Chapter 12: The secret's out
Shannon woke up the next morning, more pissed than ever. "Where is that bitch Claire?" Shannon asked Sayid who had been watching her all night, in case she woke up and wanted to strike again. Sayid pounced on her, pinned her down and Claire came out from behind a tree.
"I just want you to know, I didn't tell him anything," Claire said.
"Yeah, right then why did he ask me?" Shannon glared at Claire, and fought Sayid trying to get up.
"I had a dream that you woke up from your coma and told me that you were pregnant. So I wanted to know if it was true and now I know that it is," Sayid let her go, and she didn't attack Claire. "I still need to know, is Boone the father?"
"Yes," she said.
"I would like to call you a perverted slut, but I don't want to cause your baby to die," Sayid said he stood up and left the beach. Shannon examined Claire's bandages.
"What happened to you?" she asked.
"You attacked me, remember?" Claire answered, sitting down with Shannon.
"I did that? Wow, I'm awesome," Shannon said. Shannon looked out over the sea, and as if something overcame her, she fell backwards.
"Shannon, are you all right?" Claire poked Shannon in the side. She woke up with a start.
"Where am I?" she screamed. She seemed to have just lost her mind. "Where's my baby, they took her, and killed Alex, poor Alex."
"Shannon?" Claire stood up and began to back away.
"Did someone call me?" Alex came over just after Claire had back away about five yards. Shannon saw Alex.
"Oh my god! I'm dead! But I'm still on the island? What the hell is going on!" Shannon started having a spaz attack. She was rolling on the sand and babbling.
"Shannon? Um we need some help over here!" Alex called. As Alex got closer, Claire backed away farther. "Go get someone!"
"Right!" Claire ran off.
"Get away from me dead girl! AAAAH!" Shannon got up and rammed into Alex as hard as she could, knocking her down.
"OUCH!" Alex screamed. Shannon pounced on her, just as she had pounced on Claire the night before. "HELP!" Alex screamed at the top of her lungs. She was bleeding all over. Shannon smacked her in the shoulder. "AAAAH! AAAAH!" Alex was yelping in pain.
"You are dead you can't feel anything!' Shannon yelled as she darted off through the jungle.
"Don't let her off on her own!" Alex yelled, then from all the blood loss, she fainted.
Claire had gotten Jack and Sayid, but when they got to the scene of the crime Shannon was gone and Alex appeared to be dead.
"We have to find Shannon! She must have run into the jungle! Come on she could hurt herself or the baby!" Sayid ran into the jungle in search of Shannon.
"BABY?" Boone heard Sayid talking outside the tent when he woke up.
"I would go too, but I have to take care of Alex," Jack said. "Will you organize a search party for Shannon?" he asked Claire.
"What did Shannon do to Alex!" Boone yelled.
"Personally. I don't want that scary bitch to be found, but sure," Claire ran across the beach in search of anyone who would be willing to find Shannon. She rounded up Locke, Michael, Jin, Kate, and Sun. Sun only came to translate for Jin.
Charlie and Claire stayed behind to keep Danielle and Lily company. Also they stayed behind to take care of Charles and watch Walt. Nadia and Sawyer were too busy making out to be disturbed, so they stayed too.
"Did that crazy girl attack my daughter?" Danielle grabbed a gun as she asked Claire.
"Yes, but she's gone now," Danielle jumped up and sat down again.
"Oh," she said. Claire's eyes widened, she was trying to make more clothes for Charles, while Charlie cleaned more towels and Lily played with the Charles.
Sayid met the search party in the forest. They trekked thorough the large, green jungle all day. It wasn't until the afternoon that they finally picked up Shannon's trail. And still they followed it all afternoon. They finally found Shannon, it was a horrible sight. Sun had turned away to throw up. Sayid had run up to her.
"Shannon! What are you doing!" Sayid asked lowering her from the string she had tried to hang herself with. She was unconscious again.
"I need to know how long she had been hanging!" Jack asked, after they had brought her back. "Just put her back in the tent." Sayid didn't feel obligated to look after her anymore, and he didn't have to because Boone was in there, even though he was in the tent for Alex, and because he was a patient himself.
Boone had planned to spill all his true feelings to Alex, in case she was attacked again, or even killed. Alex did eventually open her eyes. Boone decided it would be easier to show her how he felt rather than tell her so when she woke up, he kissed her.
"Wow, you like me back I guess," she smiled at him. Boone and Alex helped each other sit up and get out of the tent and away from Shannon. Alex had twice as many bandages than Claire did. Boone had one huge one. Sawyer saw the couple limp by.
"Damn! If there is a contest for the most bandaged person, I'm losing!" Sawyer said. Nadia laughed and jumped on him.
"Jeez, they never stop!" Boone said. He and Alex tried to laugh, but it hurt too much. They sat on the beach and watched the sun set over the horizon, then they both drifted off to sleep.
