Hola! I know I haven't written anything in a year. I've been working on doing self-created fiction. but I have writer's block so I wrote a Lost story. It's AU, they get rescued from the island at the beginning of Season 4. Here you go, hope you like it.
She has only one picture of him – it was given to her by his brother. She keeps it by her bedside, and every night she looks at it and cries.
Her son's first word is "Dada", and it's accompanied by the tiny hands grasping for the picture of Charlie.
This only makes her eyes water. She wants to be strong, to be strong for Aaron, but she can't help a few tears from rolling down her cheek, and she holds her little boy tightly. She puts the picture away after that, in the drawer in her nightstand.
When Aaron is in preschool, Father's Day rolls along and he asks her why all the other boys have daddies and he doesn't have one.
Who does she say his father is?
Thomas isn't his father, that's for sure. Perhaps biologically, but he is not the man she truly loved. No, she didn't know what love was when she met Thomas.
They say you only love once. She knows who she loves.
She doesn't know how to answer his question – she just tells him to ask her another time, when he's older.
When Aaron is seven, Thomas comes back. He wants custody of Aaron – he wants his son back. She knows what Thomas really wants – he has been trying to contact her ever since she got off of the island. He wants fame just as much as he ever did – he tried to get it through art, and he failed. Now he's trying to get fame through her son – through her and Charlie's son.
She wins the case, though.
She gets to keep her boy. Her and Charlie's boy.
But then, Aaron asks her who the man was – he asks her if it was his father.
She tells him no, she tells him that that man was just a mean man who wanted to take him away from her.
He tells her, in his sweet child voice, that he'll never leave her.
For his eleventh birthday, his Uncle Hurley buys him a guitar, a shiny, top-notch acoustic guitar, and everyone, 'Uncle' Jack and 'Aunt' Kate, 'Uncle' Sawyer and 'Aunt' Juliet and Clementine, 'Uncle' Jin and 'Auntie Sun' and Ji Yeon, all of them, they can tell that someday he's going to be great.
Everyone says it's lucky that he's talented.
She knows it's not luck. It's because of a man who played acoustic guitar by his handmade crib on, back on an uncharted island.
When he's fifteen, he and his girlfriend, Clementine, decide to form a band. She tells him, her eyes wet, to never, ever let the band make him do anything he doesn't want to do. He asks her if this is about his father.
She was hesitant to let him date Clementine. Clementine is, after all, two years older than him. But when he told her that he can be trusted – that he's growing up – she lets him.
She wanted Charlie to be there when Aaron grew up. She wanted Charlie to be there to teach him guitar. She wanted him to grow up knowing his father was a good man. Now he doesn't even know who his father is.
When he's seventeen, and struggling with the fact that his girlfriend is away at college, he doesn't talk to her about it, even though she sees his pain – the separation pain she's all too familiar with.
No, he doesn't talk to her. He goes over to 'Uncle' Jin and 'Auntie' Sun's, especially when Ji Yeon isn't going to be there.
One day he comes home with a ring with the letters 'D' and 'S' on it.
She almost screams when she sees it.
She asks him where he got that.
He says that 'Auntie' Sun gave it to him, and he says that he knows that it was his father's. He tells her that he remembers asking who his father was, that he remembers when the man came and tried to get custody of him.
Aaron says that he's older now, that it's time for her to tell him who his father is and what happened to him.
She goes upstairs and gets the one picture of Charlie she has. The picture was taken before the band went big – before his heroin addiction, the one he kicked for her. He's smiling cheekily, just the way she remembers him.
She tells Aaron that the man who came to take custody of him ten years ago is his biological father. But she tells him that the man is not his real father. She gives Aaron the photo, telling him that Charlie is his real father.
She tells Aaron about DriveSHAFT, about the island – she tells him about imaginary peanut butter and baby bjorns, about 'Catch a Falling Star' and 'You All Everybody'. She tells him about being kidnapped when she was pregnant, and that his father killed a man to save them both. She tells him about the first time she kissed him. She tells him about the last time she saw Charlie. She tells him that his father died to save them.
She breaks down in tears after that.
She tells him she died the day he died.
She tells him that she knows that someday she'll see Charlie again.
She tells him that she never loved anyone but his real father.
She tells him that it is not biology that makes a father. She tells him that it is love.
And love made all the difference.
Hope you liked it! Love always, Lily
