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Wondering

As the game of golf was over the people began to head back to wherever they had come from. The ones who had made bets collected their winnings. Jack stayed back to help Charlie and Hurley pack up the golf clubs. Kate of course stayed behind waiting for Jack. But her mind was not on him. Her thoughts were of Sawyer. She hadn't seen him with the others when they collected what they had won, but looking around she didn't see him waiting around either.

Looking towards beach all she saw were the few heading back and no Sawyer. She knew he wouldn't be heading back with the people to the caves, but her eyes wondered over to the diminishing outline of those heading that way. Still no Sawyer. Wondering where he was she sat down in the grass facing the way the beach staring at the out line of the trees.

She knew he had probably backed out on his bet. The water had been too hot for him. Typical Sawyer. She guessed just joining the group was too much for him. He couldn't stand helping someone out without something in return. It probably irked him to be needed for once. When he knew deep down they were cursing him under their breaths as he walked up on the little party.

Sitting there quiet with her thoughts she looked up Charlie walked past her clubs in hand. She looked up and back to see Jack and Hurley were finally ready to leave. She stood up as Jack walked towards her.

"You ready?" He asked with a deep outburst of breath. Kate nodded her head as she looked after Hurley heading down the hill to the start of the jungle trees. As she looked back she again searched for Sawyer.

"You ok?" She heard Jack's voice question. She looked back to him.

"Yeah." She simply answered.

"Ok. Just making sure. You looked a little worried about something." Jack said as they walked down the hill after the others.

They all remained quiet as they headed to the caves. The jungle air was moist around the four of them. Sounds of exotic birds and humming insects had become nature to them as they walked along the moist dirt ground. Kate's mind was still questioning of Sawyer as Jack worried of her thoughts. The other two remained quiet ahead of them only whispering comments back and forth about ways to improve the game. Maybe adding another hole or sand trap. Neither of them noticed the anxiety of the two behind them.

Kate's mind was away so far that she didn't notice Jack's constant stares. He looked over at her every few minutes to see if she would give him a look back. Letting him know she aware of reality. After a while he began to worry.

"Hey you guys. I left something back at the course." Jack announced. Even Kate stopped and turned to Jack.

"What?" Charlie asked in a sort of whiney tone.

"I left my…watch." Jack stuttered as he quickly slipped his watch off his wrist into his back pocket

"Dude can we get it tomorrow? I really don't wanna lug this stuff back and forth all night." Hurley complained as he pulled the bag of clubs higher over his shoulder.

"Yeah. Anyways a watch is bloody useless on this island." Charlie reminded as he looked above him to see a bright blue bird fly over his head.

Jack watched the others looked along with Charlie as he realized that his plan wasn't working. But he wouldn't give up that easy.

"You guys can go on to the caves and me and Kate will quickly head back." Jack blurted out. The three looked down to him. By now no one not even Kate wondered why he always picked her to go along with him on some treasure hunt. With him it didn't really bother her to go into the middle of the jungle.

"Well you guy have fun and try not to get eating by some monster in the night." Charlie warned as he him and Hurley started on again.

"Don't worry. It ain't night yet." Jack joked as he watched the two walk off into the distant.

Kate turned and started back towards the golf course. She kept walking until she noticed Jack wasn't following. Turning around she saw him standing there watching her.

"You coming?' She asked with a nervous laugh at the thought of him watching her. He walked slowly up to her as she turned and started walking again. Before she got far she felt his hand on her arm stopping her. She turned around and looked up at him. He had that look of concern on his face.

"I didn't forget my watch." He confessed.

"Then why did you tell Charlie and Hurley that you…" She trailed off suddenly confused about the situation.

"Are you really ok?" He asked. "I'm fine Jack." She replied. He pulled away, but still questioned her with that look.

He seemed dissatisfied with her answer.

"Really?" He asked again.

"Yes Jack. Really I'm fine. Why am I worrying you so much?' She asked back. His face turned uneasy.

"Well you have just been really distant and quiet. That's all." he replied knowing he saw an entrance deeper to her problems then being quiet.

"Well this island doesn't make good for conversation." She said as she turned and again started walking towards the course. She again stopped as she realized Jack wasn't walking with her.

She turned to him. He stood there staring after her again. She slowly walked up to him.

"Jack you need to stop worrying about me. I am a big girl and I can take care of my self." She warned looking him strait in the eyes. He looked down to the ground with a nervous laugh.

"Ok." He replied with a smile. A smile soon came to her face still knowing he could never stop worrying about every body.

The two stood there for a while as a comforting silence came over the two. Although comforting it didn't last long.

"Am I interrupting something?" An irritating voice rang through both their ears. Both tried hard not to roll their eyes as they turned to face him.

"What do you want Sawyer?" Jack questioned with an obvious hint of annoyance in his voice. That all too familiar smile grew on Sawyer's lips as Kate and Jack could only imagine the thoughts in his head.

"Just wanna borrow Freckles here for a minute." He replied, as his eyes looked Kate slowly up and down.

Kate could feel the heat of his eyes running up and down her body. She glanced slowly over to him as she knew his mind was wondering. Jack could see her unwillingness to go with Sawyer.

"Why do you want to borrow her?' He asked slowly looking away from Kate.

"Just wanna talk to her cowboy." Sawyer said with no hint of any attitude. Jack looked back to Kate for her reaction, which he didn't expect. She walked over to Sawyer under the protective eye of the good doctor.

Sawyer saw this as a threat to not being able to get Kate away from him.

"Don't worry Doc. I won't kiss her behind your back or anything." Sawyer said with that well-known evil smirk. Jack turned in disgust.

"You know where I'll be if you need me Kate." Jack offered. Kate acknowledged him with a whisper as he headed off. Sawyer mumbled to himself as Kate stood for a second watching after Jack. Turning she followed Sawyer.

They seemed to be off towards the beach as Sawyer led the way. He still muttered something to himself.

"He treats me like the criminal when he's the one torturing people." Sawyer yelled hoping Jack could hear him.

Kate rolled her eyes at his attitude. She didn't care who was the criminal or not seeing how she was the only one legally committed to being one. She wanted to know what he wanted her for.

"Sawyer what do you want." She asked with an exhale as she stopped in her tracks. Sawyer turned around with that evil smile once again.

"Well Freckles like I said I have a lot of answers to that question. But by the looks of you I don't think you wanna hear the number one on my list." He laughed.

"What do you want to talk about?" She quickly put in making sure he didn't tell her.

He took along stare at her before turning away. Kate kept a close eye on him as he pulled something from his pocket. Turning he held his hand out to her. She looked down to see two bottles of sunscreen.

"What are you giving me this for?" She asked looked back up to him.

"Your cowboy got it in the hole." He said as he again offered it to her.

"Yeah, but I'm not the one who needs it. Why didn't you give it to Jack?' She questioned.

"Cause I trust you more then I do him. Plus don't think he'd take it from me." Sawyer answered still holding it out to her.

Kate was struck by what he said. "He trusted her?" The words played over and over in her mind as she reached out for it. She was half expecting him to let her to have it and half expected him to grab her and pull her towards him. But he gave it up willingly. He dropped his hand to his side as he turned around and headed on. She looked down at her hand seeing the two tubes of sunscreen.

"What about the flash light?" She asked.

"Back at my tent. Couldn't carry it in my pocket. Too much space occupied." He said without turning. Not being able to see his face she could still see that smirk.

Both remained quiet as they headed on to the beach. Sawyer had lit a cigarette occupying his mouth, but Kate didn't let her guard down for some rude comment to come slurring out. Sawyer seemed content leading her on. He was tired of the other way around. Within minutes they were to the clearing and on the beach.

Sawyer's tent could clearly be seen over the rocky hill and down the sandy path. Kate stayed quiet as she followed him. She wasn't going to provoke the snake. She looked over the beach at the people who had become aware of the two and slowly turned away. Kate noticed and looked away as she came under the protective blue tarp.

Sawyer seemed to pretend that she wasn't there as he wondered around. Looking through his findings he found a suitcase. Flipping back the top he searched through some clothes. Picking out a short sleeve black t-shirt he put it on his bed. Wrapping his arms around his waist he pulled the one he currently wore over his head.

Kate looked away as he dropped it to the ground. Picking up the other shirt he looked over to see her gazing nervously out at the water. For a moment he thought she was actually staring at something. Following her eyes he saw it was just the ocean. He knew it made her nervous to be around him.

Pulling the shirt over his head he turned his back to her.

"You know it ain't a crime to look at me sweetheart." He said as he looked devilishly over his shoulder. Kate's eyes slowly wondered over to him. She noticed the bandage around his arm. His other shirt had covered it up and with this one you could plainly see it. It seemed as though he was trying to make her feel guilty about what happened. Remind her of something he though she helped cause.

"Where's the flash light?" She asked bluntly turning him down. His face fell as he pointed to his bed. There it sat amongst his blankets. Walking over under his glare she wasn't gonna let it get to her. She was used to it.

Constantly staring at her whenever she walked past him. Bending over she picked it up and headed out of the tent. Without comment, but not without stare.

The sun was going down over the water and created a brilliant spread of colors over the sky. With the bright purples and light pinks, watching one could almost forget they were stranded on some crazy island. Not Kate. She never let that reminder go away.

Sitting in the sand away from the camp she looked away from the water and the sunset. She saw all the people sitting amongst her. The people that were praying for the boat on the horizon. She knew deep down that it was a small chance for rescue. Jack was right they needed to learn how to survive.

Looking at them she noticed the fire was growing small and the pile of firewood even smaller. She knew she was the only one since Sayid left that had the guts to go into the jungle and cut firewood.

Getting up she walked over to camp and past Shannon who had taken the sunscreen to new levels of tanning. She pulled herself up off the towel at her brother's request to be part of the group. Kate just gave a warm hearted smile as they looked up at her passing by.

Walking over to the pile of useful materials and things Sawyer hadn't got his grabby hands on Kate rummaged through it. Putting the blankets and the pillows aside she picked up the axe and headed up the hill towards Sawyer's tent. She was gonna try as hard as she could to bypass him and just keep walking to the jungle. Getting to the top of the hill she saw him out of the corner of her eye. She quickly looked over to see him sitting in his chair as usual reading his book.

She wondered why he always read that book. Feeling her gaze he looked up. She felt weak as his eyes burned into her. He gave her a little wink, causing her to squirm. Looking away she still felt his eyes. He wasn't going to give up seeing how she looked first. She just pretended not to notice as she headed on past the trees away from his eyes.