Chapter Five.

The morning light is so much brighter than it should be.

Kate rubs her eyes in attempt to get them to open up. She gives up after awhile and starts turning around, trying to find Jack's figure with her hands. But she can't feel him anywhere. Kate opens her eyes and it takes a second until they get used to the sun light.

But the shock is huge when she realises where she is. There are huge palm trees all around her and a purling waterfall.

Kate tries rubbing her eyes a little bit harder but the jungle is still out there. She recognises the place. It's the same pond where she used to come over to swim with Sawyer.

What the fcuk? What is going on? Why am I here? Where is NY? Where is Jack? her mind is all confused and questions are bubbling up.

When she closes her eyes she could imagine still being in bed with him. What they would be doing if he had been laying next to her right at that moment…

"Earth to Kate."

The words startle her away from her day dreaming. Who had said them?

"Morning Freckles. Where were you just? Seemed like you were quite away from this moment."

Kate glances down and notices that Sawyer's rather naked body is just waking up and is looking back to her. He stretches out his arms, yawning widely.

Kate has no idea what he is doing there and far most what she is doing there with him.

It's clear that she was still quite out of it all.

Sawyer places his palms to the ground and taking the required support from it, he yanks himself up into a sitting position and fixes his eyes to her face.

He starts leaning towards Kate's face but as soon as she notices his agenda, Kate starts moving her head backwards. Sawyer tilts his head looking frustrated.

Kate's eyes are full of confusion and fear. It had been enough shock to wake on the island and with Sawyer, not the other man, by her side. But that he would try to kiss her just was way too much.

"What are you doing?" she manages to ask him.

He rolls his eyes and makes a knowing smirk.

"Playing hard to get, eh? Well last night tells me a different story.." he wiggles his eyebrows suggestively and scans her body.

Kate was eager to know what he meant with last night but she decided to drop the topic and focus on more relative things.

"Where is Jack?"

"Who?"

"Jack!" she yells annoyed. He know who Jack was so why did he have to play this word game with her?

"Oh you mean him. The doctor. He died like six months ago. The cave fell on him, remember. Jesus girl, what have you been popping?"

All colour drained from her face and her guts took a nasty flip that made her feel sick. This couldn't be happening?

Kate realised that the best thing now might be to ask all kinds of questions from Sawyer and bump up the answers to what was going on but she couldn't bring herself to do that at the moment.

She had to take some time to think all this thru. Maybe she could eventually make some sense out of this all.

She jerked herself away from Sawyer and after a little while, Kate was standing up. She was looking to the dark emptiness of the jungle and he frowned up to her figure. The sun was shining straight to his eyes and he had to raise one hand to block the bright light.

"Where are you going? It's still early in the morning. The jungle can be dangerous."

Kate had started to take steps towards the darkness but when she heard Sawyer's concerned voice, she turned to look back.

"I need to be alone for a minute," she says and continues her pacing.

"Forget your sorrows and come back here, girl."

He was patting the ground next to him and smiling gently.

Though this time Kate didn't look back nor stopped walking. She was mumbling something.

"What did you say?"

She raised her voice so that he could hear her and said:

"Don't call me a girl."

And with this, she disappeared from his sight.

She walked non-stop for hours.

Poor Sawyer. He probably had no idea why she was acting like a crazy person…

Suddenly something that he had said came flashbacking to her.

He is dead…been like that for six months…

How could she not remember this? It wasn't something that would just magically slip out of your mind.

She slowed her pacing down and eventually stopped.

Kate sat down next to an old tree and moved herself so that she was able to lay her back against it.

So all that happened in NY never existed in the first place? He is dead. She let out a sad and desperate sigh and wrapped her arms around her legs.

If all this is true why can't I remember what has happened? I don't even recall getting close to Sawyer and here I am in the jungle spending nights with him that make him wiggle his eye brows.

All of a sudden, Kate started hearing noises. First they are far but it sounds like something would be coming closer. She tries to find the approaching object with her eyes but she didn't see anything. Then the sound is so close that Kate can hear something pushing thru leaves and breaking branches. The sound is coming from above her head.

She tilts her head back so that she is looking up and with a loud thud, the falling mango lands on her face, knocking her out.

In the same time in NY, Kate's eyes fly open and she sees the ceiling of Jack's bedroom.