Night finally came and they were miles away from the island.

Ben smiled as he sat down. "We shall reach the cliffs by morning."

Sawyer sat at the ship's rear, staring out to see.

"Why do you keep doing that?" Ben asked him.

"Sure we're not being followed?"

Ben scowled. "That would be inconceivable."

Claire, who was already awake at the time, glared at him. "That's what you think. Locke will find you, and you will all be hanged."

Ben grinned evilly at her. "Of all the necks here, I'd worry about your own."

Claire remained silent. Sawyer kept looking out to see.

"Sawyer!" Ben shouted. "You can relax. It's almost over."

"Sure no one's following us?"

"Look. That would be completely, absolutely , and in all other ways INCONCEIVABLE! No one in DHARMA knows what we're doing, and the people on the island couldn't have caught up with us already. We don't have to worry about a thing."

He laid his head back against a crate, almost relaxed. But then he looked back at Sawyer.

"Out of curiosity, why do you ask?"

"Well…somebody happens to be behind us."

"What?"

He and Eko got up and ran towards where Sawyer was sitting and there it was. A small sailboat, looking smaller than it should due to the distance, moving in the same direction they were.

Ben just shook his head. "Perhaps it's just a…local fisherman on a pleasure cruise at night…"
Sawyer glared at him. "Through shark-infested waters?"

SPLASH!

They turned to see that Claire had jumped overboard and was swimming away from them.

"Wha-GO IN! GET AFTER HER!" Ben shouted.

"Me!" Sawyer shouted "I don't swim! He's too heavy to swim!"

After growling in irritation, Ben shouted again. "VEER LEFT!"

The ship turned in the direction Claire was swimming, when she stopped as a horrible sound echoed across the sea.

"Do you know what that sound is, highness?" Ben called out to her. "Those are the howling sharks! If you don't believe me, just wait. They always grow louder when they're about to feed on human flesh!"

Claire suddenly screamed as the sound grew louder and a shark fin shot past her, and was swimming away from her.

"Swim back now!" Ben shouted. "I promise that no harm will come to you. I doubt the sharks will offer you a better deal!"

To Claire's horror, the fin turned and advanced toward her. She was to terrified to move, too scared to scream at the jaws that emerged from the water, about to feed on her.

"MOMMY!"

"It's okay, Aaron," Kate reassured him. "The shark's not gonna get her. The shark won't eat her."

Aaron kept staring at the screen in wide eye, breathing hard. "It was scary."

Kate sighed. Maybe she shouldn't have be reading this to him

"Well, we can stop now if you'd like," she said as she lifted him off her lap.

"No, I'm fine," Aaron said. "Please keep reading."

Kate smiled. "Okay."

She placed him back on her lap and continued. "'Do you know what that sound is, highness? Those are the howling sharks..'"

"Mommy, you already read that."

"Oh? OH! Right. Sorry. Okay, she was in the water, the shark was coming after her, she was frightened, the shark started to charge her, and then…"

SLAM!

Claire looked up to see that Eko had slammed his staff against it and chased it away. Then he pulled her out of the water and back onto the ship. Ben immediately rushed to her and bound her hands together.

Sawyer looked to see that boat was getting bigger.

"Looks like he's been getting closer while we were fishin'."

Ben just shook his head. "He is not our concern!"

Then he glared at Claire. "I suppose you think you're brave."

"Only compared to some," she shot back at him.

The next morning, Eko walked over to Sawyer, who was gathering rope while cotinuing to stare at the small boat, which was getting closer.

"He's right on top of us," Eko observed.

"Oh, I'm sure he aint followin' us," Sawyer said sarcastically. "Probably just usin' the same wind we're usin'."

"Oh he's following us," Ben spoke up. "But it doesn't matter. He's already too late."

He was looking ahead. At large cliffs at the edge of another island.

"The Cliffs of Insanity."

AN: You're probably wondering, why sharks? why didn't you go with eels? watch Season 2, episode 2.