Okay So this is my first ever LOST fanfic. I am so in love with show I was like why not write one? And, I also really love Richard. He's stunning! not EVERYTHING will be completely accurate with the show, cause I do think it would get old reading what the show already stated but with another character. I hope you like it.. ish :P
Anyways... Here it is.
Chapter O1
The five of them sat inside Horace's house as they waited for a negotiation to be made with the a Man who had entered into territory of the infamous Dharma Initiative. Their leader from the Initiative was outside with the Hostile, and as Kara watched from the window with Miles- and noticed them stealing quick glances at her. The only thing she could make out from the mystery man- was the silhouette of his body as a torch burned from behind him.
" Why is he here? Who is he?" Kara asked as she closed the curtain on the window and turned from it facing Juliet.
" Well its obvious who he is. Why he's here... I have a hunch." She said.
" Could be because of the... burying." Kara narrowed her eyes and shot a look at Swayer. She was just about to open her mouth, but the door shot open in an instant.
In walked Horace Goodspeed and Kara shut her mouth.
" Okay LaFleur. How well did you bury the bodies?" He asked. Swayer sighed and pursed his lips shoving his hands in his pockets.
" Well that depends on how hard he looks." Horace sighed and turned to the 'guard' that he had standing by the door. Telling him to warn the others and turn the fence to a maximum. He left leaving on Horace with them.
Swayer left the house to go and talk to the man that had come. Being the stubborn mule that he was he left the house without permission of Goodspeed. Kara stopped him at the doorway as he was about to leave.
"James, are you sure you know what your doing?" he sighed and shook his head slightly before opening the door to leave.
"Not yet."
"What's taking them so long?" Kara asked as she left the window and sat on the couch nearby. " What does he want anyways?" She asked Goodspeed.
" We have a treaty with the Hostiles. And you broke when you killed two of their men." He explained.
" Well it hasn't really been broken. We aren't part of the Dharma and we're not Hostiles either."
" Well it's not good enough for them. His people want some kind of justice" He said. In the meanwhile Swayer walked back inside, his face flushed.
"What happened?" Asked Miles. Swayer sighed before delivering the news to everyone.
" I told him where the bodies were. and he wants the body of Paul..." he stopped short.
" That's it? That's not so bad." Kara said, they all turned to her with their expressions confused. "What! She's gonna bury him, why not let them take care of him. Surely they can't be savages." She stated.
" And they want you Kara." She was in shock.
" What?" Horace in the meanwhile left to go and talk things out with Amy who was at her husbands side.
" Thats what the guy with the eye liner said." Miles cocked his head.
" Do you know him from pervious flashes?" he asked. She shrugged.
" I don't know. Who are we talking about?" She asked.
" Richard Alpert. You know him?" Swayer asked. Kara narrowed her eyes.
" The four of us met with him at their camp when Locke showed up. That's it." Juliet furrowed a brow.
" Four?" she asked repeating what Kara had just said.
" Charlotte." Daniel answered. An awkward silence filled the room.
" What did you talk about?" Swayer asked.
" I didn't talk to him. Dan did." She answered. " What did he say would happen if we don't do what he says?"
" Then I guess that these folks will suffer the consequences." Kara pursed her lips and cocked her head.
" So then I don't have to go. I can go home on the submarine then." Swayer laughed and shook his head.
" You really think they'll let you off the Island if they suffer? Think again."
" What happens when John comes back?" Swayer shrugged.
" I don't know. But he knows about him. Listen, I also think I should tell you that Horace said we could stay for two weeks at locate the rest of our 'Crew'."
" So they could attack then Kara." Juliet added the obvious.
After minutes of constant silence Kara left her seat on the couch and pushed her blonde hair out of her face.
" The next time I see you guys you better thank me because I just saved your asses. The things I do for you." She said walking towards the door. Juliet placed a hand on her shoulder stopping Kara from leaving so quickly.
" Kara. Good luck. And- and when we find an opportunity to leave we'll take you with us. I promise." Kara nodded and sighed.
" I hope you can." She scanned the room and laid eyes on everyone. Swayer, Juliet, Miles and Daniel. She gave them a weak smile.
" Best of luck to you all. Its been quite a experience." They smiled weakly back at her before she left and closed the door behind her.
Juliet peeked from out the window and watched as Kara approached Alpert.
Kara walked slowly towards a man who sat on a bench. He seemed to be lost in thought, he didn't seem to notice anyone walking towards him. She rolled her eyes and shrugged to herself and sat on the grass cross legged waiting for something to happen. She began to pick at the grass and the roots. In the meantime Horace and Amy came out with the dead body of her husband.
" Mr. Alpert. Here you are." Horace said. Richard got up from the bench and scanned the body of the dead man.
" Thank you Mr. Goodspeed." He glanced down and saw Kara on the ground picking at the grass. " Well. Let's get along shall we?" He said to her as he grabbed the body of a dead husband.
Kara remained quiet but got up anyways. She looked back at the house where her friends were in. She had spent about one hundred days with them on the Island. She was all they had- Everyone else was dead or they left the Island.
And now Kara had come to learn that, the only person in this world you can depend on is yourself.
They had been walking for hours and dawn grew near. Alpert stopped by a creek and laid the body on the jungle floor. His eyes watched as a faint sunrise was present on the horizon of the Island.
" Are we almost there?" Kara asked after a while. He turned to her and smiled a little.
" You know I was beginning to think that weren't able to speak." Kara raised her brow and sat on the rocks by the creek. She pulled off her shoes and socks and dipped her feet into the water.
" Why would you think that?" She asked turning to him and watching him take a drink from the canister.
" Just an assumption. You haven't said anything in hours." He noted.
" Why would I say something? There was noting to say." She asked. He completely ignored her question and handed her some water. " I'm fine thanks." Richard raised a brow before drinking some more and putting it away again.
" What are you going to do with him?" Kara asked as they continued on the walk back to the camp of the Others. They were nearly there.
" Whatever he thinks is best?"
" Your leader? Who is he? Ben Linus?" She asked. Richard stopped and turned around to face her.
" How do you know him?"
" Lets put it this way. How can I not know him after everything he's done."
" Im sorry, I don't follow." Kara laughed slightly.
" Ha. Neither do I."
Soon they reached their camp. There were people who were waking up from their sleep and making breakfast and getting along with their day to day chores. It looked fairly simple. Tents, fires, and the basic necessitates. No Emillio Pucci here.
Kara believed them to be like the indigenous people of the island.
" This is where you live?" Kara asked. She followed Richard as he headed towards a man who looked middle aged. All eyes landed on her and she knew that she was unwanted here.
Might as well turn back.
" Richard. What did you bring us?" The man asked. His voice was fairly deep, raspy in an odd way, and looking at him Kara felt intimidated by him and his people.
" They told us where the bodies were buried, and we got Paul, and this girl." He gestured to me. " Where do you want him Charles?" He added. The man however paid no attention to Richard.
" Where did you come from? You don't look like Dharma material." He said eyeing Kara. She pursed her lips and was unsure whether or not she should tell them the truth about everything- or lie like Swayer did.
Lying didn't sound so bad.
But then again, Swayer had already told Richard what had happened.
" I would tell you," She began as she moved away from behind Richard and began to circle and look around the camp avoiding as much eye contact with Charles as possible, she was scared. " But then you would think I'm completely insane- Which I'm not and I know that for a fact cause well, I've never been locked up in a mental institute or been put in a straight jacket. But! There-" She was cut off by Charles before she could finish her rant.
" I don't give a damn about your life story right now. What I want to know is why are you here?" He asked.
" Well to tell you that I'd have to tell you a bit about my life wouldn't I?" Charles pulled out a gun and pointed it at Kara. "But!" Her voice pitched higher, " If you wanna know I'll know I'll tell you."
She paused for a second before starting her story.
" By any chance were you alive in the 1950's? And Do you think you'll might still be alive in the year 2004?" She began with a sly comment.
Kara sat in a tent with Charles a woman named Eloise and Richard. She tried to explain the situation as best as possible.
" So after they left the Island Benjamin Linus turned this wheel at a station called the Orchid cause he was supposed to move the Island. When he did that he left the Island and then all of these flashes started to happen. I remember seeing a statue of some sort of thing that looked like one of those Egyptian Dog Cat things by the beach. And then another flash happened and we were somewhere else."
" Wait you saw a statue?" Richard interjected. Kara pursed her lips and furrowed a brow.
" Yeah and it was by some building thing made with bricks... that looked tiny and stuff. Like a brick house thing in like Egypt or Tunisia or something." Richard seemed to be more interested in what she had to say rather than Charles.
" Okay and then more flashes happened blah, blah, blah those parts aren't that important. Point is that when our group was walking another flash happened and then we were somewhere in the 1950's and we came by your camp. That's when an old man named Locke talked to you" she said pointing towards Richard, " About something I know nothing about."
"T-" Richard cut her off once again.
" Do you mind? I'm trying to tell you something only I have experienced. Anyways after he talked to Ricci-"
" Richard."
" My bad. Sorry. Then he left for the Orchid station and turned that thing that messes with time. And he said that he'd come back. So the rest of us started walking wondering what we're gonna do in the meantime. Then that's when we saw a woman with two dead guys. Then she took us to the Dharma Barracks." Kara finished.
Charles nodded looking somewhat uneasy. " So this freighter that they were going to be on. Do you know who was plotting for that to happen." Kara nodded and began to think back.
'Um yeah. Funny thing really. His name is Charles and your name is Charles. But he's very wealthy and wanted to kill Ben. He's Charles Widmore. Does that name ring a bell?" She asked. It was then she noted the sly and concerned smile that Charles has plastered on his lips.
"Oh... I see." Kara muttered. "Um... May I go back now? To the Barracks? Where they have kitchens." She muttered.
"Eloise." Charles said. " Why Don't you show her to an empty tent. She must be tired." He said. Kara narrowed her eyes but followed her nonetheless.
" So um. Do you mind me asking you something?" Kara asked. Eloise turned around, her braided blonde hair almost whipping Kara in the face.
" What do you want?" She asked.
" Why are you guys living in tents? I thought you lived in the Barracks?" She asked. Eloise nodded and raised a brow.
" You know. You might have gotten Richard and Charles fooled with that story of yours. But no way in hell am I going to believe you." She stated. kara placed a hand on her hips and rolled her eyes.
" And why do you say that?"
" Because I know for a fact that this Island has a plan of its own. But let me ask you a question."
" Okay. Bring it." Kara stated.
" Why did Charles leave the Island in the first place. And how are you aware that the freighter was his?
" Because his daughter Penelope was looking for someone on the Island and we were able to get a signal from the sh-"
" Shut up! I-Don't-Believe-You." Kara nodded and backed down just the slightest.
" Alright. Then how can I prove to you that I'm not lying?" She asked.
" You have to be judged." Eloise said simply.
" What does that mean?" She asked.
" You'll know if the time ever comes."
Kara was in her tent and she looked at the small mattress, stack of blankets, and pillow that she had. It was definitely more luxurious than the one that she had made for herself on the beach.
She had a bed for the first time in a long time.
Kara looked down at her attire. Knee length brown and beige plaid shorts and a fitted lime green t shirt. They were somewhat clean but she was hoping that soon she would be able to fix herself up just the slightest.
And then get out of here and at least go back to the Dharma.
Or maybe she could go to the Orchid herself and mess with time again and leave this place. Go back home.
Home.
Not a day had gone by on the Island where she never thought about home. With her family, her friends, at work, in her own bed, with nice clothing! showers! her necessities! It all felt so long ago.
But it had been only about 100 days and counting.
They would come and get her. And she would be rescued.
Kara heard footsteps coming towards her tent. She saw a hand brush over the flap of her tent.
" May I come in?" She heard a familiar masculine voice ask.
" Yeah sure. Whatever." Richard walked in and gestured on the mattress. " May I?" Kara nodded shrugging.
" Depends. Do you have some disease that I can catch from you?" Richard smiled slightly before shaking his head and sitting on the mattress.
" No. Promise."
" That's good."
" Listen I was wondering if you knew anything about this man John Locke." he questioned. " Were you close by any chance? How do I know that I can trust this man to be our leader?" Kara shrugged.
" I don't know. He gave you that compass didn't he? And you were the one who was talking with him."
" I understand. But seeing as that I know what he's like in the future wouldn't it make sense to have you tell me a bit about him?"
" I'm sorry. I don't follow." Kara said confused.
" If he really is supposed to be our leader then I believe I have a right to know. This of course effects my people most of all. And Widmore is in denial that he is to lead us. I remember when he gave me the compass."
" I see. I thought you guys were really opened minded and cherished the land and everything." She said.
" Some do. But it doesn't seem like Widmore is one of them." Kara nodded and sighed understanding what he meant.
" I get it. I know more about him than anyone else from the camp. He was my closest friend. He was a lot more opened minded about this Island than any of us. He believed that we came here because we were supposed to, and it was his destiny to be here."
" I see..." Richard seemed to be interested in this, believing in what she said very contently.
" He was able to... how you say feel what was to happen. If something was going to happen good or bad."
" SO confident I assume." Kara sighed and looked uneasy for a second.
" Um sometimes. I mean he would make a good leader but he would always have that sense of doubt. I guess it was because of the accident that he was in. Oh! Ah-"
" Wait. Did you say accident?" He questioned. Kara nodded.
" Yeah. His 'father' pushed him out of an eight story window and he broke his spine. He was in a wheelchair for four years a paraplegic, and then after he came here he was able to walk again. Miracle right? Though he believed it was the Island."
" He said that?"
" Yes. Like the Island chooses the persons path and destiny."
" Is that it?"
" Yeah. But sometimes he would hear things about this guy named 'Jonah' or 'Joseph' or someone. You know with the letter 'J', Prophet of God..." She trailed off. " Do you know who I'm talking about?"
"Yes, A man named Jacob."
" Yeah. Thats all I remember." She said.
" I ask you something?" Richard questioned.
" Depends. You can try."
" Why are you telling me all of this? Won't your friends be mad?" Kara shrugged and nodded.
" Maybe. They didn't care much for him though. And I'm sure that he won't mind. I mean he was supposed to lead you right?"
" If he passes."
" Passes what? A test?" Richard nodded.
" Something like that." Kara furrowed her brows.
" But he already did that." Richard opened the compass and focused on it. " His 'father' came to the Island in some black box and he was supposed to kill him. He wasn't able to so he got someone else to do it instead. And he passed."
" You know. I really think I should be leaving now."
" Okay."
" Im Richard Alpert. I don't think we've been fully introduced." He extended his hand waiting for her to take it.
" Kara Holt."
So there's the first chapter. Don't worry cause they'll be more Richard- I just needed to get it going.
Also I want to have more of MY favorite characters in the story than the A-team- they'll still play big parts in the story! don't worry! Just a heads up is it's going to be a bother.
Sorry :P