Thanks for the comment. Notice no s on comments. LoL. Well I enjoy reviews, but I suppose it's all for fun anyway right? Well here's Chapter 3. Hopefully I'll get some more reviews for it. I hope it's not to confusing. Ask if you have questions. Ummm...I put the stuff they said in the past in italics hopefully that helps...Other than that Enjoy!
Everything started to fade. Everything looked cleaner. There were small tents up now where people had moved there stuff and the fuselage was gone. It had been burned a couple of weeks before. Claire took Charlie's hand and smiled.
"Do you like this place better?" Charlie's smile grew into his old crooked grin, long since forgotten. He walked up to the two forms sitting on the beach. One very much pregnant and the other very much in love. He sat down and watched it like it was yesterday.
"Best bloody peanut butter I've ever tasted." He laughed at his facial expressions as he sucked on his finger.
"Another one of my corny jokes"
"I thought it was cute… You ready to go. We have a lot of places to go and not that much time."
"Why did you come back? Why are you dong this? Bringing back all of these memories."
"I think you already know the answer to that…Let's go"
By now it was all to familiar. The fading of the old times behind him and the arrival of the next scene. This time they weren't at the beach. Charlie looked around and it took him a minute to realize where he was, but where was he and Claire? As if on cue Claire came stomping through the jungle Charlie at her heels.
"Why did you follow me Charlie?"
"Well I think it's because I like you"
"You don't like me Charlie you feel sorry for me" Charlie and Claire watched the old memories come back. The whole scene was played out in front of them. "Birthing Emergency Adverted" and even "Ethan...where's Jack?" He watched as he and Claire we're drug into the jungle and then it faded.
When Charlie looked around again he was still in the jungle. He heard some rustling in some nearby bushes and whipped around to see Jack and Kate running through the jungle. They stopped abruptly in front of him and for a second he thought their gaze of horror was directly at him. He was partially correct as he turned around to see himself hanging from an old tree. Charlie was so into the scene playing out in front of him that he didn't hardly take notice of Claire standing there watching along. He watched as his past self got ripped out of death's grip and brought back to this cruel world. Although it wasn't so horrible back then, when he wasn't alone.
"Sometimes I think it would have been easier on everyone if Jack would have stopped trying. If he had left me in peace." Charlie turned to Claire who gave a sympathetic look.
"Nobody would have made it without you Charlie. We would have giving up years ago if you had died. The only reason we opened our eyes in the mornings were because we knew you were there to say something to make us laugh. Charlie…you were our hope."
"For some reason I don't think that is necessarily true. I didn't help much at all. I was always getting in someone's way. Jokes were about the only way I kept myself sane."
"I think your jokes were the only thing that kept me sane too." Charlie smiled brightly.
"Well, I'm glad I helped someone."
Before he had even had a chance to finish his sentence she had rewrapped his hand and they were back on the beach. Charlie turned to see himself sitting on a peace of the fuselage. Kate wrapping him in a blanket. Jack checking on his neck, asking him questions with no reply.
"It seems like this last decade wasn't the only time you had stopped talking to anyone."
"You're the most important part of me, Claire. You're my hope, my reason to live, to go on…I blamed myself when you were gone then, and I blame myself that you are gone now. I should have protected you both times. You were my responsibility."
"That's sweet, but don't worry about that. I'll never leave you forever. I'll always come back for you. I came back then, and I came back now."
