F3 - Camp - Jack's Shelter - Day 5-6

[Hollywood Heidi]

Jack's Shelter

Location found in box F3 below:

Each box is 3 miles by 3 miles. It takes an hour to walk 3 miles. But also keep in mind that hiking (like that really steep hill to get to higher ground) will take a heck of a lot longer and that if you're running (like from some jungle thing), that you'll get somewhere faster.

[Hollywood Heidi]

DAY 4 ENDS, SEVERAL HOURS HAVE GONE BY, DAY 5 BEGINS

[ana]

For the first time since the crash, Ana had slept well. Perhaps it was knowing that the last bullet on the gun had been used. It had been used for a good reason too. To put a dying man out of his misery. Now the gun was useless it put her more at ease. Though she was till awake with the dawn, bright and early. A jog up and down the beach seemed to clear away the tension that had mounted the day before and she finally stopped outside Jack's shelter, hoping he was awake too. Last night she'd observed from a distance as he had dealt with the Marshall. It had to have taken it's toll on him and she wanted to make sure he was alright.

"Jack...?" She whispered softly, pulling the tent flap aside to see in.

[Jack]

JACK

He sat motionless in his tent, with a hand on his forehead as he stared at the marshal's lifeless body. Jack hadn't moved for hours, he didn't even feel tired or hungry. He was filled with resentment and anger. He was furious with the fact that Sawyer decided it would be best if he were to shoot the marshal... and missed, while Jack was trying to do his 'best' to save him. But what he was most angered about was the fact that Kate had played him, using him, and lying to him. Jack was angered that the person he felt he could connect most to, was a fugitive. That's when Jack realized, what ever it was that Kate did before, it didn't matter now. What ever mistakes Kate maid, Jack couldn't hold it against her, because who she was didn't matter to Jack, all that mattered is who she is.

"Jack...?"

He looked up to see Ana peering into the tent. His concentration was broken, and he smiled up at Ana. He wasn't sure what it was, but he always felt better around Ana, "Hey," he said with a short smile.

[ana]

It was hard not to stare at the body, but Ana did her best to give her attention to Jack. He looked weary, his eyes red around the edges from lack of sleep. It was hardly surprising since he hadn't had a moments peace since they'd crashed. She could identify with that.

"Hey." Ana said, coming inside and sitting down close to him. "Rough night, huh." She stated finding herself looking at the Marshall. "You okay?" Her eyes found Jack's, concern for him etched into them.

[Jack]

JACK

"Rough night, huh."

"Yeah... no kidding," Jack replied with a straight face.

"You okay?"

Jack paused, he had to literally ask himself the same question. He simply shook his head, "No, but I'll be alright," he admitted. "How about you?" he asked, "I'm sure the marshal suffering for hours must of made people uneasy, not to mention the gun going off."

[ana]

"People dying and guns going off I'm used to." She said matter of factly as she batted a mosquito away from her face. By now everyone in camp had heard about the circumstances surrounding the Marshall's death, thanks largely to Hurley. Most were glad his suffering had been ended. Some were glad theirs had, since now they no longer had to listen to a dying man's cries of pain. Ana-Lucia was more glad the gun was now redundant.

Out of the corner of her eye, she could see the fact that it had to be done at all still didn't sit right with Jack.

"He might have gone the wrong way about it - and I really hate to admit it - but Sawyer was right in what he did."

[alcatraz]

Ruby enters from her shelter, she wanted to actually talk to Jack for once instead of hearing from Shannon or Boone, what was happening. She walked in to find Ana-Lucia standing there battering a mosquito away.

"It's the Carbon Dioxide on your breath she smiled, mosquitos like that" she smiled at Ana-Lucia in a friendly manner"

"Sorry it's just something I heard Arzt saying back along, don't know if it's true!" she turned away to face Jack

"I hope I'm not interrupting Jack, but people are getting a bit curious about the Marshall, and to be honest we're not getting told much, I just wanted you to know if you need any help with any medical stuff, then, you can rely on me, I am...was a trainee nurse, Ruby, Ruby Carling"

she stretched out her hand for a handshake but quickly jerked it back after a pause for thought

"Anyway that's all I just wanted you to know what's going on, some of the others might not be interested, but I would like to be told when someone fires a gun especially after the noise that time"

[Jack]

JACK

"He might have gone the wrong way about it - and I really hate to admit it - but Sawyer was right in what he did."

"Yeah...I know," Jack paused, "but it just wasn't his place to do it." Jack shook his head, "It doesn't matter, right now its the least of my worries, I still have to bury the marshal anyway."

Before Jack could say anymore, they were interrupted by an unfamiliar face.

"I hope I'm not interrupting Jack, but people are getting a bit curious about the Marshall, and to be honest we're not getting told much, I just wanted you to know if you need any help with any medical stuff, then, you can rely on me, I am...was a trainee nurse, Ruby, Ruby Carling"

"Of course, it would be nice to have an extra set of hands around here," Jack stated gracefully.

"Anyway that's all I just wanted you to know what's going on, some of the others might not be interested, but I would like to be told when someone fires a gun especially after the noise that time"

Jack was speechless, he literally couldn't think of anything to reply, it just seemed so awkward, a woman that he'd never seen before coming into his tent and start rambling, "...uh, sure. Alright sounds good," Jack nodded.

[alcatraz]

"Hey this might seem a bit odd seeing I haven't talked to you since we've crashed, but I just wanted to come and well..meet the doctor, but like I said if there's anything you just need to say" she smiled ahain at Jack unsure of his reaction

[ana]

Barging in on tents was Ana's trick. It kind of annoyed her that this woman, despite her best intentions, had spoilt her moment with Jack and then seemed to ignore her anyway. But then, did that mean she had some feelings for Jack? It wasn't until that moment that she'd even considered it. Before she could even follow that train of thought, the new girl was away rambling about the Marshall and wanting to know what was happening. Ana stood up to face her.

"I think it's fairly evident what the situation is with the Marshall. Take a look." She pointed at the rigored corpse lying a couple of feet away. Already the smell was beginning to get interesting. "He's dead. And as for any guns being fired. You don't need to worry about that either. There's no more bullets."

[alcatraz]

RUBY

Ana-Lucia intimedated Ruby, she could handle Shannon-she didn't think before talking, but in the end Ruby knew that Ana-Lucia was a fiesty character

"Listen guys, don't you think we should bury him by now, the smell's not attractive and neithers the sight, especially from Jack's view" she glance dover at Ana-Lucia

"Oh no I didn't mean you...Sorry Ana-Lucia, if you need any help with the body or anything Dr. Shepard, sorry Jack, force of habit, just say, I'll leave you two to it" she smirked innocently

"Bye Jack" she left the shelter for the survivors camp area.

[Jack]

JACK

"Bye Jack"

He nodded in agreement, "Alright, sure." He watched as Ruby left the tent, and common curtsy struck his attention at the last moment, "Thank you." Jack turned to Ana, he smiled and shrugged.

[ana]

Ana's patience for the general public was always wafer thin, but under the circumstances fate had seen fit to dump her in, it was damn near undetectable.

"Y'know what I hate most about crashing on this island?" The question was a rhetorical one. "There's no escape from irritating people." She pulled a face at Jack before turning her attention back to the body.

"She does have a good point though. He needs to be buried." With her hands on her hips, her tone switched to a more business like and decisive one. "You find something to cover him so we can carry him through the camp. I'll find something we can use to dig with."

[Jack]

JACK

"There's no escape from irritating people."

Jack's smile grew, and he let out a faint laugh.

"You find something to cover him so we can carry him through the camp. I'll find something we can use to dig with."

Jack shook his head, "Look, you don't have to do that, I can handle this..." Jack tried to think of other words to say, but he couldn't think of anything, mostly because he did need help burying the marshal, but he didn't want to force anyone into helping.

[ana]

"No, you're right. I don't have to do this. But you can't carry a body by yourself and judging by how many people volunteered to move the dead into the fuselage the other day, I don't think you've got much choice." She slapped him on the shoulder like she used to do with the guys at the station when they needed cheering up and a hug was out of the question. Not that she was anywhere near being the hugging type. Usually a punch in the leg would do it, but right now, Jack seemed a little too depressed for that. She'd have to brighten the atmosphere with a slight change of subject instead.

"Besides, doing nothing is driving me crazy."

She neglected to mention that with so much free time to think, her mind had tended to run riot with theories about some of the other survivors. One in particular.

"Oh, and chivalry's wasted on me by the way." She flashed him a grin on her way out.

"As is trying to argue with me when you know i'm right." She added before he had chance to protest.

[Jack]

KYLE

"Oh, and chivalry's wasted on me by the way. As is trying to argue with me when you know i'm right."

Jack smiled and shrugged, "Well alright then," he turned to look at the body, and he began to remember the conundrum that he was in, "I'll uh - carry him by the arms if you wanna..." he suggested motioning his head to the bodies feet.

[ana]

Ana took the hint and went to stand at the feet of the Marshall. She waited for Jack to get a good hold then grabbed the cold lifeless ankles and hoisted the dead weight up. Moving a limp body was much harder than carrying someone who was alive and she had to tuck the legs under her arms to be able to carry him with more ease. As it had the first day she and Severin had cleared the beach, the feel of dead limbs next to her own was repulsive, but Ana held her disgust in check and just got on with it.

"Beach?" She asked, unsure where they were going to bury him.

[Jack]

JACK

"Beach?"

Jack nodded, "Yeah, but let's take the detour around the camp, I don't think they need to see him," Jack stated referring to the marshal's lifeless, pale body. Jack looked at the marshal's body as he carried it out of the tent and he looked around him at the island and what was left of the plane and he wondered who was the lucky one in their situation.

***Jack slowly caries the marshal out of the tent and heads for G4 - Jungle Outskirts Near Fuselage***

[ana]

**Ana-Lucia follows with his feet **