Chapter 9

Note: I'm not going to put any more disclaimers from this point on unless I use a song our quote of some sort. ;)

Sun and Jack worked vigilantly in the caves; Boone had just been dropped off there by an anxious Locke who quickly fled the scene. Sun stroked Boone's blood soaked hair, he coughed and moaned as Jack sat there slowly letting his own blood drip into Boone.

"Tell her I'm sorry…" Boone coughed as his blue eyes looked aimlessly at nothing. "Tell her I'm sorry…"

Sun stared at Jack.

"This isn't working." Jack yelled as he ripped the needle out of his arm.

"Jack calm down." Sun whispered as she loving caressed Boone's face.

"I can't Sun, don't you understand? Claire's baby died in my arms, Annie went missing under my watch, now this! Now I'm going to lose Boone under my care." Jack yelled as tears began to well in his eyes. "Sun I can't take this anymore."

"Jack listen to me. It's not your fault that any of this happened." Sun stated as she stood up with a determined look on her face. "Jack we all know full well that this isn't a place full of remorse, especially a remorse for life. Jack you can't blame yourself for trying can you?" Sun explained as she tried to soothe him. "Now I can't stand here and let you waste you time." Sun stated as she left the caves.

"Jack…I'm sorry." Boone coughed as Jack walked over to him. "I'm letting you off the hook. Just let me go." Boone wheezed.

Jack stared at the limp body and cried. He hated being the hero; he hated the position he was in. He was no God; he was only man, how could he explain to the other survivors that Boone had mysteriously died? He knew that with two deaths in the same week the others wouldn't be as keen to come to him.

Flashback------

"Sawyer?" Her voice questioned as he turned over to see a smiling yet perplexed face starring back at him.

"What?" he asked groggily as he turned over to face her.

"What happened last night?" Annie questioned passing her hand through his hair.

"Nothing." Sawyer stated to quickly causing her to get out of bed and rummage through the drawers.

"Then what's this doing here?" She asked holding up the gun she had found in his jacket pocket earlier that morning.

"Annie…it's nothing." Sawyer said getting defensive. He knew full well that she suspected something.

"Sawyer…concealed weapons are illegal in Australia. I know you didn't have this with you on the plane because customs would have taken you. Sawyer who'd you kill?" Annie inquired.

"I didn't kill anyone, Annie just put the god damn gun down." Sawyer yelled as he got up out of bed.

"I found this too…" Annie said as she opened an envelope containing a letter. "Dear Mr. Sawyer, I know what you did…" She began. "Sawyer isn't your real name is it? Sawyer's the man you killed. You wrote this. Why the hell didn't you tell me? I thought you loved me." Annie cried as sobs slowly dissolved her body.

"Annie, it's not what you think it is." Sawyer said softly trying to calm her. She was an upset girl with a loaded gun in her hands; he didn't want to take any chances.

"Sawyer I don't want to hear it, first you sleep with other women on this trip pretending to "work" next you kill a man! Sawyer I can't stand this. Thank god we're leaving in two days." Annie yelled through sobs.

"Annie would you put the gun down and listen to me." Sawyer calmly stated as he inched towards her. She placed the gun down on the bureau, the letter in her hands trembled. "Annie I am not sleeping with anyone but you, I can explain about the letter but not here. I'll do it when we get home." Sawyer whispered as he pulled her into a hug. "I promise Annie, I never meant for any of this to happen."

"Sawyer we have to get out of here."

"One more day and we'll be gone, I swear. No one knows I did anything except you, and you're not going to tell anyone right?"

"Right." Annie stated as she stared into his eyes.

Sawyer realized that something wasn't right. There were clothes and other various nick-knacks scattered around the forest floor. They were from his stash. He followed the trail to his bags. A girl was sitting there throwing his belongings well muttering curse words.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing?" Sawyer stated coldly as he pointed the revolver at the girl. She turned and stared at him with a vile glare. He realized that she wasn't one of the survivors and he grabbed her and escorted her back to the caves.

The caves were a wreck, Shannon was crying as Sayid was trying to comfort her. As he entered heads turned to watch as he pushed a thriving girl in front of him.

"Look at what I found." He yelled as he threw her into the middle of the caves. Shortly after Sawyer noticed the somber air of the caves, he didn't care though. It didn't involve him at the moment.

"Where did you find her?" Jack questioned perplexed.

"Why this little bitch here went through my stuff." Sawyer spat giving an evil eye to the girl. She glared at him just as harshly.

Sawyer then noticed that the girl was trying to leave. He grabbed her by the wrists and held her arms behind her back. She put up a fight resisting his hold.

"No so fast little lady." Sawyer whispered to her ear. She glared at him breathing heavily.

"Who are you?" Jack questioned walking up to her, looking her in the eye. "Do you know Ethan?" He questioned again she did nothing but attempt to break free of Sawyers hold.

"Erin…" A voice called out causing most everyone to stare over at the entrance to the caves where the silhouette of another girl appeared. The older girl who gave her the most vile and cunning stare to the one who spoke.

"I followed you Erin, I'm sorry."

"You bitch, you bitch. I told you not to speak let alone follow me." The girl who was assumed to be Erin grunted. Her voice was low and raspy.

"I'm sorry Erin, I'm really, really sorry." The other girl blubbered as she began to cry.

"Shut up Rachel." Erin spat and the girl shut up instantly. Jack ran over to the other girl and dragged her to the center too.

Sawyer pulled Erin's head back so he could look her in the eye. He did and she stared back just as hard.

"I know you can talk, you tell us where you're from." Sawyer demanded causing the girl to smile. Disgusted he pushed her head forward causing her jet-black hair to fall in strands over her eyes. The look she sent Jack caused him to shiver.

"Erin just tell them. They might hurt us, they might kill us like the killed Ethan." The younger girl cried.

"Shut up, they're not going to kill us." Erin shot back coldly. "They didn't exactly kill Ethan did they?"

"No…" the girl said timidly

"See no worries they won't kill us."

The rest of the people in the caves stared at each other in shock. The thought that they didn't kill Ethan scared most of them.

I like a good twist…cackles now that I've got you hooked again I'm off for another two month hiatus…j/k I wouldn't do that to you. It's vacation week and I plan on popping out chapters like there's no tomorrow, so don't worry you won't have to tear your hair out in angry fits. (A FYI for some clarification I plan on continuing this story until I find a suitable end and meh…this show just keeps throwing twists on my twists so expect some familiar aspects with some new stuff…hey this is fiction after all. Back to the FYI. This story won't end soon.) I also laugh at the fact that with the gun scene, you could cleverly say 'Annie get your gun' no pun intended at all. (that was for all you musical drama freaks out there)