Jack put his fingers on the man's pulse. He shook his head and looked around him. "He's dead." Sawyer hid Ella's face against his shoulder, her crying blocking out any hopes of hearing what Jack had just said. He closed his eyes and sighed heavily. His daughter, his two-year-old girl, had killed someone.

"Who is he?" Sawyer asked, opening his eyes and looking at the man.

Jack shrugged. "No idea."

Kate came running over and put a hand on the screaming Ella's back before standing beside Sawyer. She glaced at the dead man beside Jack, and screamed just as loud as Ella had. Her scream was full of fear, and Jack was instantly on his feet and standing before her, the now dead man completely forgotten. He put his hands on her shoulders to try and calm her down, but she kept screaming. Althought Kate had the occassional nightmare, or would fall unexpectedly out of a tree, she had never screamed like she did now. On top of Ella's crying, it brought so much chaos to Sawyer and Jack who were both trying to calm their girls down.

Finally, Kate's screams turned into hard sobs and she collapsed to her knees in the sand. Jack crouched beside her, and held her while she shook in his arms. He whispered words of comfort as she cried, and Sawyer rocked Ella in his arms, all the while watching Kate out of the corner of his eye. No one, not even Jack, had seen Kate show so much fear - especially infront of 40 other people. It was almost like she had been possessed.

"Jack!" Sawyer called over their cries, Jack looked up. "Neither of them are gonna say anything infront of all these people." He said, indicating around them. "Take her inside. We've gotta find out what happened to them out there!"

Kate made no move to follow Jack's coaxing, so he just lifted her up and followed Sawyer, back to his shelter. Sawyer sent another angry glare at Locke as he passed him, knowing that if it wasn't for Ella, he probably would have beaten the crap out of the old man. In fact, he made a mental note to attempt this later on.

"I'm not finished with you, baldie." He said bitterly when he passed him. He didn't look back to see Locke's expression.

He entered his shelter and sat down on the ground, not releasing Ella from his arms, and watched as Jack sat Kate down on Sawyer's bed. He strangely felt jealous when Kate clung to Jack as soon as he attempted to let her go, but he had his own girl to protect.

"Ells, come on baby, it's alright." He soothed softly. He could hear Jack's comforting of Kate but didn't glance in his direction. He just placed soft kisses on the side of Ella's head, and stroked her back gently. "I've got you, Ells, I've got you."

Her cries died down a little, and Sawyer smiled. "That's it, it's Ok now." He told her, and continued rubbing her back. She nodded, showing that she understood. "There we go." He said sweetly as her cries subsided. "All better, that's my little trooper."

Ella smiled as sweetly as she could manage with tears staining her cheeks, and gave Sawyer a sloppy kiss on his cheek. Sawyer grinned that special grin and wiped her tears away. Then came the question.

"Did I do something wrong?" She asked. "Did I make you mad, Daddy?"

"No." He said firmly. "No, you didn't make me mad."

"Did Mr Locke make you mad?" Ella asked. Sawyer nodded. "Why?"

"Because he did something bad." He told her, wondering why he, of all people, was accusing someone of being bad.

"What did he do?" Ella asked. "Was it because we were playing bad guys and good guys?"

"Mr Locke put you in a lot of danger, Ella. I was scared." Sawyer said, stroking the back of her head and looking deep into the eyes that projected images of her mother into his head.

"What were you scared of?" She asked.

Sawyer forced himself not to get choked up as memories came flooding back to him.

"What are you scared of, Sawyer?"

"Being a Dad."

"Don't worry, you'll do just fine."

"I sure hope so, Bree."

"Daddy? What were you scared of?" Ella asked again.

Sawyer swallowed back the memory. "I was scared that you'd been hurt." He told her. "Guns are very very dangerous. They're not toys." He reminded her.

"But...Daddy, you gots one at home."

The words hit his ears like a train to a wrongly parked car. He avoided the stare that Jack gave him at those words. "Yes, I do." He said. "But I have it so that I can protect us. And the same rule goes here. No matter what, you never ever touch one of those again. Do you hear me?" His tone was forceful, but still gentle with her.

"Ok." She nodded.

"Promise me." He said to her.

"I promise." She said.

"He was one of them."

The voice made them turn, and they all saw Kate finally responding to them. Sawyer stood up, carring Ella over to where Jack and Kate sat side by side. He sat down on Kate's free side.

"The ones who took you?" Jack asked.

Kate nodded. "He chased us, when I left with Ella." She revealed. "I'm sorry, I led him here. I thought I lost him." She babbled, but Jack hushed her.

"It's ok, it's ok," He assured her. "Just tell us what happened, we'll figure out how to deal with this." He tempted her.

Kate was silent for a long time, not hearing the words around her, and finally responded.

"They were going to hurt them." She said, turning to Jack, and then to Sawyer. "They were doing tests on the children."