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"Off to Find the Orchid" - A Rainfall Flashback Episode

Charlie Rainfall waited until everyone was asleep, the campfire flickered around them. Rosalie was getting unusually close to Daniel Faraday. He had
a bag with him, Charlie had seen it ever since they boarded. She was going stir-crazy. Two days and nothing to read. Before then, she had Sawyer's
personal library given to her when Sawyer went with Locke, but now after being washed up with the Zodiac, she was desperate.

She delved into the bag, as Daniel rolled over muttering something incomprehensible in his sleep. Charlie took a deep breath and extracted the hard-covered
book. She flipped through it excitedly, moving closer to the fire. The flames licked the wood and made the scrawlings more clear.

It fell on one page... an intricate design... "The Orchid" Charlie whispered in awe.

-- LOST --

"Do you have Ayn Rand?" A male voice asked and Charlotte "Charlie" Rainfall spun around. It was a friendly looking man in his forties.

"Um, yes" she answered, the vast amount of books in her hand dropping to the ground as she fell with them and scuffled around trying to pick them up. She had been in another daydream, another place. Something that happened all too often.

He chuckled and bent down to help her out, picking up the books. "It's OK" he told her with a friendly smile. "Happens to me all the time." His eyes crinkled.

Charlie blushed at her own clumsiness as he held out a hand to her. "Locke, John Locke" he said before giving her another one of those smiles.

"Charlie... Rainfall."

Locke handed over the books to her and she balanced them again. "Rainfall is a beautiful name."

Charlie looked at the floor, "I'll uh.. help you get that book."

"You didn't seem the type who'd stay" Juliet and Sawyer wandered up off the beach, and over to the rest of the camp. Charlotte whirled around.

"You talking to me?"

"I didn't peg you as being the one who'd stay here" Juliet said again.

"I don't know what you're talking about" Charlotte replied airily.

"Don't you?" Juliet plunked down beside her.

"What have you been drinking?" Charlotte smelt her breath slightly.

"Rum Sweetie-pie" Sawyer answered Charlotte and sat down on a tree-stump made stool beside Juliet. "Which still doesn't answer the nurses question."

"I'm not a nurse, I'm a doctor" Juliet answered.

"Whatever" Sawyer growled.

"She's looking for the place where she was born" a voice cut in to their conversation.

Charlotte whipped her head around at the newcomer. "Miles!"

"It's not like it's a big secret. You told the Genius, I'm telling her."

"What do you mean the place where you were born?"

Charlotte kept her lips shut and glared at Miles, unbelieving that he would just sell her out like that.

Juliet continued softly, "your name is Lewis right? Charlotte Staples Lewis?"

Charlotte nodded.

"Then I think I know about your parents" Juliet revealed.

"Hey Richard!" Stephanie called. "We found someone." Stephanie thrust Rebecca toward Richard.

"Thank you Stephanie." Richard replied but didn't ask any other questions, just steered Rebecca towards John Locke's house.

Daniel Faraday awoke with a start. It was uncomfortable enough sleeping out here with no creature comforts and now he didn't know where he'd put his bag.
A girl he thought had the strange name of "Rainfall" handed it to him after he had spent and exasperatedly long amount of time looking for it.

"This what you want?" She asked.

"The book girl" John Locke said with a smile on beach. Rainfall had been keeping to herself, it was like she wasn't even there.

"Yeah" she nodded.

"I uh... heard Sawyer has some books up at his tent if you wanted to ask him for some." Locke commented.

Charlie Rainfall looked him in the eye for a second. He held her gaze. "Seriously?"

"Thanks... y'know, for coming with me" Jason told Stephanie before she entered the small house that she was living in.

"Everyone needs someone to love them" Stephanie replied with a wry smile.

Jason's eyebrows raised, "What did you say?"

"Even you need love, Jason. You're not an experiment. You don't have to be a meteorologist to figure that one out." She gave him one last look before she went inside and closed the door on him

"If you want to live come with me" Locke said firmly, as dissension spread amongst the camp. Locke hadn't been a friend. But he'd been something. Charlie just didn't know if she believed his words right now though.
She stayed put, with Jack as Hurley, Claire, Sawyer and some others joined Locke. Charlie was almost ready to go. Her feet felt like they were shuffling towards the group, but they weren't moving.
As Locke and his new group strode away from them, her feet felt like they were sinking. They hadn't moved at all. Something else was sinking too. The feeling in the pit of her stomach like she had just made a horrible mistake.

Daniel paced around. The Zodiac boat was still there, washed up with them on the shore. Daniel got ready to re-board it. "We've got to try to get out of here" Daniel spoke hurriedly, as though he was really losing it.

"Space and time" he muttered, "space and time... how are we going to move through space and time?" He was speaking to himself but Charlie Rainfall was listening.

"How about we just go to the Orchid?" She suggested, knowing now she was letting it get out that she had read through his journal.

"Wh-what?" He stuttered and snapped his head around to look at her.

"The Orchid Station. It can move through space and time right?" She thought she interpreted his formulas at least semi-correctly, even though she didn't understand the scientific explanations with them.

Daniel's eyes widened. He climbed out of the Zodiac and brought his backpack with him. "Then let's go to the Orchid" Daniel said unsurely, fear in his eyes.

It was midnight when Stephanie heard a knock on her door. She got out of bed to answer it, flinging open the door and startling Jason who she didn't think had gone back home since the last time they'd spoken.

"Jason!" She exclaimed in surprise.

It surprised her even more what he did next. He took a step toward her and placed a hand on her shoulder, bringing her in closer to him, she succumbed as he leant down and kissed her softly, as if it was something he'd been thinking about for a long time.

Erica and Kelsey soon arrived at the camp. She saw Juliet in a corner talking to a redhead she didn't know.

"Juliet!" She called, waving her arms in the air.

Juliet looked up and a wide grin spread across her face. "Kelsey, how are you?"

Kelsey walked up to Juliet purposefully, "There have been some changes. Ben is gone. John has taken over."

"John Locke?" Juliet asked, only a little surprised. "Ben moved the island?" She asked.

Kelsey nodded, "apparently."

Sawyer cut in, "Bug-eyes did what now?"

Juliet ignored him, "This is Charlotte Lewis. Her parents were part of the experiments. We need to get her to Richard." Juliet indicated to the woman beside her.

"So we're taking a hike to New Otherton then? Makes my day" drawled Sawyer.

-- LOST --

- Well, the newcomers to camp Locke are going to cause some problems for Stephanie/Jason. Especially a certain Southerner and a certain redhead.

- A BIG reveal about Jason's mother is coming up too.

- Review if your character wants to be next or submit a new character TO be next!