We make it back to camp before mid-day. Not much is said on the journey back. Kate tries to apologize to Jack for what she did, but he doesn't forgive her. I want to tell her that it's okay, but it's not. She was stupid and reckless. If she wanted to come so bad, she should have told Jack to suck it and some with us as a group.
When we get back to the beach Jack says to me "Tia, can you come with me?" I nod and follow.
He takes me to the edge of camp, towards Ana Lucia, who's cutting up a mango that Vincent is trying to get.
"Go away. I barley have enough food to feed myself." She cuts a sliver of mango and tosses is away in the sand. "Go get it," she says and Vincent chases after the fruit.
"See you've made a friend," Jack says to her, sitting down.
"Progress," she says, eyeing me suspiciously. "I hear you were out looking for Michael. He run off looking for his kid again?" Jack nods and takes a swig of water then offer her the bottle. "Not much you can do about that then," she says.
"Is it true that you killed one of them?" Jack asks Ana Lucia.
"One of who?"
"Them," he says, nodding toward the jungle. Ana nods her head "yes".
"Jack," I say. "No offense, but why am I here?"
"Hold on," he says, turning back to Ana. "Sayid tells me you're a cop."
"I was a cop," she says, taking a bite of her mango.
"Can I ask both of you something?" he says to us. We nod our heads. "How long do you think it would take to train an army?"
"What are you talking about, Jack?" I ask.
"They've attacked us one time too many," he says angrily. "They've kidnapped us, killed one of us. I'm sick of it. We need to start fighting back."
"Yeah? And how? We don't have enough weapons. They took seven guns off of us."
"Six," he counters.
"No, seven. They took one off of Kate too. I counted thirteen torches last night. That's at least fourteen people, including our friend with the beard."
"We have forty."
"Okay Jack, so we form an army. We ask around. How many of these people do you think want to do that?"
"They'll—,"
"No Jack, they won't. Ana Lucia, you agree with me, right?"
She looks at her mango, then brings her face up. "I think Jack's right."
"You're kidding!"
"Yeah, I don't really kid. He has a point. I know that you were in the army and that you have reservations about this for personal reasons—,"
"I have plenty of reason to want them gone! But that doesn't mean I'm going to rick everyone's live by going and attacking them. They kidnapped Walt, they blew up the raft…we don't know what more they could be capable of."
"I just wanted your opinion," Jack says. "You don't think it's a good idea, then fine. I didn't ask you to train everyone, I asked you how long it would take."
I grab my pack, standing up. "You two are on your own," I say, walking away.