The Girl Everyone Thought They Knew
Disclaimer - Ch 1
Notes - Chapter three. YAY! I have finished this! Well...I will have finshed this by the time you see this Author Note.

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The Girl Everyone Thought They Knew - Ch 3
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When Sawyer got up the next morning, it was still early. Most everyone else was still asleep. He figured it was probably around six or so, but he couldn't be sure. He was sitting away from the camp and reveling in the quiet and being left alone. As he thought about that night over in his mind again, he couldn't help but wonder if that girl was Kate. They really looked a lot alike. Too much alike....

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Kate had just woken up and was tired of laying there doing nothing. She wasn't sure what she was going to do or where she was going to go, but she got up and started walking around the beach. She saw a lone figure out in the distance. For a moment, she wondered who it might be, but then she realized there was only one true loner on the beach. "Sawyer." She whispered to herself as she walked over to sit next to him.

"Hey, Freckles, what are you doin' up this early?" Sawyer asked, hardly giving her a glance.

"Just woke up. Couldn't get back to sleep." Kate answered him, "What's your excuse?"

"I was woken up by my thoughts. So I got up. And I'm thinking."

"Right." Kate said quietly. She wasn't sure what it was that possessed her to even think it, but she was honestly starting to wonder if Mr. Jag was sawyer. They looked way too close to not be the same person. Or at least have a twin of sorts around somewhere.

"You like what you see?" Sawyer asked when he noticed Kate had started staring at him.

"Not necessarily," Kate started slowly, "You just look....familiar."

His comment was heavily sarcastic, "Well, we met eight days ago, darlin'. I figure I should start lookin' familiar by now."

"No, I mean...from somewhere else. Besides the island."

Sawyer finally actually looked at her. How could it be that the two of them, who were very different in every aspect, were thinking the same thing? No. It's just a coincidence. He thought, trying to shrug the thought away. But he couldn't help but still think about Ms. No-Name he'd met three years ago.

The silence between them made Kate long for Mr. Jag and all the talking they had done. They hadn't even known each other's names and look how easily their conversations had come? And here she was with someone she'd known longer than the two minutes she'd known Jag-Man when she agreed to a date with him, and they were absolutely completely silent.

Sawyer was getting annoyed of the silence. Either they were arguing, throwing insults back and forth, or she should leave. "All right, sweetheart, either throw me something to play off of or leave and let me be in silence on my own."

"Something to play off of?" Kate repeated, "All right, here's something. You look familiar. As in, from away from here. As in, I think I went on a random date with you three years ago. Called you, uh, Mr. Jag and we never actually told each other our names. Maybe I'm insane, or you have a twin brother, but there's something for you to play off of."

"And, uh, this guy...he called you, Ms. No-Name, right?"

"Yeah..." Kate said slowly, quietly.

"Yep." Sawyer muttered to himself, "That's what I thought."

"What do you mean?"

"Last night...I remembered that night. I didn't think it was you at first, but....you and Ms. No-Name looked way too similar. It didn't make sense, but I wasn't gonna accept that the girl I'd met three years ago that had been so nice to me had changed into you." Sawyer said the last bit a little more harshly than he'd expected, but he figured it'd get his point across.

"Funny, because I didn't think I was the one that had changed so much. You, on the other hand...." Kate shook her head, "You changed a lot, Sawyer."

"How?" He asked her pointedly.

Kate decided to just be blatantly honest. "You used to be sweet. Now you're just an insult-throwing bastard."

"What do you know? It was one night. Who's ta say that wasn't an act? Huh?"

Kate shook her head, "No, it wasn't an act. No normal person can act that well."

"Fine, think what you want and I'll think how I do." Sawyer said, looking back out across the ocean.

Kate laughed and this annoyed Sawyer, mostly because he wasn't sure why or what she was laughing at.

He turned to look at her again, "What are you laughing at, you maniac?"

After she calmed down a little, Kate answered him. "We're being pathetic. Both of us. In the same night, we thought of the same date and realized the possibility of the nice person we'd met three years ago had changed into the sarcastic bastard and the cold-hard bitch. And neither one of us want to accept that. But we have to, because that's how it is. And it's true that people change. We just have to accept that we've changed and here we are, sitting here acting like a pair of five-year-olds over it." She laughed again.

Sawyer smirked. She had a point. He joined her in laughing. It was pretty funny once you got down to it.

The pair's laughter was interrupted, though, by Charlie, who came running down the beach and slid to a stop. "Hey, Kate, uh, Jack...wanted me to get you for something." He shook his head, "I'm really not sure what. He said one thing, then another, went back to the first, and then he went off on this thing I didn't even understand a word of and....I think you should probably just...go." Charlie nodded. Yep. That seemed like it would be best for Kate to do. After he explained his reason for being there, however, he frowned slightly, "Wait....where were you laughing about?"

Kate and Sawyer exchanged glances and they laughed lightly. Kate stood up and ruffled the other man's hair, "Don't worry your pretty little head about us, Charlie." With that, she left to go see just what it was that Jack wanted.

Charlie looked after her, then to Sawyer, back to Kate and finally back to Sawyer again. "Worry? I wasn't worrying about you two...except maybe about your sanity, I was just being confused!"

Sawyer shook his head, "If you find out about it, it definitely ain't gonna be from me."

Charlie blinked after Sawyer and watched as he walked away. "All right, they've just gone insane. That's got to be it. There's no explaining it otherwise!"

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Notes - I loved this! It was great fun to write. Especially Charlie's confusion. Poor him. Now not only do Kate and Jack have an inside joke that he doesn't understand, but so do Kate and Sawyer. lol! Anyway....yeah. I'll stop babbling as long as you don't forget to....

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