The Con and the Artist

Lost: For you

I hated the rock quarry. I hated the never ending shivers that ran up and down my spine constantly, I hated being apart from Sawyer in this way. Ben told us that as long as we had 'good behavior' during the day, we could spent the nights with one another. But I still felt separated from him. We seemed only to talk in glances and stares, which is all we were permitted. 

We were at the rock quarry working when a young girl jumped out of the bushes waving around a gun.

"Where's Karl?!" She screamed pointing the gun at the blond woman. 

"Alex put the gun down" she said calmly. Alex was standing right in front of me and Kate, using us for shield almost. Sawyer walked over and nudged me behind him. 

"Karl was in the cage across from mine, he ran" Sawyer told her just as calm. 

"Alex, give me the gun and we'll go talk to your father, I know he'd want to see you" The blond continues advancing towards Alex. Alex glances between me and Sawyer and smiles almost longingly. 

The blond woman grabs the gun from Alex's outstretched arm and in turn tells Alex to go to her father. I hear the buzz of the radio and I'm then roughly grabbed by my left elbow by the man who beat up Sawyer the other day. I struggle and Sawyer turns about to advance to grab me back when a gun is pointed to my head. 

"One more step and I kill her" The man threatens. Everyone freezes except the blond woman. 

"Knock it off George, Emelia my name is Juliet and I'm here to escort you to Ben" She says nicely, smiling at me. She grabs me back from Danny and leads me over to the table where they have been planning whatever it is they're building. I turn back and look at Sawyer, scared it'll be the last time I see him. He looks at me helplessly before I'm turned back around, my hands tied roughly in front of me before we continue on.

Juliet leads me back to the cages in silence, where I see Ben standing by the nearby building. 

"Ah, hello Emelia. Thank you Juliet that'll be all" He tells me dismissing Juliet. She walks away and Ben does what he does best, talk. 

"How have you been Emelia?" He asks. 

"Fine, um where are you taking me?" I ask 

"To Jack, I need you to convince him to do surgery on me" He explains. 

"Why not ask Kate? I think Jack fancies her a bit more then he does me" 

"I wouldn't be too sure about that, when we first took you, your the first one he asked about. He asks about you constantly actually. Even thought your obviously with Mr. Ford I think he still has quite the crush on you" Ben smirks. 

"But as you said before, I'm with Sawyer" 

"Yes, but maybe not for much longer. I'm on Jack's side, tell me Emelia. Has Sawyer told you about his daughter?" 

At those words I falter. He has to be lying right? Sawyer told me he never loved anyone before, I told him the same. It was true for me, but to have a child with someone? There had to be some love there for that. Not that I care if he loved someone before me but...why wouldn't he tell me he had a daughter? 

"I'll take that as a no. Well anyways if that convince you that Jack is a better option and to convince him, how about if you don't convince him, and if he doesn't do the surgery I'll kill Sawyer, understand?" He tells me with a sly smile.

Before I can even form a coherent about what Ben just said, a bag is placed over my head and I'm lead somewhere cold and damp. I'm roughly tossed onto a damp cement floor, bruising my legs and knees in the process. The bag is removed from my head and there standing before me is Jack.