English. How do we know she isn't covering up for him?"
"Because she isn't!" Said a new voice. It was Locke, walking down from the jungle. "Why would he burn the raft?"
He's been after me since day one, everybody knows it!" Michael argued. "What if-"
"Okay, it's personal, but why take it out on our best chance of getting off the island?" Locke interrupted. "Why would any one of us block an attempt to get home? We're so intent on pointing the finger at one another that we're ignoring the simple undeniable truth that the problem isn't here, it's there! They've attacked us, sabotaged us, abducted us, murdered us! Maybe it's time we stop blaming us and start worrying about them! We're not the only people on this island and we all know it!"
Wow, that was a Jack-level speech, Lena thought. But Locke was right. Ethan hadn't been alone. There were others, and they clearly weren't friendly.
"He did not do it." Sun repeated again, but her words fell on deaf ears after Locke's big exclamation.
And clearly everyone was thinking about it, including Lena. Locke's words kept playing over and over in her head like a broken record.
We're not the only people on this island and we all know it! No, they were not. And deep down, it scared Lena. It scared them all.