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Charlie opened his eyes a crack. The sunlight poured inside and he was blinded. He groaned because of all the bright light hurting his eyes. He tried to rollover from the light, but he winced in pain.
"Don't try and turn over Charlie," Jack said.
Charlie looked up to see Jack. "Jack you made it out alive too," Charlie exclaimed.
"Yep. Came out in better condition then you did," Jack said looking over Charlie's wound. "Well I can tell you now your going to be sore, tired, and miserable."
Charlie glared at Jack. "Thanks for that."
"Just telling you," Jack shrugged.
Charlie tried to sit up but when he did the world spun around him. He felt light headed and sick.
"Whoa Charlie, lay down," Jack said pushing his shoulders back onto the blanket.
"I have to get up," Charlie said.
"Not until your better," Jack explained. "Now I have to go and check up on the others and I don't want to come back find this tent empty okay," Jack said.
Charlie nodded. "Fine."
Jack slapped his shoulder and left the tent.
'Yeah right,' Charlie thought to himself as he tried to sit up again. He slowly turned trying to make it to his feet. Pain shot through his body and he winced but managed to kneel.
"Okay, I made it this far," he said to himself.
He slowly made progress to his feet. His stretched his legs. it felt wonderful to do so for he had been laying down for such a long time. He trotted over to the flap and pulled it aside. What he saw he couldn't believe. Charred wood and charcoal everywhere to be seen. He looked over to where his hut once stood which was now just a pile of ash. Eh stepped into the grim scene that laid before him. He yawned as he watched Hurly dumping sand out of his show, Shannon and Sayid playing with Jillian, and Sawyer sun bathing. Nothing has changed besides the landscape. Many of the survivors he saw rebuilding their destroyed homes. Once he got better he promised himself he would build a new hut for his family. He smiled at the thought of Claire soon becoming his wife. He looked around the area as the thought of Claire came to him. Where was she? He strolled a little farther towards the water and looked to his right. Claire was sleeping in the sunlight with Jacob beside her. He watched the wind slowly blow tiny stands of hair across her face. Her delicate skin was glowing. Her body was motionless and peaceful accept for the constant rise and fall of her chest. He walked closer to where she lay along with her son. He weakly knelt down beside them. He grinned looking at them. They were his pride and nothing could ever stand in the way of that. he brushed the hair away from Claire's face lightly. He face scrunched a little and her eyes opened slightly. Her beautiful blue eyes glowed radiantly in the sun.
"Charlie," she whispered, yawning.
"Yes, luv," he grinned his puppy dog smile that made her heart flutter.
She sat up, her golden hair falling back behind her shoulders.
"You can call me Mrs. Pace," she smiled.
Charlie laughed finally collapsing with exhaustion onto the blanket beside Claire. She stroked her hair through his think blondish brown mop.
"Does Jack know your up and about," she asked him.
"He told me to stay in the tent and not to move," he retorted. "Any minute now you'll probably hear my name being screamed from that tent."
Claire giggled. She put her head on Charlie's chest, below his wound she wouldn't cause him pain. Charlie was stroking her blonde hair as they examined the sky.
"That cloud looks like an elephant," Charlie observed.
"An elephant! It looks more like a hippo to me," Claire said.
"Well, their both fat", Charlie said.
Claire laughed again. She took her head away from Charlie's chest so that they were both laughing and looking into each others eyes. Claire leaned in and they kissed. Not just a wimpy peck, but an intimate one. Minutes seemed like hours to the two. Claire could hear her heart beating loudly in her chest. This was just what she always wanted. Her wish had finally come true.
"Sorry to rain on the moment." Charlie and Claire turned to see a pissed off looking Jack. "But I could have sworn I told you to stay put," he glared at Charlie.
Charlie just smiled, "Whenever you tell me to stay somewhere I just have to leave."
"Well, if you start hurting don't come running to me," Jack sighed walking away.
"Someone's in a bad mood," Charlie muttered.
"He's just looking out for you, you know," Claire said.
Charlie nodded. "Now where were we," he asked.
"Heaven," she said leaning in as they kissed.
That night Charlie and Claire sat around a fire with everyone. They were all laughing and joking pigging out on boar. Back home today would have been a day called Fat Tuesday. Charlie's chest was sore and it hurt when he laughed but he tried his best to ignore it. Claire was by his side, smiling her 100 watt smile. She laughed her heart out as Jack got up and imitated Kate. Kate laughed and hit Jack's leg and he sat back down and laughed with everyone. The children were all asleep and all was well again. he was heartbroken when he heard that Michael was killed and it wasn't really the same without him. To his surprise Walt even laughed a little. He hadn't seen Walt smile ever since his father died.
A loud crash came from the jungle. All the laughing stopped and everything was silent.
"O my god," Claire gasped. "It's that thing, it's back.
The creature was knocking trees down in the jungle as if they were toothpicks.
"All right everybody stay calm,"Jack ordered.
Claire suddenly remembered the children were sleeping at the edge of the jungle, right by where the creature was. She jumped up and ran over to the three crying youngsters.
"Claire," Charlie screamed after her.
A large blinding flash was seen. The survivors turned away from the blinding light. There was a deafening roar followed by a scream.
"Claire," Charlie screamed again trying to as quick as possible make it to his feet. Charlie ran over to the spot where she was. The creature retreated back into the jungle. All three children were screaming in horror.
"Claire are you all right," Charlie said grabbing her.
What he pulled back into his arms was unbearable. It was Claire, her eyes wide open, her body limp, and her chest still.
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