A/N: Here's chapter 3! I've been insanely busy with work, helicopter rides, and other things. Hope you enjoy and please review! Oh and this chapter is for my little brother Kurt, one of my biggest fans :D

Chapter 3- Protocol

This can't be good." Daniel said as they walked to see what was going on. He and Charlotte walked over to see that an empty tent had collapsed. Then they saw Jack pick up a bag from the tent and open it.

"What do you suppose that is?" Charlotte asked. Daniel could hear the suspicion in her voice. He shrugged, so they started to walk over to the nearby kitchen. Jack was holding a SAT phone, one of the ones they used on the freighter.

"I think they want us to follow them."

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Daniel only had one unfortunate incident with Keamy. He avoided him at all costs. It was the early evening on the day after Naomi left on the first chopper. Daniel found himself walking towards his berth through the narrow corridors of the Kahana. He heard loud voices coming from Gault's stateroom. He paused as he heard Keamy's booming voice.

"Give me the key Gault," Keamy said in his steely voice.

"Martin, the Secondary Protocol is only supposed to be used as a last resort, stand down," Gault replied. "That's an order!"

"This is ridiculous." Keamy muttered. Daniel heard his heavy footstep approaching. He quickly started walking away but Keamy clipped his shoulder.

"Watch it nerd." Keamy growled.

Daniel hit his head against the wall and he slumped down. As he got up, his head started to spin. He put his hand on the back of his head and noticed blood, his blood on his fingertips. He was a bit wobbly but he safely made it to his berth.

He sat down on his small bunk, and then curiously started to flip through his worn journal. It was almost endless pages of messy equations and diagrams until something caught his eye, a large octagonal symbol. Daniel almost immediately recognized it, it was a DHARMA station. The Orchid it was called? He looked up to see in his messy writing:

Secondary Protocol, using this at the Orchid will result in the Island becoming "unstuck".

Daniel quickly looked up as he heard a faint knocking, stuffing his journal hastily in his bag.

"Dan! Open up, it's just me." Charlotte said faintly.

"Come in Charlotte." Dan replied, not wanting to get up in fear of getting dizzy again. Charlotte came in quietly and sat down next to Dan, a pack of cards in her hands.

"Jesus Dan! What the bloody hell happened to your head?!" She gingerly reached out to examine to examine the bleeding cut. "I'll be right back." She said, abruptly leaving. She was back a minute later with a first aid kit in hand.

"Where'd you get that?" Dan asked. Is she always prepared like this?

"I brought one; it's always good to come prepared." She smiled and pulled out a bottle of peroxide and a cloth. He responded with a slow nod.

"So, what happened?" she asked, pouring some peroxide on the cloth.

"Uhhh, I...um, I-I ran into Keamy and hit my head on the wall." He responded slowly, tripping over his words. Charlotte sighed, her fists clenched tight. She felt like punching that arrogant asshole next time she saw him.

"This is going to hurt Dan." She warned before putting the cloth to his head. He hissed in pain, biting his tongue.

"There, all done." Charlotte said when she finished. He looked up and gave her a small smile.

"Thanks." He said, and although his head still hurt like hell, he felt a lot better when he was with Charlotte. She helped him and unlike everyone else, treated him like a normal person. Although he wasn't exactly normal, he still had memory problems and wasn't very good on a social level.

"No problem Dan. You should get some rest, yeah? Don't worry about the card game tonight." Charlotte said, getting up and heading towards the door. She turned around to face him again, a smile forming at her lips. "Breakfast at our normal time?"

"Yeah, I'll see you at 8." Daniel replied, a smile forming at his lips. As soon as he left, he pulled out his journal staring at that logo. He began to worry. I've got a feeling this won't be very good.

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Charlotte and Daniel walked over to the group that formed at the kitchen, all of them wondering what the hell was going on. They stood together by Jack, who was holding the SAT phone.

"It-It was Sayid and Desmond in the helicopter, right?" said Rose cautiously, "I mean it had to be. Why else would they drop the thingamabob right over us?"

"Why wouldn't they just land?" Sun asked the group.

"I don't know but this thing is tracking the chopper. So if they were on it, then they want us to know where they're going." Jack quickly replied from beside them.

"It's a phone right? Can't we just call?" Sun asked again. The phone kept beeping as Jack shifted his gaze over to Dan and asked.

"Well?"

Daniel gave him a simple nod and Jack took a step forward and handed him the phone. "Don't try anything stupid." Jack warned. Charlotte had a stoic look on her face as she looked at Jack then turned to face Dan. "Understood." Dan replied simply as everyone turned their attention to him. Daniel pushed a few buttons to set it to Monitor Mode. There was a long pause and Charlotte gave him a concerned look. Then they finally heard static, the whirring sound of the chopper, and Keamy's gruff voice:

"Put her down over there."

"Is that from the chopper?" Juliet asked.

"Shh." Daniel cut her off so they could hear what was going on and turned his attention back to the phone.

"Are you sure? We're still 5 klicks from the site." Frank responded.

"I said put her down Frank!" Keamy growled. "Okay, gear up, boys. As soon as we hit the ground, we deploy to the Orchid. Heads down! Let's do this." Then it was cut off and all they could hear was the static. Daniel blinked as he tried to think what was going on and why he was so worried. Jack looked over to Juliet.

"Do you know what the Orchid is?" he asked her.

"No. I didn't hear Desmond or Sayid either." she returned. Jack thought for a moment before deciding what to do.

"Kate." He called out. Jack took the SAT phone back from Daniel and walked over to Kate, asking her to go for a walk, which didn't sound like a good idea to Dan. He thought for a moment before quickly walking over to his tent. Charlotte kept standing there with her hands on her hips and watched as Juliet and Jack argued, and Juliet walking away with tears in her eyes. Looking beside her and realizing Dan had already left, she started walking in the direction of their tent.

Daniel frantically looked though his bag until he found his worn journal and opened it, flicking through the pages furiously.

"Daniel?" Charlotte said, almost making him jump. He turned to look at her for a second before going back to flipping though pages. "What's wrong?" she asked as she sat down next to him. He stopped and turned to face her, putting his hand on her shoulder.

"Charlotte, did you hear what he said? They're going to the Orchid. They're using the Secondary Protocol." He whispered fiercely as he hit the table with the flashlight. Charlotte can clearly see the worry in his brown eyes.

"What are you talking about?" Charlotte asked as he flicked through the pages until he found the one with the DHARMA symbol on it. He took a deep breath and looked up to Charlotte with troubled eyes.

"We have to get off this island....." he whispered. Charlotte looked at him, shocked. Why do we have to leave? It doesn't make any sense! she thought.

".....right now."

A/N 2: Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Please take just a minute to review if you can, reviews are love! I still need a few more opinions on whether it should be a happy AU ending or an angsty one. Namaste.