Chapter 4: Don't push me in the mud!

As they were hiking through the jungle, the trees seemed as though they were purposely slapping the small group. They were traveling at a decent pace, but they would stop every once in a while and let Hurley rest.

"Okay, sorry I'm slowing us down," Hurley said. "I just get dehydrated if we go too long without a water break." All of a sudden they heard a voice in the distance.

"Hurley?"

"Who's there?" Hurley called, lifting hs gun.

"Danielle!" they heard. She emerged from the trees, also holding a gun. "Why do you keep coming back?"

"We think that your child, Alex, maybe alive," Sayid said.

"Oh, well you must be wrong, they killed her in front of me," Danielle hated talking about Alex. "Why do you think she is alive?" Sayid told her about his and Charlie's dream. "I see. I see that you are coming to my home to tell me about a dream?"

"No, we really think she may be alive," Charlie answered.

"She's not. She can't be," Danielle said dropping her head and sitting on a nearby rock. Sayid went over to comfort her. "They held me down and hanged her. I fought my way out of there clutches, and made my home."

"Maybe she didn't die. Ethan hanged me, and Jack revived me," Charlie said. He too went over to Danielle. Hurley and Locke followed him.

"Maybe, but where would they take her?" Danielle questioned them. "They don't live anywhere. Do they?" They now larger group heard another crack. Everyone lifted their guns, Danielle's being a shot guns and everyone else's a nine millimeter hand gun. They formed a circle and scanned the trees, top to bottom, over a hundred times.

"It was probably nothing," Hurley quivered. He wanted to think it was nothing, but somehow, he knew there was something out there. A branch fell from a tree near Hurley. They all looked up. There was nothing there. "Um, dudes, this is freaking me out."

"Shh," Locke quieted everyone. They continued to scan the jungle, but still they saw nothing. "Okay, it was nothing." But as soon as they all put their guns down, they saw something dash through the trees near them. It was a white and brown blur. They all saw it, yet no one raised their guns again.

"It was probably just a boar," Charlie suggested.

"Yes, a boar," Danielle was still searching the forest. They saw the animal dash past them again.

"Show your self, you dumb boar!" Sayid called into the forest. The animal hid behind a tree.

"Sayid?" it yelled. A girl stepped out from behind the tree.

"Oh my god!" Sayid went over to her. "I thought you were dead!"

"They thought I was too, but I escaped them and ended up here," the women answered. Sayid embraced his long lost love, Nadia. "They put me on a ship that sailed to Australia to export products. At Australia, they picked up gasoline. They were bringing the gas to Tarawa, Kiribati and the ship blew up. I grabbed a piece of wood that had broken off, and I floated here. I didn't know anyone else was living here, then I saw you and I panicked. I thought they were here to kill me!" Nadia began to cry and Sayid hugged her.

"It's all right, come back to our camp. You can meet the people who were with me on a plane when it crashed here," Sayid kissed her forehead, and they all walked back to the beach. Danielle was hesitant to come, but Hurley convinced her to.

Everyone stared at them when they got back to camp.

"Who are the new guys?" Sawyer asked as they passed him.

"They are both girls, Danielle and Nadia," Sayid and Sawyer glared at each other. After they had passed Sawyer put in another remark.

"That terrorist brought back the physco path French lady and his old girlfriend," Sawyer rolled his eyes and smirked. Sayid turned and gave him the finger. Sawyer smiled and pretended to put it in his pocket.

"Jack, I would like you to meet my friends Danielle and Nadia," Sayid introduced them all. "And this is Jack."

"I heard you revived him," Danielle pointed to Charlie. "After he had been hung."

"Yes, but I hated doing it," Jack tried to describe how hard he had whacked Charlie. Charlie grabbed his chest, and for the first time, he found that when he put his hand there, it hurt.

"Do you think that they would have done that to my daughter, after they hanged her?" Danielle asked the spinal surgeon.

"It's very possible," Jack told her. "Sayid Shannon isn't awake yet, but she took her medicine very well."

"Shannon?" Nadia looked up at Sayid.

"Thanks Jack," Sayid entered the tent.

"Sayid wait!" Nadia entered the tent too, but she didn't like what she saw. "There's another woman."

"No, that's not it," Sayid tried to not get Nadia mad at him, they just reunited.

"You said that you thought I was dead, I would expect that you moved on. I am not mad," Nadia sat down with Sayid. She wanted him to feel like he could trust her.

"I did notice you, and I trust you," Sayid smiled.

"How did you?" Nadia looked very puzzled. Nadia saw Sayid's priceless smile and smiled herself. They cuddled together for the rest of the evening until Michael asked for more help with the raft.

"I can help," Nadia said. "I'm very good with building." She helped Sayid, Michael and Jin build the raft all night. Sayid caught Nadia yawn.

"Are you tired?" he asked her. "We can stop and sleep if you want to."

"I'll sleep if you're their to protect me," Nadia held Sayid's hand.

"I'll always protect you," Sayid said as they told Michael they were going to the caves. Be fore they settled down though, Nadia met everyone at the caves.

"Thank you for being so kind to me," Nadia said hugging him. "I... I love you Sayid." They entered a cave and she slept next to him. Sayid pulled out the frame after Nadia had fallen asleep. He remembered where he had seen the frame. He got his back pack, which was right outside, and he took out a torn picture. He put his picture of Nadia in the frame and set it in front of her. Then he too fell asleep, next to her.