Chapter Seven
Jack awoke blurry eyed and strapped to a chair in a dark room. Regaining focus and consciousness took a while. He tried to budge but they strapped him down to the chair he was in pretty good bolted to the floor. All of a sudden lights came on in the room almost blinding him because the lights were so bright and his eyes were not used to the light yet.
A voice came from a speaker in the room. "Rise and Shine Doctor Sheppard" said the loud unrecognizable voice. "Untie me and let me go!" Jack demanded. "Not so fast Doc, not until we get some information we want from you." "And what exactly would that be?" Jack questioned. "I thought we had an agreement that crossing a certain point on the island would cause problems between your people and my people?" said the voice. "Yes, we did" Jack said. "Then why did you break that agreement?' said the voice. "Was our threat not as taken as seriously as it should have been?" implied the voice. "Do we need to show your people how serious we really are?" "Haven't you already done that by kidnapping and killing our people and spying on us every chance you get?" Jack said sharply. "First of all your people invaded our island first and second you have no idea what our people are capable of because your people haven't seen anything yet. What we have done is nothing compared to what we can do," said the voice. "What do you mean we invaded your island? We are survivors of a plane crash! We don't want to be here!"
Jack's heart was beating fast. Jack was completely out of control and he didn't like that feeling. He didn't know what was going to happen next. Where they going to torture him for information like they did to Henry? Were they going to beat him? Were they going to kill him? Could they go back go back and do something to the other survivors because he disobeyed their agreement? He did not know and not knowing his fate was killing him. Then a more disturbing thought crossed his mind. What if they had Kate again? They knew she was his strength and his weakness and that was probably the only way he would cooperate with them.
"We have another pesky one of your people who didn't follow our instructions to leave us alone" the voice said. "If you and your people can not follow our instructions more serious penalties will be given. This is your last warning" the voice said hauntingly. In that moment it became crystal clear to Jack.
All of a sudden the lights went out again and the room went completely dark. His eyes had to readjust again. He heard the loud opening of heavy iron doors. Light popped into the room as two shadows brought in another shadow tied up and muzzled and they threw the shadow next to Jack. The doors shut again making the room go to complete darkness again. He heard the doors lock as they shut. The metal bracelets that were strapping him to the chair opened up and released his wrists and ankles. Jack immediately got up from the chair as soon as he was free. "Kate!" Jack screamed, "Kate! Is that you?" As he untied the shadow and ripped the tape off his mouth he realized it was not Kate. In fact the person was not even female. It was Michael. "Oh my God" jack gasped. "Michael is that really you?" "Of course it is, who do you think I was? Your sweet heart Kate?" Jack blushed for a second. Thank God it was dark and therefore Michael did not notice. "Do you know where we are?" Jack asked. "I have no clue man" Michael said exhausted. "All I know is they wont let me see Walt but they tell me he is safe. But I don't care. I want Walt back." Jack's heart ached for what Michael was going trough. He couldn't imagine how Mike was coping without Walt. "Are you okay?" Jack asked concerned. "For my son still being kidnapped I'm not doing too bad" Mike said sarcastically. "I a so that was a stupid question." "No, I am sorry Jack. It is not like me to be like this. I sound like God forbid Sawyer of all people." They both laughed. It was the first time either of them had smiled in a long time and in a way it broke the ice. "They probably captured you for my ignorance in being relentless to look for Walt. They warned me the first time they found me looking for Walt that if I continued things would get worse and I guess they were not joking they stole our only doctor from camp" Michael said disappointed in himself. "No, I was the one who didn't listen. I came with my own free will until they captured me. I was dealing with some issues and on the way decided to look for you. I have been really worried for you and Walt since you left. You know we could have discussed this together and all as a group went looking for Walt. We would have been stronger. You didn't have to go lock Locke and myself in the armory" Jack said smiling he had found his buddy but also sad that he didn't find Walt too. "I'm sorry about that Jack. I was completely out of my mind back there and in a way I still am. Thinking about it now your right I should have gone looking for Walt with the group but back there I was irrational. All I thought of was going to find Walt and killing the SOB's who had him." "Don't worry mike, when and if we get back to camp I will do everything in my power to help bring Walt back. I promise." "We have to find a way to get back home first," Michael said stating the obvious. Jack looked around the dark room finding it completely bare except for the chair bolted to the floor and the tape and rope Jack took off Michael. They were both looking for an exit. Maybe a vent or something they could escape out of but nothing was there. They finally tried the actual door that Michael came in with his captors. It was not to their surprise that the door remained locked and was not budging. Finally Michael had had enough. "You took my son and that is not good enough for you people? You have to take us too? What do you people want from us?" Michael screamed and frustrated with the situation. He was done with the games. Suddenly gas filled the room. Michael and Jack tried not to breath it but it was impossible not to. They started getting sleepy and before they knew it they were both knocked out again.