Shannon in every season if she survived to the very end:
Let’s say she still had a near death encounter with Ana and the Tailies, either the gunshot misses her or maybe it still hits her somewhere nonfatal. Regardless, after an extremely tense relationship is born between her and Ana Lucia, and following any sort of recovery she may need to have, Shannon begins trying to understand her sightings of Walt on a deeper scale, and even brings them up to Michael directly. Shannon approaches Sayid and asks him about guns. In an effort to protect her, he would likely gently shut her down, remembering how impulsive she acted the day of Boone’s death with a gun.
Sick of being seen as useless, she chooses to accompany Michael on his dangerous mission across the island to chase after Walt’s captors. This results in Shannon being taken to the beachside camp along with Michael, where she finds herself able to answer Ms. Beatrice Klugh’s unique questions about Walt and his appearance in places he shouldn’t have been. Eventually, the Others would likely let Shannon go separate from Michael, seeing her as less of a threat compared to him.
Finding her way back to the beach camp, Shannon would likely get back right around the time that one Henry Gale has been taken captive. Her visions of Walt begin flaring up again, confusing her, since before they were warning her of danger of death. What could they mean now?
Every time Shannon accompanies Sayid back to the hatch so he can interrogate Henry for answers, Shannon gets a Walt vision. Every time she gets a wave of unease. There’s just something off about him. She continues to insist that Sayid show her how to use a gun to better protect herself, especially after what she went through. Despite this, Sayid continues to insist that he can protect her. Angered by this, Shannon turns to an unlikely partner; Ana Lucia.
In “secret”, Ana begins showing Shannon the basics of gun usage; how to carry one, how to properly aim. The more Shannon practices with a gun, she starts seeing Walt during these moments as well. They begin to cloud her mind to the point where she goes looking in the hatch for answers, maybe that crazy hatch guy had some kind of book on the meaning of dreams or visual hallucinations?
Shannon goes to the hatch and ends up taking a nap while reading. A dream of Walt sees him warning her, in clear words for the first time, that the man isn’t who he says he is, and to find the balloon. When she wakes up, she rushes to Sayid to relay this info. Despite their differing views, he’s always one to listen to Shannon and thus prompts Henry to draw Ana and Sayid the map to the balloon.
After Sayid comes back from the balloon mission with Ana and Charlie, the two of them share a moment where Sayid reveals that he knows about her secret gun lessons. Shannon expects a fight, like always from her lovers when she does something they don’t approve of, but instead she gets an apology, an understanding tone. Sayid telling her that he shouldn’t have let his own worries cloud her desires and that she should know how to defend herself.
Sayid takes over for Ana in showing Shannon how to use a gun. This time, Shannon gets some target practice in. A little rocky at first, she starts to get the hang of it, albeit a little wobbly in her grip. Little does Sayid know that Shannon all along has been planning an ulterior motive. With her newfound gun confidence, Shannon locks herself in the armory with Henry and points the gun at him. She wants Michael and Walt back and is willing to go to drastic measures to help get them back. If she can do this, then maybe others will take her seriously.
Despite her effort, she can’t bring herself to shoot someone, even if they’ve been lying about who they are all along. She unlocks the door and faces Sayid again. Ironically, no sooner does this happen, do Jack and Kate shuffle in with an unconscious Michael. Shannon seems to be the only one who notices an odd expression change on Henry’s face.
Sayid takes Shannon out on another one on one picnic, taking the idea from Hurley to have a calmer moment just for the two of them. While doing this, the two of them talk about what Shannon did, why she did it, and Sayid ends up revealing to her that he came close to doing the same thing to him while she was still missing. Both of them are feeling the effects of the island and what it drives people to do for those they care about. They need a damn drink, but of course they forgot to bring the Dharma wine.
Sayid and Shannon trek back to the hatch, ironically running into Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Eko. Upon entering, they’re met with a harrowing bloodbath. Ana lies dead on the sofa. Michael writhes on the ground in the armory doorway bleeding from his arm. Libby lies dead on the— and suddenly she spits blood up in Shannon’s face. She’s still alive.
While Jack works on Libby, Shannon helps Michael by bandaging him up. When she talks to him, she gets odd vibes from his recounting of events. A vision of Walt appears and Shannon seems to get the hint relatively quickly; Michael isn’t telling the whole truth. But she can’t just call him out for it right now. She goes to Sayid about it and asks him to probe.
To everyone’s dismay, Libby doesn’t make it. Sayid later approaches Shannon and lets her know that he thinks she’s right, and that Michael is compromised by the Others. Both of them come to Jack with this. Shannon can’t help but feel a sense of pride in herself. She got to help. She tries to invite herself along on Michael’s mission, but of course is locked out. Instead, she offers to accompany Sayid on his proposed side quest of sailing around the island to scope the campsite using Desmond’s sailboat. Sayid is reluctant, but she holds her knowledge of sailing over his head, getting him to agree.
Even though she has knowledge, she doesn’t know everything. So they both turn to Jin and Sun for likely the only other person to know more about boats than her. The four of them set sail. While doing so, Shannon takes the time to speak with Sun, learning of her pregnancy and leaning more into the “girl talk” side of things. She’s spent so long worrying about her self worth as of late, she’s forgotten how good it feels to be able to sit and chat with another girl. She’s missed it.
When they finally approach the beach camp with the weird rock hole, Shannon insists on going with Sayid to check it out. She’s been here, she knows the way around, after all. When they go and scope it out. Shannon is drawn to those strange Dharma doors. Though, before she can try to open them, Walt is in front of her, but it’s different. He looks happy, and he waves. A goodbye. Shannon waves back, she doesn’t know how, but she can feel that he’s safe again. She isn’t sure if she’ll ever see him again, but if it means he got off this god forsaken island, then that’s okay with her.
Finding nothing, Shannon and Sayid go back to the boat to prepare to dock somewhere else and prepare their signal fire for the other group. However, before they can, there’s a sound that grows louder and louder to the point where they all have to cover their ears it’s so bad.
And then the sky turns purple.
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