"Have you seen your Shannon?"

Boone looked up from the rope braiding he'd been doing and studied Sawyer. "Why do you want to know?"

Sawyer smiled evilly and decided that it would be best for all involved that Boone know the maternity connection between Shannon and him. "She's my sister, I have a right to know where she's at."

Boone wiped the sweat from his forehead and stood. "What are you talking about?"

"Shannon and me got the same mama. Didn't she tell you?"

"You're lying."

"Nope. Go ahead, next time you see her, ask. I'd of thought she's have told you by now…but I guess you're not that important to her anymore. I know for a fact that she told Sayid weeks ago."

"I don't believe you. Shannon would have told me!"

"Maybe she was preoccupied with lover boy…"

"Leave him alone, Sawyer," Sayid threatened as he, Charlie, and Hurley walked past the two squabbling men. Hurley and Sayid were carrying a part of the fuselage, while Charlie hung back with Adrian.

"Yeah, the boy can't help it that his sister is hot for our buddy here."

"Charlie…" Sayid said in an undertone.

"I've been thinking we should tell her that big is the next great thing. You think she'd go for me?" Hurley joked.

"No man! What are you thinking? Brits are the next big thing! Shannon should go for me!"

"Leave it alone," Sayid warned.

Sawyer decided that bothering Sayid would be more fun than bothering the staid Boone. "Really, cause I thought doctors were in considering how she was checking out Jack."

"Jack? No!" Hurley and Charlie said in mock anger. Sayid ignored them all and studied Boone.

"Are you alright?" He asked Boone quietly.

"Is it true?"

"What?"

"About Shannon and Sawyer? Are they brother and sister?"

"Yes."

"How?"

"Apparently, they share their mother. Shannon has been trying to come up with the right way to tell you. She…couldn't find the words."

"How hard is it to say, 'hey! I don't need you anymore because I have a real brother!'?"

"Sawyer may be her 'real' brother, but she barely knows him. You have been her brother for longer, and she cares more for you than him. You will always be her brother. Sawyer does not change that." Sayid turned to the others, who had until that moment continued to joke about whom Shannon would hit on next. "Let's go. Michael is waiting for this."

Hurley, Sayid, and Charlie marched off, leaving Boone and Sawyer to hash out their problems. "So, you're Shannon's brother."

"Yep."

"So what?"

"It doesn't bother you?"

"Nah, she's been my sister way longer."

"I guess I have to start protecting her and shit now."

"Not really. That's Sayid's job now."

"Right," Sawyer tittered, "I wish him good luck with that."

"She is a hand full."

"You have no idea. One time, when we were teenagers, she decided that she would run away, but she had no money. So…"

Far away, on the beach, blissfully unaware of her two brothers bonding moments, Shannon was plotting.

"I don't want to hurt her Claire, I just want her to back off."

"I think throwing her off a cliff was a good idea, Shan!"

"Not if we want to get away with it!"

"What is so bad about this girl?" Sun asked.

Shannon thought for a moment then explained. "Have you ever had an interloper in your marriage? Someone who interferes to the point of trying to break you up?" Sun thought of her father and nodded. "That's who she is. She interferes in all our relationships and drives us crazy."

Kate nodded. "Just last week I caught her pressing up on Sawyer. I wanted to claw her eyes out."

"That would have been awesome," Claire giggled.

Shannon suddenly let out a gasp. "I have the perfect idea. Remember the boar who wouldn't leave Sawyer alone?"

Kate cracked up. "Yeah, it's still bothering him. It chases him through the forest and pees all over his stuff. Leaves mine alone thank god."

"Yeah, funny right? Well, how about this! We grab some of Sawyer's things and throw them in with her stuff tonight!"

Kate caught on. "So the boar will go through her stuff and do to her what it does to Sawyer!"

"Right! But who should do it? If me or Claire or Kate are seen there she'll know it was us."

The three girls as mentioned turned to look at the one girl not. "What?"

"Sun, will you do us a big favor?"

"Oh, no. I cannot do that. That is…bad."

"It's justice! Don't you want justice?"

"Justice?"

"For us! And a warning. To tell her to stay away."

"I don't like people messing with my man."

"Shannon! You're so possessive!"

"Claire! Like you aren't?"

"I'm not."

"You almost snatched her hair out of her head when you caught her hitting on Charlie."

"Accident."

"Accident my as-…"

Had to cut it off there guys. See how their plan unfolds in the next (and final) chapter of "The Child"! Oh, by the way, we will find out if Claire is prego or not…you might be surprised…or not.