Chapter 4: Lack of Communication
Disclaimer: I don't own LOST.
A/N: Ok here is the next chapter. Sorry it took so long. And you should know that in this story no one is gonna die! I am not planning on it so far.
"I need to find Sayid before we head to the beach." Ana said as they made their way to the beach.
"Yeah ok. Why do you need to find Sayid?" Charlie asked.
"I'm sending him to the hatch. Locke shouldn't be alone even though Gale is locked up." Ana said.
"Ok. I know where Sayid is. He has been working on this one thing for the last couple of days." Charlie said.
Charlie led Ana to Sayid, who was where Charlie had said he was. As Ana talked to Sayid, Charlie skimmed the beach for Claire or Hurley.
"Hey Sayid." Ana called to him.
"Ana." Sayid greeted her but didn't stop working.
"What are you building?" Ana asked him.
" A table.. I thought it would be nice to have some sense of normalcy." Sayid said.
"True."
"is there anything you need Ana?"
"Yeah. I'm taking a break for a while from the hatch. You think you can go and handle Gale?"
"You're taking a break? I don't believe you have left the hatch since we came back." Sayid said, who stopped working to talk to Ana.
"Yeah I know. Charlie convinced me to come to the beach for a while. So you think you can go?"
Sayid thought for a second, then he said. " Yeah ok."
"Just don't kill him ok?" Ana smiled.
Sayid laughed dryly. "Yeah."
Charlie spotted Claire with Aaron by her tent and Hurley and Libby were sitting not too far away flirting. Charlie tried to catch Hurley's attention but he was too absorbed with Libby.
"Charlie?" Ana interrupted Charlie's thoughts.
"Yeah?" Charlie looked at her.
"So now what?" Ana asked.
"Uh… You wanna fish?" Charlie desperately thought of something.
"Fish?" Ana raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah."
"I.. guess." Ana obviously thought this was stupid but she seemed to be somewhat amused by the thought of fishing.
"Ok then. "Charlie was happy that Ana actually agreed to it.
"So who has the rods or whatever we use to fish?"
"Jin!" Charlie said and he quickly started to run across the beach to where Jin was cleaning a fish. Ana followed him, also running.
"Jin!" Charlie called to him as he got near, and Ana soon reached them as well.
Jin looked up at them
"Uh.. We would like to borrow some fishing nets." Charlie tried to get Jin to understand.
Charlie pointed to the nets and Jin nodded.
"Yes. Get, food." Jin said.
"No. We would like to fish." Charlie said again. "We." He pointed to himself and Ana, "Want to fish." He grabbed a net and tried to demonstrate.
We see Claire standing with Sun watching them.
"What do you think they're doing?" Claire asked Sun. She had noticed Charlie running down the beach with Ana following him and was slightly curious as to what was going on.
"I don't know. Do you think they want to fish with Jin?" Sun said.
"Maybe you should go down there and translate." Claire suggested.
"Well I should, but it is sort of funny watching them." Sun smiled, feeling her stomach.
"Sun!" Claire lightly slapped Sun. She started laughing. "That's nice."
"Maybe I should go down there…" Sun started to walk down to the beach.
"No!" Claire stopped Sun. "This is fun to watch. "
"Well finally you agree with me!" Sun smiled and they continued watching Charlie and Ana try to show Jin what they wanted.
Claire couldn't help but feel a little sad that it was Ana with Charlie instead of herself. But she quickly reminded herself that it was all Charlie's fault that they weren't happy together. Charlie had tried to kidnap Aaron. Or baptize him. But the point was, that Aaron needed to be kept safe, and at that time, Charlie wasn't acting safe and Aaron was Claire's number one priority. Maybe in a while if things seem to get better we can start talking again. Claire thought to herself. Then she smiled as she saw that it seemed that Charlie had gotten through to Jin.
"Finally!" Charlie exclaimed joyously as he grabbed two fishing nets and one spear.
Ana laughed. The whole thing had been hilarious. It had taken Charlie forever to get Jin to understand. Now Charlie acted like he had just won a medal at the Olympics.
"Ok so now what?" Ana asked, grabbing one of the nets from Charlie.
"We fish!" Charlie said.
"Well yeah.. but how?"
"What? You've never been fishing before?" Charlie asked in disbelief.
"No.." Ana looked down. " I was too busy partying and stuff… until I became a cop of course. Then it was all business. Then I quit being a cop… and .."Ana trailed off.
"Well actually, I've only fished a couple of times. Mostly on the island.. So I don't have that much experience either." Charlie said. He saw that Ana's past was a touchy thing so he tried to steer away from it.
"Well that's just great." Ana said.
"No really. It's easy. Hurley taught me like a couple days after we crashed here. Shannon was hungry and asked me to catch a fish for her and I did and she liked it but it turned out she was just using me." Charlie's face fell thinking of the memory. "But it was ok. Then I realized that Claire needed me and yeah that turned out fine and dandy.. until." Now Charlie was sad again. He looked up at Ana, who also seemed to be sad.
"Oh… I didn't mean to…." Charlie stammered. How stupid can he get talking about Shanon like that? "You know no one blames you for her death." Wait, was he comforting Ana? A couple of days ago he hated her and now he was fishing with her. But it was only to make Claire jealous. Oh yeah Claire.
Charlie glanced towards the trees where he had last seen Claire. Claire was looking busy with something. It looked like she was adjusting her shirt or something. Had she noticed him with Ana at all? Then Charlie looked for Hurley, and found him in the same spot with Libby, but he was looking at Charlie and giving him thumbs up.
Charlie grinned, then he looked back at Ana and then stopped smiling again for Ana had a very guilty look on her face.
"So we gonna fish or not?" Ana said.
"Yeah." Charlie said.
Step 2: Make Claire notice Charlie, complete.