Chapter 2 is here :-)
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I forgot something in the first chapter: No copyright infringement intended, I don´t own anything, this is just for fun.
Chapter 2:
Sometime in the night, I must´ve fallen asleep in spite and when I woke up in the morning, Charlie was gone.
I stood up and stretched my legs. Most of the other survivors were already awake and gathered around Jack, Kate and Charlie.
I didn´t know if I should join them - or wait until someone would call me. But then Kate spotted me and gave me a sign to come to them.
"Allright,", said Jack. "for those who haven´t heard the news. This is..", he stopped and realized that he didn´t know my name.
"Teena", I said and sounded like a little child, because I wasn´t used to be surrounded by so many strangers.
"Teena.", Jack added. "She´s been in the crash 16 years ago. She knows where Ethan lived and can help us to find him and his men."
"There are more survivors?", asked a blonde girl.
Jack nodded and looked at me.
"There... there are about 10 people that belong to Ethan.", I said. "I don´t know how many other people survived after I ran away. There were 7 others left."
"What do you mean, 7 others?", asked a man.
"People that don´t belong to Ethans group."
"That´s weird.", said the blonde girl.
"How do we know we can trust her?", asked Walts father.
"She saved my life, Michael!", Charlie exploded. "And I will not stay here!", he shouted at Jack.
"Charlie, your heartbeat stopped yesterday. You didn´t breathe. Your neck is still swollen. You cannot come along."
"I will not stay here.", he repeated stubborn and looked Jack in the eyes.
"We´ll talk about it later.", Jack said.
"Don´t treat me like a child, Jack!", Charlie said. "I promised to protect her."
"Calm down, little Rockstar! You had your chance to protect her!", a man said to him.
"Shut up, Sawyer!", a big boy answered. "Leave him alone."
Charlie stood up and walked away.
Jack sighed. "I´ll talk to him later."
"You cannot leave him alone.", Kate said.
She left and followed Charlie.
I was confused. It seemed, that the people here weren´t the same opinion about what to do next.
"We should wait for Locke and Boone. Perhaps they found her.", said the big boy.
"No. They would already be back.", said Sawyer.
The blonde girl shot him a nervous look.
"Shannon, they are allright. I´m sure they made camp and will come back soon.", Jack said.
"So, can you lead us to Ethans former camp?", he asked me.
"Yes.", I answered.
"Then let´s pack some things - and someone will have to find Lockes suitcase. We need some extra knives."
I followed Kate and found her and Charlie sitting on a rock. Kate talked to Charlie, but he just looked at the jungle.
"Uhm, I can stay with him if you´d like to talk to Jack and pack some things. They want to go soon.", I said to Kate.
She nodded and raised. "Thanks."
"Charlie, I´ll come back later. Okay?"
Charlie didn´t answer.
She sighed and walked back to the caves.
I sat down next to him.
"You know, I can also tell them that I won´t go unless I can take you along."
Charlie looked at me.
"Jack is right.", he said cold. "I can´t come along. I feel awful."
Tears filled his eyes and he quickly wiped them away.
"It´s just that I promised her!", he whispered. "And now I can´t do anything. I feel so useless!"
He looked away.
I felt so sorry for him. It took me a moment to choose my words.
"You are not useless. You nearly died because you tried to protect her."
"That´s not true.", he said. "I couldn´t do anything to protect her!"
"That wasn´t your fault. You were there with her. And she will never forget that."
"I just want to find her."
"We will.", I said. "You know, I also promised her to help her."
"What?"
"When Ethan went for Jack and Kate, I tried to free her hands - but Ethan came back too early. I promised to help her back then. And I will not break my promise."
Charlie nodded and wiped his nose.
I gave him an encouraging smile. "Hey, and when we come back, you will show me your Rockmusic-Thing. Right?"
He nodded tired.
I tried to convince Charlie to come back to the caves, but he said he preferred to stay there for another while.
When I was about to leave, the big boy that had defended Charlie earlier, arrived.
"Jack wants to see you.", he said. "I´m Hurley, by the way."
"Nice to meet you.", I answered. "Will you stay with Charlie?"
"I want to be alone.", he said.
"Dude, you shouldn´t be alone.", Hurley told him and sat down next to him.
"Thank you.", I said to Hurley. "Charlie, I´ll see you when we come back."
But he was already lost in thoughts again.
"Bye.", I said to Hurley and made my way back to the caves.
"Here.", Jack handed me a knive.
"I have a knive.", I said and gave it back to him.
"So, where do we go?", asked Jack.
"We head north.", I answered. "I think we have to walk two or three hours before we reach the place of our first camp. How many are coming along?"
"Kate, Sawyer, Michael and I will go."
"Good, let´s go."
After two hours, we stopped for a break. A heavy rain had started and I had a bad feeling that someone followed us.
I looked around and spotted someone.
"Jack!", I said. "Over there."
Jack turned around. "Locke, Boone!", he exclaimed and walked towards them.
A older and a younger man joined him.
"What are you doing here?", the older man asked.
"We try to find Ethans camp. He still has Claire."
"Have you found Charlie?", asked the younger one. "Where is he?"
"He nearly died, Boone. He´s at the caves.", said Kate.
Locke frowned. "What did he do to him?"
Jack hesitated. "He hung him up."
Boone gasped. "And you found him in time?"
"She found him.", said Kate and pointed at me.
"Lucky guy.", Locke said. "And you lead them?"
"I know where Ethan used to stay.", I answered.
"Then what are we waiting for?"
Locke moved on. I followed him and led the way.
Another hour later, we reached a clearing and I stopped.
"This is it.", I said. "Our first camp."
"You know this island like your vest pocket, huh?", said Sawyer and smirked.
"Nothing´s here.", said Michael.
"No one´s been here for years.", Locke murmured. He pointed at some little hills in some distance.
"Graveyards. Of some people they killed.", I said, then I continued, "We should refill our water supplies and move on. Another hour north and we reach the next camp. I ran away from there, but I know of another one. Ethan always heads north, so we should be able to find him."
Kate stared at me and then she asked: "Why north? What´s up there?"
"I told you he´s not normal. It´s part of his beliefs."
I filled up my water bottle when I heard something in the woods. I turned around and spotted Charlie, a second before he tried to hide behind a tree.
Quick, I went after him.
He leaned against the tree, exhausted and out of breath.
"What are you doing here? Did you lie to me?", I whispered, so the others wouldn´t hear.
"No... I sent Hurley away. And then - I couldn´t just sit there and do nothing!", he answered and coughed.
"You are not in the condition to do this. And especially not on your own!"
"I came this far. I will not go back."
"Here.", I gave him my water bottle. "Drink."
Eagerly, he drank most of the water.
"You should at least take water supplies with you when you go out in the jungle.", I told him.
"I was quite in a hurry.", he answered.
I sighed. "We should join the others. They won´t send you away. Come."
"No, but Jack is going to kill me.", Charlie said.
He followed me and we met the others.
"I don´t believe this!", Jack exclaimed and came towards us. "Are you out of your mind?"
"I told you I´d come along.", said Charlie.
"Look at you!"
"I´m fine! Let´s just go on."
Jack shook his head no. "And what if we find them? What will you do then, Charlie? You are to weak to, to fight!"
Sawyer sighed. "If he wants to kill himself, leave him. Can we go on now?"
"I think we should respect his decision.", I said and looked at Jack.
"What choice do we have?", Jack answered.
"Let´s move on!", Locke said and walked north.