I woke up early enough that no one was moving, just snoring and muttering. I went out to the beach, after leaving a note for Uncle Charlie telling him where I'd gone. I grabbed my backpack, which I carried everywhere with me, and started walking. I arrived at the beach and sat down near the shoreline, and watched as the sun rose.
As I sat, I felt a pair of arms pull me back against a hard chest. I giggled, "If you're not Sawyer, I'm so gonna kick your ass." I said. I turn and look to see Sawyer above me. "Damn... I was hoping for a fight." I said.
"You better hope no other guy puts his hands on ya. I'll kick their ass all the way back to the States." he warned.
"No other guy would, with you around me." I said, as I sighed and snuggled into his arms. "Let me see your hands." I said.
He sighed, "Now why would you go and ruin a perfectly good moment by bein' all doctor-y?" He asked. "Now, Sawyer. Or so help me."
"Or so help you what? You gonna beat me up, too?"
"No... but maybe," I said, wriggling out of his arms, "I won't let you touch me."
"Get back here, I'll let you look at my damn fingers. As long as I get something for bein' a good boy." he mentioned suggestively.
"And what, pray tell, would you get?"
"A kiss. And I ain't talking no peck on the lips or cheek. I want a real kiss."
In the back of my head, a thought wandered through, Is that what he said to Kate? But I ignored it. "Deal, but you have to be a really good boy then."
"Fine by me."
I sat back down and took off the bandages I'd put on his hands. The ones that had been taken out, were healing well, but in the early light, I noticed a few that I'd missed. "Hand me my bag, please Sawyer. I missed a few."
"I better be gettin' a damn good kiss, if you're pullin' more of them things out of my fingers."
"Only a few, you big baby." I said. He handed me my bag and I took out the tweezers. "Hold still." I warned. I pulled out the remaining splinters and then re-wrapped his fingers.
"Good, we're done. Now, about that kiss." He said, as he lowered his head.... but Sayid walked past rather quickly and ruined the moment we had. "Damn Iraqi!" He swore.
I hit him in his good arm. "Sawyer!" I got up and went after him. "Sayid, where are you going?" I ask.
"I cannot stay here. What I've done, to your friend, is forgivable. I promised myself, that I'd never do what I did to him. Tell him I apologize for me?"
"Of course, Sayid. I'd hug you, but..."
"Say no more." He said as he left. I went back to Sawyer and sat down.
"Sayid apologizes for what he did to you. You should know he's leaving because of it."
"Good, I don't need no more enemies than I already got." he said.
"Sawyer! An important part of the group is gone. He's just as good a tracker as Locke. He's a good hunter..." I stopped my words at Sawyer's look.
"He is also the one that did this to me. You should hate him as much as I do."
"Sawyer, I'm sorry but I can't hate him. I am mad at him for what he and Jack did, but I couldn't hate him."
Sawyer nodded and became silent. "You're not mad at me are you? Do you want me to leave?" I asked timidly. I never had luck with guys, why should Sawyer be any different.
He looked at me, smiled and laughed. "Why would I want you to leave? You're still in my debt. Come here." He commanded.
"You think I take orders?"
"I think you better get over here, Sweetcheeks. I might just do somethin' to make ya mad at me." He warned.
I huffed like the spoiled army brat everyone back home called me. "Fine." I said in my 'fine be that way' voice. I sat next to him and kissed him, careful because of his split lip. But that careful innocent kiss soon mutated into a passionate kiss. We broke from the kiss, half panting. He got up and put his hand out for me to take. I did, and he lifted me up, off the ground. "What are we-" I started, but he put his finger on my lips to hush me.
"I'm takin' you back to the caves. You're going to stay there, and I'm going back to the beach. I don't want anyone saying that I'm tainting the precious young girl."
"Sawyer, if this is-" He shushed me again. "I'm not sayin' we're not gonna be together, I'm just tryin' to earn a little speck of trust before I take 'their girl' away. Even though, you're mine."
"I won't have you being all possessive-"
He silenced me, this time with a kiss. "You are mine. Now hush, go and sit on your bed kit like you never left. Okay?"
"Okay. I think I get it. Bye, Lion." I said, kissing him on the cheek.
He, however, as a man never to be forgotten, grabbed the back of my head, and kissed me full on, in a mini version of the kiss we had just shared. "See you soon, mouse."
He walked away, back toward the beach, and I went to my bed kit, watching, not only the sun as it shone into the caves, but the others as they woke.
Uncle Charlie got up and so did Claire. Both looked at each other, never noticing that I or anyone else was awake and smiled. So, Claire, another weakness, eh? I thought, as I watched my Uncle fuss. I went over to them, saddened that I had to ruin the moment but I wanted to bathe.
"Uncle Charlie? I'm going to head to the pond. I need to." I said, lifting my arm up and waving away odors. Uncle Charlie laughed and nodded.
"Hey, wait. I'm gonna come with you." Shannon said.
"Me too!" Kate said, as she grabbed a few things.
"And me." Said Claire.
"Awesome a girls morning bath." I said, smiling. We all walked out of the caves with three men watching us.
"Hey, wait a minute. You guys need anyone to protect ya?" Boone asked.
"No worries, Boone. Kate and I can handle it. Right, Kate?" I said.
Kate nodded, "We'll protect each other."
We ignored the looks that the men of the caves gave us, and went on our way to Pond SawyerChrys. We undressed and got into our bathing suits, or underwear, in Kate's case, and swam around talking and giggling.
"So, Chrys. You seem super happy. What's up?" Shannon mentioned.
"Oh, nothing." I said, airily, as I floated on my back in the water. I put my feet back in the water and stood up. I could hear rustling in the jungle around us. "Do you hear that?" I whispered.
Kate nodded. I started wading back to shore and grabbed a big piece of wood laying on the ground. Kate did the same, picking up a few rocks as she went.
"If this is another polar bear, we're dead." Kate said.
"Right?" I said. The rustling stopped, and Kate threw a rock at whatever was in the bush.
"OW! Dang it!" I heard from Kate's side of the pool. I lifted up my stick and was about to beat whatever was in front of me with it, when Jack popped out, holding his hands up in surrender.
"Don't hurt me!" He said. I turned and saw Kate dragging Boone out of the bushes. I rolled my eyes.
"You idiots followed us here? Well, at least now you can tell Kate and I can defend ourselves." I said, getting back into the water, leaving my stick near Jack.
"You can leave now." Kate said, returning to the water as well.
Boone limped away, back toward the caves and once both were gone, Kate and I laughed.
"Men." I laughed. "Can't live with 'em... need 'em to be around to make more women. Our lives suck."
"Not all men are like that though." Claire said. Immediately my mind went to Sawyer and the goodbye kiss.
"Yeah, Charlie, Sawyer, Hurley, Walt, and Sayid.... the only good men around." Shannon added. "And how lame is it that a 12 year old kid can beat out Jack and Boone in the 'good man' department?"
All four of us laughed.
"I have an idea. Let's, the four of us, I mean, spend the day together being useless." Claire suggested.
"I'm in. I'd love to be a thorn in Jack's side for a bit." Kate said.
"Me too. I think we all need a little 'girl time'." I replied.
"Sure. We can tan and drink water, and gossip. Just like women usually do." Shannon agreed.
"Hey, should we get Sun in on this too?" I wondered.
"We could ask. Her husband might agree, since it is only us women." Kate said.
"I'll talk to them. Sun can talk to me, and she can talk to Jin." I got out of the pond, dried off and dressed and grabbed my bag. I headed for the caves, and looked for Sun. I found her and went over to her.
"Hi, Sun."
"Hello, Chrys. Do you need something?"
"No, no. I don't need anything... but the rest of the girls and I were wondering if you'd like to spend the day out on the beach, tanning, drinking water, and gossiping... and otherwise being useless to all of the men around this island." I said with a smile.
"I'll ask Jin, and if he allows it, I'll be at the beach. Perhaps not to tan though. He doesn't like me showing skin."
"Okay then." I smiled. "Hopefully we'll see you." I walked away, and was on the trail to the beach, when a hand was placed over my mouth, another found my hand, and I felt bandages there.
"Don't scream, mouse." He said, as he dragged me into the jungle. I soon found myself up against a tree, being kissed by Sawyer, once again. His body pushed mine into the tree, with his hands on my hips. I was unable to get free, had I even wanted to try.
"Sawyer." I said between one of his kisses. He took the words out of my mouth.
He finally stopped kissing me after a few minutes. "What were you trying to say, mouse?"
I racked my mind for a few moments. "The girls and I are going to be at the beach all today. We've decided to be mean and not help out for a day. So, you are going to be able to see me all day. What was all the kissing for, anyway?" I asked.
"I've missed you."
"I've missed you as well." I gave him one last lingering kiss. "I've got to go meet up with the girls now... it'd be weird if Sun showed up before I did."
He nodded. "You leave first. I'll be around soon. At least I'll be able to see you, in your bathing suit."
"Jerk." I said, lightly smacking him in the arm. "See you." I said as I left.
"Don't ever doubt that." He said. I returned to the path and continued on to the beach. I found the girls and went over to them.
"Hey, ladies." I said, smiling even more than I had before. I laid out my towel and put my backpack down as well.
"Hey Chrys... what happened? Your hair is all mussed." Shannon questioned.
I looked around, saw Sawyer coming from the path and grinned. "My weakness got me." I replied, knowing only they, would understand. They all laughed and sat on their towels. I took off my tank top and jeans, revealing the bathing suit underneath. I then tied up my hair and took off all my jewelry, putting them all in my bag. I lay down on my back and shut my eyes against the sun.
"So, how was it... submitting to your weakness." I heard Kate ask.
I thought about it a moment before replying, "Delicious. We all should. Those of us who have them, in any case."
We gossiped for a while, talked, laughed, and generally had a good time, until I felt a shadow come over me. I opened my eyes to see Jack standing over us, glaring.
"Can we help you?" I asked.
"Why aren't you girls helping?"
"We don't feel like it." Kate said.
"Yeah. Now could you move? You're blocking all the sun." Shannon said.
"So, you're on strike for the day?" Jack asked. He seemed irritated.
"OOO, the man got it. Girls, tell him what he's won." I said, sarcastically. The others laughed.
"Really Jack, just leave. Chrys and I have done enough for everyone in the past few days. More than most, really. Shannon had an asthma attack and shouldn't be stressed, and Claire is pregnant.... what do you expect us to be? Hercules?" Kate said.
Jack just about had a fit, and we laughed through the entire thing, especially as he stomped away like a 5-year old that didn't get his way. Shannon told us to turn over, and so we did, minus Claire, who just turned her back on the sun, so her back could tan.
"Gods, it feels so good to just relax." I said, sighing into my towel.
"Isn't that the truth. It feels like everything here is life or death, good or evil, and anything else you can think of that are opposite." Claire sighed.
"Yeah, and 'hope springs eternal' just doesn't seem to fit with some around here." Kate added.
I remembered what I'd seen earlier this morning, "Claire... Do you have a new weakness? Perhaps for a certain... ex-member of a band, whom I'm related to?" I said laughing.
"I might... How'd you guess?" "I was awake before you and Uncle Charlie got up. I saw you two, and how fussy he was over you." I said.
She laughed. "I figured you would have noticed."
We all tanned in quiet for a bit listening to the sound of the ocean, and ruining our skin. I turned when Shannon told us to, and chanced a glance at Sawyer who was 'reading' and watching me at the same time. I smiled and saw that he smiled back.
"I'm tired of tanning..." Shannon said.
Just then Hurley trotted into camp, shouting for everyone to come near him. I got up and put on my tank top and wrapped my towel around the bottom half of my body. He told everyone that he'd come up with a way to entertain themselves, and there was a couples tournament coming up, everyone was going to get paired up with someone of the opposite sex, married couples together of course, and after the girls had run out, the guys would be paired with other guys. I smiled. Everyone went off to talk about it, but I stayed behind a bit.
"Hurley, can we request partners?" I asked.
"Sure... who'd you have in mind?" I looked around a bit, before saying, "Sawyer, but don't tell anyone, but him. Okay?"
He looked at me funnily, and I laughed. "Sure Chrys." He said writing it down.
"Thanks, Hurley!" I said. I went back to the girls and pulled on my jeans. "Well girls, it looks like we can have some fun here.... who all do you want for partners?" I asked.
"Charlie." Claire replied.
"Jack or Walt... Walt and I would piss Jack off if we won." Kate said. I laughed.
"Um-Maybe if Sayid were here, him... he's good at math. Otherwise... Michael or Locke." Shannon uttered. "What about you, Chrys? Your weakness?"
"Yep... I already requested him." I said with a smile.
"You can do that?" Kate asked.
"Yeah.... If you want, go tell Hurley.... I think we've had enough 'girl time' as is... right guys?" I said.
All of the other women nodded their heads in agreement. We each got up and dusted off, picked our things up and then went our separate ways. I went to talk with Sawyer, in his tent.
"Hey." I said.
"Hey yourself, Sweetcheeks. Looks like Freckles and you had some fun with Jack, a little while back." He said with a grin.
"Yeah. He got all pissy, 'cause Kate and I weren't helping out, like usual."
He laughed. "You do know you can sit down right?" He asked. "Here, sit here." he said, gesturing to a chair taken from the plane. "Don't worry, it's my seat. No dead bodies touched it."
I shuddered. Hurley came up, looking scared of Sawyer. "Dude, um, you're paired with her for the tournament... if you're gonna play, that is." He said, pointing at me.
" 'Course I'm gonna play. Can't let the Doc have all the fun, can we?" He asked with a smirk. I laughed.
"All right, well the tournament's about to start so you two might want to get their soon." Hurley said. I nodded as Hurley went off in the direction everyone was.
"Let's go and beat their asses into the ground." I said, laughing.
Sawyer laughed, too. "So how is it that we got to be together?"
"Hurley's a nice enough guy.... He let me request you." I smiled as his hand found it's way to my back.
"I'm glad you did.... If you hadn't, I don't think I would have been playin'" He said.
We arrived to the make-shift golf course Hurley had made. Complete with sand and water hazards and reflection walls made of driftwood.
"We're all going to have to share clubs, but we can make it work. Some people elected not to play, so the tournament couples are as follows: Kate and Jack, Claire and Charlie, Chrys and Sawyer, Shannon and Locke, Michael and Walt, and Boone and me." He called out. "Don't worry. I'm not going to cheat with scores just because I'm playing. Each pair is going to get a piece of wood with a paper attached to it. This tells how many strokes you can take on each of the nine holes. You and your partner have to take turns hitting the ball down the fairway. You get a one stroke penalty for going outside the courses bounds... that's the only penalty.... There is a prize at the end so do your best. That's all for now." He went about handing out the makeshift score cards. Sawyer and I received ours and we went and lined up behind Jack and Kate.
"You two are together? How'd that happen?" Jack asked snottily. Kate hit him in the arm. I nodded my head in thanks to her. She smiled back.
"You know Doc... I think that we should have a bet on the side... Seein' as how I'm injured and all, I think it'll be hilarious if me and mouse here beat you."
I rolled my eyes. Here we go again. I thought to myself, as Jack and Sawyer started arguing.
"Enough!" Kate and I said together. We looked at each other and laughed.
They, however, decided to still argue. So I stomped on Jack's foot, while Kate did the same to Sawyer.
"Enough." We said again. The men were in pain, howling.
"I think Chrys broke my foot." Jack whined.
"Oh, please. I couldn't do that by just stomping on your foot... Sprained is more likely, but still a far chance of that." I said.
"At least we stomped equally, otherwise they'd still be fighting." Kate said, with a small laugh. It was she and Jack's turn then. Sawyer and I watched. The sheet said it would take 5 strokes to get it down to the hole and in. I giggled a bit, as Jack took the first shot, and instead of plotting out a strategy with Kate, hit it straight into the sand pit for her to get out. I stopped paying attention as she started to bicker with him and looked at the course. My geometry teacher said that there was always a way to get a hole in one on these courses... I looked at the angle of each of the walls and could tell it was true. Hard to do but true.
"Sawyer, when we're up, aim for the second piece of drift wood. I'll take my shot and hit the third and fourth, you get it onto the green, and I'll put it into the hole.... Is that okay with you for a plan at least?"
"Yeah, you figure that out on your own?" "With a little help from sophomore year geometry, yeah." I replied. "If it works, it'll give us a birdie. That's one stroke under par."
"How do you know so much about golf?"
"I had a computer game back home that I loved to play."
"I see. How often did you play the game?"
"At least 10 times a week." I said. "It was an eighteen hole course and it took me about 20 minutes to get done with it on the computer."
Sawyer laughed. "The island's female Tiger Woods?"
"No way... I hate normal golf.... It's boring."
Jack and Kate were down on the green taking their final shot. They ended up with a bogey or one shot more than par, thanks to Jack's first hit.
Sawyer and I were up, and we followed the plan. It worked out pretty well, and got us a birdie, just like I'd predicted. By the ninth hole, Sawyer and I were winning, at -2 strokes, with Shannon and Locke and Kate and Jack trailing us with -1 stroke. The last hole was went through, and Sawyer and I ended up winning by -1, Shannon and Locke took second with par, and Jack and Kate took third with 1. Each of us got a prize, mine and Sawyers being a little trophy made from wood, 2 books and 2 chocolate bars. Second place got a smaller trophy, a book, and a chocolate bar. Third got the smallest trophy and a chocolate bar.
While the others drifted back to where they'd come from, Sawyer and I put our winnings in his tent, and went for a walk. As soon as we got far enough away, we sat down and he put his arms around me.
"I can't believe the look on Jack's face as we won." I said, still gloating.
"Me either, mouse."
I snuggled into his side and just enjoyed being near him. "This is nice. Being with you."
Sawyer just nodded. I lifted my head up. "Why so quiet?"
"Just thinking." He said. "I should tell you about myself... I don't want you thinking what the others think."
"Sawyer--don't feel like I'm pressuring you. I don't want you to tell me, if that makes you uncomfortable. I'm happy the way we are. I don't care about--" He cut off my next words with a kiss.
"That's the best way to quiet you, so I've learned." He said with a smile. "I want to tell you, so that you don't have any doubts about us." He handed me a letter. I looked at it. It was in the hand of a child, that much I could tell. "I wrote this, just so you know." He said. I nodded and read. As I did so, tears leaked from my eyes. By the end, I was crying and hugging Sawyer.
"If I'd known, Sawyer." I said. "Wait... that's not your real name, is it?"
"No, but let's keep it. For now anyway. You call me 'Lion' most of the time anyway."
"I'll call you Lion more, from now on. I'm glad you felt that you could share this with me." I said, hugging him tighter.
"C'mon mouse. We've got to head for camp. You've got to go to bed." He laughed. I laughed as he pulled me off the ground yet again. We walked back to camp, and separated, me to the caves and him to his tent.
Once there, I got my journal out and wrote for a bit, as the last bit of sun faded from the caves. I knew it was still light on the beach, but here it was dark. I closed my journal and lay down and went to sleep. Little did I know, that on that night, my nightmares would return, three fold.
CHRYS' DREAM
I sit on the side of a road watching as cars pass by. "I know this place." I say to myself. "I can't remember why though."
Suddenly I'm in a car. My mother's in the drivers seat, crying and drinking something from a flask. I start to cry immediately. This is the night my mother died. This is how I pictured it all happening. The car swerved and I hoped that I wouldn't be here in that fatal moment, but I knew I would be, just as I was with my dream about father. Still, I tried to talk to my mother.
"Mommy. You've got to pull over." I say, with tears streaming down my face. "Mom. You have to listen. PLEASE, listen and just pull over!" She can't hear me though and I cry more realizing that I'm re-living some of the worst things in my life, in my dreams. The car swerves a bit more, and as my mother was drunk, she put her foot down, figuring that the speed would stop the swerving. The speeding was what got to me... Normally mom would never speed, but tonight, the day after my father's funeral, here she was, sad and depressed.
I knew in a moment that what I pictured in my head would happen. I try to hug my mother, but my arms go right through her. The car swerves once more and then hits a car next to her. The car spins and goes out off the side of the bridge, but not before hitting another car. I hear the snap of my mother's neck as she hits her head on the steering wheel at an odd angle. The car goes over, and I'm trapped with my mother's dead body and a fast filling car. I swim out of the car somehow and am transported to a house I didn't recognize.
In front of me, I see a little boy writing a letter on a table, with tears running down his angry face. He looks at me, as though he sees me, but I feel that he can't. I walk through the house, when I feel a hand on mine.
"You don't want to go in there." He says.
I stooped down. "Why not, Sawyer?" I ask.
"They're in there." he replies, shuddering.
"Your parents?" Realizing when and where I am I hug the little boy in front of me. "Oh, Sawyer. I'm so sorry."
"Why? I'm not. I'm gonna get my revenge. Why'd you call me Sawyer? That was his name, it's not mine." he sneered, insulted.
"I'm sorry Lion." I say.
"That's better." He goes back to writing and I continue on my way through the house, unwillingly.
"I don't want to go in there. Why am I going in there? Stop moving body." I command myself. It doesn't work however.
I travel into a room and see blood splattered on the walls. Immediately, I start to vomit. I've never been one to be able to see gore of any kind, unless I'm doctoring someone up. I travel further into the house and see a woman's foot sticking out from behind a table, with a pool of blood around it, and probably the body connected to it. I hold my hand over my mouth and try not to vomit.
I travel further yet, and find now Sawyer's father, hanging from the ceiling. I start vomiting once again and run back to the first room I was in.
"Oh my gods!" I say. I pick up Sawyer, "Come on, Lion. We're leaving."
"No! I can't leave I'm not finished yet." He yells.
"Grab the letter and let's go. I'm not leaving you here with that." I say, paling at the thought.
He does and we leave the house.
THE CAVES
I woke up in a cold sweat over the nightmares I'd just had. Claire was up as well, she motioned for me to follow her, so I did. We went out by the fire that the guards kept burning all night and sat down.
"You were having a nightmare, weren't you Chrys?" She asked.
"Yeah. I haven't had one in a few days. I guess I was overdue."
"What was it about?"
"The first one I had a few days ago, was about my father and how he died in the war." I said, still shocked into honesty from my nightmare. "The one I just had was about my mother, and how she died. It was a car accident, the night after my father's funeral. She was drinking as well as crying, she was super depressed. The police told me that she broke her neck after hitting two separate cars, and then the car drove itself over the bridges barriers and into the water. There was some other stuff thrown in there as well. How come you're up?"
"I had, well not a nightmare, more of like a premonition. Someone's out to get my baby Chrys. I can feel them watching me." Uncle Charlie came out then.
"Chrys, you should go back to sleep. I'll stay out here with Claire."
"Uncle, I'm not sure I could, even if I tried." I said.
"Well, just try all right?" He said. "You need sleep. You're still a teenager."
I rolled my eyes. An almost 18-years old teenager. I nodded and went back into the caves. I lay down on my bed kit and slept, with mercifully, no dreams or nightmares.
NEXT MORNING
I woke up as everyone around me was bustling about searching for something.
"Where are they?" Jack asked Kate.
"We can't find them. Chrys is going to have a fit. We need Sawyer here, when we tell her."
I scrunched up my nose and eyes. Tell me what? I wondered. Jack nodded and Kate ran to get Sawyer. I sat up and brushed my fingers through my hair. Kate got back with Sawyer, who had a haunted look in his eyes. He sat down next to me, as Kate and Jack sat in front of me.
"Chrys? We need to tell you something. Since there's no easy way to put this, I'm going to be straight with you." Jack said. I braced myself, nothing good comes from those words put in that way. "Your Uncle and Claire went missing last night. They were taken, it seems, from right outside the caves." He said more, but I heard none of it. I started crying again, this time not in a dream. I curled myself into Sawyer's side and balled for what seemed like hours. I finally stopped and Sawyer wiped the tears off my face.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
"I have to go and find them. I have to." I said grabbing my bag and heading for the mouth of the caves. Someone grabbed my arm.
"You can't go out there, Chrys." Jack said.
"You're not my Uncle. You can't tell me what to do." I said, glaring at him, and wrenching my arm from his grip. I continued for the mouth of the cave, when I felt another hand on my arm. I whipped around prepared to yell at Jack again, and came face to face with Sawyer.
"Mouse, don't go out there. It's not safe. Stay safe with me." He said, in an almost pleading tone. I started to tear up again and I hugged him again.
"I can't lose him too Lion, he's all I have left, besides one other crappy uncle who hates me. Lion, he's everything I have left of my family besides my father's locket and my pictures back in my house in New York." I cried.
"I know, mouse. Believe me I know. More than anyone here, I know." He said, as his hands rubbed my back. I stopped crying eventually and went and sat, Sawyer there with me the entire time.
"What do I do now, Lion. These caves were supposed to be safe. They're not! I mean no one's been taken from the beach, and yet the safer of the two camps has two people kidnapped from it." I ranted.
"Maybe you should move to the beach..." Sawyer said.
"Could I live under your tent? With you?" I asked.
"No, I'm going to leave," he looked around. The caves had been vacated for my privacy. "I'm going to leave my girl out where I won't be able to protect her."
I nodded. "Okay then. I'm moving to the beach." I decided. Sawyer and I got up, he grabbed two of my bags from the end of my bed kit. I folded up my bed kit and stored it in my other bag. I grabbed it and my backpack and went outside. Everyone I passed gave me looks of pity and sympathy. "I hate the way everyone is looking at me." I muttered to Sawyer.
Jack stepped in front of us. "Where are you going?" he asked, looking at my bags.
"I'm moving to the beach. No one's been taken from there, and I for one, will feel safer knowing the people there can defend themselves." I said, walking around him.
"This isn't what your uncle would want, Chrys." Jack called. I froze in my tracks and Sawyer whipped around. Tears started to form in my eyes again as I turned as well.
"You know nothing, Jack. You think because the only family I had left is... gone now that you can take charge of me?" I yelled, stomping up to him. "That's bullshit. I'm alone now, save for Sawyer, and the other girls, who actually care. I don't want to see you, or hear you talking about me or my family ever again, so long as we're on this island. If you come near me, ever again, I will hurt you so that you'll never be able to reproduce, though why you'd contaminate the gene pool further, I have not idea. Asshole." I turned back to Sawyer and he nodded. We left the caves that day and I settled in with Sawyer.
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Thank you and I hope you keep reading! I'm in your debt for your title suggestion! :)
tigressinthemist (aka lostfan)
Yeah, Sawyer is kind of in love! :D I'm glad he is too, cause it adds for plot! I found the
shirt at Hot Topic . com (without the spaces of course) I'm not sure if they carry it
anymore... but look, just in case they do!
angel871
I glad that you liked the chapter before this! I hope you like the new chapter as well! :)
lordoftheringsfanficreader
I'm glad to keep you interested in the story. It also helps me, because I'm hoping to
become a journalist one day... (I just got my first acception letter) So I'm sort of
practicing. :) I know that some of the characters weren't in character, especially in the
first chapter, but with all of the reviews I got, they told me so, and so I changed them,
hopefully for the better.
DarkBird1345
I'm happy that you like my story and thank you for reviewing.
Random-Shiny
I'm very happy that you like the story and hope that you continue to read it. :) I thank
you very much for the compliment, it's nice to hear that people think I'm an excellent
writer, or at least one person. Thanks also, for the 'take ur time tho' because, you're right
it does take time. But, I also don't want to lose your or any of the readers' interest.
p.s. It's okay, I'm crazy too... :D
Merccy
Thank you for your review, and I apologize if the changing of the tenses bothered you.
I'm trying to work on that, believe me it was a lot worse... sometimes I still do it, that's
why I proof read. I even catch myself in the middle of writing.
Charlie'sPunkDrugAngel
Chrys is starting to feel for Sawyer, and I'm thinking he's gonna feel for her too, but no
worries, because, 'the course of love never did run smooth' a quote from A Midsummer
Night's Dream, by William Shakespere. The man was an amazing writer. I take what he
said to heart.
bitter.sweet.31
Thanks....I like to put different characters in with the main ones, just to see how people
react... Chrys has gotten an AWESOME reaction, from all of the readers. Thank you so
much for reviewing.
Mars
I love Chrys... she's outspoken, so I can express all my pissyness through her! :) Thanks
for calling me sharp! :D Also thank you for telling me that in your opinion Sawyer is in
character... I'm always scared he's not, because his attitude is weird... you know? :)
Thanks tons for reviewing!
