-Lost-

"Brennan, Roger?"

He walked up to the front of the bare white room. The fluorescent lights giving everyone in it a sickly glow. Roger was adorned in an orange jumpsuit that was his usual uniform at the Marshall County, Iowa jail facility. He sat down in the strict straight-backed chair, his cuffed hands rested on his lap, where he waited patiently for the officer to continue.

"Brennan, Roger charged for an account of assault and attempted battery, resulting in a sentence in jail for thirteen years. Your release date is today, Thursday, October 22nd 2005. Congratulations, and have a great life." The officer said in a monotonous voice. He unlocked the cuffs and walked him out of the building into the lot, where some of the prisoners were working out.

"I hope you have a ride or something, man." He checked his watch and clicked his tongue. "I usually got to stay around here and check on where you're heading to, but I really got no time…Think you have it from here, buddy?" the officer asked, adorning on a pair of fake aviator sunglasses.

Roger looked down at his orange jumpsuit and scratched his unshaven chin. "Yah, I got it from here."

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Grabbing hard onto Kate's smooth arm, he made his way towards his 'camping' area from the last three nights. Before entering the tent, he looked around to make sure that his partner was off somewhere else. After waiting a few minutes, he entered with Kate struggling along behind him.

"Now, stay put." He said, stripping off his shirt he started making his way back out towards the flap. He paused and chuckled to himself. Turning back around towards Kate, he took one of the cuffs off her wrists and attached it to the leg of a table.

"Damn it." Kate said rather loudly, her face pink and diverted to the side.

"You didn't think that I'd let you stay in here all by yourself? Nah, I think the handcuffs will be on for a while, Kitten." He turned back around, grinning from ear to ear, heading towards the stream a quarter of a mile off to the west of the camp. Kneeling down after a few minutes, he splashed his face with some cool water, and drank it like it was sweet fruit juice. Drying himself off, he headed back towards the camp.

"Kate…" he drawled off this tongue. Ducking back into the tent he did a double take around. "What the fuck!" Roger felt a pain on the side of this head and all went black.

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"I'm taking it that you need a ride buddy?" a woman in a jean jumpsuit said, pulling onto the side of the road in a cheap Ford pickup. She pulled down her sunglasses to get a better look at Roger.

"Yeah. Thanks." Roger said roughly, dumping his half-empty bag of his possessions onto the back of the pickup and sliding into the front seat. The woman had replaced her shades back onto the bridge of her nose. She looked like a hard-working woman with a strongly built body and callused hands.

She steered back onto the highway and nodded towards Roger's orange jumpsuit. "Did time?" she asked rather casually.

"Nope, just felt orange." He replied back with a forced sense of humor.

The woman nodded and stopped asking questions. "So, where are you headed to, Smith?" she asked.

"Back home."

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"Ehhh… ugh… Where am I?"

"Just where you left me, Roger. Except now we're in a much different situation."

The room became a bit clearer, and Roger could tell by the darkness outside that nightfall was close.

"Water?"

Roger turned to the side and saw Kate leaning against the table with a bottle of water in her hand. He tried standing up, but noticed that his hands were bounded together with the handcuffs that were now absent from Kate's wrists. Groaning slightly, he shifted his head back so that it was resting against the back of the chair. He started laughing a bit insanely and closed his eyes.

"How the fuck did you get out of those cuffs?"

"Never ever think that you can get a kiss from me without a consequence." She said pulling out the key from the back pocket of her jeans. "It's funny how men can get so caught up in the moment and not notice a sneak." She grinned, and then her structured face became more serious.

"Oh, god, Kate. Looking at you then, I could have sworn I was transported twenty years ago. You haven't changed one bit. Have I already mentioned that? Still the rebel…" he groaned again. "Look this is ridiculous. Why don't you let me out of this chair and we talk like civilized people."

WHAM.

"Aw, fuck!" Roger said, rubbing his cheek onto his shoulder. "Now, why'd you go and do that?" he asked, after Kate had slapped his face. He felt a few teeth come loose in his mouth.

"Because you talk like we're still fifteen." She said, pushing back her brown curly hair. Her green eyes flashed in the darkness and Roger was transfixed. "Now, you tell me where my friends are, or you'll be wishing that you were fifteen again." She said revealing a knife that Roger used to spear animals with. She noticed how Roger kept darting his eyes behind her shoulder to the entrance of the tent. "Don't get your hopes up. Your partner came back a few minutes before you woke up… He's not going to be waking up till tomorrow after what I've done with him."

She kept her eyes steady on Roger's face as not to reveal her lie. She asked her question again to hurry things up. It was definitely late now, and his partner would be returning sooner or later.

"Tell me where my friends are."

Roger sighed loudly and stretched out his legs. "Kate, I think we should get things straightened out…. For old times sake."

-Lost-

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Oh, my gosh!!! I'm SO SORRY that I haven't updated in forever! It's been tough with school and everything so I'm glad that I've got this third chapter off my chest. Haha. I hope you like it, and I'm really truly sorry about how late this chapter is.

I'll try to get my chapters in faster, as I know there are some real anxious readers out there. I've gotten real good reviews and I hope to get more!!! Thank you so much.

I know, what's with the jumpsuits, right?