Act of Jealousy

Disclaimer: I don't own LOST

A/N: Another LOST story from me… This time it is a Charlie centric fic. The beginning will explain some of his feelings during the last couple of episodes then we will get into the actual story. This is basically after SOS. Jack and Kate haven't gotten back yet. That doesn't really matter in this story though except for later on. I hope you like it. I was thinking of making it a one-shot, then I thought, why not make it into a story? I don't know how long it will be but I'm guessing at the most ten chapters.. but we will see. Ok I think this is a long enough authors' note so I'll get to the story.

Charlie sat next to Eko. They were done for the night with the church and were now just sitting and talking about the simple things of the day. Like the failure of Bernard's so called SOS sign. Charlie realized that no one wanted to get off the island. He didn't want to get off either. If they were to get rescued, there was a chance that Charlie would never see Claire again. It was hard enough not being able to talk to her.

The last couple of days had been pretty nice. About a week ago, Sayid had offered his friendship to Charlie when he had told him about the guy in the hatch. He didn't know much about this Gale person, but it was nice that Sayid was talking to him. Not a lot of people talked to him that much anymore since he had tried to baptize Aaron. Of course no one saw it like that, thinking that Charlie was trying to kidnap Aaron. How could they ever have thought that? Why would he hurt Aaron and more importantly, hurt Claire? He loved Claire.

He really missed Aaron. When Claire and Kate went into the jungle that day and Sun had Aaron, Charlie went to talk to her. It was hard to look at Sun knowing what he had done to her. But he knew she didn't know so it made it a little easier. Sun didn't let Charlie hold Aaron, but he got to see him.

Going into the jungle with Sayid and Ana was fun. It kept his mind off of Claire. He had to say that the best moment of the week was when he found out that Locke was going to be on crutches for a long time. That was the greatest news ever. Locke had spent the last week in the hatch and when he wasn't in the hatch he was with Claire. It was like Claire didn't even care for Charlie anymore.

"So when do you think that we will be done with this church?" Charlie asked Eko. He hoped not for a while. It was a nice pastime and it kept him away from the beach where Claire was.

"Depends." Eko said.

Charlie waited for him to finish, but he didn't. "On what?"

"On the weather, if one of us gets sick, something big happens."

"Ok…. let's say nothing bad happens. The weather is nice and cheery, we both are in superb health, and nothing big happens."

"Maybe a week. I am not sure. I only live in the present Charlie." Eko said.

"How do you do that?" Charlie asked d him

"What?"

"Live in the present. I am always thinking about what might happen. The what ifs." Charlie said.

"It takes patience Charlie. Something that takes a while to learn." Eko said. "You enjoy life more if you live in the present."

"What if you wish that the present would hurry up and finish so you can move on to the future?" Charlie asked.

"Then you are not happy with your present and you need to change that." Eko said. "I must go now Charlie. I am happy that you are helping me with the church. "

Charlie just nodded as Eko got up and left. So he needed to change his present. He needed to change how he felt. The problem was, there was no way of doing that. If he went to Claire again to try to talk she would just shoo him away like some sort of pathetic bird.

Charlie decided to go to bed early. There was nothing to do and no one to talk to. He needed some major cheering up.

A/N: So that is my first chapter. I hope you like it. Please review! Coming up: Hurly talks to Charlie and gives him some relationship advice.