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What Has Gotten Into Him?

"Charlie!" Kate screamed when she saw the unconscious man lying beside the open door to the hatch. She bent down and tried shaking him, mumbling "Omigod omigod…" as she tried to wake him up.

Kate realized that he must have been leaning on the exit door to the hatch when she swung it open. "But what the hell is he doing all the way out here alone?" She said to herself.

Remembering the counter inside, Kate began to panic. She needed to get Sayid, but couldn't leave an unconscious Charlie out here alone.

Kate ripped a part of her sleeve off and pressed it against Charlie's wound.

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Sayid was going through the jungle, wondering where on earth Charlie had gone to, when he heard a muffled scream. As he moved towards where he guessed it was coming from, it became louder and clearer.

"Kate?" Sayid stopped abruptly when he stumbled into the clearing, taking in the whole scene.

Charlie lying on the ground, head bleeding…(although it didn't look to too bad), the big iron door left open, revealing a dark staircase, Kate looking up at him thankfully, and, his eyes scanned what was in front of him, a broken statue on a rock with…

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Kate couldn't believe her luck! It was almost uncanny how quickly it had come, but she had no time to worry about that.

"Sayid, listen to me." She said hurriedly.

"Jack is down there with Lock and another man. There's no time to explain, but you have to go down there and help them fix a computer before a timer runs out. This is very important!"

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Sayid looked once more, disbelievingly at the broken statue laying next to Charlie's feat, and nodded, disappearing behind the door.

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Sun rushed over to Aaron's crib when she heard him start to fuss. Not wanting Claire to wake up, she tried her best to calm the baby down, but only resulted in making him cry even harder.

Sun sighed when Claire woke up with a start. She thanked the Korean woman and took Aaron into her arms, slowly calming him down.

Claire looked at the empty space beside her and asked the inevitable question. "Where is Charlie?"

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Kate shut the door after Sayid, and bent down to gather Charlie's things up.

She collected the items that had spilled out of his pack and was about to zip it up again when she spotted something lying at his feet. She hadn't noticed this before so she leaned towards it to get a closer look, and gasped at what she saw.

Kate started to back away slowly, and looked at Charlie. Did anyone else know about this? Jack? Claire?

Deciding now was not the time to think about that, Kate hoisted Charlie up on her shoulders, glad he wasn't too heavy.

She settled him on her back like she was giving him a piggy back ride, grabbed his bag, and started off towards the camp, leaving the broken statue behind.

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Hurley slowly opened his eyes and groaned. He had been having the awsomest dream… Noticing he was the second last one awake (Beat only by Shannon), Hurley got to his feet and rubbed his eyes.

He walked over to Sun, who was talking to a distraught Claire.

"Hey," he said, waiting until she looked up. "D'you think we should uhh… go look for Jack, Lock and Kate…or something? He asked nervously.

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Charlie woke up with a scream, thrashing at Kate and making her drop him. He moaned as his hand shot up to his head.

Charlie swore, squinting up at the person standing above him.

"Sorry Charlie! I didn't mean to drop you, I was just bringing you back to camp, uhh there was sort of an accident." She said awkwardly.

Charlie merely rubbed his eye. "Kate?" He asked, confused.

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"No." Sun said firmly. "We don't want anyone else to disappear." Hurley raised an eyebrow, but said nothing.

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"Are you okay to walk Charlie?" Kate asked, not meeting his eyes.

"Uhhh yeah no problem…" Charlie replied, standing up quickly to show that he was fine, and stumbling from the sudden head rush.

"Okay good." Kate said, quickly telling Charlie everything so he could inform the others of what happened.

Charlie just gaped at her. "Bloody hell…" Was all he could say.

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Claire looked from Sun to Hurley and closed her eyes, trying to be patient.

She was about to get up and do something, anything to find Charlie again, when he walked into the camp.

She gave a yell, accidentally drawing the attention of onlookers.

Claire rushed over to him and saw that he had yet another gash on his forehead, although not nearly as bad as the first.

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When Shannon heard Claire yell, she sat up groggily, and staggered over to the crowd.

Wondering what was going on, she pushed past a couple people to find everyone surrounding Charlie, who was speaking quickly.

"And the bloody thing swung open, hit me from behind andI smashed my head on a rock," He pointed to his cut, "WhenIwoke up,Kate explained that Sayid had been following me, and she had sent him down the stairs…"

Sayid's where? Shannon thought desperately, not listening to the rest of Charlie's explanation.

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Everyone breathed a sigh of relief simultaneously after Charlie stopped talking.

Jack, Kate, and Lock were okay, and apparently Charlie was right, either there were no others, or they just weren't coming… yet…

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Once people began to get back to their duties, Charlie wandered away to go sit by himself and have some "alone" time.

Deciding not to go far, so as not to worry Claire, he sat himself down in the corner around the back of one of the caves. He leaned up against a tree, and ripped open his pack.

Charlie's eyes began to grow wide as he stared inside, realizing what was missing.

"Dude… you okay? Yah look a bit… peaky…" Hurley said, suddenly walking up around the side from behind a tree.

"Wha? Uh oh, yah I'm fine Hurl… I just need to… I'll be right back kay?" Charlie answered, surprisingly annoyed with his friend.

"Haha, no way man, you're not goin alone in there again!" Hurley replied, gesturing towards the jungle.

An unexpected anger began to boil up inside Charlie.

"I'll do whatever I bloody feel like Hurley!" He shouted, surprising himself and standing up, although still not quite comparing to the massiveness that was Hurley.

Hurley looked taken aback. "Dude…" He said, "It's just not safe okay!"

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Thankfully, he had managed to fix the computer, and they had pushed the button… for some reason. But the man Jack spoke of had run off, not leaving much more information than a dusty video, that didn't explain much.

Now that all the confusion and panic was over, Sayid glanced at Kate, wondering if she had seen the statue as well.

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Charlie stormed back to the camp, leaving a flabbergasted Hurley rooted to the spot.

Although he controlled himself and didn't run off into the jungle again, Charlie was on the verge of panic.

Not wanting to remain in the caves in the shameful presence of Claire, Charlie shuffled towards her.

Avoiding meeting her eyes, he told her that he was going to go check the beaches out.

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Claire didn't want Charlie to leave again, so she offered to accompany him, saying that someone else could keep a watch over Aaron.

Claire looked into Charlie's eyes, which were flickering around the caves, looking at anything other then her.

"Uhh… that's okay, I think I just wanna be alone for awhile…" He said, trying to sound cheerful.

Claire watched him as he walked off nervously, glancing back at her once, but quickly turning around and continuing on. What has gotten into him? She thought.

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"Kate" Sayid said in his thick accent.

"You saw it too?" She asked, referring to the drugs that were still lying on the ground by the door.

"Yes" Sayid answered, "And I think we should go show Jack, and ask if he knows anything about this." Kate nodded and glanced at the doctor, who was arguing with Lock.

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Charlie left the caves in the direction of the beaches, waited until nothing could be seen or heard, and doubled back in the direction of the door.

He kept looking behind his shoulder, afraid he would be followed, but thankfully he didn't run into any problems.

Suddenly, Charlie stopped walking. He didn't remember this place at all! He wasn't even sure if this was the the right way!

"God dammit!" Charlie yelled, kicking a stump in front of him and stubbing his toe. Charlie threw himself down on the ground and put his head in his hands, frustration taking over his shaking body.

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Kate and Sayid lead a confused Jack up to the exit. Kate spun the large wheel on the door around and it swung open, allowing the soft morning light to pour in.

Jack looked at each of them suspiciously before stepping outside. He glanced around, than looked back at Kate, wondering what he was supposed to do with this.

Without saying a word, she pointed at the broken pieces of the statue lying on the ground, with the little baggies scattered around.

"It was in Charlie's pack." Sayid explained. "He must have taken it when we came across Boone's plane while searching for the baby…"

"Did you know anything about this?" Kate cut in. Jack was still staring at the ground.

"He kicked the drugs in our first week here… I guess I had just forgotten about it though…" Jack mumbled quietly.

"Listen, you can't tell anyone about this understand?" He asked.

Sayid and Kate nodded, although they were still quite shocked, they had been hoping there was another explanation.

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Hurley marched into the camp and up to Claire. "Dude…" He said, "Do you know what's up with Charlie? Cause he just kinda went crazy on me... cause I said he shouldn't go alone into the jungle."

Claire looked up at him briefly. She was trying to calm Aaron down and didn't need this right now.

"No, I don't know what's up with Charlie!" She said impatiently. "He left to go check out the beaches and he said he wanted to be left alone." Claire said, almost on the verge of tears.

Aww crap… Hurley thought. He Started towards the beach, but faltered. Maybe it's best to stay here until Jack gets back…

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Charlie crawled to his knees and looked around him. He had to go get his drugs before someone else found them.

He gulped, unable to swallow the lump in his throat. Kate or Sayid must have already seen them.

Massive trees surrounded him everywhere, making it look impossible to continue on. Charlie looked behind him, and stood up,turning around slowly. Where had he entered this grove?

There was a wall of thick trees and branches blocking the way in every direction!

"I think I'm lost…" Charlie muttered to himself before falling to his knees again.

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