(A/N: Yea, I just couldn't stop writing, so here's the second chapter.)
Disclaimer: Lost isn't mine, wish it was. Song by U2, -LOST- copyrighted by H.B.
-Saving Kate-
-Chapter 2-
-I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For-
Kate stirred in her sleep, having a dream.
-Dream/Flashback-
Kate was by the waterfall, washing away the sweat and grime she had accumulated by working in the garden. Hearing Sun's soft voice, she turned to see her and Jin walk by, talking in Korean. For once, she looked actually happy with her husband. A familiar voice brought her back down to Earth.
"They look happy, don't they?"
Kate turned and saw Jack. She smiled as he kneeled beside her and took a drink from the water.
"Yea, they do."
"Here, hold out your hand," he said. "You'll like it. I promise."
Kate smiled as she stuck out her hand. He deposited them slowly, as if touching her hand was a gift itself.
"Gross little greenish-yellow thingies?" she asked, feeling the texture of the things.
"Nope, these are slimy little blueish-blackish thingies," he replied, pulling away his hand, chuckling.
"Guava seeds!" She exclaimed.
"What's a garden without guava?" he asked, a boyish grin on his face.
-End Dream/Flashback-
Feeling the cold hard stone beneath her body, Kate awoke to a blinding light overhead. She blinked and tried to move, but felt a stabbing pain around her neck. Her hands were set in shackles, along with her feet. Kate was prisoner, but to who, she didn't know.
-LOST-
"Jack, where's Kate?!" Locke shook Jack awake. "Jack, do you know WHERE Kate is?"
"She's at the beach." Jack answered sleepily.
"No, she's not. Jack, get up. I need to show you something!" Locke stressed concernedly.
That woke up Jack. "She isn't?! Where the hell is she?!"
Locke didn't reply.
A few minutes later, Jack was in the woods with Locke.
"What is it?" Jack asked.
Locke put a finger to his lips. "He might be here still."
"Who's "he"?"
"Jack, just be quiet." Locke exasperately said.
Jack opened his mouth to shoot back some comment, but thought against it.
Kneeling to the ground, Locke tried to locate what he had found on a hunt earlier that morning.
With a quiet "aha!" Locke beckoned Jack to see.
"There was a scuffle here, and then," Locke pointed over to the right, "Someone got dragged for a couple feet," he said, showing Jack a long trail of footprints on the soft dirt. "Then it looked like someone got knocked down, got back up, and probably picked up the person. The footprints faded into the bushes over there."
-LOST-
"Hello Kate," a unfamiliar, yet evil sounding voice said. A shadow stood in the steel doorframe.
"Who the hell are you?" she fiercely asked.
"Ah, the same question Claire asked me, although when I was finished with her, she knew my name quite well."
"No…you're not Ethan, are you?" Kate meekly asked.
A quiet chuckle filled the air. "Correct
"What do you want with me?"
Ethan stepped into a ray of sunshine, and smiled. "Revenge." He laughed maliciously, and left the room.
-LOST-
Bolting to the encampment, Jack quickly found Sayid.
"Kate…she isn't here, is she?" he asked, breathing heavily.
"No…" Sayid said.
Sayid…Kate's been abducted." Jack said, trying to believe what he said.
"Taken, eh? By who, might I ask?"
"Our old friend, Ethan."
Sayid's face fell. He knew that Jack had to find herm or he'd go delusional. They needed to find Kate…dead or alive.
Locke ran over, Boone close behind.
"Did you tell him, Jack?" Locke asked.
"He told me all right, though I'm having a very hard time believing it," Sayid answered.
"Do you want to waste our time looking at the proof?! Ethan's out in the jungle with Kate, he could be doing God knows what to her, and you want proof?!" Boone said.
"No. Let's just calm do-" Sayid started.
"I AM NOT GOING TO BE CALM UNTIL I FIND KATE!" Jack bellowed, causing several survivors to stare at him.
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! Do you NOT understand that KATE is with ETHAN out in the JUNGLE?!" He yelled. The survivors hurriedly walked away. "Are you coming with us or not, Sayid?" he asked, his voice slowly returning to normal.
"Of course, anything to find Kate," He said, getting up.
-LOST-
Upon hearing footsteps echo against the wall, Kate wearily opened her eyes. He neck felt raw under the shackles, along with her wrist and ankles.
Ethan's shadow appeared in the doorway once more.
"Hello Kate." He said, a malignant tone filling his voice.
"Stay the fucking hell away from me, you bastard," She said, a hint of anger overtaking the weakness in her voice.
"Oh, what naughty words to say. I pictured you as such a nice girl too. I guess this might take your actions down a bit." He said as he flashed a syringe of clear fluid at her.
"No…" she whimpered.
"Yes, you must pay the consequences."
Sticking the needled into her left upper arm, a wave of pain washed over Kate, taking with it all her strength.
-LOST-
The foursome trekked into the woods and headed to the spot where the footprints lay.
"They go off in that direction, and eventually fade." Locke pointed eastward with his knife.
Sayid examined the footprints.
"Ethan must have been wearing boots." He said.
"Yea, we figured that out already." Locke said. "Come on, let's follow the footprints again, see if we missed anything."
Jack rubbed his temple.
"If only I'd been there a bit earlier, I could have stopped her."
"Now Jack. Don't blame yourself, it's no one's fault." Locke responded.
Jack silently stared at the ground,
-LOST-
I have climbed highest mountains,
I have ran through the fields,
Only to be with you.
Only to be with you.
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
-U2's 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'-