Ok so this is the second to last chapter in Running, I am soo sorry it took me a whole week, I hope you all haven't stopped checking:p, I had most of it typed out last Friday , but then I didn't have my laptop for a week.
Piper, you asked some good questions, I am gonna try to answer them soon, but not yet;) last ch. I didn't wanna include the conversation between the two of them where he told her about the camp, cause it seemed to me it would take a way from the main focus of the chapter, which was obviously my attempt to get Sawyer and Kate together.
Chapter 16 is nearly ready to be posted, so I'll have it out probably tomorrow with some writers notes:) and I might as well announce it now(I'll explain more later) that there will be a sequel to this fic:) … so this story is far from being over;)
Ok so here is Ch 15, please forgive me for the lack of skatieness compared to last chapter, this is meant to be more informative:)
Yay! the fixed the 'ruler'
Chapter 15: The Untold Story
"Tryin' to make its worse there Jackass?" Sawyer grimiest as Jack examined the gash in his foot.
"How the hell did you exactly get this wound, Sawyer?" Jack asked bring his eyes to Sawyer's face, for a moment taking his focus of his injury.
"Well, Jack, lets just say, the Others and I didn't quit get along." Jack smiled a bit, then started to take care of Sawyer's foot with the medical supplies the camp had remaining.
They sat in the caves, next to the small waterfall. Jack dampened a rag then cleared the gash. Although the piercing didn't go completely through his foot its penetrated several layers, of skin.
"How bad is it?" Sawyer asked.
Jack took a moment to answer, then lifting his head, he looked at Sawyer, in complete honestly and said.
"It's pretty bad…." He lowered his head again rummaging through some tools, "But, it's not as bad as your arm… either time."
Who ever stabled you had good aim, they missed all the major veins in your foot. They were intending to stall you more that but you endanger, right?"
"That's how I see it, Doc." Sawyer knew he had to tell someone about what the Others had done, what they were capable of. "After she escaped, they didn't want me making a break, so they stabbed me."
Jack nodded in an understanding way. His brow scrunched quizzically, as if he was deep in thought.
"How'd you get out?" Sawyer asked curiously.
"They let me go…" Jack replied while carefully trying to dig out dirt that had gotten deep into the wound, due to Sawyer running.
"Why did they want ya?" Sawyer asked. Usually Jack got tired of Sawyer's questions easily, but being the leader he was, he considered it his responsibility to converse with another that had been in a similar circumstance as himself.
"They, uhm… had some sick people at their camp, and they wanted some help examining them…"
"And?"
"All they needed was a new person; their Doctors had tried everything they could."
"What was wrong with the people?"
"Don't know."
Sawyer, left it at that. He knew Jack would actually have told him something if he knew more.
"So, are you going tell me any thing more? Jack asked
Sawyer sighed, understand how serious everything was, so he decided to tell Jack what was nessisary for him to know.
"Well, after they took you, Kate escaped… then they talked to me a few times and stabbed…"
Jack interrupted in an attempt to understand.
"What did they talk to you about?"
Sawyer hesitated then answered.
"The first few times they just wanted to know about Kate, then they told me why we were there."
"How do you know they didn't lie to you?" Jack asked as if he was offering a new idea that couldn't possibly have crossed Sawyer's mind.
"Of course, I thought that, but I had nothing else to believe, and until I did I went on the facts I had."
Jack was a bit shocked by the logic in Sawyer's statement.
"And?"
"Then, after I knew, they told me… she was coming…" Sawyer's eye's drifted for a moment, and his mouth went dry at the remembrance of the occasion.
"So they told me to save them the trouble of killing her, so I went and conned her into coming back to camp… to save you."
Sawyer brought his eye's back into reality and he searched Jack's face; he saw pain, anger, yet also he saw understanding.
"Once they had us both, different people just came to talk with me, bout a week later they let her go and I escaped, then I caught up to her in the jungle… so that about wrapps up story hour for this week… how bout you Doc, what was happenin' around these parts along your return?"
An air of confusion spread across Jack's face. Obviously this was a hard topic.
"I got here about two days ago, first place I went was the hatch, all to find it destroyed, not a thing salvaged."
"Yeah, Kate told me about that." Sawyer said.
After I went to the beach, and Sayid filled me in, he uhm, he said Kate had come back, but had then disappeared." He then sighed, as if the next part was the most difficult to say.
Sitting on the warm sand the after noon sun hit Kate and Suns Face's.
"Sun?... What happened here?"
Kate had never seen Sun that way, her cheeks were sunk in, her eyes drained of their color, they now held fear. Sun kept her gaze in the ocean in front of them, she spoke slowly, as if her very words might break. She told her story with a heavy heart, in a low tone.
"After you left" Sun spook slowly as to choose her words carefully. "Things… started to happen."
"Like what?"
"Two days after, I woke up to screams, when I walked out to the beach I was told two people were missing…"
"Who?"
"That young women, Nancy and Steve."
Kate sighed, bending her head down, but Sun continued to shocker her even more.
"Since we didn't have many guns, we used Locke's knives and other weapons we had. A perimeter was set that night, no one left a certain area. But the next morning, Bernard was gone." Sun's words continued to echo in the same monotone voice she had been using all along. She mad no eye contact, she stared blankly out to toward they gray sea.
"A day later nothing had happened, then the day after that, no one could find, Hurley, Rose, or Mark."
Thinking back Kate remembered a middle aged man named Mark, she had never talked to him but he had always been the one who had started the fires each night that had gone out the night before. Kate also thought back to when Sawyer had told her they only wanted the good, they must have wanted to use Hurley as a messenger because they knew they could eventually get him back.
"Jack came back and nothing else happen, we have constantly been on our guard.
Kate couldn't speak.
