They found Aaron with Claire and Charlie at the play area described in the letter from the hotel manager in their room. After taking off their shoes, Kaia quickly ran back into the soft play area with Aaron, and Curtis following them as best he could. Jack sat down beside Claire while Charlie went to get them some coffees.

The real coffee was still a taste he was getting used to after ten years of false watered down Dharma coffee, but it was something he was definately not worried about getting used to again. Charlie didn't have a chance to sit back down once he had handed the coffee's out as his attention was grabbed by a large, hollow plastic ball hitting him in the side of the head.

He went over to the side of the play area where Kaia and Curtis were. "Aaron! Kaia! Stop throwing the balls." The two children giggled. "You want to get thrown out of there?" They giggled again and ran back off further into the maze. Charlie sat down on the chairs where Jack and Claire were. "Jeez, that's something I'll miss about the island - no children sugar highs." He said.

Jack laughed at this, remembering a day from his internship years ago. "Have you ever seen a real sugar high?" He asked.

"Probably," Charlie answered as he took his sip from his coffee. "About an hour ago when Aaron discovered sugar cubes in our kitchen."

"Trust me. It could be a lot worse than it is now." Jack said.

"How?" Charlie asked, slightly worried that Aaron could get more hyper than he was naturally.

"He's just had processed sugar. It's the colourings that will make these go nuts, they've never really experienced them before."

Charlie gulped. "How do we stop that?"

"In modern civilisation?" Charlie nodded. "We don't."

"Bugger."

Claire laughed at this, and turned to Jack. "Do you know where you're moving on to now, Jack?"

"What?"

"You know, are you staying in Australia, or will you be going back to LA?"

Jack exhaled with a sigh. "Well, I think Kaia might kill me if I move anywhere where she can't see Aaron. And with Kate's case and all, I think we're going to be best staying here in Sydney, at least for a while."

"Like us then." Charlie nodded.

"You're staying for good?"

"I've always lived here." Claire told him. "The rest of Charlie's family is here as well, his brother."

"He's the reason I was on the plane." Charlie pointed out.

"And be thankful for it." Claire said simply. All the survivors had learned to be thankful for the plane crash.

"I'll have you know I was quite angry at the time." Charlie said defensively as he could manage against Claire, which wasn't much, sounding more defeated than defensive.

"And after ten years that should have passed." Claire reminded.

"Jeez" Charlie mused, "Megan's going to be eleven of twelve now."

"Megan?" Jack asked with a frown. In the ten years now that he had known Charlie he had never heard mention of a Megan before.

"My neice." Charlie said. "She was one, no, two, when I left. Liam was playing with her in the garden."

"I just can't wait to see the look on my Mom's face." Jack said with a mischevious grin, and began rehursing his conversation with her. "'Hey Mom, these are your grandchildren, and their mother's in jail', she's going to freak out!"

"Relax," Claire said, but laughing anyway, "She's going to love them all.

Jack turned sad for a moment. "Providing she gets to meet Kate..."

Charlie jumped in, frowning at Jack. "Oi! Where's this downer come from? I thought you were confident about her case?"

"You've just got to find her a good lawyer, thats all." Claire said.

Jack nodded, and then froze in his chair. "Claire." He said seriously, looking at her as thought he had just had a premonition of world peace. "You're a genius."

Charlie and Claire looked at each other.

"She is?"

"I am?"

"Ben." Jack said.

Charlie frowned. "No, Jack. I'm Charlie. Char-lie."

"No, not you. Ben Leonard."

"Who's he?"

"He was my friend in high school. When I left L.A for Sydney before the crash he was one of the best lawyers in California." Jack remembered. He had never lost a case as far back as Jack could remember. It was perfect.

"That's all good thinking." Charlie said. "Only in the meantime, we've got a party go get ready for, and some hyper children to coax down from the jungle gym."

"Good idea. You do that," Claire said, standing up herself.

Charlie looked at her in disbelief. "What? Why me?"

"Because I have to get ready for the party." Claire said, as if the answer were obvious.

"And you can't get Aaron down because..." Charlie coaxed.

"Because he's not going to listen to me." She replied simply.

"Of course he's not, you're going to bugger off upstairs." Charlie pointed out.

Claire kissed him on the cheek. "Exactly."

Charlie surrendered. "If I didn't love you so much..."

"I know... see you later, Jack!" Claire said as she disappared.

Jack snapped out of his brainwave. "Bye Claire."

This left Charlie and Jack alone in the play area.

"So..." Charlie said slowly, catching a glimpse of the three children at the highest, furthest corner away from them. "...After the kids."

Jack laughed. "Oh no, Charlie." He disagreed, and stepped down. "After you."