Chapter 33- Escaped…..Again

The next morning the sun shone bright and clear, flooding the caves with a soft glow. Sayid decided that he would go visit Hope and Claire. Alex was still asleep, but he had left her a note explaining where he had gone and pleading her to stay in bed and rest until he got back.

Sayid found Charlie and Claire making tea outside the cave they shared. It was a miracle that they still had tea bags a year after the plane crashed, but the two had managed to save it for special occasions.

"Hello Sayid!" Claire said, giving him a cheerful smile.

"Hello Claire, hey Charlie."

"Want a cup of tea? It's our very last batch." Charlie offered Sayid a chipped mug with a faded logo on the side.

"No, thanks anyway." Sayid sat down next to them.

"How's Alex doing?" Claire asked, concern creasing her brow.

"Still asleep. I left her a slip of paper saying I would be here, and Sun promised to check in on her." Sayid changed the subject. "What about you? You beat that guy up pretty bad."

Claire blushed a bright pink. "Yeah, I don't know what came over me. I just saw him sneaking off with Hope, and next thing I knew, I was tackling him."

"Well, it was nicely done." Charlie commented, sipping his piping hot tea. "If we ever get rescued, you should sign up for an American football team. You'd slaughter them all."

"Oh, shut-up!" Claire giggled, elbowing him.

"Hey, guys!" Everyone looked and saw Jack jogging towards them.

"I just wanted to let you know that two of the prisoners got loose and killed the third, who was apparently their leader. Then they both hung themselves."

"Why would they do that?" Claire asked in a small voice.

"No idea. Kate told me that they said they were the last others, so we won't have to worry about them anymore."

"Well, that's…interesting. I'm going to go see if Shannon needs me to take over babysitting Hope." Claire stood and began walking towards the cave her friend and the doctor lived in.

"Why do prisoners keep escaping? You'd think we would have learned how to bloody tie them up by now!" Charlie exclaimed once his wife was out of earshot.

"Clam down. They didn't hurt anyone-"

"But they could have, Jack! What if they had gone on a psycho killing spree or something?" the former Driveshaft bassist rose and started after Claire. "Sorry, but that bothers me."

After talking to Jack for a while, Sayid excused himself to go look in on Alex.

He was unnerved. Charlie was right: the two men could have done a lot worse than committing suicide.

Reaching their cave, Sayid breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Alex sprawled out on the make-shift bed.

But she wasn't asleep.

"Decided to come and keep me company?" she asked playfully, sitting up.

"Feeling all better, then?" Sayid inquired, smiling warmly at her.

In mock-anguish, Alex flung herself back down on the bed. "Absolutely not! Of all the insults! My head is pounding, my back hurts, and you just about made me cry!"

"In other words, you're feeling fine." Sayid laughed.

"Yeah, okay, so I actually feel better. Sue me." Alex grinned up at him. "How is the Pace family?"

"Charlie and Claire are doing fine, but I don't know about Hope. Shannon was watching her for Claire."

Rising up off the bed, Alex started walking out of the cave. "C'mon, let's go see Hope."

"Oh no you don't!" Sayid replied, catching her arm. "You need to rest.'

"Again? I've been resting all day long!"

Shaking his head, Sayid smiled. "I can see I'm not going to win this argument."

Alex beamed at him. "Does this mean we can go?"

"Yes, we can."

The couple left the cave, hand in hand, chatting and laughed along the way.

AN: Sorry this took a while to post!

OMG I am so happy that Alex is a girl! YAY! Danielle said she was! does a little dance Chapter 34 coming soon!