Chapter 7: Alex

It's Jarrah, James, Kate, and Locke. When they see us, Locke and Jarrah train their guns on us. "Hands in the air!" We oblige. "Who are you people?" "I'm Karl Martin and-" "Hold up for just a dang minute!" says James. "I know these kids. That boy is Karl and that girl helped us escape from the Others. Her name-" Here he stops. "is Alex." I finish. Jarrah puts his gun down. "What are you running from?" "Our people." Karl answers. "Why are you running from them?" "Because" I pipe up. "They're going to kill Karl." "And why are they going to do that?" says Locke. "Because, They don't want me to get her pregnant. Which I wasn't planning on doing, to be honest." says Karl. Jarrah nods. "Then you can come with us. If that's alright with you." We both nod, and start walking. "Hi Kate." I say, walking up beside her. She turns. "Alex, hi." "How are things with you and Sawyer?" She smiles. "Doing fine actually. Probably because I haven't killed anyone in a while." We both laugh. I see Karl over by Ford, and they're talking, and I actually see Ford smiling!

It's such a shocking sight, that it throws me off balance. I read all of their files. So I know how jealous dad is of one Mr. John Locke. I walk over to Jarrah. "You're Sayid. Sayid Jarrah." He looks at me. "How did you know that?" "My dad has files on all of you. Every single one of you people. Want proof? The names o the people who crashed here are: Jack Shephard, Kate Austen, Charlie Pace, James Ford, Claire Littleton, Sayid Jarrah, Hugo Reyes, Sun and Jin Kwon, Ana Lucia Cortez, Elizabeth Smith, Mr. Eko, Boone Carlyle, Shannon Rutherford, John Locke, Bernard and Rose Nadler, Michael Dawson, and Walt Lloyd. So far, Boone, Shannon, Ana Lucia, Libby,and Mr. Eko. By the way, how are you today Sayid?" He looked at her. "Why-? Who is your father?" I look straight into his eyes and say. "My father is Benjamin Linus. " "Sawyer! John!" They both whip around. "Sawyer, what was Henry Gale's real name?" "Ben. Ben Linus." He turns back towards me. "I can see why you neglected to tell us your last name." We march for a while longer, until Sayid says. "We're about to enter our beach camp. We'll make introductions, but people will have questions for you. Please answer them, and don't act like Others, ok?" We nod together. Then we march into the camp.