It didn't take long to explain to Elijah the kind of simple crab line fishing they were doing, or that it was only because they were fishing off the edge of the reef into such instantly deep water that they could catch decent fish this way.  Well she hoped they would anyway, if yesterday was anything to go by they would.  She wondered how the guys had been surviving, it didn't sound like they'd been line fishing, well who would have a line in a aeroplane, dummy, she chided herself. She wondered if they were harpooning them but decided she'd ask those sorts of questions later, there was a lot she wanted to ask, and that defiantly wasn't anywhere near the top of her list.<br/><br/>After giving the line she'd made up the day before to Elijah, Maddi carefully opened up her tin and made another, cross with herself for forgetting to bring a piece of wood with them, for the time being she used a shell, not a good idea with it's sharp edges, but better than nothing and she'd have to rectify it before they went out again.<br/><br/>As she got her own line in, She was surprised by Elijah's serious, hesitant tone, and then even more by the question itself.  It showed just how naive she was, she thought, she hadn't  even wondered if Elijah had a commitment to go back to.  Here on the island it had been as though this was the only world there was. Did this mean he did, was he going to try and let her down gently, and tell her that here was all there was and afterwards he'd go back to …......?<br/><br/>But as he carried on talking, and sounded just as nervous and scrambled up as she felt, Maddi's doubts eased.  He really cared, she could hear it, and saying he'd love her no matter what made her want to cry.  "I'm wasn't seeing anyone," she said huskily, looking down at the waves and the line disappearing into them in front of her.  Those four words, she thought, said so much more than that, but so much more, that  now wasn't the time, and she wasn't sure if he'd want to hear it anyway, "No boyfriend I promise........ and no girlfriend either," she added trying to lighten the deep longing she had, had in her voice.<br/><br/>How had it all happened so fast? She thought, there wasn't a part of her that didn't want him, that didn't love him.  It scared her, especially with the kind of wreck love normally meant in her life.  Wreck...... she thought, oh God, was that an omen?  Was this just Elijah letting loose with a woman after two years and getting carried away in it all?<br/><br/>She tried to hang on to his words, but they kept slipping through her fingers.  Words, she'd learned meant nothing, except, in the long term, pain.  She still couldn't look at him, that seemed to happen rather too much too, she thought, was that too an indicator of what was happening between them?  Maddi's fingers tightened around the shell and the line wrapped round it, tugging her line to see if the flutter she'd felt was something on it, just like he was tugging on her heart she thought.  As she reeled the fish in she echoed  exactly the same thought about that too, hook line and sinker.<br/><br/>All she wanted to hear was the answer to the same question, but she just couldn't bear to ask it, as what else could he say but what she wanted to hear? And how was she to know any dam different?  She'd believed before, more than once, and look where that had got her.