Chapter two

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Jack watched as Ana-Lucia walked towards him, face like thunder and attitude sparking off her, she always made him feel like he was on trial.

"Are you letting her join?" She asked when she was about a foot away from him …

Jack bent down to re-fill his water bottle, hopelessly trying to pretend that he hadn't been watching her talk to Kate, he hadn't been reeling about the eye contact they had made in the hatch…

"Letting who join?" he muttered, cold water splashing onto his hands, staining his skin.

"Kate! Do you really think it's the best idea?" She folded her arms and stared intently at him "After what happened last time you were with the others."

Jack watched her for a while, not responding, he tried looking beyond her too see Kate, but she had gone.

"Ana, you have to realise, Kate does as she wants she …"

"That's bull!" Ana exclaimed "you know she listens to you, you know she …"
"Listens to me!" Jack replied, finding himself shouting, rage rising in his chest, "She didn't listen to me last time, and look where it got her, she wont take advice, because she thinks she can handle anything"

A small crack on a branch was all it took, Jack turned around and saw a swift of brown hair moving into the jungle, running, it was Kate.

Kate ran, breathing heavily, she couldn't believe what she'd just heard Jack say. Was she that arrogant that she came across of "Thinking she can handle anything!" Did Jack really see her that way? She past the tree's, forcing each branch out of the way, until she finally ran into …

"Hey there freckles …". Sawyer grabbed both of her arms, refusing to let her go, despite her struggles.

"Let me go Sawyer" She said glaring at him. She could feel his fingers loosening around her wrists, and she pulled backwards so that she was free.

"Why you running in the middle of the jungle anyway sweet cheeks? Looking for the horsy again?"

Kate stood still, feeling her breath rattling in her chest, feeling all of these emotions again. What was she doing wrong? She sighed.

Sawyer stared at her, her sad expression both satisfied him and forced him to sympathise. He was still mad at her for going against him so openly in the hatch, but it was partially his fault …She stared up at him, her hazel eyes, showing a new look. A look he had never seen in her before, and it didn't suit her.

"Give me a gun Sawyer" she spoke quietly.

"Now, why would I do that?"

"Because im going after the others – alone".

Jack stared at Ana-Lucia, not believing the ugly colour she had made him show.

"That was Kate, did she …"
"Do you see what I mean – she was eavesdropping Jack. Don't you think it's a co-incidence that as soon as she starts hanging out with the cowboy, he gets the guns and becomes the sheriff? How can you trust her?"

Jack fumed. How dare she say this about Kate, she barely knew her. Slamming the water bottle down he took a step closer to Ana-Lucia, who hardly flinched.

"Actually Ana, I do trust her, because I know a lot more about her than I do you. She's had a rough past – she takes the easy way out – but I do trust her. Sawyer's the one who I don't trust, now that's settled … Im going to go see if she's ok"

Ana watched as Jack walked off, grabbing his backpack and flinging it over his shoulder, as he went.

Sawyer walked out of the jungle, pulling his t-shirt off his chest, which had stuck to him in the humidity, he caught Libby watching him and stared at her until she went back inside her tent. He had never felt so humiliated than when he had this morning. Brushing his hair out of his eyes, and using his hand to shield his face from the sun, he saw Jack walking towards him.

"Hey doc, you following your girlfriend and paying a trip to the others?"
Jack stopped

"What?"

"Kate decided she didn't like the way you were running the operation and decided to go after the big bad Zeke and his cronies, all alone"

Jack felt rage brewing up inside him, rising to the surface and pouring out of him like hot lava from a volcano. Grabbing Sawyer by the neck he threw him against a tree.

"your lying aren't you? Damn it you're lying" He spat at him, hatred spiking out in every syllable

"Wish I was Doc" Sawyer spluttered in between his coughs and choking.

Jack let go of Sawyer, who instantly fell to the floor.

"Give me a gun … NOW!".

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