"Okay...now, we really didn't want to have to talk this through with you guys, but we've got no choice." Kate started.

Aaron and Evan looked at each other with a frown, and then looked at their mothers. "This isn't about parents night, is it?" Aaron realised.

"No." Claire assured him.

"Phew!" He exhaled, leaning back in the couch.

"It's about your new friend." Jack told them, and Evelyn went to stand up at the mention of Kerry.

"Okay, I'm going to bed." She announced.

Jack fixed her with a glare and pointed her back into her seat. "You stay right there, young lady." He told her.

Evelyn didn't move to sit back down. "You can't tell me who I have to be friends with, Dad!" She told him.

"I know that, Evie, but this is a-"

"Serious matter, I know." She finished for him. "It always is with you at the moment." She complained.

Jack got a hurt look on his face. "Evie-"

"Evie, just hear your father out." Kate said, not wanting to have Jack put down by their eldest daughter.

"But-"

"Evelyn!" She scolded.

Evelyn threw herself back down into the chair, and Evan leaned over to Shannon. "Told you you'd get a rerun." He nodded.

"Evander." Kate warned.

"Sorry." He said quietly.

Sawyer looked around at them and then frowned from his seat with Amy. "I think I'm missing something here." He realised out loud.

Claire nodded at him. "Don't worry, you'll figure it out."

"As I was saying." Jack continued. "Aaron...Evan said that you don't trust Kelly."

"Kerry." Evelyn corrected defensively.

"Kerry." Jack said, if only to satisfy Evelyn.

"I know that I shouldn't judge people straight away, but there's something about that girl that quite frankly scares the hell out of me." Aaron announced.

"When did you figure it out?" Jack asked calmly.

"Something about her name." Aaron remembered. "She looks familiar as well."

"What about her name?"

"All of it." Aaron told them. "Kerry Rom."

Claire let out a sigh, rubbing her forehead with her hand, Kate bit her lip worriedly, and Shannon looked worried as well. Ashley looked at the reaction from the mothers, and frowned. "Do we, uh, know her from somewhere?" She asked carefully.

"No, but we know her father." Sayid confirmed.

"She's only just moved her with her Dad." Evelyn told them.

"Where from?" Jack asked her.

"I can't remember." She told him simply.

"You can't remember or you won't say, Evie?" He asked her.

Evelyn shrugged. "She's travelled all over the world, how am I supposed to remember one place?"

"All around the world? Why settle here?" He continued to ask.

"Her Dad's got friends here."

"Does she know his friends?"

"No, but apparently he's been trying to track them down for a long time. What does this have to do with anything?" She asked tiredly.

Charlie nodded at Jack. "Sounds like him, alright."

"Like who?" Aaron asked.

Jack sighed. "Remember we were in a plane crash?" He asked.

They nodded. "As we've been told a thousand times."

"Well, a lot of things happened on that island that we never told anyone." He told them. "The press didn't know, the airline didn't know, we just didn't talk about it when we came back becaue we knew that it would never get to us again." Jack explained.

"Wait, what does this have to do with Kerry?" Ashley asked.

"Maybe we should start from the beginning." Claire suggested, and the other adults nodded at Jack.

"Yeah, start from the beginning, that way I'll understand what you're talking about as well." Sawyer piped up.

"We'd been on the island for about three weeks when your Uncle Hurley decided that he wanted to do a census, so that we could know who was alive and who had been lost in the crash." Jack started. "He went through the plane's manifest, ticking off the names of people, but one of the names wasn't on the list. His name was Ethan. Ethan Rom."

"Coincidence." Evelyn said quickly.

"But if he wasn't on the manifest...that meant that he wasn't on the plane." Ashley pointed out.

"Then how'd he get there?" Evan sked.

"He was already on the island, wasn't he?" Aaron asked the adults with a frown.

"Yeah, he was." Jack nodded. "We went after him when he found out, but we didn't get there in time. Charlie and Claire went missing, and Claire was still pregnant with you, Aaron."

Aaron leaned forward, with his elbows on his knees. "What happened?"

"We looked through the jungle for hours, and we found Ethan. I fought him, and he said that if we followed him again he would kill one of them. We didn't listen, and we followed him. Next think we knew, me and Kae were staring at Charlie's body, which was hanging from a tree."

"WHAT?" All four kids cried out.

"What about Mom?" Aaron asked.

"We kept looking, but we couldn't find her." Jack revealed. "Then, two weeks later, she just walked out of the jungle."

"Did you escape?" Aaron asked his mother.

"Someone helped me escape before they took you away from me." She revealed.

"We had some guns, took them, and me, Kate, Sayid, Sawyer and Locke went after Ethan, by pretending to make a deal with Ethan. He said that he would kill one of us if we didn't take Claire back to him, and we thought that he was just bragging. The next morning, a man called Scott washed up on the beach."

"What happened to him?" Ashley asked hesistantly.

"Every bone in his body had been broken." Kate said quietly.

"All the defences we'd built had been for nothing, because they'd come from the sea." Jack added. "So we went after him. We found him, and Charlie shot him four times in the chest." Charlie looked down, finally being revealed to them as a murderer. "Charlie and Hurley were the ones who buried him, and we thought that was the end. Imagine how we feel when he turns up at your parents night."

Evie frowned. "So, you're saying that Kerry's Dad lived on the island before you got there, kidnapped Claire, hung Charlie, killed Scott, took four bullets to the chest, then got buried..."

"Yes." Jack nodded.

"And he was at parents night?"

"Yes."

"Are you sure?" She asked him. "'Cause that's pretty impossible."

"I know." Jack shrugged.

"But, Dad, it CAN'T happen." Evan protested. "It's scientifically impossible."

Jack again, had to shrug, but hated doing so this time to Evan, who had based most of his life around science just as he had done when he was younger. It was this experience, however, that showed him otherwise. "Clearly it can."

"But how?"

"I don't know." Jack admitted. "What we do know, is that he's definately back to cause some trouble."

"What do you mean?" Ashley asked warily.

"He's back for us." Aaron said simply.

"Don't be stupid, Aaron." Evie said tiredly.

Aaron turned in the chair to face her. "Think about it, Evie. What else could he be back for?"

"He's dead!" She told him firmly.

"He's your new best friends Dad!" He countered.

"Prove it!"

"It's simple, Evie." Evan stepped in. "How can he have died then, if he would have to wait another year to have produced a child the same age as us and Ashley?"

"It's not the same man!" Evie insisted.

"Of course it is!" Aaron said. "She even said that her Dad's name was Ethan!"

Evelyn went to answer him back, but Jack stepped in to stop their bickering. "Everyone calm down!" He said, and the kids stopped argueing. "Much better." He turned to look at Evie. "Evie, honey, I'm sorry to say this, but Kerry-"

"If you say that she can't be my friend then I'm leaving this room right now." She said quietly, but firmly.

"Evelyn-" Kate reasoned.

"No, Mom!" Evelyn interrupted. "She's alone, and she's new to this place, and everyone apart from me has rejected her."

"Evie, please listen to us." Kate pleaded.

"She needs me, Mom!"

"And I need you!" Kate snapped back. The room was silent for a moment before Kate continued speaking. "You're my eldest daughter, Evelyn. When we left that island I was carrying you and your brother, and I swore then and there that nothing would ever hurt my family." Jack, sitting closest to Kate, saw the tears welling up in her eyes. "I love you with all my heart, and I can't bear it that every day you're getting closer to the daughter of the man that wants to kill you. Because that's what he'll do. He'll kill you, just like that, and he'll make you suffer just so that he can hurt us." Two tears slipped down her cheeks as she threw her hands up in frustration. "And you know what? It's working! It's working, because whenever any of you walk out that door in the morning, I'm scared that I'll never see you again. I'm scared that I'm going to get a call from the school saying that you never showed up, even though your father drops you at the gate. I'm scared that I'm going to lose my family."

It was too much for Kate now, all the stress loaded onto her at once, and she broke down in tears. Jack was about to move to comfort her when Evelyn suddenly flung herself off the couch and into her mother's arms. This hid the fact that she was nearly crying herself. After a few minutes, they parted, and Evie looked between her parents.

"What do I do?" She asked quietly.

"You apologize to your brother and Aaron, and we work about solving this." Jack said softly.

Evelyn nodded, and turned to the boys seeing as she had already apologized to Ashely earlier that evening. "I'm sorry." She murmered quietly.

"Don't worry about it," Aaron waved off. "We're better mates than she is anyhow."

Evan said nothing, and then took a breath. "Welcome back, sis."