Discovering 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: It's almost been two years since the rescue, and everything seems so different to Seth Cohen. Everything is great, except for Aerin and the fact that he can't remember what happened before. How far is he willing to go to get both of them back?

A/n: This is just an overview of "Stranded Memories", that way if someone just wants to read this, they have the background information and don't have to read the uber long story before. Teehee. It may be a while until I actually write the first chapter, but here is an overview. This part is in third person, and the rest will be Seth's POV until the end… teeheehee… it could also be used as a refresher… anything in ()s are the sidebars that Seth doesn't know the full details on, but they're important to the story…

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Prologue

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Seth Cohen used to have a short temper. Seth Cohen used to run away from everything. Seth Cohen nearly ruined his life with those two things. When he caught his brother making out with his "girlfriend" and his girlfriend with his aunt (don't forget his parents wanting a divorce) he fled.

To Sydney, Australia.

There he met Aerin Jenkins, a nineteen year old girl who was out on her own. They became friends and shared an apartment. Seth nearly forgot about his old life in Newport. He liked his new one so much more.

It wasn't until one afternoon that Aerin found his old cell phone and began playing with it. He had countless messages. With a little convincing from Aerin, he checked his messages. Many of them were from Summer or Ryan or his parents convincing him to come back. It wasn't until he reached one of the messages that he really cared that much.

"Seth… Seth… damn it to hell Seth… turn on your cell phone… I know you have it off! Seth... please… don't… Seth… its Ryan… Seth… its Ryan… he's… Ryan… he's…" It was at that point that the phone cut off. Thinking the worst, he figured that Ryan had been killed.

He explained everything about his past to Aerin and the two of them rush to the airport to get on the quickest flight back to L.A. as possible.

Unfortunately, there is only one seat left on Oceanic Flight 815, and Aerin told Seth to take it. He wasn't sure of it, but she told him to, there were many flights from Australia to L.A., she'd just get on another one.

So Seth gets on the plane with 174 strangers, just hoping for a smooth ride to L.A., to the home he had forgotten. But the plane crashed on some island in the middle of nowhere and of the 175 passengers, 48 survived.

Back in Newport, Kirsten Cohen is very upset because Ryan still refuses to wake from his coma (which was induced by the car crash he was in with Summer. She is also upset because Seth has yet to call. When convinced to go home, she plays the messages and hears a voice she never expected to hear again.

Seth's.

She was so excited she could barley breath. Her baby was coming home. Her and her husband (Sandy) rushed to LAX, only to find that Seth's plane never came in. It is here where they met Aerin, and first heard that Seth's plane mysteriously went missing.

They were devastated. Aerin moves in with the Cohen's for the time being.

Back on the island, Seth is helped to recover by the help of Jack Shephard (the resident doctor), and got very upset at the fact that he was stuck on this island instead of home with his mother and father trying to get them to forgive him for just running.

Seth soon befriends a fellow castaway named Sawyer. The two seem like an unlikely pair to be friends, but being the two outcasts, they seem to get along quite well. It is Sawyer who finally got Seth to open up about why he was so upset, but Sawyer then gets in trouble for making Seth break down.

Seth moved to the caves and met Ethan Rom and Charlie Pace. He decided that he liked it at the caves and decided to stay there. Claire Littleton (a pregnant woman) begins having nightmares, but Seth doesn't want to get in the middle of it, so just wanders around.

He finds himself in bad situation when he is wandering around and finds Ethan trying to kidnap Charlie and Claire.

Ethan tries to convince Seth to help him kidnap the two and ends up forcing him to. But before Ethan could do anything, Seth runs and gets caught in a trap in a tree. Ethan laughs when he finds it and cuts Seth down and Seth now knows he has to help or he's not the only one that is going to be hurt.

Ethan lets Seth alone with Charlie and Claire and he tries to help them escape only to get caught as soon as Ethan comes back telling Charlie and Seth that one of them is going to have to die. Seth says to kill him, but Charlie fought it. Seth loses his temper and Ethan says something that convinces Charlie that Seth is evil, just like Ethan, and hangs Charlie from the tree.

Ethan leads Seth and Claire away from the hanging Charlie.

(Not too long later, Jack and Kate stumble upon the hanging Charlie and cut him down. He doesn't' remember much, but he does remember that Seth was there, and what Ethan said about Seth being bad. He wants to kill Seth. Sawyer's the only person who doesn't believe Charlie's story.)

Back in Newport, Kirsten gives up any hope that her son is alive, and locks herself in her bedroom. Sandy finally convinces her to eat and Aerin and Summer have their first encounter and Summer finds out first hand that Seth was on the plane that crashed.

Summer ran to the hospital to tell Ryan everything, in hopes that it would make him wake up. When Kirsten comes home from talking to Summer, she discovers that Aerin is pregnant with Seth's kid.

September 22nd comes quicker than anyone could have hoped. Seth's 18th birthday. Sandy goes down to LAX only to discover that they called off the search for the plane. The entire Cohen-Cooper-Nichol clan (minus Ryan of course) go to the memorial service as well as Alex, Summer, Aerin. Of all people, the Nana gets Kirsten out of her depression and now she does believe that there is a chance that Seth is alive out there somewhere.

Meanwhile on the island, Seth thinks he was forgotten about until suddenly he comes in contact with a very unpregnant and upset Claire. He comforts her. Not only did they 'kill' Charlie (whom Claire was very close to), but they took her baby too. Ethan interrupts their conversation and tortures Seth for either just being himself, or for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

When getting back to their holding place, he is in pretty bad shape, and realizes that it's his birthday (according to his watch).

Two days after his birthday, Seth devises a plan to get Claire to escape. At first she doesn't want to do it, but he convinces her. Ethan comes and tries to take Claire, but Seth won't let her, and gets punished for it. When he gets back, Claire is gone, and he feels relieved.

(Claire escapes and rushes through the jungle. She is found by Locke and Boone where she passes out. When she awakens she finds out that Charlie isn't dead, but that no one likes Seth. They think he is evil. She tries to convince them of that, but they wouldn't hear of it. She gets annoyed and rushes off into the jungle. Charlie follows her.

Meanwhile, Sawyer is just off meandering, he is met by Ethan who is quite angry that Claire is gone. He tells Sawyer that if he doesn't get Claire back that he is going to kill Seth. Ethan knocks Sawyer out.

When he wakes up he is alone, but not for long. Claire meets up with him and he tells her what Ethan had said.)

After the memorial service, there is a get-together at the Cohen's and Summer learns that Aerin is pregnant with Seth's kid. Of course like any Newport party, fighting breaks out, and Summer passes out after drinking way too much.

Kirsten and Aerin get some bonding time while watching soaps until they get a phone call from Summer. Ryan was awake.

They rush to the hospital. Ryan was very confused. He didn't know that he was out for six weeks. The 'reunion' between Ryan, Sandy and Kirsten is very emotional.

They tell Ryan about what happened to Seth and he can't believe it.

He gets out of the hospital earlier than he is supposed to and Summer drives him to LAX. He sees the memorial and he believes that they're all dead. Summer doesn't agree with him. While there they get a phone call from the Cohens. Kirsten thought that Ryan was trying to run. He wasn't.

Aerin leaves to go back to Sydney and Kirsten and Sandy talk about getting a gravestone for Seth but Kirsten won't hear anything of it.

The next thing Seth knows, Ethan is back but is acting really different. It doesn't take him long to get angered. Using the somewhat more relaxed state, he shoved a syringe in Seth's arm and he blacks out. He has a crazy ass dream about Newport. (see Chapter 18 of "Stranded Memories" if you wish for more background information on the dream).

(Meanwhile, Claire gets very very upset, because she knows that people are worried about Seth. Charlie continued to follow Claire. They find Ethan. And right next to him, tied at the wrists, hanging from a branch over the water was Seth. His head hung down limply and he was blindfolded.

Sawyer won't give up Seth or Claire, so Ethan gives him five seconds, and he doesn't know what to do. The fives second pass and he cuts the ropes hanging Seth and he falls into the water. Acting on impulse Sawyer dives into the water.

Ethan takes advantage of this and tries to take Claire, but it stopped by Charlie shooting him in the arm. Claire gets even more upset as seconds (which felt like minutes) passed and there was no Seth or Sawyer.

Luckily, Sawyer gets Seth out of the water and gets him breathing again. Charlie runs off to get Jack and Sawyer and Claire carry Seth back to the caves. When they get there, everyone is shocked to see the soaking wet Sawyer and Seth, but there is no Charlie.

The next day Jack and Kate go looking for Charlie and Seth wakes up. His arm is broken.)

When he wakes up, he has no recollection of what happened. He remembers getting on a plane, and figured out that the plane had crashed. He hears talking about things he doesn't understand by people he doesn't know. To say he was scared was an understatement.

Time passes and Seth discovers he has problems sleeping. He found his bag and the remains of the comic book that he and Zack had been working on. It is then when he finds something to do other than be confused. When Walt becomes interested in his comic book he lets him read it. Much to Walt's surprise, Ethan and Charlie are in the comic book, even though Seth has no real recollection of them.

Jack confronts Seth. In their conversation Seth hears screaming. Jack doesn't hear it. He continues to hear the screaming all through the night. Seth feels that everyone else thinks he's going crazy, so he rushes off to try to help whoever it is that is screaming. Jack and Claire follow.

Seth stops running when he sees Ethan and Kate (of course he doesn't recognize Ethan). Ethan had shot Kate and she was bleeding pretty badly. Jack and Ethan get into a fight and Seth puts a protective arm around Claire. Ethan gets the upper hand, but is stopped when he is shot multiple times in the back by Charlie. Kate is dead.

Charlie points the gun at Seth and getting more terrified, Seth jets.

He gets lost. It starts raining and Seth knows he's gonna die, but before he falls asleep, he feels someone pick him up.

Chrismukkah back in Newport is anything but enjoyable. Kirsten is back in a depressive slump, and Ryan tries to get her out of it. It doesn't work and just gets her more upset. Summer, Ryan and Sandy begin to eat and are joined by a very angry Kirsten, who seems to now be blaming Summer for Seth's disappearance. They spend the rest of the night watching old home movies of Seth and their home in Berkeley. It snows that night.

Two weeks later, the snow has melted and Sandy and Kirsten decide to buy a tombstone for Seth and have their own private memorial service. Ryan doesn't like the idea, but after talking to Marissa and Summer, he decides he can live with it. It rained when the 'buried' Seth. A lot of people came, including Luke, Anna and Aerin. Afterwards, Ryan knows that Seth will come back.

Seth wakes up and is burning up, and feels like shit on top of it. Someone was helping him, but he didn't know who it was. He tries to thank whoever it is, but only gets into trouble for talking. He overhears a conversation he wasn't supposed to.

Once again Seth wakes up, only this time feeling much better. He finds out that the person helping him is named Libby and that they've been stuck on the island for a very very long time. Libby takes him towards the caves where he overhears a conversation and it is then that he knows he wasn't wanted or needed there anymore.

Four months later, Aerin has the baby and they all go to Australia to visit her. While Summer and Sandy didn't show how much they were scared, Kirsten and Ryan didn't bother to hide it. Ryan uses Princess Sparkle to get through the plane ride. They make it through and were greeted by the Australian memorial. Aerin named her son Donald Ezekiel Cohen.

It seemed to make everyone happier. They visit the old apartment Seth and Aerin shared. They went home.

A year after the crash, a transmission is heard and the search starts again.

Time flew by for Seth as he got more and more accustomed to life with Libby and her husband. One night he awoke to screaming and explained it to Libby. He drug her around the jungle as the screaming got more and more intense.

He spotted Shannon crying in the middle of the jungle alone and chose to go help her than stay with Libby and them anymore. Shannon tells him that Boone was killed. He comforts Shannon and goes back to the beach with her. Seth is alone and depressed and starts blaming himself for everything.

Charlie, Claire and Sawyer get him out of his depressive slump.

Aerin came to visit the Cohens and brought Donnie along. Ryan proposes to Summer. Aerin gets depressed and jets, leaving Donnie with the Cohens.

Seth and Sawyer become the pranksters of the island and everyone gets sick of it, until a boat comes to rescue them and Sawyer surprises everyone by burning everything in the camps. They get mad and then they spot the boat. There were only 15 survivors.

More time passes and it was Seth's 19th birthday. The survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 had been found! Sandy, Kristen and Donnie go to LAX while Summer and Ryan go to Seth's grave.

At LAX 13 people come off of the small plane, Seth isn't there. Kirsten gets upset because she thinks that Seth is actually dead. He simply didn't want to deal with the cameras and such and left with Sawyer. They met up with Summer and Ryan at Seth's grave. Summer tells Seth he's a dad and he blacks out.

When he wakes up, he hears his parents talking in the background and never was so glad to be home.

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A little under two years pass and Seth fell into the father role better than he thought he was going to. Summer and Ryan got married and so did Charlie and Claire. Charlie and Claire moved into the old Cooper house and now live nextdoor to Seth. Aerin has yet to come back. Sawyer lives in the pool house.

He doesn't remember anything that happened with Ethan (except for the killing of Kate). Sometimes he wishes he remembers, but not really.

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A/n: Sorry this is just one long run on thing. Haha. Not everything is that important, but it gives some background knowledge. Unfortunately, Ali isn't helping write this one, so bare with me, I'm not very good at Newport… xD. I'll post the first chapter after I write it…

And the survivors are: Seth, Charlie, Claire, Sawyer, Jack, Sun, Jin, Walt, Hurley, Shannon, Sayid, and some redshirts.

Please review if you're still interested in this story!