"I don't know what you're talking about. Let me the fuck go!" Shannon bucked against Sawyer's restraining hands and ran. She didn't know where she was running to, just far away from him.
Higgs. That was the name her father had always used when on a job. Shannon only knew this because before he'd married Boone's mother, she'd had to go with him. After that, he'd claimed they were business trips and left her behind. It wasn't the fact that Sawyer knew who her father really was that upset Shannon. She was upset because she knew something about Sawyer's past that was intermingled with her own.
Shannon stopped running and fell to her knees in the sand. The wind whistled through the trees overhead and Shannon could recall a time in her past, a time when her entire world had been rocked.
(Flashback)
"Does the kid know?"
"Who?"
"Bobby. Your little partner?"
Shannon's father takes a deep drag of his cigarette. He obviously doesn't know that Shannon is nearby; he never smokes around her. Her asthma and all prevents him. Despite all his faults, Shannon knows that her father loves her. He's simply trying to protect her.
"Ah, you mean 'Sawyer.'"
Both men laugh at the little joke, though Shannon has no idea what's so funny. So Bobby wanted to call himself "Sawyer", so what?
"So I take he doesn't realize that about ten years ago you were going by the name Sawyer?"
"Nope. I still don't know whyMickey put us together like this. It's like waiting for a bomb to go off."
The other man, a fellow con by the name of Billy, shrugged. "Ain't like the boy will remember much. He was only, what? Six?"
"I'm worried he'll see something in Shannon he shouldn't."
Shannon titters on the stair. See something? She thinks. Like what?
"Oh! You mean the fact that they share the same mother right?"
(End Flashback)
Shannon rises and starts toward her and Sayid's tent. She has no idea why Sawyer is so pissed at her father but she doesn't care. Her father's business was never an interest of her's. He had his thieving and she her revenge. She was done with all that.
"Sayid?"
"Over here!" Shannon follows the direction of his voice and finds Sayid in the middle of a flurrying paper trail. "The wind got into the tent and sent the maps flying. Help me."
Shannon picks up as many of the maps as she can and starts to put them back in the tent. She starts to go in when Sayid asks her a question.
"Where were you just now?"
"What?"
"Where were you?"
"Oh! I walked Claire back to the caves. She was too tired to carry Adrian so I carried it for her." Shannon put the papers down and put a rock on top. They didn't need them to go flying everywhere again.
"It that all?"
"Ummm…yeah? Why?"
"You looked a little upset. I was wondering if something was wrong." Sayid looked up at Shannon from where he knelt on the ground. He looked so cute that Shannon could not help herself from leaning over and placing a chaste kiss on his forehead.
"Stop worrying. I'm fine. So…what about this storm huh?" Sayid laughs at Shannon's obvious attempt to change the topic.
"It will be a big one. Some of the other people on the beach are heading to the caves. Do you want to go as well?"
"Why?"
"It will be more stable there. There is no telling how high the tide could come, or how fast the wind will get. It might be a good idea."
Shannon placed her hand on her brow to keep her hair from flying in her face as she looked out to sea. "Yeah, maybe it is a good idea. We can't leave all this here."
"We'll put it into the backpacks. No worries. Your clothes won't get left behind." Shannon turns to grin at Sayid.
"Stop teasing. Would you rather I run around naked?" Bad question Shannon thought as Sayid's eyes darkened almost imperceptibly. He immediately looked darker and more dangerous. Shannon smiled as he stepped close.
"Maybe, but only if I am the only one around." Sayid brushed a kiss over Shannon's bare shoulder and she was reminded that despite the fact that they had been sharing a shelter for a month, they still had not done "it."
"Well, I'm not doing either, so get over it." Shannon stooped to go into the tent and began to pack. She had to decide what to leave and to take, as most of the stuff wouldn't fit into the backpacks. After all, they only had her's and Sayid's.
"Are you almost ready? Everyone has gone to the caves already." Sayid said from outside the tent.
"Why did I have to do this alone? Some of this is your's, you know?"
Sayid laughed. "I had to help some of the others…unless you wanted to be the one to tell Hurley to leave behind his huge cache of fruit and CDs."
Shannon stood and picked up the two heavy backpacks and carried them outside. "Okay, I grabbed everything I thought we needed. And I figured everything else can be wrapped in the tarps and tied to a tree or something."
Sayid smiled. "Good idea." Together they untied the tarps and set about wrapping their things and tying them to a tree. By the time they finished the storm had arrived and everything was beginning to feel rushed and hectic.
"Let's go." Sayid yelled above the wind as he grabbed Shannon's hand and began to pull her away from the already rising tide. Even as they grabbed their things, a large lightning bolt flashed in the sky, before striking down to the ground scant feet from where they were standing. The tree it hit began to crackle and shake, before it started to tilt and fall…right towards them.
