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A/N: Yes, I know I'm a horrible person. I know you've been waiting for this so I hope you'll enjoy it. On another note, I have to say that I'm really glad Lost is finally back and with a fantastic episode.
No song for this chappie because…well I'm not gonna tell you, you'll see by yourself. Enjoy and please don't forget to tell me what you thought.
Chapter twelve: Phone calls.
Jack and Kate have been gone for two days now, leaving their problem and their friends behind.
On the third morning, four of them were seating in the girls apartment. Shannon and Sayid had to go to work and Claire and Charlie were planning to go shopping for the baby; it seemed that it was all she has been doing lately. It was exhausting but she enjoyed every minute spent getting ready for the birth of her child. It was the first time she was bringing Charlie, though and she was sure it was going to be interesting. The four of them were seating in the kitchen, taking breakfast.
"I can't believe your plan worked." Claire said with a squeal and both Sayid and Charlie rolled their eyes.
"Could we drop the subject please?" Sayid pleaded.
"Yeah, you've been talking about Jack and Kate for nearly a week now, if you count the three days they passed in Jack's parent's house. I'm pretty sure you covered everything." Charlie said not even trying to hide the annoyance from his voice.
"Oh please. It's not like you haven't participated to our discussions." Shannon said and took sip of her coffee.
"First of all, this isn't called discussion; gossip would be a better word. Second of all, I stopped talking about it three days ago." He said defensively.
"It's not such a big deal." Sayid said. "We all knew it would happen."
"Yeah but it's still great. How romantic is this week going to be." Claire said inn a dreamy voice.
"I never thought Jack would ask her to go with him, though." Shannon said.
"You know Jack, he's a helpless romantic." Sayid said and they all agreed.
"Do you think he called Sarah?" Charlie asked.
"He did it when he got back the other day." Sayid said and his tone suggested that it had not been a pleasant conversation.
"How did it go?" Claire asked with concern.
"Not good. In the end I couldn't even understand what he was saying, he was yelling so loudly." Sayid explained.
"She had him. He loved her so much and she didn't appreciate what she had. Now, the only person she can blame is herself." Shannon said bitterly.
"Now he has Kate…" Claire added using her dreamy voice again.
"Let's not go ahead of ourselves." Sayid said.
"What do you mean?" his girlfriend asked frowning.
"I mean that it started like three days ago and you're already seeing them married." Sayid pointed out with an amused smile. "You always do that." He added.
"We did not…" Claire started but Charlie interrupted her.
"Oh please! I bet you already chose their children's names." he said chuckling and both women blushed.
"For your information it did not started three days ago. I'm pretty sure it started the first time they saw each other."
"So it's clearly not new." Charlie insisted.
"Yeah but it's still really exciting." Claire replied and Shannon nodded vigorously. At that moment, the men gave up, with a smile.
Sayid looked at his watch and hurriedly headed to Shannon's bedroom. Shannon checked her watch too and joined her boyfriend, leaving Charlie and Claire alone.
"So I was kinda hoping we could go see Boone today." Claire whispered and gave him a meaningful look that he, obviously, did not understand.
"Ok, but why are you whispering?" he asked confused and she rolled her eyes.
"Lord, give me the strength…" she mumbled under her breath. She looked at him and forgot her frustration when she looked at his eyes, which, no matter what the situation was, always showed care. She smiled slightly, her features softening and he smiled back even if he was still clueless.
"I want his help for a wedding present and I don't want the two lovebirds to hear about it." She explained him as she would explain to a four years old that 2+24.
"Whatever you want, love." He said before turning back to his cereal and without noticing her blush.
"See you tonight!" Sayid and Shannon chorused from the doorway and neither of them waited for Claire and Charlie's answer.
Four hours later, they were seating in a restaurant having lunch with Boone. Charlie and Claire had such a great time searching for clothes and furniture; they did not even see the time pass.
"I can't believe they're getting married in a month." Claire said.
"I can't believe they managed to organise a wedding for 200 guests in less than four month." Charlie added.
"What can I say, it's a genius work." Boone said smirking, feeling proud of himself and Charlie rolled his eyes. Shannon had chosen her brother to organise her wedding. She wanted to get married in summer and did not want to wait another year to do it, so she asked her brother for help, knowing he was the best.
"So, how have you been?" Claire asked him. "It's been a while."
"Nothing much, really. I'm busy with work." He answered.
"No hot dates?" Charlie asked raising his eyebrows and smirking.
"You know, the usual drill." Boone answered smirking back. "What about you guys?" Boone said throwing meaningful looks and putting them in an awkward situation. "Oh I see, no confession of burning love yet." He wanted to laugh at Charlie's embarrassed expression but the killing look Claire was giving him kept him from doing that. "Sorry…" he mumbled. Somehow, she looked ten inches taller than they did since her pregnancy. Boone knew better than to irritate Claire and she was obviously enjoying the power she had upon them.
"Any words from Kate and Jack yet?" he asked changing the subject and just as he finished asking his question Claire's cell phone rang. She looked through her purse and got it out. She smiled widely when the caller ID showed 'Kate'.
"Hi Kate."
"Hi Claire, how are you?" Kate asked and Claire could hear the smile in her voice.
"I'm good but forget about me, how things are going?" she asked her smile turning into a smirk.
"Things are… great!" Kate replied with a satisfied sigh and Jack who was seating next to her, his arm around her shoulder, gave her soft kiss. Claire heard it and giggled.
"How's jack doing?" Charlie asked loud enough for Kate to hear it.
"He's doing great." Kate replied.
"Are you guys planning on coming back?" Boone asked and everybody laughed. At that point, Claire decided to put the loudspeaker so everybody could participate to the conversation.
"Of course they will. You wouldn't want them to shorten their vacancy just because you miss them." She said.
"We've been gone for only three days." Kate pointed out.
"Yeah but Jack never left us for more than two days." Claire explained.
"Oh then does it means I'm an exception?" Kate said smiling sweetly.
"It does." Claire said with a genuine smile. "Now, go back to do whatever it was you were doing. Thanks for calling." Claire said.
"Ok, no problem. We miss you guys. Tell everybody we say hi." Kate said.
"Bye and try to keep it slow." Charlie said with a chuckle.
"By Claire, take care." Jack said ignoring Charlie's comment.
"You too, Jack." She said before hanging up and sighing contently. "They're so cute." Claire said making Boone and Charlie laugh. "Now let's talk about Shannon's present."
"What about Sayid?" Charlie asked.
"We'll take care of the groom later." Boone said.
"Yeah the bride is more important… for now." She added when Charlie glared at her and Boone laughed lightly.
"Not even together yet and already acting like an old couple." He said and Charlie and Claire threw him fries at the same time. "See, you just made my point." He said with a wink and they both rolled their eyes. They finished lunch and by the end, they figured what present they would get for Shannon and they even had begun to think about Sayid's one. They were standing in front of the restaurant and were saying their good byes.
"You're sure you don't want a lift?" Charlie insisted.
"I'm sure, but thanks. I have to see John and then get back to work." Boone answered with a smile. He shook Charlie's hand, hugged Claire tightly, and left after waving one last time at them. Charlie looked at Claire with a smile; she looked beautiful with the sun shinning and her blue eyes looking right into his heart.
"What now?" he asked.
"I wanna go home if that's ok with you, I' m tired." She said.
"Sure." He said and they headed back to Charlie's car.
Later that evening, Boone and John Locke were walking down John's street and they were having a heated conversation about politics. They were so caught up in their debate that neither of them saw the car that was coming right upon them while they were crossing the street…
In the meantime, Sawyer, Lilly, Libby, Hurley, Shannon, Sayid, Claire and Shannon were hanging around the boy's apartment.
"So how Freckles and the doc are doin'?" Sawyer asked.
"Please, for the love of Pete, Sawyer, don't go there." Charlie pleaded and Sawyer threw him a questioning look.
"We've past the last couple of days trying to make them stop talking about that particular topic." Hurley explained and Libby threw him a sad look.
"Jack this and Kate that… I swear to God I hear these names again today, I think I'll kill myself." Sayid said and they all laughed.
"Ok, then to answer your question and without saying their names, our two lovebirds are fine and actually having a good time." Claire said to Sawyer.
"Probably the best time they've ever had." Charlie added rolling his eyes.
"So we have Sawyer and Lilly who finally closed the deal…" Hurley began and Lilly who was seating in Sawyer's lap gave him a sweet kiss.
"Then the-two-who-must-not-be-named…" Hurley carried on making everyone laugh. "Dude, that leaves you two." he finished pointing at Claire and Charlie who were seating next to each other. Both of them looked at him angrily. They were tired of people trying to tell them what they should do and how they should do it.
"Yeah I think it's time fore some action." Sawyer said.
"Will you please, stop…" Claire began but was cut off by Shannon's cell phone.
"Saved by the bell." Libby said chuckling.
"I'm not done with you!" Claire said to Sawyer and Hurley menacingly.
"Hello… Yeah this is her… What? Wh-wh-what happened?" Shannon stuttered on the phone. Everybody looked up at her, worry written all over their faces as they saw tears of fear beginning to form in her eyes. "Ok, I'll be there soon." She said before hanging up. She quickly stood up and run to her room, Sayid and Claire right behind her.
"Shannon, honey, what happened?" Claire asked scared by her friend's frenetic behaviour. She was looking for her Jacket and could not find it. Sayid grabbed her by the shoulder to keep her from pacing and made her look up at him.
"Shannon, who called?" he asked gently.
"The hospital. Boone was hit by a car." she answered finally letting the news sunk in. Sayid and Claire exchanged terrified looks. He took his girlfriend in his arms and she run back to the living room.
"Shhh, it's going to be ok." He whispered in her ear.
Claire came back into the living room and Charlie came by her side when he saw her teary eyes.
"Who was it?" Sawyer asked with uncharacteristic concern.
"Boone is at the hospital, we gotta go there." Claire said crying now. Charlie took her in his arm and tried to calm her down.
"What happened?" Lilly asked putting a hand over her mouth and Sawyer squeezed her other hand.
"He was hit by a car." Claire answered after pulling away from Charlie.
"Ok let's go." Sayid said. He was standing in the doorframe next to a very distraught Shannon.
"Somebody has to call Jack and Kate." Hurley said.
"I'll do it in the car, now let's go." Sawyer said.
A/N: I know it's been a while and again I'm sorry. I hope you liked this chapter even if it was a little shorter than usual but it had to be this way. I left you with a cliff, I know I'm mean. Tell me what you thought and what do you wish happens next. Next chapter will be Jate centric again.
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