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Category- Drama, adventure
Rating- PG
Spoilers- mild spoilers for "Further instructions". If you don't want to know Desmond's fate don't read any further.
Disclaimer- All Lost characters are the property of ABC and their creators. I derive no profit from this and no copyright infringement is intended.

Desmond Hume walked slowly down the twisting jungle path. He breathed big lungfulls of the fresh air and marvelled at the fact he was still alive. All things considered he had been very lucky. Desmond had escaped the EM blast with scrapes and bruises, a slight blurring of his vision and some hearing loss. This last troubled him the most. He wasn't complaining though. Locke and Mr. Eko had gotten it much worse.
Looking around him he wondered what Kelvin had been so worried about. Except for the destruction of the hatch, activating the failsafe didn't seem to have had any negative effects that he could see. Desmond stopped and took a bottle of water out of his pack. Taking a sip he saw the brush on the side of the path start to move. Was someone coming? He wished his hearing would clear up. He put the bottle away and frantically searched for something to use as a weapon. There weren't many choices. Picking up a large rock he turned towards the movement.

 Desmond gasped audibly as the source was revealed. Kelvin Inman stepped into the clearing looking very much alive and well. He was dressed in a brown tunic and pants and carried a matching pack. "Well I'll be..." he said, smiling. Desmond struggled to speak. "Kelvin, you're...you're alive." A wave of dizziness came over him (another after effect of the blast) and he reached out for a nearby tree for support. " I certainly am, Des." Kelvin replied. It was the last thing Desmond heard before darkness overtook him.

When he came to he was lying on the ground with something soft beneath his head. Kelvin sat on a fallen log nearby. Desmond sat up slowly, closing his eyes a  another wave of dizziness washed over him. "You don't appear to be hurt." Kelvin said. " I am puzzled as to where the flash burns you have came from. Those usually come from energy pulses or bomb blasts." Desmond looked at his former hatchmate. "There was an incident with the computer. Someone destroyed it actually. I had to activate the failsafe. The burns probably came from that blast." This surprised Kelvin. "You actually did it, Des? I didn't think you had the stones." Desmond looked at Kelvin. "There's a lot you don't know about me." He got up and took a seat on a log near Kelvin's. "How are you still alive? I thought you were..." He stopped, overcome with emotion. "I know what you thought." Kelvin took a drink from a water bottle. "I was only knocked out." He reached in his pack and took out two energy bars. "Nutribar?" He offered one to Desmond who took it numbly. "I am so sorry Kelvin. If I had known you were still alive I never would have left you like that. I was in a bloody panic." Kelvin could see the sincerity in every line of the younger man. He may have been in the army but Kelvin doubted he had killed anyone. Once you did it the first time it became commonplace frighteningly fast.

He shuddered thinking what his reaction might have been. (and what his reaction to Radzinsky's suicide had been.) “I don't blame you, Des” Kelvin took a bite of his bar. “I'm surprised you're still here.” Desmond said. “You seemed pretty hot to leave on my boat.” Kelvin chuckled. “ Things didn't work out quite according to plan.” He looked at Desmond. He'd rather die than admit it but he was glad to see the Scotsman again. “I remember you knocking me down. Everything is really fuzzy until I woke up in another hatch, a medical facility of some kind. I've been with those people ever since.” Desmond looked surprised. “What people? The hostiles? The ones the crash survivors call the Others?” Kelvin shook his head. “I don't know who they really are. All I know is they said they are an offshoot of the original Dharma group that was operating on this island.”

“I thought you had no time for Dharma.”

“They changed my mind. Showed me things. I have a totally different understanding after talking to their leader, Ben.”

Desmond didn't know what disturbed him more. Kelvin's change in attitude or his lack of questions about what crash survivors. “Do you work for them now?” Kelvin paused before he answered. “In a way.” He crumpled his energy bar wrapper in his fist. He thought of the files he had been shown and the information they contained. “There's nothing to fear, Des. We're here to do good.” Desmond wondered about that but said nothing. “What exactly are you doing?”he asked. “That I can't tell you. It's need to know and you don't.” Kelvin paused. “I wish I could tell you but I can't.” He looked Desmond square in the eye. “You also can't tell anyone you ran into me.” Desmond looked confused. “Trust me on this. It's for your own good.” Kelvin looked conflicted. “Just go back to your camp and pretend you never saw me. I'll do the same. You'll thank me for this, Des.”

“What the bloody heck is going on?” Kelvin stood and shouldered his pack. “I'm trying to protect you.” He walked away from the clearing. “Be seeing you, Des.” Desmond stood and was about to follow him, then thought better of it. Protect him from what? It was all very strange.

Kelvin walked through the jungle towards the beach. He knew he had done the right thing letting Desmond go even though it was against procedure. He just hoped the Scotsman would keep his end of the promise. Kelvin took a folded piece of paper out of his pocket. It would tell him who he was supposed to find and bring back to the others. Opening it he saw one name printed there. John Locke.

Whistling, he continued on his mission.