"I'm so cold right now."
"Here, put on this sweater Shannon."
"Aww, Sayid thank you- listen, I'm.. I'm sorry about all this, it's just that I.."
"You don't need to explain yourself. Boone just died, you're having traumatic nightmares.."
"You think it was a nightmare! That I'm making this all up?"
Sayid sighed. This was the third, possibly fourth time they were having this conversation and they had only been walking for a mere eight minutes.
"No Shannon, now follow me closely. It's still dark, you don't know what could be in this forest."
Shannon and Sayid walked for another five or six minutes and reached the Black Rock.
"Shannon, now tell me the details in your dream." Sayid turned around, and the moment he did, he was knocked to the ground by some force on his side. He fell to the ground, blood pouring out of his head. After hearing a scream, he fainted. And all memories swept away..
Meanwhile back at the hatch, Kate and Jack are continuing their discussion.
"Kate.. You need something?"
"Jack, we need to talk."
"Uh.. Okay Kate," said Jack, putting down the heavy book he had been sifting through while sitting at the chair in front of the computer.
"Jack, how do you feel.. about us?"
Thoughts flashed through Jack's mind. Was it even possible for Kate to be feeling the way he was feeling? "What about us?" said Jack, focusing his concentration on her, even more.
"Jack, just answer the damn question."
"Well Kate, to be honest, I.. I could spend the rest of my life with you."
Kate was taken aback. She had only been with this man for 40 somewhat days, but this man had feelings for her!
She couldn't help but release a smile, the happiness was just too great for her to hold inside of her.
"Whaaat..?" said Jack with that famous smile.
"Is there something else you want to get out in the open, Jack?"
"Well," said Jack, scratching the back of his neck, "you're an amazing person really. But if you're.. if you're trying to get me to say I like you or something, I'm sorry, but nothing can happen between us."
"What… why?" said Kate, in a worried voice.
"Kate.. I know we have something between us. I've been wanting to talk to you about it too. pauses But I'm sorry, but I have so much going on for me right now, I have 40 plus survivors to take care of, I can't drop responsibilities, it wouldn't.."
Kate couldn't believe what she was hearing. She had been so sure that Jack had cared about her and loved her, that he would have been relieved to hear what Kate was saying to him! She gave him a cold, angry stare and said quietly, "Well, what the hell do you want from me, then?"
Jack stared confusedly and said sheepishly, "Kate.." a pleading tone in his voice.
"It's because I'm a fugitive, isn't it?"
"No Kate, it's not like that at all."
Kate walked right up to him and decided to get what she had wanted to say off from her chest. "I can't believe you. How could you.. Why would you.. And how dare.."
But before she could finish her sentence, Jack kissed her. Kate kissed him back and after five seconds said, "Don't think that this changes everything Jack." But Kate kissed him back, physically denying what she had just said.
After a minute or so, they stopped and stared into each other's eyes. Kate wiped her mouth, and turned and ran away.
She ran right out of the hatch, towel and all, and into the forest.
Jack stared confusedly after her.
Hurley, who had apparently been spying came up to Jack and gave him a pat on the back.
"Dude, maybe you're just a bad kisser."
Jack gave him a look of you're-not-helping-right-now and walked back to the computer, pondering about Kate.
Kate, meanwhile, went into the forest and thoughts raced in her head. Oh my god, what am I doing? If Jack found out the truth about me, he wouldn't trust me. Can I trust him? Of course I can! Oh wow, did I just run out of there?
"I shouldn't have ran out of there like that. I think.. I think.. I KNOW I love him. Oh wow, what must he be thinking?" muttered Kate under her breath.
"I'm thinking I love you too."
Kate turned around and there was Jack, just standing there.
Kate turned a rose of red, but ran into his arms and said, "Jack, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to run out of there like that. I.. I need to talk to you."
"First, put on my jacket," said Jack, placing his jacket around her shoulders. "Now, talk to me."
"Jack.. I ran out of there because I.. I don't think you should be with me. I can't harm you. I can't put you through this." And with that, she told Jack her whole story- who she really was, why she was a fugitive on the run, all the crimes she had committed accidentally."
Kate stopped, short of breath, after telling Jack.
Jack stared into her eyes and said, "Do you trust me?"
"W.. what?"
"Kate, do you trust me?
"I guess so. I mean yes. Jack, I really do trust you."
"Then you know I'm gonna help you get through this all."
"Oh, Jack!" she buried her head into his chest, and he kissed her forehead.
"Wait Mr. Romantic! You gonna tell me what you were saying back there?" She suddenly had this stern face, the cute one Jack just wanted to stare at all day.
"Kate, it's just that.. I don't know.. I mean after Sarah, maybe.. I thought this was too fast. But looking at you know, I know you're the one."
"You're the one for me too Jack." She went into this arms and they stayed like that for awhile, before they walked back to the beach, hand in hand.
Meanwhile, Hurley decided to take a walk into the forest. That is of course, after stuffing two chocolate bars from the hatch food storage, into his short pockets. After walking along nowhere in particular, eating his chocolate, he saw something. He walked closer.
"Dude… oh man.." He let out a small groan as he saw the dead body of a man, covered in a puddle of blood.
He whimpered, turning over the body.
There was Sayid lying dead, with a knife to the side of his head.
Stay tuned to Chapter 3!