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It just figured that as soon as some things started to go well, other stuff went totally to shit.

Given what everyone said about the island, Kate just figured that was how things went, but that didn't mean she had to like it. A part of her was super psyched, because she'd actually met a guy who was nice and wasn't a complete freak like both Ben and Gene had been. So he was also Harry Potter, which she was sort of pretending wasn't a big deal in front of him, although it was kind of awesome under the surface.

On the other hand, Effy obviously wasn't around anymore, which sucked. A lot. Knowing people wasn't the same as being friends with anyone and even Kate knew she'd lacked in the whole friend department back home. On the island it wasn't a lot different, but she'd actually considered Effy a friend and now she was gone, which Kate didn't really know how to deal with. She didn't want to talk to Britta about it, only because Britta was older and was probably able to keep her shit together way better than Kate ever could.

Marshall already knew she was kind of screwed up. She figured he wouldn't judge her too much for either of these things.

"Yo, Moosh," she said, coming into the room they shared in the Compound. One day she'd maybe ask him if he ever thought about moving out into a hut, but today wasn't that day. Today she was just torn between feeling weirdly shitty and weirdly happy.

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"Whatever," he said, waving off the distinction. It wasn't like he did a whole lot of casual dating, but he knew she was probably right.

He was all too familiar with disappearances lately, so that was more than enough to draw his focus. "That sucks. Who was it?"

"Effy," Kate said, although she didn't know if Effy and Marshall had ever met. "She was from England or something. She was pretty cool, I guess, and now she's just... gone."

Which was something Marshall knew about and that was really the only reason she was telling him at all. It sucked and he got it and that was what mattered.

"Oh," he said, his frown deepening, "I knew her. I mean, not well, but she was with us when Hal and I got stuck with the dinosaurs."

He was quiet for a moment, looking down at his hands, then he said, "Do you think they go home? After they leave here?"

It was what she had to think and so Kate nodded. The way the island worked was a little too much for her sometimes and the idea that there were two versions of a person existing in two different worlds was weird. That one version -- the island version -- might just blink out and not remember anything was more than she could deal with.

"Yeah, of course," she answered, like it had to be obvious. "I mean, where else would they go?"

"I don't know. We don't even know where here is, it kind of stands to reason that there might be something else waiting for us, afterward, you know?"

It wasn't something that he wanted to think too much about, really, but they couldn't even be sure how they all got here. How could they be sure what would happen after they left?

"I don't know. That makes it sound like we're all dead and this is like, limbo and we're all just waiting here until we can prove ourselves or something," Kate said, making a face. Maybe that was right, but she didn't want to believe it, even for a second.

"I know I'm not dead," she said. "And I know you're not dead. So that can't be right."