Chapter 24 to a LOST Love

"Ouch! Jack, that hurts!

Jack looked up from his stitching to see Alex's turned head. "I'm sorry, Alex, we don't have any medication with us. All the aspirin is gone. I'm almost done, I swear," he replied.

Alex turned around again to find Sayid's smiling face in front of her. She raised her eyebrows in surprise then smiled, too. Suddenly, footsteps echoed in the cave and they turned to see Sun standing in the entrance. She was holding Boone's bloody backpack.

"Oh shit," Sayid said, remembering something. "I forgot something on the beach. I'd better go get it." Looking to Alex for her permission, which she nodded slightly to, Sayid walked past Sun with a nod. She turned back to the others and said, "I've found something in Boone's sack."

Reaching into the sack, Sun pulled out a small bag of powder. It looked like cocaine, except it was pure white like sugar. Sun turned it in the sunlight and the others saw that when it hit the light just right, flecks of black appeared through it.

"Lemme see that," Jack said motioning toward the bag. Sun tossed it to him and Jack caught it one handed. He examined the bag then proceeded to open it.

"Careful!" Kate said suddenly. "You don't know what that stuff is. It doesn't look like any drug I've ever seen…What about you, Charlie? Have you ever seen this?"

Jack tossed Charlie the bag. Charlie examined it like Jack did. "Nope, I've never seen this before. I mean, look a' all these black spots in it…strange…"

"Jack…" Kate said. "What if this is that poison you were telling us about? None of us have ever seen it, you haven't seen it…what if this is it?"

"But why would Boone have it with him?" Jack returned. "And he has so much of it, too…but why?"

"Tell us about those dreams you had, Alex," Michael said, breaking the tension.

Alex away from the group and sighed, "I don't know if I can…the things I saw…" Here she paused, uncertain whether to go on or to stop. Still talking for comfort, Alex said, "I saw everyone here…you," she looked at Michael, "Sayid, Kate, Sawyer, Shannon, everybody. Speaking of Shannon…I haven't seen her in a while. That day I was blind, at breakfast, do you remember?" She glanced at Kate who nodded. She continued, "Did Shannon ever show up for breakfast or not? I never really found out because of…circumstances."

"We haven't seen her since before you got sick," Charlie replied. "It's like she just…vanished. We sent out search parties, but they all came back without her. And trust me, we looked everywhere we possibly could look. But we couldn't find her at all."

Alex's face went pale instantly. She put her head in her hands and sighed. "Shit," she said quietly.

"What?" Kate asked.

Alex sighed again then looked Kate straight in the eye. "It's already begun…"

Ooh, creepy ending! hehe sorry I haven't been able to write more I've been so busy.

A Bleeding Rose