Sawyer sat down on the aeroplane seats outside his tent, picking up the battered copy of 'Watership Down' and putting on his makeshift reading glasses, pretending to read while he scanned the beach for any sign of Kate returning.

Not long after Sawyer had been sat, Kate arrived sitting herself down on the seat next to his leaning her head on his shoulder, Sawyer noticed her hair smelled of soap, she'd obviously had a shower at the hatch. Sawyer sighed slightly, this just gave him even more suspicions about her and Jacks 'tumble'.

"Howdy Hon how was your day?" Sawyer faked nonchalance perfectly, tossing the book into the sand.

"Good" She replied with a smile "yours?"

"Cant complain" He said "What have you been up ta then?"

"What's with the questions?" Kate laughed.

"So I can't take an interest in your life now?" Sawyer said, keeping his cool on the outside but inside feeling angered at her defiance, it just made him believe even more that she had something to hide.

"No of course you can Cowboy" She replied, planting a light kiss on his cheek.

"So what did ya do then Freckles?" He asked again.

"Well Jack found a couple of suitcases… I don't really know where there from I think someone gave them him" Kate said "So he invited me along to the hatch to help him sort them out, the useable stuff from the junk, ya know"

"Found some suitcases huh?" Sawyer said, resisting the urge to add 'damn convenient that aint it' and waiting to see what she had to say about the rest of the day.

"Yeah, so then when we'd found the stuff we could use we packed it all away and he went someplace with Ana" Kate said, leaving to choose the scene with Ana and Jack out, thinking that Sawyer wouldn't know anything about it, and anyway, she was sure Jack wouldn't want his relationship broadcasting to people, especially Sawyer. "Then I had a quick shower and I just stopped by and had a chat with Claire, Aarons getting really big now" She commented.

"Uh huh" Sawyer nodded in reply, then turning around to look her in the eyes he decided he was only going to get an answer if he asked the question, because nothing in the description sounded like a 'tumble'.

"So tell me Kate" Sawyer said, using her real name for full effect, it definitely caught her attention "Was this all before or after your tumble with Jack?"

"What the hell do you mean tumble?" Kate asked, obviously confused.

"Oh I don't know sweetcheeks maybe poor Ana Lucia had been seeing things when she came running into me crying her eyes out" Sawyer said.

"You know" Kate said, more statement than fact.

"Yes I know Sassafras, so if ya think yer gonna go around cheatin on me-"

"Cheating?" Kate asked standing up in shock "I wasn't cheating on you Sawyer – nothing even remotely like that"

"So Ana Lucia was lyin? Or seein things?" Sawyer pressed.

"What exactly did she tell you Sawyer?" Kate challenged.

"She didn't tell me nothin, she was too busy cryin" Sawyer said "But I did overhear a very interesting argument between her and Jack about you and him"

"What was said in this argument then?" Kate asked, her tone getting heated.

"That she had seen you and Jack having a cosy little tumble" Sawyer spat.

"And what did Jack say about that?" Kate pressed.

"He said it was an accident" Sawyer said venomously.

"Yeah, that would be right" Kate nodded.

"So you and Jack ending up in bed was an accident was it now Kate?" Sawyer growled angrily.

"I wasn't in bed with Jack!" Kate nearly screamed, noticing she was attracting the stares of some of the people on the beach, she lowered her voice "Me and Jack had found some stupid things in the suitcase and were trying the on for a joke, over our clothes" Kate emphasised the last three words.

"And where does this tumble come into it?" Sawyer asked.

"I was trying to get Jack to join in with me pretending to do a catwalk walk around the hatch but he wouldn't, so when I tried to pull him up I think I underestimated my own strength against his and I ended up pulling him up, and over. He lost his balance and fell right on top of me. That was when Ana came in" Kate explained.

"Oh" Was all Sawyer could say, he defiantly didn't like the sound of all the fun Jack and Kate had been having, but he couldn't deny her his friendship or he would defiantly loose her, on the other hand he had definitely over exaggerated the situation.

"Yeah oh" Kate shook her head, turning on her heal and stalking off.

"Hey Kate wait up!" Sawyer shouted, standing up and heading after her, but she carried on.

Sawyer grabbed her wrist and pulled her around to face him roughly.

"Let go Sawyer!" She exclaimed wriggling "If you can't trust me I have nothing to say to you"

"I do trust ya Freckles" Sawyer said quickly.

"Well I know that's not true, or you wouldn't have taken what Ana had said as me cheating on you with Jack!" Kate shouted back.

Sawyer didn't really have a comeback for that statement, because Kate was perfectly in the right.

"Kate, just take a look at it from my shoes here" Sawyer said trying to make her understand "If you were just minding your own business when Jack stumbles out from nowhere, crying his eyes out and the Ana comes along and he accuses her of taking a tumble with me, what would you think?"

"I'd probably suspicious" Kate admitted "But I'd also probably ask him properly about it and get all the facts before I started an argument with you"

"That's fair Freckles" Sawyer nodded "But when I heard that, something just snapped, I felt all those old insecurities about you preferring to be with Jack rather than me creep back in and I let my anger got the better of me"

"I'm sorry Sawyer" Kate nodded "I'm sorry for being angry"

"So am I" Sawyer said "You know I love you right Freckles?"

"I love you too" Kate smiled, feeling the air lift between them "Wanna get some dinner?"

"Sure" He grinned, taking her hand lightly before walking back down the beach.

After eating with everyone, well everyone except Ana and Jack, Sawyer noticed the absence of the two, he and Kate headed back to his tent and quickly hopped into bed. Kate soon fell asleep in his arms, but Sawyer lay awake, unable to shake a nagging feeling about how it would feel if Ana were sleeping in his arms instead of Kate.

Sorry again the long time it took me to update!

I think I got a bit of everything in there, but of course it was mainly Skate!

I know how I want to end it now, but I do have an alternate (but not as good) idea for an ending, which I can put up if thats whats wanted! Its gonna end at about 20-25 chaps I think.. so get your votes in now please!

Skate and Jana or Sana and Jate? Review.

That will be my last update for a while.. Im going on a two week vacation on Sunday.. Ill be back on the 6th of August, but I probably wont get around to updating for a few days after that - sorry!