Disclaimer- I don't own Flight 29 Down, but luckily, I can write about it.

Chapter 1 – Going Home

The sky was rapidly getting dark as typhoon Melissa was rolling in. The now rescued castaways were riding in rafts to the plane that would take them home. "I can't believe it," Melissa said to Nathan, "We're really going home, we're rescued."

"Well believe it, because it's true," Nathan said with a grin on his face.

"Well at least one good thing came out of this," Melissa said, "I don't have to listen to you and Daley fight anymore." Nathan laughed. He knew Melissa was good friends with not only him, but Daley, too. He could imagine how it could get annoying. And now that he thought about it, even when he wasn't with Daley, he would tell Melissa how much he hated her.

"Yeah, and hey, now you and Jackson can finally be together."

"Yeah, I guess," her voice was filled with sadness. As much as she liked Jackson, she knew he liked Taylor more.

"We're approaching the plane now. Gather your belongings so we can board quickly and leave before Melissa hits." acknowledged a man in a lifejacket who was steering the raft. Nathan and Melissa giggled. The man glared at them. He obviously didn't know that the name of one of the people he rescued was Melissa. Or that she was the nicest in the group.

As the plane began to lift off, the former castaways gripped their seats. "This is the last plane I'm ever going to ride for the rest of my life." Taylor said to Jackson, who was in the seat next to her.

"We're rescued, and yet, you're still complaining," laughed Jackson.

"Hey, I didn't complain that much," Jackson looked at her, "Ok, so maybe I did complain a lot. But we're rescued now; you don't have to remind me."

"Calm down, I was only kidding," he explained.

"So," Taylor asked, "when are you gonna ask Melissa out?"

"What do you mean…?" questioned a confused Jackson.

"She obviously likes you, and I can tell you like her, too."

"Yeah, but…." There was a long silence.

"Just think about," Taylor said, grabbing her mp3 player from her bag and listening to it.

Doing as she said, Jackson began to think, "They're both great, Melissa, sweet and understanding, Taylor, funny and full of surprises." He wished that he could just make them both great friends. But part of him wanted to have more than that. And he knew, they were gonna make him choose. He would have to talk to them both after they got off the plane.

As the plane began to land – at the airport – the once stranded let out a sigh of relief, they were home. Everyone began to gather their belongings when the captain signaled an "OK" for everyone to exit the plane. "Oh yeah!" yelled Eric, "We're home!" When everyone exited the long hallway that connected the plane to the airport, there jaws dropped. Not only was their family standing and waiting for them, there were at least 100 other people cheering and holding signs saying, "Welcome Back!" and that wasn't even including the many news reporters ready to get the story on the survivors of Flight 29DWN.

"Great," Jackson thought, "I'm never gonna get to talk to them."

A/N- So tell me, did you like it? Should I continue on? If I do, I'll try to get some Daley and Nathan action in. There my favorite couple, so I can't leave them out. But I'm trying to focus more on Jackson/Melissa/Taylor. So it will be mostly that triangle.