Chapter 10: The meeting

Hurley lead them to where he had found Danielle. "Okay this is where I met her," Hurley stopped. "She was holding a gun though."

"I hope she doesn't shoot at us again," Charlie said scanning the jungle around them.

"She won't if she's near enough to see us," Sayid reassured him.

"French Chick!" Hurley called.

"Don't you think that's a bit rude?" Kate asked.

"She didn't think so last time I saw her." Hurley answered.

"I think it rude," Kate turned her head away.

"Your not French, Sweet Cheeks," Sawyer smirked at her. Kate just rolled her eyes.

"Danielle!" Sayid called. Bang! A bullet flew past them and struck a tree. There was another loud gunshot, Sawyer fell to the ground.

"Sawyer!" Kate screamed. Everyone dropped to the Ground except Hurley and Sayid.

"Why do you keep coming back!" they heard Danielle call.

"We think Alex might be alive!" Sayid yelled back. Danielle emerged from the north end of the forest.

"Come with me I'll help him," Danielle pointed to Sawyer. The group followed Danielle to her new house, which was about a mile west of where they were. When they were inside, Sawyer was laid on the bed and Danielle disinfected his wound. It had stuck him in the leg. "He might not be able to walk for a couple days."

"Hell, all I do any way is lay around," Sawyer smiled. "Now you all have to help me be lazy."

"Now what is it you were saying about Alex," Danielle asked Sayid.

"We think she might be alive," Sayid answered her.

"I never said Alex was a girl," Danielle glared at Sayid.

"I just assumed Alex was a girl. Is Alex a boy?" Sayid said.

"No," Danielle looked at Sawyer. "Do you know where she is?"

"Maybe, but not positive. We think the others have been using her to get children." Sayid said slowly. Danielle winced at the words.

"I want to come with you," Danielle looked at Hurley and smiled. "So what are your names?" she said to rest of them.

"I'm Jack, this is Kate, Charlie, Locke and that's Sawyer," Jack pointed to each person as he said their name.

"Nice to meet you all," Danielle said. "Some one should stay here with Sawyer while the rest of us look for the others' camp."

"I'll stay," Kate volunteered.

"All right let's go," Danielle stood up.

"We have to go back to camp first, why don't we just bring Sawyer back?" Jack suggested.

"Good idea," said Charlie, who acted as one of Sawyer's crutches. Locke was on the other side.

When they got back to camp they saw everyone running around like mad animals.

"This is what happened to my friends and family. We must help them," Danielle lifted her gun.

"No!" Sayid forced her to lower her shot gun. "Something's probably just happening." Sayid let go. Danielle kept her gun lowered.

"Jack's back!" yelled Michael. He came running over.

"What's going on?" Jack asked Michael.

"Claire's gone! Some guy named Jason took her!" Michael panted.

"What!" Charlie let go of Sawyer and he tumbled on top of Locke. "But that guy is a pastor he was going to marry us!"

"That's what they were talking about when they went into the jungle. We heard her scream and when we went to where they had been they were gone!" Michael hadn't even noticed Danielle. Charlie began to panic. Shannon was running towards them at full speed.

"I didn't get the time to warn her!" Shannon yelled.

"Warn who!" Charlie was frantic.

"I dreamed that this Jason guy was going to take her, he's the head of the others," Shannon was crying. It was her fault that Claire was gone.

"Shannon where did you think the others' camp was?" Jack asked her.

"About twenty miles away, on the other side of the island," Shannon was tearing up. Sayid laid Sawyer on the sand and then walked right past Shannon, not even acknowledging her.

"Let's go," Sayid led the group. Shannon sat in the sane balling. Charlie grabbed Sawyer's gun and ran after the group. He was furious. It too long before Charlie and Danielle were in the lead.