Flashback
"How are you-what are you-what?" Michael stuttered as he stared at his dead wife.
"Michael, you've been brought here for a reason" she responded, her voice calm and serious.
"That doesn't explain why you're here" Michael was trying to decide if he should be terrified or ecstatic.
"We can talk about that on the way" she said, her voice staying monotonous as she turned to leave.
"Wait, where are we going?" Michael asked and quickly hurried after her deeper into the jungle.
When they arrived at a small village she stopped and turned to him
"Michael, you must tell no one what you see or hear while you are with us. Can you agree with that?"
"Where the hell are we?" He asked, ignoring the question
"Michael, do you agree?" her voice was insistent.
"Sure, whatever" he replied absently, taking in the sight
"Michael, I need to be certain you understand what you're agreeing to" her voice seemed more proper than he remembered from six years ago. I guess people change, he thought.
"Yeah, yeah, I get it. Don't tell no one about this place"
"Michael… we need you to kill Sawyer"
Flashback over
"Charlie, what happened to him?"
"I don't really know. One minutes he was shot and-"
"He was shot again?!" Kate exclaimed
"Oh, right… well it was hours ago so I almost forgot you hadn't heard yet"
"What?! And no one told me?! Glad to know everyone cares about me…"
"Kate, it's a long story, but so after he was shot we kinda… we preoccupied attacking Michael and forgot abo-"
"You forgot about him?!" Kate was now furious with Jack but also terrified that there had been something so important that they didn't tend to Sawyer right away, "Wait, what did Michael do?"
"Well he kinda… shot Sawyer…"
Kate was speechless. She not only wanted to go find out how Sawyer was, she wanted to go murder Michael.
"Why the hell would he do that?" She finally asked, her voice and head lowered, trying to hide the fear.
"He said it was something about the Others and his dead wife talking to him"
"You believed him?" Kate was now annoyed at all of them for believing his stupid excuses
"Well that's not all he said…"
"Go on" Kate encouraged, eager to find out what this was all about
"Well Michael said some things that sound a little… like rubbish actually, but he said that Sawyer was a conman"
"Oh… well" Kate tried to think of the right reaction to something she already knew.
"Seems like you already knew that" Charlie said
"Yeah… he told me a while ago, but he said that he's not at it anymore… not since he… well anyways, so why does this have to do anything?" She asked, trying to get back on topic and stay away from Sawyer's past while he was most likely dying.
"Well Kate, that's just it. He is still at it. This whole thing was his con. 8 million dollars Kate… he planned it all…" Charlie looked at her, disbelief still reading on his face.
"What are you talking about" Kate said, slightly confused about what Charlie had left unsaid.
"Kate, Sawyer crashed our plane"
Okay, so the story line has taken a radical turn! I hope you are all still interested and not mad that this chapter was really short :) Every day I get more and more new reader and I am so thankful for them (no that was not just added for the sake of Thanksgiving) and I appreciate all the reviews you give! Chapter may be a little slow going up now but I do have pretty much the next large chunk of the story planned out. Thanks!!!!