Chapter 30 to a LOST Love
"Help! Somebody!" Sayid cried out, racing to the caves. "Shit!" he said to himself. "Help!"
Suddenly, he saw Charlie appear from the cave entrance and look about wildly. "Charlie!" Sayid cried out. Charlie whipped his head around and said, "Oh, shit!" before running over to Sayid.
"Oh, God, Sayid what happened?" Charlie asked.
"I don't know, all of a sudden she just screamed and fainted in my arms!" Sayid said quickly. They jogged into the cave quickly and Sayid saw Jack attending to Locke with Kate and a few other survivors looking on.
"Jack! Alex needs help!" Sayid practically yelled, crashing to his knees on the cave floor hard to set her down.
"Well, so does Locke, Sayid!" Jack said frustratedly back. He continued to bend over Locke and finally Sayid realized what he was doing…he was draining his own blood into Locke's veins. Locke had lost so much blood, especially all over Sayid. Kate, instead, came over and joined Sayid and Charlie.
"What happened, Sayid?" Kate asked. She held her hair with one hand and bent over Alex's mouth to check her breathing.
"We were just standing there, and all of a sudden she must have seen a vision because she screamed and fainted," Sayid said for the second time. "It must have been awful the way she was shrieking like that."
Suddenly, Alex moaned and opened her eyes. Sayid instantly rushed to her, pushing Kate out of the way. "Oh, thank God, Alex, you're alright," he started to say, before Alex instantly screamed at him in fear, her eyes going huge.
Reacting quickly, Sayid's eyebrows shot up and he said, "Alex! Alex, it's okay! It's me!"
Alex eyesdidn't comprehend him at all and she freaked out. Standing up really fast, she ran out of the cave in fear. Sayid instantly jumped up and ran after her. Charlie rolled his eyes to Kate, saying, "Here we go again…" She elbowed him hard.
"Shit, guys! What did you do!" Jack yelled at them, having stood up quickly.
"Nothing, Jack!" Charlie yelled back. "Honest, she was passed out, and when she woke up she screamed at us and took off!" He gestured emphatically toward their direction of flight.
"Shit!" Jack said, calming down. He looked down at Locke and rubbed his hand over his mouth in frustration.
"They want…they want…" Locke suddenly said quietly. They all rushed to his side.
"What, what do they want, Locke?" Jack asked loudly.
"They want…Alex…they want…they want…her…" he managed to get out. "Aah! This hurts! Aah my leg!" he cried out.
"He's reallyconscious!" Kate suddenly said. "Locke, Locke!" she yelledto him.Meanwhile, Jack had rushed to Locke's lower halfand found that he had missed a broken leg! He had been so worried about Locke's blood loss, he had completely forgotten to check the rest of his body for any other injuries.
"Shit! Guys, hold Locke down! I'm gonna reset his leg," Jack said, preparing himself.
"No way, Jack! You haven't given him any pain medication!" Kate cried out.
"There's no time, Kate!" Jack yelled back. "If his leg is going to heal right, I have to set it now! You there, come help hold him down!" He gestured with his head to two other survivors. They came over and each got on one side of Locke; one leaned across Locke's chest and the other held his shoulders.
"Stop wasting time, Jack!" Locke suddenly cried out. "Set it now!" he panted heavily.
"Alright, alright Locke!" Jack said. "I'll set it now…I'm going to count to three and when I get to three I'm going to put the bone back together. It's been broken in…" he felt along Locke's leg lightly, "…three places. Jesus…"
"One…" he started to count. The men on Locke's body tensed up, preparing for Locke's reaction.
"Two…" he said slowly, and in that instant, Jack snapped the bone back in its places. Locke screamed to high heaven and lashed out in surprise. The men on his body weren't prepared for it either but they managed to hold him down as he screamed in agony.
"Jack!" Charlie said angrily. "You said you were going to count to three before you did it!"
"It's an old trick," Kate said quickly, coming to Jack's defense. "If he would have counted to three, Locke would have tensed up causing the bone to not have slid in its places right." Charlie said nothing to that, still thinking Jack should have counted to three.
The forest chase…
"Alex! Alex wait! Stop!" Sayid screamed out as he ran toward her.
Alex looked behind her once and ran even faster. She screamed one time in utter terror, her eyes not focusing on anything. Sayid didn't even think she was running from him; it was her mind playing tricks on her. On and on she ran until suddenly they burst through to a clearing and there in front of her was the waterfall and the lake below it.
Without even thinking Alex dove off the edge of the edge of the rocks and into the pool of water.
"Alex, no!" he cried out. Sayid skidded to a halt before he could fall off, sliding on small loose rocks before stopping. He watched her, breathing heavily, as she swam across the lake. She swam sporadically, intent on escaping her pursuer with no thought to swimming gracefully.
As Sayid watched, Alex swam closer and closer to the waterfall. He almost called out to her to stop, but as he watched, she swam slightly to the right of it and suddenly disappeared from sight! Sayid freaked out and started to kick off his shoes to jump in after her, but then he saw the flash of her hair and shirt getting out of the water and climbing the rocks. She climbed slowly behind the waterfall, looking once in Sayid's direction before going directly behind the waterfall and not coming out.
"Shit…" Sayid mumbled before running a hand over his sweaty upper lip. "Shit!" he said again as he dropped his hand, frustrated. He looked again at the waterfall to see if she would come out, but she didn't.
Suddenly, a piercing shriek echoed through the forest. At that, Sayid snapped and, kicking off his shoes and his shirt, he dove into the freezing lake. Surfacing, he gasped with the surprising coldness and began to swim quickly toward the waterfall. All those years of army training really helped him with his swimming and he swam all the faster.
Finally he reached the roaring waterfall. Remembering that Alex turned right before she reached it, he did the same. He took a deep breath to avoid the spray of the water that was clouding his vision, he dove underwater and resurfaced when his outstretched hand touched rocks in front of him.
Grabbing onto the slick rocks, Sayid hoisted himself out of the water, water spilling from his pockets of his pants and sliding down his body and hair. When the waterfall didn't touch him anymore, he realized that there was an opening behind the waterfall, and he hoisted himself up into it. He tried to stand up but he ended up hitting his head on the low roof. "Ah!" was all he said when he hit, and he kept crawling into the cavern.
He was in total darkness so he couldn't see at all. He finally reached up above his head but felt nothing. He slowly stood up, and encountering nothing on his outstretched hand, he relaxed and dropped it. Suddenly, Sayid heard a sigh that was more of a sob inside the cave.
"Alex?" he called out tentatively. The person stopped breathing and didn't move. Sayid couldn't tell where she was, but he knew she was in there somewhere. Walking forward approximately four steps, he suddenly tripped and fell over something soft and landed with a grunt of surprise.
"It's him…" Alex's voice whispered in the dark.
Not saying anything at first, Sayid felt around to see what he had tripped over as his eyes adjusted to the darkness. He suddenly came in contact with…a person! "Aah!" Sayid cried out as he flew away from the body.
In fear, Sayid called out, "Alex?" He heard her draw in her breath again before she cried, "No! No! Stay away from me! No! What more do you want?"
Moving toward the sound of her voice as quickly as Sayid could, his eyes started to make out Alex's form huddled on the floor and the unconscious body. "Alex…Alex, easy. It's me, Sayid," he said. He reached out his hands and touched her face. Alex screamed again saying no,but Sayid only gripped her harder.
Her scream dying in her throat, Alex panted and reached up her hands slowly to touch his. Gasping out loud when she came into contact with his hands, she flew into Sayid's arms sobbing, "Oh, Sayid! Sayid Sayid…that's Boone!"
Pulling away from her embrace quickly, Sayid stared into her face. "What!" he asked loudly.
She nodded and continued to sob. "When I was running away from you, I thought I was being chased by the monster. They were tricking me…when I came here and found Boone dead, my mind snapped back to reality. Oh Sayid, he's dead!" She rushed into his embrace again, crying her heart out.