Hey guys and dolls. I am SO sorry that this took me so long. I promise I haven't abandoned you. I've had so much to do, but hey, I passed this year. I'M A SENIOR NOW. I just pray for good AP scores...

Hmm, what has gone on in my life since I last updated? Hmmmmmmm...well, I was in the musical Big River, I've decided I want to do chemistry in college, I got into show choir at school, I've become so done with my "friend" and I hope she doesn't talk to me, and I got a new choir teacher (I have such mixed feelings about him, like one minute I love him, then the next I can't stand him). OOH also, Legally Blonde and Guys and Dolls have become two of my favorite musicals.

Disclaimer: Do I have to continue to remind you that I don't own LOTF? I do? Darn...

Warning: I think just language.

Note: Thank you so much for over 2000 views! Thank you all for sticking with me so long. And also thank you to merli99 for her review, which helped me with plot and character development. Hopefully I didn't make you too mad with the last chapter. I think I've made up for it in this one.

Note #2: Congratulations to all of you that graduated recently. I was a marshal at graduation and it was so gorgeously fun. Also, one of my best friends graduated and I felt like I was dying. Graduation and watching your friends leave you is fun, kids.

Fun Story: I was helping one of my best friends with PreCalculus and he didn't get it and did the problem wrong, so I was like, "No, you've got to do this and this, not that." He was really confused (mind you, he's really hot and we've known each other since we were like, 10) and was like "Well, fuck me." I said, "Maybe later." I said that to him. Out loud. To him. AND HE LICKED HIS LIPS AND BLEW ME A KISS AND I CAN'T. Someone plan my funeral, please.

Also, please read and review! It'll help me immensely!

Chapter 7

"Avy, sweetie, you've got to stop crying sometime." Jack moans, holding his head.

"Shut it Jack. How would you feel if you were in her place? Poor girl, she dreamt her best friend died in her arms. That's got to be absolutely traumatizing." Ralph hisses, taking me in his arms. Jack opens his mouth, but closes it again and proceeds to leave. Ralph sits and gently rocks me, playing with my messy hair. I close my eyes and faintly hear him start to sing:

"There is an old belief

That on some solemn shore

Beyond the sphere of grief

Dear friends shall meet once more

Beyond the sphere of time

And sin and Fate's control
Serene in changeless prime

Of body and of soul

That creed I fain would keep

That hope I'll ne'er forego

Eternal be the sleep

If not to waken so."

"I didn't know you sang." I smile and look up at him. He blushes a bit and looks away. He looks at the ocean before us and frowns.

"Avy, it was just a dream. You know that, right? Beth is alive and getting better. She's getting all the bad stuff out. I don't think she'll be sick much longer." he says, holding my hand.

"Really?"

~Ralph's POV~

God, I'm lying through my teeth. She runs off to go check on Beth and Gracie. I'm staring at the endless ocean in front of me when I feel a presence behind me.

"Not so easy, is it Addison?" Jack taunts. I sigh.

"What are you going on about now?" I ask. He scoffs at me and walks over from behind me.

"You have to deal with being chief and deal with lying to your poor worrisome girlfriend."

"She isn't my girlfriend." I say, earning another scoff from Jack.

"Sure. However, doesn't matter. You know that other girl's gonna die. You freaking know it. You're lying out your ass just to please her. Right now she trusts you, loves you. But what happens when Beth dies? She'll come to you for answers. Answers that you know you damn well don't have. Then she'll cry herself to sleep at night, knowing YOU CAN'T FIX IT!"

"I KNOW! YOU THINK I DON'T KNOW THAT?" I blow up, stepping up to his face. I close my eyes and turn away, holding my right temple. "I know I'm lying. But sometimes, it's better to lie than it is to hurt. I...I just can't do that to her." I sigh. We stand in awkward silence for a minute before I come to a sudden realization.

"Wait a minute, Jack. Didn't Stoker make you take some kind of Injury and Survival class?"

"Yeah, wh- Oh wait. You want me to fix her."

"Yes! Jack, you'd be the hero, just like you want. It's-"

"No." he says, cutting me off.

"What the hell? What do you mean, no?" I ask, confused.

"You want me to be the hero. But what if I don't? What if I can't fix her, and she dies? No one deserves that." he whispers, looking down. "I can't handle that."

"But how would you feel if someone on the island died?" I ask, a small rage welling up in me.

"What about the mulb-"

"SHUT UP. We all agreed it was a fucking ACCIDENT. Okay?" We stand in silence for a while. "...How would you feel if someone died on the island because you refused to help them?" I ask, staring him in the eyes. His face was tense and emotionally confused, falling into a look of defeat. He sighs.

"Okay, fine. I'll try. But Ralph, you know she's already gone."

~Avy's POV~

"I just wish they'd stop yelling." I whisper, pulling my knees to my chest.

"Avy, you've got to stop worrying. You'll throw yourself off your balance again." Beth whispers back.

"Beth, that isn't important. I guess wishing for the yelling to stop was senseless. What I really wish for is for you to get better. That's all I wish for, really." I whisper into my knees. Beth snorts and I look up, confused.

"What?"

"That's stupid, Avy. You can't fix fate. That's stupid. I'm going to die. That's that. Avy, you just can't fix me. I appreciate you trying, but it won't work." My stomach drops at her harsh words and I can't breathe anymore. She sees me and sighs. "Listen, it's getting dark. Why don't we just go to sleep for now and you can worry in the morning?" I reluctantly nod and fall asleep next to Beth.

~Jack's POV~
The sound of shrill screaming wakes me and I sit up in my hut. I rub my eyes and climb out of the hut, trying not to fall over. Wait, is it...still nighttime? I jog toward the screaming, leading me to the girls' hut. I sigh and crouch down, peering in. Avy is curled in a ball on the ground next to Beth, who is sleeping like a rock. I chuckle.

"Beth and Addison sleep alike." I mutter to myself, noticing that neither Beth nor Addison had been awoken by Avy's screams.. I lower myself next to Avy, who hasn't stopped screaming. I gently place my hand on her shoulder and her eyes shoot open. Her eyes dart to me and for a millisecond, she is silent. However, that doesn't last long. She continues her shrill yell and begins to kick at me. I frown, backing out of the hut. She follows me, still attempting to kick me. She stops in her tracks and resumes her eerie silence.

"You killed her." She whispers, tracing circles on her palm. I narrow my eyes and frown.

"Wha-"

"YOU KILLED HER. YOU KILLED HER. YOU KILLED HER. YOU KILLED HER. YOU KILLED HER. YOU KILLED HER." She wouldn't stop screaming that phrase, "you killed her". All of a sudden, a shadow rushes over to her and has her on the ground in an instant, calming her and repeatedly shushing her. I step closer, trying to get a better look at who it is.

"Addison?" I whisper reluctantly, tilting my head. The shadow looks up and I see Roger's face. He nods his head toward our hut and says fiercely, "Go." I nod once and run to our hut. What does she mean, I killed her?