Hahahaha ok, so ya I realize that in the last chapter, I put the numbers as 4 8 15 16 23 44… I have no idea why I did that. I have always known that the last number is 42. I just… was not thinking clearly. Silly me. So just pretend that the number 42 was there, instead of 44. hahaha. Ok back to the story

Jack was sitting on the beach with Kate. They were both just letting the waves come in and get their butts wet. At first, they laughed and tensed up when a wave crawled under them, but by now, they were both used to it. Neither of them were saying anything. Seemed like they both liked silence every once in a while. But that silence was soon broken, when Hurley came running from behind them, screaming, "Jack! Jack! Jack!"

"What?" He said, turning around.

"You have to come see this."

"What is it, Hurley?" Jack asked.

"I can't tell you… You have to come see. Incase someone hears." Hurley looked over at Sawyer, who was leaning against a tree, taking a nap.

"It's full of first aid stuff. The thing is huge," Hurley said, opening the latch in the floor. "I guess they thought the people staying here had a chance of gettin' hurt real bad."

"Or sick," Kate suggested, thinking of what Rousseau had told them about her group.

"It's all stuff like peroxide and rubbing alcohol. But there's also vaccines of some sort, gauze, sewing stuff. I'm assuming it's the real stuff." Hurley said.

Jack jumped into the hole and saw that it went up to his shoulder. He bent down and looked along the hole. His jaw dropped open and he stood up, looking at the others. "It's a tunnel," He said.

"What do you mean, a tunnel?" Kate asked.

"I mean it's a tunnel. It's leading somewhere. I'll bet you all this first aid stuff if just here as a cover up. So the people staying here wouldn't know that there was a tunnel in here."

"But if someone needed something from in here, they would have easily seen it leading somewhere."

"Not if it used to be blocked off." Jack nodded his head towards a large square piece of wood, lying on the floor, as if it had been knocked over.

"Well should we see where it leads to?" Hurley asked.

"Maybe it leads to another hatch," Kate though aloud.

"What, like a hatch where the others are living?"

"Maybe. What if this leads us to Walt?"

"I guess it wouldn't hurt if I went and checked it out," Jack stepped up.

"Well you're not going without me," Kate protested.

"Yes I am."

"Jack-"

"I'm not arguing with you, Kate. You wanna help? Go find me a flashlight."

Kate just turned around and left the room. She thought Jack was done the whole telling her what to do. At that moment, she felt smaller than ever.

Kate was walking along the beach in her bare feet. Sawyer was awake by this point, and was eyeing her. She pretended not to notice. She just needed some time to herself to think. Did she really want to go any further with Jack?

"Where are you going, Freckles?" Sawyer finally called out.

"Nowhere, I'm just walking."

Jack pulled himself out of the hole in the floor, wondering where Kate went. "Kate?" He walked out into the rest of the hatch and saw Hurley at the computer. "Where's Kate?"

"Oh, she left."

"What where did she go?"

Hurley shrugged his shoulders, and rested his chin in his hands.

Once Jack found a flashlight, he jumped back into the first aid hole and crouched down so that he could walk along the tunnel. As he walked more and more, he realized the floor was slanting down, like a wheelchair ramp. After about five minutes of walking slowly and quietly, there was enough room for Jack to stand up straight. So far, it was just a very long, very dark and very empty tunnel. He could hear the waves crashing on the beach, and the echoing of his foot steps. He stopped walking when he came across something that made him think for a minute. The tunnel went two ways. He looked to the left, and pointed the flashlight down the long path. He couldn't see the end. He pointed the flashlight in front of him, and couldn't see the end of that one either. He had to make a decision. He took a deep breath and continued going straight.

"Jack?" Haley called out. She waited a minute, and called his name again, after there was no answer. He still didn't come. Where was he? "Jack?"

"Uh, he left," Hurley yelled from in the dome.

"Where'd he go?"

The beeping started coming from the computer, so Hurley quickly typed in the numbers and went to talk to Haley. "He went down the tunnel."

"The tunnel?"

"Oh ya. We forgot to tell you. There was this door in the floor, over in the storage room. And there was a bunch of rubbing alcohol and gauze and stuff, but it was also a tunnel. He went to see where it lead to."

"Oh. Well I kind of need him."

"What for?"

"To look at this." Haley lifted up her pant leg showing that the bruising and swelling had gone all the way up to her knee. It was dark blue and purple, and so swollen that her pants were beginning to cut off her blood circulation to her lower leg.

"Oh." Hurley had do idea what he was supposed to do. "Uhhh… Maybe if I yell into the tunnel, he'll be able to hear me." He ran into the storage room and bent down, leaning into the open hole. "JACK!" He called. "Jack, can you hear me?" Nothing but the echo of his own voice.

Jack finally came to a dead end. He pressed his hands up against the wall, but only felt concrete. There was nothing. No windows, no doors, no secret passage ways, nothing. Until he looked up. He looked up to see a door in the ceiling. Where did it lead? Would it bring him to another hatch, and bring him to meet the bearded guy? Would he find Walt or Michael? Or the children from the tail of the plane? He lifted his arms up above his head and pushed on the door to open it. Nothing. It wouldn't budge. He pushed harder, but it must have been locked from the other side. He turned around and headed back the other way. He was going to see what was down the tunnel where it branched off.

Only 15 minutes had past, and Haley now had bruising and swelling all the way up to her hip. They had to cut the seem of her right pant leg so that it didn't cut off her circulation.

"Well like, does it hurt?" Hurley asked.

"Ya. But what is it?"

"I don't know, I'm not the doctor."

That's when Kate walked in the room, with a flashlight and her backpack. Looked like she was going in the tunnel anyway. "What's going on?" She asked, when she ay Haley's leg.

"I don't know," Haley said. "The bruising just started to spread. It hurts like a mofo."

"We need Jack," Hurley added.

Kate lowered herself into the hatch inside the hatch, and shone her flashlight ahead of her. "Jack?" She called out. She walked along the tunnel hoping to see him before she saw anyone or anything else. The first time she looked behind her, she couldn't even see the wall from under the storage room. She was far enough in, that if something happened to her, no one would hear her cries for help.

Jack was finally coming to the end. He could see light up ahead, flooding into the tunnel. He turned off his flashlight and slowly inched forward, afraid of what he would find. Ad he got closer to the end, it became more and more clear what was there. He wasn't sure at first, but after seeing up close, he knew what he was looking at.