Spoilers: Some Series 3 spoilers and some Buffy spoilers.

- Series 3 -

Blue eyes scanned a room that looked very much like a tank. What was worse the blue eyes ended up looking above and found a pipe that at that moment began letting water in the tank.

As was human instinct she started to panic but not as much as a normal person would the only thing that scared her was being under water for a long amount of time with no way of getting out. This may be because before she was sired all those years ago she was claustrophobic. She may be able to stay under water for as long as she wants but the fear of being enclosed with no escape that had somehow stayed with her after her 'death' was still there.

The water was now at her hips and she looked for a way out when finally she got a control on her fear. Her eyes snapped to the glass and she swam to it and when at it she drew back her fist and hit it. Nothing happened. She hit it again. Nothing. Again. Nothing. She hit about three more times before a crack was noticeable on the glass.

The water stopped flowing into the tank and she drew back her fist one more time and hit the same spot with all her strength. Next thing she knows she is lying on a cold metal floor with glass and metal all around her.

"It seems a metal tank will have to be used if we want to see how long you can last under water."

A laugh tore from her throat "Let me save you the trouble." She slowly stood up and looked into brown eyes "I can last a very long time under water. Last time I was under water I had to stay under it for a month to avoid the person who hunted me."

The person nodded and wrote this down then pointed at her, two pair of arms grabbed her as they injected her. Her eyes fluttered close.

When they opened again she was sat in a chair, looking around she found holes in the wall ahead of her "Shit." Seconds after saying this many wooden spikes came flying out of the holes and headed straight ahead. Kate was being taken down a hallway the same time as Jack when they both heard pain filled screams coming from near by.

She staggered to the door and in a fit of rage ripped it from its hinges staggering into the hallway she ripped some steaks that came a bit to close to her heart then threw them right into one of the others arms pinning him to the wall.

One came right at her trying to stun her she grabbed his neck and broke it without a second thought then turned to the man she had pinned sauntered up to him "You are in pain?" The woman nodded "Good because I don't want you to feel no pain." With that she bit into her neck and drained her of her blood.

Feeling the presence of people further down the hall she turned to them and found Jack and Kate being led by some people in different directions but they had stopped due to the commotion she had caused. She recognised theirs scents immediately but couldn't figure out how she knew them.

Stepping forward a guy with grey hair said "You don't want to do that Melinda."

Melinda cocked her head then bowed her head "Very well then what should I do."

"Melinda?"

Melinda looked to the people who said her name "How do you know my name?"

Ben then came around the corner "They want you to help them escape." He put a hand on her shoulder and looked at the mess she caused "Now what did I say about controlling your animalistic urges."

Jack couldn't believe what he was hearing "Melinda it's me Jack, Kate is right next to me."

Melinda looked at Ben who nodded then walked straight to Jack she put her hand to his cheek under the bag that was put on over his head and her mouth came to rest near his ear "Why do you entice me so?" Nibbling his ear through the bag she continued not noticing at all what reaction she was getting for doing what she was doing "I have never met you before in my life yet I feel as if I have known you for many life times."

"You don't remember."

Melinda closed her eyes and leaned her head against his shoulder and Jack wished he could hold her then her eyes snapped open and she whispered to him "I'm sorry I kissed you."

When he whispered "I'm not." Back to her she tensed.

Her lips found his ear again "Care to explain why those words cause me so much heartache." Closing her eyes she continued "When I close my eyes all I can remember about you is you saying those words to the woman called Kate and how much pain that caused me."

Jack closed his eyes not believing that Melinda had practically lost her memories and the only one she could pull up was one that he did not know she had witnessed "I'm sorry."

Melinda nodded and knew he could feel it, stepping away she said her final words to him "With that painful memory, do I want to remember the rest?"

Before she left to be punished for her carnage he said "All the brilliant things you told me deserve to be remembered by you and no one else."

Melinda nodded then went to a room where she was locked in a small boxed size room that was then turned pitch black.

Closing her eyes Melinda screamed causing the people who where monitoring her to become confused as she had never screamed in the room before just showed a high amount of fear when she left the room.

Melinda fell to her knees her eyes flashing white before she became unconscious after the thousands of images that flashed before her mind.

- Giles -

While all this was happening Giles had found a spell to help reinstate Melinda in control of her body. Then he began looking into a way to help her off the island and her friends.

He found a few spells that could work but the thing is they work over time and time was something Melinda was running out of if the prophecies where correct that is.

For days Giles prepared to use a spell that would get her off the island and make everyone believe she never stepped foot on that plane except for the people who were on that plane they would be the only ones to remember her being on the plane.

- Melinda -

Jack walked into the room days after seeing Melinda last and after not being able to convince them into letting her go with Kate and Sawyer due to her being unconscious. However they did let him into see her but that was when he spotted the woman in a cage in the corner of the room who was watching him with a deep hunger in her eyes.

All of a sudden the door behind him closed and locked then the cage holding the woman opened. She leapt out of the cage and pushed him against the wall and was about to bite him when hands grabbed her neck and flung her across the room.

Jack noticed Melinda stare at the woman who now had a disfigured face which he remembered Melinda saying was what normal vampires looked like vamped out but then her eyes were visible and he saw the same blackness that he saw in Melinda's right at that moment.

Elizabeth stepped forward and in an instant was lifted off her feet and shoved into a wall "I only wanted to have a nibble mother."

Melinda growled "I will sooner see you dead than let you drink from Jack. Remember that childe for the only reason I do not kill you now is I made you what you are, or at least Apollo did when she had control of my body."

Elizabeth nodded "But you are much stronger than her."

Melinda was about to say something when Jack spoke "You remember me."

Melinda turned to him frowning remembering everything including when she didn't remember everything "I believe Giles helped me somehow." Placing Elizabeth back in the cage she locked it by bending metal here and there into a complicated knot that a vampire so young could never think of bending back.

"Why did you forget?"

Melinda noticed him staying away from Elizabeth so she sat on the bed and noticed him walk closer "My body was still fighting for control with Apollo and therefore reverted to whom I was before I became a vampire however my vocabulary seemed to still hold some normalcy."

Jack was now standing directly in front of her and his hand came to rest on her cheek "I truly am sorry."

Melinda nodded knowing what he meant and leant forward "I forgive you Jack." Then before she could realise what was happening he kissed her passionately bringing her body close to his.

- Chapter 2 -

Giles looked around at the library he was in sorting out some of his own books. It had been a few weeks since he had found the spell to get Melinda off the Island and yet it would only be her getting off it and anyone who wasn't on the plane would forget she was ever on it.

He took some of his books into his office then looked at the three students who entered the library and smiled hoping one day that Buffy would meet Melinda, she could be of great help in training her.

"You okay Giles?"

Giles nodded taking his glasses off and cleaning them, putting them back on he told Buffy, "I'm fine Buffy."

"Good because you totally had this whole 'training' look on your face. The one you always have when you think of something for my training." Sitting on the table she smiled, "I'm right though aren't I Willow?"

Willow nodded her red hair swaying about with her head, "Yeah your face gets all kind of scrunched up well slightly."

"You also get this serious look in your eyes."

"Thank you Xander." Giles turned away shaking his head then gave Buffy a book, "Please read this."

Buffy frowned up at him, "You're giving me homework?" When he nodded her eyes widened. "Isn't it bad enough that I get homework from my teachers and now I'm getting homework from you?"

"Buffy please."

Sighing she stood up placing the book in her bag, "Fine but only because this is the first time it's happened."

Giles watched Buffy, Xander and Willow leave the library then looked at an open book which had the spell on it, looking around he decided to start collecting the things needed for the spell.

- Melinda -

A few weeks had passed since the kiss and Melinda was still in shock about it as well as angry about it. She was angry for two reasons; number one he affected her and two she didn't want to be close to anyone on the island no more.

He managed to escape, Melinda made sure he couldn't get her. She had begun working around the place helping mending things and lifting heavy objects, she was becoming one of the others and this sickened her but it was one way to make the survivors hate her.

She didn't know why but she felt like she was slowly being pulled away from the Island, especially since her dreams where telling her the same thing.

She was in her new home on the island when someone burst through the back door, "Jack?"

He looked at her and she noticed that Sawyer and Kate was also behind him, as well as Juliet.

"Melinda?"

Obviously they hadn't expected Melinda and it quickly dawned on her, "This was your house wasn't it Juliet?"

"It was."

"You're not a prisoner no more?"

Kate looked angered and confused, "No I'm not Kate, I do jobs each day for the Others and I live among them." A sharp pain went through her but she managed not to show it.

"Come with us?"

Melinda was about to answer when another sharp pain went through her, she fell to her knees in agony, "Bloody Hell." She saw a symbol begin to show on the ground, "Oh fuck no." She saw Jack coming to her, "Jack NO." She looked at the symbol and her eyes all of a sudden went black, her fangs completely showing, the next word coming out as a sort of roar, "GILES."

Jack, Kate, Juliet and Sawyer could not describe what happened next, all they knew was that Melinda was kneeling there one second and was not there the next. Days passed and the four noticed that gradually everyone else but the four of them where beginning to forget completely about Melinda Collins. In fact on the list of people from the flight her name no longer resided on it. It was as if she never had set foot on the plane, the only proof that she had was the four people who still remembered her.

Items that where hers disappeared and the things she made for Claire also disappeared leaving no sign that she ever set foot on the Island.

In Sunnydale Giles waited for any signs of Melinda Collins not knowing where the spell went wrong, as she should have ended up in the symbol drawn out before him when he cast the spell. Days had passed into weeks and there was still no signs of Melinda.

Melinda looked around her and all she saw was complete darkness, then a voice speaking out to her, "Melinda Collins Hybrid of both Vampire and Slayer." Time slowly passed in the darkness while on the outside days and weeks passed.