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Chapter 5-Silly Excuses

Jack's Perspective

At this point, Jack actually wished that Sawyer would wake up so that it would get rid of the awkward silence between Kate and himself. He was looking for excuses to leave the room. All of them were stupid though.

His mental list of excuses were:

1. Oh I need to go check on the button. Reason why it wouldn't work- He just pressed it a little bit ago and there was at least a hour left.

2. I need to see if anyone is here. Reason why it wouldn't work: They would hear if someone came in.

3. I am going to go put some music on. Reason why it wouldn't work: How stupid is that? What else needs to be said?

As Jack busied himself with stupid reasons to leave, he was jerked out of his thoughts by the door opening. Kate and Jack looked up. They saw Claire coming through the door.

"Hi Claire, What do you need?" Jack asked, thankful for the break from the silence.

"Well it isn't urgent but I am concerned about Aaron." Claire said.

"Well let's go in the other room and talk." Jack said while getting up and walking towards the hallway.

"Well I am fine with everyone else listening." Claire said, looking at Jack strangely.

"It's not personal and actually I would value Kate's opinion."

" Well you can talk to Kate later." Jack said.

"Well ok…" Claire said. She mouthed to Kate, What's with him?

Kate shrugged and then said, "What about Sawyer, Jack?"

Jack rolled his eyes. "Call me if he wakes up."

Charlie and Ana walked in.

"Where's Claire?" Charlie said and Ana said at the same time, "Where's Jack?"

"Claire and Jack are in the other room talking." Kate said, avoiding Ana's glare.

Ana took Jack's seat and pulled it closer to Sawyer.

Kate scooted closer to Sawyer.

Ana moved closer too.

They both did this until they couldn't get any closer. Then they just stared at each other.

Charlie had no idea what to do so he said, "I'm going to go check on the button." And left.

Ana and Kate ignored him and just continued glaring at each other.

Scene switches to Jack and Claire

Jack sat on the couch and motioned for Claire to sit next to him. Claire did so.

"So what's up Claire?" Jack asked.

"Well, You know how Aaron is almost a year old?" At this she paused and Jack nodded his head. "Well shouldn't he be growing or changing in the least bit? Maybe it is just me or something but you would think his own mother would notice him changing" Claire said.

They heard footsteps and then they saw Charlie come though the hallway.

"Hey guys. Are you talking about Aaron? Can I join you? You don't want to be in that room right now." At this Charlie shook his head in disbelief.

"Yes Charlie actually I want to you to be with me. Is that ok Jack? " Claire asked.

"Yes of course." Jack said.

"Well then why couldn't have we just gone in there with them?" Claire asked.

"Um…" Jack struggled to find a answer. He really didn't want to say it was because he wanted to get away from Kate. But he wasn't sure what else he should say.

"I jus thought it would be better for Sawyer if there wasn't as much people in there." Jack said.

Well that was a good answer. Jack was rather proud of himself.

"Oh well that makes sense." Claire said

Charlie came and sat on the armrest of the couch next to Claire.

"Jack after we talk about Aaron we want to tell you something else." Charlie said, smiling.

Claire looked up at Charlie and said to him," Are you sure you want to tell him?"

"Yes of course."

Jack had no idea what they were talking about. Of course he was thinking more about what was happening in the other room with Kate and Ana.

"Well go ahead and tell me about Aaron. You said something about worrying about him not growing. Now tell me more details," Jack said.

"Well, I just don't see any change in him.. What do you think? Could you give me any reason for this?" Claire said.

"Well," at this he took Aaron from Claire and looked at him. " That is tough. There could be a number of reasons." He knew a lot of reasons but they were all bad reasons and he didn't want to panic Claire. He just decided to be up front and honest with her.

"He could have a disease that prevents him from growing as fast as other people. He also could be under nourished from the food here on the island. You have only been feeding him your milk right?" Claire nodded and Jack continued. Almost being a year old, at this point you would give him baby food. Seeing we don't have any of that, it is very hard. Now I could look around in the hatch and see if there was anything I could use, but I don't think that there would be any. I would say we could ask Danielle but her daughter was taken from her shortly after she was born."

"So that is your only solution? Claire asked.

"Well yes, from a doctor's perspective." Jack said.

" What about that whole week I was with the Others? What if they did something to me while I was there that caused the baby to be hurt?" Claire asked.

All of the sudden, they heard something crash in the other room where Sawyer, Kate and Ana were.

"Should we go check what is going on in there?" Claire asked.

"I don't think so. Just leave them alone. They are grown adults. They wouldn't do anything stupid." Jack said, actually, he was a little concerned but didn't really want to deal with them right now.

"Well they were looking at each other pretty meanly when I left. I think someone should check on them." Charlie said.

"Oh no they are fine. Anyways, yes you have a point Claire. Unfortunately I don't know for sure of anything so I can't do anything and you can't do anything until either you remember or we talk to the Others again and my preference would be for you to regain your memory. " Jack said, talking in his doctor voice.

"Well is there any way for me to regain my memory faster?" Claire asked.

"Not really. You could talk to Libby or walk back to the place where you were first caught and have Charlie go with you to see if he can remember anything too. Also I will look for some way to make baby food. You might want to talk to Sun about that."

"Thanks Jack." Claire said, taking Aaron back.

"Before we leave, we want to tell you something that you can't tell anyone else. Only Locke knows cause he helped me make the ring. Ok I asked Claire to marry me.—" Charlie was interrupted by Jack congratulating them.

"Thank you. Well since we don't have an official pastor on here, well except for Eko but we would much rather have a better friend do it. We would like to have you officiate the wedding Jack!" Charlie said.

Jack was stunned and honored.

"Wow. Thank you for asking me. Of course I will!" Jack couldn't believe it. Why did people want him to do all these things? Everyone wanted him to lead the funerals too. He wasn't a very good public speaker so it was very weird having people ask him this stuff. As he was pondering this, they suddenly heard shouting coming from the other room. They all looked at each other and dashed to the other room to see what was happening.

A/N: So…. Please review! Coming up, three words, Kate/Ana/Catfight. Are you ready?