Claire bit her fingernails until they were stubs, She felt like she was going to throw up. Her stomach was in a knot. Charlie and Jack still hadn't come back. It had been over seven hours. Claire saw Kate sitting outside her hut. She knew Kate was panicking inside also. Claire felt awful.
'What if he's dead and I never got the chance to express my love to him,' she thought. 'Maybe they just camped out for the night," kept running through her head.
Jack and Charlie would do that just to make Claire and Kate nervous. Charlie would definitely come up with that. Jack wasn't the funniest guy so she knew it wasn't him who thought of it.
Claire walked over to Kate.
"Any word yet," she whimpered.
Kate shook her head. "Locke and Sayid haven't returned yet."
Claire looked at her feet. She turned away from Kate and stared at the ocean. The wind was whipping at her face. She felt tears building up in her eyes. A lump was growing in her throat. The tears slowly made their way down Claire's silky white skin. She swallowed the lump in her throat.
"I'm going to look for them," Claire said not looking at Kate trying to hide her tears.
Kate whipped her head around to look at Claire. "I'm not letting you go out there", she said getting to her feet.
"I'm sorry Kate but I'm not going to wait around here just to learn that they didn't make it to them in time", Claire yelled back ran into the jungle.
Kate didn't know why she didn't run after the crazy Claire. Finally when she realized she had to, it was too late. Claire could be any where by now.