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Chapter Five- The Final Warning

Sawyer froze. He saw Zek step out of the darkness. Memories of what had happened a few nights before made him place his arm around Kate, who had also tensed up. Sawyer saw they were holding they guns he had originally taken. He noticed Jack had realized it too.

"What do you want?" Jack said. He made his way towards Zek, who was approaching from the other side.

"Where here to give you all a final warning." He said, he moved his hand back and showing the other fourteen people with guns. "We come in peace." He said. "But if you continue to go into our jungle, and snoop into things that you don't belong in, and also plan to go to war with us, were going to go from peace…to something different entirely."

Sawyer's grip on Kate's shoulders was tighter, she looked at him. His face was set, the bruise made him look more scary. The blood that was left from his bloody nose was splattered all over his chin and nose. His eyes held a hate in them, that was edged towards Zek alone.

"I don't know what your talking about," Jack said. "We haven't gone into the jungle, that deep, since we last spoke." Jack said.

"Heh, then I guess you don't know the whole conspiracy with the guns then do you Jack?" Zek said laughing. "See, Kate here," He said, pointing to her. Everyone turned to look at her, Sawyer, however, glared at Zek. "She found James little guns, and she hide them, right where one of our look out points are." He said. Kate gasped quietly. Jack tilted his head in confusion but he then turned back to Zek. "So imagine our surprise when we come back, and find at least twenty maybe thirty guns in our closet. That James, I guess, stole from you all."

"You leave her alone." Sawyer said. Placing himself in front of her. "You can do what ever you want to me, say what ever you want, but leave her alone." He said. Zek laughed evilly.

"You say that as if you have the advantage James!" He said. "But really, your only saying that because your scared."

"Shut up, Zek." He said. Moving forward a little.

"So, now that we have everyone's attention, you should all listen up!" He said, the others behind him moved behind him. "Next time we catch you deep into our jungle, this "misunderstanding" goes to something else, and I don't think any of you want that to turn into something else, for I think you all remember Ethan?" he said. Several people shook. Zek and the others then began to move back into the jungle, Sawyer then ran at him, his fist held high, but before he was able to even get a foot near Zek, a horrible pain shot up his shoulder. He cried out in pain as he fell to the ground. Landing on his knees and bent over, holding his burning shoulder.

" I wouldn't, James, if I were you." Kate ran forward and held his shoulders, kneeling down next to him. He gave Zek a death glare as the man made his way back into the jungle.

"What can we do?" cried a women, who was near her husband, Joe, Sawyer thought. His shoulder burned like fire. He and Kate sat next to each other. Kate gently brushing away some of his hair, wiping away sweat.

" How the heel did he do that?" Sawyer asked her. Still holding his shoulder. "It felt like I had been shot again." He said. Gently moving closer to her.

"What can we do?" Locke said. "They have our guns, and they can follow and listen to us."

"What are we going to do John?" Jack said. "Were going to raise an army and go after them!"

"And why would we want to do that Jack?" Locke said. "They can kill us. They took Claire and Charlie and strung Charlie up by his neck and left him for dead. They took Claire who knows where and then we find her a few weeks later." He said. Claire hugged Aaron tighter. "They took Walt and Michael. The know there land here, Jack. Going after them would be a suicide mission." He said. "You'll be risking all our lives."

Sawyer tensed. Jack wasn't going to put Kate's life in danger again.

" I agree with Locke." He said. Jack turned to him, glaring. "We don't need to go after them, do we? Hell, after getting shot by them and seeing Ethan's handy work, I can under stand that it would be suicide. "

"And why do you care, Sawyer?" Jack said. Sawyers voice caught in his throat. He wanted to say it. The reason behind everything he had done in the past week, the guns, everything, was because of the women next to him.

"Because, I do." He said.

"I think Jack is right," Ana Lucia said, coming from the darkness. "We go after them and kill them, the island is ours. Plus, if they have supplies we could-" Kate shook her head.

"We need to sleep on this, before we do anything, do I have any volunteers for hatch duty?" Locke said. Kate raised her hand, Sawyer followed behind her. After this, he wasn't leaving Kate out of his sight.

"James and Kate? Excellent." He said. Kate and Sawyer made there way to the trail, but Locke stopped Sawyer, motioning to Kate to continue.

"James? May I talk to you for a few minutes?"

"Yeah" He said. "What do you need John?" He said.

"I was wondering why you-"

"Took the guns?" he said, finishing the sentence. Locke nodded. He smiled and looked away. "To piss off Jack." He said.

"Your lying." He said. Sawyer gave him a puzzled look. "I can tell," He said.

"Piss off Locke." He said. Moving away. Locke grabbed his arm. He sighed. The burning sensation flared again. "For her." He said, Locke realized his arm and then he followed Kate to the hatch.

Sawyer made his way into the hatch. He heard Kate finish typing in the numbers, and then heard the flicker of the numbers on the wall.

"Hey," She said, coming out of the room. He smiled at her.

"Hey." He said. "You okay?"

"Yeah," She said, sitting on the couch, he followed. "I wish I never hid the guns." She said. He shook his head. "If I hadn't…"

"Jack or Locke would have found them eventually." He said. "Don't worry about it."

"But,"

"No Buts Freckles." He said. "Its not your fault, don't go blaming yourself, for something that I did." He said. "And yes, it was my fault. I'm the one who took the guns, and forced you to hide them." He sighed.

"Sawyer," She said. A thought hitting her head. "Why did you take the guns?" He looked at her, his eyes filled with love for her. He didn't say anything for a while.

"Do you remember that day we went into the jungle, after Mike?" He said. She nodded. "And remember when he had his gun to your neck?" He said. She nodded again. "And when he said, we leave them alone they leave us alone?" She nodded again. "And then, I hear the Jack is going to start an army and go after them. And the only way I saw to stop him was to take the guns. To prevent you from being hurt." He said. He looked away. Feeling odd for sharing that. He glanced at her, her eyes had tears in them.

Kate was touched. She saw him look away again, looking embarrassed.

"Sawyer?" She said finally, he looked at her. His eyes met hers.

"Yeah?" He said. He scooted closer to her. There eyes met and he then bent down, and kissed her. A for a few moments they stayed like that, then Kate pulled away. He looked away. She looked at him. She glanced away. He motioned to get up, but she stopped him. Grabbing his arm.

"Sawyer, don't go." She begged. He stopped and looked at her. She took his hand in hers, he stopped and moved closer to her. He captured her lips again, in a soft and tender kiss. It was gentle and loving. When they broke apart, she lay her head on his shoulder, closing her eyes. He smiled.

"You okay Freckles?" he said. She looked at him. "Yeah, I'm more happy then I've been in a long time." She said. After a while, her thoughts turned to the warning they had been given. "Why do you think, they gave us this warning?" she said. "We haven't done really anything to them." She said. Sawyer sighed.

"Hell if I know Freckles, I know that the Doc' is determined to go to war with them." He said. "And Ana Lulu is going to be his right hand man, well, women." He said. Kate shook her head.

"It's a little scary." She said. Sawyer nodded. Sawyer then moved into kiss her again, when they heard the hatch door open, and a voice came through:

"What the hell are you two doing?"

TBC