Title: Caught
Sawyer was turned around away from the group, the base of the jungle. He stared at the substance he was holding, Charlie’s heroin. He couldn’t believe he got a hold of it and now it was real. He examined the packaging more and slowly began to unwrap it out of its perfect knot. Once it was open the temptation was too much but he knew he shouldn’t. Ever since he was on the island he would see Charlie with it thinking oh yeah he’s the bad boy not me, no sir! But as the days went on, Sawyer got restless and bored.
He poured the substance in his hand, not all of it just a little. A loud snap of a twig was heard behind him, Sawyer immediately turned around, dropping the heroin. Kate Austen was only a few feet away from him. Her arms crossed, her usual look of happiness was now overcome with a look of nothing but shock. “Sawyer…what are you doing?” Kate asked looking at the open package at the base of his feet.
Sawyer bit his dry, cracked lips and shut his eyes searching his mind for any excuse, anything at all. He violently turned around and picked up the package, Sawyer knew it was too late, Kate already saw it. “Nothing… it’s nothing.” Sawyer mumbled wiping off the excess from his fingers.
“I know exactly what you’re doing.” Kate said nodding in disappointment and walked closer to him. She felt the pools of sand in her shoes, which felt uncomfortable when she walked but that was off her mind now. She went to go grab Sawyers hand quickly to get the heroin out. Sawyer pulled his arm away as soon as Kate reached for it. His fingers dug deeper and deeper in the package eventually it began to get little tears and he felt the substance sink into his fingernails.
“Give it to me.” Kate said with a long pause between each word.
“Hell no. You don’t even know what the hell it is freckles.”
“Yes I do! Where did you get it?” Kate asked stupidly realizing the answer was Charlie.
“I ain’t telling you anything.” Sawyer stubbornly said trying to hide the substance in his pocket but failed when he noticed Kate was watching every move he made.
“Sawyer, I want to help you…” Kate said calmly blinking slowly several times avoiding any argument at all with Sawyer.
“Yeah help me with what? Just to let you know freckles, I didn’t have any! None at all! So I don’t know why the hell you gotta be so nosy.” Sawyer said truthfully for once, his nostrils flared, he was burning up inside.
“Sawyer, I don’t want you to be like this. Just please give it to me.” Kate said ignoring Sawyers statement sounding clearly upset.
“What you don’t trust me now?” Sawyer argued his hand was sweaty and sticky from holding the heroin for so long.
Kate walked even closer to him, arms still crossed and looked into his eyes. “I never did.” She responded slowly.
Kate who rolled her eyes and let her arms drop to her side interrupted an awkward silence. “Sawyer, come on please. I want to help you not hurt you!”
“Freckles, you just don’t give up do you.” Sawyer commented.
“I’m worried about you! You have never done anything like this before. I want you to destroy it.” Kate said now shouting; she felt a large lump in her throat from the frustration she was feeling her voice quivering at the end of her sentence.
Sawyer could see the clear concern in her eyes and thought twice about the situation. “Yeah and why the hell should I do that?”
“Because I care about you Sawyer! I don’t want you hurting yourself!” Kate said. Her vision was blurring, she felt the tears coming on she couldn’t hide them anymore.
Sawyer brought his hand back to his side and looked at the heroin. “Wanna watch me destroy it Freckles?”
Sawyer ripped open the package into the sand and dug it in deeper into the ground making it impossible to see.
“Sawyer I want to know why you took it.” Kate demanded, the lump in her throat slowly disappearing.
“Oh yippee. More questions.” Sawyer mumbled.
“Damn curiosity, alright freckles? I wasn’t really gonna try it, hell I didn’t want to. But something inside me just told me just this once and that would be it. I see this dang rock star walking around with it… it just… I don’t know. Im an idiot.” Sawyer said rubbing his head.
“Thank you.” Kate said under her breath. “Thank you.”
