First, I want to thank everyone who reviewed.
xalicemx - if I get enough encouragement from you guys, I'll write a chapter for every song on the album.
Second, I want to apologize for the short length of the chapters. They might get longer, but they might not. I'm not totally sure yet.
CHAPTER TWO: HANDS OPEN
The next morning, Sawyer woke up to find Kate curled up in a corner of her cage. The fish biscuit was still sitting uneaten beside her. He sat watching her for a few minutes until three of the others appeared and walked between the cages, causing Kate to wake up. She looked across the space at Sawyer.
"You didn't eat your fish biscuit." He said accusingly. She looked at it with a disgusted look on her face.
"It probably isn't healthy for humans to eat these things." She said, poking at it experimentally with the long thin pointer finger of her right hand. He wanted to argue with her on the matter simply because he enjoyed arguing with her and making her blush in frustration, but what she was saying made sense to him. Logically, if he agreed with her on the matter, there was no reason to argue, and so he decided to let it drop. His tongue, however, ran off without him.
"Gotta eat sometime." He said quietly. She looked up at him wearily.
"You want it?" She asked him, lifting the thing and holding it out at arms-length from her body.
"No. I want to watch you eat it." He told her with a smirk. She glared at him, and he knew he was digging his own grave. He took a deep breath and lost the smirk, unwilling to sabotage the best thing that he had. It would have been much easier to just keep his mouth shut if he knew what he wanted. As it was, he knew that he wanted Kate, but he didn't know anything more than that. He forced his eyes to remain on her and opened his hands and hoped she would in turn open her heart. He hoped that she would know that he wanted to make sure she was safe all the time.
"It's not as easy as willing it all to be right. You have to do more than hope." Kate told him with a sigh. She laughed, a false laugh that sounded completely hollow, and Sawyer wanted to scream. He wanted to hear her laugh like she meant it. Wanted her to be happy and let him hold her. The others came back, this time eight people strong, and opened Sawyer's cage, wrenching him up to his feet and aiming a gun at his head when he jerked away from them as they shoved him out into the open. They then turned to Kate's cage and did the same, Kate willingly moving out of the bear-cage.
"Time to go to work." The man with the shocking device said with a smirk. Sawyer opened his hands and spread his arms, suggesting to the man that he was ready for him. Kate put a warm hand on his arm to stop him, and he relished the way her fingertips brushed against his forearm until the others all pointed guns at them, pulling Kate away from him. She smiled sadly, and it was merely a shadow of the smiles she had shared with him in the past.