QUOTE: "This one time, I drank a lotta soda, and I ate a lotta soup, and when I threw up, it was black and chunky."- my cousin Lee being his usual descriptive self.
-POPROCKS AND COKE-
-BY WHENICOMEAROUND-
-CHAPTER FIVE-
Kate watches Jack pace back and forth. Desmond gets up from his seat at the computer and says, "Right."
"No. Not right." says Jack. "Tell me what's going on right now."
"Just saving the world." Desmond replies again. But Jack, being the Man Of Science Locke had accused him of being, wouldn't stand for it.
"Saving the world. With a computer? And a freaking code? Tell me what's going on RIGHT NOW!" Jack shouts.
Desmond doesn't reply. Kate isn't sure what to do. Locke is merely standing, watching, looking amused. For some reason this ticked Kate off. She wished he would leave; he was creeping her out.
"How did you get down here?" Jack demands. "How did this happen? What happened? What's up with this computer and this whole damn thing... WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?"
Kate knows that Jack is getting aggravated now. So she stares Desmond down, and seeing this, he answers the question.
"It... it was three years ago!" he shouts. "I was on a solo race around the world, and my boat crashed here on this island. And then Kelvin came!"
"Kelvin?" Kate asks weakly. This whole thing is just strange.
"Kelvin, yeah, Kelvin!" Desmond shouts. "He comes running onto the beach, 'hurry, hurry, come with me.' He brings me down here. The first thing he does, 'cause it's beeping already, he puts in the code, he pushes the button, and it stops!"
Kate looks at Jack, who is wearing a look of disbelief, and Locke, who is still looking amused.
" 'What was that all about?', I say." says Desmond. " 'Just saving the world.', he says."
"Saving the world?" Jack repeats.
"His words. Not mine." says Desmond. "Then I started pushing the button too. And we saved the world together, and that was lovely. Then Kelvin died." he paused for optimum dramatic effect. "So here I am. All alone. Saving the world."
"But that doesn't make any sense," says Jack. "It's impossible."
"It's not impossible." Locke and Desmond say in unison.
"It is too." Jack and Kate say at the same time.
There was a moment of dramatic silence; then Jack says, "I'm out of here. Kate, you coming?"
"Yeah." she says. And with a final glance at the computer, Desmond, and Locke, Jack and Kate started walking out.
"Well, I'm staying." says Locke.
"That's wonderful for you." says Jack. "But I plan to be alive a few more weeks, if I'm lucky. So you stay down here and save the world, Locke. I'm going up there." He pointed to the ceiling.
And they left.