ALSO: TO CAITLYN: We stuck in a Chaire moment especially for you. Enjoy!
ALSO: TO THE REVIEWERS WHO COMPLIMENTED US ON RETURNING TO JATE: I know. I was dying with Allisyn there. Sorry, Allison, but it's the truth. JATEFATE! --MARIA
ALLISON: Shut up, Maria.
A/N1: Crazy chapter, because we added in Maria's friend Jessa and her cousin Sky. Heart you guys! ---MARIA
DISCLAIMER: We don't own Lost. Life sucks. (Overdramatic there, but ha ha.)
-HOLIDAY-
-BY WHENICOMEAROUND AND CREW-
-CHAPTER SEVEN-
That Michelle Rodriguez Girl opened the door and threw the rope down. "Get up here." she commanded Sawyer.
He didn't move. "I ain't doin' nothin' till I know she's okay."
Maria appeared at That Michelle Rodriguez Girl's side. "I'm fine."
Sawyer looked at her. She looked fine; just a little shooken up.
So he grabbed the rope with his good arm and That Michelle Rodriguez Girl pulled him up.
"We had a little chat," said Michael. "they believe that we were on the plane too."
"Guess we can all sue Oceanic together now, huh?" said Sawyer, trying to ease the moment. That Michelle Rodriguez Girl didn't laugh; Maria smiled.
"I'm AnaLucia." said That Michelle Rodriguez Girl.
(:A/N: MARIA:::groans from peanut gallery: Sorry for interrupting the story, but please. LUCIA IS MY NAME!
ALLISON: Maria, you're interrupting the story!
MARIA: Okay, okay. Sorry.:)
"Sawyer," said Sawyer. He pointed to Maria and Michael. "This here's Mike and Mia, and the quiet Korean guy's named Jin."
"Fascinating," said That Michelle Rodriguez Girl. "Now let's go."
"Where to?" said Michael.
"Back to where you came from. But first we're gonna spend the night here."
"Says who?" Michael demanded.
"Says me. And anyone who's got a problem with that can go right back in the pit, you hear?"
Maria leaned over and whispered to Jin, "I don't like her."
Jin nodded as if he understood.
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"Claire."
Charlie walked into the caves and saw Claire, who was sitting awake, watching baby Aaron sleep with bags under her eyes.
"Hey, Charlie." she said wearily, trying to smile.
"Claire, you need to get some rest." said Charlie.
"I can't go to sleep. Someone might take him again."
Charlie sighed. Then he tossed her a blanket.
"Sleep. I'll watch the baby." Claire looked at him disbelievingly. "I'm not going anywhere." Charlie assured her.
Claire stood up and hugged him. He looked at her.
"Thank you." she whispered, then she kissed him.
Charlie smiled. "You're welcome."
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Jin woke up to the sound of nervous talking. He understood one word: "Michael."
He stood up. "Michael?"
The blond lady, Libby, was talking to Sawyer and Maria nervously.
"I woke up, and he was gone!" she cried hysterically.
Sawyer motioned for Jin to come over to him.
"He ain't coming back without his kid." he said in an undertone.
"Michael." Jin said. "Walt." Then he started to walk away.
"No." said Sawyer. "Let him go. In case you haven't noticed, Chewie, ya gotta set your priorities straight out here. Mike's gotta worry about his kid. And me..." Sawyer gestured his head towards Maria, who was trying to calm Libby down. "I made me a promise."
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Allisyn couldn't believe what she saw. She thought Jack cared about her. Tears filled Allisyn's eyes.
"I thought you loved me, Jack." she said to herself in a whisper. "But here you are, on the beach, making out with Kate."
The strange thing was that Allisyn wasn't mad at Kate. She was mad at Jack.
Allisyn marched up to Jack and Kate angrily. "What's going on here?" she said casually. Jack looked and saw Allisyn standing over him and Kate. He stood up and looked into Allisyn's hurt eyes.
"Allisyn, it's not what it looks like." he said.
She looked at him in disbelief. "Is that right." Allisyn crossed her arms. "Because it looked like you and Kate were just kissing."
Jack only hung his head sheepishly.
"So it is what it looked like." said Allisyn.
"I'm sorry, Allisyn. I didn't think you'd find out." said Jack.
"So that makes it okay!" Allisyn couldn't believe what he was saying. She looked from Jack to Kate.
"Kate. May I call you Kate?" she said. "You think Jack loves you now, right? Well, I got news for you. He doesn't."
Kate stood up. "What are you-"
Allisyn held up her hand in front of Kate's face. "All I'm saying is that I thought the same thing when Jack kissed me."
Kate's eyes widened and her jaw dropped. Then she turned to Jack.
"Is this true?"
He just looked at her wide eyes and whispered, "Yes it is."
"Why?" Kate said.
"I'm sorry." said Jack again.
"What were you thinking!" Allisyn asked ragingly. "I'll tell you what you were thinking. You weren't thinking at all. That's what you were thinking."
Jack took a step forward. "Look, I know you're both mad at me and you have a right to be. What I did was absolutely horrible, and I'm sorry."
Allisyn and Kate looked at each other. Kate nodded.
"Fine, Jack." said Kate coolly. "You want to play games? Then you have to choose."
"What?" said Jack.
"Yeah, Jack." Allisyn agreed. "One or the other. Stop fooling around."
Jack looked from Allisyn to Kate. "No. This is ridiculous."
"Then you get neither." said Kate, and she left. And with one last look at Jack, Allisyn left too.
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Jin looked at Sawyer and said something in Korean. Then he ran into the jungle after Michael.
"Jin!" Sawyer yelled. He started to follow him, but That Michelle Rodriguez Girl stepped in front of him. "Let him go."
He just looked at her and started walking again. Someone grabbed his arm. He spun around; it was Maria.
"Sawyer, let him go. Like you said, we've all got priorities. Maybe Jin thinks he needs to help Michael."
Her eyes were what stopped him. The look of fear and seriousness in her eyes stopped him and right then he realized how much she meant to him. He realized how many times a day her face was in his head and how much he cared about her.
"Okay, Mia." he said profusely, as though his tongue were a dead weight. "You win."
Suddenly there came a rustling behind them. That Michelle Rodriguez Girl spun around.
"It's the others!" she cried.
"No... IT'S JESSA!"
Jessa emerged from the vegetation. "Hey, Maria!"
"Hey, Jessa!" Maria cried, hugging her friend.
Another figure emerged from the jungle. "Sky!" Maria cried.
"Hey, Maria!" Sky cried.
"What are you doing here?" Jessa asked Maria.
"Oh, I was in a plane crash, then me and him and these two other guys-" she pointed Sawyer. "-went out on this raft, but some Others blew it up, then we crashed on shore and she-" she pointed to That Michelle Rodriguez Girl. "-locked us in some pit, and now here we are." Maria smiled.
"Oh. And who are all they?" Jessa asked, pointing to everyone behind Maria.
"Oh, the hot blond guy is Sawyer-"
Sawyer blushed. "Mia..." he mumbled.
"And this is AnaLucia, but you can call her That Michelle Rodriguez Girl." said Maria, pointing.
"Actually, I prefer-" That Michelle Rodriguez Girl began, but Maria kept going.
"And here is Libby, Cindy, Bernard, and Eko." said Maria, pointing around. "So, what are you doing here?"
"Nothing much. Hey, we should be going. We'll see you around, okay?" said Jessa.
"Okay. Later, Jess. Later, Sky."
"Bye!" they said, and they went back into the jungle.
Maria turned back to her group. "Let's keep going, then."
No one else said anything.
"That was freaky." said Bernard.
"Yes." said Cindy.
"All right, okay. Let's keep going." said That Michelle Rodriguez Girl very bossily. "Let's go."
Sawyer rolled his eyes at Maria. Maria smiled. Then they followed That Michelle Rodriguez Girl away.