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Post by melissaq9 on Jan 30, 2008 11:25:14 GMT -4
"You don't want this to happen in public Ben." Mel said.
"I do."
"Just tell us who it is Mel." Ethan said gruffly.
"Fine! Ben is Bella's father! Are you happy?" she yelled at Ethan.
Ethan stood there, clearly shocked. Ben had a smug smirk on his face.
"Then all is well." Ben said.
"You think so?" Mel asked sarcastically as tears came to her eyes. "I thought I was done with all of this! Why didn't you let me stay away? Why did you have to bring me back here?"
"Because my daughter needs to be in the same place as her father. And so do you."
"No!" Ethan yelled as he charged to Juliet who was holding Bella.
Ethan grabbed Bella out of Juliet's arms. Juliet, fearing that a struggle would harm Bella, let her go.
"You are not getting your hands on another child." Ethan stated calmly.
Mel recognized his tone. It was the same one he had used with her when he had taken William from her.
"Ethan." Mel called, suddenly being hit with vicious deja vu. "You put her down right now. Give her back."
"I won't. I saved William from Ben and now I'm going to have to save Bella."
"You didn't save William, Ethan." Ben said as he stood beside Mel. "You took a child away from his mother and father."
Ethan shrugged, "I guess you'll never know will you?"
Mel gasped in outrage, truly shocked by Ethan's hurtful behavior. Where was the man she loved?
"Don't take her Ethan, don't do this." Mel pleaded.
"I don't have a choice."
Mel felt Ben slip something into her hand behind her her back. She recognized the cool metal of a gun.
Tears were falling freely from Mel's eyes, "Baby, this is your last chance. Please give Bella to me."
"I'm sorry to do this to you again Mel but it must be done."
Mel rasied her gun and pointed it at Ethan's head, "I was afraid you would say that."
Ethan chuckled, "You're not going to shoot me Mel. Put the gun down. You might hurt Bella."
"I'm not the one trying to hurt her, you are."
"You've been so blinded by Ben since you came here. You don't even realize that he is manipulating you, even now."
"I have you to thank for that, don't I? At least Ben cares for his children and even those that are not his. He does everything he can to protect them. Which is something I can't say about you."
Mel saw Jack approaching Ethan slowly from his side. She nodded a fraction of an inch after he caught her eye.
"I'll hate you forever for making me do this." she cried to Ethan.
Ethan shook his head, "You won't d..."
Mel pulled the trigger and shot Ethan cleanly in the middle of his forehead. As his body fell to the ground Jack lunged forward and caught Bella keeping her from harm.
The entire village let out a collective gasp after Mel fired her gun. Mel ignored them and walked over to Ethan. She aimed her gun at his chest and pulled the trigger twice. She had to be sure.
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Post by fearandloathin on Jan 30, 2008 11:44:03 GMT -4
Zoe heard a gun shot shortly after Emma left. It made her jump at first, and her instant insticnts made her climb her tree. Once positioned carefully, she looked down upon the village, letting out a small gasp of shock. Ethan was there, lying on the floor, motionless, blood pouring out of his chest, and a trickle from his head. Ethan was dead!
Mel holding a gun, Ben looking on emtionlessly, Jack holding a baby - Zoe felt butterflies in her stomache, but quickly realised it wasn't one of hers. Hers would have been kept together, and the baby looked too young to be hers. She sighed sadly.
Then realisation came to her. Her father was dead. Ethan Rom was dead. She felt heavyweighted, a strange feeling overcame her. Why wasn't she feeling light and free? That was something she was sure she would have felt at the news of Ethan dead. But it didn't come. Surely she didn't feel sympathy for the man? Sympathy for the man who she disregarded as her father for so long?
Scared by what she was feeling, she jumped down, and ran through the jungle back to her shelter, confused. This was when she needed the wise words of John Locke to help her.
"Hey baby, what's wrong?" Came a voice. Zoe jumped and looked up.
"Charlie." She whispered, tears spilling from her face. "I've missed you so much."
"I know, I know, I've missed you too." He breathed, and knealt down to hug her, to cradle her in his arms. "I couldn't bear you to be so alone, to have left you for so long, but I had to find out how our children were."
Zoe didn't know why she allowed herself to continue with this fantasy and dillusion of Charlie still being alive. She knew he was dead, and he was just in her imagination, and he almost always told her what she wanted to hear, she just wasn't strong enough to let go of him yet.
"I've seen them. I've seen our children Zoe." He whispered softly. Zoe pushed him back to face him, to look him in his ocean blue eyes.
"Tell me everything." She whispered desperatly.
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Post by melissaq9 on Jan 30, 2008 12:36:54 GMT -4
Mel dropped the gun as she came back to reality. She looked down at Ethan's lifeless body then turned wide-eyed to the crowd around her.
Her eyes stopped on Bella who was safe in Jack's arms. Once that was confirmed she felt her eyes roll into the back of her head and promptly fainted.
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Post by tigerlily on Jan 30, 2008 13:07:30 GMT -4
Emma heard a gunshot and stopped in her tracks. She had made a mistake. She should have been watching the village. This may have been her chance to find the answers she needed, undetected, while everyone, especially Ben, was distracted by the drama at hand. What kind of scene would greet her when she returned to her lookout point? Would she be able to find allies in the village? Or even better, would she find her beloved Desmond???
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Post by fearandloathin on Jan 30, 2008 15:03:22 GMT -4
Zoe sat down in her shelter, holding her knees, staring into space, ignoring her surroundings, the odd tear trickled down the side of her face. Charlie was beside her, still cradling her.
"Listen hon. I've got to go." Charlie said, Zoe looked up at him, but didn't say anything, and just like that, he was gone. She turned her head, her eyes looking down as she resumed her position, thoughts swirling around her mind, thinking deeply.
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Post by melissaq9 on Jan 30, 2008 15:38:29 GMT -4
Mel woke up in a place she really didn't want to be, in Ben's house. As she sat up and looked around she saw she was on the couch in his living room.
Ben, Jack and Juliet were standing in the kitchen talking quietly. Ben was cradling Bella in his arms.
"Thank you Jack." she heard Ben say. "I don't know what I would have done if Bella had been hurt."
"You're welcome Ben but you know I didn't do it for you."
Juliet turned to Ben, "Where is Sophie?"
Ben sighed, "I'm not sure. She left after she heard that Bella was mine."
"Do you blame her?" Jack asked.
"You'd think she's be used to me by now. It's not the first time this has happened."
Mel shook her head at his words. Ben Linus never changed.
"What about Mel?" Juliet wondered.
"Mel will be fine. She's a fighter, always has been."
"She just killed the man that she loves. I don't know if she'll be able to bounce back from that."
"You're one of her closests friends Juliet, you of all people shouldn't underestimate her. She did what was right to protect her child.'
"You're the one who handed her the gun." Jack said.
"Thank you Jack, but I do remember. That was something Mel needed to do for herself. She should have never trusted Ethan again in the first place."
"But I did trust him." Mel said as they all turned towards her. "He trusted me as well, and because of that he's dead."
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Post by benlinusisagoodguy on Jan 30, 2008 16:11:14 GMT -4
"mmm" Sophie murmerd as ben kissed her cheek. Waking up she rolled to her side to face him.
"I guess are break is over?" he asked as he carressed her skin.
"Looks like it." she smiled. touching his face she pulled him towards her to kiss. "I've missed you" she whispered. "Promise me you won't hurt me again?" she asked.
"I promise."
When sophie and steph were drinking. They heard people arguing. Instantly Sophie looked at Steph and rushed outside. Knowing it was Ben.
Hearing Mels words off Ben was the father. Sophie rushed back to Bens packing her stuff.
"Steph can you help get Molly back to my home?" she asked
"Sure."
Sophie passed Molly to Steph as she grabbed her bags storming out of bens house. She returned back to hers again!
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Post by benobsessed on Jan 30, 2008 17:04:52 GMT -4
Steph took Molly from Sophie and glared across at Ben. The guy is a complete idiot she thought.
She placed Molly gently on the sofa and waited for Sophie to return with her belongings. Sophie returned, flushed in the face and very tearful. She sat down and cuddled her daughter tightly.
"You must finish with him this time. He is no good for you, or Molly" Steph said sadly perching next to her friend.
"I know" Sophie responded, still clutching her daughter.
"Sophie, once was bad enough, but twice! The guy is a cheat and a liar. He only ever thinks of himself. You can't let him destroy you like he did Ethan, for Moll's sake if not your own"
A few hours had passed and Stpeh had managed to calm Sophie slightly, at least that was until they heard Ben almost trying to kick down the door
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Post by fearandloathin on Jan 30, 2008 17:57:47 GMT -4
Zoe decided to take a walk. She left her shelter and headed for the beach. As usual, the wheather was bright, sunny and warm. She took off her shoes and allowed the sand to get inbetween her toes. The ocean breeze blew through Zoe's dark brown hair and she looked out across the ocean, watching the tide splash playfully upon the shore.
About ten minutes later, Zoe arrived at her old home. The beach camp of the plane survivors. She observed the scene of the remains of some of the blown up tents, debrie and the remaining standing shelters. Aaron's cot was still here and dharma food had been left behind. Zoe ran over to one of the handmade kitchen shelves and grabbed a box labled cereal, opened it greedily and ate it rapidly. She hadn't eaten properly for a long time, and this was her first visit back to the beach, having never thought of coming back before.
It came her to her mind once or twice before, but she had been so stuck on watching the village, she never found time to come back, but after the incident of Ethan's death, her fathers death, some time away might do her some good.
Zoe sat down on her favourite spot at the camp, where one of the fires which was now black ash from where it had been neglected for many many months, and took out Charlie's ring which he had intended to leave for Aaron. She rotated it in her hand, admiring it, pleased that she had been the one to have found it.
A downpour of rainforest weather accumilated suddenly, and her first thought was to run for the nearest well built shelter, but the rain on her skin felt strange, like she never felt before. It was good, fresh and pure, so she stayed where she sat, rapidly getting soaked as she continued to ignore her surroundings and stare at Charlie's ring.
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Post by benlinusisagoodguy on Jan 30, 2008 17:59:44 GMT -4
"Sophie let me in!" He shouted at the door. "We need to talk."
"She has nothing to say to you!" Steph yelled back.
Both of them bickering to each other between the door.
"Stoppit just stoppit" Sophie screamed as molly was crying for ben's banging.
She opened the door, and let ben in. "Just give us a moment Steph. Please." she asked. Steph glared at Ben then looked back at Sophie.
"You know where i am if you need me." she sighed before leaving them.
Sophie was rocking molly trying to calm her down. "shhh shhh" she whispered.
"Let me..." Ben said taking her off Sophie and cradle her in his arms. Molly soon stopped crying. Sophie sat down as Ben sat beside her.
"You promised you wouldn't hurt me no more Ben... Everything was going so well for us and then i find out you have another child with her!"
"I don't see why your so angry sophie. it happened a long time ago, we weren't even together. Oh wait it was the same night you had sex with Richard and hold on a second. Weren't we going through the same thing with you. Finding out who the father was!"
Sophie grabbed molly of Ben. "Get out! I don't want to speak to you." Ben just sat there. "GET OUT!" she screamed.
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Post by tigerlily on Jan 30, 2008 20:15:07 GMT -4
Emma returned to her lookout point over the village. The crowd had thinned, but a few people lingered over what looked like a human body. She couldn't make out who it was. Her attention shifted to one of the little houses. She watched as a door slammed behind Ben and he was left outside, gazing at the door as if willing it to open again. It was the house that belonged to Sophie, Ben's partner. If they were having problems, there was a chance that Emma could use that to further her cause. Could Sophie be the ally she needed? Would she help Emma face Ben? Or would lingering feelings for Ben make it impossible to trust her?
It was time to take a chance. Emma crept silently, and got as close to the village as she'd ever been. She shivered. She didn't know how these people would accept an outsider, especially one that had targeted their leader. If they were angry enough at Ben, if the violence had erupted was his fault, then she could definitely use that to her advantage.
"What are you doing here?" A voice with a thick Middle Eastern accent startled Emma. She knew who he was, although they had never met. She turned around to face Sayid. "Who are you and why are you snooping?" He seemed more surprised than angry to see her spying on the village. He knelt down to where she lay on her stomach.
"Don't be afraid," he said gently. "We are not your enemy."
"I'm looking for Desmond," Emma said. She held her breath for a moment. "I know Ben knows where he is. Can you help me?"
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Post by melissaq9 on Jan 30, 2008 23:26:37 GMT -4
"Nooooooooo!" Mel screamed as she woke up. Tears flowed down her face as she fought at the demons in her head. She pulled her knees to her chest and wrapped her arms around them.
That was how Jack found her, rocking, repeating, "I killed him, I killed him." Over and over.
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Post by benlinusisagoodguy on Jan 31, 2008 10:37:13 GMT -4
Sophie took Molly to her cot, and rocked her to sleep. After crying Sophie finally fell asleep aswell in the chair. Still with her arm rocking the cot.
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Post by melissaq9 on Jan 31, 2008 12:21:16 GMT -4
Ben stood as Mel wandered into the kitchen.
"You don't look well." he said a little too honestly.
"Right, thanks Ben." Mel mumbled as she went for the coffee pot and poured herself a cup. "Where is Bella?"
"She's sleeping in Molly's room."
Mel sat at the table, "You better hope Sophie doesn't see that. She'll flip."
"I don't think Sophie wants to see any part of this house at the moment, especially me."
"You're wrong. She's just hurt. I'm sure you didn't help things when you ran over there yesterday."
Ben chuckled, "I'm suddenly getting a sense of deja vu."
"We have been here before haven't we? Gosh, can you believe it's been a whole year?"
"And nothing has changed." Ben added.
Mel sighed, "You're right, it hasn't. We are in the same situation that we were in then. You told Sophie that me and you happened long before I left right? That nothing happened while I was living in the hatch."
"I mentioned it. But it didn't go as I planned."
"What did you say?"
"I told her when we had been with each other and she got upset so I said that it was the same time that she and Richard."
"You didn't" Mel said shaking her head.
"I was angry, it slipped out."
"Do you know anything about women?" Mel laughed.
"Obviously not nearly enough. I can't tie either one of you down."
"At least you have that one right. I'm going to go take a shower then I'll get Bella and head home."
"You don't have to leave you know."
Mel looked back at Ben from the hallway and smiled, "Yeah, I kind of do."
Ben smiled back but then his face became serious, "Jack told me that you woke up screaming last night. Are you alright?
"Just a nightmare, nothing to worry about." Mel lied then turned and walked into the bathroom.
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Post by benlinusisagoodguy on Jan 31, 2008 12:29:41 GMT -4
Sophie woke up finding molly wasn't in her cot. "Molly?" she screamed as she got up. She instantly thought ben had taken her. Running into the living room she found Molly with John. She sighed relief when she saw them.
"You ok?" John asked. as he fed molly a bottle.
"Yeah.... I thought ben had taken her." As she slumped on the chair.
"No i came to check on you both and saw molly was wide awake. I din't want to disturb you soo."
"It's ok.... besides she like spending time with uncle john." she grinned making john smile too.
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