Oh jeeze, I'm sorry I left you guys with such a cliffhanger last time! Sometimes I feel like Dory from Finding Nemo, and I get to be a horrible updater. I don't start school until September, so feel free to hit me whenever I forget to review. That means when it gets to be too long, (I'm talking like, a week or more, not three days, greedy- pants) just send me a message and tell me to get my butt into gear. Sometimes all I need is a reminder.

Lisa opened her eyes to find two unfamiliar figures looming above her. There was a slim brunette woman, about the same age as Lisa, and a tall, well built Middle Eastern man. The woman's eyes were hard and cold and she was staring at Lisa with barely-contained disgust. The man, on the other hand, was looking at her with mere curiosity, and seemed to be thinking about something.

"Kate, are you sure you want to do this?" the man asked quietly.

"If I didn't, I wouldn't have asked you here to help, Sayid," the woman replied.

Lisa was about to ask where Jack was when the woman called Kate pulled a key out of her pocket and unlocked the handcuff link that was attached to the bed. Lisa pulled her wrist towards her and rubbed it. Sleeping was fairly uncomfortable with her arm constantly above her head; her wrist hurt from moving around in her sleep and pulling at the cuff. Before Lisa could do anything else, however, the man pulled her arm up roughly and cuffed her wrists together behind her back. Lisa started struggling when she found that they were pulling her towards the cell, and wondered where Jack was. She must have said his name out loud, because Kate's grip tightened on her arm and she swore.

"Jack's not here, and he won't be back until later," Kate spat.

Lisa's heart sped up and she realized that having Jack with her would calm her down.

Great. One day with this guy and you're already developing Stockholm syndrome.

When they reached the cell, Sayid bound her ankles together and pulled out what looked like a stalk of bamboo. Her eyes widened when she saw that it seemed to be sharpened crudely with a knife. The man held it in his grip not unlike Jackson held his knives, and Lisa felt bile rise up in her throat. She swallowed it back down, not wanting to appear weak, but she couldn't keep from shaking slightly.

"What do you want?" She asked, silently cursing her shaking voice.

The woman spoke first. "What were you doing on our beach?"

Lisa frowned. Hadn't she already told Jack? She must have hesitated a moment too long, because the man moved closer to her with the makeshift weapon. Lisa frantically squirmed backwards, and decided that it would be better for everyone if she just answered their questions.

"I was in a plane crash."

"Where are the other people from the plane?"

"I don't know."

The woman asked her the same questions Jack did, but Lisa kept her answers to one or two sentences. Sometimes Kate asked her the same question more than once in different forms, as if trying to trip her up. It reminded Lisa of the way the police questioned her when they weren't sure whether or not she was responsible for the attempt on the Keefe family's life. This woman was either a cop or spent a lot of time being questioned by them.

Sayid never had to use the bamboo, and Lisa wanted to keep it that way, until Kate asked her who Jackson was. Lisa froze for a split second, regaining control over her body quickly, but not quickly enough to escape Kate's notice.

"He's no one, he was just another passenger on the plane."

"You're lying," the man said, speaking his first words throughout the whole interrogation.

"N-no. He's no one. I swear."

Kate nodded to Sayid, and he advanced on her with the bamboo. Lisa tried to get out of his way, but he hit her on the back, not hard enough to cut her, but hard enough to keep her from wanting to lie again. She collapsed onto her stomach and the air rushed out of her lungs. Kate asked the question again, but it was impossible for Lisa to answer, even if she wanted to. The man hit her on the back again, this time viciously. Lisa couldn't hold in her screams of agony as he hit her four more times. Lisa could handle Jackson cutting her with the knife, but being hit with the bamboo was ten times worse, the blows were quick and heavy; each one knocked the breath out of her lungs. She wished that she could pass out, but for some reason her body refused give her relief from the pain.

After the five blows to her back, Sayid stepped back, and Kate looked at Lisa with the same disgusted expression that seemed to be permanently stuck on her face. Lisa lay on the ground, her face wet with tears and breathing heavily.

"I'm going to ask you one more time, and you're going to answer me honestly. Who is Jackson?"

Lisa looked up at Kate and took a deep breath to sooth the convulsions that were wracking her body.

"He's the man who kidnapped me."

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After walking through the jungle to cool off, Jack decided to head back to the hatch to see how Lisa was doing. He walked into the bedroom and saw that Lisa was gone. Afraid that he had put the other survivors in danger, Jack called out her name, and walked quickly through the hatch looking for her. Seeing the cell door open a crack, he walked cautiously over to it and opened the door. Anger pulsed through him at the sight before him. Lisa was on her stomach on the ground with blood soaking the back of her shirt, and Kate and Sayid were looking at her coldly. Sayid was holding a sharpened bamboo stick that was stained red.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Jack raged, "I just cleaned up all of her cuts and you decide to go and hurt her even more?"

Sayid looked at him with aggravating calm.

"We came to see what information we could get out of her."

Jack was furious. "Without telling me what you were doing first?"

"I did not know that I was to report to you," Sayid replied.

Kate was still staring at Lisa, not noticing the exchange that was going on between the two men.

"Was this your idea, Kate?" Jack asked, his voice full of insinuations.

Upon hearing her name, Kate turned. "Yes," she replied, neither her voice nor her face showing any kind of emotion at all. With that, she walked out of hatch.

Jack turned back to Sayid, who said quietly, "I am sorry that I had to hurt her. She told the truth. I do not believe that she is an Other. However, it will be hard to convince Kate. I suggest giving her time to think about it."

After saying what he needed to, Sayid left Jack with Lisa, still restrained and on the ground.

Okay, so did Jack get to the room before Lisa spilled the story, or are Lisa's darkest secrets now in the hands of an ex-criminal? Muahahha. Don't be worried about Kate, I love her, so she won't be so "crazybitch" unless she has to. And she felt she had to.