Disclaimer: I own nothing except Patty. At least, I think I own Patty. Yeah, yeah, I own Patty.
Note: This would take place after my other fan-fiction I'm writing, but I haven't had enough time to writeit, so it will be somewhat of a prequel unless I get requests to continue it. (Not this one, the other one.)


Patty was in business. Many people had come to her about relationship problems or questions. Today, it was Shannon. She walked in shyly, looking behind her as if she was worried about being followed.

"Good morning," Patty said cheerfully, indicating that Shannon should take a seat, "What's the matter?"

"Thanks," she muttered, "OK. My problem is that I think I'm falling in love with Sayid. But my brother, Boone, is jealous."

"Jealous?" she asked, eyes raised and making a note, "Or over-protective?"

"Jealous," Shannon replied, "You see, Boone isn't my real brother. He's my step-brother and he seems to like me. We kind of, um..."

"Had an affair?" Patty asked.

"Exactly," she said, "And, now he thinks that Sayid will hurt me or something. He's even threatened to kill him."

"Well," Patty said, "Tell me a little more about everything." And, just like Kate, Shannon began.

She told about her's and Boone's childhood, their affair. She told Patty about the way she and Sayid were madly in love. She told about Boone telling her to stay away from him or else he'd kill Sayid. How he told Sayid to stay away from her. Everything she, too, hadn't meant to tell anyone, but slipped out anyway. When Shannon had finished, Patty had come up with a solution.

"Why don't you tell Boone that you would prefer to keep your relationship as strictly brother and sister, that you don't want his molly-coddling any more and how you feel about Sayid," she said matter-of-factly.

"Do you think that will work?" Shannon asked, afraid of what might happen to Sayid or herself if she told Boone.

"Of course," Patty replied, "I think your brother will understand."

"Thank you," she gushed, "Thank you so much."

"You're welcome."

"Do you want anything as payment?" Shannon asked.

"Do you have an extra skirt?" Patty asked, "I haven't found much of my stuff yet."

"Yeah," Shannon replied, "I'm sure I've got one somewhere. Thank you again."

"You're welcome," Patty replied as Shannon left to find Boone. Yet another person she helped and another to be helped tomorrow.