The sun rose and the survivors began to wake up they did not expect to see Melinda teaching Sawyer how to aim something which was in fact the crossbow "Next time you wake me up this early Aqua you are as good as dead you hear me."

Melinda shook her head then thought "You know I might make a bow as well just to have some fun." Seeing him holding the crossbow with one hand again she put his other hand over the one already holding the crossbow "Until you are use to aiming with the crossbow use both hands please I don't want someone to have a bolt shot into them."

People began to be interested in what they were doing especially when they heard Melinda laugh and Sawyer not laughing to long after her, it was Kate who came up to them first "What are you doing?"

"What does it look like we're doing freckles?"

Melinda laughed lightly at that then grabbed the crossbow to adjust something then she shot the target she had made after making the bolts when it hit the centre of it she passed it to Sawyer again and watched him hit the outer ring "Aqua mind telling me why this isn't as easy as shooting a gun?"

Melinda looked at Kate who was watching what they were doing "A crossbow weighs less than a gun so you have to hold it different and not as tight as you might make yourself shoot off target." After retrieving the bolts from the target she handed him one and made him shoot again this time he hit near centre "I'm guessing you actually listened to me this time."

"How do you know how to use that?"

"It's a crossbow and I taught myself." She was looking at Kate as if she knew nothing "It's much more effective than a gun as when you pull the bolt out it causes more damage than when it goes in."

"Aren't you too young to know stuff like that?"

She gave Sawyer a look then turned to Kate "Just so you know I'm Twenty-One not ten." Well technically I am 585 if you include the twenty one years of being alive then the 282 years of being a hybrid then the 283 years of being stuck in Jumanji but no one needs to know that. "Also I know a lot more than you do."

Kate stepped forward at that "How do you know more than I do?"

Melinda stepped right up to Kate so their noses were nearly touching "Well I don't exactly see you with any doctorates."

"I may have none but neither do you."

John Locke decided to say something then and that was when Melinda noticed Jack, Claire, Hurley and Sayid "She has actually two doctorates Kate."

Instantly everyone was looking at Melinda who was now looking at Kate again "Aw Kate it looks like a cats got your tongue."

When Kate went to hit her she instantly dropped to the ground and kicked Kate's legs from under her then she rolled away from her to end up in a fighting stance when Kate got up she did not take her eyes off her not even when Jack went in between them both and told them to stop.

"Aw Doc you should have let them fight it would have been fun to watch."

Melinda stood normally then looked at Jack "I don't appreciate you stopping this Jack."

"We don't need fights between anyone so just try to be civil towards each other from now on."

Melinda laughed "I don't exactly see you being civil towards Sawyer here so why should I be civil to her." One "I saw her walk past me on the plane so she has no chance of hiding from me." Two "She thinks I'm too young when I know more than her." Three "I know more about things she would run away from." Four "I know true fear." Five "None of you know what lies beyond the reality of your own delusional realties where you think the world is fine." Six "I have lived through things that none of you have." Seven "I've looked after myself for most of my life." Eight "I've seen things you would be afraid of." Nine "I've stared death in the face and lived to tell the tale." TEN "What have you done?"

With that all off her chest she turned grabbed the crossbow out of Sawyers hand retrieved the bolts, gave one fearful look at the jungle then a glance to the people behind her with a burst of courage she walked into the jungle to relieve her anger and confront her fears.

-- Back on the Beach --

Jack looked at everyone's faces and found some of them to be as shocked as him and some like Kate to be thinking on what she said, he was both shocked and thinking about what she said until Kate said "She's only twenty one how can she expect us to believe everything she just said."

Jack said one thing she had told him "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover."

Sawyer continued from what she said to him "Even if the cover looks to be real they may have made you see the cover they wanted people to see."

Jack looked to Sawyer who then continued "Seems Aqua has been telling us something along the same lines Doc."

Looking to the Jungle Jack said one thing that confused many "It seems she wants to confront her fear rather than be here." He wanted to go after her but his heart was telling him that she needed to do this alone.

-- Melinda --

While walking deeper into the Jungle Melinda began hearing whispers but she did not sense anyone around so she continued on until she spotted him.

Stopping in her tracks she wanted to run but she was frozen with fear "Are you afraid to die?"

Seeing the gun raise to her she didn't have the courage she had at the end of the game but she did say "I'm Already Dead."

Hearing the gun shot she expected to go down so she looked at her to find no wound, looking up Van Pelt was no where to be seen.