The Magic Pond

Disclaimer: I don't own LOST

A/N: What if each of the survivors were able to see one person from their past? To see how they are doing. When they do that, what will be their reaction? What will they see? I will have one character per chapter choosing to see someone and seeing the person and the aftermath. Who will each of the survivors choose? This first chapter is a set up chapter with no specific person. Michael and Walt never left just to make it a bit easier.

Sayid, Ana, and Charlie had found this place walking back from not finding the balloon. It was a very comforting area. There were trees and it was so green. It smelled so good. It smelled like sugar cookies. They didn't understand it, until they found a note. It was an old battered note that was lying on the ground. It said,

To anyone who finds this place:

You are in luck. Are you missing someone from your past? Just look into the pond and someone that you love will be shown to you, in what they are doing at that very moment. In order to make it work, you must step into the pond. No one else can be any where near you. Before you step into the pond, you must decide whom you want to see. You get three minutes. The person you see will not know you are there. Be warned, what you see might not be what you like. Don't ask questions, for you won't find answers. Good luck.

"What?" Charlie asked. "That makes absolutely no sense."

"I think we should go talk to Jack." Ana said.

"You know what Jack will say. That it is not possible. He won't believe it." Sayid said.

"I think we should try it. I'll try it first." Charlie volunteered.

"No. We need to get Jack." Ana said.

"Ok fine. Let's go get Jack." Sayid said.

The three left for the hatch. They kept the note with them.

"Jack." Sayid said, coming into the hatch with Ana and Charlie behind him.

Jack emerged from the computer room, where he and Locke had just had another fight concerning Gale.

"What?" Jack asked.

Locke came into the room then.

"We need to talk to you. Alone." Sayid said.

"Ok. Let's go outside." Jack said.

Locke looked on as they left. Had they found the balloon or not? Why were they telling Jack and not himself? It made no sense. He went to go check on Gale.

"We didn't find the balloon." Sayid said, with a look of I told you so on his face.

Jack swore under his breath. "You didn't find anything?"

"Yes we found something. We found a pond. Now you might wonder what is so special about a pond. Read this. We found it near the pond." Ana handed Jack the paper.

Jack read it over. "There's no way. This has to be a fake. There's no such thing."

"I told you." Sayid told Ana with a smirk on his face.

"There's only one way to find out." Charlie said, anxious to do it.

"Charlie's right, Jack. We should go." Sayid said.

"Now?" Jack looked back at the hatch.

"I don't think you need to inform Locke of what we are doing." Ana said.

"Ok. Let's go." Jack said.

They left for the pond.

"Ok so who wants to go?" Ana asked. They had reached the pond. Jack had started examining it.

"I'll go." Charlie said.

"No. I'll go. I don't mind." Jack said.

"Ok then Jack. We will leave and go a little ways away and then in a hour we will come back." Sayid said.

So the three left Jack alone and started walking.

"Why a hour? The thing takes three minutes." Charlie said.

"If this thing is real, then what Jack might see might make him a little emotional. He'll need time alone." Sayid said.

"Oh." Charlie said.

The three each started thinking about whom they would chose if the thing really worked.

They hoped it did.

A/N: I might post the next chapter tonight or tomorrow. We'll see how it goes. Let me know what you think.