We're Leavin On A Jet Plane, for places unimaginable. Let's unpack our bags and read about the unknown tales of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815. Submissions open; Form below.
Since fanfiction dot net , decided to act crazy as soon as I posted my story, I'm reposted Chapter 1. I received one review before everything went to the sticks. (PiratePrincess19, thank you for your OC.) Also thank you to everyone else who e-mailed me their OC's: HeroineInducedPanic and Jac Danvers.
Hello everyone!!!!
After reading all the wonderful OC stories out there, I've decided to try my hand at writing one. (Wonderful Writers such as: Jac Danvers, Homely, GuitarHeroLost, Sawyers Fan Girl, and Elyad were my inspiration to at least try. Thank You.)
I know at this point you guys are probably tired of submitting OC's but I would be deeply honor and forever grateful if you would submit a Character to my story.
Well, I'll leave you alone so you can go pack your bags.
DiorNicole
Looking For:
Middle Section:
6 Women & Men
Tail Section:
8 Women & Men
Others:
4 Women & Men
Freighties:
5 Women & Men
Expendable:
4 Women or Men
Form ~ My Two OC's Are Listed Below
Name:
Sawyer Nicknames:
Age & Birthday:
Gender:
Survivor Type (Middle, Tale, Other & Freighties):
Occupation:
Appearance:
Style Of Dress:
Flight 815 (What were they wearing.):
Personality & Attitude:
Hobbies/Interest:
Past:
Oceanic Flight 815 (Reason to be in Australia):
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Friends/Enemies:
Pairings:
Possessions:
Languages:
Any Other Facts:
AN 1: The title came from the great song: "Leaving On A Jet Plane" by: John Denver.
AN 2: If you have a long Character Bio or any questions, please feel free to e-mail me: leavinonajetplaneocloststory at gmail dot com.
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Name: Eva Marguerite Horton-Nxumalo
Munyemo ~ By her wife (Means - My Only Wife or My Own Wife & I Love You. It's African)
Sawyer Nicknames:
Xena Warrior Princess
Age & Birthday: 34 ~ February 8, 1970 ~ Aquarius
Gender: Female
Survivor Type (Middle, Tale, Other & Freighties): Middle Section
Occupation: Executive Administrative Assistant
Appearance:
African American
Short and Pleasantly Plump
Standing around 5' 1'
Warm Caramel Brown Skin
Long reddish brown hair. (Comes to the middle of her back.) Eva always keeps her hair in a bun.
Hazel Eyes
Wedding ring: Platinum setting with a two carat diamond.
A bracelet on her left arm, that's made up of orange, yellow and green beads. (It's a wedding bracelet. Zahara gave it to her on the day of there wedding. Zulu bead work is highly prized in there homeland.)
Two Tattoos
Four Dolphins: Upper back (The right side.), Ocean backdrop with the moon out. The four Dolphins are jumping out of the water. The Dolphins are equally spaced out so two are on her back and two ends up on her upper chest with a daytime Ocean backdrop.
The second: Teddy Bear with four names wrote inside of it: Mkabayi, Malik, Eva and Zahara.
Style Of Dress:
Favorite Color: Black
Monday – Friday: Tailored Business Suites. High Heels. (Even when the office has dress-down Fridays, she still wears Suites.)
Week-ends: Tunics, long skirts and basic black pants. Shoes: Ballerina slippers, flats, slides and loafers.
Flight 815:
A black Tunic with silver trim.
Black slacks with the same silver trim.
Black & Silver bangles, hoop earrings, Silver Locket (Children's pictures inside) and black & silver scarf.
Silver Ballerina Shoes
Hair pulled back into a bun; with a few pieces framing her face.
Personality & Attitude:
Eva's quiet, soft spoken and most comfortable when things around her are organized.
Can be very stand-offish when she meets new people and in big crowds.
Eva's very quiet until she gets to know you, then she'll start opening up.
Although soft spoken, Eva has no problem telling anyone what's on her mind.
Willing to help anyone; an anyway she can but hates to ask for help for herself.
Very independent
If something needs to be done, she rather do it herself than wait around for others.
Eva's never lost her love for learning and will try anything once.
She has trust and abandonment issues that stem from her past, which she's still trying to learn to deal with. She has a major set-back before coming to the island.
Loyal to a fault and believes everyone should be the same way.
Eva's wealthy but she's never let it go to her head. She knows the same way she got it all; is the same way to could lose it all.
Eva has a put together feel about her. Hair's always done, make just right, seems to always have the right outfit on for whatever's going on.
Eva feels as though this will keep everything else in her life in order.
Hobbies/Interest:
Reading
Writing
Singing
Dancing
Shopping
Cooking
Past: Eva was born and raised in the suburbs of the Maryland/DC area. Both of her parents were Tenure Professor's at HBC's. (Historical Black Colleges) Neither one of her parents showed much love or affection towards her. They believe showing any emotions, would make her weak. From a young age she keep people at arms length thinking, if her parents couldn't or wouldn't love her, no one else would.
Eva always knew there was something different about her but she just didn't know what it was. When she started High School she realized she was a lesbian but she knew she couldn't tell her parents. When she was 17 and the 12th grade (1987), her parents found out and put her out on the streets. Determined to finish High School and go to College; she moved into a shelter and finished High school. At the age of 18 (1989), she received her trust fund which was left to her by her grandmother. She rented a small apartment and started Morgan State University. Not wanting to be in college for four years; she work hard and graduate in two years at 20 (1991).
After college she found an entry level Administrative Assistant position at a company called: Kinnetik Advertising & Marketing Firm. It's a family owned and operated business. Sade and Genet Nxumalo migrated from South Africa fifteen years before, with there four Children: Genet Jr., Fatuma, Joseph and Zahara. They started the firm when they arrive in American and it became one of the most successful firms on the east coast. Once all there children graduated from college they decided to join the firm.
After two years of hard work (1993), Eva catches the attention of: Sade and Genet. There youngest daughter, Zahara (26), was unable to keep any of her assistants for any length of time before she decided to fire them. Sade and Genet, ask would she be willing to work for Zahara. Eva told them she would try but she needed a guarantee that if it didn't work she would still have a job. They agree and promoted her to an Executive Administrative Assistant.
Zahara and Eva worked well together but didn't get along at first. After a few months Zahara opened up and realize that Eva wasn't such a bad person. After working with each other for a year (1994), Zahara finds out that Eva is a lesbian. This doesn't bother her because she's also a lesbian. She doesn't say anything to her about it.
A year passes and on Eva's 25th birthday (1995), the office throws her a small Birthday party at lunch and Zahara asks Eva about her family. She tells her, about being a lesbian and how they put her out on the streets. Zahara's tells her she already knew she was a lesbian and would she like to go have dinner for her birthday.
After that they continue to work together and date. Two years (1997) later they decided to have a Committee Ceremony. (They also went to Maine and were legally married there.)
At 28 Eva and 31 Zahara (1998), decided to have children. After trying artificial insemination several times without luck, Eva was sent to see one the top specialist named Juliet Burke, in Miami, FL. There Eva found out she couldn't have children.
After the bad news, Eva shut down emotionally. (She's been in counseling for years and started going back twice a week after the news.) It took almost two years for Eva to heal. In 2000 they decided to adopt. Not long after starting the adoption process, they find a brother and sister that had been in the system for years. And being that there were older kids they have no problem adopting them. By the end of 2000, they adoption was finalized and Mkabayi (G-8 ~ Born 1992) & Malik (B-6 ~ Born 1994) were there's. They changed both children's names. At the time of the crash the kids were: Mkabayi ~ 12 & Malik ~ 10.
Life was finally back on track for them and they were enjoying parenthood. Two years later (2002) Eva & Zaharaattended a function at Howard University with her In-Laws and Zahara. (Her mother is Professor there.) Eva hadn't seen her parents since her 18th birthday. Eva and her family were standing around talking about the kids when someone called her name. When she turned around she saw that it was her parents: Sharon and Kevin Horton.
She was shocked to say they least. It was not a happy reunion; they had heard them talking about having kids. They couldn't believe that someone would let two lesbian have children and vowed that they would get them away form them. For the next year and a half Eva and Zahara fought with her parents over custody of there children. In May of 2004, the judge ruled that Sharon and Kevin had no grounds to try and remove the children. Instead of this being a happy time, Eva had a nervous break-down and was in the hospital for two months. Once she came home on orders from her doctor Eva and Zahara, planed a month long vacation.
Oceanic Flight 815 (Reason to be in Australia): On Vacation. Was taking flight to LAX, to spend two weeks in Napa Valley Wine Country.
Strengths: Eva's very organized, willing to put the needs of other before her own. She a very calm and rational person. She knows how to cook for large groups of people with short supplies of food. Eva's a great seamstress. She can take old or useless clothes and make something out of it.
Weaknesses: Eva has very bad panic attacks. She's embarrassed by that fact that she has them so she never takes her medicine with her.
Friends: Sayid/Shannon, Sun/Jin, Claire, Hurley, Rose/Bernard and Sawyer.
Shannon ~ Eva, loves to belly dance and does it every morning for exercise. Once Shannon sees this a friendship will bloom and they will belly dance together. They share a love for shopping and clothes. They both also have trust and abandonment issues.
Sayid ~ Respect's the fact that she's willing to do the grunt work to make everyone's life easier.
Sun ~ With her love of cooking and Sun's garden; they try to do different stuff with the food to make it more appetizing.
Claire ~ With two kids at home, Eva help's Claire with Aaron.
Rose/Bernard~ She likes Rose because she reminds her of her mother-in-law.
Enemies: Jack's hero complex, rubs her the wrong way. Eva has told Boone off on more than one occasion for the way he talks to Shannon. Michael, Locke, Kate, Ben, Ana, Juliet and 'The Others'.
Pairings: None: On the plane with her wife. ~ Zahara
Possessions: Her oversized handbag, carry-on: laptop, books and magazines, Digital Camera, I-Pod, a pictures of her children & Journals. (1 Old and Two new ones, she bought in Australia.) Sewing Kit, Yarn & Knitting Needles, make-up box, hot curlers and other odds & ends. All of her luggage. (She has 4 bags.)
Languages: isiZulu, English and Spanish
Any Other Facts:
A running joke with the survivors will be; if you don't have or need something, just go ask Eva.
Eva's children are home with Zahara's parents.
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Name: Zahara Mkabayi Nxumalo
Zee ~ By her wife
Sawyer Nicknames:
Zulu Queen
Gabrielle (Calls her wife Xena Warrior Princess)
Gabs(Calls her wife Xena Warrior Princess)
Age & Birthday: 37 ~ July 23, 1967 ~ Leo
Gender: Female
Survivor Type (Middle, Tale, Other & Freighties): Middle Section
Occupation: Advertising Executive (Part owner of: Kinnetik Advertising & Marketing Firm)
Appearance:
Tall with an athletic build (Exercises four times a week)
Standing around 5' 8'
amaZulu/African Decent
Dark Chocolate skin
Eyes so brown, they almost look black
Curley jet black hair worn in a ponytail
Two tattoos:
One on her left arm. A shield and spear, with the word "amaZulu" under it.
The second: on her left leg with four names: Mkabayi, Malik, Zahara & Eva.
Wedding ring: platinum setting; Diamond incrusted around the band.
Bracelet on her left arm, that's made up of orange, yellow and green beads. (It's a wedding bracelet. The mother of the bride makes two and gives them to her the night before the wedding. Zulu bead work is highly prized in there homeland.)
Style Of Dress:
Favorite Color: Black & Any Shade of Blue
Monday – Friday: She wears tailored Suites. She rather wear men's suites so she gets them altered so there more form fitting. Penny loafers.
Week-ends: Jeans and slacks. Polo's, button downs and tee-shirts.
Flight 815 (What were they wearing.):
Blue & White Striped Polo
White Canvas Pants
White Converses
Hair pulled back into a ponytail.
Personality & Attitude:
Zahara's outspoken and very direct
She's a great leader but will always do what's best for her people; even if that means she needs to step down as leader.
Hard-working and goal-oriented.
Zahara's feel as though she has to be the best at everything she does and anything less is unacceptable.
Very intelligent but she doesn't try to make others feel stupid. (Finished high school at 17)
Hobbies/Interest:
Loves: reading and cooking with her wife.
Dancing
Researching her families history
Playing Poker
Zulu bead work
Crosswords
Drawing
Past:
Zahara was the fourth and last child born to: Sade and Genet Nxumalo. Both Sade and Genet came from wealthy Zulu families. They meant in college and married after gradation. (Sade was an Advertising Major & Genet was a Marketing Major.) Life was hard with apartheid in full swing but they were determined to make it. As their children grew older, they started to notice their youngest daughter was gay. They weren't upset but they knew staying in Africa with apartheid and a gay child was not good.
In 1982, the decided to move to American with their four children: Twins ~ Genet Jr. & Fatuma (18), Joseph (16) and Zahara (15). Moving to American (DC Area) was hardest on Zahara because she felt it was her fault they had to move. Sade and Genet, tried on several occasions to explain it wasn't her fault and she did nothing wrong but she wasn't ready to believe it.
Zahara finished high in two years at the age of 17 (1982) and started college. She attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. She also finished college in two years at the age of 19 (1984), with a degree in Advertising and began working at her families firm.
Shortly after arriving in America, Sade and Genet opened a small firm called: Kinnetik Advertising & Marketing Firm. Business was good and eventually it grew to be one of the biggest Advertising & Marketing firms on the east coast.
Within a year (1985), Zahara was one of the best Advertising Executives at the firm. At the age of 20, Zahara was making six figures, driving a new Mustang, living in a new Condo in the Georgetown area of D.C., dating as many women as she could and partying almost every night.
Zahara continued to live her life this way for the next five years. During this time, although she was great at Advertising, she couldn't keep an Assistant longer than six months. Her Attitude and demands towards her Assistants were so outrageous that most refused to work for her any longer and were fired. (Her parents would step in and offer them severance pay and a reference.)
In 1990 Zahara eventually slows her life down, when one of the many women she was dating; broke into her Condo and destroyed it. That was the wake up call she needed to get her personal life together. Over the next three years, she tries dating but doesn't find anyone she wants to be with. While her views towards her personal life changed, her views on her Assistants didn't. (1990-1993)
Zahara parents take notice of Eva (1993), one of the young Administrative Assistant working there and decided to see if she could work with their daughter. Sade and Genet, ask would she be willing to work for Zahara. Eva told them she would try but she needed a guarantee that if it didn't work she would still have a job. They agreed and promoted her to an Executive Administrative Assistant.
Zahara and Eva didn't get along at first but they worked well together. After a few months Zahara opened up and realize that Eva wasn't such a bad person. She couldn't walk over Eva the way she did the other Assistants and she respected her for that. (She also knew that her parents would not let her fire Eva.)
After working with each other for a year (1994), Zahara finds out that Eva is a lesbian. This doesn't bother her because she's also a lesbian. She doesn't say anything to her about it. Zahara thinks Eva's a beautiful woman but doesn't think she would give her the time of day.
Over the next year Zahara, does debates with herself weather Eva would give her a chance or not. On Eva's 25th birthday (1995), the office throws her a small Birthday party at lunch and Zahara asks Eva about her family. She tells her, about being a lesbian and how they put her out on the streets. Zahara's tells her she already knew she was a lesbian and would she like to go have dinner for her birthday.
After that they continue to work together and date. Two years (1997) later they decided to have a Committee Ceremony. (They also went to Maine and were legally married.)
At 28 Eva and 31 Zahara (1998), they decided to have children. After trying artificial insemination several times without luck, Eva was sent to see a specialist named Juliet Burke, in Miami, FL. There Eva finds out she couldn't have children.
Zahara has a feeling more could have been done for her wife but for some reason Juliet won't help. Every time she brings it up to Eva, she has a panic attacks and eventually Eva shuts down emotionally altogether.
It took almost two years for Eva to heal. In 2000 they decided to adopt. Not long after starting the adoption process, they find a brother and sister that had been in the system for years. And being that there were older kids they have no problem adopting them. By the end of 2000, they adoption was finalized and Mkabayi (G-8 ~ Born 1992) & Malik (B-6 ~ Born 1994) were there's. They changed both children's names. At the time of the crash the kids were: Mkabayi ~ 12 & Malik ~ 10.
Life was finally back on track for them and they were enjoying parenthood. Two years later (2002) Zahara & Evaattended a function at Howard University with her Eva, her parents and brothers & sisters. Zahara and her family were standing around talking about the kids when someone called Eva's name. They all turned around to see who was calling Eva and saw a woman that could be Eva in 30 years. She told them it was her parents: Sharon and Kevin Horton.
It wasn't a happy reunion; they had heard them talking about having kids. They couldn't believe that someone would let two lesbian have children and vowed that they would get them away form them. For the next year and a half Zahara and Eva fought with her parents over custody of there children. In May of 2004, the judge ruled that Sharon and Kevin had no grounds to try and remove the children. Instead of this being a happy time, Eva had a nervous break-down and was put into the hospital for two months. Zahara felt her life falling apart again. She was trying to raise two children, work, help Eva & still be strong. Without her family she doesn't know how she would have made it.
It was the longest two months of her life. Before they released Eva, the doctor made Zahara promise to make she Eva took it easy for awhile and go on vacation.
They spent August home with their kids an in September left for Australia.
Oceanic Flight 815 (Reason to be in Australia): On Vacation. Was taking flight to LAX, to spend two weeks in Napa Valley Wine Country.
Strengths: Zahara was born to be a leader. She always tries to do what's best for the people she's in charge of; even if it means stepping down to let someone else lead. She would give everything she had if it meant someone else's life would be better. Although she a great leader, she's truly at her best, when she works with her wife. And she not ashamed to admit it.
Weaknesses: Not very organized and has become very dependent on her wife to keep things in order.
Friends: Mr. Eko, Bernard/Rose, Sawyer, Jin/Sun and Sayid/Shannon
Enemies: Jack's hero complex, rubs her the wrong way. Eva has told Boone off on more than one occasion for the way he talks to Shannon. Michael, Locke, Kate, Ben, Ana, Juliet and 'The Others'.
Pairings: None: On the plane with her wife. ~ Eva
Possessions:
Carry-on: Laptop, Crossword Books, Nintendo DS, Sketch Book & Pencils & Digital Camera. Eva's medication for her panic attacks. (Eva's ashamed that she needs it; so Zahara always carries it for her.) Luggage.
Languages: isiZulu, English and Spanish
Any Other Facts: Zahara's children are home with her parents.