Hey everyone. Thanks a lot for all the reviews :D you guys are great. I am soooooo sorry for taking so long to update but I had finals and stuff, you know useless education stuff :P So here's chapter 10, and I promise that chapter 11 won't take long. So thanks for reading and reviewing and ENJOY!
"Eko?" Kate looked at Jack quizzically.
"Yeah… he's a tracker, plus he's not that involved in the whole Ethan thing," Jack explained as they started off back to the caves.
As they walked back, Jack explained to Kate what he had in mind, Kate didn't say much. She just nodded from time to time. It wasn't the most thought of planned, but Kate didn't say anything as she had nothing better.
Everyone was busy with his or her own thing back at the caves. Claire was feeding Aaron, while Charlie, sitting next to them, was singing something about a flood. Sun and Rose were folding clothes. Ana was sharpening a stick, again.
"There's Eko," Jack said as he headed towards him.
"I'm gonna go change and I'll catch up with you, ok?" Kate said.
Jack looked at her, realizing she was still in the Dharma overalls, he chuckled, "sure."
"Excuse me?" Jack hadn't spoken to Eko since he brought Sawyer back.
"Yes?" Eko replied, turning to face Jack.
"There's something I need to talk to you about," Jack said
Eko just looked at Jack, confused.
"Something happened, and we…umm… need your help, but we can't talk here," Jack said, confusing Eko further.
"Ok, so let's go somewhere where you can tell," Eko said.
"Yeah, just a sec… we have to wait for Kate," Jack said, glancing over towards Kate's cave.
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Twenty minutes later, Jack and Kate had told Eko the whole Ethan story, from mysteriously appearing, to being shot and to creepily reappearing. Kate had taken over from Jack, at first, when he started to blame himself for Claire being I the jungle to begin with, and then Jack took over when Kate choked as she mentioned finding Charlie hung from a tree.
"Are you two crazy!" was Eko's first reply when the two were finished.
Jack and Kate just looked at him, in a "we're dead serious" look.
"Did you tell me this story to convince me to help you find this Ethan?"
"Look, Eko, now that he's back, and he's made a point of letting us know, we can't just not do anything about it. We don't know if he's alone. We don't kow what he wants. We don't know if he's going to hurt anyone, and we can't keep on not knowing. We can't keep on hiding and running…" Jack was quiet for a moment, "all we're after are answers."
No one spoke for a while as they just looked at each other before Eko broke the silence, "Who are you planning to involve in this?"
"Well… just the people from last time, but not really go into the details of what he said. And we have to protect Claire, you have anyone in mind?" Jack explained.
"the Korean, Jin, would be helpful," Eko suggested.
"But that means we'll have to tell Sun as well," Jack started.
"I think telling Sun would be good," Kate started.
Jack and Eko looked at her, "… you know, for Claire…" Kate explained.
"And Ana Lucia," Eko added.
Jack and Kate looked at each other; Jack nodded and gave Kate a reassuring smile before looking back a Eko. Bu before either Jack or Kate could say anything, Eko explained, "I know what you might think of her right now, but she's capable and strong…"
"Ok," Jack said abruptly despite the glare he was getting from Kate.
As Jack stared to get up he was stopped by Kate's hand holding on his arm. As electrifying as that touch was, Kate quickly withdrew her hand once she had gotten Jack's attention.
"Jack, there's one more thing," Kate said.
The two men just looked at her. "Well, the rest of the camp are going to notice if ten of us just disappear and Claire hides in the hatch all day. Everyone's already edgy after what happened at the beach last night," Kate explained.
"What do you have in mind?" Jack asked.
"Well, maybe bring Hurley into this," Kate said with a smile drawing on her face; one which was matched by Jack, "you know, he always knows how help people unwind."
"But he can't keep a secret," Jack said, with the smile still lingering on his face.
"He wouldn't need to know everything, just that to find a way to get people relaxed," Kate explained.
Jack shook his head, "Ok."
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Telling everyone to meet them in the hatch in twenty minutes and to keep it quiet, without giving any more details was not an easy task. The process did not come without the "why?" and "what's going on" and "my shift isn't till tonight" comments, not to mention the earful of remarks they got from Sawyer.
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"Well, well, well. So the whole Security Council has been called up for this little shindig," Sawyer commented as he walked into the hatch, seeing Locke, Sayid, Charlie, Claire, Jin, Sun, Hurley, Michael and Ana.
"And I thought the Doc and Freckles were planning a little somethin' special just for me," he finished with a silly sarcastic smile on his face.
"What do you thinks is going on?" Michael said, ignoring Sawyer.
"I don't know," Locke said, rubbing his forehead, "but those two did come to the hatch really late last night, looking like they've seen a ghost."
"and they have been taking secret walks into the jungle and having private chats with Eko all morning," Ana said.
They all fell silent for a moment, except for Sun who was explaining to Jin that no one knew anything.
A few moments later, Jack, Kate and Eko walked in, and all eyes turned to them.
Ok, how was that for a comeback chapter? I know not that great :s but please review, even if its harsh, let it be constructive criticism I'm just getting back into it and setting up whats to come. Thanks for reading!