Okay well sorry it's been so long! I haven't been able to watch Lost for the past two weeks (haha I actually stayed home from school today and one of my main reasons was so I'd actually have time to watch them on tape!!) so that may be why I was unmotivated to add a chapter. But somehow I still kept getting reviews so I was like, hey, I have to do this, like right now. Cuz you guys are just great, and so is Lost!

One note though. I was rereading the first chapter and I saw that I put that Claire's baby is a month old and yet they were looking for things for him to eat....haha sorry for that discrepancy. I just had to make such miniscule changes to that chapter so many times after uploading it that I'm too lazy to do it again. So I just said it here. Anyway, on with chapter two!

In Her Eyes

Chapter Two: Calm Before the Storm

"Jack!" Charlie called, jogging over to where the doctor was sitting, tending a small fire to cook some dinner on. "Has Kate come back with the water yet? I think Claire's getting a little thirsty."

Jack smiled at the obvious affection the musician had for the girl. "No I haven't seen her yet." He looked up at the sky. It was getting dark and he was trying not to be concerned, in spite of everything.

"Haven't seen who?" a voice piped up. Kate moved in to form a circle between the three castaways. Charlie clapped his hands together.

"Kate! Great! Uh....where's the water?" Charlie asked, looking around, as if it could have possibly hidden itself in the open air around her.

"Our good friend Sawyer insisted on carrying it back for me. He should be along any minute." She looked back a ways down the beach to where she had emerged from the jungle and, sure enough, there was Sawyer, water bottle string in tow. As the other two looked over at him he tripped over the string that bound the bottles together, tangling himself up, but luckily not spilling or breaking any of the bottles.

"He's a graceful one isn't he?" Charlie quipped. Jack and Kate smiled. "Well I might as well go help him if I expect any water." And Charlie ran off.

Jack stuck his stick back around the edge of the fire, nudging the firewood more towards the center. Kate stood there, shifting her weight while deciding how to, or if she even should, end the awkward silence.

"How's Walt doing?" she asked finally. "I heard he had quite a cold."

"Oh he'll be fine," Jack replied without looking up. "Kids spring back from just about anything. Plus he has his dad and Vincent to keep him company."

"Yeah." She shifted again. Another moment passed. Then, "Look, Jack, I think we need to-"Kate was cut off as lightning and thunder exploded in the sky and rain suddenly started cascading down.

"Aw shit!" Jack exclaimed as his fire was quickly doused. He started rushing to collect his things and get them inside his tent. "This really isn't a good time, Kate."

She nodded, even though he was too busy to see her, and backed away, still watching him, before turning her back towards him to walk off.

It was pouring and she was already soaked, but Kate didn't care. She didn't want to go back to her makeshift home on the edge of camp, not yet. Everyone around her was as frantic as Jack, running to their shelters, getting their few possessions out of the torrent. But Kate didn't even seem to feel the rain. She just walked.

She found herself at the edge of the beach, at the shoreline. Sure, she was still in full view of all the other survivors, but she had always felt alone there. She could see for miles and miles. With the lightning bursting through the night sky it held even more power than it did during the calm of the day. It was magical. A dark magic.

The rain stayed strong. But Kate liked the rain. And as the hours passed and her thoughts drifted, she fell asleep on the sand, waiting for her sunrise to finally come.

Haha sorry for the last few paragraphs being so overdramatic. I just did not know what to do. But it's all good. Stuff will most likely actually start happening in the next chapter. I'm a "chapter 3" kind of person. And of course, it shall only get better from there!

Hey does anyone know what happened to KarenVForce's Lost fan fic? It's not here anymore and it saddens me. It was a good one! Anyone who knows let me know? Thanxies. :) And also.....review! Tell me what you want! :-D