Author's Note: Now that Minta is rescued I won't be having the time on top anymore, the suspense is over, this chapter is dealing with the hatch: my version. Be warned: this involves religious issues, well actually it is just Sayid being religious. The next chapter is the last chapter, and it is really just more fluff.

Morticia Black Rose& October Sky: so you guys both like the bit when Sayid talked about how he proposed to Minta,  Well I just want to point this out, in my next story (if I put it up) I will be showing the proposal in Flashback. Once again, thanks for the immediate reviews. It really cheered me up after I had such a bad day at school.

As Boone himself predicted, he died very shortly after he was taken back, but it was not before he had time to tell everyone just what John Locke intended to do. Sawyer was proven innocent but he could not forgive how easily everyone had been willing to condemn him. Funnily, the only one who believed him was the man who had once tortured him.

Yet he was absent from the gathering, Sayid was in his hut, guarding his wife. Even in her sleep, she clutched at him tightly.

Hearing footsteps Sayid quickly picked up his knife, after what happened, he wasn't going to take any chances. In some ways it was ironic, he had once thought of himself as the only one with a secret to hide, but as their time on the island lengthened he discovered just how wrong he was.

"Sayid…" Danielle began softly, glancing at the sleeping figure lying against him.

"She is asleep." The husband said softly, "But I will not leave her. If you have anything that you wish to say to me, and I believe that you do, then you will have to tell it to me here."

Danielle darted around carefully to make sure that no one was eavesdropping, before she sank onto the floor next to Sayid.

"After what happened to you and Minta I think I own you an answer." She began, once more her hands were fiddling with her pendant.

"On this island there is a hatch, a hatch with six buttons on it, with the keys of 4; 8; 15; 16; 23 and 42. On this pendant are six symbols…"

"Which have equations that worked out to a number." Sayid whispered. "So one you worked out all six symbols then you have the order of combination to open the hatch, Locke want to open the hatch…"

"IT MUST NEVER BE OPENED!" Danielle's scream caused the sleeping Minta to steer slightly. Sayid quickly stroked her hair, rocking her.

"It must never be opened." The Frenchwoman said, this time softly but still very flat. "This is why I ran away from my team, and even drowned the whole ship and abandoning my…my Alex.

"I had to leave because I cannot let anyone get the pendant and risk the chance of opening the hatch…"

"Then why not destroy the pendant? Then you will be free."

"Because…" Danielle moaned, her hands almost trembling. "Because I want to know the answer.

"What answer?" Sayid said, he felt as if he was back in her cave again, when she kept on answering his questions with more riddles.

"I now know that something is never meant to be discovered, like this! But yet even as Locke wants to know it, even as my own husband wants to know it, I want to know it myself. "She broke into loud sobs, the pendant squeezed tightly into her clenched fist. Finally she took a deep breath and looked at Sayid straight in the face. "The answer that solves the greatest mystery of life…if I can open the hatch then I will know how life starts.

"Even though I know that I should not try to seek the answer, part of me is tempted to know. Even though I have never worked out another equation, I do not have the strength to destroy this pendant either."

"The answer of life…" Sayid repeated the phrase softly. "Give it to me Danielle; I will destroy it for you."

"You think I haven't tried to destroy it myself? I threw it in the fire but I then thrust my hand into…" she broke into a sharp hiss when something touched her bare throat: Sayid's pocket knife.

"Give it to me Danielle." He repeated once more.

Looking down Danielle saw that it was not the blade that touched her throat, it was the opposite end, and if she tried to struggle then the blade would stab into Sayid's vein.

"What…"

"I want to help you." Sayid whispered. "Please Danielle, give it to me. If I am tempted then you can easily kill me."

The pendant dangled but eventually it dropped onto Sayid's hand.

Taking a lighter Sayid simply pressed the pendant onto the fire with not one hint of regret, Danielle trembled at first but as the metal started to coil and burn, she cried in relief.

"There, Danielle, you can stay with us." Sayid said quietly when nothing but charcoals remained. "You do not have to be alone anymore."

"Thank you Sayid, thank you." She whispered. "Thank you so much."

Sayid smiled sadly as he looked at his wife, she almost lost her life as well as that of their unborn child just because of a man wanting the answer to a simple question. He touched the golden cross on her neck before he spoke.

"I already found the answer."

Author's Note: Ok, it is religious based but I want to point out a very important thing, note that I- the author- have not add my own judgment into it, although I am religious myself. It is only Sayid's view, and it might not be right . The hatch does tell you the mystery of life, which is how life start and the purpose etc, but it can be of the theory of any religion, if it is religious, cause it might be scientific too. I leave it up to you all to interpret and choose.