Summary: Just a Charlie/Claire (with Aaron) fan fic. Taking place in season 2.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

He sat there, on a rock, all alone just looking at the statuette which he was holding. Inside it there was heroin, lots of it. It had been a long time since Charlie had his last fix, and he had not thought about it much until Sayid took him to the plane where he had found the heroin. As much as he wanted to give into temptation and take the drugs, he also did not want to. He had a whole new life now and now he had to choose between them. The drugs or his new life.

"Hey, Charlie," Claire broke the silence and watched Charlie from behind. "What are you doing out here? I was starting to get worried."

"Oh hi, Claire, I'm just taking a moment to think…" Charlie said nervously and sneaked down the statuette in his backpack and rose, looking at the blonde woman in front of him. "Is everything okay?" he asked worriedly but she just shook her head.

"No, you just didn't tell me you were heading out. I think Aaron missed his bedtime story." Claire said and smiled weakly, looking down at her feet. Charlie smiled a little too and walked to her.

"Come on; let's go back to the caves." Charlie said and walked back with her, leaving his earlier thoughts behind.

A child crying, a mother's calming voice. Charlie's eyes fluttered wide open and he sat up and saw Claire desperately trying to calm Aaron, but she had no success. He rose from the ground, yawning but walking closer to Claire.

He remembered his thoughts from last night and how close he had been to take the drugs, he was happy that Claire had showed up when she had. Charlie walked to her and put his hand at her shoulder but she shuddered it off.

"Claire, what's wrong?" Charlie asked worriedly and looked at her. She turned to him and rocked Aaron gently and shook her head.

"He woke up half an hour ago… I've tried to calm him but he won't be quiet." Claire said and felt tears well up in her eyes and she continued to rock Aaron.

"M-Maybe you should go to Jack-" Charlie said but was cut off by Claire's desperate voice.

"And what can he do about it? You make it sound like I am doing something wrong and I'm not… it's just that no one ever taught me how to take care of a baby!" Claire said and still rocked Aaron but he didn't stop.

Charlie felt helpless; he cared too much about Claire to let her do everything herself. Then she would only wear herself out and then at the end, not be able to be there for Aaron. He looked down and then he looked at Claire, reaching his arms out.

"Then let me take him, Claire. That's the least I can do," Charlie said and saw that she was about to protest. "I won't take a 'no' for an answer so please…" he said and looked at her. Claire gave Aaron to Charlie with a sad look at her face.

"Just, take good care about him, will you? I'll be right here." Claire said and sat down, leaning against the cave wall. Charlie nodded and started walking while rocking Aaron.

Soon he found himself at the beach and he had finally gotten Aaron to stop crying. Though, it looked like he would start again soon. Poor Claire… Charlie thought and looked down at Aaron.

"Hey dude, how's the nanny-thing going on?" Hurley asked and walked against Charlie. Charlie frowned and had an offended look at his face.

"Nanny- wait, it's not a nanny-thing! Claire was tired and Turnip-head wouldn't be quiet so I took him a while." Charlie said and looked seriously at Hurley who chuckled.

"Whatever you say, man." He said and walked past Charlie, against his tent.

Charlie looked down at Aaron and raised his brow. "Nanny-thing? No I'm just taking care of you 'til your mommy feels better." Aaron smiled as he heard Charlie's voice and then he yawned. Charlie walked around the beach some more, meeting people who commented on how cute Aaron was. He's not a bloody puppy-dog! Charlie thought and sighed.

He saw that the sun was going down and he guessed it was getting pretty late so he started heading back to the caves since Claire would start worry soon enough.

In the caves, Claire had just woken up and noticed that it was already getting late. She had slept through the whole day. She saw Charlie's backpack but guessed that he wasn't back with Aaron yet. Rising slowly, she noticed something in his backpack. She reached for it and saw that it was a statuette of Virgin Mary and she looked at it.

"Claire?" Charlie asked and she turned around, still holding the statuette. "What are you doing?"

"You are back… oh uhm, I was going to move your backpack and this fell out. What is it?" Claire asked. Charlie walked to her, handing over Aaron to her, taking the statuette instead.

"It's the Virgin Mary, Claire. I found it in the jungle, just thought it might come in handy." Charlie said and shrugged, looking intensely on it.

"How would a statuette of Virgin Mary come in handy?" Claire asked and chuckled, looking at Charlie.

"Claire, maybe we should get something to eat…" Charlie said. She nodded slowly and walked away with him.