Chapter 29- Dream and a Vision

Heart pounding, Sayid fairly flew into the tent, followed closely by a panting Charlie.

"Sayid! Thank God!" Claire rushed over to the pair.

"Is she alright?" Sayid inquired anxiously, looking past her to gaze at Alex lying on Sawyer and Kate's bed.

"She hasn't woken up yet."

Sayid knelt beside Alex. Her face and lips were pale, and her eyelids fluttered gently, as if she were dreaming.

Taking her delicate hand in his calloused one, Sayid brushed a stray golden strand of hair from her face.

"Alex." His whispered. "Why won't you wake up?"

Alex was floating on cream-colored clouds, way up high over the island. She was dreaming, and she knew it. But it was a good dream. Abruptly, she woke up.

Alex was in the middle of the forest, all.

She looked around wildly.

"Claire? Shannon?" Alex yelled.

What had happened? Before she fell asleep, she had been on the beach with her friends. Now she was all by herself in the jungle.

Alex was just starting to panic when she heard a familiar voice. It was Kate.

"Where are you taking us? Leave her the hell alone, she's just a baby! Hope! HOPE!"

It was Kate and Hope, and they were in trouble.

Alex started sprinting towards the sound of Kate's voice.

Finally, she burst into a clearing in the trees that she had never seen before.

Kate was struggling against two wild looking men, trying to get to Hope, who was being held by another man.

The others. They were back.

"HEY!" Alex screamed.

No one seemed to hear her.

She ran up to the man holding Hope and drew back her fist to punch him.

Instead of colliding with his face, Alex's hand went through the man's head.

Alex shrieked and fell backwards. Holding a trembling hand out in front of her, Alex noticed for the first time that she was transparent.

She was dreaming again. Or having a vision, maybe a little bit of both.

Alex was jerked out of her thoughts when one of the men holding Kate yelled and released her right arm, clutching his own bleeding hand to his chest.

"That bitch bit me!"

Kate was fighting like a tiger to get Hope back.

"What the hell are you doing?" she bellowed. "Let us go!"

"No, I don't think so." The man holding the child sneered. "We are the only ones left, the rest of the others died out. We need a female child to carry on our civilization."

"Then why did you take me?" Kate snarled, writhing in her captor's grip.

"Because you had the girl with you. Now that we have relieved you of her, we don't need you anymore." The man's eyes glittered evilly. "Snip, make some rope."

"With this injury?" The man Kate bit whined, holding up his hand, which had a small cut on it. "Make Crow do it!"

Crow, the one still restraining Kate, snorted. "Why, so she can bite you again? I don't think so."

"Shut-up, both of you!" the third man screamed.

The two others obeyed immediately.

"Snip, you hold the child. Crow, you have a choice: guard duty or rope duty."

"Rope." Grunted Crow, picking up a large rock and hitting Kate over the head with a sickening crack.

The woman fell to the ground, unconscious.

Hope started crying harder than ever.

"Tate! Tate!"

Alex felt a tear trickle down her face. She wished, with every fiber in her body, that she could help, but she was a ghost, a spectator to the kidnapping.

There was nothing she could do about it.

AN: YAY! New chapter!

Just in case you are confused, Alex is having a vision of what is happening to Kate and Hope while she is asleep. Please R&R!