Author's Note: Ok, I'm back and I have decided that I will finally finish the story. I've got most of the ideas already written but it's just that I have been too lazy in typing it up. So ok…here we go! Mind you, my stories were basically all written during the first to mid half of Lost so it is basically all old news. Any way, I finally saw the ad for the second season of Lost on TV the other day! I'm so excited! Although I have been bad and read the script…
My biggest shock about the second season is that they killed Shannon. Just how can they be so cruel to Sayid? I was deeply shocked when I read that transcript.
To continue the story, basically the two kidnapped children were found and they were taken back by Sawyer and Charlie, and Sayid went with Danielle to find Alex.
At the first audible howl of Aaron Claire ran up to Charlie and clung onto them both tightly. Pretty soon every one was crowding around the threesome, congratulations was given, consolations were distributed too.
No one noticed the retreating figure of Sawyer with Esther quietly asleep in his hand. No one noticed the sneer that curled around his lips as he hid into the shadows even more, isolating himself from the crowd.
Just when he thought that there was no one he saw her.
"Why are you angry, Sawyer?" Minta asked softly as she took her daughter from him. "And where is my husband?"
"Sayid is safe, there ain't any need to worry about him." Sawyer's gentle tone quickly hardened with anger as he looked at the crowd again. "Why do they praise him as if he was the hero? Sayid had been the one that tracked Danielle down, Sayid was the one who took the children from Danielle. Charlie and I were the ones who slowed him down by needing to rest. Yet none of them even asked anything about Sayid, they just went to congratulate Charlie.
"Seems to me that Sayid made all these sacrifices and no one is even acknowledging his pains. First he had to force himself to be calm and was accused of not loving his daughter because of it. Now he is on a mad hunt for some girl that probably died years ago and are any of these people concerned for him?"
Minta's reaction surprised Sawyer, he expected her to be angered on her husband's part but she only said this simply.
"His whole life had been like that, Sawyer."
Meanwhile, Danielle and Sayid were approaching the very centre of the jungle. For this hunt they had no hint of tracks or hints but Danielle's instinct.
"How did it all happen, Danielle? How did you lose Alex?"
As always, pain lit up on the Frenchwoman's face as she thought of her lost daughter.
"When we came onto the island Alex was already seven years old." She began sadly. "Robert and I…the team actually got together many years ago. Robert is…was English."
"He's not French?" Sayid asked curiously.
"I said Robert, not Roberr." Danielle reminded him, giving the French pronunciation after the English version. "Robert was English so my daughter was bilingual. Because of this we brought her along with us, as she could understand what we were saying the whole time.
"You know how we found the pendant and how I ran away. John Locke tried to caught me and upon discovering where I was he sent Robert after me. As a bribe or as a threat. You know what I did do him, during this time I was caught and brought back to the ship.
"For a whole day I was chained up and then that…these bastards!" Danielle cursed angrily, planting her rifle in the soil due to her anger. "They tied up my Alex and told her that they would harm her if I do not tell them.
"I couldn't tell them…but I can't let them kill my Alex either…"
"So you sank the ship and risked killing your own daughter." Sayid ended for her. "Danielle, I can understand why you refused to solve the riddle of the pendant but why did you not try to take Alex with you?"
"Because I did not thought that I would live." This was said very bitterly. "Because I drowned the whole ship with the intention of dying myself. When I woke up I was on the island."
"Then tell me why you think Alex is alive despite all this. And why do you think you can find her this time when you have failed to do so for sixteen years?" Sayid said very bluntly. "
"Because my heart says so." Danielle said in an equal blunt tone. "And because the pendant is finally destroyed. Sometimes I think that was the reason I could not find Alex, it was a punishment because I was not strong enough to resist temptation."
Author's Note:
This is a pretty short chapter, I guess it's just abit of a coming back since I haven't been writing this for ages. It's kind of a link for me I guess, between what had happened since I haven't been doing my Lost fan fics for quite sometime.
Yes, Alex is way older but I had wanted to make her the same age as Minta for reasons. As I said before, most of this was written before I even found out whether Alex was a girl or a boy, but somehow, when I first watched solitary I just thought that Alex was a girl. However, Sawyer's whole speech is a newly added bit after I watch the season finale. Because I truly do feel that is was really unfair to Sayid when most people crowded around Charlie who had Aaron and congratulated him when I thought Sayid was the true hero. Without him I don't think they could have brought Aaron back!
By the way, the mystery of the pendant/hatch was explained in my last story, as well as the whole thing with Danielle and Locke, so for those who find everything a bit hazy you might want to reread it.