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xXx Tiana

'Ow. It's a bit tight.' When she got no response, or no acknowledgment from the doctor, Kate tried again. 'Jack! Loosen it!'

'What?' Jack was startled out of his thoughts. He looked up at Kate and realised what she was saying. 'Sorry.' He began to unwind the bandage from her hand.

'It's 'k. What is it?' Kate now asked, seeing the worried look on his face. They were still in the hatch, and only two minutes or so had passed since Sawyer and Ana Lucia had left.

'Hm? Oh nothing. How's that?' Jack was eager to change the subject. After what had happened, he didn't want to think about the possibility of splitting the camps up again.

'Yeah that's fine.' Kate kept looking at him as he went to clear up the room and wash his hands. As he came back in, Kate opened her mouth to say something. She knew he was hiding something, anyone would've been able to tell, but she wasn't sure if that was a good idea.

Jack saw Kate open her mouth, and had sighed of relief when he saw her shut it again. Her face was pale, and she looked like she had been to hell and back, even though she had had a shower a couple of hours ago. She probably has.

'Hey. You don't look so great. Maybe you should sleep a bit.' He said, not really asking her. He was leaning by the wall, looking as Kate fidgeted with her bandage unconsciously

Kate looked up at the sound of his voice. She did feel knackered, but she knew that as soon as she did go to sleep, Jack would be out of here, probably to the caves, and probably to have a word to Locke. But she knew that there would be nothing that she could do to stop him. He was as stubborn as she was.

'Yeah. You know what, I will. Think it's ok if I stay in the hatch? I don't really feel like…' Kate trailed off. It was obvious what she meant.

'Yeah sure.' He moved towards Kate and held out a hand. Kate grabbed it and stood up, and Jack led her out of the room and into the 'bedroom'. Just as they entered the room, before the door could even close; a voice yelled his name out. It sounded quite desperate, but not worrying.

'Go. She sounds like she needs you.' Kate whispered as she moved back to go to the bed.

'What about me? I need you.' Jack murmured, pretending, which didn't come hard, to be upset.

'I'll be here later. I'm going to sleep anyways.' Kate smiled and kissed Jack before letting go of his hand and walked over to the bed. Jack left the room, and closed the door quietly.

In the main room were Sayid, Charlie and the women whose voice had called for him, Claire. He noticed that Aaron wasn't with them, and a part of him relaxed, knowing that the baby was ok.

'Jack. What's wrong?' Claire had changed her tone after she said his name. She was now worried.

'Nothing. What's going on? And where's Aaron?' Jack felt a bit annoyed that everyone knew that there was something going on with him, something not good.

'He's with Sun. Um… the thing is, why we came here I mean - '

Claire cut Charlie off as he was taking too long to explain, and she knew that Jack was going to lose it as soon as he knew. The quicker the better she thought.

'Locke's been going around asking questions. He's not making sense. He's talking about-'

'Splitting the camp? Yeah we know.' Sayid now broke Claire off.

'It's not going to happen, is it Jack?' Claire was asking Jack full on. She was worried and Charlie wasn't doing his best to help the situation; he looked worse than Claire.

Jack was furious by the fact that Locke had started to ask people when he thought that they had specifically agreed on the fact that they wouldn't until later. He started making his way out of the hatch. If he wasn't sure about it before, he was now. He was going to go after Locke now and find out more. And stop it! He added to himself.

'Not if I can help it!' he said angrily. His words hung in the air long after he had left the hatch.

Jack walked for 10 minutes, trying to calm himself down. Telling himself that being worked up won't help the situation at all. Locke doesn't help the situation for God's sake!

He finally got to the caves, unfortunately no calmer than he was the last time he was there; earlier that day when Ana Lucia had confronted Kate.

Jack continued looking around the caves are. People avoided asking him anything just by seeing the look on his face. At last, Jack spotted Locke entering he jungle on the path to the beach.

'John!' he yelled. Locke turned around. His face had a small smile upon it. 'What the hell's going on?'

'I was hoping to ask you the same thing. You look angry.' Locke replied calmly. That just pushed Jack even more.

'I thought we agreed on not letting anyone know about your idea until later.'

'No. I think you wanted that. I merely said nothing. You never asked me, Jack.' Locke's voice was like always, full of wisdom, yet annoying.

'Yeah, that wasn't the only thing that I forgot to ask you.' Jack murmured. He wasn't sure whether he was going to bring up Sawyer, but Locke almost forced it out of him.

'What's that supposed to mean, Jack?'

Jack looked up at the older man. For the second time that day, the confrontation was not in Jack's control.

'I heard what you were talking to Libby about earlier. Why do you want Sawyer for? How is he going to be sable to help you? He's barely alive, even though he pretends to be.' Jack spat out in disgust, remembering how bad Sawyer was the previous day, but now how he was acting. I shouldn't have helped him! He can die for all that care right now!

Locke thought for a moment. But he made up his mind fairly quickly, thinking that Jack'll find out soon anyways.

'I'm not going to lie to you, Jack.' Jack snorted, thinking how Locke was contradicting himself. 'Sawyer has a stash. A stash that will be important to us when the camp is split.'

'If the camp is split. So it's a competition is it?' Jack was getting angrier and angrier. When Locke didn't reply, he carried on.

'If the camp gets split, then one camp'll have more and the other less? How is that fair?'

'No. You guys who stay here will have better resources. They'll have a doctor, and all the remaining things, including the hatch.' This was news to Jack. He always assumed that Locke would at the hatch, considering it was his idea to keep on pushing the button.

'Anyways, what makes you think that Sawyer'll give it up to you guys to use? The last time he gave anything to anyone was when Boone was dying. And look how that turned out.' Jack didn't really blame Sawyer for Boone's death. But he didn't blame himself, and Locke.

'Well, we'll have to see when it happens, won't we. The island has a funny way of getting to people. It changes them, and I think it's about to change Sawyer, don't you?'

Jack just stared in disbelieve. Sawyer? Change? HA! But then again, he was siding with Ana Lucia. Maybe he is changing.

'If it happens.' Jack stressed again.

'You seem quite focused on the fact that it won't happen Jack. But you should stop trying to stop it, and think about how you're going to handle it after it does happen.'

Jack was perplexed. He couldn't get over the fact that Locke was so certain that the campo was going to be split. He could only come out with four words.

'Over… my…dead… body.' He hissed.

Locke just shrugged.

'If that's what it'll take, then the island will make it happen, Jack. Nothing can stand in the way of fate. Especially on this island. Think about that.' With that, Locke continued to walk towards the beach, leaving Jack standing in the jungle, on the path. There were a lot of things going though his mind, including the fact that he should probably stop Locke before he spreads the word even more.

But the main one was what Locke had said. Did he just threaten me? To kill me? Jack stood where he was until he heard someone else coming. Even then, he didn't move.

For once since the crash, Jack Shepard didn't know what to do.

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