Somewhere Beyond the Sea

by featherfour

Sam leaps into the body of a shipwrecked sailor and gets stranded on a tropical island. Life should be pretty relaxing, but a storm blows up on the island, and in the imaging chamber, the sailor is dying.

1. Disclaimer

This story is a work of fanfiction based on Don Bellisario's Quantum Leap characters. No infringement of copyright is intended. I write fanfiction as a way of extending my enjoyment of a show.

My thanks go to Helen Gerhard for her beta reading of my story. Apologies to Helen and to all American readers for ignoring her fine advice about changing my spellings to American style. I hope it doesn't grate on you all too much, it's just that as a writer, editor, proofreader and Australian, I just found it too confronting to use a different form of spelling. But I did double-check all the dubious spellings in my Australian Oxford Dictionary, so I assure you that any genuinely "bad" words that got past Helen and me are typos.

I would love to hear any feedback that you have on this, my very first Quantum Leap story. I'm