Sawyer's life seems like one big, empty heartache until he meets
a special someone. Please don't flame me, I tried!
PS- This is NOT a Sawyer/Kate story. Bit of a twist involved with Sawyer,
but otherwise: Jack/Kate... there might be some Charlie/Claire and
Shannon/Saiid later on... but this story is mostly about Sawyer.
I spelled Saiid wrong on purpose, by the way... long story :)
Sawyer sighed. "Do I really gotta do this?"
"The baby likes your voice!" said Charlie, patting the small child's head to
make him stop crying, which had begun once Sawyer had stopped reading.
"I don't know why. Help me, Sawyer. I want Claire to get some rest."
Sawyer sighed again. He kept reading. "Ingredients- Peanuts, salt... come on,
Charlie, do I really have to read THIS?"
"It's the only thing we've got left," said Charlie. "Unless you can read
Spanish. The peanut package, please."
"Will the kid really realize it if I read the same thing twice?" Sawyer
groaned. "I liked that thing a lot better when your girlfriend over there
thought he was dead."
"Hey," said Charlie, patting Claire's baby boy's head. "that isn't nice."
"Yeah, but it's true." Sawyer stood up. "There, he's asleep. Can I go now?"
Charlie stood up, too. "Yeah. Thanks, man."
Charlie walked away to put the baby to bed and Sawyer stalked off to find
Kate.
He found Kate sitting in the caves, watching Jack sleep.
"Hey, Freckles," said Sawyer.
Kate rolled her eyes. "What do you want?"
"I just wanna chat with ya," said Sawyer. He sat down. "Why are you watchin
him sleep?"
"Because," said Kate. "What else am I going to do, waste my time talking to
you?"
"You're doing a hell of a job doing both."
Kate groaned.
"You like him, don't you?"
"What?"
"You like him," Sawyer repeated. "You never watch ME sleep... or do you?"
"That's it, get out." said Kate. "And you should know the truth- I don't like
you, I HATE you."
Sawyer just looked at her. Kate stalked off.
Sawyer chuckled a bit to himself. Then he left too.
It was sunset. Sawyer was bored. He wanted to get out of the
camp area before the baby woke up. The last thing he wanted to do was
read the ingredients off a peanut package again.
Sawyer wandered onto the beach. He thought about Kate. He was
so sure she liked him. Jack didn't stand a chance.
Sawyer didn't realize that he'd wandered into his worst nightmare.
"Oh..." Kate turned around. Then she got mad. "Sawyer, what the hell are you doing here?"
But those words didn't change what Sawyer had seen. And there
was no doubt in his mind- Kate and Jack were making out.
Sawyer turned around and left. He didn't even bother to listen to her tell him
what was going on.
Sawyer felt like a loser. No way could he compete with Jack. He
should have known. But he was too obnoxious for his own good.
Sawyer was infuriated. He could feel a lump rising in his throat.
How much he wanted to kill Jack right then...
Sawyer slammed head-on into someone he'd never seen before.
"Sorry... sorry..." she mumbled. Sawyer stood back and looked at her. She did
the same.
And right then, Sawyer forgot all about Kate.
Sawyer stared into the girl's light brown eyes. She had black hair.
She was smiling slightly, but not really. Her mouth was hanging open a bit.
She, too, was staring at Sawyer.
"Uhh... uhh..." said Sawyer. For the first time in his life, he had nothing to say.
"Don't believe we've met before." Sawyer smiled.
"I'm Leigh," said the girl. She had a sudden accent similar to Sawyer's. "Well,
Leighanne, actually, but nobody calls me Leighanne. So it's Leigh..." she trailed
off.
"My name's... my name's Sawyer." he said. He held out his right hand.
Leigh shook it. She smiled.
"D'you want to take a walk with me?" she asked. "You'd think, after living
on this Godforsaken island for so long, you'd know everyone."
"Guess not," said Sawyer. "Sure, I'll walk with you."
