"What happened?" Charlie asked as he saw the others come on to the beach with a new person, Danielle and something wrapped in cloth, a body.
"Marie died," Buffy whispered to him as the others began to prepare for the funeral and Boone went off on his own.
"Who?"
"The woman in the hatch, Locke's wife."
"How'd it happen?"
"Boone, it was an accident."
"Wow."
"So anything, interesting happen while we were gone?"
"Any other time it would seem interesting but on this island it seems kind of run of the mill."
Buffy smiled and then walked off to help the others.
Boone was just walking away from the group when he heard someone call his name.
"Boone?" Clair said.
"Clair?" he asked. He was shocked. She was here and pregnant.
"Come here often?" she said with a laugh.
He smiled, "You're pregnant."
"I hadn't noticed."
"So who's the lucky guy?"
"You."
"What?"
"Boone, you're the father."
"Hey. Sorry I'm late," Boone said as he kissed Clair and sat down at the table in front of the coffee shop.
"It's alright. So what did you want to talk about?"
"Umm, yeah. I think….Clair, you're great….I really like you but…"
"You're breaking up with me," she said, calmly.
"I'm trying," he said with a pained smile, "You really are something, Clair but…."
"I'm not the right something or someone," she continued, a tinge of sadness in her voice.
"I just think we're better off friends. I'm sorry, Clair."
"I have to go," she said, getting up. She couldn't listen to this anymore.
"Clair! Clair!"
"You're pregnant and I'm the father," Boone said in shock, "Are you sure?"
"Yes!" Clair said, slightly annoyed.
"Sorry, it's a lot to take in."
"I know, I didn't handle it to well when I found out either."
A few months earlier:
"Oh god, what am I going to do?" Clair said as she paced back and forth in the bathroom. Sam was sitting on the edge of the bathtub holding a pregnancy test.
"Calm down."
"Calm down? I could be having a baby and the father's god knows where," Clair said as the egg timer they had set earlier rang.
"If it is positive what are you going to do? Are you going to keep it?"
"I don't know, do you think I should?"
"It's your baby Clair."
"What does it say?" Sam handed her the strip, "I'm pregnant."
Sam just nodded and put her arm around her friend.
After the funeral had finished Locke stood at Marie's grave. Jack came and stood beside him.
"She was all I had left, even after she had left. I knew she was still out there. That there was something worth living for, fighting for," Locke said, "There's so much I wish I told her, so much I would have changed."
"I know, my dad died and we never had a good relationship. After it happened I wished that I could go back and change things," Jack said, "But you can't."
"Part of me thinks she'll come back. That I'll see her coming over that hill, smiling."
"You can't live a lie."
"I know but sometimes it's nice to believe in a lie, even for a little while."
"Yeah."
Jack sat at a bar, drink in hand. He was wearing a black suit and tie and had just come from his dad's funeral. He looked over at the empty bar stool next to him and took another drink. He looked back and saw his father looking at him, smiling.
Jack raised his glass to the mirage of his father, who raised his, "Here's to you dad. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I never got to say goodbye or tell you I love you."
"You just did," his father said with a smile as he took another swig of his drink.
Sayid sat down next Shannon on the beach, "I talked to Danielle about what you saw."
"Do you believe me now?"
"I don't know what you saw but I believe you saw something. I'm sorry if I doubted you for a second."
"Do you love me?"
"Yes, I've told you…"
"I know but could you tell me again."
He caressed the side of her face, "Shannon, I love you and only you and I always will. I promise."
"Really?"
"I have never broken a promise, soldier's honor."
Shannon smiled, "I love you too," she said as she closed the gap between them and kissed him.
Sun stood a safe distance away and watched the couple make up. She sighed. She longed to be with her husband again. She loved him and missed him. She moved to touch her wedding ring absent mindedly but found it was not there. She gasped and looked down at her hand, frantically she began searching for it in the sand at her feet.
"Looking for this," a familiar voice spoke in Korean behind her. She turned around to find her husband, holding her wedding ring, "I found it on the beach. It must have fallen off."
"I'm sorry," Sun gasped out in her native tongue as her husband knelled down so they were both on their knees facing each other.
"I love you and if you'll have me…." he spoke as he placed the ring on her finger, "I'd like to…."
But before he could finish Sun kissed him. She pulled away, a smile on her face. He pulled her too him and they kissed again this time more passionately, "I'll love you forever," she told him in Korean, "Till death do us part."
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