Roger took one look at the body and a mixture of pride and disgust swelled up in him. How had his body had gotten all the way over here?Was his first thought and his second thought was: did we really do that to him?

"You boys know who this is?" a deckhand asked, his face turned away from the corpse that they were putting into a body bag.

Everyone started muttering. Roger nodded. "Yes, we knew him. He died." The soldier shifted and turned to look at the body again, the only hand that was left was hanging over the side of the body bag.

"God, you kids, what you've gone through,no wonder yo-." the deckhand stopped abruptly. Ralph's face fell. Roger knew that Ralph knew better than anyone that their story sounded crazy. Roger smirked. Boy, are you in for a surprise. Roger was still the only one who knew about the plan to send them to an "institute". He hadn't even talked to Jack since they had gotten on the boat, since Jack didn't seem interested in talking. Roger was content on his own, anyway.


Roger leaned back on a deck chair, observing the interactions of the littluns, and felt little interest in what they were doing. Useless littluns, didn't even understand what was going on if it walked up to them and slapped them in the face. Roger smirked and turned to look at the sea. He saw what looked like a faint black line on the horizon.

Is that the coast? Roger thought, looking at the ever-so faint line in the distance. Roger felt a twinge in his chest. He wasn't looking forward to seeing his father again, unless his sister was there, she made it bearable. He almost looked forward to seeing her, but it was an almost bittersweet thing, she had always been the favorite child, and his father didn't punish her for anything.

Father will be more than glad to have someone else take care of me. Not that I need taken care of anymore.

Roger would find the most pleasure in watching the children reunite with their parents, if only to figure out who had raised the others into the cowards that they were. Ralph probably had terribly gushy parents, Samn...Sam's parents were probably pushovers, and Jack probably had some noble military family. But the best part would probably be seeing Piggy's aunt, wonder where her fat little nephew had gone. He wanted to let them know that even if they were off of the island, he was still in control.

She's probably as stuck up as he is. Was.

Whatever the case, Roger never thought that he would look forward to seeing the mainland again.