Chapter 6: Liar, Liar

Claire had been having trouble taking care of Charles lately, for she kept thinking of Charlie. Maybe he did have a reason, and how ever crazy it was, she wanted to hear it. Claire tried to put Charles to sleep, tried to feed him, she checked his diaper, but she knew he wanted one thing, to see his daddy. So Claire brought Charles with her to see Charlie.

"Claire?" Charlie expected she never wanted to see him again.

"He wanted to see you," Claire handed Charles to Charlie. Immediately, Charles' face lit up, and he smiled. "He's trying to bring us back together."

"I can't be with you, not here," Charlie didn't want to talk about their break up and hurt Claire again, but Claire did.

"I just want to know the reason, no matter how crazy it is," Claire said to him.

"You won't believe me," he answered.

"Maybe not, but i still need to hear it," Claire and Charlie stared at each other. Claire was not going to leave him alone, until he told her why.

"Okay, I had this dream, Sayid had the dream too, so why don't you ask him," Charlie urged Claire on.

"But I'm already asking you," Claire said, her face stern.

"All right. I dreamed that you were talking with Jason, about the wedding, and he abducted you. Then later he killed you," Charlie refused to look at Claire's expression.

"Oh," Claire took Charles, forcing Charlie to look at her. "Okay we won't get married yet. Charlie I love you, why couldn't you have just told me?"

"I thought you would think it was a crazy excuse," Charlie blushed.

"I'm sorry I left you," Claire put Charles in the gym that she had left at the caves, then she hugged Charlie. She practically jumped on him, so they both flew back and splashed into the pool of water behind them. Claire kissed him, and as usual, Charles giggled at them.

"Sayid! Sayid!" Jack called running through the trees, to the caves. Sayid was startled. He met Jack by the stream.

"What is it?" he asked.

"It's Shannon!" Jack panted.

"Don't you think you should be yelling for Boone?" Sayid asked, as he saw Nadia peek her head out of the cave.

"Oh well I thought you might want to know that... she stopped breathing," Jack said, still trying to catch his breath.

"Why is this good, she could be dead!" Sayid ran to the beach with Jack hot on his heels.

"Wait! This is good because her inhaler could save her!" Jack yelled. Sayid ignored him and kept running until he was at Shannon's tent.

"Hold on, what did you say?" Sayid asked Jack as he came into the tent too.

"I said, the her inhaler could save her, well keep her breathing," Jack said. "But I don't know where it is, do you?"

"Yes!" Sayid darted out of the tent and ran to the towel that Shannon always lounged on. He grabbed a small duffle bag close by it, and ran back to the tent. Sayid zipped open the top pocket and pulled out the small medicine container. "Here." Sayid tossed it to Jack.

"Thanks," Jack said. He put the inhaler into Shannon's mouth and pressed the button. Then he pulled it out and gave her water, to make sure that she took it. Shannon did nothing. Jack repeated this until...

"UHH!" Shannon breathed in deep and she continued to breathe on her own.

"You saved her! Thank you so much!" Sayid hugged Jack.

"Um, okay. Thanks. I guess," Jack patted Sayid's back. Nadia came into the tent.

"Sun shoed me the way here and," Nadia paused. Jack sat dazed, waiting for her to continue. She looked to the side.

"Oh, right." Jack exited he tent leaving Sayid with Nadia.

"I heard what you said," Nadia seemed depressed. "You love her don't you?"

"No," Sayid said beckoning her to come over to him.

"Don't lie to me! That's why you didn't tell me you loved me last night!" Nadia began to cry. "I wish I had never found you here!"

"Please don't be mad that I didn't say 'I love you', I just haven't seen you in two months!" Sayid pleaded that she not be mad, but this time she was only mad that he lied to her. Nadia ran out of the tent in tears. She stopped. She saw Shannon's duffle bag outside the tent. She picked it up.

"Bitch," she whispered to her self. Nadia took Shannon's bag and found a private area of the beach. Nadia invaded the bag, searching for anything to destroy. She found a bathing suit, and razor, a makeup bag, and a book. It was Shannon's diary. Nadia cracked it open.

Dear Diary,

I think I'm falling in love with the most amazing guy. He's not the perfect guy, but he is nice. My jackass brother is trying to break us up. I HATE Boone! I wish he could just leave Sayid and I alone!

Nadia finished the first entry and moved onto the second.

Dear Diary,

Sayid and I are definitely growing closer. We've been spending a lot of time together, and we even went on a "date." If he wasn't nice I would hate him, because to my personal opinion, he's not very sexy. He told me that he didn't care what Boone did to try and separate us.

Nadia began to cry again. Sayid had told her that Shannon and him weren't together. She moved on the the next diary entry.

Dear Diary,

He gave me the hottest present today! Purple high heels! The only part that was weird was that he told me he found them in the wreck, that makes me think that he pulled them off a dead woman! I thought it was sweet though.

Nadia laughed, hoping he had given her shoes he pulled off some lady. Nadia turned the page again and read the last entry.

Dear Diary,

Sayid and I sat by the fire last night and just talked. It was nice. Especially when he kissed me!

Nadia slammed the book shut and balled. She was extremely hurt, she wanted to get back at Sayid somehow, but she didn't know how. She looked back at Shannon's bag and saw the bikini. She smirked and looked around. Then she saw Sawyer.