Kali's eyes snapped open when she heard her name being shouted not too far away. She sat bolt upright, blinking a few times, wondering if she had just been dreaming. Then she heard the shouts getting louder and looked to where Sawyer was still sleeping, only a metre away.

"Hey, earth to Sawyer. Wake up, I think something's happening" She exclaimed, patting him on the shoulder.

"What?" He frowned, rubbing his eyes.

"Kali! We need you down at the caves, it's Claire! She…oh sorry dude…" Hurley trailed off, after stumbling into their tent.

Kali had picked up the habit of wearing one of Sawyer's large shirts to bed at night, seeing as her wardrobe mostly consisted of jeans and tank tops. She blushed a little, as Hurley looked in between the pair, taking in Sawyer's shirtless appearance and what she was wearing. It took her brain a couple of seconds to realise what Hurley had been saying.

"Wait, Claire's back?!" Kali questioned, standing up.

"Yeah, Locke and Boone found her out in the forest, she's seems in a bad way" Hurley explained, as Kali was putting her trainers on.

"C'mon! She could be hurt!" Kali insisted to Sawyer, who rolled his eyes and began to put his own shoes on.

"Uh…aren't you going to change?" Hurley asked.

"Oh yeah, sure. Sorry about Claire dying because I was too busy changing my clothes, guys. Couldn't be helped" Kali mocked, as she pushed the tent flap open.

"Catch!" Sawyer called to her, throwing one of his jackets her way.

"Let's go" She exclaimed, as they began to rush through the forest.


"Hey! Where is she?" Kali announced as she began to push through the crowd at the caves.

"Over here, she hasn't woken up yet-" Jack cut himself off when he saw Kali's state of undress.

"What? You've never seen a pair of legs before. Eyes on the prize, Doc" Kali insisted, as Sawyer chuckled in the background.

"Right, uh…she doesn't seem to have any injuries. But she seems dehydrated" Jack informed her, as Kali went to the other side of Claire.

"Claire? Claire, can you hear me? Squeeze my hand if you can hear me?" Kali questioned, taking Claire's hand in her own.

"Is she going to be okay?" Charlie panicked.

"I don't know, just give her some space, all right?" Jack insisted, making everyone back up a few paces.

Kali grabbed a bottle of water and drenched a nearby cloth and began to pat Claire's face gently. A few moments later the woman's eyes began to flicker open, as Kali smiled down at her. She hadn't been expecting Claire to suddenly let out an ear-splitting scream and crawl away from her.

"Woah, woah. It's okay. It's us" Kali told her, as the girl still seemed terrified.

"Hey, you're safe" Charlie insisted, as he crouched down beside Claire.

"Who are you? Who are you, people?!" Claire cried, her eyes darting around the crowd.

"Okay, everyone needs to back off. That's it, c'mon guys, you're freaking her out" Kali informed the crowd, as she began ushering them away.

"What do you mean, Claire? It's me! It's Charlie" He stated, reaching out to her.

"Don't touch me!" She screamed, crawling away further.

"It's okay! We're not going to hurt you; we just want to talk. Is that alright?" Kali inquired, as Claire nodded.

"Do you recognise any of us?" Kali asked as Claire shook her head violently.

"What the hell?" Charlie mumbled, quietly.

"What's the last thing you remember?" Jack queried.

"I…I was on a plane. Sydney to LA" Claire exclaimed.

"We were all on that plane. It crashed here. That was almost a month ago" Jack admitted, which seemed to scare Claire even more.

"No…I'm…I'm due…" Claire stuttered, looking down to her stomach.

"Your baby's fine. He's kicking, everything's normal" Jack tried to reassure her.

"But…I can't give birth here…oh God, this can't be happening" Claire panicked.

"Hey, don't think about that, okay? You're fine, and so is your baby. Hopefully, someone will come to get us before your due but if not…you've got a doctor and nurse here who are fully capable of helping you give birth. Right, Doc?" Kali explained as Jack nodded, encouragingly.

"Well, a doctor and a student nurse…if you want to get technical" Locke announced, from where he had been watching the encounter a few metres away.

"Not helping, mate" Kali rolled her eyes.

"You promise my baby will be alright?" Claire pleaded.

"I will do everything I can to keep your baby safe. I promise you that" Kali said, as Claire suddenly leaned forward and pulled her into a hug, as she sobbed.

Kate could see Sawyer had been watching the pair, a soft look in his eyes that she would have never expected from the older man. He seemed almost proud to see Kali comforting Claire, as Kate began to realise just how much Sawyer may have cared about Kali.


"If this is a new fashion trend…I'm certainly enjoying it" Boone grinned, as he approached Kali.

"Oh my God, don't. If I get one more dodgy look because of what I'm wearing, I'm going to start throwing punches" Kali explained, making Boone laugh.

"You know, your accent gets a lot stronger when you're angry. It's cute" Boone smiled, as Kali blushed lightly.

"Flirt" Kali mumbled, as she leaned forward and pressed a soft kiss to his lips.

"Whose shirt is that, anyways?" Boone frowned.

"Sawyer's" She shrugged, absentmindedly.

"Huh" Boone mumbled.

"What?" Kali asked.

"It's just usually girls only wear their boyfriends' clothes" Boone pointed out.

"Well, I don't have much here, and his shirts are comfy" Kali answered, knowing how weak her explanation sounded.

"I could give you one of my shirts" Boone suggested, as Kali laughed.

"Wait…are you jealous?" Kali realised.

"No" Boone shook his head, crossing his arms.

"You totally are. Is this you marking your territory?" Kali teased.

"Maybe I just don't like my girlfriend wearing other guys clothes" Boone replied, as Kali's smile faded.

"Girlfriend?" She frowned.

"I mean…it just came out like that…" Boone stuttered, rubbing his neck.

"This still isn't anything serious, right? We're just having fun?" Kali insisted.

"Oh…yeah, of course. More friends with benefits than anything else" Boone shrugged.

"Hey, I'm going back to the beach. You coming?" Sawyer called over to her, as she nodded.

"I'll see you later" She smiled at Boone, pressing a quick kiss to his cheek before following Sawyer.


News quickly spread around the camp that Charlie and Jin had been attacked by the mysterious Ethan and given the warning that if they didn't return Claire to him, he would kill someone every day. Understandably, this put everyone on edge. Kali knew they needed weapons if they were going to be able to stop this guy, but they had nothing. Only an empty gun. However, her mind went back to Kate and her briefcase, as she realised that there was obviously something important in there.

"Was there anything in your briefcase other that object from your past?" Kali inquired, approaching Kate.

"Why'd you think that?" Kate retorted.

"It was the US Marshall's. If he had any weapons, they'd be in there" Kali theorised.

"…There are five guns. About 100 bullets I think" Kate admitted.

"Great, let's grab them and defend ourselves" Kali stated.

"Jack has the key," Kate told her.

"Okay…maybe not then" Kali sighed.

"Locke thinks we should set up a perimeter and defend ourselves that way. He thinks it would be too dangerous going after Ethan" Kate explained.

"And what are the people guarding this perimeter going to do when he turns up? Throw mangos at him?" Kali pointed out.

"Jack won't give the guns to untrained people," Kate told her.

"He might if you talk to him. C'mon Kate, the guy clearly likes you" Kali went on.

"Not as much as you seem to think. Besides, your one to talk. What is going on with you and Sawyer, anyway?" Kate responded.

"Nothing" Kali shrugged, with a frown.

"So, you weren't wearing his shirt this morning?" Kate teased, with a small smile.

"It gets hot at night and…we're getting off the subject here. Okay, how about you get me the bullets. Sawyer has a gun. Problem solved" Kali stated.

"So, Sawyer goes storming off into the forest armed? I don't think so" Kate scoffed.

"Actually, I was going to take the gun from him and kill Ethan myself" Kali admitted.

"He almost killed Jack when he went up against him…you really think you'd have a better chance?" Kate asked.

"He kidnapped Claire, hung Charlie, and now he's threatening the rest of us. He needs to go down, no matter what" Kali explained.

"Jesus, so this is like some suicidal mission to you? I don't get you sometimes, Kali. I mean my past is pretty dark but the things you say…god, what happened to you?" Kate questioned.

"You don't want to know, Kate. You really don't" Kali grimaced.


Author's Notes: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! The whole shirt wearing thing was too cute to resist, and I love a good fanfic trope, haha. Please leave a review:)

kz4valentina: Yes, I plan for Kali and Sawyer to end up on the raft together, as they've really picked up this team dynamic. Lost has so many different potential plots that I definitely plan to do some things a little differently. I think there will be more Kali trying to get Michael seeing sense scenes, as they will be interacting more now. Thanks so much for the review:)

DrLexieSloan: Thanks for the review! I'm really glad you're still enjoying this story:) I agree that it's a bit out of character for Boone to be paying attention to anyone but Shannon, but I think he's trying to force it. He wants to get over Shannon and he likes Kali, but as you can see in this chapter, Kali might not be able to give him what he wants. Keep up the good work with your fic, it seems really good!

hodhod2011danger: Aw, thanks for this review:) I love that my pairings are making it hard for you to choose, haha. Sawyer and Kali are definitely the OTP though, as you can probably see in his chapter. But Boone is still really cute.