Chapter 2

It was nearly dawn when they heard voices shouting and yelling back and forth. Jack and Kate moved faster sensing something was wrong back at camp neither wanted to speak the words they already knew what had happened. Someone was missing.

As they came out into the clearing they could see most of the survivors were standing together on the beach. Jin was yelling something in Korean, Sayid and Sawyer were trying to calm him down. Claire, Rose and Bernard were standing close together talking in hushed tones. Everyone was clearly tense and worried.

Jack and Kate just looked at each other and quickly closed the distance over the beach towards the rest of the group.

Sayid spotted them first. "Jack. Kate"

"What happened?"

Jin was pointing towards the jungle, looking wild with worry "Sun!"

Kate's eyes widened she stopped in her tracks

"Sun is missing" Sayid answered.

Jack frowned, swallowed oh god, he'd hoped that this won't really be true.

"I guess you didn't find Mike" Sawyer quipped

"No, when and where were Sun last seen?" Jack asked Sayid who seemed to have taken charge of the situation keeping Jin as calm as possible. He looked like he were about to run blindly into the jungle.

"I saw her go into the jungle yesterday late afternoon towards her garden couple hours later Jin went in the same direction, came running back yelling 'Sun' no one seen her since" Sayid looked tired "we searched throughout the night but there's no sign of her."

Jack sighed, rubbed his brow "they got her"

He could see all the people on the beach stiffen, in the last 2 months the words 'they' and 'others' have really became words of terror to the forty- something people stranded here.

"We're going to get her back" Jack said determinedly.

"Like we got Walt or Mike back?" Sawyer stepped forward. He was still upset that Kate was that quick to follow Jack into the jungle yesterday and their only now returning? What had they been doing out there all that time?

"We're not going to let them get away with this. They've terrorised us long enough, killed us and abducted us. It ends here" Jack's face was one determined line.

There was no way he'd just let this be "we've been training up people to go after them, we still have weapons" He turned to Sawyer "and now is the time to use them, you cant keep the guns hidden longer, our survival here depends on getting our people back and letting them know we wont let this happen anymore"

"and just how do you plan on finding them even if we go to the line we're not supposed to cross and cross it, we might still not find them if they don't want to be found"

"We'll get Henry to take us back to them" Sayid said without blinking. His eyes black in intensity.

Most of the other survivors stared blankly, the name not ringing any bells but they could sense there was something here, some information they weren't privy to.

Jack sighed it was time to come clean they were all in this together it was time the secrets got out in the open again.

He took a deep breath and continued to tell them just what had been going down at the hatch for the past week.

It was late morning when they all went towards their tents for breakfast they were going to need their strength it didn't take as much convincing as Jack had feared to have just about everyone agree to going out to find Sun early the next morning, even Sawyer agreed to hand out the guns.

Jin was more difficult to persuade to wait and get ready first. The last thing they wanted was to go off unprepared that failed miserably as the previous attempts, this time they had to get their people back.

It was getting dark when rain started pouring down from the skies as it so often did here. Kate was sitting alone in her makeshift tent staring out at the raindrops plummeting to the earth in a fiery dance. She was trying to process everything that happened the last few days but no matter how worried she felt about her missing friend, trying to stay focused on what would happen the next day she couldn't keep her thoughts away from Jack.

She kept reliving their kiss in her head. Just what did he mean when he said he wasn't sorry? Was he not sorry because he was attracted to her and enjoyed the kiss or was there more to it?

He'd been so busy with trying to get everyone set up for the following morning she didn't get a chance to get him alone. Typical she thought something always happens to interrupt them or keep them both busy so they cant finish a conversation.

"Hey" Jack's voice broke the silence of her thoughts. He was soaking wet moving from the other tents towards her holding a plate of fish and fruit.

"Bought you some food, you didn't come to get some earlier. Everything ok?" He hurried inside for shelter

"Thanks" she reached out to take the plate "all things considered"

Jack sat down next to her. And the minute he did she unconsciously drew in a breath. It was like a switch turned on in her every time they were within touching distance.

Jack couldn't ignore the electric currents between them, he shifted in the sand. He knew she wasn't going to like what he came to say to her.