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Hopefully you enjoy this chapter. Just a warning I had a snow day on
Friday so i have more time to write this weekend. So expect more
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On Weary Passage
The night was short it seemed in sleep. With sudden light sprung over them Jack was up with the sound of day. It was late in the day maybe noon or so. He as quickly reminded of the journey they needed to take. Looking over he saw Kate lying next to him asleep without thought.
The others still not awake for they were awoken mid-night with Sawyer and Kate's fight off a ways from camp. That seems to be what took Kate to not wake early like she had everyday before hand. Looking over her the thought of stealing came over Jack. Should he believe her cry of innocence or condemn her to persecution?
Pushing thought from his mind he bent over her. With a gentle touch upon her cheek he meant to wake her from her sleep. Her opened and looked upon him. She said nothing as she looked up to him.
"It' about noon.' He announced knowing her first question. She sat up and looked around noticing no one was awake.
"We need to hurry and get ready to head off to find food." He said as he got up and walked over towards the waterfall.
Getting up Kate stretched for a moment waking up. Walking around she headed to Jack.
"Where's Sayid?" She yawned.
"Still at the beach I'm guessing. I'd think he'd be here by now." Jack sighed as they filled water bottles for the day.
"Are we gonna go without him?' Kate wondered. Jack turned to her with sternness across his face. "We might have too.' Jack said getting up and walked over to their stuff. Kate followed him quickly.
They waited for Sayid as long as they could. Staling by slowly packing their things. While they did this Charlie awoke next to them.
"Morning." Kate smiled. Still a sign of lifelessness shone upon his face.
"Morning." He groaned as he sat next to them. He watched quietly as they hurried about.
"So are you guys gonna find us some food today or what?" He asked. They both seemed to stop at the questioned. Jack continued on his way as Kate turned to answer him.
"We're gonna try. Yesterday we got lost so that's why there was no food." Kate smiled.
They finally had to give up the waiting on Sayid.
"Ok we can't keep waiting for him.' Jack announced as he and Kate stood ready to go.
"Ok. But what if he comes back looking for us?' Kate asked. Jack sighed as he turned to Charlie.
"Charlie. If Sayid come looking for us tell him we already left." Jack said.
"Will do.' Charlie answered.
"Not like I got anything better to do." He muttered as Jack walked by.
Kate stood there with sorrow on her face. She felt sorry for Charlie. With him being all alone it must be difficult she thought.
"Come on." Jack called bringing her out of her stare. She slowly turned from Charlie as her and Jack headed from the camp.
All was quiet between the two as they headed westward from the camp unlike east like the day before. Jack some way behind Kate with his head slight hanging down. He seemed took by something as Kate tried not to notice. She was trying he best to keep her business out of it as they wondered farther away from the camp.
Not being able to keep it in any longer Kate turned to Jack.
"So what's wrong with you this morning?" She asked.
"Hmm?" Jack asked not hearing her.
"You seem a little off today. What's up?' She asked again.
"Nothing. Just thinking." Jack answered. "About what?" Kate asked with a simple smile.
"Nothing really." Jack laughed.
"You're thinking of nothing." Kate began. She went to speak again when there was a sudden rustling in the trees.
"Shh.' Jack said stopping her from talking.
The rustling came again. Their eyes bolted around the trees searching for what was there. As it became louder Kate slowly grabbed for the knife hanging from her belt. Quickly something climbed from the brush. Jack saw who it was before Kate. He had to put his hand up to stop Kate from throwing a knife at them, and then she saw who it was.
"Sawyer?' She asked. She turned away stressfully rubbing her face. Nearly scared out her mind. To this point she was a little tired of everyone popping out of trees.
"Nice to see you too." He spat sarcastically.
"What do you want Sawyer?" Jack asked with a hint of aggravation in his voice.
"Easy. I saw you two walking along thought I'd come over and say hi." He smiled.
"If this is about the letter…' Kate began.
"Nope. Totally forgot about it." He began.
'You forgot about it?' Kate asked knowing he was bluffing.
"If you say you don't have you don't have it. I guess I must of lost it." Sawyer said honestly seeming truthful.
Kate and Jack seemed alitttle edgy about the way Sawyer was actin.
"So where you two off to?' He asked.
"Trying to find some more food for the others. " Jack sighed as the three began walking again.
"Need another scout?" Sawyer asked. Kate stopped and looked back to Sawyer with doubt on her face.
"To tell you truth we could." Jack's voice came next to her. She looked up to him with near shock. He seemed not to notice her.
"I'm in." Sawyer said with a huge grin as he looked down to Kate. She saw evil in his eyes. She knew he was up to something.
As the three trekked on Kate kept a watchful eye on Sawyer. Standing closely behind him and Jack. She barely even said anything to Jack or paid any attention to him for that matter. It was relatively quiet between the three as they wondered around. Even at Sawyer's sad attempts to talk it usual ended in a few lines and then silence again.
It was nearing sundown. They were too far from camp to make it back in time. They had found a little bit of fruit and things, but still no bananas by this time. It was decided that they would set up camp and stay there for the night then head north east from where they were and try and find more food on the way back on the way back.
With night over head they all three sat around a small fire they had made. It was an odd for those three to be getting along while they sat around the fire. No matter if they were getting along or not no words were being uttered. Without warning Jack got up. Alarming Kate she looked up.
"Where are you going?" She asked. He stopped and turned around.
"More fire wood. You wanna come?" He asked. Kate thought about it for a minute.
"I'm good.' She smiled. He said nothing else as he turned and head off into the night. She slowly turned around once she couldn't see him anymore.
Coming back she was reminded of Sawyer being next to her. He sat there silent with a cigarette lit between his lips. Feeling suddenly sick from the thought of Jack never coming back she got up not being able to take it. Sawyer watched her without words as she walked past him to her stuff.
Walking over a couple feet from the little camp she had her stuff. Squatting down she began to go through her stuff. Looking for a something to keep her mind off Jack being gone she came over a piece of folded paper. Gently taking it out of the pocket she looked at it in her hands.
Unfolding it she looked to the first line as began to read. Dear Mr. Sawyer. It began. Her eyes wondered over each word taking them in one by one.
"I knew it." A voice came from behind her. Her heart skipped a beat, as she knew she had been caught.
Slowly standing up she turned to face him. His face was full of certain rage.
"I knew you had it. All along." He yelled.
"You can't lie to me Freckles. Maybe that Jackass not me." He yelled again. She said nothing as she still had it in her hand.
"Why'd you take it?' He asked more calmly.
"I don't know." She whispered.
"Why did you take it?' He yelled loud enough for the whole island to see.
"I don't kno…' Kate started.
"What the hell is going on?" Jack's yelled from behind them. Kate grew nervous as she saw Jack approach. Sawyer saw he weakness.
"Oh." He smirked as he turned to Jack.
Sawyer quickly reached for Kate's hand that she held the note in. Jack slowly looked down to see the note in her hand. Sawyer didn't have to say anything he saw Jack slowly come to grips with what was going on.
"Kate." Jack said as he approached the two.
"Jack…I'm sorry." She began to weep. Jack said nothing.
"No Kate." He said as she walked away from her shaking his head. She started to cry as he picked up his stuff and started off. He walked back up to her.
"I can't be around or trust someone who continuously lies to me." He whispered as he walked away.
"Jack.' She called after him. Sawyer took the letter from her hand walked back over to the fire.
She started after him.
"Jack." She yelled after him.
"Don't follow me." He said as he walked out of sight. She stopped and stood there as it began to rain then pour. Her tears had mixed with the rain as she stood there hoping he would come back. Then there was rustling in the bushes to the left of her. She quickly turned to face them.
"Jack?' She called hoping he had turned around. No answer.
Turing around she saw no sign of Sawyer or any of the camp for the matter. Had she wondered off after Jack that far she wondered. The sound came again. She quickly turned.
"Sawyer." She called for once hoping it was him. There were footsteps. They were coming towards her. There was a sudden sound of heavy breath. "Oh god.' She whispered as she looked fearfully into the darkness of the forest.
The rain came down harder as she looked around for a place to run. As the footsteps were coming closer towards her she began to run in whatever direction she could to get away from what was following her. Running she began to think of the caves where they found all those bodies. Thoughts of Claire and Charlie raced through her mind as he heart pounded to the rhythm of her feet on the muddy ground.
With ground being slippery from the mud, the constant rain, and her ankle it was hard for her to keep her balance as she ran. Not being able to see she didn't notice a tree root sticking out of the ground. As her bum ankle came in contact with it she fell swiftly to the ground. Aching from the fall she slowly began to pick herself up only to be struck hard by something in her left side. The stabbing pain was instantaneous and was soon felt like her whole body was being pulled through her side.
Quickly grabbing her side she tired to compose herself knowing she had been attacked. Not being able to see two feet in front of her she wasn't able to notice what was happening as a second stabbing pain ripped through her good leg. A tearing sensation spread from her knee down to her ankle and quickly pulled away leaving an extreme throbbing pain.
Completely off balnce she stayed still as she reached down with her other hand to her leg. With a slight touch antagonizing pain burned across her leg. She winced in pain as she brought her hand away and put it as close to face as she could. She saw a darkness covering her hand. Blood.
As she pulled her hand away she froze as she something flew towards her face. Without time to react she saw a bright light as pain smacked her for a third time in the face. Trying to focus from the blow she stumbled backwards. She quickly tripped over something throwing her back.
She felt weightlessness as she thought she was flying. Quickly she came pounding into the ground with the back of her head hitting a rock. Shaking as she tried to get up or at least move all she could do was look up. There standing she made out a figure standing some feet above. They stood there glaring down upon her as rain played down upon them both. Without warning whomever it was came crashing down upon her.
Knocking the wind out of her she closed her eyes monetarily. Feeling a tug at the top of her pants she thought for sure she was being rapped. She quickly opened her eyes. The person slowly pulled her knife from her belt. Her eyes went wide as she tried to move. She was nearly paralyzed from all the pain surging through her body.
Quickly the person pinned her and placed their hand over her mouth as she tried to scream. Looking up she still couldn't make out the face from the rain being so thick. All she saw was them bring the knife to her face. She swallowed, as she knew she was going to die. Quickly a piercing thrust came through her left shoulder. She screamed as loud as she could, but no one could heard her.
The weight was lifted off her as they got up. She tried her best to watch whoever it was climb out of the ditch in which she laid. She kept her eyes open long enough to watch them walk away. As she closed them she deeply inhale and exhaled. Opening them again she looked at the knife in her shoulder. Trying her best to tell her body to move she wouldn't budge.
"Jack!" She started to scream. She screamed and screamed until nothing came out when she opened her mouth. She finally gave up. Lying there she began to cry. She was going to die alone in this muddy pit. Jack wasn't going to save her. Slowly her world around her became dim as the pain became worse. Her weeping turned into drone along with the rain as she slowly started closing her eyes. With one last breath her world went dark.
