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Jack woke slowly and opened his eyes. He could tell it was getting to late afternoon. Michael was sleeping peacefully next to him. The doctor stood and stretched. He wanted to go and check on Charlie, he had been asleep for a while. After a long drink of water he went back to the area where Charlie was. Suddenly he froze; the bed empty.
"Kate!" Jack shouted, "Kate?" he turned and looked to the rest of the cave to see the young girl running to her. She slowed as she noticed the empty bed.
"Oh my God" she stopped a yard to two from Jack. His face was red with anger. Kate had not seen him like this before.
"Where is he?" the doctor looked around the caves as Claire appeared and headed in there direction.
"What's going on?" she looked bleary eyed at Kate and then Jack.
"Charlie's gone walkabout" Jack exhaled loudly. He walked past the two women and grabbed a nearby water bottle and began to prepare to leave.
"I'm coming" Kate cried following Jack as he picked up several items from the infirmary.
"I think you should" Jack said angrily, "I think you've caused enough problems already" Kate could feel Jack's anger in his voice. She had really messed up this time.
"Tell Claire to go back to bed for a while" Jack turned to look at Kate in the eye, his brow was furrowed and his face stern. "hopefully he hasn't got far"
Kate disappeared to see to Claire and Jack packed his items into a rucksack. Kate suddenly ran back in.
"Claire's gone" she exclaimed. Jack looked up.
"It's gets worse!" he shouted.
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Charlie stumbled slowly from tree to tree, trying to keep his balance, His head was sore but he ignored the pains he had and continued. He had to get Claire's baby back. He stumbled over a tree root and fell into a tree trunk banging his head.
"Bollocks" he rubbed his head and pulled off the bandage Jack had put on it. It was stained red with fresh blood from his old wound.
"Damn it" he shouted as much as his voice would allow. He dropped the bandage to the floor and stumbled forward. He wasn't going to let a drop of blood stop him from finding Claire's baby. After a few minutes he began to suddenly tire, his head felt light and dizzy. He lent on a tree for support and almost fell. The ground was spinning and the plants around him felt like just a green mass. He continued forward only to trip. He tried to regain balance, but fell head first into the undergrowth letting out a small exhale as he felt the pain from his stomach spread.
Two hands suddenly grabbed his shoulders and spun him onto his back. "Hello Charlie Boy" the sinister voice met his ears. Charlie didn't open his eyes to see who it was.
"Ethan's told me about you!" the voice laughed, "It seems your some miracle boy" A hand clamped over his neck but Charlie didn't struggle.
"Well no miracle is gunna happen today" the voice continued. Charlie heard a small click by his left ear and cold metal being pushed into his skull.
"Your hero doctor isn't here to save you this time" the metal was pressed further into his skin, his head was thumping and the pain in his stomach was getting worse by the second.
Distantly he suddenly heard his name called, he could make out leaves being disturbed, someone running, and calling his name. A gun fired suddenly, Charlie coward to the ground there was silence, a second shot came and the figure on Charlie collapsed onto his frozen body. There was silence again. Charlie struggled to listen and tried to breath, the pain was worse than ever now. He tried to call out but failed. The pain was too much, he inhaled sharply and lost consciousness.
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"We're close" Jack stooped low and retrieved the bandage Charlie had discarded not long before. Jack looked closely at the bandage to see fresh blood on it. Kate was behind him looking forward, there was a figure ahead. It was Claire.
"Charlie" she shouted and ran forward, she didn't know Kate had spotted her as she disappeared off into the undergrowth. Kate sprinted in her direction with Jack in close pursuit. She had disappeared from view but Kate could still hear her in the distance. She was shouting Charlie's name over and over.
"Claire" Jack called out as she came into view ahead.
There was a gunshot and Kate and Jack came to an abrupt stop. Claire had disappeared from view. Kate ran forward to find her body laying face down. Jack was by her side straight away, checking for a pulse, he found none.
Kate suddenly noticed a man a few yards ahead, he was bent over something on the ground, a pistol pointing towards it and finger tightly grasping the trigger, ready to fire.
Kate shouted, although Jack could not make out what. A gun fired and the man collapsed forward. Jack looked up to see Kate perfectly still, a silver pistol still calmly pointing in her hand.
"Kate?" Jack looked stunned but Kate ignored him and ran to the man she had shot pushing him to one side to revile Charlie, unconscious but alive.
"What?" Jack was speechless at the scene before him. Claire's body lay in front of him, the doctor couldn't do CPR, it was too late.
"Jack?" Kate beckoned the man over to her, "I think we found him" Jack looked over Kate's shoulder to see Charlie's unconscious form lying still in the leaves.
"I think we found both" Jack said soberly, "One's just been more lucky than the other" Tears were welling in his eyes.
"If only I hadn't gone to sleep" he cried, "None of this would have happened"