AN: PLEASE DON'T HURT ME! I'm sorry it took so fricken long to put this chapter up! I'm having a really busy summer, with all the volunterring and stuff I'm doing. I know exactly what I want to happen from here on out, so it SHOULD go quickly.

Chapter 34- There's No Place Like Home

After checking in on Hope, Sayid and Alex went for a walk along the beach.

Just as it was about to get dark, a loud, long noted filled the air. Alex grabbed Sayid and looked around wildly.

"What the hell was that?" She asked in hushed tones, gripping his forearm painfully tight. "I've never heard anything like it before."

Sayid seemed to be in a daze. Casting a glance out at sea, he sighed. "For a minute, I thought it was a-"

The same dreary sound suddenly burst into the air again.

"Oh my God." Sayid murmured. "It's a fog horn."

"A what?" Alex said blankly.

"A fog horn!" Sayid explained excitedly. "From a boat! A big one, it sounds like."

"I still don't understand, what's a-"

The horn boomed over the ocean again, closer this time.

Alex jumped about a foot in the air. Trembling, she edged closer to Sayid.

Still scanning the horizon, Sayid finally found what he was looking for.

"A SHIP!" He yelled, pointing. "I don't believe it! After all this time, a ship!"

Laughing, Sayid swept Alex into his arms and spun around with her.

"If it really is a rescue boat, we need to get back to the beach camp to get picked up." Alex said, smiling at Sayid's happiness.

"You're right." He replied, setting her down and grabbing her hand. "Let's go!"

The two fairly flew across the sand.

Upon reaching the beach camp, they found that Jack and Sawyer had created a signal fire that could only be described as a towering inferno.

Everywhere you looked, people were overjoyed.

Claire, Charlie and Hope were holding each other very close, while Walt lead some of the others in some sort of wild victory dance around the signal fire.

"Hey Sawyer!" Sayid called.

The Southern man, who had been about to go back in the jungle for more wood, turned around.

"I think it's big enough already."

Sawyer smiled sheepishly as he gazed at the bonfire he helped create.

"I guess we kind of got carried away…"

Just at that moment, Kate pounced on Sawyer and started kissing him.

Sayid and Alex went to stand by the water's edge, watching the progress of the boat.

"Isn't this wonderful?" Sayid whispered in her ear, putting an arm around her. "Soon, everyone will be heading back home again."

"Yeah," Alex said quietly, looking over her shoulder at the trees she had known since birth. "Home."

AN: sniff sniff Bittersweet, don't ya think? Alex has to leave her home while everyone else is going home. Look for chapter 35 soon, I swear!