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Lyrics: "Wake Up" by Coheed and Cambria

Chapter 11-Wake Up

"I'm going to ride this plane out of your life again.

I wish that I could stay but you argue.

More than this I wish you could've seen my face

In backseat staring out the window."

2 years ago…

"I don't care about your rules, let me inside!" M'Lynn yelled at the guard who stood outside the gate.

She looked up at the sign on the building, Mittelos Bioscience.

"You have to let me in!" she demanded.

"I can't do that. You don't have authorization."

"You don't understand. I need to get inside of that building."

"What's going on here?" M'Lynn heard a familiar voice asked.

She turned around to see Richard, who hadn't aged a day, coming towards her.

"Hello M'Lynn."

"Richard, please let me in."

"Why?"

"I have to find a way back."

"For what? He doesn't want you anymore M'Lynn."

"Stop lying to me Richard. Just let me in."

"It's not going to happen. You've been trying to get back for how long now? Over a year? Deal with reality M'Lynn. You're never going back to the island."

"So leave yourself intact

'Cause I will be coming back.

In a phrase to cut these lips,

I love you."

As M'Lynn took her seat on the plane she thought back to Richard's cruel words. It seemed he had been right, she wasn't ever going to find a way back to her beloved island. It was her own fault; she'd been a fool to leave in the first place. She argued with herself that she had been afraid, afraid of what Ben and what the voices in the jungle had told her. She shouldn't have listened to them, she had been miserable ever since she left.

Since she had been released from jail she had been on a quest to get back. She searched everywhere for a way, for any hope of completing her task. Meeting with Sam Tooney had been her last chance. She believed her could have helped her too if he hadn't of died only a month before her arrival.

M'Lynn ignored the other passengers as they boarded the plane and closed her eyes. As soon as she did an image of Ben popped into her mind. The same image she saw every time she closed her eyes. She couldn't escape him and she found that she didn't want to. If she had any luck at all, the plane would crash and she wouldn't have to search anymore.

"I've earned through hope and faith

The curves around your face

That I'm the one you'll hold forever.

If morning never comes for either one of us,

Then this I pray to you wherever."

"Don't enjoy flying?" the man next to her asked a while after they had taken off.

M'Lynn opened her eyes and glanced over. "I don't mind either way." She answered.

"I'm not a huge fan myself." He admitted with a small smile.

"You should have picked a shorter flight."

"I didn't have a choice."

"Why is that?" M'Lynn asked trying to take her mind off her own woes.

The man's face darkened, "I had to pick something up. I'm delivering it home."

M'Lynn took in the man's black suit and had a good idea what he was delivering.

"I'm Jack." He said and offered his hand across the seat.

As M'Lynn looked at him she admitted that he was very handsome. He was the type of man she felt herself drawn to and once upon a time she may have considered flirting with him and seeing where things went. But now her heart belonged to Ben. Well, more like it was wasted on Ben.

"M'Lynn." She said and smiled.

"That's an interesting name." Jack commented. "So M'Lynn, why were you in Sydney?"

M'Lynn started to answer but was interrupted when the plane gave a violent shake. M'Lynn's eyes widened and she clutched the armrests of her seat.

"It's okay. Just a little turbulence." Jack said.

The plane jolted again and again. When the yellow masks dropped from the ceiling M'Lynn knew this was more than turbulence.

Without warning the plane dropped at least fifty feet before leveling out again.

M'Lynn's eyes shot over to Jack and his eyes met hers. His worried gaze was the last thing she remembered before everything went black.

"The morning will come

In the press of every kiss

With your head upon my chest

Where I will annoy you

With every waking breath

Until you decide to wake up."

M'Lynn was woken by a woman screaming. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around. What she saw was chaos. People ran in every direction, many of them covered in blood. She stood and checked herself for injuries. Apart from a few cuts she seemed alright. She spun in a circle trying to grasp what was happening. She froze when she saw the wreckage of the plane. Out of the corner of her eye she saw someone familiar. Jack ran out of the trees and stopped to survey the disaster.

M'Lynn's eyes left him as she noticed what lay behind him. A massive jungle, overshadowed by the looming mountains. She could hear the crashing of the ocean above the angry whine of the engine behind her. She couldn't believe it, it was an island.

They had crashed on an island.

"I'll do anything for you.

This story is for you."