The Stages of Grief
Kate learns how to deal.
Bargaining
On really bad days, Kate tries God.
Thirty days has elapsed and time has taken its role in slow-paced change. She now spends most of her time alone, in the jungle, climbing trees for fruit, getting seeds from a variety of plants and watching birds. She keeps to the periphery, of course, where she can run to the shore anytime a certain threat presents itself. Like a polar bear, perhaps. She also helps Sun out with the garden, Locke with the hunting, and occasionally, Jin with the fishing. Kate has always been better with hunting. Sometimes, she even visits Aaron and Claire. But mostly, she visits Aaron. She believes she has moved on, has grown accustomed once more to island life.
So when she visits Jack at the caves, talks to him like he was actually talking back, she reasons to herself, it's just because she misses him.
And when, on bad days, she visits him just to sit there and ignore him, she reasons, it's just because she's angry at him for not being there for her anymore.
And when, on really bad days, she tries talking to God, she reasons, it's because she's running out of reasons.
She tries to annoy Him with little questions like why, how could you, and, occasionally, the downright rude, what kind of god are you. She tries to fish for a response, like "I have plans for you." Or a reprimand, "Have you no faith?" Or a deal, "If you just wise up, I'll give him back to you." Or an insult, "You didn't deserve him." Or maybe, even just a grunt. Anything, she thinks, will do.
But unlike Jack, He never answers back.
next chap /stage 4-depression/ hope you're still reading.