Rating: PG

Disclaimer: I do not own Lost. Duh.

Author's Note: Just for mrs.pace, I'm definitely going to try to make this chapter a bit longer than all the others! 

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Chapter Seven—Hello, Claire

Jack and Kate were walking together down a path near to the Others' cave. "So, do you think," Kate brought her voice louder, "Charlie will be able to save Claire?"

"Why are you shouting, Kate?" Jack asked.

"Oh, you know… I just really hope Charlie will be able to," Kate answered.

"Don't worry. Charlie's strong. He'll be able to—ahh!"

Suddenly, all Kate and Jack could see was total blackness, as a black bag was placed over their head, and Sawyer and Locke jumped out of the trees that hovered above them and attacked the Others that were trying to capture Jack and Kate.

Meanwhile, Charlie and Boone ran about fifty yards away from the scene, and then into the cave. Slowing down their pace, Charlie said to Boone, "You go left. I'll go right. If you find her, holler for me!"

Charlie ran right with his flaming torch and Boone ran left with his. After running for probably ten minutes, he heard Boone shout, "Charlie! Over here!"

Charlie immediately turned around and ran towards Boone's voice. He found Boone feeling Claire's forehead. Charlie was shocked at the sight of her. The skin around her eyes were red, and she was deathly pale. Without saying a word, Charlie handed Boone his torch, and Charlie picked up the still-pregnant Claire and ran out of the caves, carrying her.

About half-way back to the beach, Claire woke with a sudden jolt and screamed.

Charlie lowered her down and held her hand, whispering, "Claire, shh… You're okay. I need you to be quiet. Can you be quiet for me, please, Claire?"

Claire looked around, and then finally her eyes met with Charlie's. A tear rolled down her cheek, and she held onto him. "I'm so scared," she whispered.

He hugged her back and reassured her, "You're going to be fine. I need you to be quiet until we get back to the beach."

Claire nodded, and Charlie picked Claire up again, and said, "We need to hurry, Boone."

He looked around, but Boone was nowhere in sight. He turned around in circles, looking everywhere for him. Then he felt a large rock hitting his head and he fell to the ground.

Claire scrambled to her feet and saw Ethan staring at her. She backed up, but knocked herself into a tree, and fell. Ethan walked up to her and looked down at her. "Hello, Claire," he said.

Keeping her eyes on Ethan, Claire felt the ground surrounding her until her hands reached a small rock. She picked it up and threw it at his mouth. He turned around, shouting curses, and wiped away the blood coming out of the cut on his chin. Claire crawled over to Charlie and tried to shake him awake.

"Charlie, Charlie!" she shouted. "Wake up!"

She felt someone grabbing her by her arms and picking her up and she kicked in protest. "Let me go!" she screamed. "Help!"

But, her voice was muffled by her captor's hand covering it. The last thing she saw while being carried away was Charlie lying on the ground before she fainted in Ethan's arms.

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I've decided to make this a 15-chapter. I'm still looking for ideas for a new CC fic. So, yeah. New chapter when I get two reviews! Thank you so very much to the reviewers of Chapter 6!

16aqua Aww thanks so much for people from Alex's past! Haha! I hope you liked this chapter!

DarkDizzyMerryGoRound Haha your comment made me smile! Thank you so much for reading this!

mrs.pace Why, thank you. Haha. I hope this chapter was long enough for you! ;)