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The Pace family re-enter the bar from Antar, all dressed up in their wedding clothes. Liam is carrying Megan, while Karen and Charlie follow a step behind, talking quietly.

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Liam eyes him for a moment, then shakes his head.

"Isn't that what I just told you? You were the one worrying about what if refusing him is what breaks you up, but Charlie, if he's going to ask, then he's going to ask and you'll have to make that choice. Unless you want me to talk to him first."

"No, I don't want you to talk to him," Charlie mutters. "You're not seeing the damned-if-I-do, damned-if-I-don't aspect of this."

"I'm trying", Liam says with some frustration. "But I think you're forgetting what this place can be like. Sawyer and Claire are still on your island when we know that another version of them isn't, your Darien has Kevin when the other one didn't, so who's to say it's not just another case of... of worlds that are almost the same but not quite?" He sighs. "Talk to Darien, Charlie. He deserves that."

"And what do I say? 'Don't propose, it scares me too much'?" He sighs and rubs his eyes.

"Not in quite those words, but... what you said to me. That you want to keep things the way they are."

He looks up and catches Karen's eye, where she's holding a sleepy Megan.

Charlie nods--not convinced, and not especially comforted, but with nothing more to say, really. He catches the look and waves them to the door. "Go home. I'll see you guys later, yeah?"

Liam leans over to give him a hug.

"I'll be back soon, baby brother. Talk to him."

"Yeah," he says, hugging Liam back, and stays on the floor as he watches them go.

Eventually he hauls himself to his feet and goes upstairs, to change clothes and think.

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