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Last Chapter: The next few hours they spent in silence. Then, out of nowhere, Jack said, "Run!"
Kate took off with Jack on her tail when out of the bushes came a pack of wild boars. Kate started running harder at Jack's command but, it was all in vain. The boars could easily catch them. It was only a matter of time. They ran until they came to a mountain type structure. They started to climb as fast as they could go. They didn't stop till they got the top.
"Are you okay?" Jack asked once he had gotten his breath back.
"Yeah. Are you?" Kate responded.
"Yeah…" Jack said and all was quiet again.
After a few minutes Kate asked, "How are we going to get down. It looks as if the boars aren't leaving anytime soon and, even if they did leave, it's a long drop down. If we tried to jump we'd surely break an arm or leg."
"I know," Jack said and went into this trance look.
"I've got it!" Jack said after a while. "When the boars leave, I'll use the foot spaces to climb down and then you'll jump and I'll catch you before you hit the ground."
"That's interesting but, they don't look like they're going to leave any time soon," Kate said with a look of concern on her face.
"I know but, if you stay still and act like you are dead, they should get bored and leave," Jack said as he pointed down at the boars and then to the path in the jungle.
"Whatever," Kate said. Jack just stared at her and shook his head.
They took turns watching that night to make sure that the boars left. Finally, around 3 am they left.
"Hey, Kate, wake up!! The boars have left. We should probably start heading back now. I'll go down first and then you jump. Wait until I tell you," Jack said as quietly as possible. He started to make his way back down the boulder when his foot slipped and he slid to the next foot hole. He made it to the bottom and then yelled up to Kate. "Okay come on down."
Kate started to slide down when she felt Jack grab a hold of her leg. "Would you give me warning before you do that?" she asked with the sound of annoyance in her voice.
"I'm sorry but if I hadn't of stopped you, you would have slid and hit your leg on that part that sticks out and it would have been scraped pretty badly. I don't have anything to stop the bleeding or sterilize it. I thought that I would prevent it from happening!" Jack said with a slight shake in his voice.
"Sorry I snapped at you," Kate said truly sounding sorry. "So, which way did we come from?"
A/N: Another cliffhanger. Sorry about the long wait but school has kept me very busy. I'm going to try and write more often but, that may not happen. Sorry. Thanks to everyone who reviewed.