Since We Met
Chapter 3: Jealousy?
"Jack!" Locke shouted approaching to Jack.
"What happened?" Jack looked concerned.
"I was hunting as I said before and I found a crowd of people. At first I was scared because I thought they were the others but then I saw Michael, Sawyer and Jin and they explained all to me. They said that the others shot him the night the raft left." Locke said so fast that he wasn't sure if Jack had understand all he said. "Oh and this is Mr. Ecko, he's from the tale of the plane". While another person was entering the room.
"Hey. Ok, first we have to put him in the shower to lower the fever" Jack said touching his forehead and they made their way to the shower. He didn't notice the person that had entered the hatch.
"Kate please make sure the bed is clean, and bring me the bottle of ofloxacin, alcohol and some gauzes,... oh and a glass of water" Jack said quickly turning the shower on.
"How it looks like?" She asked him "I mean the eumm...of-ofloxacin"
"The little white pills" He said examining Sawyer's wound.
"Ok" Then she left. She collided with a strange woman but she continued her way.
"Can I help with anything?" Asked a strange voice.
Jack turned to see who it was and by his surprise it was a familiar face. "Hey what are... you're alive"
"Yeah" She smiled. "So, can I help you?"
"No thanks, I already ordered someone to bring me some things" He smiled back and then he concentrated again on Sawyer.
"Jack! The bed is ready" Jack heard Kate's voice from the other room.
"Ok, I'm coming!" He shouted too. "Can you help me?" He turned to ask Ana Lucia motioning to Sawyer.
"Yes, sure" They both grabbed Sawyer and made their way to the bed.
"Easy, easy" He told the girls placing Sawyer in the bed.
"Ok. Kate give me the gauzes and the alcohol" He said getting closer to Sawyer.
"Here" Kate gave him what he asked for.
"Thanks" Jack started to disinfect the wound. Sawyer jumped for the pain telling things nobody could understand but probably something like Son of a bitch. Kate and Ana were looking at Jack silently when one of them broke the silence.
"Hey I'm Ana Lucia" Ana said raising her hand to shake hands with Kate.
"Kate" She said shaking hands with Ana. Kate was looking at her with an odd and thoughtful expression. I could swear I've seen this girl before she thought, yeah well maybe on the plain.
In that moment someone joined them.
"Hello" Ecko said. "Ana, Locke is going to show me where the beach is, are you coming?"
"Oh yeah" She said. Then she turned to face Jack. "I guess we still can have that drink huh? I'll see you Jack" Ana and Ecko left with Locke.
Kate was looking at Jack with a little smile on her face since Ana's last words and Jack noticed it.
"What?" Jack said stopping what he was doing and looking at her.
"Nothing, it's just that... she was obviously flirting with you"
"So what, are you jealous?" He said jokingly.
"No I...um...I'm not.Do you know her?" She asked changing the topic. Jealous? She? She had no reason to be jealous, right? Yeah that's it.
"Yeah, well actually I just know her name. We met in the airport and we decided to have a drink together on the plane but we didn't have the chance" Jack continued cleaning Sawyer's wound. "Well, I've finished with this. Can you give me the glass of water and the floxin?"
"Yes, of course"
Jack was trying to give Sawyer the pills but he wasn't helping so much with that.
"Let me try it" Kate said and Jack gave her the pill. Kate placed herself behind Sawyer and put a hand on his forehead, she whispered him something on the ear and then she gave him the pill.
Jack got up looking at the floor with a sad expression on his face.
"I'm... I'm going to find Sun and ask her if she has something for the pain... for-for Sawyer" Kate looked at him and saw his expression, he looked sad but why? Was he jealous? Nah he didn't have reasons either because they weren't together. But for some reason she felt bad about that.
Jack was on his way to the beach where he thought Sun would be. What was happening lately between Kate and him? Was it happening since they met but he was noticing it now? He just needed something, a signal, something to know what was happening. He finally arrived to the beach and saw Sun seated in the sand next to Jin talking with him.
"Hey Sun. Jin nice to see you again" He said while Sun and Jin stood up and Jack shook hand strongly with Jin. "Sorry if I'm interrupting something, I just wanna talk with you for a minute" He said looking at Sun.
"Yes, sure. What do you want" She asked with a big smile that she couldn't hide because Jin was finally with her, alive.
"Do you have something for the pain? You know a plant or something, it's for Sawyer." Jack asked.
"Oh yes Jin told me about him. Emm yes I think I can do something about that. Don't worry. I'm going to catch some thing and then I'll go to the hatch" She said then she turned and said something in Korean to her husband, she kissed him and then turned to leave.
"Um.. Sun wait!" Jack said, and Sun stopped and turned to face Jack again.
"Yes?" Ok, probably it was wrong what he was going about to do but he needed that signal.
"I... heard you buried the bottle with the messages. Where is it now?" He asked intrigued.
"Why?" She asked with an arched eyebrow.
"Um... you know I want to catch my letter, it is personal and I don't want anybody to read it. I know it is buried but just to be peaceful about it" He said looking around, he didn't want to look into her eyes because he wasn't sure if he was good at lying.
"Ok, follow me. I'll show you where I buried it"
Kate was seated in a chair next to the bed where Sawyer was lying. Sawyer was asleep so she couldn't do anything but think. She was thinking about what happened before on the shower, Jack trying to get up, Jack's wound, Jack's body... ehem... she noticed it and she blushed and then she changed her thought. So she thought about Jack's face when she was whispering in Sawyer's ear. She was just afraid of losing another person in her life, she already lost too much people she loved, friends, family, and she wasn't able to confront that again. Then she heard the door of the hatch opening and footsteps approaching to her.
"Hey Kate" It was Locke with Michael.
"Hey. Hey Michael, glad to see you again" Michael nodded smiling.
"Um Kate, I'm going to show Michael the hatch so if you wanna go to the beach or something, I can take care of Sawyer" He said motioning to the door.
"Yeah I could take a rest, thanks" She said getting up and making her way to the door.
"You're welcome"
Sun count five steps from a tree and motioned Jack to approaching her.
"Here it is, you just have to dig here." She said indicating a place on the sand.
"Ok, thanks Sun" He said waiting for her to leave.
"You're welcome." She smiled. "Well I'm going to catch those plants and bring them to Sawyer. Bye" She turned to leave.
"Bye" Jack said. He waited until Sun was out of his vision. He kneel down on the sand and started digging. He knew it wasn't the right way to get answers, he even didn't know what he was expecting to find on her letter but he had to do it.
Kate was almost on the beach but she stopped to drink some water. She sat down on a log, opened her bag and caught the bottle of water. She was opening it when something appeared in front of her.
"What the hell..." It was a black horse. Her expression changed to a panic one and a lot of memories came to her mind.
"What would you like to be in your next life, Jimmy?" The nine years old Kate asked.
"That's easy. A black horse. And I told you not to call me Jimmy, I'm older now" Jim said playing with a toy horse.
"Yeah wow 13 years old. Anyway, you and your stupid horses. You're just like Tom with his planes" She said making fun with him.
"And you're always on that tree alone" He said and Kate looked down. "You know, the black horses are the bad guys everywhere including the Bible, but I think they're good, you know, brave and strong"
"Whatever" She said rolling her eyes.
"So, what would you like to be in your next life, Katie?" Jim asked.
"An eagle" She said proudly.
"An eagle? Why?" He asked with an arched eyebrow.
"You know to fly away when somebody make me do something I don't like" She said with tears in her eyes. "But I can't tell anything" She said nervously.
"Hey, Katie look at me. Who make you do thing you don't like? You have to tell me" Jim said grabbing her sister's arm.
"Wayne does"
Kate felt tears rolling down her cheek. Her past came to her again and with that a lot of emotions. She had spent her whole life trying to forget it, trying to erase it from her mind, but she couldn't there were a lot of thing to forget, actually her entire life and it was too much. The horse left, and she stood there some minutes to calm herself. When she was better, she wiped her tears and made her way to the beach. She heard noises and approached a part of the beach where nobody used to be. By her surprise it was Jack, and he was... digging? Then she recognized the place and knew why he was digging. Jack finally found the bottle and started to read letters.
"You know, you're not going to find it" She said with a flirting smile approaching to him. Jack jumped and turned to face her.
"God, Kate you scared me" he said trying to hide the bottle. "What I'm not going to find?"
"You know what, Jack." She said with a come on, I'm not stupid you know look. "And it's ok you know, you're in your right to read my letter because I read yours but there's no letter of mine"
"Oh. So you didn't write a letter" He said looking down at the bottle.
"Yeah you got it. Actually if you find an empty letter that's mine" Jack was already burying the bottle again.
"Yeah I found an empty letter before... but why didn't you write a letter?" He said looking into her eyes.
"I... um. I guess for the opposite reason you wrote one" She said avoiding his gaze. "I have to go" She said and then she turned and left.
Jack just stood there in silence.