DISCLAIMER: I don't own LOST, but I watch it every single day that I can!!!!

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Ariana went over to a pile of blankets that Jack had shown her. She wrapped herself up with one of the blankets that she had taken from the pile. She quickly fell asleep. She had dreams. Well, not so much as dreams as much as hellish nightmares. They were of every single bad thing that had ever happened in her life. She relived the plane crash. She relived Garrett.

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She was in New York. Gazing down the street at a younger version of herself sobbing near her dead parents. The silent screams of pain violently twisting their faces. Her five-year-old self was shaking her father with a pudgy hand. Calling him as if he was only sleeping. Little did she know that this was only too real and they were never coming back. "Daddy! Daddy! Daddy, wake up!" she called. She knelt down next to them and sobbed with heart-wrenching sobs.

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Ariana was now in a house that she would never forget. She crept up the stairs, skipping over the ones that she knew creaked. There was no one home. She went into a closed off bedroom and stood amazed at what was going on. There was the eight-year-old version of herself. Trembling and...NO! She shook her head as if that was going to help get it out of her mind. She was not gonna relive that moment!

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She was in school now. She knew what was going on here. One of her only friends that she had as a kid. Her friend was showing her what to do. Her fifteen-year-old self had scissors in her hand. She dug it into her wrist and clenched her teeth to keep from screaming out loud. The older Ariana wanted to go over to her insecure self and tell her that everything was going to be all right. That everything was going to work out in the end! That she was still okay!

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The dream whisked her away yet again. She was in her favorite house of them all. She smiled brightly as she realized that she was finally at home. But that smile faded all the faster now that she knew what time it was. She crept up the stairs and went into her old bedroom. She saw her 17-year-old self sitting on her old bed with a scissors and dug them into her wrist. She just watched as the blood ran down her arm, onto the bed and onto the pillows. She saw the tears running down her younger face and heard Garrett running up the stairs. She turned around to see her older brother and gasped at the likeness of him.

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Ariana woke up gasping for air and tears streaming down her face. She couldn't contain herself. The silence was broken by her body shattering sobs. She felt someone's arms around her shoulders around her, but she couldn't bring herself to look up. "Hey, sweetie. It's okay. It's all right." there was the voice that she couldn't believe she heard. It was Jack he really did care! She shifted herself so that she was sobbing into his shirt and felt his arms grab her all the more tightly. Almost as if he was afraid she was going to break without them.

"What happened? Are you okay? Did someone try to hurt you?" he asked calmly. She shook her head and buried her head all the more deeper into his chest. "Hey, look up at me!" he said. She shook her head again. He cupped her chin and forced her to look up at him. The tears came all the more freely now that she was looking up at his face. "What happened?"

"I-I had a-a dream. A-And t-there was G-Garrett and-and my p-parents." she stammered. "I-I rel-l-lived the p-plane crash!" she sobbed again. And Jack smoothed her hair down. He kissed the top of her head and felt her breathing slow as she calmed down.

"Hey, hey. Why don't we go down to the beach and get something for you okay?" Jack asked. She smiled and nodded.

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Ariana was completely calmed down and she was laughing along with Jack when Charlie came up. He was breathless and frantic. "JACK!" he yelled. Jack stood up with Ariana and they ran over to him.

"What is it?"

"Jin and me! We were attacked!"

"What?! Where?!" Ariana asked.

"In the jungle! It was Ethan!"

"Oh, my God!" Jack breathed. "Did he say anything? Anything at all?!"

"Yeah, he said that if I don't give him Claire that he'll kill one of us every night until I do give her to him. Oh, and he said that he'd kill me last." Charlie said. Ariana looked around. Jack just stared at him.

"All right. I gotta go find Locke and Sayid!" Jack said as he ran away.

"Charlie?" Ariana asked.

"Yeah?"

"Jack's gonna find some way to stop this without Ethan killing anyone!"

"Yeah, right. And how is he gonna do that?!" Charlie said skeptically.

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