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Thanks to everyone who has read the last few parts and added me to your alert list or reviewed. Here's another part a whole day before I'd planned! Hope you enjoy it and that my writing isn't too confusing.

I apologize now for any mistakes, grammatical or spelling that you may find. I do try my best and run it though both a spelling and grammar check but as you may know these don't pick up everything. I'm dyslexic and as hard as I try my writing will never be mistake free. So I hope you can bear with me and enjoy my writing for the story it's telling rather than it's less than perfect style. I write because I enjoy it not because I want to someday be a huge published author. So please do not let my little mistakes put you off as there's still plenty of twists and turns to come that I hope your going to really like.

Kaia stood on deck watching the mist rolling across the water, she'd never seen anything like it. Thick white sheets sweeping in towards them engulfing everything in sight until the horizon was gone and all Kaia could see was the water just below them. Her stomach was knotted with a chilling sense of fear but she wouldn't allow herself to show it. Oliver would only tease her for her weakness, and when the mist cleared and they came out the other side she would be subject to it endlessly.

"Wow I can't see a thing" Jay, laughed in amazement as he held his hand out in front of him seeing how far away it would go before it too was lost. "Kai, go stand at the end of deck, let's see if it gets you too"

Kaia frowned at him unmoving, arms folded across her chest.

"Hey Kai there's nothing to worry about, this sort of stuff happens all the time at sea. You wait, by tomorrow morning the sun will be shining again and you'll be able to top up the perfect tan some more" Jay swung his arm across her shoulder in a casual attempt at comfort. She could smell the alcohol on his breath sweet and intoxicating. They had all drunk far more than their fair share that night and the fuzz in her mind along with the warmth of his body next to hers was enough to ease her alarm to the point of bearable. Kaia edged herself closer to him and Jay's arm tightened a little around her. Resting her head on his shoulder she closed her eye's and imagined just for one moment what it would be like if he'd really take her in his arms, if his hold held something more than just friendship.

"Hope your not using the fog as an excuse to take advantage of my little sis" Oliver's amused voice reached them just before he stepped through the mist the others following closely behind. Kaia caught a glimpse of something in Mali's eye that disturbed her more than the fog did"

"Just talking" Kaia smiled moving away from Jay's side "this whole thing is really freaky."

"I think it's cool" Nancy giggled "it's like nothing else in the world exists apart from us"

Claire sat by the girl's bedside, watching the gentle rise and fall of her chest as slowly she appeared to be coming back to life. Now dry and piled high with blankets the girl's skin was no longer deadly cold, and hints of pink began to fill her cheeks. Locke had brought her in earlier in the morning setting her down in the spare room of Claire's house at the barracks. He'd said very little before leaving again giving orders to make the girl as comfortable as possible and to call for him as soon as she woke. As of yet the girl had shown no signs of waking so she was left to sit in silence, with nothing to do but contemplate who this girl was and what she was doing here. From past experience she knew that new faces didn't show on the island without reason and after the last time it was enough to make anyone worry.

"Baby doll ready to talk yet" Sawyer's voice from the doorway caused her to jump back to reality.

"Doesn't anyone knock around here?" She grumbled rising from her chair "We've got houses now with doors that close, yet still no privacy.

Sawyer's lips curled up at the ends a smug look fixing itself on his face. Lifting his right hand he knocked a little tune on the bedroom door before looking back at the girl before him. "Well?"

Claire rolled her eye's and sunk back to her chair "Still no change"

"You tried giving her a shake?"

"Leave her" Claire interrupted as Sawyer moved to the girl's bedside. "Let her sleep, she'll come around when she's ready"

"You're all the same" Sawyer grumbled folding his arms "Doesn't anyone want to know what she's doing here?"

"We all do Sawyer, some more than most" Claire looked down at the girl again and no one could miss the pain that flickered across her face as she remembered. "Do you think she'll know, if the others made it back, if Ar… if… he made it back safe? Maybe she'll have heard something on the news, or read something in a paper. Maybe she can tell me if he's still alive."

Sawyer couldn't help but feel for the saddened girl before him. None of them could forget how Aarons kidnapping had effected her, how it had almost broken her to the point where she couldn't continue to live without him. The not knowing was the worst, not knowing if he was even alive or if the trip off the island had killed them all.

"Well, I'm sure if Blondie here isn't planning to kill us all in our sleep, then she may be able to tell you if there were any reports about flight 815 survivors"

Claire laughed, snapping her self out of the darkness which threatened to consume her. "Seriously Sawyer you can't tell me you're afraid of what this girl's going to do to you?"

"No, baby doll here could sneak up on me at night any time she likes. I'm afraid that she's just the start and there are others who may not be quite so… cute.

"You think there are others?"

Sawyer didn't get the chance to answer as the sleeping girl began to stir, her lips straining to find word's as she drifted in the limbo between consciousness and unconsciousness.

"Oliver" She gasped "Olli, Jay what's happening" and then she screamed.

"Olli" this isn't funny where are you. The fog was so thick now that kaia couldn't see anything around her. "Jay, when I find you I swear I'm going to kill you both, Nancy I can't believe you're playing their stupid little games"

Kaia felt her way a little further along the deck of the boat her hand holding tightly to the railing. One moment everyone was standing around her the next she was alone, the mist had taken all of them. Stopping she turned hearing her brothers laughter behind her, but it was no use she couldn't see him.

"Olli I…." Her words cut off as the boat rocked beneath her. Her stomach rolled, they'd hit something, or something had it hit them, either way things had just got a lot worse. The boat creaked as it rocked violently again, this time even Kaia's death grip wasn't enough to keep her from falling and she hit the floor with a painful smack. Nancy's screams echoed in her head mixing with her own. "Oliver, what's happening" She shouted screaming again as a defining crack filled the air.

It felt like everything was moving in slow motion, seconds dragged for what felt like hours as Kaia's mind tried to process what was going on around her. She heard the screams, she heard her brother shouting her name, and she heard the creaks and the cracks as the boat started to fall to pieces around her. Then nothing, nothing but ice cold water as she was plunged in to the sea. She tried to cry out but the water just filled her mouth, she tried to swim but she couldn't work out which way was up. Disorientated her struggles became slower, less forceful and eventually the darkness that was creeping though her mind claimed her. A peacefulness that washed away all the fear and pain swept over her as she surrendered to the sea, it was over, it was all over.