Ok so I know I usually alternate chapters btwn Sawyer and Kate but if y'all ever want them to meet again I am gonna have to break that chain :p… the next chapter will be more Kate but y'all are gonna get an other sawyer one first;)
Hey sorry this chapter was so slow getting out I had awful writers block and school is starting this week for me so I have a million things going on... I will try my best not to keep chapters so far spaced out.:)
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Chapter 9: A Task
Sitting in a chair dripping wet Sawyer stared at Miss Klugh. They claimed to know so little about him but they knew just enough to know how to get what they needed.
This room was different from the last he was in. No white paint covered the concrete walls. A bookshelf filled with books lined the wall to his left. Sawyer was reminded of the hatch by this room. A built-in Table was what Sawyer rested his hands on. They felt good to be unbound, he knew he couldn't have escaped, they had the power, guns.
His body was drenched, the drops of water on his skin sent chills up his spin once they were meet by the air-conditioning in the small room. Sawyer was past speculation, he had been given the facts, he knew he was the problem but they had ridden themselves of that burden, why did they still have him? As he wondered this very thing the man known was Henry walked in. Sawyer knew that if he was ever going to get out he would have to let them think they were in control. There was no denying it was easier talking to Henry; he said things in a more understandable fashion than Miss Klugh. But to Sawyer's disapproval the one women he had seen to much of recently did not leave when he entered. Miss Klugh and Henry did not sit down, they stood in front of the doorway. "And what can I do for y'all folks this evening?" Sawyer asked.
"Mr. Ford, We are having a bit of difficulty."
"Have ya tried calling Tech support?" Sawyer asked. Henry ignored his comment and continued.
"We need your help." Henry admitted. "We ourselves preferred to avoid conflict at all cost unless necessary to do otherwise."
"Where are ya goin with this Gale?" Sawyer asked harshly, although he had a pretty good idea about what they wanted.
"Mr. Ford, Kate is on her way here as we speak."
This worried Sawyer very much but he refused to show it, he once again locked up his feelings inside, as he had done all his life, to not only avoid giving the others what he wanted but to also avoid having anything good for himself. But it was hearing her name that hit him hardest. His heart was filled with hate toward Henry; he didn't deserve to utter her name, his lips where not worthy enough to say it, nor was his mind suited to think it. Kate in Sawyer's mind was not his to claim but his protect, his responsibility; that is what came with loving her, he felt that she was in his care. But he could no more reveal that to them than he would to the rest of the world.
"What's that got to do with me?" Sawyer asked nonchalantly.
"Once she gets close enough she will shoot, or if we go at this point toward her, she will shoot. Mr. Ford we have bigger things to worry about at this point than a little convict on the run. Before she causes more trouble we need you to go out there and get her back here; I don't care how you do it just get this job done so we can finish ours."
"What's to stop us from just going back to our camp once I meet her."
"If you try to do that James then my men will kill both of you faster than you could fire a bullet." The man who was still known as Henry to Sawyer had the look for sincerity on his face. Sawyer knew what he had to do; he had to con Kate into coming back to this place. This was the place where she would soon realize that what the world claimed she was, the mind of these people agreed to. He hated that she would be faced with the truth that her mistakes effecting others view on he even though he himself did not see her in that light, but he knew to hurt her would be to save her.
"You really think she will come back with me?" Sawyer asked laughing a little to himself thinking to how stubborn she was.
"James, we recommend you find a way. We know you can, and we know she will listen to you; despite all she trusts you." Miss Klugh answered.
"You'll just kill us anyways." Sawyer glared at Henry.
"Quite the contrary, you both will only be here for a short time; until our job with your camp is complete. That is enough questions for today. Mr. Ford you can either help us or we will do this the hard way and I can guarantee you Miss Austen will not be a safe if we have to take this into our own hands."
Sawyer weighted it out either way in his mind, if he helped them and caught Kate he had the hope that these people were telling the truth and that they would let them go, then again he thought of the fact that if he did find her and he couldn't fool her into returning then they would be in more danger if they tried to escape. At this point Sawyer only saw one way to do this, he would have to play it their way until Kate was in his sight then they could work from there. He hated to con her this way but it was for their own good. What frightened him most was the possibility of failure. He knew there was no way he could tell her cause then she wouldn't return. Kate saw through Sawyer better than most anyone else could if he couldn't get her back her then all hope was lost.
"I'll do it." Sawyer told Henry. Henry and Miss Klugh stepped aside leaving the doorway access able.
"We'll be watching you James." Miss Klugh warned him with an eerie tone that made Sawyer uneasy. Sawyer stood up and waited for a second or two for them to say something else or give instructions but neither Miss Klugh nor Henry said another word. Walking out of the room Sawyer left the place he had been yearning to leave for so long; all to have to return if he wanted the one thing on the island he yearned for most of all to be alright.
