Title: Concrete demons.

Pairings: Jate, Skate, PB&J.

Summary - Kate, Jack, and Sawyer are kidnaped by the others, while Claire slowly loses her sanity.

Disclaimer: I do not own anything with 'Lost' that belongs to its proper creators/writers, this fiction was created solely for entertainment purposes.

Authors notes: It feels so good to be writing again, with all the re-writing/fixing this story it should be an award winning piece, so you reading/reviewing will mean a great deal to me. Italics are flashbacks.

She sat on the cold cement floor, the feeling of the hard; cold surface reassuring her she was alive. She shifted silently trying to determine if moving or staying put was her best option. Sighing she tried once again to remove her hands from the unbearable hold the rope had accustomed itself to taking upon her delicate wrists.

She heard a loud scuffling down the hall; bracing herself for the worst she leaned her body against the cold wall and opened her eyes. "Listen.. Talk to.. I don't think so." She heard the briefness of a ongoing conversation and strained her ears to listen to the voices, discovering one was Female, while the other was most definitely Male.

She wasn't expecting anyone to come into the room she was being kept in, so the loud sound of the screeching door was alarming to say the least; she had little time to prepare herself so she looked ahead with a look of hatred and strength; something she was so gravely debating if she truly felt.

A young grungy man stepped into the room, switching on a light and silently closing the door, he slid his body down against the wall and sank to the floor. He looked her with the same cold; hard stare she was giving him, her belief in her strength being sucked out of her at an unbearable speed.

"Silence is your worst enemy." The man spoke slowly, pronouncing each word as if to give them

each their own special meaning.

She looked at him hard, refusing to move her lips to form words; she wouldn't give him the satisfaction of knowing the fear that had seeped into her body. He moved his feet about and slid his hands to the side, his hands clinched into fists, ready for any move she attempted to make.

"I never would have taken you for shy.. I guess first impressions aren't always accurate." He spoke in low, venomous voice.

"Where's, Jack and Sawyer?" She asked hoarsely surprised by the unmistakable roughness underlying her voice.

"Ah, I've been waiting for that question." Smiling he continued. "Now, please explain to me what I have to gain from feeding you this information; I'm curious to say the least." He straightened his legs out in front of him.

"Where the hell are they?" She injected more strength into her voice this time around he recoiled in shock, but recovered quickly. "I'm a little unsure if I heard that correctly, care to repeat that?" He looked straight into her eyes, causing her to look away finding anything to focus on but his face. She looked back refusing to cower down and said with more vengeance then she knew she was capable of repeated the words. "Where. The. Hell. Are. They?"

"Safe, I can assure you; but nowhere near here my friend." He smiled and shuffled to his feet slowly turning to face her he smiled and opened the door quickly shutting the light off he left she sat against the wall listening to his retreating footsteps it wasn't until she no longer heard his footsteps that felt the tears fall down her cheeks.

Her feet hitting the pavement she felt the tears falling out of her eyes she struggled to contain herself but knew that she was fighting a losing battle, her heart was pounding in her ears, she focused ahead but the tears blinded her vision; finally she collapsed onto the cement into a broken heap and sobbed. How did it get this far? Why didn't she make him get out of the fucking car?

She placed her hands in front of her, feeling the rough cement rubbing against them she pushed her body up and wiped her eyes and began running again; she needed to know she was alive she hit her feet to the pavement with a force that made her whole body ache she couldn't stop herself she ran until her body was numb and refused to move any farther she glanced around and sank into the woods and collapsed against the fall leaves and laid on the dew-moistened ground and sobbed herself to sleep, oblivious to her surroundings.

Silently she shifted her weight and climbed to her feet, oblivious to the fact that her body was covered in dew moistened leaves she rubbed her arms together in absent minded attempt to warm them she glanced around at her surrounding silently taking them in sighing she began to slowly move her legs at an unbearably slow pace.

She moved her body the concrete walls rubbing against her bare arms. She felt sleep creeping upon her body at a slow dredging pace she fought it off in the end it won and she felt it creeping into her blood overcoming her wrapping her like a blanket so tight she couldn't move her muscles relaxed and she slid to the floor.