- Jack! Pass me that golf club! – Michael yelled a few meters away.
Jack threw the golf club, he catches it and does his thing, Michael is great at golf, he always gets the ball in the hole, no matter where he is. As usual, he gets it right and again, beats Jack, at the same moment Kate comes up running:
- Hey Jack... Can I talk to you for a sec?
He looks at her, he smiles, when walking up to her he says:
- Yeah sure, hold on Michael, best of three next? – Michael waves smiling.
- What's up Katie?
- Hum... I'm fine but, Bernard can't say the same... I just came back from the caves and he's gotten really worse, he's burning up and he's not making any sense when he talks. – she answers, worried but trying not to bring him down.
- I see, so maybe I should go see him, right? – he asks when Kate looked directly to his eyes, she froze, like he did last time they saw each other, but something was different, she didn't say anything after that, she literally stopped functioning.
- Kate?
- Yeah, sure let's go.
- Wait, Kate?
- Yeah? What's wrong?
- You just stopped talking for like 30 seconds there... Are you okay?
- I'm fine... Let's go, he's waiting for you!
Kate lead the way, but Jack could tell there was something wrong, Bernard was more important at the moment, so he followed her. The trail wasn't hard, many people had gone through it, but Jack was so distracted thinking there might be something wrong with Kate, he didn't pay enough attention to the ground. Suddenly, Jack trips and falls down, but he cracks his head open on something, something really hard.
- Jack! – Kate screamed, turning back and seeing Jack lying on the dirt, bleeding.
He blacked out for a few second but woke up right after, his head was on Kate's lap but he could feel something really hard beneath him, it couldn't be the grass, Jack opened his eyes and saw, under all the leaves and dirt, a hatch? I mean, there was already a hatch... "Another hatch?" Jack wondered as Kate desperately tried to get his attention.
- Jack! Your head... – Kate was alarmed, just starring at his head, the cut wasn't so deep but it was bleeding profusely.
Jack slowly puts his hand on his head, he brings his hand back and he sees it blood. A lot of blood.
- Are you okay? I mean, does it hurt? – Kate asks, kind of already knowing the answer.
- No… It's… I'm fine, let's just get to the caves, I need to see Bernard…
- Jack wait, you can't walk around like this…
- What do you want me to do?! Wait for someone to come?! Cause no one will come, Kate! No one is coming!
- Kate lowered her head, she was scared, Jack had never shouted at her, what was wrong with him? She looked at him, the blood was running down his face, he was frowning, looking at her, biting his lips, he was in pain and he just couldn't handle it anymore, all of that responsibility over everyone, everyone!
- I'm sorry, Katie, I just…
- We should be heading back, Jack… - she suggests in a low tone.
- Yeah… I think you're right… - the moment he tried standing up his eyes rolled back and he fell back to the floor, unconscious.
- Jack!