Here it is! I told you I'd update quicker didn't I?

Please review – I miss them SO much!

This is for all Jaters! And some Skaters!

BTW – I was listening to Dangerously in Love while writing this – so it might be a bit soppy! Lolz!

xXx Tiana

All three of them held their breath, unable to take in the vision before them. The other man held onto Kate's arms behind her back, and had an evil grin upon his face.

As they all stood in complete silence, Jack and Sawyer were amazed to see how calm Kate was. Not a sound or a movement came from her as he held onto her, pulling her close to him.

'Let's try again, shall we? Go, or face the consequences.' As he said the last bit, Zeke, as he was now known as, raised a gun to Kate's throat.

Kate felt the sting of cold metal placed next to her throat. All the fear that she had washed away before had come flooding back. Doing her best to stay calm, she could feel herself shaking.

The rest of them all stood, dumbstruck, overcome by anger, and fright, at how the sight had just worsened beyond their dreams. Jack couldn't believe that it was Kate that was standing there. Minutes passed as Jack just stared at the figure before him.

'So. What's it gonna be then?' Zeke asked again, shoving the gun further into Kate's throat. Kate inadvertently gasped, which cause Zeke to pull onto her hands. The roped burnt harder and she couldn't stop the tear from escaping. Luckily for her, the blindfold around her eyes soaked it up.

'Leave her alone!' Sawyer shouted suddenly, no longer able to keep his emotions in check. Jack was snapped out of his trance, and looked round at Sawyer, who had his gun pointed right at Zeke's head, between the eyes.

Zeke simply smirked. He looked from one man to another, and then to Locke, realising how he didn't look unnerved about he situation as the other two did.

'Looks like I've hit a nerve.' Zeke continued to smirk as he saw in Jack's eyes that he was trying to figure out how they were in the situation they were in.

'Trust's a funny thing, you know, Jack.' At the sound of his name, Jack snapped his head back straight at Zeke, and tried to focus on his words instead of his actions.

'What did you say?' Jack was genuinely confused. It was almost as if Zeke had read his mind.

'Curiosity. It's what has led you to this place, and what has led her here too. It's what's keeping you here right now, and maybe what will lead to her death. But everyone has curiosity. If we ignore it, it would eat us up from the inside. But if you go with it,' Zeke paused as the others awaited his words to complete his so-called speech, 'who knows what you could get yourself, and others, into. Huh, Kate?' he finished, turning to face her.

As he said the last words, Jack felt a sudden urge to go over and punch the guy. He has no right to say her name! In his anger, he hadn't seen Zeke's sudden movement. He had removed the gun from Kate's throat and brought it up behind her head. For a second, when he had seen what was happening, Jack thought that he was going to keep it there. But he started to untie the blindfold around her eyes. Finally, he let the blindfold go, and replaced his hand with the gun at Kate's throat.

The look in Kate's eyes was a mixture of anger, fear and worry. They kept n darting from Jack to Sawyer and then into the woods on the right. Her eyes stayed three for a second before turning back onto Sawyer, and then finally Jack. Jack's heart broke when he saw the look in her eyes.

The sudden change in light caused Kate to blink a couple of times before she could see clearly. The first thing that she did see properly was Anya, hidden in the woods to her right. Looking at her, she saw the fear in her eyes. She then realised what the sight must seem like to her. She tried to give her a reassuring look, but was pretty sure that she had failed in doing so.

When she finally turned back again, she did it as quickly as her body would let her, which wasn't that fast at all. Once her eyes were laid upon Jack, Kate felt a whole rush of strength upon her. But she had heard what Zeke had said about her, and she knew that Jack thought that she had betrayed him.

'So. What will it be?' he repeated. 'Leave, and save your pretty girlfriend, or stay and sacrifice her life, and probably yours too?' Throughout the whole sentence, the whole time they were there even, Kate had realised how he had failed to mention Anya once. In fact, he had changed the whole situation so that it was her fault she was there.

Jack stood thinking. He knew what he was going to do. There wasn't even a question or a doubt in his mind. But it was the fact that it seemed too simple, too easy. Jack noticed that Locke had realised the same, as he came closer to Jack other side.

'Something's not adding up.' He whispered to Jack, talking for the first time in a while. Jack simply nodded. He noticed that Sawyer was looking over at them too. The look on his face would have terrified Jack if Sawyer weren't on his side. It was full of anger, hatred and he looked as if he was ready to shoot his enemy at any second. In fact, he probably would've if he didn't have Kate standing in front of him.

'Well? Time's aticking. I'm a very busy man.' He added, shoving the gun even harder into Kate's throat. Kate involuntarily jumped, and closed her eyes.

'Oh. We can all see that!' Sawyer replied, sarcastically. Zeke didn't take this very kindly and twisted Kate's arm even more. She scrunched her eyes in pain and unfortunately, another tear fell out, which could no longer be soaked up anything.

As the tear fell, Jack was no longer able to hesitate, or to go on trying to buy time.

'Ok. We'll go. Just give us Kate.' Jack said finally giving in.

Zeke smirked an all-knowing smirk. But he wasn't going to let them go all that easily.

'Good. I knew you would finally come to your senses. Took some persuasion, but never mind. Funny how things can change your mind in a second.' Zeke was now looking directly at Sawyer.

'Speaking off which, drop your guns. Pass over here and then you can go.'

'What! You never said anything about the guns!' Sawyer yelled. He was at the end of his tether. If it were up to him, he would have long taken Kate and have been back to kill them al already.

'Like I said, things can change your mind. I'm giving you your girl; you give me your guns. Let's call it a trade.'

'But we're leaving off of your side of the island!' Sawyer yelled once again. He wasn't about to walk unarmed through the jungle after this.

'Yes, you are. Now shall we trade?' Zeke replied looking back at Jack. Jack simply nodded his head, being first to throw down his gun. Locke stepped up after him and threw down the two guns he was carrying.

'Now you too, Cowboy!' Zeke snapped as Sawyer hesitated. 'Unless you wanna see this one beheaded.' Sawyer scowled at him and threw down his gun, not once taking his eyes off of him.

Throughout all of this, Kate simply stood looking at what was going on. When Jack had agreed to go back, Kate's fear of dying was gone, instead the other fear inside of her took over. The fear for Anya. She looked into the woods once again, and she could see Anya, pale in the moonlight, staring right at her. She couldn't see fear in the young girl's eyes, but sheer determination, and maybe even a bit of courage.

This just hurt Kate even more. She knew that Anya didn't want her to come back for her, but there was no way that that was going to happen. Once people knew she was missing, they would wonder. And as soon as they knew the truth, they'll want her back.

The Others who were standing behind and to each side of Anya kept a tight hold onto her, and had a gun pointed into her back. Anya knew that Kate couldn't see the gun, and was grateful; she didn't need to know that. She was also grateful that the pain in her leg was strong enough to forget the fear she was in so that Kate couldn't see it.

No matter what she had said, or what They had said, Anya knew that she hadn't seen the last of Kate or anyone else, she knew that they would come back for her, and she knew that it would do more harm than good. Anya was dying, and if They killed her before the cancer did, it was ok by her. But if others got killed because of her, that wasn't ok.

Zeke clicked his fingers and another man came from behind him and took the guns. As soon as he disappeared, Zeke gave his last warning.

'Remember this deal. You go and never come back. You come back, and we might not be so reasonable. Remember what I said Kate.' With that, he threw Kate to Jack and walked off.

Jack quickly grabbed Kate and pulled her to him. For a moment before he never thought he would even be able to do so again. As she buried her face into his shoulder for a minute, Jack undid the rope and tape around her wrists. He could feel blood coming out of it, but before he could do anything, Kate had back off and stood up straight, pulling the tape off of her mouth.

The way that Kate had suddenly pulled the tape off, and the sudden change of mood, caused all three of them to realise that something was going on.

Kate turned around and saw that everyone had gone, and the only sign of them that were left were the torches still alight. She knew she was too late, but she had to try. Ignoring Jack and Sawyer's concerned yells for her to come back, Kate ran over to the other side of the clearing where she was brought from and looked into each and every crook in the woods where Anya could be.

Suddenly she felt Arms pull around her waist and turning her around. Kate tried her best to get out of them.

'Kate. Hey, hey. What's going on? C'mon, we have to leave.' Jack said soothingly to her, trying to lead her to the other side again so that they could lead.

Kate held back and made Jack stop.

'No. Anya. We need her. We can't go.'

At Anya's name, Sawyer stopped walking off and turned back.

'What about the kid?' he asked, raising an eyebrow to her.

Kate never took her eyes from Jack. It was then when it hit him. He realised what had felt so wrong.

'They've got her.' Jack whispered. 'Oh my God. They've still got her. That's why they let you go so easily.' Jack pulled Kate closer to him as the tears that she had held back for too long came out, slowly but surely.

'Where are they?' Sawyer demanded, coming over to where Jack and Kate were standing. Locke hadn't moved much, but it was obvious that he was thinking what Jack was thinking.

'Whoa! Where do you think you're going? You can't go in there. You've seen what they're like.' Jack said, grabbing Sawyer's arm as he attempted to walk into the woods.

'So? You think I'm gonna leave her with 'em? Like you said, we've seen what they can do.' Sawyer hissed as Jack, trying to get out of his grip.

'No. But we have to come up with a plan. If we walk in there now, unarmed and all, we'll all die' Jack reasoned. Sawyer stopped resisting, and realised how right Jack was.

'C'mon.' Jack said with a sigh. He didn't want to go either, but he had no choice if he wanted her to come back alive. Kate wasn't thinking, but just stared into the woods, as if she would be able to see Anya if she stared long enough.

When she felt the tug of Jack's hand on her arm, she snapped out of it.

'Where're we going?' Kate looked around at Jack, confused. 'Jack? Why are we going? We have to get Anya. We can't go with out her. Lemme go! Jack!' when Kate yelled his name the second time, Jack grabbed both of her arms as she tried to fight him off.

'Hey. We have to go. We'll come back. We can't do anything for Anya if we stay now. Ok?'

But Jack never got his answer as Kate clasped almost as soon as he had finish his last word.

So? What do you think?

What's gonna happen to Anya?

And Kate?

Is Jack gonna leave Anya to die – or will he 'fix' it?

You'll have to wait and see.

R&R PLEASE!

xXx Tiana