"He's not breathing. When did he stopped to breath?" Sayid asked trying to sound calm and not to shout." "Don't fucking know" Sawyer cried angrily "He was still breathing when I started to carry him…around four minutes ago…"
No more words were said as Kate with streaks of uncontrolled tears on her face was already bending over Jack tilting his head back and breathing air into him.
Wild eyed Charlie arrived adding to group of bewildered people who already formed a circle around bloodied sand.
Sayid leaned over Jack but was stopped by Sawyer's gruff "I'll do it" as he positioned his laced fingers below Jack's sternum and pushed hard.
For the next minute in absolute silence Kate breathed into Jack while Sawyer pumped his chest. Clean rags appeared from somewhere and Charlie clamped them on wound as it began to seep blood with every push that Sawyer gave to Jack chest.
The sight was nightmarish, sickening .There was blood everywhere, on Jack, on Kate's lips, on Sawyer's and Charlie's hands, even on sand around them. Jack's color went from ghostly pale to ashen as they couldn't get a pulse. Kate started getting hysterical and quickly the sobs made her unable to breathe properly for herself let alone for Jack.
"Freckles, get the hold on yourself" Sawyer hissed at her but she just stared at Jack's unresponsive face and slightly caressed him as if he was only asleep. "Freckles, breathe for him!" Sawyer's shout mixed with Charlie's distressed inquiry: "Kate?" But her tears stopped and she just continued to languidly caress Jack's pallid cheek. At this moment Sayid pulled her away from Jack and she was instantly replaced by Sun.
As Kate's screams of "No, leave me let me go ,let go!" permeated the air Sawyer and Sun continued to work on Jack.
The atmosphere was getting unbearable, thick with despair and tension as nothing was happening and Jack, their Jack was dead.
"Damn" Sawyer muttered sweat rolling down his face, his arms screaming from constant exertion. From the corner of his eye he saw Locke nearby , submerged in some kind of bizarre meditation or maybe prayer.
Sun checked Jack's neck for a pulse and solemnly shook her head once again .They weren't giving up, craziness slowly creeping into them. "Come on…,come on you bastard…"Sawyer muttered looking at Jack and noting the bluish tingle that appeared to his lips. Then between Kate's incoherent sobbing he heard her words…"Please don't leave me Jack…don't leave me…" His eyes traveled up to see her restrained in Sayid's arms, tears and snot mixing on her half crazy face. And he understood, he understood even before her next words had reached him "I love you Jack…".
Sawyer head swam for the moment from the smell of blood ,from anger and despair and then yelling "You damned son of a bitch!" he pushed at Jack's chest with such force that the light crack of breaking rib was heard.
"What the hell you are thinking you are doing!" Charlie's angry voice was lost to Sawyer who angrily pushed hard and fast on Jack's ribs over and over until he was stopped by Sun's frantic shout "No! Stop!"
So he stopped and looked at her through curtain of sweated hair. Sun's ear was over Jack's lips her fingers pressed firmly to his neck." He's breathing" she announced shakily 'And there's a thready pulse…"
Sawyer hung his head as Kate's wailing of Jack's name and all people talking at once, advising and giving orders ringed in his ears.