Chapter 8: New friends

Sayid was walking along the beach, headed for the huddle. He pushed his way to the middle.

"What are you doing?" he asked Nadia, who was lying on Shannon's towel in her bathing suit.

"Well I'm trying to be like the bitch, since obviously, you're attracted to them," Nadia said, her eyes were closed and there were scraps of paper lying around her. Sayid walked over to her and picked her up. "Hey put me down!" she yelled.

"No," Sayid walked her out of the huddle. The crowd dispersed as Sayid walked farther away. He put her down. "What do you think you were doing?" Sayid yelled at her.

"I told you! I can't push you in the mud anymore, but I can be a slut like your girlfriend!" Nadia screamed back at him.

"I told you she's not my girlfriend," Sayid said.

"You're lying again!" Nadia shouted.

"What?" Sayid asked her. "How can you tell me who I love and who I don't love?"

"I read her diary!" Nadia yelled, running off across the beach.

"Wait!" Sayid called after her, he too sprinted across the beach. Then he saw what he hoped he would never see again. Nadia tripped on a stray stick. She tumbled, just like Shannon, across the beach, but Nadia didn't hit her head. She just sat down, the wind knocked out of her. She was gasping for breath.

"Nadia!" Sayid caught up with her. "Okay just breathe in through your nose, nice and slow," Sayid coached her. A few seconds later she was fine. "I sorry, but why did you read her diary?"

"You are in love with her," Nadia stood up and walked back over to Shannon's towel, and laid back down. Sayid sighed, stood up, and walked towards the caves.

"Sayid wait!" he head Jack call him. He turned around. Jack ran over to him. "Will you help to make a path from the beach to the caves?" Jack questioned.

"Sure, I'll ask Charlie to help too." Sayid kept going. Michael drew up a plan, Sayid and Charlie started making the path.

"Okay, so we need to cut down the branches that get in the way, then we need to line the path with the branches we cut. This will be easy," Charlie said, taking out a knife and beginning to cut. It was easy, though it took the rest of the day.

"Jack the path is finished," Charlie told him after they were done.

"Okay great. Charlie do you still have that pen that you used to write late on the tape?" Jack asked.

"Oh yeah, do you need it?" Charlie said.

"Yes, thank you," Charlie went back to the caves to get his pen.

"What are you going to write on?" Sayid asked Jack.

"I have a piece of paper I tore out of one of Sawyer's books," Jack smirked. "Don't tell."

"I won't," Sayid smiled back at him. Charlie came out of the trees with his pen.

"Here you go," Jack took the pen and went back to Shannon's tent. Sayid sat on the beach, and Charlie went back to the caves.

Danielle had been making friends a lot quicker than she had expected. Hurley, of course and Locke was her new friend. Claire was just nice to everyone, and Sun had a lot in common with her. Danielle liked not being alone anymore. She actually smiled a couple times.

"Danielle, would you like to move here permanently?" Locke asked her one day. "I'd be glad to help you move your stuff."

"Sure, but the only thing I need from there are my guns and my music box," Danielle smiled. People surprisingly wanted to be around her. Locke went with her to get her music box,but they didn't have a nice trip home. While they were inside Danielle's underground house, they heard a high pitched scream and a loud growl.

"What was that?" Locke stood up.

"It was one of the bears," Danielle got a shot gun, handed one to Locke and they left Danielle's hut. They followed the sound of the growling bear. Then they saw it. The huge polar bear was trying to get up a tree. Danielle pointed her gun at the bear. Locke looked up in the tree. There was a girl there, about twenty-four years old. She had short brown hair, and shining green eyes.

"Danielle," Locke said very quietly. "Look up in the tree. Danielle lifted her head. She dropped her gun, and fainted. "Great time to leave me alone!"

"Help me!" the girl yelled. Locke could barely understand her. It sounded more like handy to him.

"Hold on!" Locke yelled back. He fired his gun. The girl screamed even louder. The polar bear calmed a little, but still tried to get to the girl. It pushed at the tree rocking it. The girl held on as tight as possible, but it wasn't enough. Locke shot the bear again. The girl fell from the tree, the polar bear died, and Locke darted out to catch her. He dived underneath her.

"Oh my gosh! Thank you so much!" the girl hugged the old man. Locke could understand her now that she wasn't nervous.

"What is your name?" he asked her.

"Lillian, but I like to be called Lily," She told him.

"Oh, I thought you were Alex," Locke said.

"You know Alex?" Lily said confused.

"No, but do you? That's her mother over there," Locke pointed to Danielle who still laid motionless on the ground.

"Yes I do. She was in the camp that they left us at," Lily said. She looked at the ground. "But they took her away. I don't know where she is now." Locke helped her up. Then he carried Danielle back the the beach.

"So, how did you come to be on this island?" Locke questioned her.

"I was on a plane that crashed about two months ago," Lily looked a little familiar to Locke, but he wasn't sure. Then he knew it.

"I was on that plane too," Locke said excitedly.

"I was on the back half it broke off, and landed in the water. I swam to the island, and then I met the guy I was sitting next to here, but he's gone now," Lily said. "They killed him, like what I think they did to Alex."

"You don't think Alex is alive?" Locke asked her, shifting his weight, for Danielle was staring to seem very heavy.

"Well, when they took her away, I heard a gun shot," Lily solemnly strode alongside Locke.

Soon they were back at the caves. Locke told everyone her story, and then he revived Danielle. Lily spotted the path.

"Am I allowed to go there?" Lily asked.

"Oh, yes it leads to the beach, where there are more survivors," Locke said. Splashing water on Danielle to wake her.

"Oh, okay. Well I'm going to go meet everyone down there," Lily started down the path.

"Wait. You might want someone to go with you," Locke smiled and Danielle spat and sat up. Sun joined Lily on the path to the beach.

"Where's Alex?" Danielle screamed.