A/n: as usual, nothing of this is mine. do I really need to keep saying that? probably not, as this is a FANFICTION site. lol.
Memories
pt 5: Garage roof, Sunday
I broke down and told my parents,
they weren't mad
or anything I expected them to be.
They promised to watch over my body
while I was gone,
and to write me any notes I might need for school.
I climb out my window
and onto the garage roof,
figuring it a good place to zone out.
Soon the singing tires
of the cars on the nearby expressway
blend into a roar,
the Crossing Over,
and I am in the caves.
Someone has just died,
the mood is somber.
A man, a doctor, closes the eyes
of the victim.
As tears well up, I am whisked away to a field, a clearing,
where a woman just gave birth
to a lovely baby boy.
Two men in the background embrace,
the foreigner and the father figure.
The man I never knew
from the memory I never had
is dead, I'll never know him.
But this boy I can watch,
make sure he isn't taken as
the other one will be.
And again I am whooshed away
to a third memory, and I remember.
I choke back tears
as the beach swims into focus.
A raft is being made there.
I stand, hover, by the trees.
I reach out to touch one,
feel it solid beneath my fingers,
and my feet come down on soft sand.
No longer floating, physically there,
I feel myself solidify.
I am there, on the island,
with the survivors of the flight
I never went on,
never crashed on,
never almost died on.
But I must pretend to be.
I must see what I must see,
then find a way back
to my home and family and friends.
And I take a step forward into the chaos.
A/n: people mentioned: Boone, Jack, Claire, Aaron, Jin, Charlie. obviously, the episode is 1x20: Do No Harm.