Kate smiled. "Sorry for, um, leaving like that… It's just that… You know, if I meet someone I really like and I get embarrassed… ya know?"

"'Someone I really like'?" Jack repeated, smiling slyly. Kate put a hand over her mouth.

"I was not supposed to say that," she said, starting to laugh. She brushed one of her hair out from in front of her cheek, placing it behind her ear.

"Glad I found you," Jack said, smiling at Kate warmly.


"Jack, no, please!" Kate pleaded, trying to snatch Jack's shirt. "Come back here!" She failed to grab Jack. "Jack, you can't walk well!"

"Yeah, listen to your girlfriend," Ethan said, laughing out loud.

"I thought you were dead," Jack said, stopping in his tracks. "Why are you here? And what do you want! I thought we took care of you already!"

"Jack, please!" Kate cried. Jack turned around.

"I know what I'm doing!" he cried out. Jack turned back around to face Ethan again. He gasped. Ethan was gone. He looked down at the ground to see if he left any footprints. None, but the shirt was gone. "Great! Just great! I lost him now! He went away!…"

"Jack, please, calm down," Kate said calmly. "I'm sure that we'll see Ethan again. Please, just… relax." Jack took a deep breath.

"Yeah, I guess I kind of acted crazy there," he confessed, smiling sadly. "I can't believe we're still not on this island. This is, like, Jurassic Park times five or something! And we still have to find Saw-" Suddenly, someone who was running at full speed crashed into Jack and Kate, all three of them knocking them to the ground. Jack and Kate were suddenly alert. They looked up at the person who hit them. Sawyer.

"Sawyer? Where were you!" Kate said, standing up. "and why were you running as if you just saw a ghost!"

"Well, if you consider seeing a big fat white bear and a crazy bitch named Ethan in less than a minute, then, yeah! I've seen two ghosts!" Sawyer cried out, quickly standing up. "And you know what? One of 'em is right behind me!" He hurriedly grabbed Jack by his shirt to help him stand up. "C'mon, Doc! Pick up the paste, we don't got all day here!"

Jack and Kate followed Sawyer to… wherever he was going. Jack tried his best to run as fast as he could with Kate's help.

"Then you shouldn't have been that far from where we were when you bumped into us!" Jack called out to Sawyer, who was in front of him still. "Because we bumped into him not too long before he disappeared and you appeared!"

"What are you talking 'bout?" Sawyer asked, as if Jack were crazy. "You know how far I was away from ya! It took me forever to even find you friggin guys!"

"What?" Kate asked, pushing a branch from out of her way. "Are you good at math, Sawyer?"

"No, but I am good at this!" Sawyer said, stopping dead in his tracks. He turned around with his gun in his hand. His arm was still at his side, then he started to slowly raise it to Jack's face. Jack looked confused and a little panicked.

"Sawyer… What are you doing?" Jack asked cautiously.

"Don't you dare move, Doc," Sawyer said, then pulled the trigger. Jack closed his eyes, then opened this again. Nothing happened to him. "What did you expect me to do? Shoot you or somethin'?" He laughed out loud. "Look behind ya!" Jack did as told. He turned around to find a big polar bear not too far away from where they were all standing. Kate walked up to Jack's side, not taking her eyes off it.


"Yeah, glad that you found me," Kate said, returning Jack's kind smile. Her smile quickly disappeared. "Don't move, okay? Just… don't move."

"What?" Jack asked, confused. "What is it?"

"Did you ever know that there's a beehive somewhere in this park? A really big beehive?" Kate asked, gulping. She took Jack's hand, and started to move backwards slowly, away from whatever was behind Jack.

"Well, no," Jack confessed. "I barely go to this park… and I never noticed." He was suddenly alert of why she brought up the topic. "They're behind me, aren't they?"

"Nah, they're almost behind you. C'mon, we gotta get out of here," Kate said. She smiled. "Have you ever gotten stung before?"

"No," Jack said, "but you've climbed on lots of trees before, right? I guess it's not as bad as being chased by a bear or something." Jack smiled. "As if that would ever happen to me." Kate and Jack laughed out loud.