Chapter 4: Certainty Verses Uncertainty
A mid afternoon breeze flew atop the cliff where Miss Clue and Sawyer sat. The sea was restless, waves could be heard hitting the rocks below them. Sawyer still gagged looked at Miss Clue but her attention was elsewhere. For the longest time they sat in silence. She sat there cross legged with her eyes shut just listening intently to the sea. Sawyer saw no guards, no guns, it's was just the two of them. He knew this would be a great time to attempt an escape, but some thing held him back, something told him it wasn't the right time. Miss Clue finally broke the silence with a question.
"Do you remember the last time we met Mr. Ford?"
Still being gagged all sawyer did was nod. After his answer she reached over and ungagged him leaving the clothe to hang around his neck.
"Well lil Miss Mystery I remember it was at that bar a few weeks back right? Now I don't know about you but I ain't eva gonna forget that meeting" Sawyer remarked with a sarcastic smile. Miss Clue paid no attention to his last remark and continued on as if he had not said a thing.
"Mr. Ford what first comes to mind when I mention Miss Austen?"
"Who…? Freckles?" sawyer asked. He had never heard her last name before but he knew it must be her Miss Clue was talking about. She simply nodded. Sawyers mind thought of hundreds of memories with Kate but a rather recent one came to mind first...
Kate was lead back into the hut after her visit with Henry and Miss Clue she was once again bound my her hands to the bar and her feet. The two men left in the same silence that they had come in by.
"You alright there Freckles?" Sawyer asked genuinely concerned.
Kate was mentally exhausted and unintentionally let out a sigh. She looked up at Sawyers worried face and gave him a weak smile. "I'm fine."
Sawyer didn't by this act for one second, he knew they had hurt her where it hurts and that upset him. Jack wanted to cut straight to the chase but being the considerate person he is he tried to ask in a polite soft manner as not to bring back painful memories.
"Did you find any thing out about why they brought us here?"
"No…no, I didn't. Sorry Jack."
"Well what happened then?"
"Hell Doc give the girl a break you don't know what she has been though. We can wait." Sawyer snapped back at Jack emphasizing the last sentence.
"Naw, its okay I can talk bout it."' Kate said wearily.
Both men's eyes where on Kate as she told them her story. She left out the part about the plane and the fact that some of her answers weren't true. She wrapped up her story and Sawyer commented with:
"Looks like I missed one hell of a party, next time I gotta remember to R.S.V.P."
Kate smiled at his typical sarcastic response. Jacks forehead was wrinkled in a fashion to reveal his thought process. He was obviously puzzled and trying his hardest to think through things as he always does.
"Gotta headache Jacko?"
Jack ignored sawyer and returned his attention to Kate.
"So they didn't say any thing about the three of us as a whole?"
"No." Kate answered beginning to feel as if her answers were redundant.
The three of them fell asleep not long after Kate finished telling her story. They were woken up some time in the middle or the night around three by two armed men entering the room. They were different men from which had escorted Kate out earlier, these men bigger. The shorted of the two unbound sawyer and hoisted him up.
"No where's your since of fun gentlemen? Y'all are ruining the show, I was just about to show the lady how I could miraculously get outta these ropes but y'all had to go and do it for me." Sawyer sarcastically remarked, he was still tired and his eyes where half shut. One of the men kneed him in the gut. "Shut your trap ya redneck."
This only encouraged him and he made it as hard for them as possible. "Now where's the fun in that boys?"
Sawyer was forced inside the same Hut Kate had been only hours before. Once inside he faced Miss Clue. The two men remained inside with them and sat near sawyer on either said of him. Sawyer took a seat across from Miss Clue.
"Good Evening Mr. Ford. My name is Miss Clue."
"Well howdy Miss C., what can I do for ya today?" Sawyer asked with a cocky smile.
"I would like to ask you a few questions."
"Sounds good to me it been way to long since I sat down ta chew the fat with an old friend."
There was a small pause between the sawyer and her speaking. Miss Clue spoke slowly and annunciated every syllable as to make sure he understood what she was saying was important.
"I have noticed fluctuation in behavioral patterns since your arrival on the island." Sawyer was taken back; he had half been expecting questions similar to Kate's. He was also a bit surprised by the certainty in her tone. Sawyer had spent his whole life analyzing people. He made it his business to know who people were and how that responded to certain situation; that is how he successfully completed a con. Sawyer could tell by how direct Miss Clue's voice was that she knew what she was talking about. Miss Clue saw that he was not going to comment so she continue in a manner of fact way.
"Mr. Ford you have: you killed a man, nearly let a girl suffocate for a kiss, beat up Jin, have conned the entire oceanic flight survivors out of their guns and medicine, killed an innocent tree frog, and revealed to all the camp who Kate really was and what she had done." Sawyer felt a small since of guilt paces through him but it only lasted momentary until he recalled what the camp had done to him: divided up his stash when he was out trying to get them help, stabbed him in the arm, he had been shot, made to show his stash as an ultimatum, and been punched and tackled more time than he could remember; although he had to admit he didn't mind so much when Kate did it. Just before he was about to speak Miss Clue continued. "Yet, you went on the raft risking your life to try to help the camp get saved, you were concerned about Jin when you were on the raft after it blew up, tried to save Walt, gave Kate a gun to go help Claire and came out her to help Michael. Mr. Ford you are one of those very few cases where we can't even come close to guessing your next move, or how you will handle a situation.
"Well I guess that just makes me a man of mystery now doesn't it sweet-heart?" Sawyer said ticked off by not only the fact that he had been being watched but by the fact that these people thought of humans as "cases". Sawyer was scared of the truth and Miss Clue had laid it all out in front of him, there was no denying it. When it came to decisions Sawyer acted on impulse not thinking of the long term consequences.
"You are very special James. They way you handle situations and responded to other people is more different than anything I have ever seen before. You seem to look down upon yourself… but you shouldn't." Sawyer looked Miss Clue straight in the eyes, he was trying to take in all that she had said. He had been gone a much shorter time than Kate yet he could already feel the coming to a close.
"I'm make sure to write that down now." Sawyer said with a wink.
The two men hoisted him up off the dirt floor and lead him thought the doorway but not before he got a "Gimme a call Missie C. we needa do this again real soon."
Sawyer left Miss Clue as puzzled as before there meeting if not more.
Sawyer was brought out of his flashback by the sound of Miss Clues patient steady breathing. Once again sawyer set across from his integrator nearly at a lose for words. These people knew where to hit it where is hurt. Sawyer was ridding on dangerous territory. Certainly had never been a flaw of sawyers, he knew what he wanted and he would find a way to get it, but Kate was the on thing he was the most uncertain of. Subconsciously he wanted to avoid getting hurt at all cost so he blocker her out; doing the long con, having sex with Ana Lucia were just ways to protect himself. His response to her question was instinctive as not to let him know what he thought.
"I guess Freckles is what y'all folks call a "special case" Sawyer said in a disgusted tone.
