There was a little brown book covered with dirt in front of him. He bent down, picked it up and looked over its thick bound pages and in turn saw that it was a journal of some kind. Its first few pages were blank, a soft white color with a blank line at the top of each to put the date. Towards the center a few red lines were drawn almost like a child would do. He was here to find Ana's suitcase but maybe this was just as important to someone, so he tucked the book into his back pocket and stood up dusting the dirt and jungle off his paints.
"Hey!"
Michael turned to the sound of the call. "Hello?" he asked. He didn't see anyone around him.
"Over here! Hey!"
The person called again. This time he could tell it was close by. He didn't have to question long because a tall skinny male came out from behind a tree and almost fell into his arms. Michael had never seen this man on the beach before and guessed he had been around here since the crash. "Are you alright?" Michael asked holding the man on his feet. "No I'm not! Someone's after me!" the man called out. "Who's after you?" Michael asked.
Michael pulled one of his hands away after feeling it was wet only to see it was now covered with thick red blood. Looking down he saw that the man had a huge dripping wound at his side and one of his arm. "Oh!" Michael said trying to stay calm. "Don't worry we have a nurse on the beach. I'll get you there now."
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"Where's Ana?" Michael asked Nicole. She was sitting with her father watching the tide. "I dunno." she told him. "I think she was with her husband" Frank added in. "Can you go find her I found this man bleeding" Michael said placing the man in the soft sand.
Nicole's eyes widened at the sight of the man and took off to find the nurse while a crowd started to gather around the "new guy." Glenn, Norma, Tucker, the Goth Chick, and Monica all came to see the new person. "Does anyone have anything we can use to stop the bleeding?" Michael asked the group. He was going to take charge until Ana arrived.
"We have some clothes but that's it" Norma believed. "Someone fetch them!" he called out. "I'll get them! I have a blanket I found also," The Goth Chick said. "Thank you" Michael told her. "Please hurry"
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"Any pains?" Ana asked Luda. "No" the Russian woman answered. "Any strange feelings?" Ana questioned her more. "No…I just feel baby kick." Ana smiled seeing the woman look lovingly into Andre's eyes, both sharing the memory of feeling their baby kick days before. "That's defiantly a good sign" Ana told them. "If you need anything else let me know, okay?"
Andre thanked her "I'm going to take you up on that" he told her with a chuckle. "Do you know when airplane come?" Luda asked Ana. She and Andre shared a look of uncertainty. Should they let her worry more? "…I'm sure soon. I bet they are out there now looking for us."
In her mind that's not what she was thinking…it had been two weeks now and spirits were getting low, not to mention as well as their food. The last thing that gave them a boost was when Michael found the waterfall, but that joy didn't last long. After a beat she gave the couple a smile and left them to return to the beach, but she stopped to rest on her feet for a second.
It was then she felt a hand glide around her hips and a deep kiss being planted on her neck. She smiled and wrapped her own arms around the ones now around her. "I see you're well enough to be a horn dog," she told the person she knew to be Luis. "You got me," her husband said giving her neck another line of passionate kisses. "But how can I keep my hands off when I have the prettiest girl on the island to myself?"
Ana was glad she had him to cheer her up. His flirting among other things took away her horrible thoughts of Michael…well not that they were horrible…at all! They weren't even terrible or bad. But she was married and as long as she had that golden ring on her finger that's how it would stay. "Keep up your strength will ya, we will need it for when we get off this place" Luis told her. "What do you mean?" she asked him not sure what he was getting at with his comment. "You having been working more then you did at the hospital, and those assholes worked you to the bone!"
"Luis what am I just suppose to let these people go unattended? I'm the only one here who knows any form of how give them help." Now she was a bit pissed off. "That's not what I mean. You look so tired and out of it. I mean hell you stayed day and night with me last week when I wasn't well. I just want you to be okay."
He was just worried about me. Ana told herself. She turned around to look into his eyes. "I love that you're thinking of me…I really do but I have to do this. A nurses work is never done." She pulled in closer and they kissed. But there peace was cut short. "Ana they need you on the beach. Michael found a man and hes cut up really bad!" Nicole said. "See" she told Luis before running off.
"Who is he?" he heard his wife ask the girl as they ran way and then he heard nothing. For some reason he didn't like that guy Michael. He was a nice guy sure, but he had a feeling he wanted something from Ana.
Luis had felt they were being watched the whole time, and in fact he was being watched. He looked over his shoulder to see a woman with curly blonde hair and a super models body, and she was smiling at him.
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Kenneth lead the way again as C.J and Terry walked with him. They had go out here since the so-called captain wanted to find his dead friend and give him a proper burial. Ken could give a rats ass less about this jerks friend or him for that matter but he didn't want the kid Terry to have to go with him alone. They got to the place that C.J had told them was the right area but it was empty. Only ash and burnt suitcases remained.
"He was here! I know he was!" C.J said hitting a tree with a tight fist. "Hey maybe its not the spot. I mean every area looks the same here." Terry questioned. C.J didn't like being told he was wrong, he was suppose to be the head honcho around here, and they were questioning him?
"Hey asshole this was the place! I think I know where my friend died!" C.J shouted at them in anger. Walking in front of C.J, Kenneth just stood and looked at him for a second, like he was staring him down. "What are you looking at?" C.J asked. "I think you better rethink your attitude!" Kenneth told him not going above a normal talking tone, which was deep, and demanding itself. "Yeah whatever assholes get the fuck out of here! Both of you!" was all C.J said.
"Come on Terry lets go." Kenneth told the boy and they both left. As they were leaving they saw C.J. looking around the area in bewilderment. If there was a man there he wasn't anymore. But he got the feeling there was something else C.J was looking for.