Hey all! This is season 5 of Lost with the inclusion of my original character, Andie Parker. I suggest you read my seasons 2-4 series (Beautifully Lost, Beautiful Disaster & Detrimental) of Andie to fully catch up with her tales on the Island, but if not, all you really need to know about her is that she was a friend of air hostess Cindy in Australia, she fell in love with Sawyer on the island even though she had a serious boyfriend, Nick, back home, she was Claire's closest friend on island and is now raising Aaron as well as her daughter with Sawyer, Jamie. So this of course makes her one of the Oceanic 7, lol. Enjoy!

Chapter 1: In Motion

The squealing of her children in the next room allowed Andie ten minutes to relax on the couch. They were in the downstairs playroom playing with Aaron's trains. He was just a few weeks from turning three and Jamie, now two, was playing with her large collection of teddy bears when Andie had left her. Drinking hot chocolate and thumbing through the latest Harry Potter was Andie's idea of relaxing; and it was one of those rare occasions when she got to indulge in her childlike desires.

The last thing she expected was trouble.

So when she saw a heavy shadow cast in her hallway that was definitely too large to be her son or daughter; panic gripped Andie's heart. She dropped her book and sat bolt upright. The shadow was coming from the front door; on the other side of the playroom to where Andie was. Her gun was upstairs stashed high up in her closet; she'd have to go through the hall to get to the staircase. Instead; Andie crept to the kitchen and grabbed a carving knife from the drawer. The sounds of Aaron and Jamie laughing kept Andie's head sane as she knew they were alright; at least for now. She hurried into the hall and saw a figure slump into the nursery.

"Get the hell out of there!" Andie shrieked as she raised the knife. "You get the hell away from my children!"

"Andie..." A voice growled as the figured stumbled back into the hall against the wall.

"Sayid!" Andie cried. She stashed the knife on the top shelf of the bookcase beside her and hurried towards her friend.

"Mummy?" Aaron called fearfully from the playroom.

"It's ok, baby, it's ok." She assured him as she tried to get Sayid to his feet.

"Mummy!" He cried again; protectively holding Jamie's hand.

"You stay here with Jamie; ok?" Andie told him as she slid Sayid's arm around her shoulders and lifted him to his feet. "What the hell happened to you?" She asked him.

"I'm sorry..." He said tiredly as Andie lowered him onto her couch. "I had to come...I had to..."

"What happened?" She removed his jacket and saw a gaping wound in his shoulder. "What is this? Sayid; tell me what happened?" She asked him worriedly. Then she realized. "You did this for Ben, didn't you? He made you kill someone else." She turned away from Sayid; tears in her eyes.

"They killed Nadia." He told her; tears welling in his own eyes. "They all deserve to die."

Andie cupped Sayid's chin in both her hands. "You never used to think that." She told him sadly. "Wait here," She got to her feet. "I have to check on the kids."

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An hour later; Andie had managed to get both Jamie and Aaron down to sleep. Sayid tended to his own wounds and now sat at Andie's kitchen table swigging on a bottle of vodka in just his stained singlet and jeans. He glanced at Andie as she came in. "Are they alright?"

"Aaron's worried about you." Andie admitted as she sat across from her friend. "I told him you'd explain everything in the morning," She pulled her knees up to her chest. "So you have until the morning to figure out a story. You can sleep down here in the guest room."

"You don't have to-" Sayid began.

"Yes, I do." Andie cut in. "That's why you came here." She leant towards him. "How long are you going to do this? Until they're all dead?" Sayid didn't answer her. "Come on; you can't-"

"What I do benefits everyone we left on that island." Sayid interrupted.

Andie sighed and leant her head in her hand. "I saw Jack last week." She mumbled. "He's not doin' so good since Kate and all..." She heaved another sigh. "He still wants me to go back."

"I want you to go back, too." Sayid reminded her.

"So does Sawyer." Andie mumbled uneasily.

"What?" Sayid was puzzled.

"I had a dream...but I don't think it was a dream. He was in Jamie's room; holding her." Andie could remember every detail of that night. "He told me he needed me to find him; to bring Jamie back to him."

"And you're still unsure whether or not to go back?" Sayid asked; unable to hide the slight sarcasm in his voice.

"I had a dream about Claire, too." Andie smiled tiredly. "She told me quite resolutely not to bring Aaron back." She shrugged her shoulders at Sayid. "What do I do? Who do I listen to? My best friend or my baby's father; both of which I have to raise a child for and both of which I have to pretend are dead!" She slammed an open hand down on the table; anger coursing through her faster than she'd expected.

"You don't have to listen to anyone." Sayid told her.

"Yeah..." She heaved a heavy sigh. "I'm going to bed. I'm upstairs if you need me."

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As it turned out, Sayid didn't just stay for a couple of days. He was still there two weeks later. Ben had sutured up his arm just enough so he'd been able to get on a plane and fly back to the states but he had still been in quite a lot of pain. And for a soldier such as himself; that was a big deal.

Being around Andie, Aaron and Jamie made Sayid miss Nadia like crazy. They had never got the chance to enjoy their life and start a family before she was brutally taken away from him. That's why he was going to get his revenge, someday somehow he was going to make them pay.

Andie knew Sayid was benefiting from being around her children; the look in his eyes when he read to Jamie or helped Aaron build with his blocks was undeniable. He was happy. She was also grateful to have someone to help her out. Since Jamie and Aaron were both up and running around these days it was getting a lot harder for Andie to keep them organized; she barely had time to clean her teeth before one of them came running in with some sort of drama.

That morning, Andie was fixing breakfast as normal for her kids while Sayid read the paper at the kitchen table. "How interracial family are we right now?" She joked as she handed him a cup of coffee.

"Mama?" Jamie was calling from her high chair. "Mama? Mama? Mama? Mama?"

"Yes, baby?" Andie turned to her.

"Hi, mama!" She gurgled and tossed her head back laughing.

Andie chuckled. "Silly." Jamie had been talking non-stop for the past week or so.

"Sayid, look," Aaron's voice said as he came in from the living room still in his pyjamas. He was waving a drawing around in his hand. "I made for you." He climbed up on the chair across from Sayid and smacked the drawing down over Sayid's paper.

"Thank you, Aaron." Sayid told him lifting up the drawing. "Why don't you tell me about it?"

"That's you." He pointed to a brown scribble. "And me." He pointed to a smaller scribble with yellow hair. "And Jamie." He pointed to a round, pink circle. "And Mummy and Daddy." He pointed them out. "And Uncle Jack and Aunty Kate."

Andie always felt a pang through her heart when Aaron referred to Nick as Daddy. She knew eventually one day, she and Nick would have to explain the truth to him. 'How?' and 'when?' were two questions Andie still wasn't ready to answer.

"Up! Up!" Jamie was demanding waving her hands at her mother. She loved that word; she really liked emphasizing the 'p' with a smack of her lips.

Andie lifted her out of her chair and sat her on her hip when there was a sharp knock on the front door. "Oh, I'll get it." She plonked Jamie on Sayid's lap. "I'll be right back."

Tying her robe a little tighter around her waist as she made her way to the door, Andie wondered who'd be calling at eight in the morning. Nick had taken Aaron just this past weekend so it couldn't be him. Still thinking, Andie opened the door and saw two well dressed men in suits and carrying briefcases standing on her front stoop. "Yes?"

"Ms. Parker?" The man closest to the door said.

"Yes." Andie nodded.

"Hi, I'm Dan Norton of the law firm Agostini and Norton." He said with an efficient smile. "May we have a moment of your time?"

"I'm sorry, why are you here?" Andie asked politely.

"Ms. Parker, we're here to get a blood sample from you," Mr. Norton told her. "And one from your son, Aaron."

Andie was stung. "Excuse me?"

"I have a court order signed by a judge," Mr. Norton removed a small stack of paperwork from inside his briefcase. "For you to relinquish your blood upon being served these papers."

"Why?" Andie asked with an angry furrow growing in her brow.

"To determine your relationship to the child." Mr. Norton explained.

"I-I'm sorry," Andie stammered shaking her head. "I don't understand. Um, who sent-?"

"I'm not at liberty to divulge the identity of my client." Mr Norton told her.

"Your client?!" Andie snapped. She couldn't believe this; who the hell would want to know if she and Aaron were related? Nick already knew that he wasn't Aaron's biological father; it was the main reason he and Andie were no longer together. Plus he saw Aaron as much as he wanted and on top of that, Nick and Andie were finally on good terms again. He wouldn't do this. So then who?

"Please, may we come in?" Mr. Norton took a step towards her.

"Get off my property." Andie snarled at him.

"If you won't comply, then I'm gonna have to come back with the sheriff." Mr. Norton told her seriously.

"Then come back with the sheriff." Andie snapped and slammed the door in his face. She waited until she heard them walk away before she peered out the window beside the door and watched both men get back into a shiny, black Lexus.

As they drove away, Andie sank back into the door. Someone knew. Someone knew Aaron wasn't her son and was trying to take him away from her. Who? Who would do that? Sure, Jack was in a bad place but he'd never threaten to expose their secret just to get to her. Someone else knew; someone who didn't want the Oceanic Seven's secret to be kept hidden. Andie had no other choice; they had to get out of here before someone else came knocking.

"Andie?" Sayid called from the kitchen door. He still had Jamie in his arms; she was chewing on the ear of one of her teddies. Sayid saw the horrified look on Andie's face. "What is it?"

"We have to leave." She told him. "Right now." She made a beeline for the stairs and ran up them two at a time.

"Andie?" Sayid called. He set Jamie in her playpen. "Aaron; watch your sister for me please?"

"Ok." Aaron agreed. He was already drawing another picture.

Sayid bolted up the stairs after Andie and found her in her bedroom out of her pajamas and in jeans pulling a black t-shirt over her head. "Who was at the door?" he asked.

"Someone knows." Andie answered, telling him quickly about the lawyer and the blood tests. "We have to get out of here or they're going to come back and take him away from me." She grabbed a suitcase from her cupboard and started emptying drawers of clothes into it.

"Where will you go?" Sayid asked as he watched her pack.

"I'll figure something out." She told him as she grabbed a smaller bag and headed to Jamie's room.

"Where are you going, Mummy?" Aaron's small voice called from the top of the staircase as he saw his mother shoving some of Jamie's toys and clothes into the bag.

"We're going on vacation, honey." Andie told him. "Here." She opened the linen closet and grabbed down a duffel bag. "I want you to take this to your room and pack as many things as you can, ok?"

"Ok." Aaron agreed and took the bag into his room.

Downstairs, Andie heard Jamie start crying. "Sayid; can you get her for me, please?" She asked him. Her friend didn't move. "Sayid? Please. Help me."

Sayid sighed. "Ok." He turned and descended the staircase.

Andie finished packing up herself and Jamie then went to make sure Aaron had packed clothes and not just toys. She also grabbed up Jamie's diaper bag from her room and tossed it at the top of the staircase with all the other luggage. Then she went into her bedroom and retrieved both her gun and the wad of cash she kept up in the top shelf of her cupboard and stuffed them both in her shoulder bag. Finally finished, she grabbed up all her bags and hurried downstairs. Aaron was already waiting for her with the duffle bag dragging along the floor and his small backpack over his shoulder. Sayid was holding Jamie and looking concerned but wasn't going to protest. He helped Andie with her bags so Andie could pick Aaron up and carry him out of the house.

"You ready, baby?" She said to him as Sayid headed out the door with Jamie. "Say bye-bye house."

"Bye house." Aaron waved.

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