But why her! She'd shot Shannon after all, why wouldn't Jack talk to someone else?
No, no, it didn't matter. She didn't care. It wasn't her business.
Oops, the reds don't go with the yellows. She picked up the shirt and put it in a different pile.
It wasn't that he was talking to someone it was that he was talking to her. Kate didn't know what it was but she hated Ana Lucia. She hadn't said a word to her yet, every time she tried the image of Sayid giving that speech would come to her.
Every time she heard Ana's voice she would think of Shannon's body dead and lifeless. And when she saw Jack talking to Ana it brought up hatred deep inside of her.
Kate realized she wasn't even paying attention to the clothes anymore and gave up. She'd do it later. Ana and Jack had moved some and it appeared they were heading towards the graves.
Kate watched them, they needed to turn, turn right now. Turn! Damn it turn! But they didn't turn they kept on walking. Kate made to walk towards them.
"You a stalker now?" Sawyer asked coming up behind her.
Kate turned to him. "They're heading towards the graves. I don't like her." Kate looked at Ana and Jack again.
Sawyer wasn't even feigning interest in Kate's inability to cope with the new woman on the island. She could go where he wanted, sure it pissed him off that she killed Shannon, he cared more than people thought, but she could go where she wanted. He would have preferred her not to but he wasn't going to stop her.
"Don't you care? She killed her." Kate was looking at Sawyer angrily.
"It's not like she's going there to spit on the grave." Sawyer sat down looking at the piles of clothes Kate had started. He started changing them some haphazardly. "You ever washed clothes before in your life?"
"Come on we're going."
"We're what?" He asked looking at her. "Cause I ain't doing anything. Following the fuzz and the doctor doesn't sound like a great plan to me."
"Come on." Kate grabbed his hand and was dragging him. Sawyer smirked, looking at her hand. She must be pissed not to notice that she was holding his hand.
Suddenly the trip seemed more fun to Sawyer, flaunting physical affection in front of Jack sounded like a good idea to Sawyer, so he continued to pretend not to want to go, just to make sure she didn't let go. She had soft hands, even for out here.
They quickly came up on Jack and Ana, who were in fact at the graves.
"Imagine seeing you here." Kate said in a voice that sounded false to everyone there.
Sawyer put an arm around Kate and changed his weight so that to her it would feel like he was leaning on her, but wouldn't look that way to Jack. At least that's what he hoped it would look like.
Jack looked at Sawyer's arm with disdain. "I was showing Ana…"
Kate cut Jack off. "Showing her Shannon's grave."
She didn't know what exactly it was that made her so mad about this, except that Shannon had been nice to her, and Kate wasn't use to girls like Shannon being nice to her. Or maybe it was that Ana had hurt Sayid, whatever it was it infuriated Kate.
Ana Lucia looked at Kate coldly, sizing her up as a threat in a matter of seconds. "If I had known it was her, I wouldn't have shot."
Kate looked at Ana like one would look at a stain on a favorite shirt. "She's still dead."
"Shannon isn't the only one buried her Kate." Jack was looking at the two girls in upset interest.
"Yeah Boone too, trying to save us." Kate's eyes got wide. "Did you have a radio with you?" Something had clicked. She had moved away from Sawyer's grasp now and the two men were both looking at the girls as if some sort of miracle was happening.
"Yeah…why?" Ana's voice sounded loud and vulgar after Kate's low cold voice.
Kate's face was flushed. "Then why didn't you get our messages?"
"We're not the others. We got a message okay! I thought it was the others, I made them turn it off."
"Boone was on the radio, right before he died." Kate thought of Claire telling her Locke's story of Boone's death.
Sawyer looked interested, he hadn't known anything about Boone being on a radio, but then again no one told him anything.
Ana's eyes were about as wide as Kate's. "A little over a week ago?" She asked, her voice was just a little softer. "That's when we got it."
"And you said to turn it off!" Kate looked feral. Sawyer thought it was sexy.
"I already told you that I thought it was the others."
"You seem to be wrong a lot." Kate made a step towards Ana. "Wrong about that, wrong about Shannon. Were you even on the plane?"
"I saw her before the flight Kate." Jack moved towards the girls, as Sawyer took a step back.
Kate stopped for a second re-evaluating the situation. "I still don't trust her."
"I didn't kill her." Ana Lucia motioned towards Shannon's grave, obviously furious. "If she hadn't been running through the jungle like a madwoman then she wouldn't have got shot and I wouldn't have had to tie up the Iraqi. But instead-" Ana was cut off by Kate's fist connecting with her face.
It was Jack and Sayid who broke the fight up. Jack had tried but couldn't do it by himself and Sawyer had been no help, only standing there and catcalling. Sayid had heard the commotion and come, helping to break them up.
Sawyer sat off to the side of Kate, Sayid and Sun. They were all talking and he wasn't one for talking. Sun was putting something in a bowl on Kate's cuts.
"Why'd you do it." Sayid asked.
"She made it sound like it was Shannon's fault." Kate sighed.
"You don't want to fight her, it'll only cause trouble." Sun put the bowl down and sat.
"She saw him." Sayid said causing all three of them to look at him.
"Saw who?"
"Walt."
"She saw Walt?" Kate asked brightening up a bit. "Why didn't you tell anyone?"
"I think it was a hallucination." Sayid said. "He would disappear, when she first told me I didn't believe her, I thought she was just upset, she hadn't been getting enough sleep, but then I saw him too. When we were in the woods. He was there."
"Then he must be in the woods." Sun smiled just a bit.
"It wasn't Walt, it was like a projection of Walt. If I had just been faster, I should have grabbed her, she'd be here."
Sawyer looked away, Sayid looked as if he would cry and it wasn't something Sawyer wanted to see.
"You can't blame yourself." Sun sounded so earnest.
"But I had a chance to grab her, I should have known."
"How could you?" Kate asked.
"I knew nothing good would be in those woods, and I let her go. I told her I'd protect her, a lot of good I am. It's punishment."
Sawyer shifted uncomfortably. "This ain't punishment."
Kate almost jumped; she had forgotten that he was there.
"Then what is it?" Sayid asked.
"We're on an island."
"But we all have bad things in our past. I think it is punishment, for our sins." Sun said.
Sawyer turned to look at them all. "And who's punishing us? God? You think we've been bad enough for God to come and put us on a damn island. What about the others."
"I don't have all the answers." Sayid looked as though he wished Sawyer wasn't there.
"If anyone does have the answers it's them." Sawyer said.
"Of course it's them." Kate said. "But Walt, how is he…"
"There's a lot of mystery on the island." Sun said. "Perhaps we need to find them."
"And do what?" Sawyer couldn't believe these guys, they acted like they were superheroes. "Ask them to tell us the answer? They'll kill us."
"Isn't that what they're doing now?" Sayid asked. "Shannon's dead, she was lured by Walt, Boone's dead, Charlie almost died, they have Walt, they tried to take Claire's baby, they've taken Danielle's baby."
"That's what she says." Sawyer added. "You might not have noticed but she's got some screws loose that one."
"She knew where to take us before." Sayid seemed to have some plan.
Sawyer stood up. "Okay Power Rangers if you are planning some mission to save the boy and get us all saved I don't want nothing to do with it."
"Why are you so scared?" Sun asked surprising all of them.
"I'm not scared, I just know it isn't going to work. But fine, what do I have to loose, lets go find the crazy lady and ask her to take us to Oz."
"Do you have to be so negative?" Kate asked now that they were alone.
"It's not going to work." Sawyer stuck the clothes into the machine and hit the button, it's mechanical noise almost foreign now but comforting.
"We should at least try."
"Yeah, well I've already got shot in the arm so call me crazy but I don't want to go."
Kate sat on top of the dryer. "But you said you would."
"Yeah. I guess I'm not the smartest."
"Let's not talk about this. Chances are we won't end up going, nobody's going to want to go now."
"Why do you think I agreed? I'm just glad you're admitting it." Sawyer smiled. "But you fight good….for a girl."
Kate rolled her eyes. "Is that some kind of compliment cowboy?"
Sawyer shrugged, leaning against the wall. "So I found something the other day."
"Did you?" Kate asked pulling her feet up onto the dryer. "What's that?"
"A copy of Gone With the Wind. Down in the South it's kind of a classic, you might have heard of it."
Kate rolled her eyes. "I've heard of it. Are you asking me on a date?" She smiled.
"A date? I don't go on dates. I'm just telling you that I'm going to watch it."
"Then what are you waiting for?"
"Nothing." Sawyer turned to leave with a smirk.
Kate jumped onto his back carefully avoiding his shoulder, though he still winced.
"Sorry."
Sawyer laughed. "I think I'll survive."
Kate rested her chin on the top of his head. "I'm telling you this is a good hair cut."
Sawyer let her get off at the couch and went to get the movie. Kate went and found a blanket and sat on the couch.
"I can't believe you like this movie." She told Sawyer as he came back. "It's a chick flick."
"Rhett's my hero." Sawyer sat down beside her.
"I should have known." Kate draped the blanket over both of them.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Sawyer looked at her as he fast-forwarded through the credits. "Takes forever for the damn thing to start." He muttered.
"That you have that attitude he does, you're the southern gentleman with the bad side, and you're good at manipulating people."
"You forgot my phenomenal skill with women."
"I suppose you could call it that." Kate curled up, laying her head on the arm of the couch. "Now shut up and hit play."
"Yes ma'am." Sawyer smirked. "I'm going to be watching you though."
"For what?" Kate asked
"To take my curtains."
"Shhh." Kate said mouthing the words on the screen. "Those Wilkes always marry their cousins."