Disclaimer: Standard, no ownership of characters. God, J.J. Abrams is so awesome!

Setting: Kate's bath scene in 1X02 (Pilot pt 2)

Two Simple Words

He had frozen right there. Slowly, he stuck his head out of the edge of the jungle. His eyes never left the sight of that beach, and he hoped it would stay that way.

This was no longer a plane crash on a deserted island nor did it even come close to being a strip bar back home.

One look at the curly brunette standing in the ocean and it had become paradise.

Watching her take off her top, her legs deep in water, this was not the Kate he had just briefly met after a nasty fight with that Arab guy. This was a completely different woman, posing a beautiful dimension to her that Sawyer had never seen in any woman that has ever shared his bed.

When the Korean lady appeared on the beach, he stepped back into the trees to conceal himself a bit disgruntled that his moments of deserted island bliss were dissolving now.

Yet he stayed there, until Kate stepped out of the beach and dried herself off. She gathered her clothes and went off leaving him alone and utterly speechless…

He couldn't even think now. Hell, he didn't even notice that his mouth had been opened the entire time, the cigarette that he lit the moment he saw her fell to the sand and was long extinguished, unused.

Words to describe the moment were forming in his brain. What almost seemed like an eternity finally unveiled two simple words that came rolling of the tongue in his usual Southern drawl.

"Hot damn!!"