Chapter 8! It's the one most of you have been waiting for! It might be long, or it could be short. Dunno, gonna have to wait and see!

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xXx Tiana

She was here was all that Ana Lucia could think of. While on the force in LA, she had heard of Kate a lot of times. Sightings and such. And then how she skipped town, then country. But now, she was here.

Ana Lucia was still in the hatch. She was sitting in the same room as Sawyer, and was watching over him just as Jack had told her to. He hadn't changed in the last 5 hours that she had been there. At that moment, she didn't know what she was going to do. But now she did. I have to tell Jack, she thought first, and the rest of the camp.

She was still going through all of her options, and how she was going to do her final plan, when the hatch door opened. In came five more people. She stood up and walked into the main room to see who it was.

For a moment there was enough tension is the room that it could have been cut with a knife. Michael stood there, apparently abruptly have stopped mid-conversation with Locke, who was shouldering a gun. They were both giving each other a dark stare when Locke broke the silence.

'Have you entered the numbers?'

Ana Lucia turned to face Locke. For the first time she noticed the three other people who had entered the hatch. Behind Locke stood Charlie, who was looking as if he was rudely awoken from his sleep. But it was the people behind them who surprised her the most.

Kate had entered first, followed by Jack a few seconds later. He had grabbed her waist and whispered something to her, which made her sigh. She had then turned to face Ana Lucia, and had quickly diverted her eyes, but couldn't move because of the men in front of her. What did he say?

'Ana? Did you enter the numbers?' Locked repeated, with an edge in her voice.

'Um… yeah. No. Hurley did. He left after the last time.'

'Ok.' was all that he had said. Michael walked away into another place of the hatch. Probably where the guns are she though as Locke followed him.

She was now left alone with Kate and Jack. And if she thought the tension before was tight, then this was impossible to describe. Jack hadn't let go of Kate, and showed no signs of doing so. Ana Lucia was annoyed by this. It's because she's a murderer was what she told herself.

It seemed like hours before the silence was once again broken. 'How's Sawyer?' Jack had been the first to ask.

Ana Lucia had to tear her eyes away from Kate. How can she pretend to be like this?

'He hasn't changed.'

'Ok. That's good.' The silence fell before them once again. Ana Lucia was wondering when the right time to tell Jack would have been, or to confront Kate. She would have done it now, but Kate had moved when she was talking to Jack.

As she watched her back disappear into the other room, the room before the one where Sawyer was, all Ana Lucia could think of was that it was then that she should have told Jack.

But Jack had turned around before she had got the chance to say anything. He was heading into the space with the medical supplies. 'Um, Jack. Could I talk to you?'

Jack whipped his head back at her, and looked torn into two. On the one hand he really wanted to help her, but on the other hand…

'Is it important? Cos I really haveta get to Sawyer.'

Ana Lucia was shocked for a moment. Did he really mean that? Or was it an excuse? She couldn't tell. Not wanting to make it a big deal to Jack, she sighed.

'Nah, it can wait.'

''k. If you're sure.' He headed out of the supplies room and past Ana Lucia to where Sawyer was. She stood there for a couple of minutes wondering what to do. Charlie had disappeared out of the hatch as quickly as he had appeared. She sighed once more.

Not knowing what to do, she decided to see how Sawyer was. Without even thinking, she was in the room before she remembered that Kate was there. Great!

Neither Kate nor Jack had noticed that Ana Lucia had entered the room. Instead they continued to check on Sawyer. Jack was kneeling next to him on the floor, while Kate sat at the foot of the bed. Ana Lucia noticed how her face was filled with concern. It disgusted Ana Lucia to see how she could pretend to be concern when she had done this.

All of a sudden, Sawyer had turned his head and groaned. Jack's head had snapped right up to see him, while Kate leaned in closer to him. Ana Lucia was shocked to see what was happening that she kept her eyes on Sawyer.

'Sawyer? Can you hear me?' Jack was now asking.

Sawyer didn't reply. Instead he continued to groan.

'What's going on J - ' Kate had started to ask when she was interrupted by Sawyer.

'What did she do to me?' he had murmured. Kate's voice was way louder than his, but Sawyer's words had made a larger impact to everyone in the room. Kate had raised up a hand to her mouth, and looked so shocked that she couldn't move.

Jack was now sitting, not entirely happy with what he had said, but was trying to still understand what he meant.

Ana Lucia, however, know exactly what he had meant as he had proved what she had suspected about Kate to be true.

'What did - ' this time, Sawyer was interrupted as he began to shake.

'Oh God.' Jack had said before he had grabbed Sawyer's shoulders.

While he was occupied with Sawyer, Kate had started to back away. She was heading out of the room when Jack had said.

'Kate? Kate. Hey, he didn't mean it.'

Kate just shook her head and turned around and, once again, ran out of the hatch.

Jack sighed as he saw her go, but had to quickly turn his attention to Sawyer.

'Pass me those.' He said to Ana Lucia, nodding to the table that lay nearby, which had a syringe and an injection bottle with it.

Ana Lucia had to snap back to reality when she heard Jack's voice. She wanted to go after Kate. She was so angry at her that she wanted to … tell everyone. She's dangerous.

Ana Lucia grabbed the stuff off of the table and passed it to Jack. Jack quickly filled the syringe up, and was about to inject Sawyer, when she turned to leave the room, and the hatch.

'Where you going?' the doctor had asked her. He voice wasn't like always. It was not as calm or smooth.

Ana Lucia had to think quickly. 'Um… I can't stand needles.' She said and quickly walked out of the room so that he couldn't stop her. She ran past the main room, where Locke and Michael were now sitting, with Michael handling a small gun.

As Ana Lucia continued to ran though the jungle in the dawn of day, she quickly remembered about the gun that she had made Michael get for her when they wanted her to leave with them to go to the camp.

She slowed down for a moment while she dug around in her backpack to find the gun. She had usually kept it in the back of her jeans, but she was wearing a short top that would have revealed it, and she didn't want people to know she had it.

As soon as she had found it, she sped up again. She was heading for the caves, even though she knew that Kate lived on the beach. I know she's there.

In five minutes, give or take, she was near the clearing for the caves. Before she entered the caves, she took a deep breath. If I'm gonna do this, then I must do it right.

After a minute, she had decided that she had calmed down enough. She hid her gun under her top, in the front, so that, incase she wasn't there, she wouldn't cause a riot.

Ana Lucia looked around as soon as she had entered the area. Mostly everyone was sleeping, with the exception of the dog. She calmly walked around, to the other side of the caves, near to the spring. There, she could see a figure kneeling on the floor over the waterfall washing her hands profusely in the water.

It's her.

Ana Lucia crept up behind her. She had drawn up her gun and had pointed it straight in front of her towards Kate, just like she use to do when she was in LA.

'You won't be able to wash the guilt off of your hands, you know.' She whispered into the shadow in front of her.

Kate had whipped right around and stood up. Her face was overcome with loads of different emotions, including fear and confusion. She stood shocked to her bones, just as she had when Sawyer had spoken.

Kate now looked at the gun in her opponent's hands.

'W-what?'

Ana Lucia smirked. How could she stand there pretending to be so innocent!

'I know who you are, Austin.'

Kate's eyes grew wide, as she realised what exactly she had meant, and why all this time, they had hated each other before even getting to know each other.

And now she was in big trouble.

So it turned out to be a long one!

Sooo? What do you think?

How long can you wait until the next chapter?

Lolz!

xXx Tiana