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In Another Life

Summary: It's 2007 and a plane crashes on the island. They are all strangers, except for eight passengers that remember everything.
They got a re-set, just not in the way they thought.

I have been here before.

But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door,
the sweet keen smell, the sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

You have been mine before.

How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar
your neck turned so, some veil did fall, I knew it all of yore.

Has this been thus before? And shall not thus time's eddying flight.

Still with our lives our love restore, in death's despite, and day and night yield one delight once more?

"Sudden Light" by Rossetti

Ch 1 - A New Beginning.

He opens his eyes and blinks a few times he brings his hand to his forehead, is head is pounding and he tastes blood in his mouth. He sits up and stares into the jungle.. He's confused. He looks down to see he's wearing a white dress shirt and black slacks. He picks himself off the ground and hears a rustling in the leaves. He reaches for a gun that he doesn't have.

She wakes up in the dirt; she stands up by leaning against a tree for support. She wonders quickly why she's wearing a skirt and a nice top. She shakes her head and rubs her hands over her face and clumsily walks forward through the leaves. She looks up.

"Kate?"

"Jack?"

They look at each other then at the jungle around them. Suddenly they hear more noises and they run towards it. They both stop in their tracks as they look out at the scene in front of them.

He stands with one hand leaning against something metal. His head is killing him; he rubs it and feels liquid. He takes his hand off and looks at the blood. He looks down to see he's wearing a black suit with a ripped tie. He looks back up to see what he's leaning against and he sees the four circles of the Oceanic logo. He pulls his hand away quickly and runs around to see what happened.

He moves around and feels sand underneath his fingers, he grabs some and brings his hand up and pours it on himself. He looks down to see he's wearing a suit. "Hugo" he hears his name and sits up to see Sawyer.

He coughs and spits when he tastes sand in his mouth. He opens his eyes looks down at the sand and uses both his hands to push himself to his knees, he stares down at the nice suit he's wearing and he looks around.

She feels wobbly on her feet and looks down to see her daughter in her arms. Her eyes widen in shock one minute she was standing on the beach with the Others and some people came up to show them that Locke was dead and some other person was impersonating him. Then there was a bright flash of light and she was here in what appears to be another plane crash. She also wonders why she's wearing a dress. She hears coughing next to her and she puts her hand over her mouth and starts crying. "Jin!" he looks at her and smiles "Sun!"

Jin runs to his wife and stops when he sees the child in her arms. Sun smiles through her tears and places her hand on her husband's cheek. Jin grabs her her hand and brings the other to touch his daughters head. He bites his lip to hold back his tears as she giggles.

They all turn around and stare in shock at the plane wreck in front of them and the people walking around the beach. They see Claire chasing after a three year old Aaron, Shannon and Boone arguing with each other, Charlie excited that his guitar was still in good shape and they hear Michael asking a very tall teenage Walt if he's ok. They look around to see that everyone that was on their flight is alive.

Hurley runs up to them. "What happened?" he asks them and they look at him and shake their heads.

"Why are we still on the damn island? And why am I dressed like this?" Sawyer asks joining them.

Jin, Sun and Ji Yeon walk up to them not wanting to let each other out their sight. "What happened? How did we get here?" Sun asks just as confused as the rest of them. Kate smiles as she sees Sun holding Ji Yeon.

"I think we were in another plane crash" Hurley pipes up "But everyone is like, older"

They all stand around in shock, unable to move. Suddenly Aaron runs up to Kate and hugs her leg. Her heart skips a beat as she looks down at him. He smiles up at her. She has tears in her eyes when Claire runs up to her. "Sorry about that" she says taking Aaron's hand and pulling him away from her. "He's usually not that friendly with strangers, he must like you" She smiles at them when none of them respond. "Are you all alright?" she asks them, they were all dressed nicely or they were dressed nicely now they were covered in dirt and blood. "I know we are all in shock, our plane just crashed onto an island. I was just going home to visit my mum, she hates that I moved to LA…and I'm rambling. Sorry, I get like that when I'm scared" She takes a deep breath. "I'm Claire by the way" Aaron tugs at her arm pointing to a yellow lab that comes running out of the jungle. "Doggie" Aaron says wanting to go play with it. All of them are still just standing there staring at her. "Ok, then I'm bothering you so I'll leave"

"Wait" Hurley calls out to her. She turns and looks at him. "This flight, was it 815?"

"815, no it's flight 1623" she replies "Were you on the wrong flight?" She asks feeling bad if they did get on the wrong flight only to get in a plane crash.

"No" he says and they all turn to look at each other.

Her bed starts shaking violently and she hears things crashing down around her. She feels the coolness of her sheets underneath her palms, she opens her eyes and it takes awhile to get her bearings. The room is spinning and head is pounding. When she can finally focus she sees the stuff from her shelves crashing to the floor. She sits up fast and cries out in pain her entire body aches. She takes a deep breath and ignores it as she runs out of her room and into his, wondering what she did last night that made her entire body sore and gave her the worst headache she's ever had. He's sleeping soundly as if nothing was going on, she hobbles to the window and looks out. She surveys the ground for damage and finds none. She hears a loud sound and looks to the sky and sees a plane rip apart in mid-air.

She watched the two halves fall on different parts of the island. "Mommy" he calls out to her and she runs to his side.

Tbc..

A/N: I'm still working on my "I'm coming home" fic but this theory had been floating around and I had to write a story for it too.