Chapter Two

An hour must have passed and they were still crying, soon the night would turn into day, and people would begin to worry about them.

It was Jack who carefully picked Kate up, hugging her cold body to his, brushing her curls away from her face.

He led them back though thejungle in that terrible silence, only to be broken by the occasional sob, mostly from Claire. Aaron slept the whole way, despite the previous events.

No one knew what to say, or what to do, so it was just silence-sometimes there are no words.

They reached Camp and the group came rushing up to see what had happened-but there cries and yells were soon met by that shocking silence. Mr Eko was the first to notice. He just stared, before pulling Charlie aside. "What happened?" he demanded. "The others." Charlie said softly, avoiding his eyes. "The others did it."

Jack lay Kate in the caves, just staring at her. At this angle she could just be sleeping, apart from the tell-tale signs on her T-shirt, she could just be sleeping….

He just cried, cried for her more than he had the day Sarah had left him, more than the day his father had died. He just cried.

He couldn't stop thinking of the last few days he had known her. They had hardly talked, they had been fighting. The last few days he had known her they had been fighting, now he could never go back. Never say sorry.

Why had been so stupid? How could he have been so stupid? "she'd only wanted to help when you went looking for Michael. All she ever did was try to help, even when Sawyer had conned her she had been trying to help."

He buried his face in his hands, sobbing as he sat there deep in thought and regrets. "I'm sorry Kate," he whispered to her, "I'm sorry I couldn't fix you."

And then he was suddenly angry again. Why couldn't he fix her? Hadn't he fixed Charlie, the day he and Kate had gone looking? Charlie had been dead and he'd fixed him. He looked over to Kate's limp body, and without realising it rushed to her side.

"C'mon Kate," he whispered, trying to resituate her. "c'mon, c'mon Kate –please...Kate!" he began to hit her, losing control, but unlike Charlie, she did not wake. He leaned over her, sobbing and sobbing.

Kate was really gone.

"He's been in there for hours," Sayid said restlessly, nodding towards the caves with Jack, "we should go see if he is alright." "no!" Locke said quickly, "he needs to be alone…sayid…he needs to deal with it." Sayid didn't answer, just nodded his head.

"still in there?" Ana Lucia said quietly, walking towards them. Locke nodded, "yeah. Hows Claire and Aaron?" "There fine," said Ana, "both asleep, Charlie's looking after them." Once more there was silence. "people, they, they wanna know what happened." Ana said quietly, "there asking questions-I think a few of them already know."

"We can tell them later," Sayid said impatiently.

"where, where do you think Sawyer went to?" asked Ana Lucia, desperate to make conversation. "you don't think-," "he went to get even," Sayid cut in, "but, I mean, he wouldn't really-," "if you know Sawyer like I do," sayid said, raising his voice. "Sawyer would have." For a while they sat in silence, each wondering if Sawyer was still alive, or if the others had got him too.