Stranded in the Middle of Nowhere Chapter 38: With Luck: Megan Weston, a lost fanfic

Yeah I know. I suck. But I've had writers block. Anyways, this chapter is the long awaited Megan centric. Enjoy! I don't own Lost.

'Ice cream and gummi bears. That's what I am seriously craving right now.'

'Ice cream and gummi bears?' Calypso asked.

'Yes,' Tasha said. 'I would kill for it.'

'I swear to God once we get off this Hellhole I will get you ice cream and gummi bears,' Dinah said.

'You finally getting cravings?' Stacey asked sitting down.

'Yeah,' Tasha said.

'I always craved pavlova. Though I hated it,' she shrugged.

'What the Hell is pavlova?' Dinah asked.

'It's like… heaven,' Tasha said.

'It's a meringue type dessert,' Natalie said. 'I never really liked it.'

'And how come we've never heard of it if it's so good?' Shawn asked.

'It's an Australian food.'

'You guys are Australian?' Kalub asked.

Calypso, Natalie and Tasha rolled their eyes.

'You have known us for over two months and you only now know we are Australian?' Tasha said.

'All three of you?'

'Yes,' the three girls said.

'Well technically Tash, you are Spanish,' Stacey said.

'Half Spanish,' Tasha corrected her. 'And I lived in Australia for the past fifteen years.'

'So you're actually Spanish?' Kalub asked.

'I suppose you're gonna ask if I'm actually Israeli next?' Dinah asked.

'Oh, isn't this great. We have a comedian amongst us.'

'I try my best,' she said before rubbing her temple.

'You okay?' Shawn asked.

'Fine.'

'So you're not gonna faint on us this time?' Calypso said.

'No.'

'Hey, Tash? You know that book that you write stuff in?' Natalie asked.

'My diary that you guys decided to read?' she returned.

'Yeah, that one.'

'What about it?'

'So what did you actually write in it?'

'Dairy entries, poems, rants about my two-faced backstabbing best friend. Or rants about that no good son of a bitch who cheated on me with said best friend. Numerous other stuff.'

'The guy who cheated on you, is he your baby's father?' Dinah asked.

'Unfortunately, yes.'

'What'd you do to him when you found out?' Kalub asked.

'Vandalized his car. But I hurt Hayley badly.'

'Hayley being the two-faced backstabbing best friend?' Calypso asked.

'Yeah. I put her through a glass door. Then proceeded to get suspended for it, so I dropped out of school.'

'Natasha!' Stacey exclaimed. 'You know both your parents wanted you to finish school!'

'You know, after they both died for stupid reasons, I figured their guidance wasn't that good to begin with.'

'You know why you're mother did that. It broke her heart.'

'What did? The fact that her husband inadvertently killed himself? Or that she left her three children behind to fend for themselves coz she was a selfish cow?'

'This is your dead mother we are talking about.'

'Oh, is it? Didn't realize that,' she said before getting up and walking away.

'Okay…so what the Hell?' Calypso asked.

Dan was pissed off. Annie, Kate, Sawyer and Amber had all gotten free, but he was left here. With his brother. He couldn't believe him. He kept on flirting with the blonde doctor. She was here right now. Talking about something to do with Ben.

'I took this about ten minutes ago,' she passed a photo to Jack; 'they're his stitches. They're infected, aren't they?'

'Yes,' Jack answered,

'Will you come look at them?'

'No,'

'Jack…'

'Why is it you want to help him?'

'Well, I'm in trouble,' she began,

'In trouble for what?' Dan asked though he didn't really care,

'You remember Sasha?' the two men nodded, 'well, I shot someone very close to her and she's about ready to kill me,'

'Who?'

'Dragan,'

'The blind guy? You shot a blind guy who wouldn't have known you were there?' Dan asked in disbelief. What a cow.

'Yes,'

'Why?'

'It's complicated. Please, Jack, can you look at his stitches?'

'No.'

A ten year old Megan was somewhat nervous. Her family had just moved to the island and it was now her first day of classes.

'Okay class, we have a new student today,' the teacher said. 'Her name is Megan Weston, her family just moved to the island, so can you please all be nice to her?' The class nodded.

'Where should I sit miss?' Megan asked politely.

'Umm, let's see,' the teacher surveyed the room, to see where an empty seat was. 'Ah, you can sit beside Sasha. Sasha can you please raise your hands?'

Megan watched as a serene Arabic girl silently raised her hand. Megan walked over and sat down beside her.

'Hi, my name's Megan.'

For some reason the girl looked thoroughly agitated by her presence. Megan was confused but shrugged it off, before turning back to the front. Suddenly there was a tap on her shoulder. Turning around she was greeted by a red head.

'Hi, I'm Madison. Don't mind Sasha, she tries to meditate during class, instead of actually doing the work, and hates it when she's interrupted.'

'What I hate more is that I actually have to go to these classes,' Sasha said softly. 'It's nice to meet you Megan.'

'Same here,' she smiled. She had a feeling she'd like this place.

'So our first priority is to get Eko back,' Locke began. Eko had disappeared the night before and they had no idea where he was. 'Is there any volunteers?'

'I'll come,' five people said. Everyone turned to look at them.

Ryan was one of them. He was good at helping, so they could see why he wanted to come.

Amanda was the second. They all knew she could track.

Kalub was the third. He hardly helped with this sort of stuff, but since he was offering.

Sophie was the fourth person. They knew she could help.

The fifth was Jennifer. Well. They all knew that Sophie and Jennifer couldn't be near each other for more than five minutes without arguing.

'Maybe one of you should stay here,' Ryan said unsure,

'What? Why?' Jennifer asked,

'Well…' Kalub said looking in between the two girls,

'Oh, we're over that!' she exclaimed, 'right Soph?' she asked putting her arm around Sophie's shoulder.

'Yeah,' she nodded, 'totally over that,'

'Okay, we're leaving in five minutes,' Locke said. Everyone nodded and walked away, leaving the three girls there.

'Remove you arm if you want to be able to use it again!' Sophie hissed. Jennifer did and walked away.

'I cannot believe that the two of you agreed to do this,' Amanda said.

Dan was watching Jack getting angry at the people from the tail section. It was funny seeing him get mad. They were asking about Ana. Which was weird seeing as Jack had no reason to get angry about that. At least as far as he knew. They finally walked away.

'Why were you yelling at them for asking about Ana?' he asked,

Jack turned and looked at him. 'She's dead,'

'What?'

'Ana and Brad were murdered by Michael,'

'Why would he do that?'

'To get Walt back.'

'What did you just say?' Ari interrupted walking over to the cages,

'What?'

'What did you just say?' she repeated,

'To get Walt back,'

'No, before that,'

'Ana and Brad were murdered by Michael,'

'You serious?' she asked, tears in her eyes,

'Yeah, why?'

'No reason,' she replied walking away quickly so they couldn't see the tears down her cheeks.

A young woman with long black hair was leaning on the railing of the huge ship, trying to block out the memories of the last year. She let out a sigh and tried to stop the tears that came to her eyes at the thought of her family. Suddenly a voice snapped her out of her daydream.

'Hi!' a woman said brightly standing next to her, 'are you okay?' she added seeing the sad look across her face,

'Yeah, fine,' the woman answered.

'Okay, just checking. I'm Melissa by the way. Call me Missy,' she extended her hand.

'Skye,' she replied shaking Missy's hand. 'Nice to meet you,'

'Likewise. You sure you're okay?'

'Positive,' she smiled. Skye took a good look at the woman. If she hadn't already approached her, Skye wouldn't have been game enough to talk to her. The woman, Missy, had black hair in pigtails and quite a few tattoos showing. From a distance she would look quite intimidating but up close her kind brown eyes thwarted that thought.

'So what are you doing out here in the middle of the ocean at your age?' Missy asked,

'I got offered a job,' she shrugged, 'I accepted,'

'As what though? Coz at, what, seventeen? You wouldn't be qualified for much,'

'I'm eighteen. And I'm a gifted tracker. Well according to the people here I am,' she added. 'What about you?'

'I'm a forensic scientist,' she said proudly, 'and in my opinion it's the best job ever,'

Skye opened her mouth to speak but on the other side of the freighter gunfire erupted. The two girls walked over to see around six men with rifles shooting at flying clay targets.

'What's going on here?' a superior voice asked from behind the girls. They turned around to see the blonde that checked them onto the ship.

'Target practice,' one of the men said.

She nodded. 'You've missed half of them,'

'And you could do better?' another man asked,

'Depends.' She shrugged. The man passed her his rifle just as another three people walked over to watch. She aimed for the only remaining target and was about to pull the trigger when it erupted into small shards. Everyone turned around in the direction it had came from to see an Arab woman with a pistol.

'What exactly is your job here? Apart from showing off your shooting skills, that is,' Adrian asked,

'I'm part of the mercenary team,' Sasha said, ignoring the last part of the comment, 'what's it to you?'

'You? Part of the mercenary team?' Johnny asked in disbelief.

'Yes. Why?'

'It's just, I mean, look at you.' He had a point. Sasha was around five foot nine inches and thin for her age. She actually looked pretty fragile, though anyone who really knew her knew that she could take down five men four times her weight without so much as getting a bruise.

'And your point being?' she said with fire in her eyes.

'Well…it just doesn't seem viable that you would be all kickass,'

'Hang on,' Malcolm said, 'you look very familiar. I saw you in Fiji,'

'Most likely,' Sasha said,

'About half an hour before we left I saw you, down an alley,'

'You didn't see anything, okay?' she said abruptly,

'Yeah, you killed two men and knocked out the third in the space of five minutes.'

'Whoa. How'd she kill them?' Adrian asked,

'She snapped ones neck and slit the others throat with a piece of glass,'

'Impressive,' Ivy said, 'Taliba Yusuf, right?'

'Yeah. Ivory Widmore, right?' she returned.

'Yes.'

'Am I the only one disturbed about the fact that you killed two men in less than five minutes, without any weapons?' Missy asked.

'What are you doing?'

'What does it look like?'

'It looks like you're going to help the blonde doctor out of her sticky situation,' Dan said,

'Well, yeah, I am,' Jack said,

'Why?'

'She doesn't deserve to die,' he said as he followed Alex,

'Whatever.'

Ari was sitting in the Staff, crying. Brad was dead. Her Brad was dead. The father of her son was dead. The man she loved for years was dead. One of her best friends was dead. No matter what way she said it, it always came back to the same thing. He wasn't coming back. Suddenly she felt someone sit down beside her. Looking up Brent was there.

'What's wrong?' he asked softly,

'Brad's dead,'

'Who's Brad?'

'One of the survivors. Chris's father,'

'Oh, Ari. I'm sorry,' he wrapped his arm around Ari.

'He had been one of my best friends at one stage. I had loved him,'

'I'm sorry.'

'I just wish Chris had the chance to know him.'

'You can get through this.'

'I don't think I'll be able to.'

'You can.'

'How do you know?'

'Coz you're strong. You're one of the strongest people I've ever known,' he kissed the top of her head. Without thinking she leaned up and kissed his lips.

'Do you think we're almost back?' Amber asked.

'I think so,' Annie said. 'I just feel bad for leaving Jack and Dan.'

'I know. So do I.'

'Why did you even bother?' Megan asked,

'I had no choice,' Juliet said,

'Everyone has a choice,' Dragan said, 'yours just happened to be to shoot me,'

'You made your choice when you first came to the island,' Madison said,

'You misled me,' Juliet said,

'And…?' Megan said,

'You said I'd only be outside of Portland and I'd only been there six months. It's been over three years,'

'Sorry to disappoint you, but it's not my problem,'

Juliet opened her mouth to say something but there was a knock at the door. Madison sighed and walked over to it.

'Yes, Alex?'

'This is from Ben,' she passed over a note to Megan who had come up next to Madison.

'You're lucky today Juliet,' Megan said after reading it, 'execution is off the table. Ben says the rules don't apply.' Juliet breathed a sigh of relief. 'He has, however, ordered you to be marked.'

Megan was in shock. Even though it had happened five hours ago, she was still shocked. She could tell Madison was too. Ben and Sasha continued on like nothing ever happened. Finally she couldn't take it anymore.

'Are you two really that heartless?' she blurted out.

'What?' Ben asked.

'Excuse me?' Sasha said.

'How can this not affect you? Our friends, teachers, parents, sisters, everyone is dead because of us!'

'They didn't understand this island, Megan.' Ben said.

'And I suppose you think you do?' Madison said.

'Look if you two have had a sudden change of heart about the protection of this island it can be arranged,' Sasha said coldly. Madison and Megan looked at her in complete and utter horror that their friend could even suggest that.

'I can't believe you would even say that Sasha,' Megan said softly.

'I didn't mean it.'

'Then why'd you say it?'

'These past few years I know you guys have seen a change in me. I'm no longer the calm, happy and focused girl you meet all those years ago Megan. I'm consumed with anger and hatred, and I just say things I don't mean. I would never want to hurt you. Any of you.'

'We know Sasha,' Madison hugged her.

'We still friends?'

'Forever and always,' Megan hugged the two girls and they pulled Ben into their hug.

Sasha walked quickly through the freighter, on her way to find someone. When she finally saw him ahead, she called out his alias.

'Kevin!'

He turned and saw who it was, and waited for her to catch up. When she did she pulled him into the room next to them.

'What are you doing here?' Michael asked.

'Same thing you are.'

'He sent you here to die?'

'No. he sent me here to make sure you do your job.'

'But my job is killi-'

'I know what your job is!'

'But that means you will die too.'

'Yeah,' she said sadly. 'I know.'

'Oh my God,' Jennifer muttered. The group of people had found Eko. He had been staring into a huge cloud of black smoke. Jennifer stood and watched the smoke, transfixed.

Sophie stood and watched as she saw things in the cloud. There were images flashing through it. There was a church and a crucifix. Then she saw two men struggling with a blonde woman and a plate being thrown in someone's face. A few more flashed through, so fast she couldn't register what was shown. They slowed down and she saw something that always made her blood turn cold when she thought of it. Her brother drowning.

Amanda was standing perfectly still. She had just seen flashes of images. A church and crucifix were first. That meant nothing to her. She had then, unfortunately, seen the two faces that haunted her dreams. The two men that assaulted her, one being Jake's father. Then several other images flashed through before an image of a boy drowning was seen. He looked like Sophie. Amanda turned her head and saw Sophie with a sad expression on her face.

'Eko, come on,' Ryan said, insanely calm. Eko ignored him. He got annoyed after she said his name four more times so she started running over there.

'Ryan!' Amanda exclaimed running forward. It was too late though; the cloud of smoke lunged forward, engulfing Eko and Ryan in it.

'Ryan!' Jennifer yelled, 'Eko!'

'All of you, run,' Locke said. The three girls nodded and turned, starting to run. Kalub stayed there with Locke. Suddenly out of nowhere the black smoke seemed to just appear behind the girls.

'Run quicker!' Jennifer said. She was suddenly grabbed by the smoke. She screamed.

'Jennifer!' Sophie and Amanda screamed.

'Thank you Jack,' Juliet smiled at him as she passed him his food,

'No problem,' he smiled back. Across from them Dan rolled his eyes. 'Let me see it,'

'What?'

'They said they marked you. Can I see?'

She nodded and turned around, showing him her mark. Jack broke a branch off an aloe plant at the side of his cage and applied it to the wound.

'They'll be coming for you in a minute,' Juliet told the two of them, 'your friends know where we are and we have to go,'

'Go where?' Dan asked,

'Ben calls it home.'

Sophie and Amanda stumbled out of the jungle and fell to their knees in the sand. Between the two of them they had Jennifer. They had had enough time to grab her before running again.

'Help!' Sophie called. Charlie, Rosie and Hurley ran forward.

'Soph! Amanda! What happened?' Charlie asked as they inspected the wounds on Jennifer.

'Were you attacked by the Others?' Hurley asked,

'No. it was worse,'

'Worse?'

'There was this huge cloud of black smoke. And when I looked into it – when we all looked into it – we saw terrible things from our pasts. Amanda saw two men from her past. And her father. Eko saw a church covered in blood. And I…I saw…Charlie, I saw Cory,' she whispered the last part.

'Where are the others?' Hurley asked, 'what happened?'

'That…thing. I think it got them,' Amanda said before turning to Rosie, 'how is she?'

'She doesn't have any major injuries, but she should take it easy.'

'No major injuries? She's got heaps of blood all over her.'

'Head wounds always bleed a lot,' Rosalyn reassured her.

'So, hang on, what got the others?' Charlie asked.

Amanda and Sophie looked at each other, trying to find the words to describe it.

'Your worst nightmare.'

So in my opinion, this was a terrible chapter. It took me almost a month just to get it all done. But at least you got to meet some of the Freighties. And I have left the lives of Eko, Locke, Kalub and Ryan hanging in the balance. And Sasha was sent by one of her best friends to die. So who should have the next flashback? I've got a new concept for it:

A female Other

A male Other

A female Tailie (not that they're Tailies anymore)

A male Tailie

A female Middle Section

A male Middle Section

A female Freightie

A male Freightie

And finally the preview:

Desmond looked at the woman sadly.

'No matter what I do, you're going to die.'

'You are not here, you're dead. You are not here.'

'He didn't deserve to die.'

'I'm Ira Grey. The last surviving member of the DHARMA initiative.'

'Bloody Hell! Do I look threatening to you? No! So what's the point of shooting an unarmed person?' Sophie demanded.

THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT! I NEED SOME PLOT IDEAS! I AM SLOWLY LOSING MY INSPIRATION. IT COULD MEAN ANOTHER MONTH LONG HIATUS IF I DON'T HAVE ANY.

P.S. if I was you guys, I'd totally check out Forever is just a word's fanfic, the Lost Fanfiction Awards. Some of you guys were nominated, so you really should check it out.