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Chapter 5

Oh, great! Claire thought. Now it's even worse! Even their mouths are open! These people just love to stare!

'So,' Jack cleared his throat, 'so, she is one of the others! But, you're saying she's good?'

'Mm, yea. Yea, I think so.'

The crowd stared at Jack now, all wanting to know what he's going to do about this woman, who's an enemy, but apparently a good enemy.

Jack laid the woman carefully on the ground and turned to the confused and slightly scared castaways.

'Listen, I know this seems strange, but I'm gonna look at her wound, which I should pretty soon do! And then…' The crowd started to talk again, but Jack cut them off, talking louder.

'And then we can try and interrogate her.'

'Great Idea, Doc, but if you haven't forgotten, she's quite the tiger. She hit me in the stomach and Al Jezeera, here over the head!'

'Thanks for reminding me.' Sayid mumbled, rubbing his hand over his head. Sawyer gave him, well, a Sawyer smirk.

'Yea, Sawyer's right! Maybe we should bind her!' Ana-Lucia yelled from the crowd.

Everyone started yelling together now and chaos was starting to build up.

Claire turned to the woman lying on the cave floor. She looked at her.

flashback starts

'Won't you get in trouble for letting me go?'

'I can handle them, Claire, now go!' The woman pauses. 'Wait! You remember the path right?'

'Yes, I think so! Thanks for helping me! I would never forget it!'

'I doubt that. Now go!'

flashback ends

Claire took Jack's shirt on the woman's head and turned it. Suddenly there was a loud noise from the woods. Claire turned, only to find Walt standing there.

'Walt?' Claire said frowning. He was mumbling something.

'ehS...si...eht...re…' But before he could continue, there was another sound from the forest. She turned to see Locke. She turned back to where Walt was, but he was gone.

'He, I…..' She frowned, looked at where Locke's standing to where Walt was.

'Claire? What's wrong.' Locke asked.

'Oh, nothing,' Claire said, with a half smile. Still confused and shattered after Walt's visit.

'Who's the girl?' Locke motioned to the woman, before kneeling next to Claire.

'Oh, um, she's one of the others and…' Claire started to explain to Locke.

'So, you escaped with her help? That explains a lot!' Locke said rubbing his bald head, smiling. Claire looked over to where Jack was standing with the crowd.

'Maybe she knows where Walt is!' Michael yelled

'Others, Walt...others' Jin started. Michael just nodded his head, looking at Libby, standing next to him and smiling.

'Jack!' Locke yelled.

'John. Where's Kate?' Jake asked

'Oh, she's on duty at the hatch. Hugo's with her.'