Lost Hope
Chapter 8
The next day everyone was in high spirits when Sawyer and Kate returned, apparently Jack was still with the Others and used that Ben guy as leverage so they could leave. I was helping Desmond rearrange the tarp on our tent when Charlie walked up.
"So, when's it going to happen?" He asked
Desmond turned his head to Charlie then back at the tarp, "When's what going to happen?"
"Don't play stupid with me, brother." Charlie said frustrated.
"I was drunk. Now if I said anything..." He was cut off
"I have a right to when I'm going to die." Charlie told him moving closer.
"It doesn't work like that."
"What doesn't work like that?" Charlie asked and before Desmond could respond Sawyer walked up.
"Hey, Oliver Twist, where the hell's my stuff?" He asked.
"What stuff?" Charlie asked looking at Sawyer.
"Oh, you know good and damn well what stuff! I had books, food, porno, a bottle of scotch." I smiled a little when he mentioned the drink.
"Aye, apologies for the scotch, mate." Desmond said moving next to me.
"You drank it?!" Sawyer asked with anger in his voice looking at Desmond.
"Well, to be fair there was - there was 3 of us." Desmond said looking at Charlie.
"Yeah, there was." Charlie said.
"You, the Munchkin, and who else?" Sawyer said then looked at me, "Was it you too doc number 2?" He asked and Desmond put a hand on my shoulder.
I shook my head and Desmond spook up, "Me charlie and Hurley mate."
Sawyer scoffed and stormed off, I turned to Desmond and Charlie went after Sawyer, "That guy must be an only child, he doesnt like sharing his stuff." I laughed, Desmond just nodded and kissed my head before going back to the tent and finishing the flap. I couldnt take it I put my hand on his shoulder making him look at me.
"Des, Whats wrong? Ever since yesterday you had this worried look in your eyes when you look at me. Tell me whats wrong, please" I said and he looked down then grabbed my hand and we sat on our bed and he turned to look at me.
"You know how I've had visions of Charlie dying?" He asked and I nodded, "I've had another on too, the other night after we got back from the boat I had one of you, you got badly injured going into the jungle to get something or go after something I'm not sure." He pulled me closer, "You were so badly hurt you layed here unconsious with me sitting right next to you."
I looked at him and put my hand on his face, "Hey, it's okay, you saw it you can prevent it." I said and he looked down.
"No, I cant, it's like with Charlie. Even if I prevent that moment another incident can happen and you could still get hurt, or worse." He said.
I moved and sat on his leg, "That may be true but you are always going to be with me, it's gonna be okay." I kissed him softly and pulled away running my finger along his cheek. He pulled me into him hugging me.
"I wont let anything happen to you Freya, I love you." He said in my hair.
"I love you too Desmond," I told him and pulled away looking at him, "and I always will."
Couple days later Desmond tells me he's gonna go ask Charlie to go hunt for a boar, but when I asked him if I could join them and he said no, I knew in truth he is trying to keep Charlie from dying again, but why not take me with? He headed off towards where Charlie and Claire were and I went to go do some laundry and check on Sun, just then Claire comes running up.
"Sun, Jin, Freya!" She yells.
"Claire! What's the matter?" Sun asks, I panic thinking it has something to do with Charlie.
"I need Jin's nets and fish. We gotta hurry, and buckets I'm gonna need those too." She says franticly.
Jin asks Sun something in korean.
"We have to catch the birds." She said and I looked at her confused.
"What birds?" I asked
"They just flew over and they're only gonna be here today, so if we're gonna catch one, we need to do it now." She said and Sawyer came over.
"Oh, this sounds like fun." He said with a sarcastic tone.
"Can you get some nets?" She asked him
"Nets for what, Barb—" He started to say but Sun looked at him, apparently they were trying to get Sawyer to be more nicer to people, "Nets for what, Claire?"
"Okay, five minutes ago, a flock of seabirds flew over my head. Seabirds are migratory which means they're going to keep heading south." She said
"I'm sorry; I don't understand why we need to—" Sun said but Claire cut her off.
"They're tagged!" She exclaimed.
"Tagged?" Jin said, he was trying really hard to learn English so he could talk to us better.
"Scientists tag these birds so they can track them. So, when they eventually land in Australia or New Zealand or wherever, somebody's gonna gather them up." Claire told us and me and Sun looked at her finally getting what she was saying.
"We can send a message!" Sun said
Just then Charlie walks up to us and I look to see Desmond standing back in the distance. He looks at Desmond.
"If we can catch one. Okay, so here's the plan. First we gotta cut up these fish, make chum, that'll get the birds to settle in the water. And then, umm, we're gonna need to cut up some of this net. Charlie, can you go get some knives?" She asked him but he didnt respond.
"Umm, Charlie." She said trying to get his attention but he still doesnt respond, "Charlie!"
"Yeah, err, how do you even know this stuff about birds, Claire?"
"I, umm, I watched a lot of nature shows with my mum."
"That doesn't exactly make you an expert. I just... I don't want to see you wasting your time, that's all."
"So what happened to seizing the day?" She asked him with a tone of anger in her voice.
"Sorry, I don't see the point." He says walking away.
I see Claire look at Desmond, he starts to walk away, I put my hand on Claire's shoulder and run after him.
"Des!" I yelled after im and he stopped looking at me, "Hey want some company?" I asked him and he shook his head.
"No it's alright I got it." He said starting to walk away again but I grabbed his hand and made him look at me.
"Desmond what's going on? Why dont you want me to come?" I asked him trying to search his eyes for an answer, I saw worry, "Oh my god, thats how I get hurt isnt it?" I asked.
He looked at me and nodded, "Aye, it is."
I pulled him to stand in front of me, "Desmond, you said it yourself with Charlie, fate will just end up course correcting itself. If I dont get hurt now then it's gonna happen at a different time." I told him putting a hand on his face, "Please Desmond, I know you want to keep me safe, but think of it this way we can get it done and over with."
He looked at me then pulled me into a kiss, a very passionate kiss, then pulled away, "Alright, but tay by me at all times love." He said, I nodded and he grabbed my hand leading us into the jungle.
After walking around for a while I didnt see any signs of a boar and noticed Desmond wasnt even trying, I walked over to where he was and stepped behind him wrapping my arms around his waist ressting my chin on his back.
"Penny for your thoughts?" I asked him, he turned his head slightly and half smiled at me.
"I was just thinking about everything, here I am trying to save two people I care about, and one of them is saving me from myself." He said turning to face me, "I never thought I would meet someone like you, beautiful , smart, braver then I could ever imagine. I nevr thought a girl like you would end up with a guy like me." I looked him in the eyes.
"What do you mean a girl like me?" I asked putting my arms around his neck.
"A girl so far out of my league that she could have any guy she wanted but settled for a disappointment like me." He said and went to look down but I stopped him with my hand making him look at me.
"Hey you are anything but a disappointment, especially to me. I dont care what society says I do what I want, and right now I want you and nothing but you." I said and pulled him into a kiss, we stayed like that for a few minutes then he pulled away.
"I know that, and thats why I love you, and that's why I want to do this." He said and pulled away from me reaching into his pocket and got on the ground and I looked at him in shock, "Freya Johnson, will you marry me?" He asked and held a ring that looked like he made it from a tree branch, I couldnt even believe what was happening but I got down in front of him.
"Yes," I said and he smiled, "Yes Desmond I would love to marry you." He put the ring on my finger and was surprised when it fit then he pulled me into a kiss that left me breathless. We kissed for a few more minutes then he pulled away.
"Once we get off this island, I will get you a proper ring and then we can get married." He said to me but I shook my head.
"I dont need a proper ring, I dont care about that, I just need you." I told him and he kissed me again. After that we got up and made our way to the beach when he stopped hearing a noise, I peeked through the trees and saw Claire, Sun and Jin kneeling by the trees. Just then Desmond moves away from me and fired off some shots of his gun, I jumped and looked at him but he ran off. I followed him as he got to where the other were.
"Look, I'm sorry." I hear Desmond say looking at Claire and Jin was shouting at him in Korean, "I'm sorry, man."
Jin yelled again and Desmond looked at him, "I said I'm sorry." Desmond said and Claire came storming over.
"What the hell is wrong with you?!" She shouted.
"Look I was shooting at a boar, I had no idea you were out here." He told her, I knew he was lying because we havent seen a boar at all.
"Where's Charlie? Is he with you?" She asked, Desmond looked at me then at her.
"He's back at the camp, look I'm really sorry."
"So it's just you two?" She asked him, i could tell she didnt believe him.
"Aye it's just us." He said and I nodded playing along.
"Hunting? In the exact same spot we're setting our trap!" She said pissed off.
"I was following a boar, Claire. That's all."
"Oh, so it's just a coincidence then. Where is it?" She said looking behind us.
"It got away." I told her, I hated lying to her.
"You don't want me to catch the birds do you? You and Charlie. What's going on? Do you want me to catch the birds Freya?" She asked looking at me.
"Why wouldn't we want you to catch the birds?" Desmond asked her, she shook her head and walked away.
I looked at Desmond and he grabbed my hand leading us back towards camp and Charlie stops us, I ignore what they are talking about looking at Claire and Sun. Charlie stops talking and Desmond pulled me to come with him, we made our way to another part of the beach where there were a lot of rocks, we finally got to a spot and Desmond told me to be quiet as we got closer to what I saw was a bird.
"What the hell are you doing?!" I turned and see Claire coming towards us.
"You followed us." He said then put his hand up to stop her, "Stay back!"
He moves to one of the rocks where the bird is laying in a nest bird in a nest.
"It's one of the birds." She said coming closer.
Desmond put his hand up again, "Stay back!"
Desmond picks the bird up and I stayed by Claire as he moves back towards us.
"How did you know it was gonna be here?"
He looked at her, "I didn't."
"Yes you did, you had to. That's what you and Charlie were arguing about. You knew." She said looking at both of us.
"How would I?" He asked her.
"I don't know, but you know, you walked straight here, no doubt at all about where you were going. You came right to this beach and right to this rock, and lo and behold, there's the bird. What the hell is going on Desmond?"
Desmond sighed and looked at me then over at the rocks, "See that spot over there?" He said pointing to a protruding rock in the water, "That's where Charlie slipped and fell. He got pounded again and again by the rocks and broke his neck."
Claire looked confused, "What? What are you talking about?"
"That's where Charlie died." Desmond said to her and she looked shocked. We headed back to the beach, Claire was holding the bird and went over to her tent where Charlie was. I walked into mine and Desmond's tent and threw my bag down sitting and sighed, he came and sat down next to me, I put my arm through his and leaned against his shoulder. We did say anything, we just sat there staring out into the distance.