It Can't Rain All The Time
As the song goes, sometimes you can barely tell the difference between the darkness and the light…
A/N: My first LOST fic…I apologize in advance to all Claire and Charlie shippers…Please review…I'll accept flames, but I might not be nice about them…You have been warned…
Disclaimer: I own nothing…but soon, the first season will be mine…
Chapter One: Fever Pitch
Darkness. There was so much darkness that Lianna almost could not stand it. When she was younger, she had been deathly afraid of the dark. Then there was the throbbing in her head. The pain was great, but not too great. And the voices. All the voices. Screaming, crying, begging, pleading, but for who, Lianna could not tell. The darkness felt different than the darkness of death that Lianna had imagined in her youth. This one felt warm, light, and escapable. Then there were the voices again, closer now, and they were calling to her. Lianna pushed on, towards the voices and possible freedom from the darkness she feared.
Light. So much light. Bright, beautiful sunlight. Lianna blinked against it, and saw the face of her friends Megan Reed and Julia Connors above her. Megan's face was tear-stained, and Julia's usually sunny face was darkened.
"Li, you're alive!" Megan said as Lianna tried to struggle into a sitting position.
"What happened?" Lianna asked groggily. Megan and Julia didn't answer, and looked as if they were trying to find the right words. Fear suddenly gripped Lianna, and she looked around. What she saw shocked her to the core.
The plane-what was left of it-was lying in pieces on the ground. The tail was nowhere to be found, as was her other two friends and baby sister. Lianna looked around feverishly. People were up and moving around, but there were bodies. Lots and lots of bodies. Lianna's fear took hold again and she started to scream.
"Where's Alex? Where's Joey? Where's Mia?" she asked, her eyes wild with the fever burning in her body. "WHERE'S MIA?"
"The boys are trying to find our luggage," Julia said. "Mia…well, we don't know where she is right now."
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH HER?" Lianna cried, struggling against her friends' efforts to keep her lying down. "MIA! MIA! WHERE ARE YOU?" Lianna struggled and struggled, till she finally lost the fight and passed out from fever and anguish.
For 40 days and 40 nights, Lianna's body raged with fever. She drifted in and out of consciousness, in and out of lucidity. In her more lucid moments, she was made to understand that she was now in a cave, that the doctor was treating her for the fever, a boy had been kidnapped, and a few of the castaways had died. Lianna vaguely recalled the one called Boone. She had talked to him in the airport for a moment while getting a drink for Mia. He had seemed nice at the time, and she was somewhat sorry he was dead.
Other times, Lianna was unconscious, hearing noises from outside the cave and inside that scared her greatly. Smashing noises, yelling, and the stomping of feet. She was very frightened.
The majority of the time, the delirium brought on by the fever caused Lianna to talk to Mia, who of course wasn't there. Mostly asking her how her day went, and what she was going to do. Megan and Julia worried for her at these times, but more so at the times when Lianna realized that Mia was not there.
"MIA! MIA! WHERE ARE YOU? MIA!" Lianna would be screaming when the doctor came in, but Mia never came. Mia never came because she was missing, and no one had the heart to tell Lianna.