Chapter Thirty-Seven:

"Sick & Tired of being Sick & Tired"

[Shot of Andie and Jack running over to helping Claire up onto her bed. She wakes up as they lay her down. Kate and Sayid keep the others at bay. Charlie hands Aaron to Sun and hurries to Claire's side.]

Charlie: Claire?

Claire: What happened?

Jack: Hey, you collapsed.

Claire: What?

Jack: Have you been sick?

Claire: It's just the flu; I didn't get a lot of sleep.

Jack: Are you drinking enough water?

Claire: I think so.

Charlie: Is she alright?

Jack: You gotta take it easy, Claire, okay? Stay in bed as long as you can.

Claire: Okay.

[Jin says something in Korean to Sun. She goes to Jack and tells him.]

Sun: He wants to know who she is and what she's doing here.

Rose: So do I.

[Sun nods towards Juliet who is hanging back at behind all the other islanders. Jack pulls a few of the others aside. Sun hands Aaron to Andie and goes with Jin towards Jack. Charlie sits beside Claire on her bed.]

Claire: Where's Aaron?

Charlie: Andie's got him; he's fine.

[She goes to sit up.]

Charlie: No, no. It's my job to keep you in bed.

[Claire grins.]

Claire: Oh boy.

[Charlie laughs.]

[Shot of Andie sitting down at her tent with Aaron in her lap. Sawyer comes and sits next to her.]

Sawyer: What the hell happened?

Andie: Watch the language around the baby.

Sawyer: Sorry…baby. (Beat) So what happened?

Andie: Locke and Mikhail took Sayid and I back to the Others camp.

Sawyer: Locke?

Andie: I don't know why. He's still with them. Made some kinda deal, I guess.

Sawyer: How'd you get away?

Andie: They left. The Others; they all left. (Beat) Except her.

[She nods towards Juliet who is sitting on the beach line. Hurley is walking in her direction. Jack is still in front of the islanders explaining everything. Kate and Sayid are listening in as well. Sawyer looks over at Juliet as Hurley sits beside her.]

Sawyer: They left her behind?

Andie: Apparently. (Beat) Again; I don't know why.

[Aaron starts to cry so Andie rocks him. Sawyer nods slowly before looking back at Andie.]

Sawyer: Did they hurt you?

[Andie smiles.]

Andie: No.

[She kisses Aaron on the head and glances around camp.]

Andie: So what else is new around here?

Sawyer: I wouldn't know. We only got back today, too.

Andie: Got back? Where'd you go?

Sawyer: We went after you.

Andie (smiling): Really?

Sawyer: Yeah...didn't get far.

Andie: Well, that's not the point.

[She leans over and kisses him.]

Andie: Thank you.

Sawyer: You're welcome.

[Sayid comes over to them.]

Sayid: Sawyer. Can I have a moment?

Sawyer: What's up, chief?

Sayid: Alone; no offense Andie.

Andie: A little taken; but go. I'll get over it.

[Sawyer gets up and goes with Sayid. Andie looks down at the now comforted Aaron. He coos at her and smiles.]

Andie: I just want you to know that in no way are you adorable.

[Aaron coos again. Andie smiles.]

Andie: In no way do I wanna bite your face off.

[Aaron giggles. She makes biting sounds and then kisses Aaron all over his head.]

[Shot to the sun setting over camp. Andie is laying Aaron into his crib next to a sleeping Claire and Charlie.]

[Shot of Sawyer standing with Sayid.]

Sayid: I do not trust her.

Sawyer: What's to trust? She's one of them.

Sayid: While at their camp she handcuffed me to a swing set for two days.

Sawyer: A swing set?

Sayid: The day after that was the day the left her behind. Or so she led us to believe.

Sawyer: So there's a reason they left her behind.

Sayid: I believe so.

Sawyer: And Jack don't agree?

Sayid: Look at him. Does he look like he doesn't trust her?

[Sawyer looks over at Jack and Juliet who are talking quietly with one another. Kate is watching from the island kitchen.]

[Shot of Andie walking over to meet Kate.]

Andie: Aaron's asleep. Man that little guy can scream his head off when he wants to.

[Kate doesn't answer; she's still looking at Jack and Juliet. Andie sees she's not paying attention.]

Andie: Kate, will you marry me?

[Kate turns with a blank look on her face.]

Kate: What?

[Andie laughs.]

Andie: Nothing. What are you looking at?

[Andie looks at sees Jack and Juliet.]

Andie: Are they still talking?

Kate: He's really taking this whole 'protection' thing to another level.

Andie: I wouldn't worry about. He's Jack; he's always got a plan. Like when he went with Michael to go get Walt and planned that Sayid, Sun, Jin and I would follow on the boat. I'm sure he's just playing her. And not in the good way.

Kate: It's just weird. Look at how comfortable he is with her.

[They both look as Jack leaves Juliet and approaches the rest of the islanders who are congregating in the centre of the camp. Andie points at the table; trying to distract Kate.]

Andie: No, no. Look at that, it's a line of ants! Aw, they're working as a team.

[Kate rolls her eyes and sits up on the table. Andie jumps up beside her.]

Kate: Am I the only one who feels like this?

Andie: Ah, no. Have you not heard all the yelling? I swear, if Sun wasn't here, Jin would be all over Juliet right now. Again; not in the good way. Trust me; it's not how it looks. It can't be.

[Kate looks at her and nods.]

Andie: Oh no!

[Andie jumps off the table.]

Kate: What?

[Andie points to where the ants were.]

Andie: Oh we killed them all.

[Kate laughs as she climbs off the table. Charlie comes over looking tired.]

Kate: Evening, sunshine.

Andie: Claire awake?

Charlie: No, she and Aaron are still asleep.

[He nods over to Jack and the other islanders.]

Charlie: What's going on over there?

[Shot of the camp again talking with Jack about Juliet.]

Jack: I'm asking you to trust her.

Sun: Trust her? She's one of them.

Jack: Not anymore. They left her behind.

[Kate, Charlie and Andie join the group. Andie stands between Sawyer and Sayid. Kate goes over and stands near Jack.]

Charlie: Oh yeah, where'd they go?

Jack: I told you, I dunno.

Sawyer: Well maybe we better ask her.

Jack: She doesn't know either.

Sawyer: Well here's a wacky idea. Let's stick our resident Iraqi on her. Let him do what he does, then see what she says.

Sayid: No I don't do that anymore.

Sawyer: Well ain't that convenient.

Sayid: But I don't trust her, Jack. If she's so innocent, why won't she answer my questions?

[Claire arrives and Charlie goes to her as the others continue arguing]

Charlie: Hey. How you feeling?

[She shakes her head so he puts his arm around her.]

Jack: Just give her some time, she's afraid.

Sayid: How much time?

Jack: Look the fact that I trust her should be enough.

Sayid: It's not.

Desmond: Where did Locke go?

Jack: He went with them. Right after he destroyed the sub, the sub that was gonna take me off this Island.

Hurley: What?

Sun: They were going to let you go?

Jack: Yeah.

Sawyer: Said who?

Jack: Ben.

Charlie: Who's Ben?

Sayid: The man who claimed to be Henry Gale.

Charlie: You're taking the word of a freak that lied to us all?

Sawyer: Ben; whose life you saved.

Kate: Sawyer, lay off.

Sawyer: You should have let that bog-eye bastard die.

Kate: He did it for us.

Sawyer: Sounds like he did it for him.

Andie: James.

Jack: Something you wanna ask me, Sawyer?

Sawyer: Yeah Jack I wanna ask you why you're fighting every one of us and sticking up for one of them.

Jack: Look I spent every moment over there trying to find a way off this Island.

[Claire leans forward and covers her mouth.]

Charlie: Claire?

Jack: I was trying to help all of us. I was trying to get us rescued.

[Claire suddenly spits up blood]

Charlie: Claire... Jack! There's something wrong with Claire!

[Claire collapses into Charlie. Jack hurries over to her.]

Jack: Put her head back, put her head back. Let's get her up.

[Everyone watches on in shock. Jack helps Charlie lift Claire back to her tent. Kate and Andie follow.]

Jack: How long's she been like this? Was it more than today?

Charlie: No, no, she just started feeling bad this morning.

Jack: Before we got back was she showing any symptoms at all?

Charlie: No, she was fine. Yesterday, she was fine.

Jack: What about water, has she been drinking enough water?

Charlie: I think so, yeah.

Jack: Alright keep her head up.

[Juliet goes over to Sun.]

Juliet: What happened to her?

Jin: Speaks in Korean.

[Sun glances at him and then glares at Juliet.]

Sun: He said, 'what do you care'?

[Shot to Jack checking over Claire. Charlie is watching over worriedly. Andie and Kate are nearby watching on; concerned.]

Charlie: Why is she bleeding? What's going on?

Jack: Let me check her out, okay?

[Aaron wakes up and starts to cry. Charlie goes to him.]

Charlie: It's okay, mate. Your mum's okay.

[Charlie picks him up and hands him to Andie.]

Charlie: Can you watch him awhile? He shouldn't see Claire like this.

Andie: Sure.

[Andie and Kate walk back towards Andie's tent. Juliet comes up to them.]

Juliet (to Kate): I need your help. I need you to go and get Jack.

Kate: Look he's busy right now.

Juliet: Please I have to talk to him.

Kate: You wanna tell us why you need Jack?

Juliet: Because I think I know what's wrong with Claire.

Andie: And how would you know that?

Juliet: Because I did it to her.

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