Chapter 10: Recovery

"It's Wednesday," Charlie said answering Claire's question.

"Thank you," she said tickling Charles' tiny feet. "I was just wondering how much time Shannon had left."

"She's going to make it, she has to," Charlie assured her.

"I'm not so sure, she has a day left," Claire really didn't wanted Shannon to die. With Shannon around, Claire felt she was useful, now that Charles was born. "I'm going to go check on her." Claire said.

"Okay, do you want me to watch Charles, or are you going to take him?" Charlie asked.

"I going to take Charles, and you can come too," Claire had a 'come with me' expression on her face. Charlie picked up Charles and followed Claire along the path to the beach.

They were surprised that the tent was so full, until they found out that Alex was also a patient. Danielle, Lily, Boone, Sayid, Claire, Charlie and Charles crammed into the small tent. When Boone wasn't staring lovingly at Alex, he was glaring at Sayid.

"What is your baby's name?" Danielle asked.

"Charles," Claire said, petting his soft blonde hair. "Tomorrow he will be one month old."

"Really, already? Gosh we've been on this bloody island for almost two months now," Charlie said looking at Shannon, and then Claire. Claire realized that Shannon was now two months pregnant. It wasn't sowing though. Claire looked at Boone. She wanted to tell him, but Shannon asked her not too, so Claire kept her promise.

"He looks happy and healthy," Boone said.

"Yes, he does," Lily said. "May I hold him?"

"Sure," Charlie and Claire answered in unison. Lily out stretched her arms and rocked the young angel. Charles cooed and fell asleep. Jack popped his head in.

"Whoa, I didn't know there was a party going on. And I hate to be the party pooper, but I need to feed them," Jack said, shooing everyone. When Lily got up Charles woke up, pouting and crying.

"Sorry," Lily said, passing Charles back to Claire.

"He's just hungry. We'll be at the caves, in case anyone needs us," Claire and Charlie headed back to their home at the caves.

When Nadia heard the news that Shannon might not live, surprisingly she didn't want to jump for joy, she just disregarded it. She thought that she flirted with Sawyer just to get back at Sayid, but she found out that she was beginning to be attracted to him.

"So, did you like this Shannon?" Nadia asked Sawyer.

"I think that Shannon is a lot prettier in her bathing suit, when your the one in her bathing suit," Sawyer said smiling.

"Are you flirting with me?" Nadia asked him. He just kept smiling at her. "Okay, well I'm going for a swim." Nadia ran into the water. "I hope that I don't get caught in a rp tide and then need a big strong man to come and save me!" she yelled. Sawyer threw his book, tossed off his shirt and joined the iraqi woman in the cool ocean.

"So how did you and the terrorist meet?" Sawyer asked as he splashed water on her.

She giggled and said, "When we were younger, I used to push him in the mud. Then I protested against Saddam Hussein and Sayid was the one who had to torture me." she said. "It wasn't the first time I had been tortured by the army though." She showed Sawyer all of her scars.

"How could anyone torture such a beautiful woman?" Sawyer kept smiling at her.

"If you keep flirting with me, I'm going to have to flirt back," she splashed water back at him.

"Okay," Sawyer splashed her over and over, and she splashed back. Nadia turned and tried to swim away, but Sawyer grabbed her ankle and pulled her back. He gave her a soft kiss on her tan lips. She kissed him back. They got out of the water dried off and Nadia changed from Shannon's bathing suit back into her shirt and shorts. Nadia put her hair in a pony tail with a pony-tail-holder she had stolen from Shannon's duffle bag. That night, Nadia slept next to Sawyer.

In the morning the caves were very lively. Claire and Charlie were celebrating because Charles was turing one month old in about an hour. Claire tried to focus, but she kept thinking about Shannon, who only had about one day to recover. If she didn't wake up, she was going to be in the coma forever, or die.

"Charlie, I'm really worried," Claire started to cry. Charlie comforted her.

"I know she'll wake up," Charlie soothed Claire.

"Technically, her time is really closer to being up than Jack thinks. If you remember, she went into the coma in the morning," Claire said, crying more.

"Oh I remember, I was there, but she actually didn't hit the rock until twelve thirty-two," Charlie informed her.

"I still think that if she doesn't wake up in time, well I just don't know what it will be like around here without her," Claire wiped away her tears. "I guess we should just focus on Charles right now." Claire stood up and danced with Charles. Charlie joined in and they all laughed together.

Sawyer woke up before Nadia did that morning, but he waited until she woke up before he left her. "Good morning Sunshine," he smiled.

"Good morning," Nadia yawned. Nadia thought she would feel guilty because she had moved on so quickly, but she didn't she was glad she was with Sawyer and not Sayid. Suddenly, she did feel guilty, but not about moving on. "Sawyer, I need to tell you something," she said.

"What?" he asked her as he helped her up.

"I'm sort of the reason you got beat up by Kate the other day," Nadia said ashamed. It wasn't like her to break people up.

"What are you talking about? You couldn't have stopped her from punching me," he said putting his and on her chin and pulling her head up.

"I am the reason she got mad at you. I caused it," Nadia said, pulling her head away.

"Well, I never had someone like me that much," Sawyer said. He put his arm around her and they walked quietly down the soft beach. Nadia smiled, extremely glad that he wasn't angry.

The hours ticked away while Sayid, Boone, Lily and Danielle waited in the tent for Shannon and Alex to wake up. Jack came in.

"Feeding time," he said. They all left Jack alone with the two patients. Jack tried to feed Alex first, but when he put the water to her lips, she coughed and opened her eyes.

"AAAAH!" she screamed. "Who are you leave me alone!" Alex kicked Jack and he spilled the water all over Shannon. Danielle ran in.

"Alex, Alex! Calm down," she grabbed her daughter.

"Ouch!" she yelped as Danielle squeezed her arm. "Who is he?"

"That is Jack, he's a doctor," Danielle answered.

"We got rescued?" Alex was so confused.

"No, there was a plane crash, him and more survived it. They are on our side," she finished. Alex calmed.

"Oh." Alex stood up and walked with her mother out of the tent. Boone was the first to introduce himself.

"Hello my name is Boone," He held his hand out for Alex to shake.

"Hi," she said as she walked past him. Danielle and Alex sat on the beach and just talked for hours. Everyone was now huddled around the tent, the day was almost over and Shannon was still asleep. The hours ticked away and the day was lost.