Chapter 6 Dave

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A/N: I am so sorry guys for the extremely long wait. Thanks for sticking around so long. I will update quicker this time I promise. I am working on the last couple of chapters and I am hoping to finish this story by the end of this month.

"Kate? Kate?"

Kate felt someone softly shaking her.

She opened her eyes and found Jack to be staring at her.

"What do you want?" Kate mumbled.

"Kate you fell asleep in the shower somehow. I just thought maybe you'd like to go somewhere more comfortable." Jack suggested.

Kate squinted at him. Comfortable? I'll show him comfortable. "No thanks. I probably won't sleep anymore anyways now that I'm awake."

"Oh, I'm sorry for waking you." Jack's stared at her, and she felt like he was trying to get inside her, and she didn't like it.

"What happened with Gale?" She knew things were awkward. Kate was sitting in the shower and Jack was kneeling down beside her. She didn't understand why he suddenly cared so much.

Jack turned and sat beside her on the ground. "Absolutely nothing." He said, frustrated.

"I'm sorry." Kate looked at him and he looked at her. She felt her heart beating, and she immediately reminded herself of the anger she had felt towards him a few hours ago. She looked down again.

They sat like that for a few seconds, and finally Jack talked again.

"Well I should probably go check out Locke."

"I'll help you." Kate offered, hating herself.

"Yeah ok."

He stood up and held out a hand to help Kate up. She took it and stood up. She froze as he looked at her again. Finally he looked away and let go of her hand. As she followed him out she fought the urge to shiver.

Jack walked over to Locke and began to make him try to move his legs. Kate stood in the doorway watching, and then she asked Locke how he was.

A little while later Kate was headed to the beach to pick up the crutches for Locke and she spotted Sun walking towards her.

"Kate!" Sun called to her.

"Hi Sun." Kate smiled.

"Did you hear?"

"Hear about what?"

"Hurley beat Sawyer up."

"What?"

"It's true. Everyone finds it funny, but don't worry, I made Jin make them stop."

"So where is Sawyer now?" Kate asked, grinning.

"He's at his tent, trying to put it back together."

Kate nodded and glanced over at his tent. Sure enough, Sawyer was there. She smiled to herself. He seemed fine to her of course his large ego was probably damaged, not that she cared or anything. She would have loved to have seen it. She headed towards Jack's tent, which had sort of become like the medical tent as well. Ever since he had moved back to the beach he had kept some medical supplies in there just in case. She remembered him telling her that just a few seconds could count towards saving a life.

She quickly looked for the crutches and left. She felt weird being in the place that he slept in, of course, he hadn't been in his tent for over a week since he started sleeping in the hatch.

She walked over to Sawyer and leaned on the crutches. "I heard about what happened."

"Oh did you? And what exactly did you hear?" Sawyer drawled as he continued to work on his tent.

"Hurley beat you up." Kate tried not to smile.

Sawyer turned around. "He attacked me! I was sittin there mindin my own damn business, and he attacks me! It ain't my fault."

"So he just attached you huh?"

Sawyer glared at her. "Try to contain yourself Freckles." He turned back towards the tent and Kate walked around him.

"What? I'm worried. You look like you got your ass kicked."

"Don't you got an adventure to get to? I think Timmy fell down a well that way."

Kate watched him for a second. His ego was definitely damaged, with Jack beating him at poker and now with Hurley beating him up, he was probably really hurting. Maybe now would be a good time to talk to him.

"Seriously though, why would Hurley of all people?"

"I've got no idea. I didn't do nothing. He just hulked-out on me."

"For no reason at all?" Kate prodded.

"Okay, you walk of and have yourself a nice long giggle. But steer clear-the man is crazy."

It was obvious to Kate that Sawyer wasn't planning on having some big conversation wit her, and it's not like she wanted to anyways. He didn't seem to care at all about anyone, and she was still mad at him. She decided that the best thing to do would be to just leave and go back to the hatch.

She went back to the hatch and set Locke's crutches down beside his bed. He was asleep.

Jack came out of the computer room then. "Hey."

"Hey." Kate said.

"What took you so long?"

Kate sighed. " I didn't know I was on your time frame."

"You're not, I'm just wondering."

"I was talking to Sawyer." Kate said secretively.

Jack's eyes narrowed. "Oh."

"I'm going back to the beach. I'll see you later." Kate started to walk out. If Jack really wanted her, now would be the time for him to act. But of course, he didn't. Kate felt his eyes following her as she walked out.

That night she got out her journal and wrote in it for a short time and then she went to sleep.

Jack,

I can't do this. I keep going back and forth. I try to forget about you, but I can't when you are standing right beside me. It's just not fair. I have decided to wait and let you approach me. You act like you love me once second, and the next you act like you hate me. You need to decide how you feel, and I'll give you some time.

Kate

She was glad she had started this journal. It was very therapeutic, but at the same time it made her worry and wonder what would happen if Jack ever saw it.

A/N: Ok there is probably two more chapters in this, maybe three. SOS is going to be pretty long. Thanks for waiting so long. I promise you all will like the ending.