A/N: WHOA! An update…for this story. Tis a miracle, someone go get the press. Anyway…I'm in a pretty depressed mood. Can't remember where this story is going either, but you know, it'll come to me. I think I'm getting Lost withdrawal…but no worries, I'm getting season 4 on DVD tomorrow. YAYS!

Disclaimer: I don't own, you don't sue.

"So, how old are you?" Jack asked Clementine, as she was sitting on the bed in the caves

"Nine, I'm turning ten next week!" she said happily. (A/N: remember, timeline is off)

Jack smiled and nodded, helping her off the bed. She walked out of the tent, shielding her eyes.

"So, what is there to do around here?" she asked, looking around.

"Well," Jack tried to think of the least dangerous things. "You could play Backgammon, or play with Walt, read a book, find someone to go swimming with you, or, if you find Kate, you could ask her if she could take you to pick fruit."

Clementine smiled at the last activity and looked around.

"Which one is Kate?" she asked.

"Well, she's blonde and has freckles. She isn't pregnant and you wouldn't find her trying to get a tan."

"What are you playing? Guess who?" Sawyer asked as he walked past. "Come with me, I'll take ya to her,"

"Uh, Sawyer," Jack said with a slight glare.

"No need to thank me," he said, and Clementine laughed.

When they reached the beach, Sawyer looked around, sneaking a look at Clementine. She had slightly wavy, shoulder length blonde hair and ocean blue eyes that seemed to sparkle.

He started looking for Kate again, and then when he didn't see her he walked over to her tent.

"Freckles, ya there?" he asked,

There was no answer, so he turned around.

"I've got one more place to look." He said with a smile

They walked into the jungle and Sawyer studied the tops of the trees and followed the trail until he saw Kate perched in one, grabbing mangoes.

"Oie, Freckles!" he called

She jumped, giving the tree a death grip, before turning around. She suddenly lost her balance and fell backwards. Sawyer ran forward and caught her, wedding style and Clementine clapped. Kate looked at Sawyer for a while, but then quickly took her hands away from the back of his neck and he put her down.

Clementine smiled slightly and Sawyer told Kate that she wanted to help her. Kate nodded and looked around for some smaller trees, but she couldn't find any.

"Could you stick around, just incase." She asked and he nodded, a grin on his face,

Kate lifted Clementine into the tree, and told her where the handholds were as she climbed up after her. Sawyer followed them on the ground, watching to make sure they were stable.

He got bored after a while, and stopped watching them, until he heard a loud noise, the mechanical grinding.

"Kate, get down! Clementine, JUMP!" he yelled, and Kate expertly dropped from the tree as Clementine, closed her eyes and let go.

Sawyer caught her safely and started running, following Kate.

"In there," Sawyer said to Kate as he spotted a bamboo patch over to the left.

She nodded and climbed in, taking Clementine from Sawyer as he pushed the sticks aside. When they were in, Kate put Clementine on the ground, a hand on her shoulder. They waited until the tree's stopped moving, and the mechanical noise had stopped, and then slowly stepped out of the bamboo.

"What was that?" Clementine asked.

"We…don't know." Kate said slowly,

Clementine looked at the jungle warily. Then she looked up at Sawyer and Kate, who were talking quietly.

"Let's go to the beach!" Clementine said and they smiled,

"This island is special," Sawyer started as they were walking.

"We've encountered polar bears, strange noises and a lot of other weird stuff," Kate said

Clementine nodded

"Never go into the jungle alone, you might get hurt." Sawyer said gruffly.

Clementine nodded seriously and suddenly spotted the beach.

"Wanna go swimming" she asked and Kate and Sawyer grinned.

"All right then…" Sawyer grinned, as they got closer to the water.

After their swim, they had parted, and Clementine had found something else to do. Kate went back to her fruit picking, and Sawyer built a small fire and sat down, his head still swimming with the possibility of Clementine being here.

Taking his last cigarette out of his pocket, he looked at it, then chucked it into the sand, remembering Kate's words.

He looked up at the night sky, staring at the stars that twinkled like dithering twits, cheerful and carefree. For a minute, he believed they were staring at him, but those thoughts were pushed from his mind when the little girl came up behind him.

"Are you arguing with the stars?" she asked and he smirked, but remained silent. "Hello?"

"I kinda just remembered that once, my mum said that my dad's name was James Sawyer Ford… Kinda funny huh," she said softly and he nodded, breathing a sigh of relief

"How old are you?" he asked and she looked over at him again

"Ten," she said and he nodded, watching as she looked up at the sky. "What are stars for?"

He chuckled as she stared at them.

"You can't even read by them……they're like dim torches," she said thoughtfully and he looked up, amused.

"Isn't it time for you to go to bed?" he asked casually, then mentally kicked himself

"Who are you, my father?" she shot at him, giving him an angry look

He rolled his eyes and stared at the fire, trying to stop his gaze lingering onto Clementine. Kate walked over a couple of minutes later, a strange look on her face.

"What's up Freckles?" he asked her as she sat down on the other side of him.

"Nothing…" she said thoughtfully and he looked at her with raised eyebrows. "Well…I was just thinking…you two look a lot like each other…"

Sawyer remained silent, a thoughtful expression on his face. Clementine shook her head and Kate laughed.

"What's that?" Sawyer suddenly asked, looking at Kate's hair

"What?"

"Your hair…it's like…got brown bits coming out. Blonde isn't your natural colour?" he asked and she shook her head slowly, biting her lower lip.

"Um…Sawyer…uh…do…do you remember, ages and ages ago…you met a woman called Joyce…" she asked softly, her sentence hesitant.

"Uh…yeah…why?" he asked, furrowing his eyebrows.

"Well," she started, but a noise made her stop.

Everyone was gathering around Jack, and he was explaining something to them.

"Come on!" Clementine said, and they stood up and made their way over to them.

"We found this…well, a hatch, in the jungle, and we believe that it's going to be able to shelter us from the others. It's locked at the moment, so we are going to blow the door open and see what's inside…so, I want you all to stay here…" Jack finished and Kate and Sawyer exchanged a look.

There were murmurs of approval, and disapproval from the crowd, but everybody went back to doing what they were doing before Jack called them.

"So you're gonna grab some dynamite, blow a hole in the ground and just hope that whatever was locked up in there isn't gonna come out and kill you?" Clementine asked and Jack looked slightly taken aback.

"What makes you think there is something in there that could kill us?" Jack asked

"Why would it be locked…what ever is in there obviously doesn't want us to go in, and someone doesn't want it to get out…" she said and Jack shook his head.

"We have to try," he muttered

"I think it's stupid…" she said, crossing her arms.

Sawyer put his arm around her and led her towards her tent.

"I think it's time for bed," he said, and she giggled.

A/N: Yeah...so...that's...coming along. Lol, anyway...if you have any ideas (cuz I am in desperate need of them), please help!