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Chapter 4

Jack and Michael made it to the beach to a sight worthy of a Hollywood disaster movie. It looked like a tsunami had hit the place. Tarps, bags and entire trees were being thrown in every direction. What was once their camp was now mayhem.

They stood there for a moment, appalled and terrified. Then, looking to his right Jack saw Sayid and Jin, helping three people with their bags and tents. Jack pointed Michael in their direction and headed towards them. "Sayid," he yelled out.

"Michael, Jack…" Sayid called to them, "Jack…Kate!" Sayid said as he pointed in the other direction.

Jack looked to where Sayid was pointing. There she was, covered to her knees in water, she carried one bag on her back and another wedged between her legs as she tried to untie her tent. When another wave came in, it smacked Kate directly in the back and she struggled to grab the tree next to her as the wave knocked her down.

As the wave washed back, Kate tried painfully to get herself back on her feet when she felt someone pick her up. "Jack," she said as got her balance.

"Kate, go back to the caves I got this," he said picking up her second bag.

"No, Jack, I need to get my…" Kate started.

"Kate, go! Now! I got this!" Jack cried out determinedly.

Kate started to say something but stopped, took one look at Jack and ran to the caves.

As Jack untied the last knot on Kate's tent he looked over in the direction of Sayid and the others. Except for a few things floating away, it seemed like they got everything and everyone, he watched as they headed off back to the caves.

By the time, Kate made it to the caves it was raining like crazy. As she stood there, breathless, she scanned the area, trying to find a spot within this chaos. Everyone was scared, petrified, shaking. Some had already found a place around the fire and were trying to dry up and warm up. Others were still in shock not knowing what to do or where to go. While Sun was starting to help some of the injured

Still looking for a place to put her things, Kate saw Jack's cave. Had it been any other day, she would just go over and put her things down, and not give it another thought. But she knew she could not do that today. Finally, Kate found a small, secluded cave a few caves away from Jack's.

As she was setting her bag down, Kate heard Sayid, Jin and Michael returning with the rest. Looking over, she could not see Jack.

"Where's Jack?" Kate asked as she approached them.

"He was still there when we left." Sayid replied as the three men turned to face her. "He should be here any moment. I'm sure he's fine." He added quickly as he saw Kate's face start to be taken over by worry.

Kate nodded silently and turned back heading to her cave. Kate's mood got even worse as she saw Ana Lucia walking towards her.

"Kate, right?" she asked with an attitude.

"Yea?" a surprised Kate replied

"I need to talk to Jack, have you seen him?" Ana Lucia asked her.

"No." Kate replied abruptly as she walked past her.

"You know you could do more of an effort of accepting that it was an accident." Ana jumped at her.

Without saying a word, Kate turned to face Ana and glared.

"Just because I didn't say anything back at the hatch doesn't mean I'm gonna let you just talk to me like that." Ana barked at her.

"Excuse me?" Kate snapped back.

"All I'm saying is that I didn't want to get into anything in front of Jack, at least he is trying to forgive me and hear my side." Ana explained, ready to attack Kate.

"Well, I'm sorry I'm not as good and forgiving as Jack!" an aggravated Kate replied and raged away in the rain.

Jack was the last one to caves. By the time he got there everyone had managed to find a spot for themselves and what they had saved of their belongings. Jack looked around him; the place looked like a refugee camp. Still carrying Kate's stuff, Jack started to check up on everyone to make sure they were ok. There had been some injuries which Sun had taken care of, but nothing serious. Looking for Kate, Jack saw her in a small cave going frantically through her bag. She had taken almost everything out and just threw it around. Jack knew what she was looking for.

Without saying a word, Jack walked over, put her things next to her and walked on. Snapping out of her hysterical search, Kate looked up to him, "Thank you," she said softly. Jack just nodded and gave her a small, one-sided smile.

Jack walked towards where Sayid, Michael and Charlie were. The men stood there discussing what had happened and what to do, when Locke came from behind Jack. "Who is in the hatch Jack? You left someone there, right?" he asked.

Not believing that Locke was actually worried about the hatch at a moment like this, Jack replied, "Claire and Sawyer are in the hatch. Sorry it isn't who should be according to your schedule, but we were trying to avoid a catastrophe here."

"That's not what I meant, Jack" Locke said back, as the other men watched Jack and Locke. "If everything here is ok, I think I'll go cover the next shift."

"Mind if I join you?" said a woman behind them.

Locke smiled, "sure you can…"

"Libby, I'm Libby." She replied.

"Sure you can, Libby."

Later in the evening, as Jack sat staring at the fire, he heard a female voice behind him, "Can we talk?"