I DO NOT OWN LOST OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS. THIS IS FANFICTION PEOPLE.

The nosebleeds were coming faster now. So were the time jumps. Charlotte was dying in Daniel's arms and he couldn't help her. The others had gone ahead to the Orchid station, John Locke had claimed he knew what to do. There were only a few of them left on the island now. Sawyer, Jin, Juliet, Miles, Daniel, Charlotte, and Ben's daughter Alex. She'd almost died a few days before at Keamy's hand but that was another story. Daniel heard a rustling in the bushes that was Alex returning with water for Charlotte. Daniel swiped the hair out of her face and dabbed at the blood coming from her nose with a bandana. Alex crouched down next to them and held the bottle of water out to Daniel.

"Is she any better?" asked Alex. Daniel wet the cloth and wiped more blood away. Charlotte was babbling about ancient Carthage, the closer she came to death the less lucid she was. "What's going to happen if this doesn't stop?" Alex was having the nosebleeds also and a headache that never went away.

"Do…do you really want me to answer that?" asked the physicist. Alex shook her head no and retreated into her head. She couldn't die now. She had already almost died that week because of her father. Which was worse death by mercenary or time-travel? She couldn't get Keamy's face out of her head. Hot, white tears streamed down her face as she thought about her final moments with Karl. Sweet, beautiful Karl gunned down in cold blood by strangers. Her mother had died the same way moments later, her final words had been that she loved Alex more than life itself and would die to protect her. Alex had just learned her mother was still alive only to have fate snatch her away a week later. Her mother the warrior, shot in the back and buried in a shallow grave. Alex shook herself, trying to forget the way the wire cut into her wrists or the cold rain on her face. Keamy's voice loomed overhead, telling Ben to come out. He refused. Keamy handed her the walkie and told her to say goodbye to her father. She begged him to come out but he'd made his choice. Alex looked up into his eyes, the coward was peeking through the window of their old house, unable to take his own consequences. She was going to die. Alex closed her eyes and waited for the gunshot, Keamy's barrel was pressed into the back of her head but there was nothing. And then a different voice came on over the walkie.

"I'm coming outside with him don't shoot." it was Sawyer. In that moment his rough southern accent sounded like angels singing. The door opened and Sawyer stepped outside. He had Ben by the collar and was holding a gun to his head. Alex began thanking all of the major deities she could think of. And then it was over. Keamy cut her hands free and told her she could go. Sawyer shoved Ben down in the mud at Keamy's feet and held out his hand to Alex. As they walked away he informed her that she needed to be ready to run because Ben had summoned the smoke monster a few minutes earlier.

"Alex! Get ready we're about to jump again!" Daniel's frantic voice pulled her out of her thoughts. Alex grabbed his arm in fear of being left behind. This jump felt different somehow, bigger. Hot, searing lightning split her head and she closed her eyes, trying to breathe through the pain. When she opened them again her headache was gone. "Charlotte?" said Daniel "Please Charlotte tell me if you can hear me." She moaned and stirred but her eyes were still shut. Alex realized she still had the death grip on his arm and let go.

"Is it over? Have the jumps stopped for good?"

"Ah..yeah. I guess so. We're stuck whenever we are now."

"What about Charlotte?"

"She'll be fine. You too Alex." he smiled at her "I want to thank you for staying and….you know helping us." He smoothed Charlotte's hair out of her face . Her eyes fluttered open and looked around.

"Daniel?"

"I'm right here," he said, squeezing her hand.

"Am I dead?"

"No. I promised you nothing would happen ,Charlotte." He smiled his sweet, sad smile at her and she realized she wanted to stay like this forever, curled up resting her head on his lap. She dozed while Alex and Daniel talked quietly, waiting for the others to return. Hopefully they had all landed in the same era. Their hopes were confirmed by Sawyer's voice booming through the trees.

'Where did we leave Twitchy and Sheena?" he said to someone. Charlotte sat up

"Don't forget about the daywalker!" she called to him.

"Son of a bitch!" said Sawyer. He came through the trees with Juliet, Jin, and Miles.

"What he means is we're glad to see you looking better." said Juliet. She knelt on the ground next to Charlotte "Will you be okay to travel soon?"

"I think so," said Charlotte "When are we?"

"Sometime before the Orchid was built." said Juliet

"Fucking fantastic." Charlotte rose to her feet and brushed her jeans off "Shall we?"

Sawyer and Juliet walked side by side. They grew more friendly every day. That happens when you time-travel with someone. Sawyer loved that Juliet could keep a level head and back up his leadership. The last thing the group needed right now was Kate sneaking around and undermining Jack's authority. Kate. Merely the thought of her caused a black cloud to form in Sawyer's head. He was worried about everyone that had been on the helicopter, had they even made it out alive? He couldn't worry about that right now. The time-traveling had taken its toll on the group They were going to camp on the beach for the night and decide where to go from there. Miles wasn't happy about going back to the beach and voiced his opinion to Sawyer.

"Why are we going back to the beach? Did you not get enough flaming arrows shot at you?"

"Nope. Time for round two." Sawyer wasn't in the mood to deal with Miles right now. He was about to say something else when two gunshots rang out from a short distance away. Daniel almost jumped out of his skin and Alex actually dropped to the ground. They could hear a woman screaming and two men's voices. Sawyer turned to Juliet.

"Still have my back?" he waggled his eyebrows at her. She laughed and they walked together in the direction the screaming was coming from. Alex was still worked up from the gunshots. Ever since her near-murder angry men with guns scared the living daylights out of her. She was sitting on her knees, trying to get her heart rate to return to normal. Miles crouched down next to her and held out his hand, trying to show her he wasn't a threat.

"Are you okay?" this poor girl. She couldn't be a day over seventeen and look what Benjamin Linus had done to her.

"I'll be fine." she looked so afraid

"Can I help?" She reached out and took his hand, like she was drawing strength from him.

"Was he going to let me die, Miles?" Miles had feared Alex would ask him about this. What had happened in the house that made Ben change his mind about surrendering.

"Alex, you don't need to hear this." she pulled her hand back and turned away so he couldn't see she was crying. "Oh no, Alex, ok, ok." Christ. Teenagers!

"I'm not coming out of this house. She's just a pawn." drawled Ben into the walkie that Miles had brought him from Keamy. Miles wasn't entirely sure of what was going on, from what he understood Keamy was going to put a bullet in a very young girl's head if Ben didn't go out there.

"Ben, she's just a kid." said Sawyer "You can't let her die."

"He won't kill her." Ben wasn't going to turn himself over. Miles crossed the room to talk to Sawyer.

"Who is she?" he asked quietly enough that Ben wouldn't hear him

"That's his daughter." Miles felt sick to his stomach. Ben was saying into the walkie that she wasn't even his daughter.

"I'm going to do something." said Sawyer "Can you watch my back?"

"Hurry up." Sawyer slipped Miles his handgun and lifted his rifle up to point it at Ben.

"What are you doing?" yelled Ben. Miles grabbed his arm and held the handgun on him. Ben struggled and cursed them but couldn't get free. The other two men in the house didn't move to help him. Sawyer ignored the yelling and snatched the walkie out of his hands. "John! Summon the smoke monster!" were the last words he got out before Sawyer dragged him through the door.

Alex had stopped crying and was looking at Miles in amazement.

"You helped too?"

"It was really Sawyer. I just held a gun." her breathing was normal again and she didn't look scared anymore. Daniel ,Charlotte, and Jin had been standing away from them so Alex wouldn't feel crowded but they came over to see her now.

"We're gonna be fine, Alex" said Daniel "Ben…he's gone. The time-travel is over and the mercenaries are dead. We're alive." Charlotte held her hand out to Alex and pulled her up to her feet. This was Alex's family now. Ben was all she had ever known and Daniel was right, he was gone. She should have been relieved, happy even but there was a sad, dark place in her heart that wanted him still.

"Alex?" She blinked back tears and looked into Miles' eyes.

"You won't feel this way forever. Everything ends."

Meet me on the equinox, meet me half way

When the sun is perched at its highest peak

In the middle of the day

Let me give my love to you

Let me take your hand

And as we walk in the dimming light

Well, darling understand

That everything, everything ends

That everything, everything ends

-Death Cab

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