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A/N- .Butterfly.Butter.- Thanks to everyone who's reading our fic, this is very exciting, jaja, I'm just very happy, really. Thanks especially to Lauren 3. Well, if you need anything you can contact me at butterflybutter at hotmail dot com.

This chapter is pretty much all Pame's work, with a few tidbits thrown in by me (Lauren...obviously, lol)

And finally, the title has officially been changed to The Wonderful Disease Called Love. Now read and review!

The Wonderful Disease Called Love

Chapter Two-Confrontations

"Do you ACTUALLY realize what's happening here?" Heloise asked her friend Zephyr in a remote area where they were guaranteed they wouldn't be overheard.

"Well… yeah, kind of" She whispered a little ashamed. It was had only been a few days since they met the strangers and she was already flirting with one of them. But she couldn't avoid it, he was so damn cute, he really was. He was just a little rude…well, maybe a bit more than a little.

"Let me explain it to you. Let's see, we've been here for one month I think. We found the shy guy and the old couple…" she couldn't continue explaining because it seemed Zephyr had something to tell her

"Their names are Matt and Simon and Jane."

"I know, I'm just trying to do a summary of our lives for the past month. I'm skipping over such formalities as names," she looked at her friend. She was so innocent, she had to protect her or Sawyer would probably eat her alive. "And we're finally getting a few words out of Adrien."

"Oh, HE gets a name?" She smiled in a teasing way to Heloise.

"So?" She blushed a little, something that Zephyr noticed right a way

"You like him!" Zephyr laughed.

"Let's not get off topic," Heloise said, trying to brush off Zephyr's comment. Zephyr just smiled in a knowing way. As much as it annoyed her to leave Zephyr uncorrected, Heloise had to talk to Zephyr about the Sawyer problem, and couldn't get sidetracked defending herself about the Adrien problem. "My point is, we know none of these people! Getting involved with them is dangerous! We are in the middle of nowhere with a slim to zip chance of being rescued. Survival should be our number one priority, not the cute guy with a bullet wound!"

"Maybe you should take your own advice." Heloise looked at her with a blank expression on her face. "You said yourself, we're finally getting a few words out of Adrien, he's just as much of a stranger as Sawyer is, and you are getting involved with him!"

"I'm not getting involved with him! And I don't like him! I don't like anyone, you know that!" Heloise responded, not quite meeting her friend's eye. "I hardly like you," she joked, looking at her now. "Just be careful, kay?" she said sincerely.

"You too."

"Do we have everything?" Asked the girl with blue eyes to her friend. Both were in front of the airport's desk.

"Yeah, I think," she answered searching in her backpack "I have the passports," she gave them to the woman behind the desk. She started to look at them, then she typed something on her computer and after a while she gave back the passports and handed them two airplane tickets.

"Your plane is leaving in one hour, so if you want to eat something you have the time," the lady smiled at them "Are you traveling for…?" she asked looking at some papers they gave her

"Business," answered Zephyr

"Yes, so you're the model?"

"That's right," she smiled at her and the she pointed to Heloise "She's my best friend, so she's coming with me, you know…"

"Good friends support each other when they need it the most" said the lady. She was really nice.

"Well then good luck, and give me your bag please," she told them pointing the huge suitcase Zephyr and Heloise were carrying together. Together they gave it to her and then the woman put it with the other bags.

"I ask you to treat it well, please," Zephyr told her, "I have everything I need for the shots there. Very important."

The woman smiled at her, "Don't worry, we'll be very careful with your stuff. I promise"

"HEY, LADIES!" A man shouted at Heloise and Zephyr. He was at the middle of the line that was forming of people waiting to buy their tickets. It seemed he wasn't from Australia because of his accent, he sounded like American. Both of them turned to look at him. He was very handsome, he had long blonde (or something like) hair. "Some of us want to catch a plane, can you go faster and stop talking?"

"Shut up, moron!" Heloise responded hostilely. She had a rather short temper. Then they turned to the woman again, they smiled and thanked her. Then they were out of the line.

"Thank you," he said sarcastically when they passed him.

"Die, jerk," answered Heloise looking at him very mad. Zephyr just tried to ignore him.

"Hey, Heloise," called the black man, "Can you help us?" he said and pointed to Sawyer who was standing up. "Please, make him understand that he needs to rest." Heloise looked at Sawyer.

"I don't want to be looked at as an invalid," he whispered to her, "I can walk, I can run, I can do whatever you want me to."

"Then sit," she ordered. Sawyer looked at her very angry.

"I'm not a dog and I want to walk" he started to walk towards the entrance of the cave. He was leaving.

"Why are you leaving?" Michael shouted at him. "They helped us. They are nice, we NEED them!" Sawyer turned back, Jin was walking towards him trying to make him come back.

"I don't need anybody," he muttered. He was really confused, he needed to think. "I want to go, please let me. I can get back to Freckles and Doc just fine."

Jin started to say strange things to him, Sawyer guessed he was talking in Korean. He was waving his hands wildly, trying to say 'no'. "Udders, udders!" he finally started saying over and over.

"Sorry, I've only seen wild polar bears and boars, don't know anything about wild cows. But on this island, who knows, there's prolly a whole herd of 'em"

"Know something? Do whatever you want, nobody really cares about you!" shouted Heloise, tired of caring for this unappreciative man. He was such a pain in the ass, always bothering others, mocking them, hurting them, slowing them down. She was pissed.

"I know what, I don't need you to remind me of it," he turned once again and started to walk through the jungle.

"What's going on?" Zephyr was arriving to the conversation with a big smile. Then she noticed everyone was looking at her with frowns on their faces. "What's wrong?" she asked curiously. Jin pointed Sawyer leaving. "Why is he doing such a stupid thing?" she asked, horrified.

"Cause he's stupid, you know?" answered Heloise. "He's horrible," she explained to her friend.

"What did you tell him?" Zephyr asked very angry, he wouldn't leave for no reason. And Heloise, with her short temper, tended to say things in the heat of the moment, so all logical signs pointed to that.

"That nobody cares for him. He's mean to everybody! I can't believe you don't see it!" Heloise was starting to shout. Both of them were mad. In a way Heloise was right, he was cruel with every living thing! And still, Zephyr was right too, she couldn't be as mad at him.

"You can be just as bad as him sometime. Maybe he has a reason, just like you do!" She started to walk towards the entrance "I'll go and find him" she said and run out of their cave leaving her best friend behind with a sad look on her eyes. Michael, Jin and the other were shocked. Heloise didn't want the others to look her at that moment, so she went to a private place in the cave. But it seemed someone had found it too.

"Hi, Elly." It was Adrien, sitting on the floor. "Couldn't help but overhear. Why were you so hostile towards him?"

"I told you before, I'm just trying to survive. And he's complicating that." She was trying to hold her tears, but she was strong, she was one of the leaders of this bunch of survivors and she had to hold it together. She tried not to let Zephyr's cruel reminder of her rocky past upset her.

"You don't have to be that rude, I mean…" He took her hand and then pull on it asking her to sit next to him. She did. "Maybe, as your friend said, he has a reason."

"Everyone has a reason, but he's rude just to be rude. Even if he had a reason… he shouldn't be that mean with everybody in this stupid island! No wonder he got shot!"

"You're really tense, Elly. I think it's time for our first relaxation session."

Heloise rolled her eyes but couldn't help the smile that melting her frown.

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Till next time, Pame and Lauren