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Chapter five: Sought

Lucas walked over to the bottles which were standing in the doorway. When he picked one up and walked over to the bed to hand it to me, I started to talk again.

"I'm afraid. Do you think we're safe? What will happen if they get us?" I asked softly. I felt a bit strange confessing to him that I was afraid, but the words just came out of my mouth.

It was kind of weird to hear myself talk like this. This wasn't the Skye everyone knew. I was more quiet and careful. Maybe I had left the adventurous, bubbly and sometimes even cheeky Skye back at Terra Nova. Lucas and I hadn't talked much in the short time since he found me, but every word I said sounded insecure and shy. I really hated the awkward silence, but I was too frightened to think clearly at the moment.

I was banished and alone and I felt uncomfortable with Lucas saving me from the Sixers and the jungle. There was nobody who would protect me, besides him, but I didn't want to trust or depend on him. Sometimes I just doubted that Lucas wanted to hurt or even kill me; if he had wanted to, he would've done it a long time ago.

He handed me the bottle of water, watching me mouth a "thank you". After I drank a bit I looked enquiringly at him again. He was much more experienced at living in the jungle than I was and he could weigh the situation and the danger better than I could.

"I really don't know if we're safe but I suppose. Maybe in a few days we'll move on a bit to lengthen the distance between us and the Sixer's camp." he told me. Lucas knew that this answer wouldn't satisfy me, but perhaps it was better to not tell the truth. It wouldn't calm me either if he told me that the Sixers were looking for us and we would never be safe.

I moved my fingers through my light-brown wavy hair and stared into space as he sat down next to me again. There was no doubt that I was just struggling to come to terms with the situation at the moment. In a few days everything might be better.

"So it's time for breakfast now." he said, smiling at me. As he received a smile back, he stood up to pick the gun and a rucksack up. It was nearly unbelievable how a person who was usually full of hatred and pain could smile in these bad situations. I suppose that losing your mother is worse than being chased by the Sixers but it really made me think about what he had to smile about right now. I followed him and we both left the tree house to look for food.

"How's your knee?" He asked me when we reached the ground.

"Oh, it's fine. The medicine is helping a lot. Thanks," I told him. I really appreciated it and wondered how his bullet holes, which I had caused, were.

We went away from our hiding place and walked deeper into the jungle. The soft foliage rustled under our feet as we kept on moving. I watched his silhouette from the side for a while and saw his features tighten every time we heard an animal rush away in the distance. Although I didn't fully trust him, I felt safe with him in the wilderness. I just had to remember how helpless I had felt when the slasher had nearly attacked me. I didn't want this to happen again.

It was a warm and sunny morning and it was nearly enjoyable to take a walk through the jungle, though I didn't really know what we were doing. We walked away from our hiding place for a long time, but suddenly I couldn't find Lucas anymore. I turned around to look if he was behind me, but I couldn't see him.

I started walking faster and faster until I ran through the jungle, trying to find him. Then I stopped and wondered where he was.

"Lucas?" I asked quietly. "Lucas?" Honestly I didn't want to shout. I blamed myself for being dumb enough to get lost. Or did he want to get rid of me?

I took a couple of steps more until I finally shouted for him. Where the hell was he?

I didn't want to panic and tried to keep calm. I reassured myself that I would be able to find him again. Maybe he was already looking for me. Why didn't I notice him walking away?

When I turned around to look for Lucas in another direction, I suddenly reached a clearing and sat down. From the ground the trees looked even higher and the sky seemed even bluer. Time passed slowly as I listened to the sounds of the jungle. I silently hoped that this wasn't a dinosaur area. After some time I stood up and walked through the jungle again. It wasn't worth it to run because I could get even further away from him without knowing it.

Suddenly something grabbed me from behind. I shouted out loud and tried to free myself. First I thought a dinosaur caught me, then I thought it was some Sixer, but then it became clearer to me that it was Lucas.

"Hey, Bucket. Breakfast's ready. Are you hungry?" he asked me as he turned me around to look into my eyes. He grinned brightly as he saw me breathing heavily. I still looked frightened; he had scared me to death.

"W-What are you doing? You frightened me to death! Oh, my goodness!" I told him. I struggled to stop shaking. He looked me into my eyes and laughed. I had to smile too. Lucas still held me.

"Are you ok? Come on, there's our food." He laughed when he took me away. I followed him and he picked the backpack up when we reached it.

"Yes, I'm ok, but you really scared me. I thought I was being attacked again." I explained, smiling. When my initial shock had passed I also found it funny. "But where were you?" I asked him.

"I went to pick up our breakfast, remember." Lucas told me. He kept on moving which made me a bit confused.

"Can't we have breakfast now? Where are you going?" I asked him. I still didn't know why he had left so I told him not to leave me again.

"Sure, Bucket. We're going to one of my favourite places. I want to show it to you as we're moving on tomorrow and I really want you to see it." He told me. I loved it when he was so joyful and happy.

"Oh that sounds great. Well, what did you get for breakfast?" I enquired. We walked past a few big trees and a row of bushes for a while. He led me through different parts of the jungle. Lucas stopped when we got to a place without any trees. It was a large area covered with grass up till the horizon. We walked through the grassland which ended in a high cliff.

"Shall we sit down here?" Lucas asked, ignoring my last question.

"Oh, yes of course!" I told him. Lucas and I sat down at the end of the grassland. From that point I could see the endless jungle beneath me. I hadn't realised that we were nearly in the clouds when we went there.

It was amazing. We seemed so little, sitting there at the edge of our world, looking down into another one. Millions of trees stretched out for distances you could not guess. I'd never felt so free before. I really loved nature, but this was another level. It was a view which you could not even have from an airplane. I was so impressed.

"Oh Lucas, this is wonderful." I said, stunned. I smiled at him when he smiled back.

"I'm glad you like it." Lucas told me. Then he unzipped the backpack and took out some fruits and a bottle of water. "Breakfast?"

"Yes, I'm so hungry." I agreed. It was an extraordinary idea to lead me here to have breakfast. I appreciated his efforts to make me happy. He really wanted me to be happy. Did he? Did Lucas Taylor want to see somebody happy? The thought of him caring for other people was more than uncommon to me.

I couldn't get why he still cared for me. I shot him twice, I betrayed him. Weren't these enough reasons to hate me? In my opinion these actions were unforgivable, but it seemed that they weren't unforgivable for him. He forgave me a couple of times. If I was someone else he would've killed me long time ago. The only conclusion was he liked me. But how could that be? What made me so special? I wondered.

Suddenly I noticed that I was staring off into space. Lucas looked full of expectation when I saw that he wanted to hand me a fruit.

"Thank you" I mouthed. I took it and observed the yellow round fruit.

"You are beautiful, Skye." Lucas said all of a sudden. It felt like a déjà-vu. I remembered when I sat in Boylan's bar and he had told me this. Josh had slapped him in the face and it all ended up in a fight.

But now Josh wasn't here to punch him. I was alone and in a certain way helpless. I couldn't find any words so I just nodded and looked away. I didn't want this moment to be awkward, but it was. To break the silence I ate my fruit.

"Wow it's delicious!" I mentioned to make him better. He was upset about getting no reaction from me. What should I've said or done? I just didn't want to do anything I would regret.

He watched the clouds passing. I didn't know why but I hated to see him like that. Lucas looked disappointed. It wasn't my intention to hurt anybody.

"Hey, please don't get me wrong okay? I just can't deal with it at the moment." I tried to explain. He just had to understand. I assumed that he felt rejected and I really couldn't deny the attraction between us; however, I didn't want things to happen too fast. As I'm not stupid I should know that it's not advisable to fall in love with a villain. "Let's just have breakfast and enjoy the view, okay?" I reasoned.

"Okay, Bucket, please forget what I've said." He pleaded. I just had to laugh and lay back to watch the sky. He did so too.

"Do you miss Terra Nova so far?" Lucas asked.

"I don't know. I miss my mum." I explained. He really could understand how it felt to miss his mother. The difference between us was the fact that my mother was still alive and his wasn't.

"She's okay. Your mum's a strong person." He reassured me. I knew that my mother was strong but we really couldn't say if she was still alive. Maybe she was already dead.

"She needs the medicine the Sixers gave her. Do you know what it was?" I asked hopefully. Maybe Lucas did know the medicine.

"Yes, perhaps I know a couple of the ingredients." He said after he thought about it for a while. "Maybe we can collect a few of them and try to bring them to your mother if you want to."

It was a nice offer and I couldn't resist telling him to try it.

"Oh, that would be so great. If it's okay with you I really would like to try. Maybe it will work!" I told him joyfully.

"Sure. I'm not a doctor but I think I know most of the ingredients. We can look for the ones I remember when we move on. But now, enjoy the view, Bucket. Don't worry." Lucas told me.

I didn't respond and just watched the clouds passing and the clear blue sky. We sat there for a while until the idyllic silence was destroyed by loud noises. The sound of engines and gun shots filled the air.

"Oh no. The Sixers! Hurry up!" Lucas said as he got up and grabbed the backpack. He pointed in one direction and told me to come with him.

At first I didn't realise what was happening, but when Lucas waited for me to run away I knew that they were looking for us again. I got up too and followed him. He ran along the rim of the cliff until we saw a big scarp face towards us. The big rock rose hundreds of metres to the sky. The Sixers were still behind us when Lucas stopped in front of it.

"We're too far away to get back to our shelter. We have to-"

"I'm not climbing up there!" I interrupted him. We both were out of breath. He shook his head.

"No, no, Bucket. We're not climbing up there, we're going into the rock. Look, there's a little corridor which ends up in a cave. It's a very uncomfortable but secret place. Come on." He pointed out when we moved towards it.

We had no other choice than to hide as the Sixers chased us. It was the only option we had. Lucas and I had to hide until it was safe again. I had to think about how often we would have to repeat this. I was afraid that the Sixers wouldn't stop chasing us until they finally got us back.

The entrance to the cave wasn't very big, but it was big enough to get inside. It was quite dark, only a few shafts of sunlight came inside. The noises which the Sixers made were getting louder and louder.

"Ladies first." Lucas said as he beckoned to me to climb inside. I crouched down and slipped cautiously inside. I crawled through the tunnel until I reached the main cave. Lucas hurried to get inside too.

The floor was covered with wet foliage and it was very cold. When my eyes got used to the darkness I sought out Lucas. He was sitting on the floor as I did. It was very uncomfortable but it was way safer than trying to get back to the shelter. We heard the engines roaring very loudly when they drove past the scarp face. The sounds echoed through the cave. After some time it was silent again.

"We have to stay here at least until tomorrow. It's too dangerous out there." Lucas told me. I nodded but then realised that he couldn't see me.

"Okay." I whispered back. "Are we going to move on tomorrow?" I asked.

"Yes, maybe. It depends on how far away they are. If we hear them later on again we have to think about it again." He explained. It was amazing how many secret places he knew. The jungle has been his home for about five years.

I didn't respond. I tried to be as silent as possible. I didn't want to make any unneeded noise.

"Do you have your jacket? It's a bit cold in here." Lucas asked. Then I realised that I had left my jacket behind in the tree house. It really was a bit cold. The stony walls and the clammy floor send shivers through my body which was well heated up from the sun outside. Outside the cave the weather was nice and the sun shone, but in the deepness of this rock you couldn't feel it.

"I left my jacket in the tree house because it was so nice outside, but, no worries." I said.

"I took a jacket with us in case there was rain. It's in the rucksack. Do you need it?" his voice sounded over to me. I weighted the situation and decided to take it because it was going to be a long, cold and sleepless night otherwise.

"Yes, okay. Are you cold?" I asked slightly worried about taking his jacket.

"No, no, I'm fine." Lucas assured me. I heard how he unpacked the backpack to give me his jacket. Suddenly I heard how a heavy metallic item fell onto the stony floor. It had to be the gun, I supposed.

I was a little frightened when the jacket suddenly flew over to me.

We didn't talk much for the rest of the day. We exchanged a few words, but nothing more.

The day passed until I carefully sank to his shoulder and fell asleep.