Kali soon heard that Sayid and Kate were planning to go on a hike to higher ground to try to get the transceiver working and hoped they would allow her to join. She wasn't nearly as desperate as the others to get back to civilisation, but there was something about the island that unnerved her. It felt wrong somehow.
"Hey, let's get going" Kali announced, as she walked up to the pair, a rucksack that she had packed a few minutes before on her back.
"It's nice of you to offer-" Kate started, but Kali cut her off.
"What if something happens to one of you on the hike? You fall, break your leg? Are you going to know what do? No. I'm coming" Kali insisted.
"What about your own leg?" Sayid questioned, looking at the makeshift bandage that was still over her thigh.
"It's just a scratch" She dismissed.
"It's going to be dangerous…there are things out there" Kate went on.
"Look, there is a guy here who is going to die soon enough if he doesn't get to a hospital. And I'm pretty sure that tally is going to start to rise. I don't want to see that happen" Kali explained.
"…Alright, but if we tell you to run. You run" Kate told her, as she nodded.
"Um, I'm sorry about earlier by the way. It wasn't personal" Kali informed Sayid.
"Maybe I was being a little rash" Sayid confessed.
"Truce?" Kali asked, holding out her hand.
"Yes. Truce" Sayid agreed, shaking her hand.
"I'd like to come with you" A feminine voice announced from behind them.
"She's not going. She doesn't want to go" The blue-eyed man from the day before argued.
"The hell I'm not" She retorted.
"This is what she does. She makes really bad decisions to mess with her family, which at the moment is me" The man exclaimed.
"Shut up and stop trying to be charming. I'm coming with you" The blonde spat out.
"I don't know if that's such a good idea" Kate stated.
"What are you, two years older than me? And your letting this girl go? She's younger than me!" The blonde insisted.
"I have a name...and thank you for pointing out something that no one was aware of" Kali rolled her eyes, making Sayid snigger a little.
"You're going, aren't you?" The blonde asked another man who had suddenly turned up.
"Yep. Are you?" The man with an English accent replied.
"Yep" The blonde told him.
"Yeah, I'm definitely going" The man grinned.
"Look everyone can come, but we're leaving now" Kate pointed out, as she walked away.
"You couldn't tell from that but she's actually really nice" The English man suggested.
"Thank God I'm not the only English person on this island" Kali grinned.
"These Americans can get a bit much sometimes, can't they?" The man joked, making Kali laugh.
"I'm Kali, what's your name?" Kali queried.
"Charlie. You might have heard of me? I was in Drive Shaft" He exclaimed.
"Right…is that some sort of group?" Kali frowned.
"It's a band. Pretty famous actually" Charlie insisted.
"And I'm Boone, by the way. Nice to meet you" The blue-eyed man informed her.
"The lifeguard, right?" Kali suggested.
"Yeah…not that Jack seems to think much of that" Boone mumbled.
"Well trying to do CPR is better than doing nothing at all. Doctor's are just a little bit…dramatic. You'll get used to it" Kali told him.
Sawyer saw her and the rest of the group walking off towards the jungle and put the letter that he had been looking over for the past ten minutes back into his pocket. He noticed how Kali was already slightly limping and couldn't see how she was going to make it all the way up the mountain. With a sigh, he got up and began to follow them.
"The Doc's gonna' be awful mad when he hears you've gone on this hike" Sawyer announced, as he caught up with her.
"Right, and I suppose that's why you're joining us? So you don't want to have to deal with his fury?" Kali suggested.
"Maybe…I'm a complex guy, sweetheart" Sawyer replied.
"Hey, wait up! Look, I'm sorry about before. We're all just stressed, I didn't mean to get mad at you" She told him.
"You didn't do anything wrong" He pointed out.
"I know that, but you're never going to apologise, are you? So, I thought I'd take the first step. Be the mature one" She explained.
"What makes you think I wasn't just about to apologise?" Sawyer retorted.
"Were you?" She asked.
"Guess we'll never know now" He grinned at her, as she laughed.
"You're a dick...but you're ok, Sawyer" She told him, a small smile on her face.
The climb up the mountains was a lot more difficult than anyone had expected, as the only thing they had to hold onto most of the time were flimsy tree roots. After a couple of hours, Kali's leg was really starting to ache, but she didn't want to slow down the group. They needed to get to the top before it got dark or they would never be able to see where they were going. Sawyer took the lead as he was the tallest in the group and this meant that he was able to reach things the others wouldn't be able to. Kali let out a sigh when she saw that the nearest tree root to her was over a metre above her head and there was no way to reach it without jumping. She looked behind her and gulped when she saw the ominous fall that could soon be greeting her. A moment later, there was a hand near her face, as she looked up to see Sawyer ushering for her to grab onto it.
"C'mon. I won't let you fall" Sawyer told her, more serious than she had ever seen him before.
Taking a deep breath, she placed her hand in his, as he helped pull her up to the tree roots. She was amazed that he was able to hold pretty much her entire weight with just one arm and gave him a grateful nod.
"Show off" She grinned at him, as he gave her a cheeky smile.
Once they made it to flat ground, and the adrenaline of the climb began to wear off, Kali realised just how badly her leg was hurting. She looked down to see that blood had started to seep through the bandage. She didn't want to tell the others, it would just show that they were right not to want her to come. However, Sawyer had noticed her beginning to slow down and how much worse her limp had gotten. He guessed she was too stubborn to say anything.
"Okay, wide open space. We should check the radio, see if we're good" Sawyer suggested, thinking it was the best way to get them to stop.
"We're not going to get any reception out here" Sayid responded, and continued walking.
"Just try it" Sawyer exclaimed.
"Sawyer, it's fine" Kali told him, as she guessed why he wanted to stop.
"I don't want to waste the batteries" Sayid reasoned.
"I'm not asking you to keep it on all day" Sawyer pointed out.
"We're still blocked by the mountain" Sayid explained.
"Just check the damn radio!" Sawyer insisted.
"If I just check we might not have any juice left-" Sayid yelled but was cut off by a roar.
"Oh my God" Shannon squealed, as they heard a rustling from the bushes.
"What the hell's that?" Boone gulped.
"Something's coming" Kate mumbled.
"It's coming towards us, I think" Charlie pointed out, as they could hear it getting closer.
"Okay, let's run. Let's go!" Kali shouted, as she gestured for everyone to run in the opposite direction.
"I shouldn't have come on this" Shannon cried, and began to scream as Boone grabbed her.
Kali was about to follow her when she realised that Sawyer hadn't moved.
"What are you doing? We need to go!" Kali exclaimed.
"I've got this" Sawyer replied, as he suddenly pulled out a gun from the waistband of his jeans.
"We don't know what that thing is. You're going to get yourself killed!" Kali told him, grabbing his arm and trying to make him leave.
"I'm not running…You should go" He informed her and raised the gun.
"Well with Shannon screaming like that…I expect it will probably just pass us and chase after her" Kali gulped, as she could see it was close now.
Sawyer began to fire a few shots at the oncoming creature but was completely missing. Once the creature was only a few hundred metres away, Kali suddenly grabbed the gun from him and shot the creature head on, as it dropped to the ground, only a few metres away. Sawyer stared at her in shock, surprised that she knew how to handle a gun so well.
"That's…that's a big bear" Shannon stated, as the others came back.
"Guys…this isn't just a bear. It's a polar bear" Kate realised, as they all frowned.
Author's Notes: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! I think it will be really interesting to see how Kali being a character could change the storyline of this show, and especially Sawyer's story. Please leave a review and tell me what you think of this story:)
farrahjohnson21: Aw, thank you so much for this review! I was surprised by how little Sawyer/OC fics there are, so hopefully this will give people their Sawyer fix, haha. Jack's definitely a bit silly and overdramatic sometimes. I'm really glad you like my work:)
