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Chapter 2

Italics Either dreams, or when Alexa and Sayid speak in Arabic

Alexa's dreams

A Dark Room with only one window, light comes from a small candle on the sill, a sudden gust of wind blows from the window, the candle light flickers and dies, bathing her in pure darkness.

FLASH

The scene changes to a hospital room in the bright sunlight, too bright to pick out faces.

"No you can't leave, no matter what remember? No matter what!" the heart monitor that slowly beeps in the background, changes from its steady beep to a long continuous sound.

FLASH

The scene changes again this time to a cemetery in the pouring rain. Grey skies from horizon to horizon, a black clothed figured is seen walking between rows of graves. It stops suddenly; quickly lays down the flowers it held within its hands and then walks away. Alexa strives to see the gravestone as the figure walks on but only one word can be seen clearly: "Beloved"

FLASH

The scene changes once more this time it's the desert, a village in silence. There is no movement but bodies are littered across the streets. Alexa comes to a halt at a figure on the ground she knows well, she can taste the tears trailing down her cheeks into her mouth, her hand reaches out to the body, but then all she can see is blood…..

Alexa jerked awake, the images of the dream slowly fading, she wiped the sweat off her forehead, before taking in her surroundings. She looked to her left where she remembered Sayid sleeping the night before only to find the space empty. She raised her head and got temporarily blinded by the sun, as she realised that most of the survivors were up and about. Alexa saw a few of the survivors she didn't know congregating around Jack and Kate who once again seemed deep in debate.

Hoping to find out what was going on she picked herself up off the ground and slowly sauntered over to where they stood; wary of knocking her already injured ribs.

Alexa was slightly distracted by the fire she, Charlie and Sayid had so carefully made last night. Now it had been reduced to mere ashes and embers.

A voice broke through her thoughts; one she recognized as Jacks.

"Ok Kate and I are going to search for the transceiver in the front half of the plane" Jack announces. Alexa could see the sense in Jack's plan, but if it was her she would certainly be slightly more cautious of just two people venturing into the jungle with god knows what type of monsters. But then, by the looks of things Jack liked to play the hero.

"Wow that sounds like a great idea, I'll come too" Charlie's voice said to Kate and Jack. Alexa couldn't help but laugh to herself as she caught Kate and Jack's irritated expressions, and Charlie's oblivious innocent one. She walked up to Kate and Jack

"I would offer to come, but I think I'd be more of a hindrance with my ribs, and plus it looks like you have enough volunteers" She said looking pointedly at Charlie. Kate smiled at her before Jack replied:

"Don't worry about it I'm sure we'll be fine, see you when we get back Alexa"

Just as they walked off Alexa shouted to them

"Oh and guys….be careful"

Alexa turned away as the three walked off into the jungle; she used the time to look at her surroundings and at the other survivors. Her surroundings don't really help much, she thought, as she mused over where the plane may have crashed, it would have been logical to assume it was somewhere between the US and Australia, but the fact that they hit turbulence, and may have decided to head back or make a safer landing somewhere else meant that as far as she could see they might be anywhere in the South Pacific.

There seemed to be around 50 survivors in total including Jack, Kate and Charlie, and Alexa realised just how few of them she knew, she had only met about 6 of them after crashing, and she didn't talk to anybody on the plane, although Alexa was pretty sure she was sitting in the row behind the pregnant lady, Claire yes that was her name.

Alexa's deliberations had inadvertently taken her further than she had intended. In truth she needed something to keep her occupied, or her tendency to over analyse things was going to drive her insane. If she was honest with herself, she could really do with a change of clothes, as the colour black was not really the most practical to be wearing on a tropical island, she looked down at her ensemble, a black tank top and black cargo pants, she had only worn them because they seemed to be more appropriate for when they got to LA.

At that thought she looked around wondering about luggage. There had to have been some for the doctor to have got the peroxide and bandages for her injuries along with for others who were hurt. A blonde girl who was a couple of yards down the beach was looking through a pile of suitcases that had been put together. Alexa slowly made her way over to her, hoping to find her own luggage and some clothes that she wouldn't roast in. The blonde young women looked up as Alexa moved nearer, but didn't say anything, as Alexa slowly bent down to avoid agitating her ribs and began to sift through the luggage herself.

"Are you ok?" The women asked, but from the tone of her voice she didn't really care she just wanted something to say to avoid the awkward silence that had been building.

"Well define ok?" Alexa said wryly "I'll be fine if that's what your wondering but broken ribs are pretty uncomfortable."

The girl either didn't understand Alexa's sarcasm or just decided Alexa wasn't worth the effort, as she carried on looking through the luggage. About a minute later a triumphant grin spread across the blondes face as she pulled out a pink suitcase, though how she had not managed to spot the luminous pink in among the myriad of black and brown, Alexa would never know. Then to Alexa's surprise the girl picked up another two bags and began to drag all three over to another man who was sat on the beach. Alexa thinking nothing more of it carried on looking, but she looked as the blonde girl shouted something

"By the way I'm Shannon if you wondered"

"Alexa" Alexa replied simply

Alexa smiled as she pulled out her bag. To be honest compared to most people here she had very little luggage. She carried everything in one bag besides her carry on luggage, and there were countless suitcases here. Still, she thought, a lot must belong to people who didn't make it. Alexa stopped that thought, it was easier for her just to avoid it for the moment rather than deal with the idea of more death, especially if she didn't have to, and suddenly her mind remembered more of her dream. That hadn't been the first time she had had it, but never so strong, and never with all those images in one dream.

She stopped herself from dwelling on it knowing it would get her nowhere, and looked for a change of clothes. She picked out a white short-sleeved shirt, the shirt was linen and should keep her cool in the heat, she had worn it many times in Egypt. She also grabbed a hat hoping to avoid sunstroke and placed it over her dark brown hair. Unfortunately she didn't see anything obvious she could replace her black cargos with, skirts were probably impractical, and she couldn't be bothered to rifle through her bag for shorts. Moving out from where she had been changing she left her luggage on the beach; on the grounds that there was nothing worth stealing even if one of the survivors turned out to be a thief.

She overheard a man with short dark hair telling Shannon that he and some others were going to go through the wreckage and see what they could salvage, she looked and saw that Sayid was among them, and then questioned herself asking why she cared, but before she could finish her thoughts, Sayid had seen her and called her over. She walked slowly over to them, her ribs were feeling much better, and she would probably be able to risk much more movement by the end of the day but she wasn't going to ruin it for the moment by running.

"Alexa how are you feeling?" He questioned

"Much better thanks, my ribs don't feel like I've been hit by a bus anymore" Her dry wit once again evident in her speech. Sayid smiled slightly before replying

"I am glad to hear that would you like to assist us in going through the wreckage as long as you don't hurt your ribs too much?"

"No I'd like to help, I need to have something to do" Alexa replied quickly

In truth the survivors who were helping didn't seem to be very organised, they were just sort of drifting around picking through stuff. However much Alexa may have doubted Jack for wanting to play a hero she realised that these people really did need leading because without someone telling them what to do they were practically useless. She was probably being too judgemental as usual, so she just left them, whilst she and Sayid went through the wreckage bit by bit picking up anything salvageable and then moving on so they avoided doing the same part twice.

Alexa was quite enjoying herself at the moment; she and Sayid had just picked up a steady conversation. It was nothing earth shattering and they were avoiding conversations that they both knew could bring up awkward questions, but it was nice and comfortable. Unfortunately for Alexa her bit of enjoyment wasn't going to last as the arrogant cowboy arrived, in truth she hadn't minded him so much before, even if he did think far too much of himself. But his accusations to say the least were unfair and baseless; he had just chosen to accuse Sayid because he happened to be from Iraq. And as far as Alexa was concerned Sayid had done nothing to deserve this prejudice.

Alexa had left for a couple of minutes to drop off some of the stuff they had found with those who were collecting it, she had been wary of leaving Sawyer and Sayid alone, but she reasoned they were full grown men, and Sayid had so far just ignored Sawyer. She had just begun walking back towards that area when Kate, Jack and Charlie had coming running through the trees all three of them looking terrified. Just about to ask what happened all four of them were startled by shouts from near the wreckage, despite of her injuries; Alexa began to sprint towards Sayid and Sawyer, who with all pretence of courtesy forgotten were brawling and fighting in the sand.

Alexa caught up to the two just as she heard Sawyer say that Sayid had been responsible for the plane crash and that he was a terrorist. Alexa was horrified she couldn't believe Sawyer would say these things, they weren't fair, he hadn't accused anyone else so she knew it was just because Sayid was Arabic. Furious she shouted at Sawyer:

"Sawyer what the hell do you think your doing you can't just go round accusing people of things cause you have a problem with them!" She pushed in between Sawyer and Sayid trying to break them up, but Sawyer who had been turned away, turned to take another swing at Sayid, but instead his fist contacted with Alexa's face, who was completely unprepared for Sawyer's attack.

Sayid swore sharply in Arabic before Alexa turned to him saying:

"No need for that" It wasn't what she said that startled Sayid it was that she had just said it in Arabic; meaning she had obviously understood his exclamation from before.

Everyone stopped shouting as they saw Sawyer punch Alexa in the face and then the Arabic exchange between her and Sayid wondering what she was going to do. Very few of them actually knew much about Alexa, but they were expecting her to scream or cry out, and what she did do was pretty much unexpected by all of them. All of them, that is apart from Sayid who had seen the fury in her eyes, and also noticed some things about Alexa very few other people had. Instead she just wiped some of the blood from her nose quickly before swiping at Sawyer back. He wasn't expecting her to punch him back so he just stood shocked, as she turned away from him and walked away eyes blazing as one hand reached to her nose to try and stop the blood flow.

Back to where Sawyer and Sayid stood both shocked from Alexa's display, Jack and Kate quickly diffused the situation sending people away, but not before Kate questioned:

"Does anyone know anything about electronics; we need somebody who can fix the transceiver we found on the plane."

Sayid; furious eyes on Sawyer was just about to go check on Alexa when he heard Kate's question.

"I can" He answered shortly "I will take a look, but there is something I must deal with first." Nobody questioned Sayid as they all knew where he was going; Jack passed him a cloth before saying

"Once you guys are done talking will you get her to come see me I need to check if her nose is broken?"

Sayid nodded at Jack, and then turned in the direction in which Alexa had headed. He saw her sat further down the beach, head down trying to stop her nose from bleeding. He headed over to where she sat, thinking about what had just happened, he was angry at Sawyer, very angry, Sawyer had had no right to accuse him like he did. Yet most of his thoughts were consumed by the young women he was heading towards now, how did she learn to speak Arabic? Why did she defend him against Sawyer? How did she learn to punch like that? Why does she care?

He carried his questions till he reached Alexa, in which he wordlessly sat down and passed Alexa the cloth Jack had given him, she reached out and took it from him, holding it to her face before turning to Sayid, her face was carefully unemotional, expectant and waiting for him to speak. But now he was here Sayid was really at a loss for things to say. But she beat him to it:

"I'm sorry" She said sadly, of all the things she could have said he wasn't expecting that, what on earth was she apologising for, before he could ask she carried on. "I shouldn't have got involved, it's just Sawyer was being so unfair and I hated seeing him treat you that way, but I'm sorry if your angry"

"I'm not angry with you Alexa" Sayid said

"You're not?" This was a surprise to Alexa; she was used to people shouting when she did something stupidly heroic like that.

"No of course not, you stood up for me when you didn't have to, although clearly you paid the price for it" He said indicating Alexa's nose, in truth Sayid was feeling guilty that punch had been meant for him, and true he hadn't asked her to get involved but if there roles were reversed he knew he would have stuck up for her. Alexa picked up on his guilt:

"It's my own fault I got hurt, I shouldn't have got in the way, Sawyer didn't mean to hurt me, I should probably apologise for punching him back to be honest, as this was an accident whereas mine was deliberate" But Alexa couldn't keep the grin off her face remembering the arrogant cowboy's shocked expression when she had smacked him. Apparently Sayid shared her sentiments as she looked up to see him smiling in the same way. He carried on with what he was saying before:

"No I'm not angry, I'm just surprised, and where did you learn to speak Arabic?"

"Oh that" Alexa said sheepishly, "I spent about 5 years in Egypt in the military, I had to learn Arabic as nobody else spoke English, I know that it is different to the Arabic they speak in Iraq but the fundamentals are the same and I can easily understand what you say."

"I'm glad you can" Sayid replied in Arabic "It's nice to have someone to talk to"

Alexa smiled at him but before she could say anything Sayid stood up offering her his hand, which she gratefully took. Reverting back to English Sayid spoke again:

"I promised Jack I would tell you to go see him about your nose, and I need to go look at this transceiver of Kate's"

"Ok I'll go see Jack, but would you mind if I gave you hand with the transceiver? I know a little about electronics." Alexa asked timidly, not a tone of voice she often used.

"Ok you go see Jack and meet me back by the wreckage" Sayid replied as he began to walk off to get the transceiver from Kate.

"Ok but I may be a little longer I should probably speak to Sawyer" Her voice betrayed her obvious dislike for the task she had set herself.

They both walked off in different directions Alexa caught sight of Jack, so she slowly made her way over to him. Her nose had stopped bleeding by now, but from the amount of blood on the cloth, it looked to have been pretty bad. Alexa cringed, she knew her nose was going to be bruised in the morning and would most likely hurt like hell, she could only hope that it wasn't broken or out of place.

"Hey Alexa how's your nose?" Jack asked kindly

"Hurts" She said simply

"Yes I kind of guessed as much" Jack said with a slightly bemused expression "Let's check if it's broken." So Alexa sat down whilst Jack carefully looked at her nose, the fact that it didn't hurt as much as she would have expected if it was broken gave her some hope that it wasn't. Her suspicions were confirmed when Jack said:

"Ok it's not broken, but it'll bruise, normally I would give you some ice for it to bring down the swelling, but I doubt I'm gonna be able to get any"

"Understandable, I don't think they have freezers on deserted islands" She laughed. "Can I go now then, it's just I said I'd give Sayid a hand with the transceiver, and I should probably go find Sawyer and apologise"

Jack also caught her obvious distaste at having to talk to the arrogant cowboy never mind apologising to him. As he smiled slightly at her:

"Ok just be careful I don't want to see you back here with anymore injuries, and neither do I want to see Sawyer with another black eye, however much we might wish it" He joked with her. She smiled slightly but her mood was easily dimmed by the thought of apologising, she never did like saying sorry, and to tell the truth she still thought Sawyer deserved everything he got including a black eye.

She caught sight of the place Sawyer seemed to have set up camp. He looked to be sulking, but maybe that was just Alexa's point of view. She grudgingly walked over to him and didn't even bother saying hello, before she went straight down to business:

"Ok look Sawyer I'm sorry I punched you, whatever my personal feelings towards the situation I shouldn't have allowed my anger to control my decisions, so I apologise for my bad conduct" Moral duty done, Alexa turned ready to walk away but was stopped by Sawyer's voice:

"That was a lot of long words, you didn't need to waste them on me, just sorry woulda done fine" his disdainful tone didn't really help Alexa's mood

"Well I apologise if my advanced vocabulary is too much for you to cope with, but you're not the one with a nearly broken nose" she retorted quickly

"Oh come on you know that was an accident Lex, I was aiming for the Arab." His voice sounded sincere to Alexa, but she didn't really care.

"Pretty poor aim then and his name is Sayid" She replied icily

She walked off, ignoring anymore of Sawyer's comments and made her way over to the wreckage towards where Sayid was working, he was talking to the larger man who was giving out food last night; Alexa caught his name as being Hurley. Alexa didn't catch all of the conversation but she deduced that Sayid was telling Hurley that he fought in the Gulf War, but she distinctly heard "The Republican Guard". Storing that information for when she might need it, she coughed, basically announcing her presence to the two men who had beforehand been pretty much oblivious.

"Hey Alexa, you ready to work on this?" Sayid questioned as they both looked at the transceiver. Sayid set to work with Alexa assisting him, he sent her off on errands to look for things that could help to fix it, and luckily Alexa understood the terms he was using, as her basic knowledge was enough to get her by.

"Ok I think I have it" Sayid said pleased as he looked at Alexa, they both looked at the transceiver before Sayid tried to get it work they both clearly saw it was working, but there was no signal.

"We'd need to get to higher ground to get a better signal" Sayid said exasperatedly. Alexa raised an eyebrow at him before looking pointedly at the mountain behind them.

"Of course we climb the mountain we might get a better signal up there" Sayid said.

Alexa resisted the urge to sigh and say "About time", and Sayid rushed off to tell Kate his idea.

Alexa not wanting to be left behind grabbed the bag she used for hand luggage, and emptied anything she wouldn't need into her ordinary bag. She grabbed a couple of bottles of water knowing no one would think to bring them, along with some bandages her Swiss army knife, and a black package that was buried at the bottom of her luggage. Swinging her bag over her shoulder she headed to where the group were getting together to trek up the mountain. Kate looked over at Alexa as she arrived:

"Are you sure you should be coming especially with broken ribs an all?" Kate asked concerned. However concerned Kate was, it just annoyed Alexa, yes she could cope, if she couldn't she wouldn't have even volunteered, she knew her own limits. She didn't say any of this to Kate, instead just forcing out:

"No don't worry I'll be fine, my ribs hardly hurt anymore." Kate looked doubtful but didn't force the issue, as Shannon and the man with dark hair, she found out later was called Boone made their way over.

"We're coming too" Shannon announced. Alexa could hardly contain her laughter; this was the girl who had spent all of this morning on the beach in a bikini trying to get a tan. By the looks of things Boone had caught her smirk, as he gave her a rather hurt look. Alexa just shrugged it off, she couldn't help herself.

"Come on then lets go", Kate said addressing the group. Just as they were ready to head off Sawyer and Charlie ran up.

"You could have waited for us" Sawyer said indignantly.

"Like we knew you were coming" Alexa replied. Kate just rolled her eyes, before setting off into the jungle everyone else following behind.

The hike itself seemed pretty much uneventful, Charlie talked too much, Shannon complained too much, and Sawyer couldn't help but make some comment at everything. 'He's worse than me' Alexa thought to herself. Kate seemed to be just ignoring everybody as her and Sayid led the group further towards the mountain.

The atmosphere was pretty tense between Sayid, Sawyer and herself; and she didn't miss the supposedly "discreet" glances that Boone kept throwing her and then Sawyer. Finding herself close to the back Alexa couldn't help but overhear Shannon and Boone's conversation:

"Who does she think she is, being so bossy" At first Alexa thought they were talking about Kate it wasn't until Shannon's next comment that Alexa realised they were talking about her "She's always so sarcastic and negative, it's like she's going to get a prize for criticizing people." Alexa wondered if Shannon realised she could hear her, if she did it was a pretty underhanded way of telling Alexa she basically couldn't stand her. Alexa really wanted to comment on this to Shannon but stopped herself. Maybe Shannon was right, she could be pretty callous sometimes, that didn't mean Alexa wasn't hurt. So instead she just pushed ahead of Shannon and Boone, making her way to the front nearer Sawyer, Sayid and Kate.

The hike proceeded until it seemed that the jungle itself had changed, there was more open space here, and less trees. The tension between Sawyer and Sayid had just escalated, and was now getting to the point where Alexa was pretty sure they were going to get into another fight. Sawyer's voice rang through the jungle as he shouted at Sayid, everyone had stopped by now, but no-one was getting involved in their fight, Alexa held back; she wasn't going to get involved this time. But it seemed like they had bigger problems directly in front of where Sawyer was stood, there came a deep growl, and the trees began to shake.

"What do we do?" Charlie shouted clearly terrified

"Running would be a good idea!" Alexa shouted back. Everyone but Sawyer heeded her advice as a huge white mass erupted from within the trees. Sawyer pulled a gun and began shooting wildly at it; it dropped dead at his feet just before it reached him. Everyone stopped their running and turned to Sawyer and the dead beast at his feet.

"But that is impossible" Sayid exclaimed

"That can't be right" Kate said at the same time.

"Well the evidence is right in front of you" Sawyer said nudging the thing with its toe.

The grouped were all baffled as they crowded round the dead bear; the dead polar bear.

It seemed that most of the group weren't dwelling on the polar bear, instead choosing to question on Sawyer on how he got the gun in the first place. Alexa, however, wasn't listening; she was still astounded by their earlier visitor. It just wasn't possible; a polar bear on a tropical Island. It was nowhere near cold enough for them. The climate, the food, the geographical position everything was against this being real, but the evidence was in front her, and Alexa could come up with no explanation.

Alexa turned her attention back to the group conversation it seemed that Sawyer had got the gun off some dead Marshall from the plane, this caused more questions as that meant there was a criminal on the plane. Of course this set off more arguments as Sawyer accused Sayid, Kate once again took hold of the situation. 'Is there anything she can't do?' Alexa asked herself.

"Ok Guys I'm going to split the gun up" She quickly took the cartridge from the gun, passing it back to Sawyer, and then gave the cartridge to Sayid. Alexa understood what she had done; these were two who were least likely to be able to get the other part of the gun from the other. Shannon apparently didn't understand, as she questioned Kate on her decision. But Alexa had had enough:

"For God's sake Shannon shut up will you, just because you don't have enough intelligence to work out why Kate made a concise logical decision doesn't mean that she is wrong." Alexa instantly regretted what she had just said; she didn't need to alienate herself with this girl anymore than she already had; now Shannon rounded on Alexa.

"Well so sorry if were not good enough for you, you're always looking down your nose at people you know that? Like your better than them, when you really really aren't! You have absolutely no qualities that make you better than anyone else here so stop acting so superior!" Shannon shouted at Alexa. Part of Alexa knew Shannon was right, but part of her was too annoyed to care so instead she just shouted straight back at Shannon:

"I don't act superior, just because I'm the only person with any real perspective round here, I'm the only one who sees what's likely to happen. You know what Shannon you can just sit on the beach and get a bloody tan and wait to be rescued while the rest of us live in the real world, where we are on a desert island with god knows what ready to kill us, so don't coming running to me when you realise I'm right. Just because you choose to ignore what is right in front of you, and act like a spoiled five year old you can't expect the rest of us to put up with your brainless attitude!" Part of Alexa had been screaming at her to shut up ;that she was being unfair and down right nasty, but she couldn't stop herself, she watched horrified as Shannon's eyes filled with tears before she dashed off into the surrounding jungle.

"Oh bloody hell, I can't do anything right can I?" It was a rhetorical question and everyone knew it, Alexa already felt terrible for saying what she just had to Shannon she had been in the wrong and she knew it. Shannon was right in what she said Alexa had been looking down her nose at people, and Alexa knew that Shannon was right when she talked about her negativity. There was a chance that they were going to get rescued and all she was doing was destroying people's morale, but Alexa's pride had got in the way once again and hurting someone with it.

She turned to look at the people round her, Boone had tried to go after Shannon after getting over the shock but Kate had stopped him saying it was bad enough that one of them is out there alone, she didn't need another one, plus it was likely Shannon had made for high ground like they planned so they would catch up to her. Boone looked furious at Kate but realised she was right and took his anger out on Alexa instead.

"You don't know what could happen to her out there! You were right about one thing, we don't know what monsters there are out there, and now she's out there all alone. You couldn't just keep your mouth shut could you? You had to go and hurt her? Well I hope you're happy, at least you got one up on her now; that's what you wanted; isn't it? To feel superior? You know what? Shannon was right you really are a bitch." Once Boone was done Alexa could see how worried he was for Shannon's safety, but his words hit close to her heart. And she was angry with herself "They're right both Shannon and Boone, they're both right, how many people are you going to hurt before you admit when your wrong. How many times do you have to make this mistake before you learn, you really are a cold heartless bitch." The little pride and self-dignity Alexa had left stopped her from breaking down and crying right there. Sayid wouldn't meet her eyes and even Sawyer was avoiding conversation with her. "I'm so stupid, why can't I do something right for once" Alexa asked herself.

Soon after Boone's revelation, Kate got the group moving again, hoping they would catch up to Shannon before she got hurt, they headed for high ground again. Alexa found herself wallowing in self-misery and hatred; no one was talking to her or keeping eye contact although she saw Boone's disgusted looks in her direction. She just let them wash over her, nothing could hurt her more than what he had already said, and it was so hard to admit when she was wrong, especially to herself. They arrived near the top of the mountain, and to Alexa's relief Shannon was there; face turned out watching the view. She didn't approach not wanting to make things worse, but Boone ran up and hugged her, which she returned, the feelings of guilt quickly returned, but Alexa pushed them down, now was not the time they had a job to do.

"I have it!" Sayid exclaimed "I have a signal." Alexa rushed over to where he was stood only to see the frown on his face.

"What's wrong?" She questioned quickly.

"I can't transmit anything." Before Alexa could even asked why he answered the question "There is something already transmitting"

Alexa leaned closer so she could hear for herself; a woman's voice could be heard on the transceiver. But Alexa couldn't understand what was being said, the woman was speaking in French, Alexa neither spoke nor understood any French, but she caught the clear panic and distress in the woman's voice; this could not be good.

"Can anyone speak French?" Sayid asked. Everyone shook there head except for Boone who was looking at Shannon, she seemed to cave under his look.

"I can" she answered timidly "But it's not perfect." It didn't matter if it was perfect if she could understand what this woman was saying maybe they would get a deeper understanding of what was going on here. Shannon listened to the message a couple of times before turning to the others with a terrified look on her face:

"What did it say Shan?" Boone prompted.

"She said 'Help! Please help! They're dead! They're all dead! It killed them all!"

Everyone stared at Shannon in horror except for Alexa who was staring at the transceiver with confusion, a looked of clarity passed over her face, but was quickly replaced by dismay.

"Guys, this is bad…" she started but Sawyer interrupted

"I could of told you that Lex I thought you were smart" he mocked. Alexa wanted to say something back to Sawyer but she had done enough damage whether she thought Sawyer could cope or not, and plus what she had to say was more important.

"That's not all Sawyer, that transceiver…that message it's been playing for 16 years"


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