Ponyboysgirl1: I know, its been too long! Don't worry. They'll be back together soon. Like in this chapter soon. lol.
LostLorenzo: Gah, now I want to see a fight. But then again, I've written about two chapters ahead, and I'm not gonna go back and screw around with a finished chapter unless I absolutly have to. Why? Because I'm lazy. lol. No, i've just been on a huge wrighting spree, and yes, the big secret twist will be comeing up so. I feel a little bad now though. There should have been more fights. Fighting is amuseing. Oh well, they have to make up for the greater good. Ha, thats an episode...lol, I know. Lame.
Hekate-Trivia: lol. Sorry about the mess ups. Like I said, with school and all it takes a while to write so I get really lazy with them. I'll try to crack down a little better, although it probly won't show for a few chapters because I've gotten pritty far ahead of myself.
Domaholic: Yes, the argument, for now, is over. But there's pleanty more good stuff to come!
Stark Wars
Honesty
Back at the caves...
Claire remained on her rock. It was dark now, Jack had left some time ago, leaving her alone. She'd been spaceing out for the last half hour, and didn't notice Charlie untill he sat down next to her. "Hey" he spoke up softly, a little nrrvous. Claire turned to him in surprise. "I'm sorry" He explained, before she could saying anything in response.
Claire could tell he meant it just by looking at him. "You shouldn't be." She replied. "Its my fault, I was the one who snapped at you" Claire added, apologeticly. Charlie smiled a little, he didn't really know what to say. Claire looked down at her lap uncomfortably. She still felt guilty. When she looked up again she saw something she haden't noticed before. There was a little dab of blood on his jaw line showing through his dark stubble.
"What happened?" She questioned, looking at him in concern. "Oh, I got into a little fight with Sawyer" He explained modestly. Claire looked surprised. "Why?" She questioned curiously. "Because you kissed him" Charlie answered simply. Claire went to explained, but Charlie cut in before she could talk. "I undersantd. You were angry. People do stupid things when they'er angry" He noted softly. Claire smiled.
"Charlie, I didn't kiss him because I was angry. I kissed him because Kate and Shannon dared me too" Claire explained, reasuringly. "Oh" He nodded, undersatding. "But, either way, I should have told you right after it happened" she added, looking away regretfully.
"Don't worry about it" He assured, laying his hand over hers. Claire looked up at him and felt a smile warm onto her face. "Come on, lets get back to the beach. I think Aaron misses you" She explained, riseing to her feet, cotenuing to hold his hand. Charlie pushed himself up and fallowed her away from the caves.
Meanwhile...
Sayid laid inside his cave, stareing up at the cealing, thinking about Shannon. He had been so cought up in his thoughts he hadn't heard her walk in. She slid into bed beside him without a word and snuggled up against him. Sayild looked down at her in confushion at first, wonder what she was doing, or why she hadn't said anything for that matter.
Then he decided that what ever she was doing was a whole lot better then haveing another argument. Alteast this way, she was there, and she wasn't yelling. Slowly, he laid back down and pulled his arms around her. A part of him was just waiting for her to lash out at him. Just seeing how far he would go without saying something.
But Shannon did no such thing. She just curled up in his arms and closed her eyes, to tired to argue. And together, they fell asleep without saying a single word.
Later...
Charlie went inside the tent while Claire went and got Aaron from Sun. He pulled off his hoodie and had already begun to change when Claire walked in, holding the sleepy little boy in her arms. Aaron's eyes brightened up when he saw Charlie and he reached out his chubby little arms and exclaimed the word "da."
Both Charlie and Claire looked at him in suprise, unsure if they had actualty heard right. "Da!" Aaron exclaimed again, kicking his feet impaitently. Charlie lifted him out of Claire's arms, smiling prounldly as he kissed Aaron on the cheek. "Wow. He's...talknig" Claire noted, in disbelif.
"I know...now he's never gonna stop" Charlie added, sarcasticly. Claire laughed as she watched Charlie sit down on the bed with Aaron in his lap, bounceing with excitement, both of them."I told you he missed you" She noted playfully, as she made her way over to the bed. "Aw, I missed you too" Charlie explained, lifting Aaron up into the air. He let out a loud giggle in response.
"Well, so much for putting him to bed" Charlie noted, watching Aaron crawl across his lap onto Claires. Claire smiled and ran her hand over his soft little hair. "You want me to try, any way?" Charlie offered, optamisticly. Claire shook her head, but yawned at the same time, a sure sign that she was exasuted. Charlie smiled and lifted Aaron off her lap, carrying him over the the crib and setting him down.
Aaron held on to the bars of his crib, keeping in a sitting position. "Ok, now lay down" Charlie instructed, brushing Aaron's long blond strands out of his face to look him in the eyes. Aaron just giggled in response and slammed his palms on the bars of his crib. Charlie sighed. "He's not a dog, Charlie" Claire noted playfully, trying not to laugh.
"I know he's not. Vincent actualy lays down when you tell him to. This one just sit here and laughes at me" Charlie explained sarcasticly. Both Aaron and Claire laughed again. "And your incurageing him" Charlie anded, pointing a finger in Claire's direction. She laughed again. Charlie rolled his eyes.
"So are all Littletons this agrivateing or is it just the two of you?" Charlie questioned, turning his attention back to Aaron but adressing him the way you'd adress a fellow man in a bar. Aaron whailed again and rolled onto his back, playing with his own feet.
"Well, at least he's laying down" Charlie noted, optamsiticly. Claire watched in amusment as Charlie thought on his next move. "Ok...now, sleep" He instructed, putting his hand over Aarons eyes. Aaron didn't respond much, he just put his little hands on top of Charlie's and began playing with his rings.
"Or not" Charlie gave in with a shrug. Claire laughed again. "You think this is funny?" He questioned, shooting her a look. Claire nodded, trying to hold in her laughter. Charlie went to move forward, but was jerked back by his hand, witch Aaron was useing most of his body to hold on to. "Can I have that back now?" Charlie questioned, adressing the child once again.
Aaron looked up at him with wide, innoncent eyes and gave a big cheesy smile before finaly relaeasing Charlie's hand. "Thank you" Charlie replined sarcasticly. "Now...sleep!" He instructed again. Aaron gave him a blank expreshion and blinked. Claire laughed again.
"Alright, thats it" Charlie muttered, turning to her in flustrationed. Claire conteunied to laugh as he walked over to the bed and playfully pushed her onto her back before burrying his face into her neck, makeing any her laughter turn into moans with in seconds. She closed her eyes, openly enjoying haveing her Charlie back.
After a moment, Charlie sat back up abrubptly, a little out of breath. Claire looked up at him in confushion, wondering why he had stopped. "There's something I have to tell you" He explained, looking down at his lap. A worried look came across Claire's face as she waited for him to contenuie.
"I love you" He explained, a warm smile across his face. Claire rolled her eyes playfully, though she did feel very releived. "Ok, now you say it back..." He instucted, playfully. "Ok...I love you" Claire replied with a sigh as if she didn't want to say it. Charlie smiled, satisfied. "Good, now, where were we?" he questioned, before bending his head to kiss her once again.
For Charlie it turned out well.He didn't want to fight. Just a day without her was way to much for him to handle. Without Claire, he was like puzzle peices, spread out all over the place, makeing no sense what so ever. Claire was the hands that put him together and kept him that way. The last thing he wanted was to fall apart again.
The End
For Now
Alright, kids, there you have it! A happy ending for alteast one of our couples! You'll probly be seing alot of the Jack, Kate, Sawyer triangles up in these next chapters as well as Shannon and Sayid. So theres something to look forward to. But the big secret is still a little while away! Sorry to keep you waiting, well, actualy, I'm not. Because I'm evil and Its for me to know and you to find out, so there.