Stranded Memories
Rating: PG-13 for language
Disclaimer: I own crap. They wouldn't even give me the bloody Lost poster at Disney, and that ruined my day. FOX owns all OC characters and OC related thingys… and ABC owns sobs all Lost related things… even my Charlie…
Summary: Little things can push people over the edge. That very thing happens to Seth Cohen, and he runs away (knowing that it worked before), but something happens sending him into a crashing situation. Lost/OC Crossover.
A/n: This is a side-bar on the island. In my side bars, it has really nothing to do with the main character (in the part Seth), but has major influence on the plot. Sidebars will be in third person, but circulating around one character (in this case Charlie). This happens right after he is saved by Jack… I've only watched this scene about... sixty times. I changed it to suit the story though. It is probably going to be short…
And I am posting this now because I have no patience… xD
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"I'm Going to Kill Him"
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Jack and Kate pushed their way through the jungle. They had heard a lot of shouting, well at least Jack had. By now, Kate thought that Jack was seriously going crazy. I mean who wouldn't, he thinks he got into a fight with Ethan.
"He said he was going to kill one of them…" Jack muttered under his breath.
"Excuse me…" Kate asked.
"ONE OF THEM IS GOING TO DIE!!" he shouted. Just then, Kate pushed through the bushes and just stopped.
Jack was about to ask her what it was, then he saw it too. Charlie was hanging from a tree with a noose around his neck. He wasn't moving at all. Acting on impulse, Jack ran and grabbed his legs and lifted him up to try and relieve pressure from his neck. Kate didn't move.
"No! You've got to cut him down!" Jack said.
That snapped Kate out of her daze and climbed over to the tree that the vine was attached to.
"Come on, Charlie. Hold on there!" Kate grabbed the knife and tried to hack at the vines.
"I can't reach! Pull him over!" Kate said. Jack moved closer to Kate as best as he could. They had to hurry. Jack knew that every second that Charlie was hanging there, was more of a chance that he would die. They wouldn't let Charlie die. He couldn't.
Once the vine was close enough, Kate cut quickly at the vine and Charlie fell immediately. Jack quickly started to do CPR on Charlie's lifeless body. "He's not breathing. Come on! Breathe, Charlie! Breathe!"
Kate grabbed onto Charlie's hand, trying to keep the tears from coming. There was no way that Charlie could die. Not like this he couldn't. Jack continued to do CPR. He began to pump Charlie's chest. No difference.
"Come on. Come on," he said somewhat quietly, as if attempting to coax Charlie to start breathing again.
"Jack," Kate said, knowing that the inevitable had happened. Charlie wasn't going to wake up. "Jack…"
Jack didn't stop. He began pounding furiously on Charlie's chest. "Come on, Charlie! COME ON!!"
Kate let go of Charlie's hand and turned away. The tears were falling. It was all too much. Charlie was dead. There was nothing they could do anymore.
"Come on Charlie! COME ON!!" Jack was now shouting to try to get him up.
Rushing over, Kate tried to stop Jack. She couldn't stop it. "Jack, Jack! Jack… STOP! He's not coming!" The tears were falling like crazy.
He stopped. "It's okay. It's okay," Kate whispered, looking at Charlie's unmoving body, his closed eyes. They were too late. If only she would have listened to Jack.
Suddenly out of nowhere Jack started pounding on Charlie's chest again. There was no way he was going to let Charlie die.
"No. NO! Come on! COME ON!!" With every word he pounded harder. Kate began crying again, this time even harder. Jack continued to pound harder and harder, then suddenly Charlie's eyes opened and he took a deep gasp of air.
Jack and Kate smiled and laughed. And to think if Jack would have stopped, Charlie would have been dead, and now, he was alive. Jack lifted an awfully confused Charlie into his arms. "Just breathe… breathe deep."
Charlie was alive.
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Back at the caves, Kate wrapped a blanket around Charlie. He was just staring off into space, a blank and dismal look on his face.
"Dad! They brought Charlie back, but he hasn't said anything since he came back," Walt said, running up to his father as he walked into camp and hugging him.
"Any news on Claire?" asked Michael, looking at Charlie.
Hurley shook his head. Michael sighed. This was no good. Poor Charlie.
Meanwhile, Jack sat down next to Charlie and looked at the rope marks around his neck. "Does that hurt? How's your breathing?"
He got what he expected, no response from Charlie.
"Charlie, you've got to talk to me. We're going to go back out and look for Claire the moment the sun comes up, and I could really use your help. Anything that you can tell me about what you remember, where you were going… Did you see or hear-"
He was cut off by Charlie. The truth was, Charlie was trying to recall everything that had happened, but all that he could remember was getting into the fight with Seth and…
"I didn't see anything. Hear anything. I don't remember. Anything…" he paused. Jack went to say something, but Charlie continued. He knew that it was all a lie, but until he pieced everything together, he couldn't say anything that happened.
Suddenly, Sawyer came barreling his way into the cave. "Has anyone seen Cohen?" he asked, quickly, actually sounding worried.
"Cohen!? Who is Cohen?" Jack snapped.
Sawyer was about to answer when Charlie cut him off.
"Seth… he was there. He's with Ethan… he's on Ethan's side."
"What the hell are you talking about; Cohen doesn't talk to anyone, why the hell would he be working for Ethan?" Sawyer snapped.
"Like you really care," Kate said, "You're the one who made him move here anyways."
Jack was the only one who realized that Charlie had said anything. "What do you mean, Charlie? Seth was there?"
"I'm going to kill him…" Charlie then mumbled under his breath.
"What? Who?" Jack asked.
"Seth. I'm going to find him… and kill him."
"Why?" Jack asked.
"Because, he betrayed all of us. He lied to us. It was all an act. Everything… He said so many times how he wanted to die, so why not let him?"
Everyone was taken aback by what Charlie had said. Charlie was never one to really talk that way. Even Sawyer was looking at him oddly. But Charlie didn't notice. Charlie didn't care. His mind was set. He began to stare off into space once again.
"I don't believe him…" Sawyer said.
Jack looked at him. "Charlie's the only one who was there when it happened; I have to go with his word."
Sawyer simply glared at Jack, before flipping him off and turning to storm off, muttering obscenities under his breath.
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A/n: I like Charlie. giggles I'm a Charlie freak, which most of you probably knew. That was shorter than I expected, but hopefully Ali will write soon, and give it to me… because my mind… oops, almost gave it away. Haha. And I can not write in third person to save my life!!! Thanks to the reviewer:
alexis -- Haha! This one wasn't a Newport chapter either. It all has to do with the time issue though… haha.
Harper's Pixie -- Thanks. :D I'm glad that you liked it… it was kinda fun to write too…
