Here is the next chapter. Doesn't have anything major going on really, but that doesn't mean you don't have to review. And BTW I am on holidays for the next to weeks so I'll be able to update more. Want to know what is weird? For this story I have three people related to Jack and Claire, which I hardly ever see in these stories and only one related to Widmore when usually there is quite a few (take that as your hint to submit a Widmore). Anyway, on with the story. I don't own Lost.
Chaos. Surrounding her. Everywhere people trying to find children. Trying to find sisters. Trying to find brothers. Parents. Husbands. Wives. Friends. She had no one to find though, as no one even knew she was on that flight. Not like they would care anyway if they were here.
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It was Christmas and her brother and sister were home for it. A fifteen year old Natalie had gotten a pair of jeans from her brother and some shoes from her sister. And from her parents she got a 100 gift voucher from a place she hadn't even heard of. She looked down at the expiry date:
16-08-92
Her excitement of getting something from her parents that was more than ten dollars disappeared when she saw that. Sixteenth of August nineteen-ninety-two. That was over ten years ago. She had though of it as an honest mistake. Until lunchtime that was.
They served turkey. They served pork. They served lamb. They served beef. They served chicken. They had the tiniest part of the meal as salad. For dessert they had a cheesecake, and also some chocolate. They forced her to eat everything on her plate. And as she was lactose intolerant and also a vegetarian, she was sitting up most of the night throwing up. They never thought what their decisions did to her.
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It was night time now. Natalie was sitting next to two pregnant women. One was called Rosalyn and the other Claire. Even though she had only known them for an hour she felt there was something about them that made her trust them. Besides the fact they were heavily pregnant.
'So, Natalie, why were you travelling to LA?' Rosalyn asked her,
'Oh, you know, just something to do. You?' Natalie answered with a smile,
'Oh, you know, just something to do,' she returned the smile, 'what about you Claire?'
But she was saved from answering as a tall blonde woman and a little boy walked over to them and sat down,
'Hi, my names Amanda, and this is Jake,'
'Hi, I'm Rosalyn, this is Natalie and Claire,' she said pointing to each of them in turn,
'So, do you think there are any survivors from the tail or front?'
'Probably not,' Natalie said, 'why?'
'Well, I was in first Class, but the only reason I moved back was because at the airport I met this guy and I told him I hated boring flights, so he told me to come see him if I got bored. I got up, was halfway there and the turbulence hit. I should be dead,'
'Well, you should thank God that you are alive,' said a voice from behind them,
'I guess I will. I'm Amanda this is Jake, Rosalyn, Natalie and Claire,'
'My name is Emily,'
'Nice to meet you,' Claire said as they heard this mechanical noise from the jungle,
'What was that?' A frightened brunette asked,
'Oh my God,' Amanda said,
Just then the saw trees being ripped out of the ground. Everyone was speechless. For a minute. Soon everyone was talking loudly. A man was trying to calm down his girlfriend. A Korean woman was clutching her husband. Rosalyn and Claire were being calmed down by two men vaguely recognizable. Amanda was holding Jake close to her. Emily was talking loudly with the frightened brunette. And once again no one was caring about her.
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A fourteen year old Natalie was excited. It was the day she was graduating Middle School. Even better her parents promised to be there as she was giving a speech. It was going to start in five minutes and yet still her parents weren't there. It was okay as her speech wasn't going to be for another ten minutes after it actually started. It went slow. So slow in fact she was sure that time had stopped altogether. Finally the principal said,
'And now for Natalie LeBlanc's speech,'
She walked up looked around the crowd and saw that her parents weren't there. She seemed to freeze up. They had promised they'd be here. And even though she already knew they wouldn't she could hope, couldn't she? The reality hit her and instead of starting her speech she ran off the stage. That was the day she realized her parents never actually cared for her.
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The next morning Natalie woke up at the crack of dawn like usual. She didn't think anyone else would be up so she went down and sat about a hundred feet away from everyone else. About five minutes later she heard someone behind her. She turned around expecting to see one of the pregnant girls as they were the obvious choice to be up this early, but instead she saw the little boy. What was his name? James? Jayden? Jason? Jake! That was his name,
'Hey, Jake, shouldn't you be with your mum?' she asked as he came over and sat down beside her. When he didn't answer she started up a one-sided conversation to him about the crash until after about ten minutes she heard a small scream coming from where everyone else was. Picking up Jake she walked over there,
'What's going on?' she asked the first person she saw,
'You know Amanda right? Well, her son has gone missing,' the man explained,
Natalie walked over to where she saw Amanda freaking out,
'Amanda!' she turned around and ran over when she saw Jake,
'Where was he?' Amanda asked as she picked Jake out of Natalie's arms,
'Well, about ten minutes ago he walked down to where I was sitting and I figured if I sent him back to you he would most likely wake you up, so I let him stay with me. I'm sorry, I didn't realize what you would do if you woke up and saw that he wasn't there,'
'No hard feelings. I'm just glad he's safe,'
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Later in the day while Jack, Kate, Charlie, Brad, Daniel and a dark-skinned woman were finding the plane's cockpit a fight broke out between two men about God knows what. It went on for a few minutes before the group searching for the cockpit came back and Jack and Michael pulled them apart, all the while the two men kept yelling at each other,
'Tell everyone what you told me! Tell them that I crashed the plane! Go on! Tell them I made the plane crash!' the Arabic man yelled getting angry,
'That is absurd!' said an accented voice, turning Natalie realized it was the other woman that went to the cockpit,
'Why is that so absurd?' the redneck man yelled at her, 'Was it because you crashed the plane?'
The woman walked right up to him and punched him in the face – hard.
'What the hell was that for?' he yelled trying to get at her,
'What's going on?' Jack demanded,
'I was in the jungle and I found these,' Emily said handing over a pair of handcuffs,
'And he thinks that Sayid had something to do with it,' Amanda added pointing at the redneck,
The two men started arguing again until the accented woman yelled,
'Stop!' and for some reason everyone did, 'we found the transceiver, but it's not working. Can anyone help?'
'I might be able to,' the Arabic man, Sayid, said walking over to her,
'Oh, perfect! Let's trust this guy!' the redneck exclaimed,
'If it gets us off this Island, I'm all for it,' Natalie said.
'Shut it, Kid,'
'Hey!' Amanda said turning to him, 'Shut up!'
'Whatever you say Blondie,' he answered walking away
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About an hour after that Natalie was walking with Amanda, Jake and the accented woman, Adira, towards Sayid,
'How do you know how to do that stuff?' Natalie asked sitting down,
'I was a military communications officer,'
'Oh cool,' Amanda said, 'ever seen battle?'
'I fought in the Gulf War,'
'Cool. What were you? Army? Air Force?'
'The Republican Guard,' he answered,
'I knew I recognized you!' Adira exclaimed,
'You fought in the Gulf War?' Natalie asked skeptically,
'Not in the war per se, I was over there as part of my job,'
'Well what's your job?'
'If I told you I would have to kill you,'
'Then why do you recognize Sayid?' Amanda asked,
'Because it was his division who were going to kill me,' she said getting up,
Amanda and Natalie just looked at each other.