Here is the next chapter. Review and enjoy.

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Charlie nervously looked around the beach, where did Claire go? Claire was beautiful, smart, sweet, intelligent, and fun to be around. He really did like her and Aaron, well, Aaron isn't half bad either. If something happened to Claire (again) he would-

Sawyer interrupted Charlie from his thoughts, "Hey there sport, the kid is asleep."

"Oh, uh, yeah, thanks Sawyer," Charlie muttered, handing Sawyer a wrinkled up magazine.

"My pleasure, nice doin' business with ya," Sawyer replied, flipping the magazine over and looking at the cover and smirking, "I never took ya for a Vouge kinda guy…"

"Yeah, well, I uh, its not mine…" Charlie stuttered though his words.

"Sure it ain't amigo," Sawyer chuckled.

Charlie put Aaron in the bjorn, looked around the beach one last time for Claire, and headed towards the caves.

On his way to the caves Charlie got lost in his thoughts, thoughts about DriveShaft, thoughts about the future and the island, and some thoughts about Claire; well, especially about Claire. He wishes that he knew how she felt about him…

Out of nowhere Charlie stumbled over something.. it looked like a root, but he wasn't quite sure. He kneeled down closer, yup it was a root, but it looked like someone took a hacksaw to it. Aaron started to fuss and Charlie tried to get him to calm down.

"Shh, shh, its okay little turniphead, lets go get you to your mommy."

With that Charlie stood up and with a final glance at the deformed root and continued towards the caves, and little did he know that when he got there he would be in for quite a sight.

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And for those who didn't know---

Bjorn - it's Dutch for baby carrier.

Next Chapter is going to be Sayid-ish.. yes, that sounds right…