"So... this island. What is it?"

"Um... an island", said Miles

Emma gave him a look. "Funny. You know that's not what I meant."

"Well", Kate began, "Me, James, and Claire were all passengers on Oceanic 815."

"Oceanic 815?"

"It was a plane. It crashed. On an island. A very strange island. With, like, smoke monsters and immortality and very bright lights."

"OK..."

"And, 48 people survived the crash, though many died during the three months we lived together."

"Three months?"

"Approximately. Anyway, eventually, six of us found rescue."

"Six... you six?"

"No. A, you call this rescue? B, Miles, Richard, and Frank weren't even on the plane."

"OK, go on."

"Well, before we were rescued, we found a guy named Desmond who pushed a button every 108 minutes to save the world."

"Save the world?"

"Some electromagnetic thing... I'm not sure, exactly. But, anyway, there was also this crazy French lady who's science team had crashed in a boat. She killed them all because she though they were... infected. And there were people in the tail section of the plane, but a lot of them were taken by the Others, who were this other civilization on the island that we didn't know much about. They kidnapped Claire, apparently to save her baby because pregnant women die on the island. And then Aaron was born... and Sun got pregnant..."

"Who's Sun?"

"A Korean woman who was on the plane. She's dead now, along with the rest of the plane. Only 6 people from Oceanic 815 are still alive. Anyway, stuff happened, and we met the leader of the others, Ben, and Locke, one of the 815 passengers, became an other. Desmond, a while earlier, had imploded the hatch, and he could see the future. He saw a woman parachuting onto the island, and he thought it was his girlfriend Penny. It wasn't, though, it was a woman named Naomi, who it turned out had been sent by Penny's evil father, Charles Widmore."

"Wow, this is getting weird."

"Yeah... Anyway, Widmore sent a boat, which Miles and Frank were on."

"OK... so who's the other guy?"

I'm Richard. Many years ago - over a century, in fact - I was on a ship called the Black Rock, which crashed on the island. I met Jacob, who was in charge of the island, and he made me immortal. I became the adviser to the leader of the people they called 'Others'."

"OK... anyway, back to your story."

"Right. So, we wanted to be rescued. Daniel Faraday, who was on the boat, started bringing people to and from it. Meanwhile, Frank flew some men in a helicopter who wanted to kidnap Ben and kill everyone else on the island. They had already blown up the place where the Others had used to live, where Locke and some others, including Claire and James, were living. They had killed nearly everyone, including Ben's 'adopted' daughter, Alex. I use the word adopted, but really he kidnapped her."

"So, who survived?"

"Locke, Ben, Hurley, Miles, Claire, James, and Aaron."

"That's it?"

"Yeah. So, Locke and Ben wanted to find Jacob, and they made Hurley go with them. They learned that they had to move the island. Meanwhile, Claire walked off and left Aaron behind, so James and Miles, after failing to find her, started heading back to the beach. Frank had dropped a receiver on the beach telling us to follow the helicopter, so Jack and I did, then we met up with James and Miles. I took Aaron back, and James went with Jack. I then saw Sayid returning from the boat, where he and Desmond had been, so I handed Aaron to Sun and went with Sayid to find James and Jack. After making a deal with the Others, we helped Ben escape, and they let us go on the helicopter. Jack and James had gone and retrieved Hurley, so we all got on the helicopter. On the way to the boat, it was running out of gas, and, uh... James jumped, so we could get to the boat. When we landed, we learned from Desmond that there was a bomb. He, Sun, and Aaron got on the helicopter, and we went to fly back to the island. But they had moved the island, so we crashed in the water. Luckily, Penny was coming on a boat and rescued us. Sun, Sayid, Jack, Hurley, Aaron and I got back to the real world, where we lied to protect the people we left behind. I raised Aaron. After 3 years, Locke came and told us we needed to go back. Jack believed, and somehow convinced everyone else. Locke apparently killed himself. We went back to the island, and Jack, Hurley and I ended up in 1977, reuniting with the few who remained. Many had died in the elapsed time. As it turned out, they'd been jumping through time, and everyone else had died in 1954. Sayid was in 1977 too, but he came later, and they had to treat him like a prisoner. Aaron was - is, actually - in LA with Claire's mother -"

"My mother? But she was in a coma."

"Well, she's not anymore. Anyway, Aaron was in LA and Sun was in the present day. We were inducted into the Dharma Initiative, a research organization that was on the island in the 70's and 80's. We tried to change the future but failed, and we ended up back in the present day. We teamed up with the Others - and with Widmore - to fight the black smoke thingy. It tried to sink the island, using Desmond to unplug the cork thingy making the bright light, but then Jack re-plugged it... and died. Hurley, Ben, Desmond, Rose, and Bernard stayed on the island. We don't know what happened to them.

"That is a very unrealistic story."

"Says miss daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming."

"Fair enough."

"Now, tell us your story."

"OK, well, I think you mean their's. I was just a foster kid, and later a bail bonds-person in Boston. So, all the fairytales are real, and interconnected. And twisted from the book version. After the Evil Queen, a.k.a. my kid Henry's adoptive mother, found out that my dad woke my mom from the sleeping curse, and they got married, she made plans to cast a Dark Curse that would rip them from their land, the Enchanted Forest, and take them to a horrible place with no happy endings."

"Here?"

"Yes. Here. This world, that is. Time was frozen, and for 28 years they didn't age, which is why I'm around the same age as my parents."

"Weird..."

"Yeah... anyway, they also didn't remember who they were, until I broke the curse by giving Henry true love's kiss, which broke him from a sleeping curse that was the same as the one used on my mother. Even the same apple, in fact."

"And... Henry's father... Is Rumpelstiltskin's son?"

"Yeah. Like I said, all the fairytales are interconnected."

"Wow. Well, anyway, now that you know about the island, and that we can keep secrets, can we go?"

"Hmm... I'll think about it."