By the next week, Ana was up and walking around. Arzt thought she should rest for a little longer, and everyone else just thought she was freakin' lazy for not getting up earlier. I mean, when Jack dislocated his shoulder in the cave in, he was up like, straight away. But hey, Ana sucks, so what do you expect?

Arzt had moved all of Ana's stuff into his tent, mostly so he didn't have to keep going all the way over to her tent to get her stuff while she was out of commission.

To most people on the island, today was just like any other day. But Arzt knew better. He woke up early, and while Ana was still asleep, he snuck out of the tent. He tiptoed around the beach, stealing random stuff from random people. He went to the caves and continued stealing stuff. Then he walked back to the beach and mysteriously disappeared from the main camp area.

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Ana woke up and immediately reached over for Arzt. She sat up suddenly when her fingers touched nothing but the thin airline blanket they slept under. She looked around the tent, just in case he was hiding under some piece of fish or something. Come on, where the hell else is he gonna be?

She pushed herself up and, after thoroughly checking the tiny tent for him, ducked out from under the tarp.

Ana walked slowly into the middle of the camp, looking for her beloved Arzt the entire time. Most people were still asleep, but that didn't stop her from yelling at the top of her voice.

"LESLIE?" she screamed as loud as she could. "WHERE ARE YOU?"

She listened carefully for his reply, but all she heard were the groans of the newly awoken castaways.

"LESLIE?" she yelled again, getting a bit worried. He never left her like this... ever.

"Shut up, Ana." Jack moaned from his and Kate's tent.

Ana ignored him. "LEEESS--LIIEEE!"

"What the bloody hell is going on?" Charlie said, emerging from his tent grumpily.

"It looks like Arzt has finally come to his senses and run away," Sawyer said, also entering the scene. "I wonder why..." he looked pointedly at Ana.

"Shut up, Extra-chromosome-special Father of forty dogs." She said to him. He stared at her as if she was from a different planet, while we have no proof to say she isn't.

"Whatever... "Sawyer muttered and lit another cigarette.

Half the camp had come out to see what all the commotion was about, crowding around Ana expectantly.

"Where's my Leslie?" Ana demanded.

"That's all you're yelling about? Crap, I'm going back to bed!" Hurley said, turning back to his tent, shaking his head.

"Has anyone seen him?" Ana said again. She said it boldly and quite calmly, but inside she was panicking beyond belief.

"Unfortunately, yes." Sayid spoke up. "I saw him earlier this morning." A nearby random patted him sympathetically on the back.

Ana hurried up to Sayid. "Where is he? Where did you see him? What was he doing?"

'Calm down, Ana. I don't know where he is now, but this morning he snuck into my tent and tried to thief off with Shannon's perfume!" Sayid told her.

"Wait, what the hell were you doing with Shannon's perfume?" Boone asked him.

"Um, nothing, I just... she... uh... I have to go now." Sayid replied and quickly left.

Ana scowled for no real reason, just 'cause... that's what she does. She turned briskly away from the sleepy crowd and walked around the camp, searching for her soul mate.

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Ana did that for the rest of the day, and Arzt was nowhere to be found. By dinnertime she was sitting on the shore, rocking back and forth. Claire walked past with Aaron in her arms, and almost stopped to say something to her, but heard Ana muttering something about Arzna, perfume, and Extra-chromosome-special Father of forty dogs, so she decided to keep walking... a little faster.

Ana was totally lost in her own mental breakdown world, and nearly jumped a mile when a hand touched her shoulder gently.

"Woah, Ana, you okay?"

Ana spun around at the sound of his voice, her face lighting up at the sight of him. She jumped up and practically fell into his arms, hugging him as tight as she could.

"Oh my god, Leslie, where the hell have you been? I was so freakin' worried!" she mumbled into his shoulder, tears starting to form in her eyes.

"Oh, baby... look, I'm really sorry, I should have said something, but I wanted it to be a surprise!" Arzt said, stroking her hair gently. She raised her head up and looked at him, puzzled.

"What?"

He grinned slyly. "Don't tell me you don't know what today is!"

"No..."

"Well... come with me."

Arzt grabbed her hand and began to walk her down to the deserted part of the beach. Just past a small clump of bushes he stopped. Ana looked at him questioningly, then noticed why he had stopped.

In front of them a small tarp had been set up, protecting a blanket on the ground from the wind. On the blanket were two pillows, a blanket, and a variety of fruits and fish on a small plate-like thing. There were two torches set up at the side, giving out a pathetic amount of light.

Ana stared at it, speechless. She wandered forward and then looked back at Arzt, who was still standing with a satisfied look on his face.

"Do you like it?' he asked.

"Leslie... I... I love it! But... why did you do this?"

"I can't believe you don't know what day it is." He said, shaking his head. He walked closer, grabbing Ana around the waist and pulling her down to sit on the blanket with him.

"Today," he continued. "Is August 8th."

Ana stared at him. "And?"

"Also known as..." Arzt tried to drag it out dramatically. Yeah, whatever, nice try. "The Official Arzna Appreciation Day."

Ana still started at him for a sec, then she realised what he was talking about, and gasped.

"Really? I totally forgot!" she said.

"Uh-huh, and that is what this is for." He gestured around at the sheltery thing. Why they couldn't just stay at their normal one, I don't know.

Arzt reached behind him and pulled out two small bottles of alcohol. He held them up to Ana and she smiled. He handed her one.

"Stole them off Sawyer." He said proudly before opening the bottle and slowly taking a sip. Ana did the same, then held out her bottle.

"To Arzna?"

Arzt grinned. "To Arzna."

He knocked his bottle against hers and they both took another drink.

It was going to be a very long night.