Disclaimer: Me no own Lost! Now read ma story! And review!


Rain, Rain, Go Away!

Chapter Two:

"Whether the weather be fine, whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold, whether the weather be hot,
We'll weather the weather, whatever the whether,
Whether we like it or not"

The scream that she released as the wave crashed down on her and Sawyer was futile as seawater rushed in her mouth and up her nose causing her to cough and choke. Her thoughts were on fighting for air and…Sawyer. He was here. He would save her. He was trying to save her right now.

Her world was getting blurry and darkness slipped onto the edges of her sight. She had to fight. She could not drown. Clawing for the surface, she felt herself loose consciousness and felt the water fill her lungs like acid. Her last thought was a prayer. A prayer to Sawyer, 'Please save me.' She thought as she put her life in his hands and fell into the darkness.

X X X X X X

Popping back up gasping for air, Sawyer looked around frantically, waiting to spot her again the moment she appeared from below the surface. He screamed her name although it was useless. Getting water in his mouth and swallowing more saltwater than was healthy. 'Ain't nothin' healthy about this whole situation.' He thought. 'Must be irony- to think about swallowing a bit of saltwater when he would likely drown or worse… Kate could drown.'

Kate didn't reappear and oddly the storm started to clear. The water became calmer and the whitecaps disappeared. With this opportunity, he dived, and dived. He felt it. Something was wrong. Even without the now almost perfectly calm water, Kate had not yet reappeared. Finally he saw something float to the surface. 'Kate!'

"Kate!" He yelled. His chest tightened at her unmoving body and he was at her in seconds. He flipped her over and dragged her to shore. Once on the hurricane blown sand, he listened for her breath sounds. There were none.

"No Kate, you can't do this to me. Not you too." He tried to remember a procedure. Something Jack had once said about CPR. "Screw this!" and he was blowing air into her lungs and doing those weird compresses on her chest. "Compressions, Yes, that is what Jack had said those were." He did a few more stopped. "Kate, please. Just open you beautiful eyes so I can hit on you and you will roll your eyes…Please."

He leaned down to listen to her breath sounds again hoping there was something. He was tempted to just lay his head down on her chest and go to sleep. The swim had taken more out of him then he had thought. "Really have to quit smokin'." He reprimanded himself.

Suddenly she was coughing. His head moved on her chest, jerking up fast enough to make him see dots. "Kate?" He asked anxiously as she gasped for air and choked on the seawater that came up. He roller her over and rubbed her back. "Kate, you alright?"

She didn't answer him for a moment, still gasping, then had to refrain from glaring at him. "Do I look," she coughed, "alright?"

Sawyer could clearly see she was going to recover just fine. "Well, actually at the moment, you could use a little moisturizer. Other than that," He winked at her, "you look just fine."

X X X X X X

"God you can be so arrogant." Kate rolled her eyes and shook her head in bafflement. "And at a time like this. We almost drowned out there just now." Her voice ended on a high note, showing just how not fine she really was.

"And thanks to me," He patted himself on the chest. "We are not drowned." He looked around then got up sourly off the ground and extended a hand to help Kate up. "'Sides, you really think I'd let you drown?"

His voice was cocky as usual but Kate could see in his eyes that he was serious.

'He is serious?' Kate thought as she stared transfixed into his eyes. 'He wouldn't let me drown. He cares. I think?'

"Ya gonna get up or what?" Sawyer wiggled the hand he still had stretched out to help Kate up.

"What? I can't just lay her awhile?" Kate whined. "Did you not feel what I did while we were almost drowning." She motioned to her red skin and her various cuts and newly forming bruises. "I am soar and so tired."

"Well, freckles. You have two choices. You can sit her and get hit with the next wave of the storm or you can come with me and find shelter." He started to walk away toward the jungle than looked around slightly confused.

Kate watched him wondering what the hell he meant. 'Second wave of the storm, like what the hell did that mean?' A breeze blew in the still air and Kate jumped up suddenly following Sawyer and looking nervously at the ocean.

"Hey!" She called as she caught up. "What is that supposed to mean? A second part of the storm." She looked at him intently, staring at him as if she could find out if he was just messing with her.

"Sweetheart, I do suppose you know not as much as I do about this thing as I do." I was more than a question than a statement. Kate glared at him and he continued. "Darling that storm would be called a hurricane. Now hurric—"

Kate cut him off mid sentence, stopping his patronizing voice from torturing her ears any longer. "I KNOW what a hurricane is Sawyer!" She spat suddenly losing her temper. "What," She pointed to the ocean, "does that storm have to do with a hurricane." She tapped her foot angrily in the sand, and then decided to continue the moment Sawyer opened his mouth to talk.

"THAT was not a hurricane. I KNOW what a hurricane is Sawyer." She looked at the ocean once more, giving it a horrible glare as if it had a personal grudge against her and she was having a show down with it. "That was a…ah…er"

Sawyer was looking at her with a self-satisfied smirk on his face. "Well, well, seems to me you know just tones of stuff about hurricanes now don't cha."

"And you know so much more." Kate shot back.

"Uh, Sweetcheeks I am so sorry to break it to you, but I am from the south." As if that should say it all. "Course I know about hurricanes." He added a little peeved at Kate's lack of trust that he could have knowledge about this topic.

"Oh."

Kate looked at Sawyer, than down at the ground. 'Damn!' Kate mentally kicked herself. 'Nice one, stick your foot in your mouth once again!'

Sawyer tugged on her arm, we gotta get outta here now Freckles."

"Fine, but you better not get me lost."

"Fine with me, that is why you are leading the way." Sawyer swooped his hand indicating that she was to go first.

"What…" That is when she realized that they weren't at the beach encampment anymore. "We…uh…must have drifted down the beach a bit."

"So which way, Smartiepants." But the question just hung dead in the air. Which way was a really good question.


A/N: Yeah! Second chapter of my new story. Don't really know how this is going to go yet. Okay i do, but i am not telling you! Na na na boo boo. So anyways, i am hoping this will be just four or five chapters long. That all, now review if you know what is good for your health!