Breaking Points
He of course headed after her not near finished with the conversation.
"You have no clue about me there sweetheart." He yelled out after her.
"I know that you're wrong about some crazy thing you saw between us." She said quickly turning around.
"I know something. You liked me more then you liked Jackass." He said. She stared at him for a while.
"Why does anything I do with him bother you so much?" She questioned. "So what if I kissed him. So what if I kissed you. If I remember correctly we're on some weird island and we weren't keeping score. So leave me alone' She threw in his face. He gave her a look of disgust.
"I know girls like you. Think they have the men wrapped around their fingers and with one snap they do whatever you want. Well not me." He nearly yelled trying to piss her off.
She held back tears, as she knew he was totally wrong. She didn't know why he insisted that they keep up the conversation that was getting either nowhere.
"You know what Sawyer. You think you know me, but you have no idea." She proclaimed as she turned away and walked off. Of course Sawyer wasn't one to give up. If he wasn't right he wanted to find out why not.
Following closely behind he could tell she wasn't in the mood for this cat and mouse game.
"Then what are you?" He questioned. Kate stopped in her tracks with him nearly bumping into her.
"Sawyer I am really not in the mood for this right now." She whispered as she continued on. Sawyer stood in his place.
"And you called me egotistical." He breathed through his teeth. She quickly turned around.
"How am I egotistical?" She questioned him. She never broke eye contact with him as he walked up to her. His eyes seemed full with rage. He wasn't the one that needed to be mad. She was the one having her character questioned.
Sawyer stared her hard and long in the eyes. She wasn't about to back down. He looked away with a laugh before he answered.
"You just can't admit that you can resist me." He said in a low raspy voice. "Yeah and what makes you sure of that?" She questioned with fierceness on her breath as she stood strong front of him.
"If you could resist me you would've walk away along time from now and never came back." He pointed out as their stare became intense. Knowing her next move was risky she took the chance.
Without another word she turned around and started to walk off. Not letting her off that easy Sawyer went after her. Wrapping his hand around her wrist he turned her around. Pulling her back to him she saw the shock on her face. Her breath was short as she searched his face for some clue to what he had up his sleeve. Before she could react his lips were inching their way to hers. They lightly brushed her lips as she slightly eased up in his arms.
Her mind flooded with images of the day they tortured him. When she kissed him that day it was to get him to talk. Then it was useless. This time she was being forced to. His hand grasped hard onto her arm not wanting to let go. Standing there as he kissed her all she wanted to do was pull away. With enough force she swiftly pulled back trying to regain her composure. Sawyer let go of her arm letting blood to freely flow back to her hand. She looked up at him in shock as she wiped her lips. Did he think he could his way with her? There was no way she'd let him. Raising her hand she went slap him, not before he grabbed her arm again pulling her back to him.
His breath beat down on her chest as he eyes stared furiously into hers.
"See Freckles" He began as he tightened his grip on her.
"You can't resist me." He smiled. She tried hard to pull away from him, but his grip was too strong.
"Sawyer let go of me." She begged pulling at his arm. His look that he gave her scared her. She had no clue what he was capable of doing. Their gaze with each other was intense as their eyes questioned each other.
"Sawyer let go.' She demanded as she tried hard to break free.
"What's going on here?' A voice asked from behind Kate.
Both of them looked to the voice. Locke stood there cleaning his knife. The look on Kate's face was of plead. She wanted away from him. The two still remained quiet.
"Is there a problem?" Locke asked with a curious look. Kate looked back to Sawyer to see what he was going to do.
"No problem here." Sawyer replied letting go of her wrist. She immediately cover it with her other hand as she walked off. Locke stared her down before his stare turned quickly to Sawyer who had guilty written all over his face.
"So what were you actually doing with Ms. Kate?" Lock questioned walking up to Sawyer. Sawyer's face was of disgust.
"Ain't none of your business.' Sawyer spit as he headed off.
"Well you better not lay another hand on her or I'll make it my business." Locke warned as he emphasized the knife in his hand. Sawyer eyes wondered down to it before he turned away.
Kate held back her tears as she walked quickly to the caves. She was completely at her own that she didn't notice Charlie coming towards her. She just kept walking at a feverish pace.
"Kate?" He called after her now following after her. She didn't hear him.
"Kate?" He called again. He walked up along side her trying to get her attention. He saw the tears and stopped letting her go on as they reached the edge of the caves. Something was wrong with her.
Rushing her way past everyone she didn't acknowledge any of them as she headed strait for the water. Claire saw her and started to get up. Once she saw her pass she sat back down. She saw what Charlie saw. She sat silent as she watched her walk away. She didn't look away till Charlie came up to her.
"Charlie what's wrong with Kate?" She questioned looking up to Charlie.
"Don't know. I tried to talk to her, but she acted as if I wasn't there." Charlie expressed.
"Maybe you should get Jack.' Claire suggested as she looked away from Charlie and back to Kate.
'Yeah." Charlie agreed as he slowly headed to find Jack.
Kate stood quietly over the pond as she saw her reflection in the water. She looked miserable. Wiping her face she bent down and started going through her backpack. Charlie had wonder off looking for Jack. Before he set foot out of the area Jack came walking towards him.
"Hey Charlie." Jack greeted him.
"Hi." Charlie said barley above a whisper.
"What's wrong?" Jack asked sensing something was wrong.
"Uhh." Charlie went off as he looked over to Kate. Jack's eyes wondered over to her. She sat on the edge of the pond motionless.
"What?" Jack questioned more fiercely.
"Well I don't know what's wrong that's the bloody problem." Charlie began. Jack's eyes were widely on him.
"She just came walking in here crying. She acted as it she didn't see any of us." Charlie explained. Jack's eyes wondered over to her. He could see her shaking and it made him think of the morning on the beach.
"Ok.' Jack whispered as he walked over to her.
She still stood there trying to regain herself. Taking deep breaths she tried to calm herself. She didn't know why she was acting this way over Sawyer. She was no reason to get this upset she thought to herself. But maybe it was more then just Sawyer. Taking the advice for herself she got up. She nearly jumped out of her skin as she felt a hand on her arm.
"Don't touch me!" She yelled thinking it was Sawyer she swung around and pushed herself away from him.
Standing there she looked to the person. There stood Jack reaching out to her. Looking around all the others stood around her with shock written on their faces. She looked back to Jack as he walked over to her. Slowly making sure not to scare her.
"Kate what's wrong?' he whispered close to her not wanting any of this to get to the others. They had turned away, but kept their ears open. Kate looked to him.
"Nothing's wrong Jack.' She said sniffing back tears as she turned back to filling up the water bottles.
"Kate." He wined trying to get her to open up once again. He knew that was a long shot.
Standing there she pretended not to hear him. Jack had no clue what was wrong with her this time around. He thought she had let out everything that morning. Walking up to her he leaned in next to her ear.
"Kate. Whether or not you wanna tell me there's something the matter." He exclaimed looking down into her reflection in the water. Looking away he saw the bruises on her arm.
"What happened?" He question with worry in his voice as he took her arm. The bruises looked like fingerprints.
"Nothing I fell." She said as she pulled her hand back protectively against her chest.
He knew now what had happened Sawyer.
"What did he do Kate?" Jack sternly asked. Kate said nothing as she looked away. He knew she didn't want to talk about it. She had never been this vulnerable before. Sawyer had to have done something horrible to her.
"Kate what did he do to you?" He questioned her again.
"Why is it you business Jack?" She asked as strength grew within her. Why was she defending him Jack asked himself. Maybe he threatened her. But what could he have done to make her so fearful?
He slowly came closer to her. Never looking up to him she stood in his towering shadow.
"Look. I just want to know if you are all right. You have everyone worried.' He explained in a low comforting voice. Kate's eyes wondered up to his.
"I'm fine I can take care of myself.' She whispered with no hint of anger in her voice. Jack could see in her eyes that she wasn't scared like she had been. He realized he needed to do what she said and let her be.
"Ok." He said giving up. Leaning closer to her he left a gentle kiss on her cheek before he walked away. Like in her dream she placed her hand over it protecting it.
Jack walked away and over to his stuff. He was going to leave her be and just go for a walk. Looking away from her he looked back to see Locke standing in front of him.
"Locke. What's up?" He asked seeing the worry on his face.
"Uh.' He began as his eyes caught sight of Kate. Jack knew what he was looking at. Slowly Locke led Jack away from the Kate's line of hearing.
"What's going on?" Jack asked again. Locke stood silent. Jack saw in his eyes that he knew something.
"Do you know what happened to Kate?" Jack questioned with excitement in his voice.
"Well I don't what happened, but I walked in on the end of it." He said.
"Who was she with?' Jack asked.
"That young rouge that hoards everything. Can't think of his name." Locke explained.
"Sawyer.' Jack whispered.
"Yeah. She was asking him to let go before I walked up on them." Locke explained as he saw Jack's attention turn back to Kate.
"Thanks.' Jack said as he headed quickly out of the camp.
Jack knew where he was going. He knew what he was going to do. Walking up the beach he turned in the direction of Sawyer's tent. He walked past the others like they were nothing. Not paying any attention to their stares or whispers. Because frantically he really don't know why they were doing so. He had one thing on his mind as he trenched up shore to his tent. Holding his breath as he stood in the doorway he thought of what to say.