1 Day Later. . .
"Please can I just leave here now" Ana sighed as she swung her legs over the side of the bunk and headed towards the kitchen. Jack was right behind her shaking his head.
"I don't know, do you feel well enough" he said his voice soft. He didn't want Ana to leave the hatch ever again because everytime she did she always ran into trouble. Though he knew he would never be able to stop her.
"Jack I feel fine, a little bit stiff but nothing a nice stroll down the beach won't help" Ana said back firmly knowing she was going to get her way no matter what.
"Okay fine have it your own way" Jack said holding his hands up in defeat. She was so stubborn sometimes and it tended to tick Jack off, but again that was another trait of hers that he loved.
"Thank you" she grinned as she walked over to him kissing him on the lips gently. Jack smiled against her lips and wrapped his arms around her to hold her there. Finally Ana pulled back and was about to walk off when Jack caught her arm.
"At least let me walk you down to the beach, everytime I let you out of my sight you are prone to getting into some sort of trouble" Jack said softly. He knew he was being overprotective but he couldn't help it. Since she had come along his life had got more complicated but also so much easier and now he never wanted that to end.
"Jack" she said rolling her eyes at him comically. "How much trouble can I get into walking down to the beach, I have things to sort out with people and I do not need a babysitter okay" Ana said firmly to the doctor.
"Fine" Jack groaned his face dropping as she walked off towards the door. And just as she walked through it he shouted after her again. "Be careful".
Ana walked slowly along the beach towards her own shelter. As she walked past people's tents she was greeted by warm smiles and greetings from the other people in the camp. These came as a bit of a shock to her but she returned them none the less.
Finally she found the tent she was looking for and pulled the flap aside to see Hurley sat there three mango's on her lap. "Oh hey Ana" he said cheerily as he looked at the latina stood at the foot of his tent.
"Hi Hurley, say you seen Libby anywhere, I need to speak with her" Ana said looking at the younger man.
"Umm yeah last I saw her she was down by the rocks at the end of the beach" Hurley said pointing in the direction she had gone. Ana nodded at the man.
"Thanks" she said to him before spinning on her heel and heading off to where Hurley had said the blonde would be. And surely enough she could see Libby sat on the rocks kicking her feet through the shallow water of the sea.
"Hey" Ana said quietly and this made Libby jump as she had not heard the woman coming. Quickly she pulled her feet out of the water and stood up ready to leave. "Libby please for god sake just let me explain, you didn't let me tell you the full story, just let me tell you and then you can judge me" Ana said her hands outstretched ready to stop the woman from leaving if it was necessary.
Libby looked at her for a moment before huffing and sitting back down on the rock. Ana took steady steps forward and sat down a foot or so away from her.
"It was a few months ago now not long before we crashed" Ana began taking a quick look at Libby with the corner of her eye. "I was a cop working for the L.A police department and me and my partner were called out to a burglary, we thought it was just another routine one you know, we'd done them so many times now" Ana shrugged and she could see Libby had finally turned to look at her. Well it's a start Ana said to herself before continuing.
"So I went around the front and my partner went around the back when suddenly this guy came running out of the front door" she spoke quietly and gulped before carrying on. "I told him to get on the ground and had my gun pointed at him but he said I had it wrong and he was only a student and wanted to show me his ID" she said her head slumping onto her chest.
Libby's eyes had widened considerably now as she became engrossed in the story. "I gave him just enough time to pull out his gun and shoot me four times" she said looking at Libby who's eyes had now gone soft but were even wider with shock. "Twice in the chest and twice in the stomach, time I hit the ground I was dead, well I was for some time" she continued rubbing her hands together nervously.
Libby's eyes were widened in shock as things slowly began to piece themselves together. "I died twice on the operating table, I was in a coma for two weeks" she carried on looking into space as if she was in a trance. "But that wasn't what pissed me off the most surprisingly, it was the fact that he killed my baby, he killed the tiny person in my stomach and I didn't deal with that very well" Ana said her hand automatically going to her stomach as she remembered the incident.
Libby didn't say anything but her lip quivered lightly as she tried to hold back the tears that she knew were threatening to fall. "So it took a few months, but after many sessions with a psychiatrist and when I recovered I went back to work, that day they brought in a guy, his name was Jason McCormack, he was the guy who did it" she said and her eyes once again burnt with anger at the thought of the man. Libby noticed the ferocious look in the woman's eyes and shivered at it slightly.
"He confessed to the shooting, hell his prints were even on the gun but I told them it wasn't him" she said and Libby looked at her with confusion at her words. "I followed him after that, for a week everywhere he went I went, until finally I snapped and I followed him to a bar and when he was leaving his car was parked right at the top of the multi storey" she continued her hands clenching and unclenching. "I called him and he didn't even know who I was, or what he had done, so I pulled out my gun and I shot him three times, he was dead by the time he hit the ground but I walked over to him, and shot him twice in the head just to make sure" Ana finished her heart racing as she remembered everything once more. She knew she couldn't live in the past anymore and by talking about it might help her to get over it.
"I wanted him to feel what I was feeling, the pain I felt, the pain my baby girl must have felt, I wanted him to suffer the worst way he possibly could, and it didn't bother me one bit" Ana ended and with that she got to her feet and looked down at Libby.
"So now you know the truth you can judge me, and if you want to think of me as a murderer then I can accept that, but it's completely up to you" she said and walked off back towards the beach.
Finally Libby found her voice and got to her feet. "Ana wait, just wait" she said and the Latina turned to look at the woman who was now walking towards her. "I-I didn't know, and I'm so sorry you had to go through that" she said softly putting a hand on the younger woman's arm. "I don't think you're a murderer, I think you're an amazingly strong woman, and I am so sorry for running out on you yesterday" she apologized as everything finally made sense about the woman in front of her. Her aggression, her driven nature, her tendency to block people out. It all made complete sense.
"It's okay, it would have been anyone's reaction to something like that" Ana replied a small smile on her lips. Finally she had her friend back.
"No I should have listened but I didn't, please forgive me for that" Libby pleaded her eyes wide and filled to the brim Ana's story still playing on her mind.
"I forgive you" she said and Libby pulled her into a bug hug. She couldn't believe how stupid she had been, how blind she had been. She had always thought that she was good at reading people but this clearly showed her she had to brush up on her skills a bit.
As the two girls walked back towards where all the shelters were the two were completely oblivious to another camp member who had heard the whole thing.
"Ana great to see you up" Kate said as she hobbled on over to the woman on her crutches. Ana smiled back at her.
"And you too hoppalong" she laughed as she watched the brunette struggle using the crutches. "How's the ankle now, any better" she asked as she looked down at the girl's foot.
"A little I suppose, how are you doing" she answered back as she studied the girls face which was still cut and bruised.
"Over all I'm good" she said nodding at Kate.
"I'm glad" Kate said back not really knowing what to say to the woman. She didn't know what she was interested in, she didn't know a single thing about Ana-Lucia-Cortez and she really wanted to know more about the woman who had ultimately saved her life. "So I just want to thank you again for the other day, thank god you did come into the woods with me because I was heading in there on my own as it was" Kate said a dry laugh emitting from her mouth.
Ana laughed a little as well. "Just your lucky day I guess" she said her voice low. "You sure you should be up and about, I mean Jack will kill you if he sees you putting to much weight on it" Ana said trying to continue conversation.
Kate snorted at that. "Trust me I'll beat his ass if he so much as tells me to sit down" she laughed knowing what he was like with his patients. Her heart dropped slightly as she thought of the Doctor up in the hatch. How she wanted to be with him. But she knew he was in love with Ana and she wouldn't try to break that up intentionally.
"I bet you would" Ana answered back shoving her hands deep into her pockets. Ana was about to say something again when an accent that she hardly ever heard around the place anymore hit her ears.
"Ana-Lucia, can I have a word" Sayid said looking slightly uncomfortable at interrupting the two. Ana turned to look at him a confused expression on her face.
"Excuse me a minute Kate" she said and walked over to where Sayid was standing his hands down at his sides.
"What do you want Sayid" Ana asked wondering why the Iraqi had spoke to her. He never spoke to her, well not out of choice anyway.
"That day" Sayid began his voice hitching as he thought about it. "The first time I met you, and you tied me to a tree, you told me a story about when you got shot" he began and Ana instantly froze up as she two remembered that day. "But you said they never found the man, why didn't you want to say that you did find him" he challenged trying not to let on that he knew as much as he did.
But she saw right through him and her face slowly began to turn red. "You were listening in on my conversation with Libby weren't you" she said trying to keep her anger in check. It was hard enough letting Jack and Libby know about the whole ordeal but now Sayid knew. The one man she didn't want to know. Now the only reason he would talk to her was out of pity.
"I didn't mean too" he said simply and he was telling the truth, he had simply just come across the two. "But why Ana".
"That's nothing to do with you Sayid" she said firmly her anger slowly subsiding.
"You told me the basics though, I think I was the first person you told on the island am I right" he said again and Ana merely nodded. "So why wouldn't you tell me the rest".
"Because I didn't want you to pity me okay" Ana said back her voice firm. "Because I didn't want you to think that I was hiding behind that excuse as to why Shannon died, I didn't want people to pity me" Ana continued her words hitting Sayid hard. "Is that all" she said and Sayid nodded pleased that he had gotten the truth out of her.
She began to walk away when Sayid called from behind her. "I don't pity you Ana". She stopped for a second but then carried on towards the hatch where she decided to visit Jack. And for some reason, now that he knew she believed that he didn't pity her. This was Sayid after all.
Jack was sat in the hatch idly turning a pen in his fingers. He was unbelievably bored and couldn't wait until Locke finally got back up there so he could take over. Sighing he leaned back in his chair and his mind lingered to Ana. Her face and her eyes were imprinted in his head and a dopey smile fell across his face.
I wish she was here now just so she's not getting into any trouble Jack thought and opened his eyes slowly, But when he opened them there in front of him stood Ana watching him with an amused look on her face.
"Whatcha thinking about Doc" Ana said slinking forward towards him a broad smile now on his face.
"Well" he began getting to his feet. "Let me think, you uhh you and you" he said softly before kissing her hard on the lips. The two stood there for what felt like hours until finally they pulled back.
"I'm flattered" she grinned her hands up around his neck loosely. "How much longer you gonna be up here" she asked looking up at Jack.
"Just until Locke gets back and then I am all yours" he grinned looking at the Latina woman in his arms. He knew she would make him happy, but not this happy. He felt like a child again.
"Okay" she grinned and kissed him again. Behind them footsteps could be heard and in walked Kate and Sawyer.
"Well well hope we aint interrupting something Doc" Sawyer laughed as he walked straight past them and over to the cupboard where Kate's pills were. Ana ignored Sawyer and looked at Kate who was looking down at the floor awkwardly.
"No Sawyer you're not" Jack said simply letting Ana out of his grip so the two were now stood side by side leaning up against one of the counters.
"Really cause that's not what it looked like to me" Sawyer laughed again as he handed Kate her pills. For some reason he felt something pang within him when he saw the two of them together, but he couldn't put his finger on it. "Anyway how you feeling Rambina, been fighting any war's recently" he said looking at Ana.
"Nah cowboy I haven't, but if a war does start then I'm pretty sure I'll start with you" she laughed back a wide grin on her face. Sawyer just shook his head shaking off her comment, he loved how he could banter with her like he could with no one else.
"Well I'll be waiting for the storm to come then" Sawyer winked a hint of flirtatiousness in his voice. Ana just rolled her eyes at his words but behind her Jack's eyes narrowed and his face tightened slightly as he saw what Sawyer was doing.
"Seems as you two are up here now then I think I'll leave, Locke will be back soon" Jack said and grabbed Ana's hand and pulled her out of the hatch quickly before the other two could argue with him.
"Son of a bitch" Sawyer grumbled as he flopped himself down on the settee. For some strange reason he was disappointed Ana had gone. And the fact that she had gone with Jack was worse. He shook all thoughts of the Latina out of his head and closed his eyes hoping that sleep would let him escape the woman who was slowly but surely capturing his own heart.
So long awaited chapter is now up guys :D sorry I took a while just had exams anolah and just didn't have time. You know the drill review if you liked.