Kali was surprised when she spotted Jack and Sayid dragging a person through camp the following morning. Her eyes widened when she recognised the familiar blue shirt and blonde hair.
"What the hell is going on?" Kali questioned, as she saw Kate had been arguing with them.
"I…I think they're going to…" Kate trailed off, not wanting to finish the sentence.
"We need to stop them! Come on" Kali insisted.
"Shannon could die, Kali" Kate pointed out.
"So, it's okay to torturing people now?" Kali retorted.
"They just want the inhalers. If Sawyer cooperates-" Kate started, but she cut him off.
"Cooperates? Have you met the guy?!" Kali shouted.
"He made his choice" Kate sighed, repeating Jack's words from a moment ago.
"Jesus…I clearly got you wrong, didn't I?" Kali suggested, shaking her head, as she rushed off after the men.
Kali arrived just in time to watch the pair tying a bleeding Sawyer to a tree trunk, an appalled look on her face.
"This is not happening" Kali announced, as they turned to her.
"Not now, Kali" Jack sighed, as he blocked Sawyer from her view.
"This is wrong, and you know it. You're a doctor for God's sake!" Kali exclaimed.
"Which is why I know that Shannon will die without her inhalers" Jack replied.
"It won't...hey! You can stop sharpening those little 'torture sticks'!" Kali yelled, as she saw Sayid cutting bamboo into sharp tools.
"You will not stop us" Sayid told her.
"Oh really? And why's that?" Kali scoffed, as Sayid nodded to Jack.
A moment later, her arms were grabbed from behind her, as she felt her wrists being tied up with something.
"Let go of me!" Kali cried, as her the bindings on her wrists were tightened.
She turned to see that while she had been arguing with Sayid, Jack had grabbed the spare robe they had with them and had tied it around the tree. She tried to pull herself away, but the ties on her wrist were strong and kept her in place.
"Oh, you asshole" Kali hissed, kicking some dirt in Jack's direction, who was now standing far away from her.
Meanwhile, Sayid grabbed a bottle of water and threw it at Sawyer, who instantly woke up at the cold sensation.
"Uh oh, I'm in trouble now, ain't I?" Sawyer suggested, shaking his now wet hair out of his face.
"Sawyer, we gave you the chance to do the right thing. Now all I want is the asthma medicine. Just tell me where the inhalers are, and we'll stop" Jack informed him.
"Stop what, chico?" Sawyer frowned, as he looked up to see Sayid had gone back to sharpening his bamboo sticks.
It was then that he spotted an angry looking Kali was also tied to a tree not that far away from him.
"The hell are you doing here, blue eyes?" Sawyer queried.
"I was trying to knock some sense into these idiots, but they're clearly too thick for me to get through to them" Kali exclaimed.
"It doesn't have to be this way" Jack stated.
"Yeah, it does" Sawyer replied, as Kali couldn't help but groan at their stubbornness.
Jack then stood up and walked a few metres away, as he leaned over, obviously uncomfortable with what was going to happen. Sayid crouched down beside Sawyer, who had enough sense to keep his mouth shut, if only for a moment.
"They do not have bamboo in Iraq. Although we do have something similar. Reeds. But their effect is the same, when the shoots are the same when they have inserted underneath the fingernails" Sayid explained, as Kali felt her mouth go dry.
"You know what I think, Ali? I think you've never actually tortured anybody in your life" Sawyer suggested.
"Unfortunately for us both…you're wrong" Sayid confessed, as Kali could tell from his tone that he was not lying.
She bit her lip as Sayid got up and went to sit behind Sawyer and knew what was going to come next. She expected sharpened bamboo would have a similar effect to knives. The result could be cleaner, but the result would still be the same as she had witnessed before. Pain. And lots of it.
"Don't do this!" She called over to Sayid, not able to stay quiet any longer.
He didn't seem to listen to her and grabbed Sawyer's hand roughly. She could tell he must have instantly pushed the shoot underneath Sawyer's fingernail from the large groan the blonde man emitted.
"That's it? That's all you got? Splinters? No wonder we kicked your ass in the Gulf" Sawyer egged him on.
A moment later, Sawyer's agonising scream could be heard, the pain clear in his voice. Kali was instantly transported back to her past, different screams merging together.
"You do it, or I will" A cold voice told her, placing a small knife into her hand.
"No, I…I can't" She shook her head.
"We both know if I do it, I'll make it a thousand more times painful. Come on, Kali. You'll be doing him a kindness" The voice insisted, grabbing her small hand and pulling her forward.
"Please don't make me do this" She cried, as she felt her face begin to get wet from tears.
"You said you'd help me" The voice spat out.
"Not like this" She muttered.
"He's a bad guy, Kali! We both know it. You shouldn't feel any pity for him. You're not supposed to feel guilty" The voice went on.
"I don't want to hurt anyone" She shook her head.
"You're so selfish! I chose him for you! We were supposed to do this together. God…your pathetic" He grimaced, looking at the tears falling down her face.
He then roughly grabbed the knife from her hand, as she scrunched her eyes shut and the screams began.
"Sayid!" A shout brought her back to the present day.
Sayid reluctantly let go of Sawyer's hands, who was still panting in pain. Kali let out a sigh of relief and hoped Jack would finally put an end to the madness.
"No. Don't stop now. I think my sinuses are clearing" Sawyer said, his voice hoarse from the screaming.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Jack questioned.
"Perhaps losing an eye will help loosen your tongue" Sayid suggested, grabbing Sawyer's hair and placing a blade against his face.
"Stop it! He's not going to talk" Kali exclaimed.
"She's right, Mohammad. Guess you're just not as good a torturer as you think you are" Sawyer stated, a small smirk on his face.
"...Of course, hurting you won't get you to talk, will it?" Sayid asked, as Sawyer shook his head.
Sayid then turned around and began walking over to a confused Kali, as he crouched down behind her.
"Maybe this will loosen your tongue" Sayid mumbled, as he pierced the bamboo shoot under one of her fingernails.
Kali let out a loud scream as she hadn't been expecting the attack and tried to pull her hands away but Sayid was too strong.
"Stop! Stop, I'll tell you! I'll tell you, okay?!" Sawyer yelled.
Jack quickly pulled Sayid away from Kali and grabbed the now bloody bamboo from his hands.
"That's enough!" Jack told him.
"Where is it?" Sayid asked Sawyer.
"The only person I'm going to tell is her…if she keeps up her end of the deal. Tell me what I asked for yesterday" Sawyer announced, indicating to Kali.
"Only if I can talk to him in private" Kali replied.
"No-" Sayid started, but Jack cut him off.
"Five minutes" Jack informed them, as he began pulling Sayid away.
"So…where do you want me to start?" Kali sighed.
Author's Notes: I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Also, Merry Christmas! Sayid definitely took things too far in this chapter, and that's going to come back to haunt him. We got a glance into Kali's dark past in this chapter, and we'll get a lot of answers next time. Please leave a review:)
scripturient3201: You'll be getting lots of answers next chapter, I promise! I'm so glad you think I'm getting these characters right too, as there's always a worry of making them to OOC. Jack really can't understand why Kali seems to care so much about Sawyer, and to be honest, neither can Sawyer. Thank you for the review:)
farrahjohnson21: Thanks, haha. I hope you like this chapter:)