I know this one is short...but I felt it needed to be ended there. I'm not real sure how many more chapters this is going to get, but probably not to much more than five.
Chapter Four
Charlie grinned at Claire, as she pulled the decaying door open. She looked to the right and left, making sure her father wasn't anywhere in sight, and then slowly walked out, hand in hand with Charlie.
"Do you think it'll work?" Claire asked Charlie.
"It has too, I don't want to leave you again," Charlie said, his voice holding pure honesty and it broke Claire's heart.
"You won't, I promise you...No matter what, I will not lose you again," Claire said, giving his hand an extra squeeze.
She pulled him along, trying to remember her way back to the beach.
Her thoughts went back just days before. She had been following Sawyer through the jungle, Aaron cradled softly in her arms. She had been 'seeing' Charlie everywhere. Suddenly a thought occurred to her.
"After my otherton house exploded, I kept seeing you everywhere. Were those really hallucinations like I thought, or were you really there?" Claire asked, keeping her voice low to make sure only Charlie heard her.
"Some of the time it was me. I couldn't be here, and not see you. It broke my heart worse. Claire you've got to believe me, I never ever meant to hurt you. I thought if I died, I'd save you. You and Aaron, I just, I needed to know you'd be safe," Charlie said, as he pulled her hand up to his lips placing a small kiss on it.
"Charlie, I'd much rather grow old on this island with you, than be back home without you. You mean so much to me Charlie. I mean I know we haven't really known each other long, but I just. I feel this amazing connection to you, I know that you'll look after me, and Aaron. Seeing you with him, it makes my heart skip a beat every time. Knowing that he's not yours, but treating him like he is. It's all a single mother could hope for," Claire smiled at him, before pulling him to a stop, and capturing his lips in a sizzling kiss.
"I've never thought of him any less than my son, and I know it's weird. I just, I love him so much, like I would if he was my biological son," Charlie said, as they started walking again.
Christian walked back into the cabin, and found it empty. A few tears formed in his eyes, he knew what they had done, and hoped like hell that they were getting as far away from this place as possible. That would be their only way of survival, because Jacob would sure as hell kill the both of them. No one, betrays Jacob, and lives to tell about it.
"I think I see smoke from the camp-fire," Claire said, pointing to the rolling smoke in the air.
"I think you're right," Charlie said, getting excited that they had made it this far without anything horrible happening.
They walked a little faster, pushing their way through the semi-heavy bushes and tree branches in front of them. Then suddenly, in the glowing early morning light, it was the clearing for camp.
"We made it," Claire smiled at Charlie.
"Yeah, we did," Charlie said back, hoping it would stay like that.
She grabbed his hand, and dragged him toward the clearing, walking back into the camp that she had left after hearing about Charlie's warning. She only saw Sawyer and Juliet, both were glum, just sitting and staring out in the ocean.
"Where is everyone?" Claire asked, startling both of them.
"Where in the hell have you been!?" Sawyer's voice raised, scaring Claire slightly.
"I uh..it's a really long story, but I'm here now. Look who I found," Claire smiled, as she pulled Charlie out into the open.
Sawyer's jaw dropped completely, and Juliet stood beside him, completely confused.
"I thought...he's...He died," Sawyer was finally able to get out.
"Yeah, it's part of that really long story, which I promise to tell you, but we could really use a rest first," Claire said, as she pulled Charlie behind her, giving both of them a hug, just happy to see a familiar face.
"Oh, and to answer your question," Juliet started speaking up. "Some of them left on a helicopter, some left one a small motorized boat, heading for the freighter...until it blew up."
"Who was on it?" Claire asked.
"Well, Jack, Hurley, Sayid, and Kate were on the helicopter," Sawyer said, offering to let Juliet continue.
"And Sun, Jin, Aaron...along with everyone else, including Daniel, one of the freighter people."
"That's weird," Claire said out loud before she could stop herself.
"What is?" Sawyer asked.
"Oh...still apart of that long story," Claire said, knowing she had to tell them what it was, especially now that they thought that everyone was dead.
"Maybe it's time to explain this story?" Juliet asked.
"Yeah, I think your right," Claire sighed, looking at Charlie who had been silent the entire time.
