Yep – chapter 5! I'm spoiling ya! Hope you enjoyed the teaser! But here's the full chapter!
Anyways – thankz for all of the reviews especially those who multireview – you make me write more and quicker! Lolz.
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Orlando-crazy + Freckles-101 – here you go! Read on and find out!
xXx Tiana
(Btw – I'm not a doctor (obviously I'm 16!) so whatever I have said I just know so I apologise for any mistakes or anything that makes you go 'what? Well that ain't right!' coz it probably isn't!)
'I still don't understand it. This hatch is here for a reason. We are here for a reason. We blew open the hatch for a reason. Why can't you accept that?'
Jack simply shook his head. He had had this conversation many times with Locke, and each time it was the exact same. 'I'm a man of science, you're a man of faith John' he replied.
Jack had found Locke watching the film once more. He assumed he was trying to find out what it meant, by with no luck, just like every other time he had watched it. He was about to ask him why it bothered him so much when he heard Kate yelling.
'JACK!'
As soon as he had heard her voice, Jack started towards her. His first thought was that Ana Lucia had done something. But then he realised how stupid that was. That's what happens when you keep secrets. Kate's voice was too urgent for that.
'Jack!' Kate had yelled again just as he had entered the now-empty main room of the hatch.
'Yeah.' he simply responded, as he rushed into the next room when Kate's voice was coming from. She sounded so urgent that Jack was running now.
As soon as he entered the room, the first thing that he saw was Kate kneeling beside Sawyer on the couch. Sawyer. He finally noticed what was happening. Kate was trying to get a grip onto Sawyer, but he was shaking too much for her. She just sat helplessly with her hands on his chest.
Jack quickly rushed over to her and, too, kneeled next to her, facing Sawyer. 'What happened?' he asked as he checked Sawyer's hand for his pulse, but it was pulled out of his hand too quickly.
'I, uh, I don't know. I w-was just seeing h-how he was and then he started to…' she managed to stammer out. 'What's going on Jack?' she said with concern as she took her eyes off of Sawyer and looked at Jack.
'He's gone into shock. Hurley. Go to the medical supplies in the next room and get me some vasoactive drug – they'll be in a bottle with a cap, um, little blue pills. I saw them before. Hurley! GO!' he added when he saw that he wasn't moving. Déjà vu.
Jack thought about the time Hurley had fainted when he was helping the Marshall.
Hurley had finally moved and exited the room. Jack quickly noticed that Ana Lucia was standing in the centre of the room, while Locke was nowhere to be seen.
Jack continued to check Sawyer. He had finally stopped shaking. It was only a matter of time until he started again, unless he gets the medical help he needs. He was kicking himself for not realising earlier that this might have happened.
'What was he like when you came in?' he asked Kate.
'He was fine. He was sleeping here. R-right here.' She said pointing to the couch.
'Why did he go into a shock?' she now asked. Jack heard a hint of another emotion in her voice, apart from concern. But he couldn't put his finger on it. And right now he wasn't too bothered about it.
'He's in a septic shock. Could be from the injury, or a lot of other things. If he fell into the water after being shot, the wound wasn't kept clean.' Jack stopped as he realised what he had just said. He quickly got Sawyer's shirt off and checked his wound. It seemed ok. There's no infection, which is weird.
'W-what is it?' Kate asked as she saw Jack's face changed. He was thinking hard. She knew it wasn't good news.
'His wound is fine.' Jack was now checking Sawyer's temperature. 'Temperature hasn't changed much either.' His eyebrows had furrowed in concentration, trying to think what was exactly wrong with Sawyer.
'What does that mean?' Jack was shocked out of his train of thoughts by the voice. It was, for the first time, Ana Lucia who was now paying attention to her surroundings.
Jack saw as Kate's eyes shot Ana Lucia a look of surprise, and disgust, before she turned to the doorway, where Hurley had just arrived.
'Dude. Are these them? They were the only ones that fit your description.' He said, slightly out of breath.
Jack nodded. 'Yeah, that's them.' He reached out for the pills. 'What it means,' he started, 'is that it's not his injury that caused the shock. It contributed, yeah, but something else played the major part of it.'
'What's that then?' Ana Lucia was now interested. Kate was here before Sawyer had the shock. Jack was giving her a look. One that showed a lack of trust.
'Well. It could have been anything.' Jack informed. 'What did he do before he came here? Was he ok?'
'He was fine.' Ana Lucia simply replied.
'Did he do anything different? Behave differently?'
'No. He was an asshole like always.' She said with no emotion, as if it didn't bother her that the person she was talking about was laying in front of her, in shock. She saw that Kate was giving her a dirty look. Did I just rat her out? Ana Lucia thought. The thought gave her great pleasure. She's wrong. I know she is. And I'll find out why. She promised herself, angry that she hadn't found out yet.
'Dude. The pills?' Hurley asked Jack, who was still checking Sawyer over.
'Yeah.' Jack thought back to the last time, when he couldn't get him to swallow the pills, even though he was half-awake. It took Kate to get him to have them.
He opened the pills and figured that, even if she did try, Sawyer wouldn't have the pills anyway. So Jack took out his pocketknife and cut the pills. 'Kate, pass me the water bottle from behind you please.'
When she didn't respond to what Jack had said, he reached over and grabbed it himself. With doing this, he had brushed his cheek against hers, to which Kate had closed her eyes. I know what happened, she thought. If it was only that easy to tell him. She would have to tell them all out loud.
Jack had seen Kate's reaction. As he cut the pills on the table in the middle of the table, which was more or less next to him, he whispered, 'Kate? What is it?'
Kate had opened her mouth to speak, but she shut it again. I have to tell him! It could be Sawyer's life on the line. I can't kill someone else. Not now. She looked around the room. Ana Lucia was staring right at her, not even turning her gaze when Kate saw her. Hurley was standing at Sawyer's feet, also looking towards Kate, but she assumed he was looking at Jack too. Jack, however, was looking at her now, with the water and the pills dissolving as he swished the water around. His eyes had concern for her.
'I know w-what happened' she whispered so that only Jack could hear.
Jack's eyes had a quick change. It changed to confusion for a second, before turning to surprise. 'What?' he had forgotten all about the water and pill mixture in his hands, even though he knew it was essential that Sawyer got it as soon as possible.
Jack's exclamation was a whisper, but was still louder than Kate's, and it caught the attention of Ana Lucia and Hurley. Kate was no longer looking at Jack, but at her hands. For the first time, he realised that she was clutching onto something he hadn't seen it when she was holding onto Sawyer previously, but now it was hard to miss. It looked like an MP3 player.
'Kate? What is it?'
'When I came in, he was here, he was fine.' She could feel the tears once again behind her eyes; she didn't want to break down. Not now, not in front of her. 'He had th-this in his hand. I just w-wanted to see what was on it. So I-I took it. He wouldn't let go, but then I said s-something and he let it loose. And then h-he went into a sh-shock.' she managed to stammer out.
Jack could see the tears in her eyes. They were threatening to spill out. It took a couple of minutes before Jack's mind could digest the information that he had received. At last, he understood what Kate meant. Jack wanted so much to comfort her and to tell her that it was an accident, but he was not in the right position to. Kate wouldn't want that either.
''k. So is that all that happened? He asked instead, hoping that his voice was as comforting that he wanted it to be. Kate just nodded. She hadn't yet looked up at him.
Jack snapped back to reality and stood up to give Sawyer his medicine. Before he could even think about how on Earth he was going to coax him into having it, Hurley said;
'So, what does that mean?'
Jack stopped in his tracks. How am I going to say this without hurting Kate? He knew what had happened, and that Kate was partially to blame for it, but he also knew that it was an accident and that it couldn't have been prevented.
Jack glanced at Kate first, who was still fiddling with the MP3 playing, probably trying to keep the tears back. He then looked at Ana Lucia, who was standing with a look of interest on her face. Jack sighed.
'What it means, is that,' he took a breath, 'that the MP3 player must have given out an electric discharge. Usually, that would just feel like static electricity. But Sawyer's body is too weak to pass it though, so it intervened with his heart, causing a shock.'
'But how would that have happened?' Ana Lucia now asked. She wanted to get to the bottom of this.
Jack turned to look at her properly. He also noticed that Kate had gotten up and had started towards the door, but stopped at the sound of Ana Lucia's voice.
'What?'
'How did the player give out a discharge?'
'Um. Well, when Sawyer held onto it, and Kate got it out, the skin and the rubber on the player must have caused a shock.' Ana Lucia's face had a clear understanding on it. So she caused the shock. She meant to it, she must have.
Jack was now looking at Kate. 'It was an accident Kate. You couldn't have known.' He tried to explain, but Kate just stared straight through him. 'Here.' He said. 'I need Sawyer to have this. Do you think you could possibly get him to drink it?' he asked. He didn't want to exclude her, or let her run, like he knew she would if she got the chance. She can't say no. She wouldn't.
Ana Lucia looked as Kate headed back to Jack and took the bottle of water with the medicine form his outstretched hand. She knelt down beside Sawyer by his head, and murmured something that no one could possibly hear. Jack stared at Kate for a while, before he turned to see Sawyer, and to see how much of the medicine he should have. Hurley simply stood at the end of the couch.
As she looked at Kate, Ana Lucia's mind was in full work mode. Who is she? She had had an inkling, but it had gone as soon as it had came.
Kate had finished with Sawyer and had handed Jack the bottle. She stood back as Jack started explaining something to Hurley. Ana Lucia couldn't hear anything; her mind was too occupied, trying to trigger that inkling again.
As Jack and Hurley lifted Sawyer to take him into the next room, probably to the bed, she thought, Kate snuck out of the hatch. On the way she had to pass Ana Lucia, and she had stared straight into her eyes.
Ana Lucia stared after Kate once again as she exited the hatch. But this time she knew. She knew who Kate was. Who she is. She was Kate Austin. Fugitive. Murderer. Here.
Uh oh! What's Ana Lucia going to do now? Will go back into her cop mode? Or will she be civilised? And what will happen to Sawyer? Or the rest of the camp when they find out a lot of secrets?
Well you'll have to wait until the next chapter! Lolz until then, R&R PLEASE!
xXx Tiana
(p.s. What is Kate's last name? Is it Austin or Ryan? And have is spelt it right? I thought it was Austin, but then my mates goes its Ryan and now I'm confused:( and I don't like being confused…)
