Twenty years later
Phone continues to ring and finally, she picked up."Shawn, for the third time since you've been calling, I'm really busy and next time you call please remember that I'm busy."Clare said as she picked up a pack of biscuit and began eating.
"Well mom surely I'm not going to be calling again because I'm on my way home." He said as he carries his bags into the plane and took his seat waiting for the plane to leave.
Just in hearing this, her heart leaped at the word 'coming home'. She knew that one day he would want to return even though he knew nothing of the incident twenty years ago. She would tell him nothing of who he really is or how his father died.'It is the best thing for him 'she always thought. She had kept him all these years from coming and now she just couldn't make out any excuse to stop him."Shawn I thought we've talked about this,you are not coming anywhere close to New Orleans."the thought of bringing him back to the place that once tried to kill him was just like stabbing her right in the heart when ever the thought of what happened comes across her mind.
"Well my flight is at to leave." He said " Mom I'm only doing this because I want to see you, I've never seen you before apart from you know the photos. I was thinking of um... maybe we could come close and get to know each other...than you trying to shut me out. Besides I've made up my mind to come home and nothing will change it."
The other end of the line was quiet for awhile that he thought he had said something wrong but she suddenly said something , only but a word"Fine".
He wouldn't say that he wasn't surprised that she agreed but either way he would have still went to her if she had not agreed.
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She was almost done preparing his favorite food when she heard a knock on the door.Thinking it was Shawn,she opened the door, she found her self being pushed aside as her friend Vera came in.
"Whoa...whose party are we celebrating?"Vera asked as she reached the table and grabbed a pancake.
"You need to leave, now"she said as she tried pushing her out.
"Hey! what's the heist?I just got here and your asking me to leave."stares at Clare"I know you girl so spill the beans who's coming?"
One thing her friend was good was reading her and knowing what she didn't want her to know"fine, Shawn, okey? it's Shawn."
"What? Shawn's back?"she almost choked on her pancake.
Just then a knock came at the door as Shawn came in as he stood there staring at the house and finally his attention went to them . Vera took one long look at Shawn and said "He is one hell of a handsome kid."
"Shut up will you?"Clare said as she began dragging Vera out the door ignoring she ever heard Vera say something about him being more handsome than his father.
She eventually dragged Vera out and turned to Shawn "I made your favorite."she said as she gestured towards the dining room.He stared at the foods "I think I'd rather take a shower first."
She stared at him suddenly remembering how she always held him every night before he falls asleep when he was still a child but her thought's were cut short when he brought her back to their world just as Jack always did whenever she was lost in thought.
"Where can I find my room?"he had asked.
She found herself stuttering, speaking words her herself could not understand. "Yeah...I.. just...um... just take the door through the hallway to your left."
He nodded,stared at her for a while before he walked away. He knew it was awkward for her and himself.