Charlie wondered through the forest. With Claire's baby over his shoulder, he
looked like a responsible father, and with Claire walking behind him, both hand in
hand, both looked like they could be the perfect married couple.
Crack..
Charlie jumped and Claire shuddered before they both turned around and came
face to face with the murderous sight..
Jack and Kate roamed through the wilderness of the trees. It had been exactly 46 days on the island.
"Kate, I need to talk to you about something that happened a week ago, on the island. I didn't tell you sooner because I knew you would freak out, so don't have a panic attack, ok?"
Kate, who had been walking in front of him, now turned around and faced him. "What's wrong Jack?" she said, as she placed her hand on his cheek, a look of concern on his face.
Jack placed his hand over hers. "It's.. it's, well I can't say a hundred percent who, but, I have an idea.. I don't know what to say Kate. I guess… well, just read this," he said, handing her a crumpled and somewhat faded, note from deep within his jean pockets.
Kate looked at the wrinkled paper. She chuckled at the state of the paper. It looked like it had been bitten off in places. There were chip crumbs all over it, and was that… a soap sud on the corner? She gave Jack a strange look, and Jack returned it with a weak smile.
You touch her again, and I will murder you. Signed, your worst nightmare.
Kate's chuckles turned into a look of worry. She looked up at Jack, with a scared look on her face. "Jack.. Someone gave this to you?"
Jack nodded.
Claire and Charlie were being dragged by their feet by two different men, each one grabbing either Charlie or Claire. There had been a group of men with those men, two of them being twins. Obviously the other group of men were leading the two men dragging Charlie and Claire. Claire's baby, had been taken by one of the men.
Charlie and Claire turned to face each other as they were being dragged, their heads poking out of sacks. "My baby, my baby.." whispered Claire, fighting back tears, the worrying hitting her face all over.
Charlie couldn't stand to see her like this. He didn't understand what was going on. Wasn't Ethan a traumatical experience enough, for Claire? He took his hand out of the sack, which was tied to his body, and Claire reached out her hand for his, crying softly.
Claire didn't want to make any noise, to worsen the situation. Judging by the crying of the baby, her baby was well alive. And thinking of that, she let out some more tears, her blond hair becoming entangled with leaves.
And before they knew it, they were being dragged into the cave.
Sun walked along shore the beach. She clutched her wedding ring, the one thing that reminded her how much she loved Jin. It had been five days since the crew had left. Yet she still got this feeling that he was somewhere close, somewhere on that island. She smiled to herself. She knew he couldn't be here, yet that feeling had been nagging her for the past few days.
She stared at the blue water. "How serene it is," she said to herself. She stopped walking and faced the waters, closing her eyes. She opened her arms to take it all in, the peace, the quiet, the hope the horizon brought her. She knew Jin, Sawyer, Michael and Walt would bring help.
She brushed away the worrying that she had had, as Shannon and Kate had confronted her a few days ago, with the bottle that contained the messages. The messages that had been on the raft. With Jin. She pushed those thoughts aside, and said to herself, "God cannot punish me any longer. So Jin is ok."
She opened her eyes, breathing in the salty water. She looked around, and noticed something in the water. Something was glistening in there. She walked back a couple of feet, and realized it was another bottle. With some more messages. She frowned. This couldn't be from their raft. She knew she had had all the messages. And then she had buried that bottle.
She walked closer in, water rushing into her sandals. She picked up the bottle. Before opening the bottle, she observed it. The green, glass bottle looked brand new. And on the bottom surface, were carved the numbers- 4,8,15,16,23,42.