A/n: Here is Chaper 4! Yeah! I'm so happy I got 9 reviews compared to the none I had before! I'm sooo glad people are finally reading it! SO THANK YOU!!!! Ok, so on to the other parts of the author's note is I added some stuff in here about their lives, like I don't know if Claire's parents REALLY got divorced, it just seems that way, even though some people think and it might be right, that Jack and Claire are half siblings, I don't know. So I just had Claire's parents be divorced cause I'm pretyt confused about that whole parent thing. Yeah So anyway! Chapter 4, I think that's it.

Chapter 4: Us or Them

There is no terror in my heart
Death is with us all
We suck him down with our first breath
And spit him out as we fall
There is no terror in my heart
No dread of the unknown
Desire for paradise to be...
We love this on our own
No I don't want you anywhere near me
I don't want you anywhere near me
Get your fucking world out of my head
I don't want you anywhere near me
I don't want you anywhere near me
Get your fucking world out of my head
I don't want your "us or them"
No I don't need your "us or them"
Oh I don't want your "us or them"
I don't need your "us or them
You're us or them..."
"I live in knowledge of real truth
And all my gods are great!"
The doleful cant of a bigot
Blinded by fear and hate
You live in knowledge of real truth?
Oh the biggest lie I heard
How sick in your mind and soul
To be scared of my voice and my words
Oh you don't want me anywhere near you
You don't want me anywhere near you
Get my fucking head out of your world
You don't want me anywhere near you
You don't want me anywhere near you
Get my fucking head out of your world
I don't want your "us or them"
No I don't need your "us or them"
Oh I don't want your "us or them"
I don't need your "us or them"
As the only way this ever ends is "me"

Us Or Them By The Cure

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Charlie asked rubbing his eyes then glancing at his wrist watch.

"Claire, it's 5 in the morning." Charlie said finally looking at the girl without sleep in his eyes. "Claire? What the hell happened?" Charlie asked when he saw her face.

Her right eye was black and blue, and the whole of one side of her face was cut up and bruised. Claire brought a hand to her face and looked down at the ground. "Can I come in?" she asked the floor.

"Yeah, do you want something...for your eye?"

Claire nodded still looking at the floor. "Can I stay here a couple of days?" Claire whispered.

"Yeah, course. What can I get you? Do you want me to get another bed? Some breakfast? How about—"

"its fine Charlie." Claire said setting her bag on the floor.

"How can it be fine, Claire? Your beaten and bruised, who did this to you?" Charlie asked kneeling by her feet.

He reached out a hand to touch her face when she pulled away and whimpered.

"I just...fell." She meekly said.

He gave her a disbelieving look but let it go. "Well, I guess this is all I can give you." he said handing her a bag of ice.

She smiled at him and took it putting it on her eye. "Sorry to have bothered you and all." Claire said looking into his blue eyes. "I just had to where else to go and I felt..." Claire took a deep breath in then smiled, "just, thank you."

Charlie smiled sweetly at her, "your welcome."

They stared into each other eyes when Claire inched slowly closer to his lips and—

"AHHHH!"

Claire bolted upright when she heard a scream coming from a few feet away. She groaned getting out of her tent and going to check it out. Everyone was over looking at the abandon plane where loud noises were coming from.

"What is it?" she heard Kate ask.

"Something is in there." Jack whispered. "It's probably Sawyer." he added.

"Right behind you, jackass." Sawyer bit back as Claire watched the trio and smirked. Living on an island with them was interesting already.

"What should we do?" she heard Charlie ask.

She rolled her eyes not saying anything to him even when he was so close.

"We'll think about it in the—"

The animals ran out of the plane when Sawyer shone a flashlight on them. The animals started charging towards them as everyone scattered to not get trampled. Claire hurried back to her tent and waited for the animals to go away before she fell back asleep.

Eventually morning came and Jack decided to have a meeting about what had happened last night.

"We have to burn the bodies." he had announced as Claire stood in the crowd. "Get everything that might be useful out of there, and we'll have them burning by nightfall." he announced sounding exhausted.

As Claire stood in the crowd she became more and more angry about just burning the bodies and not giving them a proper barrel. That's when she came up with a good idea about how to fix that idea.

About an hour later as multiple people were sifting through the airplane wreckage to find things about the people they were 'barring.'

"Hey, your in charge here, right?" a southern guy asked her as she went through a photo album.

"Yeah." she said looking up at him.

"Here, I uh...found this." he stuttered looking down into the sand.

She smiled at him, "thanks, I'm Claire." she replied taking the wallet from his hands.

"Sawyer." he stated as he left her.

Claire smiled and went through the wallet noting that there was no money in it. She sighed and put it in one of the multiple piles that surrounded her.

She looked over across the beach and saw Charlie and Shannon talking. She sighed and shook her head, that man never gave up. She couldn't help the twinge of jealousy that erupted in her once she tried to take her eyes off of Charlie and Shannon.

She hated at that moment the sick feelings coursing through her. She hated seeing them together flirting, and Shannon with her skinny tall self, girls Charlie always had thrown at him just like Shannon was doing then.

She ripped her eyes away from them feeling the familiar nausea creeping up in her mouth. She closed her eyes and tried to picture something comforting but all that came into her mind was Charlie. She tried again this time Charlie and Shannon came into her mind. She sighed frustrated and tried to get up.

"I'm going on a walk." she muttered to the small amount of people that were helping her.

She felt confused eyes on her, but she ignored them walking the opposite way of Shannon and Charlie.

She smiled at the water washing up on the shore and she imagined the small happy things in her life, her love for music, books, her friends, her mother before she went psycho and kicked her out.

Claire didn't know how long she walked for before she went back to camp but not before passing Hurley and Charlie in the water trying to catch a fish. She rolled her eyes and shook her head, how Charlie. She guessed he was probably catching a fish for Shannon for some stupid romantic dinner.

She clenched her fists hoping to never have that thought cross her mind again, turning away and walking the rest of the way down the beach to the bodies and the belongs she was to present later that night.

The funeral was beautiful, at least that's what people said to her after it as they were all heading to their separate tents to get ready for bed.

As she was walking to her own tent she saw Charlie sulking around the beach without Shannon. Claire couldn't help but feel glad that they weren't together, she didn't think she could take it nor her baby.

Claire sighed and rubbed her large stomach thinking of the event to come. She walked into her little tent and sat down on the makeshift bed she had created for herself. She lay her head on the sand-pillow and closed her eyes.

Familiar images flashed through her head as her mind slowly drifted to dreamland.

"What are you doing?" Claire asked the brunette who was sifting through suitcases.

Kate smiled up at the blonde, "separating the practical clothes from the impractical clothes."

"Cool." Claire said smiling.

She was in a good mood she had just gotten back from an hour long walk and had eaten one of the better breakfasts since getting to the island and even miraculously keeping it down.

"Do you want to help?" Kate asked smiling.

Claire nodded enthusiastically and stood next to the brunette. "Can I ask you something?"

"Sure." Kate said folding a piece of clothing.

"Are you a Gemini?"

Kate laughed, "I am, why?"

"I just knew, everyone thinks astrology is a load of crap but it totally isn't." Claire argued.

"Hm." Kate said glancing over at her.

"It's just so..." Claire wavered on her feet.

"Woaw are you ok?"

"Fine, fine...just tired...I'm pregnant." Claire said laughing nervously.

Kate joined in with her but glance at her again making sure she wasn't going to faint.

After leaving Kate and the clothing Claire shuffled down the beach looking at the people as they went, and smoothing her shirt over her stomach.

"Claire!" Claire turned around already knowing who called her.

"What do you want Charlie?" Claire asked a hand placed protectively over her stomach.

"Just wanted to talk, love." Charlie said laughing.

Claire rolled her eyes in return but didn't tell him to go away.

"What's up? How are you?" he continued.

"Fine." Claire replied.

"Are you sure? I saw you this morning."

"Stop spying on me Charlie." Claire snapped. "I don't need a babysitter."

Charlie shut his mouth slightly hurt, "I wasn't spying like that, I'm just worried about you, you are pregnant if you haven't noticed." he said chuckling quietly.

"Oh Charlie, I've noticed, I noticed a long time ago. The question is Charlie Pace did you notice?" Claire said stalking away as fast as her legs could carry her.

Charlie stared after her contemplating to turn back and just let her be, until she collapsed.

"Claire-bear..." Charlie said smiling at her when she opened her eyes.

She smiled slightly back, "what happened last night?"

"Oh well, we had wild passionate sex." Charlie said nonchalantly and offering her a smile.

Claire giggled, "what time is it?"

"Almost 9."

"Crap." Claire said sitting up all the way then noticing a tray of food was on top of her.

"Aww you made me breakfast." Claire said smiling.

"Yeah, I hope you like eggs." Charlie said sheepishly.

"I do, thank you. I'm sorry about all this, I mean...Thomas must be worried." Charlie's head jerked up to look at her.

"Thomas? You're going back to him?"

Claire blushed, "he's my boyfriend, Charlie, why wouldn't I?"

"Oh, I don't know, maybe cause he did that to you!" Charlie said standing up and walking around the room. "I'm not stupid Claire, he's...abusive. The question is why are you still with him?"

Claire stared at him as he paced around the room waiting for her answer. He eventually turned to look at her and blue met blue.

"Please don't go back to him, Claire. Stay here, with me."

Claire moved the tray and got out of the large bed. "I don't even know you." she whispered leaving the room and going back to her own apartment.

"Claire wake up, Claire, honey?" Kate asked stoking her cheek to try and get her to come to.

Claire's eyes fluttered open and the first thing she saw was Charlie, and his hand holding her own.

"Hey." she wheezed putting a hand to her eyes. "What happened?"

"You fainted." Charlie whispered taking his other hand and going towards her face. His hand hovered above her face ready to caress it when he realized what he was doing and put it back where it had been. "How do you feel?"

"Thirsty, where's the water?"

Claire saw Charlie glance at Kate and Hurley who were behind him.

"Um some will be here soon, love, but right now try and rest." Charlie said leaning down to kiss her forehead a little surprised she didn't pull away. "Sleep Claire." he whispered in her ear as she felt her eyes flutter shut.

Charlie watched over her until he knew she was finally fully asleep then he turned to Kate. Kate saw an odd gleam in his eye something she didn't remember seeing in Charlie.

"We need to find water, she's not dying I won't allow it." he threatened looking back down at the pregnant women then back up at Kate.

"Where the hell is Jack?"

"I'm sorry I yelled at you then ran out." Claire said meekly looking down at her feet later that night.

"It's fine, Claire." Charlie said shrugging and allowing her to come into the hotel room.

"I was just confused...and stuff. I feel really bad."

"Claire it's fine, really." Charlie said waving it off.

"Your right, you know, about us not really knowing each other."

Claire looked back down at her feet. "I didn't—"

"No, I was thinking, we could maybe go out to eat tonight and really learn about each other. I mean, aren't you still going to stay with me?" Charlie asked giving her a cheeky grin.

Claire despite herself smiled back at him, "ok, lets go. You can even choose this time."

Charlie smiled, "ok."

"Ok." Claire said smiling back at him.

"So where are you going to take me, Charlie Pace?" Claire asked as they head out of the room.

"Well, I was thinking McDonald's."

Claire laughed, "you better be kidding, Charlie, I hate McDonald's."

"hm, I learned something new about you already." Charlie said smiling and nudging her arm. "What else do you hate?"

"Hm I hate...Burger King too, most fast food except Chipotle, sad films, twinkies, and birds."

"Why do you hate birds?" Charlie asked confused.

"Well, I saw the movie the Birds by Alfred Hitchcock and it totally freaked my out, ever since then I can't stand birds."

Charlie laughed at her while Claire glared back at him.

"what about you?" she asked.

"Well I hate hot weather, most vegetables, lemonade, and the color pink."

Claire laughed, "pink and lemonade? Why do you hate pink?"

"Well, I don't know it always reminds me of, like, Pepto-bismal, and when I was little I always had stomach aches so I'd have it all the time, and I hated it. Besides the color is really ugly, and girls who wear too much pink totally turn me off."

Claire giggled at him. "Wow. Well why do you hate lemonade?"

Charlie blushed embarrassed. "My brother played a trick on me and tried to get me to drink...pee. He said it was lemonade, haven't touched it since."

Claire scrunched her nose up in disgust. "Ew! That's disgusting."

Charlie laughed, "I know."

"Poor little Charlie." Claire said as they got into his rented car.

"What do you like?" Charlie asked glancing at her.

"Well, I like horror movies, music, books, stuff like that."

"Claire Littleton you are very vague." Charlie noted.

Claire blushed, "sorry, I can't think of stuff I like right off the bat."

Charlie shrugged, "yeah, me neither."

They were silent as they drove in the car on the way to the restaurant.

"Do you have any siblings?" Charlie asked suddenly.

"No, you have a brother though."

Charlie nodded, "yeah he's older. Do you wish you had siblings?"

"Sometimes, it's always just been my mom and me, I mean my parents got divorced early on, like I was 10 when it happened, I haven't seen my dad since."

Charlie glanced at her, "oh."

"Yeah, no big deal." Claire shrugging it off.

They were silent the rest of the drive until they came to the restaurant and parked the car.

"Ok, are you ready to get to know each other?" Charlie joked getting out of the car.

Claire smiled getting out with him, "yep."

"Good, lets go."

Claire grabbed for Charlie's hand surprising him and they walked into the restaurant together.

(A/n: I'm assuming in Austalia they have fast food, just an assumption if they don't you can correct me. I hope you liked it! thank you again to everyone who reviewed! I hope it isn't too confusing.)