Chapter 5: Questions
Ana and Sayid continued to work on building defences for the camp. Neither spoke unless necessary. Ana was busy constructing some traps to put up, while Sayid used a map he had made to mark out where the best positions would be.
"How many of these do you think we'll need?" asked Ana.
"Probably four or five." said Sayid.
Anadecided to try and start a conversation with Sayid. They were going to be on this island for a long time and they were probably going to be working together quite a bit as well. She knew it would probably be one of those uncomfortable forced conversations, but the silence was begining to become deafening.
"So you were a solider in Iraq, huh?"
"Yes." said Sayid.
"Must of saw some messed up things there," said Ana.
"Not nearly as messed up as the things I've seen here." Sayid replied with a slight smile which quickly died away.
"Yeh, I here you guys have seen some freaky things on this side.?"
Sayid nodded. Ana smiled but noticed his sudden sombre change. To joke with the women who murdered his girlfriend must be a confusing thing for Sayid. She already admired that he was so civil with her, most people wouldn't be as kind.
"Ok, I think I'm finished here," said Sayid "What about you?"
"Yeh, I'm just about done." said Ana.
"Good, we should go and meet Jack at the Hatch. His shift will be finishing." said Sayid.
They set off through the Jungle carrying their equipment in a some what comfortable silence.
Kate started to walk from the beach to the Hatch when she met Sawyer.
"Well hello there Freckles! You coming to keep me company on my long, hard shift?"
Kate rolled her eyes with a smile, "As appealing as that sounds Sawyer, no. I'm meeting Jack; we're building defences round the camp."
"Is that right? So you and Jackass are on speaking terms again?" Said Sawyer, "You never did tell me what you did to piss him off so much, Freckles."
"What you're talking about? You know he was angry that I followed you guys." said Kate
"No, he was angry at you before that remember?" said Sawyer.
Kate could tell Sawyer wasn't buying the story she was giving him. He could always tell when something was bothering her, he must have seen the difference between her and Jack after he woke up. After their kiss.
"Why are you so interested anyways, Sawyer?" said Kate with a smile.
"You see Jack wouldn't tell me either and that just makes me curious. " said Sawyer with a mischievous grin.
"I think we all learned something about curiosity this week, don't you? Come on, you'll be late for your shift." said Kate.
"Well gee golly! We wouldn't want that would we?"" replied Sawyer.
Kate laughed as they made their way to the hatch. She was glad she avoided that conversation with Sawyer. Telling him about her and Jack's kiss would have only made things even more confusing than they already were.