Hello everyone. Here comes a chapter I've been really looking forward to write.

As you might remember from earlier author's notes, I deleted the chapter I made for the captain. So when I have finished this chapter, all I have to do is re-write the captain's chapter some, after putting that one up it will be the time for the epilogue and then the story will be over and done.

Since I put up Melissa's chapter I finished a story called a light in the dark.

I don't know how this would happen with Jackson being in care. But I'll just write it as I think it suits.

Cody Jackson

During the whole travel back from the island I knew I was afraid of something none of the others were…

That must have been the reason I didn't say a word to anyone on the last flight. If I spoke I was afraid that I would let them know what I was afraid of. And who knows what they could do by that knowledge now we were back to reality…

Maybe I was even afraid someone would know how frightened I was the one person I wanted to be at the airport to meet me wouldn't be…

And when we'd landed and everyone else got off I didn't move, neither when Melissa got up from right on the other side of the aisle. In the corner of my eye I could see her freezing right next to me. That I should have turned towards her somehow didn't hit me.

"Are you coming?" She asked before anything else. "Will… someone be meeting you here?"

There were another few, short moments before anything else. Should I be explaining to her that I didn't even know the answer to that question? At last I just shrugged.

A part of me wanted to just wanted to get up and go. Go home, have a shower and sleep in a bed. But how would I even be able to do that calmly if I didn't know where my mum was? She must have known I was missing after everything that had happened?

Was she alright? She couldn't be alright. Had she met the Morrison's that I'd been living with the last nine months? Did she know how they, along with Melissa and the school had encouraged me to go on the trip I hadn't meant to go on in the first place?

All of a sudden I felt a hand on my shoulder, and with the touch I was dragged back to here and now. And I was just as surprised as anyone else when I didn't pull away from Melissa, instead finally turned my head and away from the window. Just one second before I got up onto my feet and walked after her down the aisle, out from the plane and towards the doors of the airport.

None of us said anything, I really wouldn't have expected Melissa would neither. Maybe all the time together on the island had us together for long enough and we had everything said already. Therefore I was quite surprised when Melissa suddenly started talking.

"You know…You did a lot for the rest of us on that island… more than I think you know actually…" She paused for an answer but I couldn't figure anything to say right away. "…There was a reason people wanted you as their leader and not me nor Daley."

For just the last few seconds before we reached the doors of the airport my whole mind span around with everything that had happened and the roles we had all had on the island.

I really hadn't done anything else no one else had. And, while for just a second everyone and everything flashed by I did realize we had all had our own roles whether we realized them or not.

But I did know Melissa wanted to know it she was liked and had done something well. And she had.

"I think…" I started slowly at last. "…You and I, Daley, Lex…. We all had different parts of where and how we lived. You're not so bad yourself Melissa Wu. And, while Daley and Lex came up with what got us from that island I don't think we had made it through without you neither."

It was silent in between us again. For just a second before we reached the doors.

Where we came inside people were clapping their hands for us, but waiting family members had already met their children, siblings and friends had already gone over to hugging, crying and being grateful beyond words of meeting again.

And I still didn't know…

Then I saw her, well. I saw her along with my foster family and workers from the CPS but she was the only one who mattered. And for a little while she and I were all alone in the room- all alone in the whole world.

"Mum?" I whispered under my breath. Then left Melissa, the doors, the island and my whole life behind when I ran over to her, wrapped her in my arms and felt her arms around me.

"CoCo," She cried over and over again. "My baby, my CoCo…"

Just nine months ago it had driven me crazy that mum never stopped calling me by the baby name she had ever since I could remember. Now it was the loveliest word I had ever heard.

"My CoCo…" She kept crying and I fought hard my own tears. "My Cody… You came back to me, oh you came back…" She kept whimpering. "My baby came back to me…"

I didn't look at the clock so I didn't know how long we stood like that. It could have been five minutes as well as five hours or five days. Then at last I took a very short step back, keeping my hand towards her neck.

"Of course I did…" I tried to keep my voice steady and remembered the day I had seen her last. "I promised, right?"

I had forgotten about who stood right next to me…

"Hrm, hrm…"

I'd forgotten that Mr. Jacobson from CPS would find any reason he could to take me and mum away from each other again.

"Actually…" He interrupted us. "I think it's for the best if you get to go home right now Cody…" he gestured towards my foster family a small bit away. "We'll be in touch. Of course it's not among the common that our children disappears for longs period of time, just like you have. And now I don't think…" Mum didn't let him finish before he started leading her away from me, even though she tried to reach back towards me.

"NO… No, my CoCo…"

"Mrs. Jackson… Cody…" Mr. Jackson didn't say anything. "We're going to have to be in touch…"

"Cody…" mum cried as Mr. Jacobson kept leading her away from me. "Cody."

I was sixteen years old. And all my life I had been taking care of my mum more than what she took care of me. I knew what I had said had reminded Mr. Jacobson of that…

But while I turned to my foster family I didn't say anything. They just didn't mean anything. And what was I supposed to say anyway? I could just as well have been sixteen days or sixteen hours since no one was going to care about what I wanted.

"No," I heard my mum keep on crying as Mr. Jacobson lead her towards the doors. "No, Cody. Cody. My CoCo…"

"It's okay mum…." I did my best to shout after her. "…It's okay…."

"My Cody."

I couldn't help but imagine I would be going back to the island. But instead of with the class I still barely knew anyway, there would be only mum and I there. And like it had been for as long as I could remember it would be us two against the world.

…Now back to reality it was…

Random fact

I have to say writing this chapter broke my heart. Jackson loves his mum so much and she obviously loves him…