"What'd you do to her?" He came up to Sawyer.
Sawyer turned around and looked at him. What the hell was this man on about. "Do to who? I've been out here chopping wood."
"Kate."
"What do you mean. What did I do to her?"
"Why's she in your tent asleep." Jack asked. Apparently in a situation like this he couldn't hide his attraction to the fugitive.
"Just cause she's in my tent, don't mean I did anything to her. And I didn't do anything. She came to me last night and I didn't want her out in the woods by herself." Sawyer looked at Jack again and then went back to chopping wood. People needed to really lay off of him.
"Well she's still in there."
Sawyer picked up the wood he had chopped and turned around almost hitting Jack in the face. "Maybe the girls tired. Hell if I know. She was having a bad day yesterday and maybe she's worn out. I don't know. What I do know is that if you keep accusing me we're going to have a problem." He turned around once again narrowly missing Jack and walked off. He put his wood down and went over to Kate and shook her a bit.
"Wake up." He said to her, shaking her a bit more.
Kate opened her eyes. "What happened?" She asked sitting up a bit and pushing her shirt and bra strap up.
"Nothin'. But you need to leave."
Kate looked at him like he'd just grown an extra head. "Why?"
"Cause I'm getting shit for it. All I tired to do was keep you from getting attacked by who the hell knows what and I'm being treated like some sort of rapist."
Kate rolled her eyes and got up. "I seriously doubt that you are being treated like a rapist. They're probably asking you stuff but a rapist…I don't think so."
"Well it's my tent Freckles."
Kate stood up. "I'm leaving. Okay?" She walked out a little huffy.
Sawyer did feel a little bad; it wasn't her fault people were acting that way. But she had decided to walk around in the middle of the night. Which she still hadn't explained.
Kate watched Sawyer attempting to put up a tarp. He must have found a new one. It wasn't a one-man job, but he wouldn't admit to needing help. Kate went up and started helping. He'd never let her help if she asked.
"This where you want it?" She asked holding it up.
Sawyer nodded a little bit. "So we're ignoring it?"
"Ignoring what?" Kate asked holding the tarp up while he came over and tied it. He purposely brushed into her more than necessary. A fact that didn't escape Kate, who wasn't innocent of doing the same thing.
"That you actually wanted to talk to me last night." Sawyer said brushing over her hand to tie it.
"I just ended up there." She said definitively.
"You had to know where you were going. You didn't just end up at the beach in the middle of the night." He finished tying the knot and went to the other one.
Without being asked Kate went and held that one up to, knocking her side up against his as she stood beside him. "You think that Sawyer."
Sawyer smirked at her. "I know that."
She looked at him, smirking herself. "You think so huh? Maybe I was coming to think see something else." She said pushing her side into him so that he stumbled a bit.
Sawyer regained his ground and finished tying the knot. "You were coming to see me Freckles. Ain't that cute." He said knocking back.
Then something happened that probably was inevitable. Most people probably didn't actually expect it thinking they were more mature than that but most people like usual were wrong. Kate pushed him and then stumbled herself getting her foot caught on a pole. This turned their playfulness into a wrestling match. They were both in the sand laughing, actually having let there guards down for a minute.
Finally Sawyer pinned Kate on the sand. At the same moment it dawned on both of them that they were wrestling in the sand on the beach in plain sight of anyone who was there. To top it all off Vincent was barking like crazy at them. When they both fell on the ground laughing Vincent stopped and looked at them like they were crazy. They looked around and saw there a good amount of people were looking at them, of course when they looked up the pretended they weren't. Sawyer turned on his side leaning on his elbow.
"Well that's something different for us." He said as if he was at a loss for any other words.
Kate looked at him, a genuine smile playing at the corners of her mouth. "You so started that." She teased.
"Okay you pushed me first!" Sawyer said, sounding like a 10 year old.
"Did not!" Kate retorted. Somehow after wrestling in the middle of the beach she really didn't care how big of a fool she looked in front of everyone. She sat up and Sawyer did the same. They looked at each other for a while as everyone on the beach went back to what they were doing before. An awkward silence developed and Kate pushed Sawyer just a bit. He smiled and it broke.
"We are such kids." She said laughing.
Sawyer stood up. "I was just protecting
myself." He offered his hand and helped her up. When she went to
leave he pulled her closer. "Hey Freckles?"
"Yeah?"
"I had fun." He leaned in closer and whispered. "And your welcome to come sleep with me anytime."
"Even with the talk?"
"Even with the talk." He let her go and she smiled at him and walked off.