Lost Hope
Chapter 9
The next morning Desmond and I got up early, we were gonna go hunt a boar and to my suprise we were taking Sawyer with us. I got dressed and met Desmond at the food station and saw him packing just a few provisions for us, Sawyer walked up to us looking groggy and we left. Me, Sawyer and Desmond layed on the ground with guns,
"Why're we gotta be out here so damn early?" Sawyer said in annoyance.
"You asked me to help you catch a boar. Well this is when they break cover to eat." Desmond told him looking over at me, I just shrugged.
"Looks like they picked a day to sleep in." Sawyer said with sarcasm.
"So what's your angle, brother?" Desmond asked him.
"My angle?" Sawyer asked him.
"Well you, haven't spoken three words to me and then, suddenly you want to be my hunting partner." Desmond said bringing up a good point.
"My angle, is that I got hearts and minds to change. And politics is all about bribes. Since money don't mean squat on this Island, I gotta give the people something they like. And people like meat..." Sawyer said but was cut off when we heard something moving in the trees
"Shh." Desmond said to Sawyer, just then a boar appears, and Desmond shoots it dead. We haul it back to camp and bring it over to Jin so he can skin it.
The next day me, Desmond, Hurley and Charlie were at the food center, Hurley is cooking oatmeal with Charlie, who is caring for Aaron.
"Hey, wow, that's too much water, its going to be all soggy." Charlie said holding a ball for Aaron.
"It's oatmeal dude, it's supposed to be soggy." I heard Hurley say, then I see Sawyer walk up.
"Well if it ain't three men and a baby..." I see Charlie give Sawyer a confused look as he walked by, "I counted Hugo twice." I rolled my eyes and saw Hurley look at "Oh what, come on I used your name." He says, Desmond walks past him and stands next to me as I wave the ball at Aaron, then Claire walks up
"Hey. Does anybody know where there's any aspirin?" She asked and I looked at her, she looked horrible, I walked over to her.
"Claire you don't look so good." Desmond said
"What are you doing up? You're meant to be in bed." Charlie said
"Yeah no I know, I just ... my head's pounding." Claire said
"I got you covered, two aspirin coming right up." Sawyer said taking a bite of his cereal walking away.
"Thank you." She said and I put my hand on her head.
"Sweetie your burning up, come on you need to lay down." I told her and she nodded her head and I led her back to her tent and she laid down after I gave her a couple of asprin. I walked back over to where everyone one was and saw that Jack, kate and Sayid returned and they had someone with them, apparently she was one of the people who worked for Ben.
Later that night we all gathered around talking about what we should do about Juliet.
"Trust her? She's one of them." Sun said
"Not anymore. They left her behind." Jack told us
"Oh yeah, where'd they go?" Charlie asked
"I told you, I dont know." Jack looked at him.
"Well maybe we better ask her." Sawyer said.
"She doesn't know either." Jack said shaking his head.
"Well here's a wacky idea. Let's stick our resident Iraqi on her. Let him do what he does, then see what she says." Sawyer said looking at Sayid.
"No, I don't do that anymore." Sayid said looking down.
"Well ain't that convenient."
"But I don't trust her, Jack. If she's so innocent, why won't she answer my questions?" Sayid said looking at Jack.
I see Claire arrive wrapped up in a blanket and Charlie goes to her as the others continue arguing.
"Just give her some time, she's afraid." Jack said
"How much time?" Sayid asked.
"Look the fact that I trust her should be enough." Jack said turning to him.
"It's not." Sayid told him
"Where did Locke go?" Desmond said from next to me.
"He went with them. Right after he destroyed the sub, the sub that was gonna take me off this Island." Jack said and I looked at him in shock. Why the hell do you get to be the only one who leaves? I thought to myself.
"What?" Hurley asked.
"They were gonna let you go?" Sawyer asked sitting up.
"Yeah." Jack answered
"Said who?" asked Sawyer
"Ben."
"Ben. Whose life you saved." Sawyer said
"Sawyer, lay off." Kate said looking at him
As they continued arguing I lookd over at Claire and saw that she was about to fall over.
"Claire?" Charlie asked her.
"I was trying to help all of us. I was trying to get us rescued." Jack said then suddenly Claire spits up blood. I rush over to her as she starts to fall over.
"Claire ... Jack! There's something wrong with Claire!" I said calling him over Jack comes over and helps Charlie hold her.
"Put her head back, put her head back. Let's get her up. How long's she been like this?" Jack asked Charlie as they moved her over to her tent.
"Er, she started feeling bad this morning." Charlie answered him as they walked away, i felt Desmond wrap his arm around my waist and I leaned my head on his chest. I wanted to help Claire but I was feeling pretty tired from today so we walked back to our tent and I sat down while Desmond shut the flaps. I changed into my pajamas and layed down, I looked over and saw Desmond take off his shirt and shoes, he looked at me and saw I was watching him. He walked over to the bed and layed down so that he was hovering over me, he stayed like that for a few minutes just looking at me. Then he moved his lips onto mine, the kiss was simple and full of love, it felt like it did the first time we kissed. The kiss deepened and I felt my whole body melt into his and I tangled my hand into his hair, in this momnt I was in complete bliss.
The next day I was sitting on the beach with Desmond who had drifted off into space, I think he was having a vision or something because when I put my hand on his shoulder he jumped and looked around then I see Charlie come into view and Desmond gets up grabbing my hand and we walked over to Hurley
"Hey. Where's the wire?" He asked Hurley and I looked at him confused.
"D'you eat those mushrooms Jack warned us about?" Hurley said walking past us.
"Listen to me, there's a wire, a cable buried in the sand. Do you know what I'm talking about?" Desmond asked him.
"This is future crap isn't it?" Hurley asked looking at m I just shrugged.
"The cable, do you know where it is?! This is important." Desmond said
"Why?"
"Because someone's coming." Desmond said gripping my hand tightly. I opened my mouth in shock. Were we finally being rescued?
Me, Desmond and Hurley walked over to Jack, "Morning, Jack. Must be nice to wake up in your own bed." I said to him.
"Yep, home sweet home." He said laughing.
"Listen I was wondering if I could borrow your first-aid kit. I seemed to have lost mine and we are gonna take a walk in the jungle to go get more fruit, I dont feel safe without having medical supplies in case something happens.
Jack looked at me with a questionable look then shrugged grabbing the kit and gives it to me.
"Thanks." I said to him and Jack looks at Hurley
"Something wrong Hurley?" Jack asked.
"Nah, uh uh, just, keeping Desmond and Freya company. Cause, we're friends." Hurley said acting nervous.
Jack turned back to me, "Bring that back when you're done with it, OK?"
"Absolutely." I said and we walked away
"What the hell was that? Do you want him to get suspicious?" Desmond said looking at Hurley
"Suspicious of what? Oh this is like when you knew Claire was drowning isn't it? That's why you got the first-aid kit, someone's gonna get hurt. Is it me?" Hurley asked looking at both me and Desmond.
"No. It's just a precaution." Desmond told him
"Look, dude. You want me to take you to the wire, I want an explanation." Hurley said putting his foot down.
"I saw a sequence of events. Things that are gonna happen." Desmond said and looked at me.
"What'd you see?" Hurley asked.
Desmond looked back at Hurley, "It was, it was like a sorta jigsaw puzzle. Only I didn't have the picture in the box so, I dunno how the pieces fit exactly but, but one of the pieces, the first one..." he paused, "It was you, pulling the cable out the sand."
"So what are the other pieces" Hurley asked
"If I tell you that, it'll change the picture in the box." Desmond told him
"So what? Isn't that the point? Preventing something bad?" Hurley asked him and Desmond looked at me again.
"Not this time." I looked at him and he gave a half smile.
"So you're not trying to stop something from happening, you actually want it to happen." Hurley said
Desmond grabbed my hand and continued looking at me and answered him, "More then anything."
Desmond, Hurley and I watch Jin preparing to fish.
"Dude, you're gonna have to tell me again. What do we need Jin for?" Hurley asked
"Because he was there with us." Desmond said
"On the beach, when I find the cable."
"That's right." Desmond said
"In one of your puzzle flashes."
"Aye."
"So, if he doesn't come, then neither does the someone you won't tell me anything about." Hurley said to him
"That'd be the long and short of it. But I've no bloody idea how I'm gonna get him to come with us." Desmond said looking at Hurley
"Watch the master." Hurley said walking towards Jin
Hurley tells him that we were thinking about do a camping trip and Jin looked at Hurley confused, but after Hurley got done trying to convince him Jin said yes.
"Good man. Get food, water." He said walking away.
"Where are you going?" I asked him
"We need one more."
Later on me, Desmond, Jin, Hurley and Charlie started walking away from camp to go to the wire that only me, Desmond and Hurley knew we were looking for.
"This is it." Hurley said stopping
Desmond looked around, "But, how can you tell?"
"Cause that's exactly where I followed the wire into the jungle." Hurley told him
"Where is it then?" Desmond asked
Just then Jin says something in Korean and I look to see him holding up a wire.
"Way to go, dude!" Hurley said walking over to him and pulls on the cable, "Here it is!"
"Just one thing, last time I followed this wire into the jungle, I almost got kebabed by one of Rousseau's spiky death-trap things." Hurley said
"We're not going in the jungle, well not yet. It's getting late, so we'll, er, we'll camp here the night." Desmond said putting his bag down.
"Camp." I look over and see Jin smile.
Jin and Hurley go to set up and Charlie walks over to us.
"So when do they get here? Your mysterious someone." He asked Desmond
"Soon." he said and we all sat around the fire that Jin built, except Desmond, he was sitting against a tree away from us. I would look over at him every once and awhile and he gave me a smile. As we are sitting, we hear the chopping sound of a propeller.
"What's that?" Hurley asked
"Is that a helicopter?" Charlie asked looking at the sky.
"Rescue!" Jin shouted.
As we watch, the sound begins to change to that of grinding metal.
"Er, is that how a helicopter's supposed to sound?" Hurley asked, I looked at Desmond who was looking up.
"No." He responded.
The sounds change again, the engines seem to be struggling, the propeller dies out. A crash in the ocean signifies that the vehicle has crashed into the sea.
"We gotta go out there." Hurley said
"Out there?" Charlie asked looking at him
"Well yeah."
"In what?" I asked him, we had no boat or anything to even think about going out into the water.
"Well we gotta do something." Hurley said looking at me.
"Look." Jin pointed at the sea a small red light flickers in the darkened sky, and heads inland over the Island.
"Oh my god." Desmond said grabbing my hand.
The others rushed around discussing what to do next.
"Pallet." Jin said
"Nah dude, it's not a food drop, you saw the beacon thing, someone like ejected." Hurley said
"Yeah but that was a helicopter, you can't eject from a helicopter." Charlie said looking at Hurley
"Well maybe they jumped. All that matters is that they're here." Hurley told him
"They, how do we even know its a person?" Charlie said
"Cause he said someone was coming." Hurley said looking at Desmond
Charlie and I look over to Desmond packing a bag.
"Where you going?" I asked him walking over to him.
"Out to where it fell. Come on let's go." He said grabbing my hand
"No, whoa, slow down. We're not gonna trudge out into the jungle in the middle of the night." Charlie said stopping us
"Yes we are." Desmond said still holding my hand but looking at Charlie
"Were you even listening to Hurley when he mentioned Rousseau's death-trap? Now it going to be light in two hours, we'll wait until then."
"They cant wait. Whoever it is, could be hurt. We have to go all five of us now." He said tightening his grip
"Why?" Charlie asked
"Because that's the way its supposed to happen." Desmond said
"Right well I guess its supposed to happen without me." Charlie said
Desmond looked at me and put his head down then looked at Charlie, "We'll leave at first light then. Together."
"Terrific." Charlie said walking away from us, I took my hand away from Desmond and moved it to his face.
"Can I talk to you?" I asked him and he nodded.
We walked a little ways away from the group and I stopped and stared off in the distance, Desmond came up and wrapped me in a hug from behind.
"Whats on your mind love?" He asked in my ear then kissed my neck.
I sighed and turned to face him, "Desmond..." I paused and saw the worry on his face.
"WHat is it Freya?" He asked
"I'm pregnant." I said and looked down, I felt him take his hands off my hips.
"What? How do you know?" He asked and I looked up at him with tears in my eyes.
"The same way every other woman finds out, I'm 2 weeks late." I said, he moved to me and put his hands on my face.
"Then why the bloody hell are you here?" He asked and I knew he was angry.
"Because I told you I was never leaving your side again, I was so scared to tell you but you need to know." I said and I put my hands on his face as well, "Desmond I want to do everything I can to make sure you and I get off this island, I'm pregnant not useless."
He sighed and pulled me into a hug, "I just...you heard what Juliet said about pregnant women on this island." he said.
"I know but thats why we need to get rescued, for this baby, our baby." I told him and looked at him, "I love you Desmond Hume, you are amazing and wonderful and no matter what happens I'm always going to be with you."
He pulled me into a kiss then looked at my stomach putting his hand on it, "Our baby" was all he said with a smile. He lead us back over to where the others were and we sat down, me between his legs and I rested my head on his chest, I started to drift off and fell asleep.