Ana sat on the floor in the bathroom, sobbing. This was their second big fight, ever. What was happening to their fairytale love? Ana hated fighting with Arzt. Anyone else was fine, but with him… it was different. Everything was different with him.
She could hear Arzt banging around in the kitchen, singing loudly. She heard some more banging, and then a blender being switched on.
"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, and they're like, it's better than yours, damn right, it's better than yours…"
Arzt's horribly out of tune voice drifted through the bathroom door, and Ana screamed again in frustration.
"SHUT UP!" She screamed. Arzt didn't; if anything, he sang louder.
"…I can teach you, but I'd have to charge…"
Ana got up and stalked angrily to the door, threw it open and went out. She went over to the kitchen, where Arzt was singing into a wooden spoon.
"SHUT UP!" She yelled, but once again, he ignored her.
"La la-la la la, warm it up, La la-la la la, the boys are waiting,"
"NO BOYS LIKE YOU!" Ana screamed at him, just as Jack and Locke walked through the door. Arzt and Ana froze.
"Ah, that's where you're wrong, Ana." Locke said, a funny smile crossing his face.
Jack snorted. "Yeah, don't you mean no one likes you?" he asked, then walked off into another room.
Locke glanced at Arzt. "I'll see you later, Leslie." He winked, then followed Jack.
Arzt looked at Ana. "Um, nothing's… nothing's going on between me and him, I, uh, I don't know what he's talking about." He said, not meeting her eyes.
Ana stared at him incredulously, then screamed.
"SHUT UP!" Jack yelled from the other room, but Ana ignored him.
"This was supposed to be ROMANTIC, and HAPPY!" she yelled at Arzt. "You RUINED it! I spent the whole day rescuing you from that damn tree, and THIS is how you repay me! I HATE YOU!" She picked up a towel from the bench, and threw it at him. It hit him in the face, and he fell over, knocking his head on the bench as he fell. He didn't move.
"Arzt? Get up, you wimp. Arzt? Leslie?" Ana yelled at him for a moment, but when he didn't respond, she began to get worried. Ana crouched down beside him and shook his shoulder a little. "Hey! Stop being stupid! Leslie! Get UP!" Once again, he made no movement. She stood up and slowly stepped back.
"Oh my god…" she murmured. "I… killed Leslie!" She stared at his motionless body for a moment, then screamed. Jack came in, stamping his feet in annoyance.
"Why don't you just shut up!" He started, then saw Arzt on the floor. "Holy sht…" he quickly went over. "What happened?" he demanded. Ana looked at him helplessly, tears starting to run down her cheeks.
"I… I didn't mean to… he just… fell over, and…" she let out a sob, and Jack turned back to Arzt, feeling for a pulse.
"Ana. Go back to the beach, as fast as you can, get Sun, and ask Sawyer to come with all the medicine he has. Oh, and you better get Kate too. I love her." Jack told her. She tried to move, but felt rooted to the spot, her eyes fixed on Arzt's face. His eyes were closed, just like if he were sleeping. "Ana!"
Ana jumped, and then turned without a word to the door. She fled into the jungle, running faster than ever back to the beach. Tears blinded her vision and branches ripped at the bare skin on her arms, but it was nothing compared to the pain in her heart at that moment. She knew that unless Jack could work a miracle, Arzt was gone. Forever. She had never loved anyone as much in her entire life, and now it was going to be ripped away from her.
She arrived at the beach, and hysterically told Sun, Sawyer, and Kate to get to the hatch, and soon enough, the four of them were there. Ana was still crying, unable to stop, but no one really told her to shut up. When they saw Arzt, they could, for once, understand Ana. Kate thought of Jack in his place, and understood. Sun though of Jin in his place, and understood. Sawyer thought of his alcohol in his place, and understood.
Eventually, though, Locke had to escort her outside. He left her sitting alone just outside the door, and went back inside. After a while, her tears ran out, and the last ones dried slowly on her cheeks in the sun. Despite the heat, she felt cold. So, so cold. Ana shivered and shook her head violently, trying to remove the image of Arzt on the ground from it. A long while passed, and the sky grew slightly darker. The air got colder, and the first drop of rain fell from the heavens, each one seemingly insignificant, but slowly creating puddles on the muddy ground Ana sat on. She didn't notice the rain. She was numb to all feeling, but the intense pain she felt all over. It was a different pain to the pain she had felt before. Physical pain, bruises and bleeding, she could deal with. This was a pain that went deep, into her heart, into her soul. It tore her irreparably in two, knowing the only man she'd ever truly loved could be dead, all because of her.
Ana's clothes were soaked, the water seeping through them to gnaw at her frozen skin. Her hair dripped over her shoulders and down her cheeks, following the paths so many tears had previously traveled.
She was numb.