Sawyer sat in the restaurant. Kate was right, the bar was closed. He took out the letter and read it over and over again as he thought I try to help and she says "no"? How dare she. I can't believe it. I thought she was starting to trust me. I can't take this much longer. With that a worker on the boat came over to him.
"Were you one of the people on the plane?" The worker asked.
"Yeah. So?" Sawyer folded up the letter and put it in his pocket again.
"There is a meeting in the pool area regarding those who were on the plane." The man said almost as if her were reciting lines.
"Ok." Sawyer said as he stood up and walked toward the pool. He looked around when he got there looking for Kate but he didn't see her. The captain was standing on a bench looking at the small group of people. The captain waited about 2 minutes before he began. Sawyer looked around one last time but Kate wasn't anywhere.
"I know you have been through a lot," The captain began "and we are aware that your rooms are not that accommodating but we will be docking in Miami in a few hours." He looked at his watch "4 to be exact and as you may or may not know many of your friends and family probably believe that you are dead and I'm sure that at least one or maybe more of you might want to keep it that way."
The captain's eyes looked sad as he pulled at his hat making it cover his eyes even more then that had. "So...I'm not going to make you give your name or anything, but if you wish you can leave your name with this man right here." He gesture to the man that had talked to Sawyer several minutes before. "His name is James. Now if you had any belongs with you now would be a good time to go get them from your rooms because this deck gets pretty crowded right before we dock."
That captain stepped off the bench and hurried off. Sawyer followed him with his eyes as he disappeared into what seemed like an engine room. He was about to head back to his room when he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around and saw Walt. "What do you want kid?" He asked.
"Have you seen my dad? He was here a minute ago but now he's gone." Walt looked around the deck which was indeed starting to get crowded.
"Uh...no." Sawyer looked around trying to see over everyone's heads. There was no sign of Michael. He looked down at Walt and saw that his eyes looked worried. "I'll help you look." Sawyer said in an annoyed tone. He put his hand on Walt's shoulder and they walked into the restaurant. Sawyer immediately spotted Kate. She was sitting with Hurley, Rose and Charlie. Kate seemed to notice him too. Sawyer directed Walt to their table and made him sit down. "You stay with them, I'll find Mike...I mean your Dad." Sawyer looked at Kate and looked as if she was about to talk. He quickly left the restaurant in search of Michael leaving the others very confused.
"What was that 'bout?" Charlie turned to Walt. "Where's your dad?"
"I don't know. I asked Sawyer if he saw him and he got all weird." Walt said shaking his head.
"Dude must believe in Karma or something." Hurley said. "Captain just gave him a free pass back into the States probably figured he has to do something good. Sure as hell didn't do anything on the island."
"Tell me bout it" Charlie said. "He didn't even help with the laundry, right Rose?"
"No, not really." Rose said. She didn't want to say much because she knew that this was probably a conversation Kate didn't want to be involved with.
"The dude was a bum." Hurley said. "And that whole thing with stealing everyone's stuff. What was with that?"
"He was bloody skum." Charlie was about to say more but he was cut off by Kate.
"Stop It!" She yelled as she stood up so quickly that the chair almost fell to the floor. Everyone looked startled by Kate's sudden outburst and before she could embarrass herself more she left.
She walked down the empty hallway. It was still pretty early, about 9 in the morning and not many of the others that were on the boat weren't gonna wake up that early. They were on vacation after all. She saw Sawyer walking down the hall a few feet in front of her. When he spotted her he turned around and starting walking away.
"Sawyer, Wait!" she called. He stopped in his tracks but didn't turn to look at her. She broke in to sort of run and when she got to him she put her hand on his shoulder. "Why are you so mad at me?" She asked and tears threatened to flow from her gray eyes.
"I don't have time for this." he said as he shrugged his shoulder causing Kate to remove her arm. "I have to find Mike. Walt's looking for him."
"Since when do you care about anyone but yourself?" Kate asked. She was growing tired of always having to pull answers out of him.
"I care." he mumbled as he grabbed her arm and pulled her closer to him. "You have no idea how hard this is." He said in a voice that almost resembled a growl. "I don't want to but I do." With each word his grip on her arm tightened. His finger nails were beginning to dig into her skin. She looked away from him so he wouldn't see the tears in her eyes.
"You're hurting me." She whispered as she began to tremble. His eyes suddenly became soft and frighened. He quickly released her arm and exposed a small line on blood trickling down her arm.
He looked down at his hand and saw a small dot of blood on the tip of his finger. He looked back up at Kate who had two distinct lines of tears flowing down her cheeks. He turned and quickly walked down the coridor ignoring when she feel to her knees and called his name.