Zekaela

Zekaela is the het ship between Zeke Landon and Michaela Stone from the Manifest fandom.

Michaela Stone's Story
On April 7th, 2013, Michaela Stone and her family were at the airport in Jamaica waiting for their flight home to New York when they learn that the flight that they were supposed to head home on was oversold. Michaela, her brother Ben and Ben's 10 year old son, Cal, decide to take the later flight home while Grace, Ben's wife and Olive, Cal's twin sister and Ben and Michaela's parents, Steve and Karen take the earlier flight home.

While on the flight, Ben convinces Michaela to say yes to her long term boyfriend, Jared Vasquez. Michaela was proposed to Jared before leaving for Jamaica but she wasn't sure if she wanted to marry him.

Michaela, Ben and Cal and the rest of the passengers of Flight 828 experience a brief period of extreme turbulence while on the flight. When they land in New York, they are shocked to learn that five and a half years had passed since they left Jamaica. Michaela and Ben learn that their mother had died, and Olive, Cal's twin sister is five and a half years older than him.

Michaela learns after returning to her job as a detective at the 129th precinct of the NYPD that her now ex-fiance, Jared had married her best friend Lourdes instead.

Ever since she returned from Jamaica, Michaela, Ben, Cal and some of the other passengers experience what they call the Callings; voices and visions that command them to do something. Most of the time, the Callings usually involve rescues, like the "Set Them Free!" Calling that Michaela gets in the pilot episode of Manifest where she saves two kidnapped girls. In other instances, the Callings connect people together, like the heartbeat Calling that Michaela gets in S.N.A.F.U. where she meets the boy who has her best friend Evie's heart. The Callings are extremely and frustratingly vague and it takes a lot of thinking to solve them.

In Crosswinds, Michaela gets her most pivotal Calling, "Find her." She is at the safe house where the missing passengers are being taking care of when she touches a passenger and she is transported into a blizzard and she hears a voice that says "Find her." Thinking that she needed to find the wife of the missing passenger that she had touched, she finds the wife, only to learn that the passenger was abusive to her. Ben had another theory, Michaela needed to find the Major, a mysterious woman who was in charge of the experiments done on the missing passengers.

After having an affair with Jared which she regrets, Michaela finds herself at the safe house where she has the Calling again and she realizes that she might be having someone else's Calling when she tells Ben and Fiona, a researcher who studies shared consciousness, that the voice in her head isn't hers.

Zeke Landon's Story
In 2006, fifteen year old Zeke Landon and his family went camping near Tannersville, New York. Zeke was supposed to be watching his younger sister, Chloe, when he got a phone call from a girl he barely knew. An hour later, Chloe's dead body is pulled from the ravine and ever since then, Zeke blamed himself for Chloe's death. To numb the pain, he turned to drugs and alcohol. Chloe's death tore the Landon family from the inside out, with Zeke's father, Gordon leaving the family, and Zeke's mother, Priscilla withdrawing.

Zeke and a woman named Courtney were in a relationship and had planned on getting married but they never did, as they were high as kites and never signed the paperwork to make it legal. They later broke up.

In December of 2017, Zeke returned to Tannersville to find closure from Chloe's death. He visits a bait shop where he gets supplies. He buys a magazine that featured pictures of the missing passengers. Zeke believes they are dead, but the owner of the bait shop thinks the Russians took the plane instead. On the front cover, is a picture of Michaela Stone and her picture draws Zeke towards her.

While on his hike, a monster blizzard comes out of nowhere, forcing Zeke to take shelter in a cave. Burning everything he had to stay warm, Zeke ripped out the pages of the pages of the magazine, but the last page was about Michaela Stone. Her picture gave him strength to live and he was determined to find her. While in the cave, an earthquake or an avalanche shook the cave, causing Zeke to have the perfect opportunity to escape the cave. Walking through a blizzard, he looks at the picture of Michaela for strength and says over and over again: "Find her."

The Meeting-Season One
In Vanishing Point, Michaela's nephew, Cal goes missing. Grace, Ben and Michaela discover that Cal had left behind a map of where he was heading. Grace knew where Cal was by one of the drawings showing the town square in Tannersville. Grace and Ben set out to Tannersville to find Cal. Michaela gets a Calling of a blizzard that she can only see and Jared asks her if he can come with her upstate but she says no.

When Grace and Ben find Cal at the cabin, Cal tells them that they can't leave yet as "he's almost here." Just at that moment, Zeke bursts into the cabin and immediately passes out from exhaustion. Ben and Grace learn that Cal had a similar Calling to Michaela's and Cal had ran away from home to help save Zeke's life by bringing the necessary supplies.

When Michaela arrives, she sees Zeke resting but when she notices his coat, she has the Calling again and asks Ben if this was the coat he was wearing and Ben says it is. Michaela tells Ben that this is guy that she had been seeing.

While Ben and Michaela are talking, Zeke wakes up and instantly recognizes Michaela. Zeke tells Michaela and Ben his story with the blizzard and how Michaela's picture gave him the strength to leave the cave. What Zeke, Michaela and Ben are shocked to learn the most is that Zeke had travelled from December 2017 to December 2018, after learning that Zeke had no knowledge of the plane's reappearance.

In Cleared for Approach, Michaela offers to stay at the cabin with Zeke, as he is not ready to go back to the world. There's a mutual connection between them and Zeke and Michaela both realize that there's something more to them after they get a shared Calling. Standing underneath a starry night sky, the two of them hear Zeke's voice saying "Go Back!" Thinking that they needed to go back to the cave, Zeke tells Michaela that they are going to need supplies so she goes to the bait shop and she finds a missing persons poster for Zeke and learns from the owner that Zeke's younger sister had died in the area in 2006. She also buys pork rinds for Zeke, as they are his favorite snack.

When she returns to the cabin, she finds Zeke gone and she later finds him, and convinces him to join her to go see the cave. While at the cave, they have the Calling again and Michaela asks Zeke if stars meant anything to him. He shows her the gold star necklace that he had given Chloe for her ninth birthday and he told her his darkest secret: that he killed Chloe. Zeke told Michaela that no one could ever understand that kind of pain and she said she knew what that type of pain was like because she had experienced it herself. Five months before she went to Jamaica, Michaela was responsible for her best friend Evie's death in a car accident. Michaela had been drinking and she was driving when she crashed. She told Zeke that no matter what the world told her, she still blamed herself. Zeke tells Michaela that there is a memorial built for Chloe, but he never had the guts to go visit it. Zeke realizes that he needs to go to Chloe's memorial and he takes Michaela there.

While at the memorial, Zeke gets emotional and tells Michaela that he can't do it and she tells him to tell her about Chloe instead. He does and he asks Michaela to build a cairn with him to remember Chloe. She gladly helps out. After thanking her for helping him find closure, Zeke and Michaela embrace and they have the shared Calling again, except this time, it's Michaela's voice saying "Go Back!" instead of Zeke's. Zeke, though hesitant on returning to the world, decides to return to New York with her.

Later that night, Zeke and Michaela are hiking when they discover a petrograph on the side of a rock formation of two people holding hands under the night sky. At that moment, Zeke and Michaela were holding hands when a flash of lightning flashes above them in the starry night sky.

In Hard Landing, Zeke and Michaela return to New York and she lets Zeke stay in her apartment but he is hesitant at first, but she convinces that the petrograph is about them and that they have to do it together. He agrees to stay.