Chapter 15: Epilogue: What happens next?

Though they didn't want to, both Sayid and Charlie had to do what they thought was right.

"Claire, I need to tell you something," Charlie was very serious on the outside, but inside he just wanted to cry and laugh about this all at the same time. "I don't want to marry you, I mean I do, just not here. Because I do love you, just not here. I mean I do love you here, but I can't marry you here," Charlie struggled for the correct words, but in the end he realized no words were the right ones.

"Oh, so you love me just not enough to get married, I mean you want to get married you just don't love me enough to not care about our wedding, but about me!" Claire wanted to cry, but for some reason this didn't come as a shock.

"The reason I'm doing this is because I do care about you! You just don't understand," Charlie said, he tried not to make her hate me, but there was no way he couldn't.

"Then help me understand why your dumping me!" Claire was filled more with anger than sadness.

"I can't," Charlie looked away from her. His eyes were watering.

"Because there is no reason! You don't want to take responsibility for something that's not yours!" Claire was looking at Charles.

"No that's not it! I love Charles," Charlie's eyes watered even more as one tear escaped.

"Then what is it Charlie!" Claire stood up and stared down upon him.

"I just can't tell you," another tear escaped his eyes. He could see she didn't care about the fact that he was leaving her, but the reason why.

"Then you have no explanation as far as I'm concerned, which is why Charles and I are moving to the beach. Don't follow us!" Claire picked up Charles and headed through the trees to the beach.

Sayid was still waiting for her to wake up, but Shannon was almost equivalent to dead. He tried to memorize all the questions he could ask her, without making himself angry.

"Sayid, don't waste away watching her, she may never wake up," Jack came inside and sat down on the tent floor.

"I know. But there are so many things I need to know from her," Sayid kept staring at Shannon's motionless body. "She has to wake up!"

"But we need you to help us work around here. You're one of the strongest people on the pile of dirt spat in the middle of the ocean," Jack tried hard to encourage Sayid to leave Shannon's tent. But Sayid refused.

"I need these answers as soon as possible," Sayid said, finally looking away from Shannon.

"But she's not waking up anytime soon," Jack kept on going, for he wasn't going to leave that tent without Sayid. "Sayid, she might already dead." This for some reason came as a humongous shock to Sayid.

"She could be dead," Sayid repeated.

Authors notes: I hope you liked my story, and in case you were wondering...

Chapters 6 and 8 were Shannon's dream (she's still in her coma)

and

Chapters 9-13 were Charlie and Sayid's dream (they had the same dream)

Look for my sequel in the future, One More Cradle II. Thanks!