I'm soooo sorryI took so long with this chapter, but I was swamped with homework, and then I was sick, and then . . . you get the idea. I really don't like this chapter. Don't tell me that it's horrible, because I already know it is. My Muse took summer vacation early. The next chapter should be better,I hope, and will be updated sooner. Thanks.
Sawyer sat in his tent, bored as usual. He hadn't seen Kate in a while and that worried him. "Probably off with Jackass," he thought, feeling slightly hurt at the idea. Just then, Kate walked up to him.

She had thought a lot about what Patty had said and decided to act upon it. She came up to Sawyer and spoke before he could. It would be easier that way.

"Sawyer," she began. "I'm going to be moving up to the caves with Jack."

Sawyer just sat there in shock for a moment, his brain working hard to attempt to grasp this. "You're moving in with . . . him!"

"Yes Sawyer. I'm sorry," she said. She hadn't realized how much it would hurt him, but now she saw. The impact of her words was devastating to him.

He went from hurt to furious. "Well," he said, "I hope you and Doc have a wonderful time." His temper had shot up like the bullet he was longing to put into Jack. Especially after this information.

Kate looked at him. "Sawyer?" she asked, bending down to him. "If I told you I was lying about moving, what would you do?"

"Are you?" he asked, his temper subsiding a little.

"Yes," she said. "I'm not moving in with Jack."

Sawyer stared at her for a moment, watching to see if she was lying. Then he put his arms around her and kissed her.

Kate knew who she was supposed to be with now. Sawyer was the only one for her. Jack could never understand her the way he did. Of course, Jack doesn't know that.

As Patty watched them from her tent she smiled, thinking that was a job well done. Until Jack showed up anyway.

"Uh-oh," she muttered and quickly got up to talk to Jack.

"Jack," she called. "How are you?"

Jack stopped at hearing the small blond call his name. "Oh, fine," he lied. "Have you seen Kate?"

"No," she said, her eyes darting to Sawyer's tent where Kate was currently . . . expressing her love of Sawyer. "Thank God his back is turned to them," she thought.

"Oh. Well, if you see her, tell her I want to talk to her, OK?" he asked.

"All right," she said. She watched him as he left, glad he never saw Kate and Sawyer. She needed to talk to them.

"Are you two done yet?" she asked, walking up to them. Her voice seemed to jolt them back into the real world. They looked at her as though they were teenagers caught making out by a parent.

"Um . . . yeah, I . . . um . . . ." Kate tried to say. She looked up at Sawyer. "Is something wrong Sawyer?"

He was staring at Patty. He knew who everyone on the beach was, so why had he never seen her until now. "Patty?" he whispered.

She smiled innocently. "I'll leave you two alone," she said, meaning, "I'll let you explain that one, James."

"Oh, and, Kate?" she called, as she walked away. "Jack wants to talk to you. He's at the caves."

"Thanks," she said, as Patty went back to her tent. "Sawyer? Why were you looking at her like that?"

And for once in his life, Sawyer could not find a way out of a question.