The day we met it was raining blood and thundering screams filled the jungle.

Blood covered him like thick paint and he was running, running from what he was forced to do, when all he wanted to do was save them.

After all he was the scientist not the murderer.

I ran Aaron safe in my arms, all there was, was blood, raining down on us.

One step and we were face to face, he saw me as a mother and saw him as my murderer.

"P-please, I can stay here, please don't hurt us."

The rain came down on us and all I could do was shiver and give all my warmth to him whose cries grew louder as I grew more and more afraid of this man before me.

One limp forward, he fell on his knees, tears hidden by the rain.

They were growing closer and closer and so was the doom that hung over our heads, death.

Something snapped something in his eyes as he rushed to his feet and came toward me like a wild animal.

"Come with me, we have to escape them. Their going to kill you, both of you, Please."

At please his eyes fell on both of us, and I found my hand fit with his.

Our feet run though the screams and the fear that was growing in our chests, running until our knees gave way.

We were back at the houses, blood stained the windows but by now they were long gone their helicopters flying away with our enemies and so-called friends.

We chose the one without blood, bodies and screams that seem to always be there haunting our minds.

The one with the crib and food for the many days we would stay there.

"Why? Why did you save us?"

Aaron looked up at him like he was the father he once had, and maybe someday I would too, but right now everything I had drowned with Charlie.

"You're Claire Littleton, right? Well, I'm Daniel Faraday."

Faraday, Faraday, the name that would have been mine once upon a time, the name of Aaron's father.

So here I am staring at my almost brother-in-law, a sad little smile on both of our lips as we focus on the one thing that seems real, with his little toes and small hands and gap toothed smile.

"It's nice to meet you, Mr. Faraday. We have a lot to talk about."