Chapter 2
"CHARLIE!" jack called
Charlie ignored him and kept on walking.
Desmond was about to follow him but jack stopped him and went on instead.
Slowly Claire followed jack from behind.
"CHARLIE?!" jack shouted
Claire walked up to jack,
"Did you see where he went?" she asked
Jack sighed and shook his head
"No I didn't." he told Claire.
There was a rustle from above
"HE didn't go anywhere!" a voice called.
Jack and Claire to see Charlie sitting on a tree branch
"Charlie how did you get up there so fast?" jack asked
Charlie looked down at them.
"Does it matter?" Charlie asked
"Charlie just get down!" jack order
Charlie sighed and rolled his eyes but still climbed down.
Rustles came from all around suddenly people jumped
out from everywhere and attacked.
Jack and Claire got hit in the head with something hard
Charlie looked around wildly then something hit him in the head.
Everything slowly went black.
Charlie woke up in a chair, and looked around trying
to figure out where he was.
Then spotted someone across the room.
Charlie got up and realized that he was in a cage
NOT a room. Charlie went over to the door and
gave it a hard tug. The door flew open and
Charlie fell to the ground.
The man spoke up
"sorry I should have told you that was open." He apologized
The man took a step forward, Charlie got up.
"who are you? Why am I here, what happened to
Jack and Claire?" Charlie asked
The man laughed and shook his head.
"Your friends are safe at your camp,
My name is ben." He answered
Charlie nodded and took a step forward
"So why am I here ben?" he asked again
Ben smiled and shook his head again
"we need you for a trade,
Your friends get you we get what we need,
BUT don't worry you'll be perfectly fine here."
Charlie sighed , looked around and shook his head.
"You would have better luck sending me." Charlie told ben
Ben looked at him in surprise
"you don't think your friends will come for you?" ben asked
Charlie just stared at him, ben smiled.
Charlie smiled back
"So what is it you need?" Charlie asked
THE NEXT DAY
Charlie walks into the camp and hears shouting in the distance
It was jack and Claire,
"THIS IS YOUR FAULT JACK!" CLAIRE CRIED
"MY FAULT? HOW IS THIS MY FAULT,
We got attacked in the forest! Is it automatically
MY fault when Charlie gets dragged off." Jack responded
Charlie shook his head as he walked up he said
"Oi, what's going on?"
Jack and Claire turned to see him walking up
"CHARLIE!" Claire gasped
Whispers quickly went through camp about
Charlie's return.
"what happened to you Charlie?" jack asked
As he pushed Charlie into his tent
Charlie had to laugh
"I've been in this tent one to many times." Charlie shook his head
Jack looked at the wound on Charlie's head from
When he got hit.
"umm I don't really don't know everything was
all blurry." Charlie offered
jack stared at Charlie like he saw right through his lie.
Charlie grasped a boulder in his hand behind his back.
Just as jack started to say something Charlie swung his
arm and hit jack in the head with the boulder.
Charlie got what he needed and walked out of
jack's tent looked around then walked out of camp.
Jack woke up on the floor with his head pounding.
A bloody rock sat by him Charlie he thought.
Jack ran out of his tent and walked up to a
brown haired girl with blue, eyes freckles names Kate.
Kate gasped
"jack what happened to you where is
Charlie?" she asked
Jacked sighed and shook his head
"I don't know I just was talking to him.
Jack looked around to see Locke walking by
"Locke have you seen Charlie?" jack asked him
Locke pointed to a spot in the forest
"When he left your tent he went straight through there." Locke announced
"I suppose you got in a fight according to your head." Sayid told jack
He had come to listen. Kate nodded
"yeah jack what happened?" she asked
Jack shook his head
"I don't know we were talking then everything just went
Black and Charlie was gone." Jack explained
In the forest
Charlie walked through the forest guilt running
Through him, yet at the same time he felt happy.
Charlie stopped at the big oak tree right as they planned.
Ben walked out another part of the forest
" so you got it then?" he asked
Charlie nodded ben smiled
"ok let's go then" ben told Charlie
Charlie took a few steps
"Charlie STOP!" A voice commanded from behind
Charlie and ben turned to see jack Claire and Locke
Coming from one direction and Sayid, Kate
and a sandy blonde haired guy with
blue eyes named sawyer coming from another.
Ben glanced at Charlie
"apparently your friends followed you." He observed
Charlie couldn't believe what he saw they actually came for him.
"What are you here Jack?" Charlie asked staring at the
ground avoiding Jack's gaze.
"I'd be asking you that Charles!" sawyer took a step forward.
Charlie flinched as if he had been hit.
jack gave him a curious stare.
Charlie looked at ben and asked
"what are we going to do now?"
Ben stared at him and took a step back
"it's more like what are you should do now,
It's your decision and you need to make it." Ben told him.
Charlie looked from ben to jack and back again.
Charlie's head spun sweat beaded on his cheeks.
Words from his past spun in his head,
"worthless, useless, junkie! Who needs you! You're a nobody!"
Charlie found himself running, running and leaving everything behind.