Ha, this is fun. Thanks for the suggestion, Elyad; it's proving to be a really fun story to write.

"You don't mean that," Jack said.

"Oh, I mean it," Ana said bitterly. "That girl's got such a bad attitude it drives me crazy."

"Ana," Jack began desperately, but was interrupted when Sayid and Shannon walked by. Shannon and Ana hadn't been so close since Shannon was recovering and Ana had gone to see if she was okay. Shannon had screamed at her to get out.

The silence was very tense. Jack decided to break it. "Shannon, you doing okay?"

"Oh yeah," Shannon smiled at him. "Well, okay for being shot, that is."

Ana groaned and rolled her eyes. "See Jack, that's exactly what I mean."

"What you mean about what?" Shannon said loudly.

"What I mean about you having a crappy attitude!" Ana said, just as loudly.

"Oh, you think so?" Shannon growled.

Sayid and Jack glanced nervously at each other. "Shannon, come on. Let's go see how Aaron is doing."

"No, Sayid," Shannon said. "I want to hear what Ana-Lucia here has to say for herself."

"She doesn't have to say anything," Jack interrupted tentatively. He grabbed Ana's arm and added, "Why don't we go down to the hatch and see if John wants us to take the shift instead?"

"No, Jack," Ana said, yanking her arm out of his grip. "If Shannon wants me to talk, then that's the least I owe her. Yes, Shannon, at least your boyfriend here is nice enough to forgive me. But maybe that shot affected your brain and you forgot the meaning of 'accident', and I can't blame you."

"You're not even sorry!" Shannon yelled. "I just come over here and you start bad-mouthing me right away, when I didn't do anything to you!"

"Okay, now I definitely know it affected your mind," Ana said. "Because you don't recall that you're the one that was implying bad-mouthing me!"

Jack and Sayid looked lost. They had no idea what to do anymore. "Uh, hey, don't you think we can just say 'sorry' and 'apology accepted' and then it'll all be cool?" Jack suggested.

"I can't accept any apology until she says she's sorry," Shannon said, folding her arms defiantly.

They all looked at Ana. She glanced at all three of them. "I'm not apologizing until she apologizes for being snappy with me."

"I never did anything to you!" Shannon protested.

"Well, then maybe I'm not sorry!" Ana shouted.

It all happened so fast. First Ana had yelled, and then she was stumbling back in pain, clutching the side of her face, and Shannon was simply standing there with her fists clenched.

"Shannon, hey," Sayid said, pulling on her hand to try and pull her away.

Ana regained her balance, fuming mad. She stomped straight over to Shannon and Jack put his arms around her. "Ana, let's not get mad here."

The other survivors were already gathering to see what was going on. Ana was struggling to get out of Jack's grip and the same with Shannon and Sayid.

"Dudes, this isn't cool!" Hurley was yelling.

Jin was shouting in Korean and Sun looked afraid. Claire stood in shock, keeping Aaron close, and Sawyer and Charlie ran up to keep the two apart.

Sawyer took Shannon's other hand and he and Sayid helped calm her down, while Charlie and Jack managed to stop Ana and get her calm.

"Haven't you done enough damage around here already?" Charlie yelled at Ana over the noise.

Everything seemed to stop. Ana stopped struggling and her jaw dropped, tears forming in her eyes. Shannon's eyes widened and she froze in her tracks, while everyone else was still staring at them.

"Charlie, that's- Ana, wait!" Jack stammered before Ana stomped off into the jungle.

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Ana had no idea where she was going. She'd just lost it when Charlie said she'd done enough already, and couldn't stand it. She stopped when she thought she'd gone far enough that they wouldn't find her.

"Ana?"

She looked up. Kate was standing there, confused, with a suitcase. "What's with that?" Ana asked, nodding towards the bag, hoping that Kate wouldn't say anything.

"Oh, I was collecting fruit," Kate said. She opened the bag, revealing a few yellow and orange fruit. "Even with all that food we have in the hatch, we could still use some healthy food."

"Yeah," Ana said vaguely, wiping her eyes.

"What's going on?" Kate asked, sitting next to her and looking at her with concern in her eyes.

"I didn't mean anything," Ana muttered.

"What did you say?" Kate asked nervously. She had a feeling that when Shannon was better, something bad would happen with them.

"She was so…I didn't mean to…I'm sorry, I said I wasn't," Ana said finally.

Kate's gaze softened. "So you two were arguing, and you got so mad that you said you weren't sorry for shooting her." Ana nodded. "You just need to say you're sorry. Honestly, and genuinely."

"I have," Ana said. "Not to her personally, maybe, but I never had the chance. She never wanted me near, and I told Sayid to tell her. But, it's…"

"I know," Kate nodded understandingly. "It's a hard thing to say. But I really think she needs to hear it, from you."

Ana opened her mouth to say something, but Jack's voice that wasn't far off interrupted her. "Ana?!"

Ana and Kate glanced at each other. "I'll tell him you want some time to yourself."

Ana nodded and mumbled "Thanks," before Kate left towards Jack's voice.

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"No, Sayid, just leave me alone," Shannon said loudly and stormed into her tent. Sayid hesitated a moment, considering whether or not he should go in too, but he turned around to go talk to Sawyer.

After a few minutes of sitting alone in the tent, Shannon heard someone say her name, and it wasn't Sayid this time. "Shannon?"

"What?" Shannon muttered. It was the voice of Libby, one of Ana's friends, who Shannon never really talked to.

"Can I come in, please?"

"Fine."

Libby stepped through the tent and sat down across from Shannon. "Guess she really ticked you off, huh?"

"She said she wasn't sorry, that got me pretty ticked, yeah," Shannon grumbled.

"She said it, that doesn't mean she meant it," Libby said softly and reassuringly.

"Oh, she meant it," Shannon said.

"No, she didn't," Libby told her. "Listen, I haven't talked to her much, but she seems so heartbroken after what she did to you. She truly is sorry, but I don't think she knows how to say it. I spent over forty days with her, leading us. Ana is brave, strong, tough, willing. And it's hard for a girl like her to apologize."

"But if she really is sorry, she'd say it," Shannon protested.

"I think she would," Libby nodded. "If she could. She hates this place, a lot. And I know we all do. But it just got her so…worked up, and she's angry, and apologizing is a really hard thing to do, especially with something this big."

Shannon was silent. She knew everything Libby was saying was absolutely true, but she didn't want to admit it.

"So, please," Libby continued. "I just… wouldn't be so quick to accuse. Give her a chance, and don't get her madder. That'll just make it harder for her. Please think about what I said." Libby said before getting up and leaving.

I wasn't going to add those little girl-to-girl talk scenes, but it wasn't long enough without them.