Title: Baby Blues

Author: Typhoid-love

Rating: K+, because this is meant to be cute.

Summary: Shannon has been avoiding Sayid and he has no idea why. He's in for a big surprise.

Disclaimer: If I owned Lost I would not be writing fanfiction about it... I would be making Shannon still alive! (Pfft, damn writers)

Authors Note: Ahhh, here it is the last chapter. After this it's just the epilogue and then it's ovah! This chapter is much longer than the last one so no worries. In fact I think this is the longest chapter I've done for this story. Haha, of course I would make the last chapter the longest. It's not that long but it's still better than my previous chapters. Sorry if there are any misspells. I'm too much of a bum to do spellcheck.

Sayid couldn't concentrate on the transceiver he was working on. He kept looking back at the Forrest every minute.

Today Shannon was forcing him to take a break from her. She had told him to go do something fun while she and Claire went to help Sun with her garden. Sayid couldn't really think of anything fun to do on a stranded island so he decided to work on the transceiver. However, he found that he couldn't keep his mind off his beloved Shannon. She was nine months pregnant and due any day now. He didn't like the thought of her being out in the jungle with only the protection of small Claire.

He was no comfortable with that at all. Sayid didn't want his Shannon to have the same fate as Claire; being kidnapped and not remember anything. He knew he would surely die if Shannon were ever to forget about him.

'Sayid, relax. Everything's going to be fine.'

That was what Shannon had told him earlier. But how could he relax? How could he be calm? He was going to be a father! To top it all off the mother of his child was out in the jungle completely defenseless. It would not be plausible for him to relax.

He tried working on the transceiver again, but his hands were too shaky. Sayid was quickly becoming agitated and he slammed the transceiver on the table, at this moment not really caring if it broke into pieces.

This was not good.

"Sayid." He immediately perked up when he heard her voice.

Shannon was walking/waddling down the shore line and towards him. Sayid stood up and he was smiling with relief. However, Shannon was not smiling. He suddenly didn't like this.

"Shannon," He said once she was by him. "what is wrong?"

"Sawyer told me that you weren't relaxing." She replied crossing her arms over her chest.

"What?" Sayid asked confused. How the hell would Sawyer know if he was relaxing or not?

"Well, Sawyer came to help us with the garden and I asked him how you were doing. He said you looked all frustrated and tense when he walked by." Shannon said staring her lover down. "Sayid, you told me that you would relax today."

Sayid knew he was in trouble now. He had never promised to relax, but he knew that her knowing he wasn't relaxed worried her. Damn that Sawyer….

"Shannon, it is hard for me to relax when you are out there in the jungle with no protection." Sayid said staring back at her just as intently as she was.

Shannon made a frustrated sound. "We talked about this earlier. I'm perfectly fine. And I wasn't unprotected; Sawyer was there."

Sayid's features darkened at the mentioning of the southerner. "That fact does not exactly comfort me."

"Okay, I know you two don't really get along but Sawyer is my friend and he would never let anything bad happen to me or the baby." Shannon said with a sigh.

"I know." Sayid said defeated.

"Okay, good." Shannon said with a small smile. "Now I'm going to get some water from the caves. I'll be back soon." She said and he nodded his head, still defeated. "Sayid," She put a hand on his cheek tenderly. "Please, relax." She demanded with a smile.

Sayid smiled in return. "I will try to."

"Good. I'll see you soon." Shannon said and with that she waddled off to the caves.

Now that Sayid had seen that she was all right he found that he could relax a bit. He said back down and began working on the transceiver again. He was beginning to calm down until—

"Oh my God!" Shannon's screeching voice could probably be heard all over the island.

Without a second thought and the speed of cheetah, Sayid sprang to his feet and ran to where he heard Shannon.

"Shannon, what's wrong?" He asked urgently once he found her.

"It's so disgusting!" She replied looking down at her feet.

Sayid also looked down to see that Shannon was standing in a puddle of wet sand. His eyes traveled up her legs to see that they were also wet. His eyes continued to travel up until they reached her eyes.

"Shannon, your water broke." Sayid stated in a daze and a look of sheer horror spread across her face.

"Eww, gross." Shannon said with tears in her eyes.

It was just now sinking in that she was going to be having her baby on a stranded polar bear/monster infested island with no baby stores, no prenatal vitamins, no hospitals… no drugs!

She was going to have a natural child birth. There was going to be blood and there was going to be pain. It was going to be messy and it wasn't just going to be painful—it was going to be agonizingly painful. She was not ready for this.

Sayid quickly snapped out of his daze and noticed how horrified Shannon looked. He needed to console her. He grabbed her face gently and looked deeply into her tear filled eyes.

"Shannon, I promise you everything is going to be all right." He told her as a tear leaked out of her eye and he wiped it away with his thumb. "Do you believe me?" He asked her and despite her fear and nervousness she nodded her head. "All right, I am going to take you to the caves; to Jack."

"I don't think I can walk that far." Shannon whined with shaky legs.

Without saying a word, Sayid gently picked Shannon up like a bride and began heading towards the caves. She wasn't as light as she used to be due to the extra weight of the baby. However, Sayid could handle it. What he couldn't handle though was the way Shannon was tugging at the ends of his hair.

Jack better be in that cave, he thought heatedly.

Luckily, they did find Jack in the cave. Unluckily, he wasn't alone… and he was in a very compromising position.

"Kate?" Sayid asked out of breath and confused.

Shannon then lifted her head from Sayid's shoulder. "Kate?" She also asked in confusion then looked at the scene. Jack and Kate untangled themselves from each other with his pants half way down and hers completely off leaving her only in her bra and panties. "Oh my God!" Shannon nearly screeched. "You guys were about to have sex! Why would you have sex in the caves? Any friggin' person could walk in and catch you guys."

They both ignored the blondes question and hurriedly tried putting their clothes back on. Jack couldn't help but glare at the other couple, not even noticing Shannon's heavy breathing.

"What are you two doing here?" He asked somewhat bitter that his time with Kate had been ruined.

"Shannon's water broke." Sayid announced not really caring if Jack was pissed or not; he was about to become a father!

Jack immediately forgot about his personal troubles and switched to doctor mode.

"How far are her contractions?" He asked seriously.

"They're about five minutes apart." Shannon replied suddenly heaving.

"All right, Kate, get her some blankets." Jack demanded and she quickly scurried off to do so. "Sayid, follow me." He said walking farther into the caves and Sayid followed.

"Sayid." Shannon spoke his name fearfully. He kissed her forehead lightly.

"Everything will be fine, Shannon, I promise." He spoke against her head and she nodded slowly.

Finally, Jack stopped walking and Kate came running over with the blankets. She placed them on the ground. "Lay her on the blankets." He demanded Sayid who immediately did so.

He carefully placed her on the blankets and he then positioned himself next to her, holding her hand.

"Okay, Shan, you have plenty of time before you need to push. All you need to do right now is relax and when it does come time to push don't be afraid to hold anything back; it's okay to scream."

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Shannon's blood curling scream was enough to make even Sawyer shudder with sympathy and slight disgust. Everyone stayed very far away from the caves in fear of having the same fate as Charlie.

Charlie was foolish enough to go to the caves to see how things were doing. Shannon freaked out and threw something at him, probably a rock. He was now sitting with Claire whom was allowing him to cuddle against her while she pet his wounded head.

"All right, Shannon, just a few more pushes." Jack told her, sweating almost as much as Shannon was.

"You said that ten pushes ago—Ahh!" She shouted out as another contraction hit her. Her grip on Sayid's hand tightened tenfold and he was convinced that some bones in his hand broke due to her death grip.

"I know, but I promise you this time that it's almost over. I see the head!" Jack told her.

Despite her exhaustion Shannon continued to push and scream. Sayid continued to feel bones in his hand break. Jack continued to give orders and Kate continued to abide. Soon enough Shannon was finished and there was a baby's wailing echoing in the caves.

"Congratulations," Jack said holding out the bundle of life to the new parents. "It's a girl."

The rest of the world didn't matter when Shannon took her daughter into her arms. The infant immediately relaxed once she was in her mother's arms. Shannon smiled down at her beautiful baby. Her skin was a light tan color and she had a mesh of black curly hair atop her head. Soon this baby would be looking up at her parents with big blue eyes. Shannon felt Sayid kiss the top of her head and she smiled up at him, exhausted.

"What is her name?" He asked also looking down at his daughter with such pride and a huge grin on his face.

"Bailey. Her name is Bailey Elizabeth Jarrah." She replied almost instantly. They had talked about names so many times before and they never could come on a final decision but Shannon seemed quite sure right now.

"That is beautiful, my love." Sayid told her as he stroked his daughter's face with the back of his finger.

"She's so perfect." She said with happy tears in her eyes.

"Indeed she is." He agreed. Jack and Kate had left the cave moments ago to give these two lovers alone with their daughter.

Shannon tried holding back her yawn, but failed miserably. Sayid smiled down at her, realizing how tired she must be after… all of that. He leaned down and pressed his lips against hers. She immediately responded and kissed him back. He always knew that Shannon was strong, but he saw her in a whole new light now. She was the strongest most beautiful woman he had ever laid his eyes on.

"You need to rest now." He said as he pulled away from the kiss.

Shannon nodded, too exhausted to even bother arguing if she wanted to. She handed Bailey over to him and almost instantly fell asleep.

Sayid held his daughter for the first time and it was impossible for him to stop smiling. Out of all the horrible things he did in his life, he couldn't understand how he came to deserve something this precious… this beautiful. Maybe he didn't deserve it, but he had it and he wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. This was the happiest he's ever been. He looked over at his sleeping lover and then back to his daughter.

He would never give this up.

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