DISCLAIMER: LOST belongs to JJ Abbrams and all those people up at ABC with high authority. The phrase "QUIET, MORTALS!" belongs to Maria Christina-Lucia, also known as WHENICOMEAROUND and Mia. Also, the phrase "So I says to the mayor, mayor I says!" belongs to Allison Marie-Catherine, previously known as Jam but not anymore. Ha, ha, ha, neon light.
-HOLIDAY-
-BY WHENICOMEAROUND AND SPECIAL GUEST STAR ALLISON-
-CHAPTER THREE-
On the raft everyone was silently doing the jobs assigned to them. Maria, who didn't have anything to do at the moment, was sitting on the side of the raft, looking into the horizon.
"What's wrong Mi- Maria?"
Maria looked up at Sawyer, who was steering.
"Nothing."
"Tell me..." said Sawyer with a grin.
"It's just... I'm scared. I mean, no one knows whether we'll live or die out here. I'm really scared." she said. She knew that this was the chance she took, offering to come out here, but now, reality was setting in and scaring her.
She looked at Sawyer. There was an awkward silence. He knelt down next to Maria and put his hand on her shoulder. "Maria. Don't worry. It'll be okay. And if anyone lays a finger on you... I'll kill the bastard."
Maria laughed. "Thanks, Sawyer, I guess."
Seeing that Maria was in a much better mood, Sawyer smiled at his accomplishment and went back to steering.
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"Okay, who's gonna carry this?" Hurley said, pointing to the dynamite. They all looked at each other.
"I will." said Allisyn. Jack shot a glance at her as if you say, "You just saw a guy blow up and now you wanna risk your life carrying this crap?"
Kate glared at her. "You know, I don't think that's such a good idea. Maybe I should carry it."
"No, really. I insist."
"I just don't want you to get hurt," said Kate. Yeah, right, she added as a thought.
"I'll be fine!"
Kate lost it. She punched Allisyn hard across the face. Allisyn flew backward.
"Why you little BITCH!" Allisyn screamed, stumbling to her feet.
"Oh, yeah, I'm the bitch, right?" Kate yelled back retorically.
"You're the one that punched ME!" Allisyn yelled.
"QUIET, MORTALS!" he shouted at the top of his lungs. Everything went silent.
"Mortals?" Hurley snickered. Jack glared at him.
"Come on, Allisyn," said Jack. "let's get you cleaned up."
He led Allisyn over to his backpack. She sat down on a rock as Jack looked through his bag.
"So do you still think Kate has PMS?" he asked with a grin. Allisyn rolled her eyes. Jack took out his water bottle and wet a cloth. He cleaned up Allisyn's lip and face.
"I know Kate can be a bit hot-headed at times," he said as he did this. "but it's only because of what happened."
"Why? What happened?" asked Allisyn, and Jack realized that this was Kate's secret, and Allisyn didn't know.
But he put his trust in Allisyn and said, "A few years ago, a very good childhood friend of Kate's was killed."
"Oh," said Allisyn. Even though she didn't care for Kate, she felt sympathetic towards the situation. "That's horrible."
"Yeah. And she's been living in grief for a whle now." Jack purposely left out the parts where it was sort of Kate's fault Tom had died, and how she robbed a bank just to get one of his possesions, killing a man in the process.
"That's horrible," Allisyn repeated. "horrible."
"So I'd be... er... nicer, if I were you." Jack said, smiling.
Jack looked into Allisyn's eyes again, this time for longer. He probably would have done this forever if Kate hadn't cleared her throat loudly and said, "We're only an hour show, you two."
Jack smiled as he helped Allisyn up.
"Come on," he said to the group at large. "We've got to pack it up."
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Jin regretted having come on the raft. He couldn't understand what she was saying, but Maria kept repeating a phrase over and over gain. Walt rolled his eyes and went back to his comic book. It was hard to believe that Walt was the kid and Maria was the adult.
"So I says to the mayor," Maria said again. "mayor I says!"
Sawyer was becoming immensely aggravated. "Hey, Blondie. Could you shut up for a few minutes?"
Maria fingered her messy brown hair that was tied into a loose ponytail with a smile. "So I says to the mayor..."
"Mayor I says." Sawyer, Michael, and Walt finished.
"You got it." said Maria. She sat down on the edge of the raft and took off her shoes and sock. She put her feet in the water. She hummed a song and splashed her feet around.
Sawyer half groaned, half chuckled.
"What?" said Maria defensively. "I'm bored!"
Sawyer took off his own shows and sat down beside her. "Wanna play a gam?"
"Sure. What?"
"I'm gonna guess something about you, then you tell me if it's true or not." His eyes were twinkling. Maria smiled.
"Okay, you go first." said Maria.
"Well, I know you never liked long car trips."
She laughed. "Well, you are right." she said. "How did you guess?"
Sawyer smiled. He looked better when he did, Maria decided. Even better than when he wasn't.
"Because you've been saying, 'so I says to the mayor, I says!' for two hours straight."
Behind them, Michael chuckled to himself. Jin looked at him and smiled.
"I don't think you've ever been in love." said Maria with a smile. "You're too tough. Or you act too tough."
"Damn straight," said Sawyer, who was smirking. Even if it was a lie, he wanted to play dangerously. "But you have."
Maria's face reddened as she remembered Ryan from the ninth grade, and knowing Ryan wasn't the last one. Sawyer laughed.
"So it's true!"
"Shut up, Sawyer!" said Maria. She splashed some water on him.
He laughed. "You've never been to college."
"Wrong!" said Maria, laughing. "I graduated from NYU when I was twenty-two."
"Really," said Sawyer, not so much as a real question as a retorical statement. "What'd ya major in?"
"Cinematography," said Maria. "I'm a director. Was, I mean. Before..." she sighed and held out her arms to the sky. "the crash."
"Really," said Sawyer in that same retorical way. Maria smiled. It was so hot when he did that.
"That's what I was doing in Australia, you know. Directing a blink-182 video. I was on my way back home to LA. I guess I'll never get there now, in time for..." she trailed off. She looked up and saw that he was looking at her and really listening. She liked that. Then she remembered what she had been saying and blushed. "Never mind."
"No, no. Tell me." said Sawyer.
She almost did. But right at that moment, Michael cleared his throat.
"Uh... Mia. Time to check."
Maria blushed again. "Yeah, okay."
She stood up and walked to the transmittor. It was her job to check for anything every hour. Sayid had given her the transmittor and told her to turn it on every hour, and only for a few minutes.
"Otherwise the battery will die." he had lectured her. "Remember, Mia, only a few minutes every hour, otherwise-"
"SAYID, I KNOW!" she had shouted.
Back in reality, Maria flicked it on to send out a distress signal. She then turned on the screen. Nothing.
"Can I see? Can I see?" Walt hopped up and down and rocked the raft, trying to see the screen.
"Walt!" Michael, Maria, Jin, and Sawyer shouted at the same time.
Walt stopped jumping. "Sorry."
Jin moved and Walt looked up at the screen in front of him expectantly.
"It's blank."
"What'd you expect, Bugs Bunny?" said Sawyer irritably. In the midst of all the jumping Walt had landed on Sawyer's bare toe. Maria lauged.
"Shut up, Blondie." said Sawyer irritably.
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