Chapter 3.

hi.thanks for the reviews. if any of you have suggestions for my story cauz i'm kinda running out of ideas...i'm still toying around the idea of kate falling in love with sawyer or jack.you'll just have to wait and see well here's the next chapter hope you enjoy it...it gets very intense...when kate disappears...this is a long chapter..

They trudged through the underbrush of forest,there shirts sticking to their backs,panting over the countinual hours.

"i told you this does'nt make any sense!"sawyer hissed.

Kate sighed and ran her tongue over her dry,cracked lips before speaking.

"sawyer,she said impatiently,i already said that we have to look for them---"

"but we could be going in the totally wrong direction!"

"we have to try it's better then sitting there waiting for someone to come like we did as we waited for the airplane,they might not even,and we already know NO ONE'S LOOKING FOR US ON THE AIRPLANE!"

there was a silence and jack put his hand on kate's shaking shoulder offering reasurrance.Sawyer felt a tinge of annoyance as kate looked at jack in a grateful way.

damn him..what's wrong with me?..damn him...

Sunset, they stopped for camp.Sawyer was lieing against a tree-trunk scowling while kate talked for a few moments with jack.She did'nt notice as jack's gaze flickered to sawyer's angry scowl but suddenly relized what it was probably about.Kate brushed a black locke of hair from her face and stood up.

"i'm going to get some water" she declared,i'm pretty sure i heard a stream to the left,she said nodding to a part of the forest,and the ground was moist"

"wait--what if there's not?"jack said quickly.

"i may not be as good as boone but i'm a pretty good tracker."she smiled.she started to walk away..

"kate!wait, she turned and a little bit of relief edged through him that she was still there,do you want me to go with you?"

"nah,its ok i'll be fine and shoulder still hurts...bye jack..sawyer"she smiled,but thanks for worring"and she disapperaed into the forest.

da-da-dum

"just let freckles go...can't be with out her for a second can you?"sawyer said bitterly.

Jack was about to say shut up sawyer but when he turned to him and saw him gaze in the forest in which kate had left,he saw worries in sawyer's eyes,and shut his mouth.

"she'll be fine sawyer"jack said and hoped so.

"i should be the one saying that to you"

Jack could see the effort in which sawyer was trying not to run after kate only grasping his knuckles and jack felt the same way but he did'nt move.Instead he turned to sawyer in the flickering light of darkness and asked him;

"sawyer,how long have you been in love with kate?"

Everyone in the plane-crash stood or sat in a circle around a roaring fire while sayid spoke to them.His dark eyes flickered to shannon, her eyes hooded and sad but listening to him to claire and her baby with charlie standing proctectively over them to hugo and sun and jin,michael and walt,locke and the many others he had yet to know or never spoke to.

"some of you,he said,might already know why were here..jack,kate and sawyer have seemed to disappear since yesterday and we have yet to find them..."

He stopped there as people muttered to each other...his sharp ears heard a few good ridances of sawyer but most looked worried.He countinued.

"jack if you did'nt know is the doctor and the others too we need to find...if anyone has any information speak now.we need it desperatly to know where to start looking."

"i saw kate running past us yesterday morning...i did'nt think to tell anyone,i thought she would come back...and jack ran after her and so did sawyer..."charlie said uncomfortablly.

"do you know which way they went?"sayid asked.

Charlie pointed towards the eastern forest and then dropped his hand."that's all i know" he said.

"anyone eles?"

Shannon spoke up from the corner and sayid looked at her,wished he could comfort her but right now there biggest priority were jack,kate and sawyer.

"i also saw kate run away..but before that she went looking for him in his tent...she looked really wiped out...dizzy.." she stopped speaking.

"ok,thankyou shannon..."sayid said.She did'nt replie.

"i heard a gunshot"someone said and there was mummerings of argeement and sayind too had heard it along with...

"i heard the roar of the monster!"

Sayid cleared his throat and spoke loudly

"ok everyone were going in search parties,locke you start there..take three people with you,arm yourselves..some start there..some there...the rest of you...stay here...

his eyes found charlie.He knew claire would'nt be able to look just coming out of pregancy and sayid knew charlie would stay...it was his best hope.He walked over to charlie and tossed him a gun.

"proctect everyone ok as best as you can,also please take care of shannon of me..."

charlie nodded and clicked the gun."i'll do my best"

Sayid glanced one more time around,grabbed a flickering torch,gave shannon a rouggh kiss on her cheek and jogged out through the forest.

"be careful sayid!"shannon called and he raised a hand feeling her eyes bore in his back...

"what! what did you say!"sawyer yelped.

"i said how long have you been in love with kate?"jack said calmly.

"what,i don't love freckles that's you remember the one that can't be without her for a minute..."

"you do love her"jack said with conviction."the way you glare and get mad when ever she talks to me...i get it now...why you call her freckles...the way you look at herr---"

"stopit!stopiit!"sawyer shouted.

"AAHHHHHHHHHHH! HELP ME! JACK SAWYER---" a scream echoed through the forest.Kate's voice.They froze and stood up as one.

"KATE!WHERE ARE YOU!"

they ran into the forest following her voice

"HELP ME..HELP ME..help me..." i got smaller and smaller...they stumbled and fell and ran again.The voice seized.

"KATE?"they yelled in the darkness.She was gone and they were alone.