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Kate sat in the garden with Sun, they were picking, something, Kate couldn't remember what Sun had called them.
"I saw you in Sawyer's tent." Sun said looking over to her and smiling.
Kate nodded. "Yeah yesterday was a bad day for me. I was wandering and ended up there."
"You have feelings for him then?"
"I'm not sure." Kate sighed putting the stuff she was picking into the basket.
"Well it was his tent you ended up at. And he lives on the beach." She got a playful grin. "And you were wrestling with him this morning."
Kate laughed a little. "I guess that's true."
"So why was yesterday a bad day?" Sun asked her still smiling.
Kate sighed a bit.
"So this must be about the bad thing you did." Sun said looking at her, genuinely concerned.
How could this woman look so deeply into people? It was amazing. Kate would have loved to be more like her. She couldn't even respond. She just bit her lip a bit.
"Well whatever it was I still think you're a good person." She got up and Kate did the same. "If you ever need to talk I am here. I have bad things in my past to." She said almost putting the last part in a whisper. "And through Jin I have learned that people deserve second chances."
Kate looked at Sun and smiled. "Thanks." She said, she could feel tears coming and she held them back. This was a trick she'd learned years ago, and it usually worked.
Sun smiled at her and then walked off. Kate lingered a bit and then started towards the water pool she and Sawyer had found. According to Sawyer he and Sayid had gotten most of the dead bodies out. Kate didn't even ask what they had done with them. All she knew was they hadn't told the others because of the condition.
Kate pushed this offending thought from her brain as she reached the water. She took of her shoes and stuck a foot in. The water was perfect. She looked around for any sign on life but didn't hear or see anything, except the birds singing. She quickly slipped out of all of her clothes and into the water. She came up and ran her fingers through her hair. She hadn't been skinny dipping since she was 17 and with her friend Tammy. Well unless you count that one time she was drunk. She laughed a little remembering the time with Tammy and went back under the water swimming to the body and finding it clear of bodies returning back to the surface feeling a lot less gross in the water.
"Feeling like an exhibitionist Freckles?"
Kate quickly turned around and saw Sawyer standing there with a smirk on his face. She sunk a little deeper into the water. "Hey Sawyer."
"Hey Freckles." He laughed.
"Could you go away and let me get dressed?"
"I could." Sawyer laughed sitting down and starting to take off his own clothes. "Or we could both go swimming."
Kate rolled her eyes. "Sawyer let me get into something."
Sawyer sighed a little. "Fine." He sounded like a child who couldn't get their way and was offered something that clearly didn't equal what they wanted. He turned around.
This was clearing as much as Kate was going to get from him. She got out and changed into her underwear. "Okay."
Sawyer turned around, looking slightly disappointed.
"What are you doing here?" Kate asked sitting down in from of him.
"I was coming for a swim. Same as you." He looked her up and down and smirked a bit more. "'Cept if you had come I woulda been less modest."
"Obviously, from the beach."
Sawyer looked highly amused at remembering this. "Oh yeah."
"I talked to Sun today. She told me she figured I like you." Kate wrung out her hair.
"That's cause you do." Sawyer said continuing to undress.
"Whatever." Kate said sarcastically. She found herself watching the muscles in his arm move as he took off his top and adverted her eyes.
Sawyer stood up and took of his jeans. He looked from his boxers to Kate and then decided to leave them on. Without a word of any kind he picked up Kate and threw her into the water.
Kate screamed until she hit the water and then came back up and splashed Sawyer. "Jerk."
Sawyer laughed. "What?" He asked innocently.
Kate swam over to him and tried to dunk him unsuccessfully. She was dunked three times before she got him once. He came back up and looked at her. She was smirking. "I wanted to go under."
Kate grinned and swam away and climbed up the rocks. Sawyer watched her as she climbed. It wasn't graceful in anyway. She climbed like a boy, yet when she did it, it was memorizing. She reached the top and jumped off, pulling her knee's up and doing a cannonball, which she loudly announced on the way down, like a little kid.
She came up out of the water with a huge smile on her face. "That hurt my ass so much."
Sawyer laughed. "How old are you 7?"
Kate looked at him and then smiled. "25 actually."
It dawned on Sawyer that she was 10 years younger than him. He couldn't help but laugh. "You are still a kid then."
"You make a habit of making out with little kids?" Kate asked going over to the side a bit more so she could touch.
"That was low, Freckles." He said diving underneath. Kate expected him to appear again at any moment and was a little worried when he didn't. What the hell was he doing? She looked around. Then all of the sudden he came up out of the water and threw a handful of dirt at her.
"Gross!" Kate said going under the water and rinsing it off. "And you called me the little kid?"
Sawyer shrugged. "Seemed like the thing to do at the time."
Kate swam under the water planning on getting dirt. She had to swim out a bit, since she was standing on rock and all there was, was slime. As she swam she noticed something against the wall a little bit away from where she had been standing. She went to see what it was and Saw that it was an opening. She swam back up. "Sawyer come see this."
"No way. Your planning something."
"No seriously. There's something down here and I want you to come with me."
"Scared to explore by yourself?"
Kate looked at him a little annoyed. "On this island yes. Now come on!" She said grabbing his arm and diving under, letting go once she was sure he'd follow. She swam to the hole and went into, Sawyer followed. She found a place to pull herself up at and did. She looked around in amazement. It was beautiful. It was a cave and the walls almost had a glimmer to them. It looked like something you'd see on TV, but never thought you'd ever actually see one.
Sawyer came up. "Holy shit." He said looked around and getting up onto the rock. He helped Kate up. "The others are going to have a field day here."
Kate looked at him and smiled. "Lets not tell them." She said running her hand over the wall. In the distance they could hear the sound of the waterfall.
"I can't believe you're the one suggesting we don't tell them." He continued walking. He looked down at a pool of water. "Christ! Come and see this Freckles."
Kate walked over to him. "Wow." She said looking at the water, it was crystal clear and you could see jewels through it. "These have to be worth a fortune." She said picking up a stone that was an almost iridescent blue-green. "They're gorgeous."
"I saw when we get rescued me and you get these things and sell them all. We'll be rich."
Kate looked at him and smiled sadly. To bad that plan could never work for them. Once they got off the island Kate would be arrested and spend the rest of her life in prision.