There was something sacred and holy about graves, even if one was a proud atheist. Even before she became a Christian, Minta had always been one of those girls who were frightened of walking pass graveyards. She smiled slightly as she remembered whenever Sayid and her happened to walk past any graves, she would always clenched onto his hand tighter.

But strangely enough, now she was in front of a grave, the grave of her sister in law. Kneeling in front of it with her daughter in her arm, she stretched her free hand toward the name Sayid had carve on.

Perhaps there was a morbid fascination as the sister's fate might easily have been the brother's life.

"Minta…"

"You shouldn't come to talk to me in such an isolated place alone, Sawyer," she said rather severally without turning around, her hand still touching the wood that bore her sister in law's name. "Other people might gossip. Both Sayid and I trust you, but most others aren't so kindly disposed towards you, and you know it."

"That's why I didn't come alone." Although his tone was very dry and almost crisp, there was still a hint of gentleness. "I brought Jin and Sun with me."

"Minta…" Sun said kindly, as she placed a hand on the young woman. "You should be going back to your hut and rest, both you and Esther had a very tiring day."

"I know I should but I don't want to." Minta smiled slightly. "To be honest with you, I dislike returning to the hut alone, I don't like spending time there without Sayid. I don't like being away from Sayid at all, but being separate from him if I am at the beach or the jungles is not as bad as it is not being in our hut. In our hut, our home," she stated quietly. "I can usually find Sayid there, that's why I don't like going back to it when I know that he is not going to be there, especially if I don't know when he will be back."

"I can understand." Sun said gently, after all she herself had lived through a time when she dreaded returning home because Jin was never there, at that period he had always been so occupied.

"I understand too," Jin added in his thick accent, squeezing Sun's hand.

"Why don't you stay with Jin and I then?" Sun offered. "As I am there it will not be so…"

"Scandalous? I'd never do anything to hurt her!" Sawyer muttered, "Look, I do understand but seriously, Minta and I are like siblings!"

Why do I lie to myself? Sawyer added bitterly when Minta laid her hand on him, using him as a staff. Who knows what I might do if she really did stay in my tent!

"I wonder where Sayid is now." Minta sighed, "I hope he find Alex soon and come back."

Jack and Kate had been waiting for the right moment to carry out their plan. Seeing the departed back of their following companions on the island, they quickly darted to the grave with their spades ready.

Jack quickly began to dig furiously, after all, his life depended on his speed. He had no doubt that if any of this reached Sayid's ears then they would probably rather wish that the others had took them.

Of course, Sayid probably would not ever torture anyone again, but the man was still a very excellent fighter and his fists hurts much more then any one else's.

"I hope that the key is really here." He whispered to Kate.

"Of course!" she hissed back. "The combination number is on the bracelet which the marshal had, it was found by Sawyer and he had gave it to Minta when her daughter was born. Then I saw how she put it on the corpse's hands.

"Why do you want it so much? You said that you loved the man, implying that you no longer do!"

"Jack, do you remember what I had told you when we discovered the coffin? I need to get the plane because it is like how you must bury your father. This is the thing that I need to do as otherwise I will never be at rest."

A long silence passed before Jack finally moved, raising his hand. At first Kate almost feared that he was going to strike her, but she quickly chided herself for thinking that Jack of all people would do such a thing.

Jack gently touched Kate's cheek and said: "I understand", before he continued digging.

Even after spending more then a year at the island, Sayid was not surprised when he found himself in a new surrounding.

"We are not alone." He suddenly said, raising his rifle.

Turning to the bush that the ex-soldier gestured to with a mere turn of his head, Danielle immediately saw what her companion saw. There, in the bush, was a slight sign of a person hiding there. He or she was given away by a tiny mistake, the curve of the branch was slightly out of proportion.

"Alex! It Alex!" Danielle cried out, switching to French unconsciously. "Please come out! Child, I will never hurt you."

Unlike Danielle, Sayid still kept his gun in place. Logically, he presumed that Danielle might have loosened her defense due to her emotion for her long lost daughter.

The branch parted to let her out…

"Alex." Danielle whispered, this word needed no translation.

She was dressed in tattered clothing with no shoes, but there was a knife in her hand. Even though her hair was a very pale blond and shorn very short, scraped off her face, with light eyes, and an equally fair skin, there was no doubt that she was Danielle's daughter. There was a strong resemblance with the French woman, although she had long dark hair that covered her face slightly, and darker eyes with a slightly darker skin.

Sayid took a single look at Alex and made a simple and accurate decision: his wife was everything that Alex was not.

First of all Alex was much taller, with certain shoes she could easily tower over him, she was fair while Minta's colourings were more dark. Alex also appeared to be very sharp, seemed constantly alert, ready to sprung upon any sign. He closed his eyes when Danielle and her daughter started to converse in French, he allowed himself to think of Minta, the softness of her body as he enfolded her into his arms, her vulnerability…

"And this is Sayid, who is the one that helped me to find you." Danielle finally said in English.

Now it was Alex's turn to examine Sayid, he was quite a surprise to her, as he was not an example of the people who relied heavily on technology and unskilled in living in a jungle, as she had expected him to be from the story of the plane crash that her mother just told her.

The man was slightly shorter then her, and judging by his dark skin and his hair, a mass of black curls reaching to his chin, along with his features, she guessed that he was middle eastern. But she wasn't completely sure as she remembered how there had been two Arabic couple in her mother's team, while one had the stereotypical dark skin and hair, the other was very faired skin with hair as pale as hers, but they had both been representatives from an Arabic country.

He worse simple outfits consisting of a vest and a pair of cargo pants, particle clothing for the outdoor, she smiled slightly as she remembered how often she had wished that she had not been dressed in a dress when she arrived on the island.

"Can you translate what happened for me?" Sayid asked easily, he was now in a very good mood as with the discovery of Alex, he would soon be with Minta again.

Alex recollected her story again, this time in English. Basically, when she arrived on the island after her mother crashed the ship, she was found by the others. They kept her with them and looked after her, teaching her how to survive and helped her. But recently they all left, but before they departed they told her that she could now go back to her mother.

"They were the guardians of the hatch, trying to make sure that no one opens it." Alex explained, there was no hint of French accent in her English, but there was a slight British accent there. "They are really good people."

"Like angels!" Sayid put in excitedly, which was met by Alex saying: "Think that if you wish," but he quickly frowned. "But it doesn't make sense. Ethan…"

"Ethan was the one who tried to kidnap a child from your people, right?" seeing the nod Alex continued. "He is a good man too, he kidnapped Claire as he planed to use her as a hostage as they used me, so no one would open the hatch."

The trio continued the rest of the conversations as they headed back, as Sayid was very eager to be back.

"Maybe the others are not bad as we all thought that they had be," Sayid finally admitted, "But Alex, I would be cautious if I were you in talking about the others with anyone else, especially to the woman that Ethan kidnapped."

"I suddenly have a very bad feeling." Minta suddenly said. "Please…can we go back to Morgiana's grave. Just a few seconds!"

As they had only walked for a few minutes the rest all agreed seeing how pale Minta suddenly looked.

When they approached the grave they automatically hushed, but to their surprise there was a faint scraping noise.

At the same time that Minta screamed, Sawyer lounged at Jack. Kate was lucky as she managed to dodge, but soon she found her hand gripped by Jin, this was a situation where words were not needed at all.

"What…what are you doing?" Minta finally chocked out, she suddenly felt very dizzy and might have fall if it wasn't for Sun, who was supporting the delicate woman. Minta was simply shocked at how anyone would dare to violate this grave, a sacred ground. Even worse was the fact that she was strongly religious, and the person resting in the grave was the sister of her husband.

Seeing the corpse everyone shuddered, it didn't matter if some of them had already saw the body once, few could get used to such a sigh, even if they saw it more then once.

"Because of that?" Minta whispered, pointing to the gold bracelet on Kate's hand, "Do you want it so much that you would even do this sacrilege!"

"Well, well, well, so this is what the good doc do for past time." Sawyer added viciously. "Wait till Sayid here about this."

"This is all my idea, my fault." Kate said bravely. "I am sorry to do what I did but I had to, the bracelet is the key to the suitcase and I need to get something from it."

"And what is the so important object in the case that make you do this?" Minta demanded angrily.

"What belonged to the man that I loved…

"What belonged to the man that I killed…

"I need it or what I did will never leave me."

"I suppose that is the only reason that will cause me and maybe Sayid, to pardon this." Minta said softly. "but Kate, why do you cling onto the past? Do you think that by taking that object you can be consoled?

"Forgiveness can not be gained that way, and I would know." Once more she thought of the time that she had her mental breakdown. "If you truly want the past go then you must let it go.

Turning she started to walk away, "Don't worry, I will not tell Sayid this."

Author's Note: I think Sawyer's reaction is pretty logical, despite not wanting to hurt her putting a man and the woman that he loves alone in the tent will probably result in disastrous consequences, and of course, not everyone is like the Sayid in this story!

When I watched 'Whatever the case may be," I really disapprove what Jack and Kate did so… And once more, please don't be offended with the religious issue, as I said before, it is up to you readers to make up your own mind about what it really is. So that's my theory on the others, although I do think it probably need more details cause Ethan is pretty crazy but in this fanfic, he never threatened to kill the others. Although now that I think about it as I write this author's note, it's pretty funny in what I did, making the others (who I actually think is very evil), into very good people in this story.