A/N: Check out my profile for the banner I made. It's kind of lame, but it's the best I could do, the actors are the following:

Averi Montgomery (Adrienne Palicki)

Garret Montgomery (Alex Pettyfer)

Martina Estefania Diaz-Correra (Rosario Dawson)

James Black (Alexander Skarsgard)

Skye Hopeman (Arielle Kebbel)

Riena St. Claire (Penelope Cruz)

Gavin Quintana – McIntyre (Benicio Del Toro)

Rhys Holden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

Angelo "Angel" Lockhart (Adrian Grenier)

Averi stared up at the dimming skyline as the sun moved ever so slowly down into the water. Riena had fallen asleep next to Skye who still hadn't woken up. James was sitting by the edge of the forest with a bunch of wood. He was trying to start a fire, he had treated Angel's head wound to the best oh his ability, but Angel seemed to be slipping in and out of consciousness. Averi picked herself off of the sandy beach and walked over to James.

"When are they coming back? It's getting dark." James looked up from his newly lit fire and glanced out at the jungle.

"Soon hopefully, it's been at least three hours. Either way they will see the smoke and that will lead them back fast."

"Have you checked on Angel yet?" She asked. James shook his head and ran his hand through his blonde buzz cut.

"No, hopefully the others will come back with a doctor, or some medicine to help his fever. The Advil was all gone in the pack."

"My fault, I get headaches a lot when I sail. I was meaning to pick some more up on the island but I forgot…"

"It's okay, if worse comes to worse I can wet a cloth and put it on his head, you know what. I'm going to go check on him now." James excused himself and walked over the boat. He went through the hole in the hull, which was filled with seawater and baggage, and climbed the stairs. Angelo was still on the deck, twitching slightly. James suspected it was from the fever, he was no doctor, but being in the army he had some medical experience. James reached his hand over Angel's forehead. He was burning up, he moved to leave and get water when a strong hand grabbed his wrist.

"The other's…they're in trouble." Angel managed to groan out.

"How do you know that?" Asked James his blue eyes narrowing.

"Hurry…" And with that Angel slipped back into unconsciousness. James stood up and called out for Averi to get a wet cloth and come help Angel. He passed her as she was running to the boat.

"Where are you going?" She asked him, a wet shirt in her hand.

"To find the others,"

"Garret told you to stay and you said they would come back!" Averi half yelled.

"Calm down. What I need you to do is watch Angel and wake Riena and Skye. You need to tell them to keep the fire going!" With that James bolted off into the dark jungle. Averi stared at him for a few minutes, a sudden rush of fear exploded within her. She was all alone… she ran to Riena and shook her awake. Riena's eyes flew open and she had a dazed look on her face.

"Wake Skye and watch the fire," Averi pointed out the red flames, "Keep it alive!" She ushered and ran off into the boat. Riena turned to the slumbering body of Skye and lightly shook her awake.

"Hey Riena, I must have dozed off. I had the craziest dream… I'll tell you about it later, are we at the island?" Skye asked as she squinted her eyes in the new forming darkness.

"We are on an island. Not the island." Skye looked at Riena confused, and then she noticed the boat.

"Oh my god! Where's everyone? Where's Averi?"

"Averi is up there," Riena pointed to the boat, "With Angel. I do not know where the others are." Skye glanced at the jungle,

"Did they go in there?"

"Yes… but we must worry about the fire. Averi said we must keep it going…" Riena and Skye made their way to the fire. Skye's eyes widened as she examined her surroundings. She had no idea where they were and was starting to get worried. Everyone seemed to have disappeared on her. She sat next to Riena by the fire and lost herself in the glowing flames.

James ran through the forest looking for anything to tell him where he was or where Garret and the others went. He cursed himself for not making some sort of a torch. The sky was dark already, he could barley see the smoke of the fire in the sky. What the hell do I do? He wondered as he ventured deeper into the jungle. The ran right into a clearing, it was eerie silent here. However he was thankful for the moonlight that seemed to light up the area. James spun around suddenly as he heard a strange, almost mechanical noise. He glanced around, readying himself for anything, but he saw nothing. He heard the sound again and spun around. James couldn't believe his eyes…

"Sam?" It was Sam, James best friend in the entire world. But this was impossible, Sam was dead.

"I am going to kill you when we get out of these ropes!" Yelled Rhys, his dark eyes smoldering as he struggled against the tight bonds that held him and Gavin to a tree.

"How the hell is this my fault?" Growled Gavin.

"You punched the Arab and got us tied up, Martina knocked out and Garret beaten up!" Rhys growled.

"Oh so it's my fault we're stuck like this, you calling him a terrorist had nothing to do with it!"

"He was harassing me!"

"Yeah well incase you haven't noticed not all Arabs are terrorists!"

"Well this guy is acting like one!"

"Will you two shut up!" Gavin and Rhys turned their heads to look at Garret; his handsome face was bloodied and bruised from his torture session. They didn't tie Garret up; they beat him enough to insure he wouldn't move. "When they come back with their friend, we need to be gone by then. Can you two move?"

"If I could I wouldn't be stuck to this tree," growled Rhys.

"Same here, the last place I want to be is with him," spat Gavin.

"Okay, I get neither of you two can move," Garret winced as he tried to move his arm. "What about Martina, is she any closer to waking up?" The two men had left Martina lying by Gavin's feet. The Arab had knocked her unconscious in the beginning. Garret supposed it was to save her the pain of interrogation.

Gavin looked down at Martina's face, he smiled, she looked harmless when she was sleeping. He nudged her face lightly at first, but then gave a small kick with his foot. Martina's eyes shot open and she grabbed Gavin's leg in a vice grip. Gavin kicked his leg away and glared.

"What the hell?"

"What the hell?" Mocked Martina, "You kicked me with your foot!"

"I was waking you up!"

"Is that how you wake people up, by kicking them?"

"Enough!" Hissed Garret, Martina looked over at him and gasped. "You need to untie them… do any of you have something sharp?"

"I have a knife in my left shoe," Gavin responded as he edged his foot slowly towards Martina.

"Why do you have a knife in your shoe," Asked Rhys, who was scowling in the dark.

"In case I run into trouble…" Gavin answered

"You mean trouble you caused yourself?" Rhys shot back

"I'd love to cause you some trouble," Spat out Gavin.

"Enough!" Yelled Martina as she yanked Gavin's boot off. "If we're going to escape we need to be quiet!" She hissed.

"Who said anything about escaping?" Martina dropped the shoe, Garret and Rhys craned their heads and Gavin cursed under his breath. The Arab was back with the bald man and someone else…someone Gavin couldn't quite make out yet in the darkness.

"Sam?" James questioned again as he walked slowly towards his friend.

"Go home James…" Sam said in a monotone voice.

"How are you here, I watched you die in that bomb…"

"Go home James…" Sam said again. James took another step towards Sam and reached out his hand, Sam evaded it swiftly.

"Sam… are you real?" James asked his voice cracking; he could feel the tears well up in his eyes. He was shaking he couldn't loose Sam again. He had to know if this was real. "Please, answer me!" Cried James.

"Go home James, you don't belong here!"

"Damnit Sam!" Yelled James. Suddenly the smell of burnt flesh filled James' nostrils, he stepped back and watched as a flash engulfed Sam. He was still there, except his skin was a bloody red and ashy grey. Few patched of hair were left on Sam's head, his clothes had been blown away and at some points Sam had no flesh at all, just burnt bone.

"Go home James…you don't belong here." The apparition called again as it vanished with the same mechanical sound as before.

"Sam…SAM!" Yelled James as he let the hot tears fall from his eyes. "Sam… come back…"

Averi sat next to Angel's sleeping body. She could just make out the silhouettes of Riena and Skye through the darkness. It had been a few hours, James still hadn't come back and there was no sign of anyone else. Averi shook a little as the thoughts of Garret and Rhys raced through her head. She held comfort in the thought that Gavin was with them, he was strong and Martina was sensible, she would never let them lead each other into danger. She glanced back at Angel, who seemed to be sleeping soundly,

"At least one of us will," She thought out loud. Averi leaned back against the side of the rail and let her eyes close for a few minutes. Within the first few seconds she was out like a light. Skye and Riena however were both up and alert, they were each waiting for someone to emerge from the jungle, they jumped at any sound.

"Do you think they will be back soon?" Asked Skye. Riena shrugged,

"They have been gone for a long time. How long can it take?"

"So you four thought it would be fun to escape?" The Arab man said as he snatched the shoe from the ground.

"No we thought it would be fun to get beat up after you caught us," Martina smiled.

"Come now Sayid, you aren't going to hurt Betty La Fae are you?" A southern voice drawled from the darkness. Gavin's eyes widened. He knew that voice…

"Sawyer?" Gavin called. The rustling in the trees stopped as tall, handsome blue-eyed blonde haired man walked out. The man looked relatively scruffy, his hair was dirty and hung around his face. The man, Sawyer, widened his eyes as he took Gavin in.

"Well well well, if it isn't Che Guevara himself!"

"You know our god damn captors!" Yelled Rhys.

"No, I know one of our captors!" Gavin yelled back.

"Both of you idiots shut the hell up!" Martina yelled.

"Feisty aren't you?" Questioned Sawyer. Martina glared at Sawyer before looking at Gavin,

"Oh yeah, you two are definitely friends." Gavin winked at Martina.

"You can be my friend to Marty." Martina looked like she was about to lunge at Gavin, when Sayid grabbed her arm. Sayid turned to look at Sawyer.

"You know him?"

"Yeah, we worked together…" Sawyer trailed off as Sayid's face dawned in recognition.

"Why am I not surprised!" Sayid muttered.

"What are you doing in Fiji?" Gavin asked. Sawyer gave a hearty laugh,

"Fiji? We are not in Fiji… we don't know where we are…"

"Then how the hell did you get here?" Asked Rhys who had finally given up on his bonds.

"Our plane crashed," The bald man said.

"What plane?" Asked Garret as he moved his heavy head.

"Oceanic Flight 815," Sayid answered. Garret sucked in a breath. Averi was right, Widmore did set up the crash… these people are alive, they have been the whole time…

"You're a liar!" Growled Rhys, "Oceanic Flight 815 was found everyone inside it was dead…"

"What?" The bald man exclaimed. "That's impossible, the tail section was the only part that sunk… how did they find our plane?"

"It's not impossible… I know the man who found the plane, my father used to work for him…"

"Are you saying Widmore staged it?" Asked Rhys as he met Garret's eyes.

"Whose Widmore?" Asked Sayid.

"We'll tell you, we'll tell you everything we know. But you need to untie my friends and help us… our boat crashed on this island after a storm, we have an injured person and we need to go back for the other passengers…" Garret proposed.

"Should we trust them?" Sayid asked Locke, but then glanced at Sawyer.

"I've known Gavin for years, he's the one person I trusted enough to work with… yeah we can trust 'em." Sayid took the knife from Gavin's shoe and sliced the ropes holding Rhys and Gavin. Rhys rubbed him arms as he sat on the ground as Gavin walked over to Sawyer and give him a quick hug.

"How've you been Sawyer?"

"I'll tell ya all about it once we get ta' our camp," Sayid helped Garret up who shoved him away.

"I don't trust you," snapped Garret as he leaned himself against a tree.

"Locke I'm going to take him back to Jack, maybe he can fix him up."

"Hell no I'm not going alone with you!" Yelled Garret.

"Then I'll come too." Martina offered as she walked over to help out Garret.

"Then it's settled," Sayid spoke, "I will take these to back to Jack. Locke, Sawyer you follow those two back to camp. Once you gather their friends bring them back to the beach. Got it?"

"Aye aye Captain!" Sawyer mock saluted as Sayid glared. Sawyer turned back to Gavin and Rhys, "So which way's your boat?"

James slowly made his way back to the alcove. He walked solemnly back towards the dark smoke that trailed off from the fire he had left behind. When James finally reached the beach he noticed that Riena and Skye had pulled the entire luggage from the hull of the ship. The fire was just smoldering ash now, James had to turn his head away as flashes of Sam reached his eyes again. He sped up as he approached the girls.

"I see you two forgot about the fire…" Skye jumped away and dropped her head.

"Sorry… we forgot," Skye apologized.

"Don't worry about it…did you also lose Averi?" James asked.

"Sorry, she's sleeping up on deck should I wake her up?"

"No, I'm kidding. It's okay. I was just wondering. Did any of you find anything else?" He asked.

"No, just clothes…" Riena responded as she sorted through her clothing. James looked around and found his blue suitcase. He pulled it out of the pile and tossed it aside. A sudden rustling was heard from the bushes, James and the girls turned to look in the direction. It was Rhys, Gavin and two other men James didn't recognize. Rhys was in the front; he stomped on the sand right up to James,

"Where's Averi?" He asked, his dark eyes narrowing.

"On the deck, who are they?"

"I don't know," sighed Rhys as he ran a hand through his dark hair, "Ask him," Rhys nodded in the direction of Gavin who was joking with the tall blonde man. James watched as Rhys climbed on to the deck. "Stay here you two… Gavin!" He called. Gavin turned his blue eyes away towards James.

"Hey we found people!" He smiled. "This is my friend Sawyer, he's going to help us." James slowly approached Sawyer, then held out his hand,

"James Black… it's nice to meet you. Do any of you have a doctor? We have someone in need of a doctor up on the boat."

"How is Angel?" Asked Gavin as he crossed his arms.

"I'm sure I can help the little lady," Smiled Sawyer as he glanced up at the deck.

"Sawyer, Angel is a boy…"

"But Angel is a girls name… how the hell does that work?" Sawyer exclaimed.

"It's a nickname… who is that?" James asked and looked at the bald man.

"That's Locke, he's our resident hunter. He's here to help," Insists Sawyer. James looked Sawyer and Locke over,

"Great then you two can start helping us."

Rhys climbed up the stairs and glanced at the twitching form of Angel. He stepped over his body and kissed Averi's face lightly. Averi's eyes fluttered open,

"You're back… took you long enough," She smiled as she touched his check.

"We were held up by some friends of Gavin…"

"How does he know anyone on this island?" Averi asked as she slowly stood up.

"It's a long story… I'll let Garret tell it to you when we reach him…"

"Why not Gavin, and where is Garret?"

"Garret and Martina left with one of them… when we reach their camp, Garret will explain everything," Rhys helped Averi up. "Come on, let's go."

"What about Angel?"

"Who cares, the others will deal with him. I want to get you off this boat." Averi and Rhys walked together off the boat. She leaned against him as they walked over to the gathered group and passed a bald man walking towards the boat,

"What's he doing?" Averi asked.

"Dealing with Angel… come on."

Riena and Skye were talking to James who stood next to a tall blonde man and Gavin.

"Hey A!" Gavin called and hugged Averi as he smirked at Rhys. "I missed you, this is my friend Sawyer. Sawyer Averi, Averi Sawyer."

"Nice to meet you,"

"Well howdy there Princess. Damn Gavin you didn't tell me you had a girlfriend!" Gavin laughed as Rhys let out a low growl and grabbed Averi's hand.

"Nah, contrary to popular belief we're just friends."

"I didn't realize anyone thought you two were together," Snipped Rhys. Gavin turned to look at him with a smile on his lips,

"Well you know she's so happy with me."

"What are you getting at!"

"You know very well what I'm getting at Rhys!" Gavin started

"You better back the hell of Gavin!" Snarled Rhys

"Enough," Averi snapped as she shoved Gavin away from Rhys. "Both of you are acting like children!"

"Can we just go?" Asked Rhys as he impatiently glanced back at the boat.

"We have to wait for Locke and Angel," James informed them. "Then we can go."

"How much further is your camp?" Asked Martina as she and Sayid helped pull Garret along.

"Not much farther, we would be there faster if he could walk…"

"Well if you hadn't beaten me so bad we wouldn't be in this situation," Snarled Garret. Martina tensed, Garret was obviously angry with this man, but really who could blame him?

"I didn't know who you people were," Sayid explained.

"Common courtesy is asking," Garret snapped right back as he blew his damp blonde hair from his eyes. The three walked in silence, soon Martina could see some lights in the distance, A fire, we must be here she thought.

"Here we are," Sayid said as if responding to her thought. "Put him here. I'm going to go get Jack." Before Martina could ask who Jack was Sayid had fled.

"Are you okay?" She asked Garret, genuinely concerned.

"Yeah, as long as there is no internal bleeding, I'll be good as new…"

"Whose Widmore?" Martina asked after some silence.

"Can I tell you tomorrow, it's a long story. I'm tired." She smiled and pushed Garrets dirty hair back.

"Of course. You have all the time in the world. We're going to get through this…"

"You think so?" Garret laughed.

"I know so. You and me, we're fighters."

"Good to know, you think so highly of me," Garret joked as he leaned against Martina's shoulder.

"You are a fighter Garret… I would never lie to you about that."

"So you'd lie to me about other things?" Joked Garret.

"Just go to sleep, I'll wake you when Sayid comes back with this Jack person."

"You're my best friend you know that right?"

"You're delirious from the pain."

"Your right," laughed Garret. "Wake me up when it's morning."

"Will do." Martina listened as Garret's breathing slowed and slowly molded into her shoulder. As much as Martina tried to rest and wait for Sayid, she couldn't stop thinking that tomorrow was going to change everything.

A/N: Reviews make my life! Please let me know what you guys think! And if anyone wants to make an awesome banner for me. I'd be forever in your debt! - Alexa