Charlie's Day
Part One
Charlie Pace was in a bad mood. Today he couldn't do anything right. All morning he had been getting in everyone's way. He had started out the day by helping with the raft, but he quit after he broke the rope and for a forth time a mound of bamboo poles had trampled him where he stood. Jin yelled at him in Korean as he left.
Then he decided to go see if Claire needed anything, but she just snapped at him when he woke up the baby. Hurley was fishing, so Charlie helped there for awhile. Hehooked himselftwice before he quit.
After that morning, he climbed a tree for a guava for lunch, and slipped, toppling to the ground. He grumbled as he sat down with the bruised fruit. Today he was just a grouch. Somehow thinking that made him feel a little better. It made him think of when he was little and his mum would break up his and Liam's fights with a song and a movie. The movie. He could remember every line.
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Grouches of the world unite!
Stand up for your grouchly rights!
Don't
Let the sunshine spoil the rain.
Just stand up and complain.
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Charlie continued thinking of his childhood as he cut into the guava with one of Locke's hunting knifes. Walt and Vincent ran by. The boy was throwing a tennis ball down the beach for his dog, who promptly ran after it, caught it, killed it, and brought it back to Walt.
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We're never in a hurry.
Got no time to worry.
We'll take it nice and easy,
Singin' a song.
There's never any trouble
We're floatin' like a bubble.
Fa, la, la, la, la, la,
Lighter than air.
Why should we care?
We're easy goin'
We'll laugh our cares away
On this easy goin',
Easy goin' day.
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Charlie's attention wandered from the boy and his dog to the people in the camp. Kate asked Sawyer for something out of his stash. He dug around in his suitcases until he found whatever it was that "Freckles" wanted, and gave it to her, no questions asked.
A few minutes later, Jack walked by, followed closely by Sayid, who was asking the doctor to let him have something. Whatever it was, Jack did not want to give it up. He was adamant about his answer until Sayid finally stormed off.
Charlie marveled. It was like the invasion of the body-snatchers had switched Jack and Sawyer.
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It's fun to be in an upside-down world!
There's fish that fall out of the sea.
There's upside-down clocks that make everyone late.
Upside-down food that won't stay on your plate.
In an upside-down world,
In an upside-down world,
There's upside-down everything all over town,
It looks so funny that I've got to frown,
'Cause a frown is a smile when you turn upside-down,
In an upside-down,
What-side down,
Whoop-side down,
Oop-side down,
What-side down,
Upside-down world!
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Charlie's thought wandered back to his mum and Liam. The boys' father had walked out on them when they were just kids. Their mother worked two jobs to get them through school, and so was rarely home. Liam practically raised Charlie. And the withdrawal was barely over.
Despite everything, though, Charlie still missed his mum and Liam. It would have been nice to meet his brother's little girl, now that he was clean, and get to know her, and show her some of his favorite childhood things.
Uncle Charlie. He liked it. It was too bad that he was such an idiot. If he had accepted Liam's offer, he wouldn't be here on this island. He'd be in Sydney, being Uncle Charlie.
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Oh without them
I'm so blue.
There's only one thing
That will do
To make this heart-ache end
To be
Back home
Again.