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He sat on the beach reading, he read a lot. It was the one thing Kate found normal in his life style.
"Hey Freckles, do you often sit around and watch people?" He asked with a smart ass grin which was half hidden behind the book he still had in front of his face.
He smiled slightly embarrassed "What're you reading?"
"Lord of the Rings." He said with a smile. "Ever heard of it before?"
She shook her head. "What's it about?" She sat down next to him noting Jack's eyes following her.
"It's about mystical creatures destroying jewelry that can destroy the world." Kate scoffed.
"You're reading a fiction book about elves and dragons?" She smiled. "Cute."
HE smirked at her. "It's about elves, men, hobbits, dwarves and eagle, no dragons unless you count the thing the black rider thing flies."
"Hobbits?"
"Midget things with bear feet, one of them has the necklace with the ring on it."
She raised her eyebrow. "It says it's the third, you read the first two?"
"I read the first four, the first one that is about the main characters uncle is called The Hobbit." She shook her head.
"I just never though that you would be into this kind of stuff." And with that she stalked off.
She walked towards Jack still smiling.
"You were watching me," she states.
"Was not, I was just…um…watching the ocean."
"The ocean?" she raises her eyebrow "We've been on this island, five months Jack, I for one am sick of the ocean."
"What was that about?" He quickly changes the subject and motions to Sawyer.
"Sawyer is reading a book that has elves and dragons in it." Jack laughs.
"I told you Freckles, it does not have dragons in it, I mean there is a big fricken spider that eats people, but other wise no dragon." Sawyer says as he
Kate shakes her head, "Sure, there's not."
Sawyer looks towards the jungle smiling. "You know this jungle is like the forest out of Harry Potter."
Kate looks at him. "Harry, Potter?" She said slowly holding back a laugh but breaking down when Jack started to laugh immediately stopping when she realizes that he's laughing at something Juliet whispered in his ear.
Sawyer observes this and scoffs. "Aww is poor fweckles heart broke?" he whispers in her ear before walking about a mango in hand.
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It was dark and he was on watch, he was one of the few still out on the beach. Though everyone was with someone, well everyone except her. He watched as she stared at the ocean which was relaxed at the moment though he noted that the wind was picking up so he got up and moved farther up the beach not wanting to be splashed by the waves.
Once again he looked in her direction just as a wave swept over her feet. The light from the moon reflected off the wave and he saw that her face was wet, but not from the waves she was crying.
"Good-night Jack." Sun says and stands up from her spot beside him, still holding Jin's hand.
"Good-night."
She has someone, he thought and looked somewhere else only to see Bernard and Rose cuddling by a fire beside their tent.
He once again looked towards Kate not realizing the tears he had on his face. She was looking right at him smiling. He smiled back as she wiped the tears from her eyes. He did the same.
"Where's Juliet?" She asked walking towards him.
He looked at the kitchen where Juliet stood talking to Daniel. "Her and Dan, are talking, they're always talking." He looked at her. "Why aren't you with Sawyer?"
He looked offended. "Why would I be?"
"well aren't you two, you know together?" She closed her eyes obviously trying to hold back tars.
"We've never really been, together." She said her voice muffled through her hands.
Jack looks away. "well, I'm tired is over, I'm going to bed." He says awkwardly standing up.
She whispered something he didn't hear. "What?"
"I said what are you afraid of?" She says slightly louder.
He kneels down and she looks away from him. "What do you mean?"
"I mean why are you avoiding me?" This time she looks at him.
"You hurt me Kate." HE said nervously.
"I'm sorry." She says falling forward hugging him. "I'm so sorry." She cries freely on his shoulder.
He slightly pushes her away and looks into her eyes. "I know Kate, but…it's too late…I mean Juliet." He looks past her at the woman standing a few feet away looking curiously at him.
"Are you going to bed?" She asks.
"Yeah, you?" he asks standing up. She nodded.
"Goodnight Kate." He says looking down at her only to see her face buried in her hands again. He stares at her for a few more moments before following Juliet back to his tent.
Kate got and she ran as fast as she could into the jungle. Then she stops at the sound of voices.
"But it's late! And dark! And, and cold! I'm hungry!"
"And something is wrong with a feet!" another voice whines.
"Boys I do not know why your feet have become those of a man, but it happened but we cannot rest not until we find someone that has any idea where we are, or why we're here, or even how we got her." An older voice says
Kate goes towards the voice only to find a group of four midgets in weird clothing and no shoes, a very tall man with long blonde hair, a very hot man with slightly long black/brown hair and a very short one with a long red beard that was braided who wore a helmet and bared a an axe, and a very, very tall man in a white dress with a staff and a pointed hat. She saw that the midget in the back with black hair kept his hand on his neck around his necklace.
mystical creatures destroying jewelry that can destroy the world, Hobbits?, Midget things with bear feet, one of them has the necklace with the ring on i.
She shook his words out of her head. "Who are you?" She asked stepping into view.
Immediately they all pulled out long knives and bows and arrows, she put her hands up and stepped back a step.
"Who are you?" one of the midget's that look weirdly like Charlie piped up.
"I'm Kate, I crashed on this island almost six months ago."
"Lower your weapons." The midget let go of his necklace and stepped towards her.
"Frodo, no she might be dangerous." The fat midget said.
The one named Frodo look at him. "Does she look dangerous Sam?"
Sam looked Kate up and down then shook his head. "No I guess not, but maybe Strider should…"
The man shook his head. "No Sam I am sure it will be fine."
Frodo stepped closer to her. "I am Frodo Baggins of The Shire." He held out his hand.
Kate lowered her arms and shook his hand. "Hello Frodo."
HE nodded and turned towards his companions. "On the end is Peregrin Took-"
"You can call me Pippin." He said shaking Kate's hand.
"Meriadoc Brandybuck," Frodo continued
"Call me Merry." He said also taking Kate's hand. He even sounded like Charlie.
"Aragorn, Gimli, Gandalf the white, Legolas Greenleaf and Samwise Gamgee ." Kate shook all of their hands.
"Call me Sam." The last midget replied.
"Fair lady you don't happen to know where we are so you?" Gimli asked.
Fair Lady? What's he playing at? "Uh no, I'm sorry but I know nothing about the island we are on."
"Island, I thought that we were in Mirkwood!" Gandalf exclaimed.
"Mirkwood?" Kate questioned.
It looked like Gandalf was about to speak when suddenly Sawyer yelled. "Hey Freckles! Doc said you were out here, you've bee gone for almost an hour, you even there?"
Kate looked behind her. "Who is that?" Frodo whispered. "Are you alone?"
"No, there are over forty of us, I'll be there in a sec Sawyer!" She called back.
"Forty?" Pippin said gasping.
"Yeah, a lot of us survived the crash, I got to go, I think you should camp here tonight, I'll bring you food, just stay here." They nodded.
"Whach ya doin' Freckles?" Sawyer called his voice closer now.
"I'll be right there!" She yelled and then she ran towards him.
"Who were you talking to?" he asked as she ran into him.
"No one." She snapped and started for the beach.
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A/N: What do you think…please review!!