Ah thanks very much!
Yeah I wanted to give Ethan a bit more to say while I had the chance rather than going straight into the Ellie/Ashely saga, since I reckon we've got enough time to go into that and I didn't want to rush it too much either, like have them confront one another straight away and everything comes out soon. Just wouldn't be as dramatic or interesting I thought, lol. And Ethan in my view is (for what reason?) just getting a bit jumpy about the real crash survivors finding out about the Island in any great depth...and I just assumed he's the Ethan of the series, as in he's a surgeon with the Others and is faking being a survivor if that's ok?
And yeah I would have felt irritation if I were in Ellie's position as well, so that's why I wrote it! lol Just fed up of going through one thing after another and rather than completely buckle under all the pressure she sort of doesn't care as much - like she's become saturated with fear and wondering what to do and how to do it - and is more free to actually get on and do something that may work and may not, but she has to try. If any of that makes sense! I can't see her as being a trigger happy bully, but who knows what she's going to do with a random gun!
Thanks again, and I'm sure when you get the story sorted in your head and write the next bit it will be great as always! Sorry to hear about your computer: I hate it when they mess you about. My battery is completely dead, meaning that it doesn't charge at all, and I can have my laptop on main power for hours and hours and then get all of one minute battery life out of it.