Lost Hope
Chapter 10
The next day Desmond leads me, Charlie, Hurley and Jin through the jungle.
"So what's next?" Charlie asked
"Next?"
"Yeah you saw the wire, the flashy thing falling out of the sky. Now what? Maybe I can help you find-"
"That's it, there is no next. We find the beacon." Desmond said cutting him off.
"Why you lying to me mate?" Charlie asked him
"Look, mate. I've saved your life three times now. If that hasn't bought me your trust, I don't know what will. Let's move." Desmond said continuing to walk.
Charlie was about to say something but I cut him off shaking my head telling him to drop it.
As we continued walking I noticed Hurley walking slower, "Dude, seriously I'm gonna have a coronary." Hurley said, I put a hand on his shoulder handing him some water.
"Actually you're not. And if you don't get a move on we're not gonna make it before nightfall—"
"Hey." Charlie said picking up a hula doll, "Look at this."
Jin asked him something in Korean.
"It can't be Rousseau's. If it was Rousseau's, a massive rock would be flying at my head right now." Charlie said.
"Don't move." Desmond said to Hurley who was sitting down by a tree, I see Desmond climb on Hurley and uses him as a leg-up.
"What are you doing? Ow. Ah, ahh!" Hurley said, I couldnt help but chuckle a little.
Desmond pulls down a bag and tips out its contents.
"Did that come down with the flashing red light thingy?" Hurley asked him
Desmond holds up a copy of Joseph Heller's Catch-22, though it is in Portugeuse, Jin finds another item.
"Walkie-talkie!" He said
"No dude. That's a satellite phone." Hurley said taking it form Jin. He turns it on, but it quickly turns itself off.
"Crap, it's dead." He says.
"Shocker." Charlie said.
We continued walking through the jungle and we hear the sound of thunder then it starts to rain.
"Thanks for the heads up about bringing an umbrella, dude" Hurley said to Desmond.
As we made our way through the rain Charlie urges Hurley to move faster.
''m moving as fast as I can. In case you haven't noticed dude, I'm not exactly the Flash." Hurley told him
"The Flash is pathetic." Charlie said.
"Ah here we go again" I said laughing.
"You got something against the fastest man alive?" Hurley asked him
"You're insane, mate. Superman can fly around the entire planet in the blink of an eye."
"Dude, if we're going by a pure footrace, Sup woulda got dusted by the Flash."
"But, why would the Man of Steel agree to a stupid footrace?" I asked Hurley.
"Uh, for charity. And Flash would totally win cause he can, like, vibrate through walls and stuff." Hurley said to both of us.
"Oohh vibration, and what would Superman do if he came up against a wall?" Charlie said sarcasticly and I laughed.
"Well, no smashing allowed." Hurley pointed out.
"No flying, no smashing... any other restrictions I need to know about? Perhaps we should fit Superman with a pair of Kryptonite ballet slippers..." He said put was cut off when I noticed he stepped on a wire, "The hell?"
"Ahh, Charlie, duck!" Desmond yelled and tackles Charlie to the floor, causing the arrow to hit his guitar over his shoulder rather than him.
"Dude." Hurley said, I ran over to them and helped Desmond up and Charlie got up.
"Are you okay?" I asked both of them, they both just nodded their heads.
We continued walking through the jungle.
"This way." Jin said pointing towards a different part of the jungle
"No, the beacon fell this side of the rise." Desmond said looking the other way.
"No, there." Jin insisted
"How about we split up? Me and Charlie go that way, you, Freya and Jin go round, and we'll meet up at that ridge over there." Hurley said but Charlie looked at Desmond and me
"Uh, you and Jin. I'll stick with Desmond and Freya." He said, I just nodded my head.
We split up, with Charlie following me and Desmond.
"You said duck." Charlie said to Desmond
"Sorry." Desmond said confused.
"You shouted "duck." You knew, even before we set off. You knew all this time didn't you?" Charlie said.
Desmond nodded, "Aye."
"Well then why didn't you say anything?"
"Because if I'd told you the truth you wouldn't have come!' Desmond said raising his voice.
"Oh, and you needed me to come. Cause I was part of your vision. You thought that the only way you could get your girl off the island was if I took an arrow in the head. You would have sacrificed me!" Charlie shouted and I looked at him.
"If the flashes don't happen exactly how I saw them, the picture changes. I was supposed to let you die Charlie." Desmond said
"What's that supposed to mean?" Charlie asked him
"It means it's bloody pointless. I keep saving your life, and what good has it done? Its just gonna keep happening again and again, maybe that's the point, eh? Maybe it's a test." Desmond told him and I put my hand on his shoulder.
"Test?" Charlie asked
"Like God, testing Abraham, except I failed, because I changed what I saw." Desmond told him, then we hear Jin shouting. We run over and see Hurley shouting at something
"Hey! Hey, can you hear me?!" Hurley shouted.
Desmond climbed up the tree and cut the rope hold the parachute and me, Charlie, Hurley and Jin held it then he cut the rope holding the person and they fell. Just then the parachuter moves.
"She's alive!" Hurley yells and Desmond rushes over and I take off the helmet and reveal a woman.
"Freya" She said then passed back out, everyone looked at me confused and honestly so was I.
"Who is she?" Jin asked me and I shrugged
"I've no idea." I said looking at the woman, I had no idea who she was or how she knew me.
"She seems to know you Freya, she just said your name."
"I've never seen her before in my life." I said looking at him, just then the parachutist begins to cough.
"She's waking up." Charlie said
"¡Estoy muriendo, estoy muriendo!" She said weakly.
"She's trying to talk. We should get her some water."
"Give me a hand." Desmond said to Charlie helping her sit up.
"¡Estoy muriendo, estoy muriendo!" She said again
"What's she saying?" Charlie asked
"Don't know." Desmond answered
"It's Spanish dude." Hurley said moving forward
"Wait, you understand her then?" Desmond asked looking at Hurley
"¡Estoy muriendo, estoy muriendo!"
"She says she's dying." Hurley told us, Charlie and Desmond pull back some of her clothes to reveal a large wound on her chest and a foreign object.
"Oh god!" Desmond said
"It's a branch. She must have hit it on the way down." I said looking at the wound.
"Right, get her pack! We haven't got much in this first-aid kit. See if there's anything we can use in there." I told Charlie
"What if this is a rescue? What if she came for us? Wha, I mean, is she gonna be OK, we can't let her..."
"Just go and start looking!" I yelled
"We get Jack. Jack."
"We have to get her to Jack as soon as possible. She could be our way off the Island."
"No if we move her it'll make it worse." I told them pressing my hand against her wound
"Well we just let her bleed to death?" Charlie told me
"No we, we need to bring Jack here." Desmond said
"Its an eight hour walk, one way!" Charlie exclaimed
"Then I'll run." Desmond said standing up
"You out of your mind? Its not safe. Its gonna be dark soon, who knows whose out in this jungle, in case you haven't forgotten, there are people on this Island trying to kill us." Charlie told him
"Nobody knows we're here!" Desmond yells
They are suddenly interrupted by Hurley, who accidentally shoots a flare gun. The flare flies up high into the sky and explodes. Me, Charlie, Desmond, and Jin turn.
"Oops." He said.
The parachutists spaks again but its a different language then before
"What's she saying?" Hurley asked
Chinese. Not Korean." Jin said
"Maybe we should just pull it out." Charlie said
"No, you'll just make it worse." I told him
"Have you forgotten what's at stake here? Just another one of your flashes — whose getting an arrow in the neck this time?"
"Did you forget, she said my name! Do I understand?! I understand better than the lot of you!" I yelled at him
"Hey, guys, chill." Hurley said to us
"We've wasted enough time already." Desmond said
"You're not leaving us." Charlie told him
"Just get out my way, Charlie."
"No." Charlie said thn we hear rustling in the trees and a man with an eye patch runs out in front of us and stops. He stares at us, and then turns and runs. Jin chases after him.
"Hey, Jin!" Desmond said running after him
"Jin!" Charlie yells running off too
"Desmond!" I yell after them but they are gone, I stayed with Hurley and the woman.
They come back with the guy and the woman speaks again, this time in another language. Why does she keep doing that? I thought and the man with the eye patch looked at her
"You understand her?" I asked him.
"She's speaking Italian. She said she's dying, she needs help. I was a Soviet Army field medic, I can offer you my services." The man says and Desmond pulls him to her.
"Wait, what are you doing?" Charlie asked him
"I'm saving her." Desmond told him
"This branch has punctured her lung. It's filling with blood. If it is not ventilated soon, she's going to die." I told the guy.
"Help her." Desmond said pointing a gun at him.
"If I fix her, you must let me walk away as if I never came upon you."
Desmond paused before responding then looks at me, "What you need?"
I told Desmond what we needed and the man started working on the woman.
"What else do you know about this woman? Did she have anything on her besides the flare gun." The man asked us
"Just a book, fancy radio phone thingy." Hurley told him and Charlie shakes his head as the guy turns to Hurley.
"Does it work?" he asked
"Like I'd tell you." Hurley said defensively
"One of you must help. The rest clear the way, I need space."
"I'll do it, Im a doctor too" I said and the guy nodded at me
"Wipe away as much of the blood as you can." Just then the parachutist begins to struggle for breathe.
"We need to evac the air now! Hold her steady. Steady!" I ushered Desmond over to help.
"Yeah I heard ya!" Desmond said
the man stabs the women in the chest with a funnel and blood suctions out of her.
"Is that, normal?" Desmond asked me and I nodded my head.
The man pulls out the funnel, and the parachutist screams with pain.
"Gause!" Desmond grabs some material and hands it to me and I place it on the wound. "Tape it, be careful. Covering needs to be hollow, the wound needs to breathe." I nodded my head. The woman once again speaks a different language.
"What did she say?" Desmond asked him.
"Thank you. She said thank you for helping me." I could tell he was lying, "She's fine. Keep the wound as clean as you can, she should be better in a day."
"Day? Her lung was punctured." Charlie told him
"On this Island, the wounds are a bit different. Maybe a day and a half. I did as I promised, she will live." The guy said
"You can't seriously be considering letting him go." Charlie said to Desmond
"Just go." Desmond said to the man
"Are you kidding, he's one of them." Charlie said as the guy leaves.
"So what would you have me do Charlie? We gotta make a stretcher and carry, how we gonna do that and bring a prisoner." Desmond asked him
"We need some rope, I'll take responsibility." Charlie told him just then Jin speaks.
"Phone. Phone!" He yells and runs after the man.
"No, Jin." Desmond yells after him
"Phone."
"Jin its all right!" Desmond said
"No let him, Desmond." Charlie said stopping him but Desmond ignores him running after Jin.
"Jin! Come back here!" He yells
"Oi! Let him!" Charlie yells following Desmond.
They come back as me and Hurley are building a stretcher, Desmond walks up to me and pulls me into a hug.
"You can't trust em you know." Charlie said to Desmond
"What's that?" Desmond asked pulling away from me.
"The Others. The one you let go. He'll be back tomorrow with five of his mates. Should have killed him." Charlie said
"Charlie." Jin says "Er, tight." he motioned with his hands.
"Oh, OK." Charlie says tightening the rope.
"You know brother, by my count, you've killed more of them than they've killed of you." Desmond said to him.
"They started it. You know just cause one comes traipsing back with Jack and Kate doesn't mean that we can trust em now." Charlie pointed out.
I look over at Hurley who is sitting with the parachutist. He's attempting to make the satellite phone work, and holds it to his ear.
"Mom?" He says sarcasticly and I chuckled, just thn the woman coughs.
"Where am I?" She asked finally speaking english, thank god.
"Take it easy, you just had a giant branch..." I heard Hurley say as I walked over.
"Where am I?!" She asked again cutting him off
"I dunno. You're on an Island. Are you here to rescue us? Are there more of you, can you make your phone work?" Hurley asked her.
"Who are you?" She asked him.
"Hugo Reyes. I crashed here on Oceanic Flight 815. A bunch of us survived, is that why you're here, were you looking for us?"
"815. Flight 815? The one from Sydney." She asked looking at us
"Yeah!" Hurley said to her.
"No, that's not possible." She said shaking her head.
"Yeah I know. It wasn't easy but we found food, and a hatch..." Hurley started to say but she cut him off again.
"No. No, Flight 815 they, they found the plane. There were no survivors. They were all dead." She told us and my heart sank.
"What?!" I asked her.
We had made our way back to camp and put the woman in Hurleys tent, the others walked away and I stayed in the tent with Naomi, that was her name, but I still didnt know who she was or why she said my name. Just then Sayid and Desmond enter the tent.
"My name's Sayid Jarrah. I understand your helicopter crashed onto the Island." He said to her
"Actually it crashed in the water." Naomi told him
"What's your name?"
"Naomi. Naomi Dorrit."
"Naomi, from where exactly did you take off?"
"A ship. Freighter. About eighty nautical miles west of here. We're part of a search-and-recovery team." She told him
"You told my friends the wreckage of Flight 815 was discovered. Did you mean the partial wreckage?" He asked her and she shook her head.
"No. They found the entire plane off the coast of Bali. In an ocean trench four miles deep. They sent down cameras in these little robots to survey the wreck. The bodies were all there." She told him
"Well, obviously we're not dead." Sayid said with a small smile.
"Obviously."
"So if you weren't looking for us, then who were you looking for?"
She turned and looked at me, "Her"
"Freya?" Sayid asked her looking at me then back at her.
"My company was hired by a man named Captain Gault I don't know why, I never met him. He gave us a set of coordinates. We'd be conducting a differential GPS grid search ever since." I looked at her in shock, Gault?
"You knew about the Island?" Sayid asked her
"Island? We were given coordinates in the middle of the bloody ocean. We thought it was a fool's errand. Til three days ago. I was flying back for the ship when all of a sudden the clouds cleared and I saw land. The instruments started spinning, I realized I was going down so, I grabbed my chute and I bailed." She said to him.
Sayid looked at me and Desmond, "Did you actually see her helicopter?"
"No." We both answered.
"You think I'm lying mate?" She asked Sayid
"And I take it you have no means whatsoever of communicating with that freighter of yours?" He asked her igoring her question.
"What was your name? Sayid?" SHe asked him
"Yes."
Just then Naomi pulls out the satellite phone from under the covers of the bed she's lying in.
"Remind me not to rescue you, Sayid." She told him holding the phone. Sayid takes it and walks away and Desmond looked at me motioning for me to follow him. We walked back over to our tent.
"Who's this captain guy? You looked shocked when she mentioned his name." He asked me standing in front of me.
I sighed and looked over at Hurley's tent then back at Desmond, "He's my uncle."