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Post by Jack on Sept 8, 2007 15:02:15 GMT -5
JACK
He began to calm down a bit as Locke stood up. The smile faded off his face as he lay on the ground. Jack wasn't even sure if what was happening to him now was real. He had just been chasing an image of his father threw the jungle, so the hallucination story seems to add up. Jack looked up at Locke's hand with a grim expression. His head was racing as it was still trying to decipher whether or not what he was seeing was real. He smiled and grab Locke's hand as he replied, "Yeah...I guess I am."
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Post by Locke on Sept 9, 2007 16:37:35 GMT -5
"Yeah...I guess I am."
"I got a bottle, but let's not stay near the cliff. C'mon." he nodded, walking past Jack as he motioned for the doctor to follow.
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Post by Jack on Sept 9, 2007 18:58:34 GMT -5
JACK
He nodded without giving any other response. He looked back at the cliff as he started to get a hold of things. He ran his hand gently across his chest as if to literally check to make sure he was still there. Then as he shook his head, breaking his gaze, he turned back to Locke and started to head out a bit more into the jungle.
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Post by Jack on Sept 15, 2007 19:58:45 GMT -5
JACK
As he follow Locke father into the jungle. He stopped for a moment to take a break. He sat down on a rock near by. He was almost literally curled up in a ball. He felt so vulnerable, and weak. Not to mention how much difficulty he would have, if Locke were to ask, trying to convince Locke what he saw. He looked up at Locke, "How are they? The others?" he asked referring to those at camp he so suddenly left behind.
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Post by Locke on Sept 16, 2007 7:44:23 GMT -5
(ooc: yikes, sorry for making you wait. Didn't realise you'd posted. Sorry. If you're ever waiting for a reply, just poke me with a stick. Or slam a hatch door on my legs.)
Locke reached up to a plant, squeezing it slightly and allowing the dew to trickle down into his water bottle.
"How are they? The others?"
Locke looked over to him. "Thirsty." he replied. "Hungry. Waiting to be rescued. And they need someone to tell them what to do."
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Post by Jack on Sept 16, 2007 11:16:58 GMT -5
JACK ((OOC: lol. Hey don't worry about it . I'll take your hatch door suggestion into consideration )) "Hungry. Waiting to be rescued. And they need someone to tell them what to do."He looked up at Locke, it seemed to Jack that Locke was implying that he should be the leader. This definitely caught Jack off guard, he never saw himself as a leader with the rest of the survivors. Especially since he had been a minor cause of two of the survivors death. "Me?" Jack asked in a bit of shock, as he tried to clear a few things up. "I can't."
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Post by Locke on Sept 16, 2007 11:28:15 GMT -5
"Why can't you?" asked Locke, shrugging off Jack's denial of the role of leadership he'd already taken.
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Post by Jack on Sept 16, 2007 16:26:23 GMT -5
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"Because I'm not a leader," Jack replied in the simplest of terms.
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Post by Locke on Sept 16, 2007 16:40:30 GMT -5
"And yet they all treat you like one." pointed out Locke.
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Post by Jack on Sept 16, 2007 17:28:02 GMT -5
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"And yet they all treat you like one."
Jack shook his head trying to deny any sort of assumption the others would make that might portray him as the best person to lead them through the recent events. "I don't know how to help them. I'll fail," Jack paused trying to think of the best possible way to describe why he couldn't lead them. "I don't have what it takes." Jack hated those words, and for him to utter them was extremely hypocritical. Jack never really believed it, but now, when everyone was dependent on him to help them, he had to admit to his previous failures to show the others he wasn't fit for the job.
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Post by Locke on Sept 17, 2007 12:05:59 GMT -5
He leveled his gaze at Jack's, seeing the uncertainty. The fear. The anxiety. "Why are you out here, Jack?" he asked carefully.
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Post by Jack on Sept 17, 2007 17:07:00 GMT -5
JACK
"Why are you out here, Jack?"
Jack paused as he looked up, there was a faded smile on his face. "I think I'm going crazy," he answered flat out truthfully, not dodging the subject or making up and excuse. Jack's head was spinning. It wouldn't hurt to have a little bit of guidance.
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Post by Locke on Sept 18, 2007 10:44:24 GMT -5
Locke shook his head empathetically, saying, "No. You're not going crazy. Crazy people don't know they're going crazy." he explained. "They think they're getting saner."
Again, he studied Jack carefully with his piercing eyes, and asked, "So, why are you out here?"
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Post by Jack on Sept 18, 2007 17:38:43 GMT -5
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"So, why are you out here?"
Jack paused as he though of the best possible way to describe his dilemma. It was difficult to answer a question that he himself did not know. "I'm chasing something..." Jack paused, as he shook his head. He wanted to believe the vision of his father was a hallucination. In fact Jack denied any other alternative. "Someone."
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Post by Locke on Sept 19, 2007 2:41:09 GMT -5
"Ah! The white rabbit." mused Locke. "Alice in Wonderland."
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Post by Jack on Sept 19, 2007 18:29:09 GMT -5
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"Ah! The white rabbit."
Jack looked up to Locke in confusion as he didn't quite follow. Then Locke finished it off with 'Alice in Wonderland'. Jack couldn't help, but smile as he saw the similarities between the book reference and his current situation. "Yeah Wonderland, because who I'm chasing...He's not there."
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Post by Locke on Sept 20, 2007 2:22:56 GMT -5
"But you see him?" persisted Locke.
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Post by Jack on Sept 20, 2007 6:44:39 GMT -5
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"But you see him?"
"Yeah," Jack replied, "but he'd not there," he said reiterating his point.
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Post by Locke on Sept 21, 2007 2:28:52 GMT -5
"And if I came to you and said the same thing..." began Locke. "-then what would your explanation be? As a doctor?"
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Post by Jack on Sept 21, 2007 12:08:02 GMT -5
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"-then what would your explanation be? As a doctor?"
"I'd call it a hallucination," he replied. "A result of dehydration, post traumatic stress, not getting more than 2 hours of sleep a night for the past week," he said getting into more detail about. "All of the above."
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