Chapter 5-Shovels

Disclaimer: I still don't own LOST… sigh……

A/N: Ok here is the next chapter!

"So how's it going?" Hurley asked Charlie who was sitting next to him.

"It's going good. Well actually I'm not quite sure… It's been three days.. Don't you think Claire should have noticed?" Charlie asked.

"I think she has."

"Then why every time I look at her she never is looking at me?"

"I don't know."

"Well one thing I do know, is that Ana is probably getting bored with fishing."

"Has she said anything about it?"
"Well no.. but you know her. She gets bored quickly."

"You think maybe you should tell her?" Hurley asked.

"What? That I'm using her to make Claire jealous? Oh that will work. I'm sure Ana will want to continue to pretend to have fun with me"

"Well she's certainly not pretending now."

"What are you saying Hurley? That there are feelings there? There is no way that Ana would feel anything for me. No. Her type is someone like Sawyer."

"Yeah maybe Sawyer is her type but why have we found her flirting with Jack?"

"True… Ugh this is so confusing!" Charlie buried his head in his hands and moaned.

"Well what are you planning for today? More fishing?"

"No way.. maybe we should cut trees or something.. or maybe today Ana won't want to do anything."

"Charlie? Hanging with you is showing people that you have accepted her and she is probably hoping other people will finally accept her because of that."

"Hurley have you forgotten already that people still hate me?"

"People don't hate you Charlie. They have probably gotten over that and have moved on."

"Yeah yeah whatever. So how are you and Libby doing?"

Hurley smiled. "I'm planning to take her out on our first date. Like a picnic or something. Do you think she'll like that?"

"Definitely." Charlie said wistfully.

"Oh dude look there's Ana coming here!" Hurley said from Charlie and Hurley's spot on the beach.

"What? But it's not the time I've been coming to get her and why is she coming to get me?"

"Uh oh.." Hurley said.

"Uh oh what?"

Hurley's face suddenly brightened into a fake smile. "Hey Ana!"

"Hurley." Ana nodded. "Hey Charlie." Ana sat down next to Charile.

"Hey Ana." Charlie managed a smile." You got bored at the hatch?"

"Yeah." Ana smiled and looked towards the beach. "Jack and Kate got back last night."

"Oh did they? What happened?" Charlie asked.

"They found Michael. As soon as Michael gets some sleep Jack wants to go back out again."

"Again?"

"Yeah and this time with Sawyer's guns."

"How are they going to get Sawyer's guns?" Charlie tried to push the memory out of his mind that he was the one to help Sawyer get all the guns in the first place.

" I don't know. But I'm sure Jack has something in mind."

"So why are you out here? Shouldn't you be preparing along with everyone else?"

"Yeah. But I would rather be out here. I know I'm early. But it was getting hectic in there." Ana finally turned towards Charlie and Charlie noticed the wound on her forehead.

"Ana what happened!" Charlie exclaimed.

"Hey dudes I'm gonna go. Libby's walking over here and I want to talk to her." Hurley said and he walked off.

"What happened?" Charlie asked again

"Look only Libby and Locke know, but Gale tried to kill me this morning. Jack thinks I bumped it on the counter in the bathroom. I don't know why he believes it but Jack has more important things on his mind. I don't know why Locke lied but for now I'm going along with it."

"Wow. That's pretty scary. Are you sure you're ok? That looks like it should be stitched up."

Ana laughed. "Can I tell you a secret Charlie?"

"Yeah."

Ana leaned in close to Charlie and whispered, "I'm afraid of stitches."

Charlie laughed. "No way!"

"Yeah way and if you tell anyone I'll kill you."

"Well fine then.."

"So are we fishing again today?"

"You know we've only been doing this for three days and yet we both expect that the other is planning to do it."

"Yeah I know. Funny huh?"

"Yeah." Charlie said.

"So are we fishing?"

"Do you still want to fish?"

Ana shrugged. "If that's what you want to do."

"Well I don't know about you, but I'm getting a little bored with fishing."

"Well then what do you suggest Charlie?"
"Hmm. Sayid's been digging this hole for some reason… You want to dig a hole?"

Ana loked at Charlie like he was immensely stupid. "Dig a hole? For what purpose?"

"To keep us preoccupied." Charlie stared at Ana. "Cause you gotta admit, the only reason you and I are together is to avoid things we want to face."

Ana looked away. "Yeah.. you're right."

There was a silence for a few minutes and Charlie spotted Claire across the beach talking to Sun again. They had certainly become buddy-buddy lately. Charlie supposed it was because they were both mothers now. Then Charlie once again felt a pang of guilt wash over him. He still felt bad for hurting Sun.

"So we're digging a hole then?" Ana asked, breaking the silence.

"Yup." And Charlie and Ana stood up and ran to the hatch to get the shovels. They snuck in and were able to sneak out again without anyone noticing. Ana said she didn't want to deal with any of the others at the moment.

So Charlie and Ana came back to the beach again and started fighting over where they should dig the hole that had no purpose.