Sun knelled next to Jin's body as tears rolled down her face. He was dead. She gulped for air as his glassy, glazed over eyes stared back at her and the blood spread across his shirt. She looked at her hands they were stained with his blood. He had died in her arms. He had died because of them and because she wasn't brave enough to save him. She could feel the guilt seep into every pore of her body but she shook it off there was no way she could have saved him. But maybe I can save him now. She watched as the sky over head turned a grey and lighting formed in the sky. It looked like a storm was coming.

Sun's eyes turned black as she cried out in anger and anguish, "By Osiris, I command you, bring him back! Hear me! Keeper of darkness!"

Suddenly the clouds formed into a huge face in the sky and it began to speak, "Witch! How dare you invoke Osiris in this task?"

"Please. Please, bring him back."

"You may not violate the laws of natural passing."

"How is this natural?"

"It is a human death, by human means."

"But…."

"He is taken by natural order. It is done."

"No. There has to be a way."

"It is done."

"NOOOO!" she screamed, banishing the face into oblivion. She fell on top of Jin's body and began to weep uncontrolably.

Sun sighed. It felt good to feel magic following through her veins again it had been so long. She could still remember when she first began to practice.

She had started out with a small group of girls. She was young then barley eighteen. They held each others hands and together they did wonderful things but all that seemed like trivial magic now. It wasn't until she joined a coven that she truly found her strength and came into her full power. She had started off as a novice with barley any experience and she had risen to the top of the ranks until her fall from grace. She began to call upon the forces of darkness and delved deep into the black arts. They consumed her. Eventually the coven stopped her and she was reformed. It was on that day that she vowed never to do magic again and she had kept her promise until today.

One question floated in her mind: Would she be able to go back to life without magic?

"What are we going to do?" Charlie asked.

"I don't know, send out a search party," Jack said.

"To look for the baby?" Charlie asked.

Jack nodded.

"Dude, I don't think that's going to work," Hurley said.

"Why not?"

"A friggin portal opened in the middle of no where, it's like the damn Bermuda triangle."

"I don't hear you coming up with any better ideas, any of you," Jack said.

"Calm down," Boone interrupted, "We're all stressed and upset but we shouldn't attack each other."

"He's right together we're strong but divide and we fall," Locke said.

"Drop the wise man act, I'm not in the mood," Jack said.

"There's no reason to get angry, Jack."

"No reason, people are dead Locke, Clair's baby is missing or haven't you noticed?"

"Maybe I can help," Sun said, walking over.

"How?" Clair asked.

"I can try to open the portal."

"Open it? You can do that?" Shannon asked.

"I use to be able too."

"How?" Jack asked.

"With magic. I'm a witch."

"Buffy!" Charlie yelled as he ran towards the clearing. He could see figures standing over a body; he ran faster, willing his legs to propel him forward, "What are you doing?!"

He saw Buffy lying on the ground, blood stained her shirt. Oh god was she dead? Charlie wondered, horrified at the thought. There was an unfamiliar man standing over Buffy's body. He was carrying a gun and he now looked up at Charlie. There were 2 other men standing near by with guns as well. The man raised his gun and pointed at Charlie who ducked behind a tree. Thus, he avoided the bullets that proceeded to fly out of the gun. He heard a few more shots and then silence. He poked his head from behind the tree and saw that the 3 men now lay dead on the floor. Slowly, he left his hiding space and went to go check on Buffy but he ran into Danielle. She was holding a gun and he realized that she had saved his life.

"Who were they?" he asked as Sawyer and Michael ran towards them and into the clearing.

"The Others," Danielle replied.

"The other what?" Sawyer asked.

"They've been on the island since before I came here. They worship the monster."

"What happened?" Michael asked, bending down to check Buffy's pulse.

"They shot her," Charlie said, "And then Danielle came and saved us. Is she okay?"

"She's alive but I think we should get Jack. She's losing a lot of blood."

"She's strong. She'll survive," Danielle said.

"I thought you 2 were supposed to be at the hatch," Charlie asked.

"We were," Michael said, "Actually someone was supposed to stay there but he decided to tag along instead."

"So there's no one there?" Danielle asked, urgently.

"No," Michael said with a shrug.

"You morons, someone needs to type in the code or else the monster will get loose!"

"Listen jungle girl, we're on a freakin island where's it gonna go?!" Sawyer yelled.

"Hey, calm down," Charlie said, breaking up the dispute, "You guys go back to the hatch, take Buffy. I'll go get Jack." And with that he ran off towards Jack and unbeknownst to him a beach in total destruction.

"Jack! Jack!" Charlie yelled as he ran on to the beach and then stopped as he saw everyone picking up the pieces of their destroyed home.

Jack jogged over to him, "Charlie, what is it?"

"What happened?"

"It wasn't a rescue boat."

"I gathered that."

"It was the Others, they attacked us. They killed Sayid and Jin and they took Noelle."

"Oh god, they took Clair's baby."

Jack nodded, "Is there something you needed?"

"Yeah, Buffy, someone shot her, the Others. She's at the hatch. We have to go."

Jack nodded and followed Charlie as he ran back into the jungle.

"What's that?" Danielle asked Sawyer, indicating the paper they had found that was in his hand. He had forgotten it was there in all the commotion.

He shrugged, "Don't know. Can't read it. It's in gibberish."

"May I see?"

"Knock yourself out," he said, handing her the paper.

She began to examine it, "Its not gibberish, its Latin. And one will be born, a girl, in the land of the beast, she is destined to slay. It is only she who can defeat it that was brought upon the earth by mere men. She is no slayer, nor demon, nor born of an unnatural birth. She has no powers except that of sight. Yet, only she will be able to end the reign of the one who has stolen so many lives…..Its a prophecy."

"A prophecy? About who?" Michael asked.

"I don't know."

"How is she?" Charlie asked Jack, when Jack came out of the room he had been taking care of Buffy in. Charlie was sitting in the main room of the hatch, where the computer was held with Danielle, Sawyer, and Michael.

"A little shaky but she'll survive," Jack said, "Which is good because I can't handle any more funerals today."

"What you talking about Doc?" Sawyer asked.

"Charlie didn't tell you, the others attacked us on the beach. They killed Jin and Sayid."

"And they took Clair's baby," Charlie said.

"A baby...was it born here?" Danielle asked.

"Yeah."

"A girl?"

"Yeah."

"I must speak with her mother," Danielle said in a serious tone.

"Why?"

"The baby, she could be the one destined to stop the monster! You need to take me to her now."

"Alright," Charlie said. He was a little scared of her and he was well aware of what she was cable of so he thought it was best if he complied with her request.

"We gather here today to bury our good friends, Sayid and Jin," Boone said. He stood near their graves and the others were standing near them as well listening to his speech, "They were both really good guys. They were brave, smart, kind. They were friends to some of us, lovers to others, 2 to be exact…..If you didn't get a chance to know them I feel sorry for you. I feel lucky that I got to meet these 2 men, they taught me a lot. I know they'll be missed. But they're in a better place."

"Personally I'd rather be here," Sawyer said as he came up to the group with Charlie and Danielle.

"You stupid arrogant son of a bitch," Shannon yelled, walking up to him and punching him in the jaw.

"Got quite an arm there girly," he said with a smirk.

Shannon went to take another swing at him but she was restrained by Boone, "Shannon stop," she broke away from him and walked over to the rest of the group, "The shows over," they all began to leave and Boone turned to Sawyer, "What the hell is wrong with you?!" Sawyer laughed, "You think it's funny. Two people are dead and you're laughing."

"What I do really isn't any of your business?"

"It is when it concerns people I care about……You should have died instead of them," Boone said and with that he walked off, leaving Sawyer alone in front of the graves.

Clair and Sun were sitting on the beach trying to devise or prepare a spell that would reopen the portal when Danielle and Charlie walked over to them.

"Hey Charlie," Clair said.

"Hey, this is Danielle," Charlie said, indicating the woman standing behind him.

"You had a baby on this island?" Danielle asked, bluntly. Her social skills had been greatly deteriorated by spending 14 years on the island alone.

"Yeah," Clair said.

"I believe she is destined to stop the monster on this island."

"What?!"

"A prophecy was found…"

"You're crazy and I'm busy so if you don't mind I'd like to try to find my baby."

"I can help you if you listen to me," Danielle said but Clair was beginning to walk away, "You had visions when you were pregnant." It was more of a statement then a question but it caused Clair to turn around.

"How did you know that?"

"It's in the prophecy. Your child is a seer. She has the ability to see the future."

"Can I see the prophecy?" Sun asked, holding out her hand. Danielle placed handed it to her and she began to examine it, "She's telling the truth." Sun nodded.

"What happened to the baby?" Danielle asked.

"Her name's Noelle," Clair said.

"She was taken into a portal," Sun said.

"Any idea where?" Danielle asked.

"No," Sun said.

"Show me where the portal was opened," Danielle said, "Maybe we can reopen it."

Buffy groaned as she woke up in the bed she had been occupying since they brought her to the hatch.

"Hey, how are you feeling?" Jack asked her.

"Okay, my shoulder hurts but……what happened?"

"You were shot by the Others."

"I was shot?" Buffy said, sitting up in her bed.

"You should really lie down."

"I feel fine," Buffy said.

"Buffy, I really think…."

"I'm fine see," she said, pulling off the bandage and showing him that her shoulder was practically healed.

"How?"

"I doesn't matter, what about everyone else, are they okay?"

A few nights later Sun and Danielle set up for the spell. They used ground herbs to make a pentagon on the beach and lit pieces of wood for fire.

"Do you really think this is going to work?" Clair asked, from where she was standing next to Boone, Danielle as they watched Sun enter the circle.

"I don't know. We need one more ingredient."

"What?"

"Some of your blood and some of his, the father's."

Clair nodded and took the knife. She cut her hand and allowed some of her blood to spill into the bowl Danielle was holding. Boone took the knife and did the same thing adding his blood to hers. Danielle walked over and handed the bowl to Sun.

Sun took a deep breath and began to chant. Slowly a portal began to open in front of her, where the first one had formed.

"Its working," Boone said.

"No, its not," Danielle said, running forward. The portal was now almost fully open and a howling wind was coming from it. Sun screamed as the portal began to suck her towards it.

"What's going on?" Boone yelled, over the howling of the wind.

"It's closing in on itself like a black hole," Danielle yelled back, trying to asses the situation, "If we don't' close it, it'll consume everything."

"The island?!" Clair yelled.

"Worse, the world!"

"How do we stop it?!" Boone yelled but Danielle was running forward.

The only way to stop it was to kill the spell caster. She had discussed the possibility with Sun. They had known the risks. She pulled out a knife as she rushed forward. She could hear Clair scream as she pulled it out and killed Sun. The portal began to close as her blood flowed to the floor and her life drained out of her body. It hurt to do this but she was a watcher and it was her duty to protect the world at all costs, one death paled in comparison to the possibility of the destruction of the entire world.

"Do you think this makes up for everything I've done in my past?" Sun asked Danielle.

"I think it does."

Sun smiled and died, peacefully.

Boone ran over to them. The portal was now closed, "How could you? She didn't deserve to die."

"It was the only way. She knew the risks," Danielle told them.

"How is she?" Buffy asked Boone. He turned around he had been looking at Clair, who was staring off into the distance.

He shrugged, "She's cries herself to sleep every night. She doesn't know I can hear her," he sighed, "She lost her daughter."

"So did you," she said and there it was; Noelle belonged to him as well.

"I know. Why aren't I reacting the same way?"

"Some people hide things, don't let others see their emotions."

"You think that's what I'm doing?"

Buffy shook her head, "I don't know."

"I'd give my life to bring her back. I'd give the world."

"I know."

"No, see there's the problem. I wouldn't, not really, I don't think, give the world……The portal we reopened it but it was going to consume the world. I could have stopped her."

"She wouldn't have let you."

"Maybe….We have to get Noelle back."

"We will."