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Chapter 15

When Claire woke up early the next morning she was surprised to see that Charlie was already awake and was holding Aaron up in front of his face and making funny faces.

"Charlie, what are you doing?" Claire asked with a look of confusion on her face.

"Oh, nothing honey. Aaron here woke me up because he wouldn't stop crying his eyes out, so I got up and picked him up out of his crib and started making funny faces at him so he would laugh. So I've been sitting here for the past 20 minutes making faces and whenever I stop he starts crying again," Charlie said, as he gave Claire her son.

Claire took her son and said, "Charlie we have to find somebody who can babysit Aaron today."

"Why do we have to find a babysitter for Aaron?" Charlie said as he pecked Claire on the cheek.

"Remember I told you last night, you and Sawyer are getting your hair cut today," Claire said.

"Oh yeah, so excited," Charlie said unenthusiastically. "Who were you thinking of getting as a babysitter?"

"I was thinking about Sun, or Hurley," Claire said. "Who do you think should be the babysitter this time?"

"I think Sun should take care of Aaron today," Charlie said. "Let's go find her."

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"No problem, Claire," Sun said, "I'll watch after Aaron for a while."

"Ok Sun. We'll be here to pick him up at sunset," Charlie said. "See you later, little guy."

"Bye Sun. Bye Aaron," Claire said.

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"Hey Sawyer," Charlie asked, "You ready?"

"Yeah, I'm ready, I just hope Freckles doesn't cut my ear off," Sawyer said.

"I'm sure she won't try to," Charlie said.

Sawyer punched him playfully in the shoulder. "You're a funny guy, Chucky."

"Thanks Sawyer," Charlie said as he playfully punched Sawyer back. Sawyer punched him back again. Just as they started cat-fighting, Kate and Claire came up and saw them.

"You guys are like children," Kate said. "We can't leave you two alone for five minutes."

"Sawyer started it!" Charlie exclaimed.

"Did not!" Sawyer said back. "You said that Kate wouldn't try to cut my ear off."

Kate laughed. "I'm not that mean, but if you don't shut up I might cut your ear off." Instantly Sawyer and Charlie shut up and stuck their tongues out at each other, then played the silent game.

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"Welcome Charlie and Sawyer to the first and hopefully last, at least on this island, the Claire and Kate Beauty Salon," Claire said.

"Who's going first?" Kate asked. Charlie pointed at Sawyer, and Sawyer pointed at Charlie. "Well, looks like we're just going to have to do this the hard way."

"How's that?" Claire asked.

"We make out with them, and bring one of them to the chair," Kate said quietly, so only Claire could hear her.

"I'll do it first, I could probably just sweet-talk Charlie into going towards the chair," Claire said.

"Ok Claire, go for it," Kate said.

"Hey Charlie," Claire said, "Come here."

Charlie came over and stood in front of Claire.

"Yes Claire?" Charlie asked.

"If you sit in that chair in the next five seconds I'll give you a surprise tonight after Aaron goes to bed."

"Yes ma'am!" Charlie said as he ran to the chair.

"How did you do that?" Kate asked in a very quiet voice.

"I told him he had 5 seconds to get in the chair and I'd give him a surprise after Aaron went to bed."

"I see. What's the surprise?" Kate asked.

"There isn't one, it was a joke. Ok, well maybe I'll take him into bed and take off his shirt. And then of course he'll end up kissing me and taking off my shirt, and hey, as long as it's him I don't care. If it was anybody else I would probably slap them."

"Cla-ire I'm waiting for you to cut my ha-ir," Charlie called in a sing-song voice from the chair.

"Ok. I'm coming," Claire said and walked over to the chair.

"So Claire, how short are you going to cut my hair?" Charlie asked with a look of concern on his face.

"As short as I want," Claire said.

"I was afraid of that," Charlie said.

Claire grabbed the scissors and started snipping away at Charlie's hair. After a few minutes of snippity-snip Claire announced she was done.

Charlie reached up and felt his head. "Phew, only a trim," Charlie said. "I hate haircuts." Charlie walked by Sawyer and said, "Your turn. Watch your ears."

Sawyer rolled his eyes and walked to the chair.

Snip. Snip. Sawyer could feel all the strands of his hair being cut in half.

"How's your haircut going?" Hurley said as he walked by.

"How's your haircut going?" Sawyer mocked. "Pillsbury."

"All done," Kate said, "And I didn't cut off your ear."

"Ha!" Sawyer smirked as he walked past Charlie. "She didn't cut off my ear."

"Hey I got an idea," Claire said. "Kate mentioned that before you two lovebirds got married you played a game called 'I Never'. Let's play that."

"Ok, I'll tell you how to play. First it starts with one person and they'll say 'I never…" then finish the sentence. If it's something you did, you drink. If you didn't do it, you don't drink. For example: I never wore tighty whities. And if that's true, I'd drink. If it's not true, I wouldn't drink."

"Come back here an hour before sunset. Sawyer and I have to go find the drinks," Kate said.

"We still have the champagne that Hurley gave to Charlie," Claire said. "We'll bring that too."

Sawyer looked at Charlie before walking off and stuck out his tongue. "Meanie," Charlie said.

"You and Sawyer are definitely the two biggest babies I've ever seen," Claire said. "You're even worse than Aaron on a bad day."

"I take that as a complement," Charlie said.

"Of course you take that as a complement," Claire retorted.

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"Well, we're here. Let's wait for Sawyer and Kate by making out in the chair," Charlie said.

"Ok," Claire said. At least I get his tongue, she thought. Claire leaned in and sat on Charlie's lap. They began to make out but then Sawyer and Kate came up towards the chair.

"Oh my God, we can't leave you two alone either unless you have Aaron with you," said Kate.

"You're probably the same way except without a baby," Claire said. "Did you find the drinks?"

"Sure did. Did you bring the champagne?" Sawyer asked.

"Yes we did," Charlie said.

"Good. Let's play 'I never'," Kate said. "Sawyer, you go first."

"Ok. Here we go. I never liked getting sand in my pants," Sawyer said as they all drank. Claire, being a nursing mother, only drank water.

"I never wore tighty whities," Charlie said, using Sawyer's example from earlier. The only person who drank was Sawyer.

"Don't laugh at me. My mom made me. I would have gone commando, but nooooo, my mom made me wear tighty whities," Sawyer said as they all started laughing at him.

"I never could stay in one place longer than a week," Kate said as she picked up the champagne and sipped it.

"I never had been out of Australia until now," Claire said as Charlie, Sawyer and Kate drank.

"I never---," Sawyer began but was interrupted by Jack.

"Shut up, Sawyer," Jack said.

"What crawled up your butt and died?" Sawyer asked.

"You getting married to Kate, that's what," Jack said as Ana Lucia walked by.

"Oh, quit your whining Jack, you're making everybody's eyes water because you won't shut up," Ana Lucia offered. "And stop whining about Sawyer and Kate getting married. Everybody can see how much they're in love. It's sickening."

"Hey, Kate, I think that Charlie and I are going to pick up Aaron. This is getting a little weird," Claire said.

"Ok, talk to you later," Kate said.

"Charlie, let's go pick up Aaron," Claire said, "Come on."

"Aw, come on, Claire," Charlie pleaded. "Things are starting to get good."

Sawyer got up, went over to Jack, and punched him in the face. "Stay out of our way and leave Kate alone. Stalker!"

Charlie and Claire started walking away as Sawyer kicked Jack in the chest and walked back over to Kate. "Hey Jack," Kate said. As Jack looked over, Kate started to kiss Sawyer, which soon turned out to be more than a 'kiss'. "Hey Sawyer," she muttered, "We aren't in the tent. A bunch of people are watching, even Walt, and you were trying to take my shirt off. Walt's too young to see a topless girl."

"Well it's about time he saw one," Sawyer said as he continued to try to pull Kate's shirt off. She slapped his hand away and made a run for the tent. "Hey come back here. You're going to be in a lot of trouble when I get back to that tent," Sawyer called teasingly from his position at Claire and Kate's Beauty Salon. He took off running after her.

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"Charlie, isn't the sunset so beautiful?" Claire asked him.

"Yeah, sure. Hey Claire, what's my surprise?"

"You're just going to have to wait and see," Claire said. "But trust me, you're going to like it."

Just the way she said that to Charlie was hot and sexy, and it made him sweat and want the surprise even more. "I think we should go pick up Aaron now," Charlie said, wiping the sweat from his brow.

"Ok," Claire said as she leaned in and started to kiss him. Like it was instinct, Claire opened her mouth so Charlie's tongue could dance with hers. Also, his hand shot up her shirt and he started to rub her back.

All of a sudden they heard from behind them, Sun's husband Jin speaking Korean. The only word they understood was 'Aaron'. Charlie stopped kissing her and removed his hand from Claire's shirt. They all walked to Sun and Jin's tent.

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"So Sun, was Aaron any trouble?" Claire asked.

"No, not at all," Sun said handing Aaron to Charlie. "Jin and I are thinking of starting a family."

"That would be cool," Charlie said. "Sawyer and Kate I think already have. They probably did the night they got married."

"Ok, Charlie, let's go home so I can feed Aaron and put him to bed," Claire said.

"Don't forget about---" Charlie began but was interrupted by Claire.

"Yes, I know, Aaron's lullaby," Claire said, winking at Charlie.

"What's his lullaby?" Sun asked.

"Charlie and I sing Aaron 'Catch A Falling Star' every night before he goes to bed," Claire said. "It puts him right to sleep. I think it's the guitar personally, Charlie's outstanding."

Charlie blushed and said, "No it's definitely your voice, I can hardly stay awake when you sing that lullaby. It puts me to sleep also." Charlie grabbed Claire by the arm and started pulling her out of the tent.

"Bye Sun, Jin. See you tomorrow, I guess," Claire said. As soon as they were out of earshot of all the tents, she asked, "What was that all about?"

"I want my surprise," Charlie said.

Claire smiled. "Fine, let's go put Aaron to bed," she said.

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"Save it for a rainy day," Claire sang ending the song. "He's asleep," she whispered.

Charlie put his guitar down and walked towards Claire and started to make out with her. Again. This time, Claire pushed him down on the bed and took off his shirt. He leaned up and kissed her again and removed her shirt. "So this is my surprise?" he asked rolling over so that he was on top of her.

"Yep," Claire said. "It's your special night. You got your hair cut so you can get to 2nd base again.

"Well if it's my special night, then I guess that's all right," Charlie said. Then he added greedily, "But I wish it was 3rd…"

Claire just glared at him.

"What? A man's got needs you know."

Claire rolled her eyes.

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"Charlie, not so loud. Do you want to wake up Aaron?" Claire whispered.

"It's not my fault you made me hit the pole with my head," Charlie said. "At least this incident was at the end of our kissy-kissy."

"Charlie, we should get some rest," Claire said.

"Why?" Charlie asked.

"Because we're getting married tomorrow," Claire stated matter-of-factly.

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