Hey guys, sorry for the late update but I studied math for 5 hours! And I'm still totally gonna fail. I have no idea how to triangulate the whatever the hell I'm supposed to, and interest just screws me up(AR((1i)n-1)/i that's the equation, what is up with that????) sigh
Broken Promise
Chapter 9
Kidnapping To The Second Degree
Ethan stood smirking evilly in the opening of the cave, dark bruises were scattered across his face, the most noticeable on his eye and his jaw. Kate knew Jack had beaten him, but took no comfort in the fact.
Ethan crept towards her a few inches and laughed as she frantically tried to stand up. Kate pushed with her hands but the pressure on her wrists was hurting to much, and she collapsed back onto the blanket, "Get away from me," she demanded through gritted teeth.
"Or what? You're in worse shape then I am," Ethan chuckled, and walked right up next to her.
"Jack!" Kate screamed as loud as she could, hoping he would hear her.
Ethan grabbed her forearm and she ripped it away. Kate was about to scream again, but Ethan's arm clamped down hard on her left wrist and she let out a painful whimper.
He whipped her up and placed a hand over her mouth, "You little boyfriend Jack decided it would be fun to do this to my face. So let's see how fun it is for him, when I do it to yours," he jerked her forward and grasped both her wrists in one hand, squeezing them both together. "What the hell is this?" he asked as he ripped off the coverings over her wrists.
Kate flinched involuntarily as Ethan's fingers moved over the stitches still fresh in her skin. He looked up at her terrified face and grinned diabolically, "Oh this will be fun," and dragged her forcefully from the cave.
"How is Kate today?" Sayid asked as he knelt down next to the stream to fill his bottles of water.
Jack looked over and sent him a weak smile, "She's doing better then she was last night, that's for sure," he explained and tightened the cap on the bottle.
"What happened to you to, was terrible and uncalled for," Sayid began, "Locke told me to give you this incase of anymore interactions with Ethan," he explained as he held out a medium sized hunting knife.
Jack took it, but added, "I don't think I'll need it, but who knows what's going to happen next on this crazy island."
Sayid smiled reassuringly, then asked, "So where is Kate now?"
Jack started to get uncomfortable, "She, umm, spent the night in my cave," he explained then quickly added, "So I could keep an eye on her, nothing happened."
Sayid chuckled softly, "Jack, it is not my place to judge you, it's no one's but your own," he explained as he got up, "But even if you had done anything. I can't say I wouldn't be happy, it seems you both have needed somebody for awhile, before the crash, and it's brought you two together. That way at least one thing good would come out of all this."
Jack was about to reply, but Charlie interrupted him. He ran up quickly and stopped abruptly, "Jack, where's Kate?" he asked nervously
"She's in my cave sleeping why?" Jack asked.
"No she's not," Charlie said quickly, his chest rising and falling with fear.
"What?" Jack asked unsurely as he rose from his spot, trudging towards his cave.
"She's not there," Charlie replied quickly and stood behind Jack as he stood in the entrance of the cave.
The blanket was wrinkled and items had been tossed about, it was obvious that there had been a struggle. But what bothered Jack the most was Kate's wrist bandages, turned a dark maroon with dried blood, ripped apart and thrown on the floor.
Jack bent down and picked one up, holding it in his hands and thinking of Kate out there with this maniac.
"Do you think Ethan came back?" Charlie asked frightened for Kate as he was and is for Claire. When Jack didn't answer he pressed on, "Jack?"
"I'm going to kill that son of a bitch," Jack growled and stood up running from the cave.
It had taken him awhile to convince the others at the caves to let him do this alone, he needed to do this alone. He needed to make Ethan pay, to make sure he'd never do anything like this to anyone again.
You aren't going to kill him Jack, his dad's voice rang in his head. You're a doctor, you took an oath, and more above that, you're a Sheppard, and no son of mine is going to kill for some loose convict.
Jack pounded the ground with his feet his dad's voice just provoking him more. Once he was far enough into the jungle, he began to yell, "ETHAN!" There was no answer, so he continued to disrupt the peaceful jungle life with his screams of pure rage.
She's already dead, his father bickered, But this is one death I won't blame you for Jack, no one will miss her. I will, Jack thought, I will miss her if she doesn't come back to the caves tonight. If she ends up another crossed off name on the manifest because I didn't believe her when she thought Ethan was going to come back. I didn't listen and now again, she's paying for my screw ups.
She's a lost cause, his father argued, She was gone before the plane crashed, now just go back to the caves. Jack sighed angrily, he wasn't going to give up on her, not that easy.
About to continue trekking through the vegetation, something stopped him, "Looking for us?" Ethan asked wickedly.
Jack turned around and saw Ethan standing behind him, holding Kate up, one hand clamped around her mouth, the other holding both her uncovered wrists together.
"Let her go," Jack demanded, "This is between you and me."
"Last time, Jack, I was just going to hurt you. I was just going to make you feel the pain you made me feel by hitting me that one time. But this time, after all those punches, you'd better believe I'm going to kill you. But after I beat you I'm going to kill her and make you watch, watch you as your heart breaks, just as mine did," Ethan explained manically.
"I'm not going to loose," Jack shot back, "Now let her go," he demanded once again.
"Fine but you'd better fight fast," Ethan replied and pulled out a knife. Before Jack could move and inch, the stitches in Kate's right wrist were already reopened, and she had been discarded on the jungle floor, "I guess you have about fifteen minutes," Ethan added, "Before she's completely useless."
One more chapter! Woot! Yeah I know and my other computer still isn't back! Argh!!! So yeah it's been a nice run, and I hope you guys'll continue to read my other story when it's back up. And I will try to think of a good idea for a one-shot in the mean time, but I'm totally sapped.
Oreata You'd had better eat my cookie lol, a lot of time came into to think/baking them. Who knows, maybe Walt and Michael went all Thriller style for the ending (I still want my big dance routine and I shall have it!!!)
CrAzYhOrSeGiRl88 Yeah but what about Sayid's nice words and Charlie's bad news? His bad news is "Jack, I haven't learned the dance steps to the routine" and Jack's all like "I can't even look at you right now…" Ha I would pay to see Ethan do that swinging arm thriller thing. To bad he never will…
Pink Pinker What is Jack's papa and Ethan were brothers! Uncle Ethan. Nah that seems a little farfetched, but maybe they were grad school friends although his dad is like a million years old. YEAH ETHAN! runs and hugs him too I love the way you pick helpless female on the island and beat them to a bloody pulp. Like one of those steel Jamaican drums, but you are so not chillin'. He needs a little bit of that street beat going down, a tattoo that says "I'm not crazy, I'm just not uncrazy" Oh and he doesn't get a cookie…
MusicMonkey88 Yeah dental floss banded in 75 countries even. Only one more update! WOE!
Leigh Thanks, I meant to put this up last night but the parental unit was all like "GET OFF!!!" so yeah, I studied a whole bunch and took it this morning and I don't think I did to much, but now comes the question…what about bio??
Auroramist Yeah it was totally Ethan, I mean who didn't see him coming back I mean the guy is like the energizer bunny only homicidal and on crack. And you're telling me you don't wanna hug him! I'll do it then (and if my fist ends up in his face it's totally by accident)
Rain1657 YUSS! Someone did a Thriller dance with all the harsh and prime choreography. Math equals finished and they fixed the roofs because everyone knows how much we all wanna go back to school. But hey we got 2 days off. Kill Ethan, but I love hugging him to much, and what about the Thriller dance? Who will do it if he's gone!?!?!
And Blank (lol) Yeah I saw the promo for Homecoming on the internet, you know they're totally going to kill off Ethan, sigh but you know he was a little metal casey but you need someone like that on the show! Who will take his place, I vote Locke, come step up to the plate with your metaphors and you millions of knives.
Sayid is off teaching Charlie the dance steps for Thriller per Jack's instructions.
Alright, I have some good news, some bad news and some good news again.
The good news is I though of an idea of a post-island fic which will probably be long (having to deal with Kate getting her crap together (with some help from a certain character who's name rhymes with shellac)). So let me know if you guys like the ider of that
The bad news is this stories one more chapter then over! Gone Done.
The AWESOME news is I get my files back today (tonight) so I'll update ASAP!
Next Chapter Who was talking to Kate? What will Jack do that's important? Will he make a decision finally about her and will they, you know in the words of The Clash, "Rock The Casba" ? What will become of my hugging buddy Ethan? And what do Locke and Boone have to do with it? Will Sayid successfully teach Charlie the proper dance steps as the time for the big dance routine draws closer? And finally will Abby pass her Bio exam? All these questions answered in the final and upcoming chapter of Broken Promises………Can you handle it? Because I'm loosing my crap over it!