A/N: Shannon, Ana Lucia, Libby and Eko are all still alive because by the end of this fic I want everyone paired up and I love Eko. This takes place after "The Man From Tallahassee"

Disclaimer: If I owned Lost I would not have killed as interesting characters as Eko, Ana and Libby.

The bushes looked particularly green today, a deep rich green with flecks of a greener than green green. It was a whole lot of green, but Kate had never noticed the extent of it until seeing the contrast of the green with her orange vomit. She let her head rest in her hands before pushing herself into standing position and running her hands through her hair in an anxious motion.

Kate had noticed something was wrong when she had missed her period but she had thought it was just a side effect from all the drugs that the Others had pumped through their bodies while being held there. Now two months later and another missed period with the wonderful throwing up every morning for the past week, she knew she was pregnant.

The worst thing was how could she tell Jack. She had finally made her decision after learning that Jack was leaving the island and with that bit of knowledge she realized how much she would miss seeing his kind face everyday, the surprises that she didn't expect but most of all how he was always there for her.

The night after John had stupidly blown up the submarine and Kate, Sayid, Jack, and Juliet had started their trek back to the survivor's camp was when Kate had told Jack how she felt. Waiting for him to react had been what felt like the longest minute in her life but eventually resulted in a spontaneous kiss from Jack that was drastically different from their previous kiss in the jungle, tender and sweet that they both totally gave themselves into, and had left her almost frozen until she realized it was actually happening. And when they got back, Kate had moved her stuff into Jack's tent and they had idyllically lived together for the past month and a half.

She could get a pregnancy test to make sure, even though she knew that once she took it she would end up staring at two pink lines. Also, the only person on the island who would be in possession of a pregnancy test was the one person she didn't know how to tell that she was pregnant.

Kate could picture a baby, her baby cradled in her arms with it's soft head and baby smell. She could even picture Jack looking tenderly over her shoulder at the baby, playing with the baby and his arm wrapped around her shoulders looking after her like he always did. She didn't need someone to look after her, in fact she preferred to be independent, but Jack didn't look after her, he was just there and gave her his complete trust and was the only constant in her life since it had been blown apart in the plane crash. And things felt right with Jack; they had fallen into a rhythm of half honeymoon, half married couple the way the two of them acted with each other.

And now this was happening and the worst part was that she knew she had to tell Jack. He would be so thrilled at the thought of his and Kate's child, but that was the problem. She knew it wasn't Jack's, they had only consummated their relationship last month and she was two or three months pregnant.

Only one man could be the father of her child and that someone was not Jack. In fact he was the antithesis of Jack in just about everything. The man with shaggy blonde hair with sea blue eyes with the bad guy reputation of the survivors opposing Jack's good guy leader persona. She hadn't seen much of him lately, not since their pleasant little outing with the Others, and when he got back he had gone straight to tormenting Ana Lucia with whom he now had a unique relationship that frequently included verbal sparring topped off with occasional tender make up moments. Not that they were into PDA or something but the way their eyes looked when they were together because it resembled Kate's when she was with Jack.

Still, Kate talked to Sawyer occasionally because even though she had chosen Jack at the very least, Sawyer was her friend. A friend she could always talk to and she didn't have to hide anything from him either. But the difference between him and Jack was that Sawyer treated her like he knew she was a fugitive even though it had been the point which had bonded the two of them.

They had been threatening to kill him and Kate cared for him and continued to care for him and she knew he loved her and in her giving herself to him, she knew would give him something he valued highly and was something she could easily and willingly give him.

Now standing alone in the middle of the jungle, her pregnancy staring her in the face in the form of the vomit splattered in front of her, she stood almost frozen to her spot, mind in shock not knowing what to do. Time stood still and yet her brain would not work. She couldn't crush Jack like that but it would become a little obvious if the baby turned out with blond hair and with eyes and those dimples. But if the baby turned up looking like her, would Jack ever know?

Could she conceal it from the man she loved as well as her baby's father. Sawyer wasn't dumb, he would realized that it could be his child if he counted and so would Jack for that matter.

Now she could really empathize with Sun, and Kate wondered did Sun even know who was her baby's father? She would be the one to talk to. Finally her brain and body worked together to reach Sun and Jin's shelter. Sun wasn't there but Jin communicated to Kate that when Sun got back he would tell her that Kate stopped by.

In the meantime, Jack, Sawyer and Sayid had gotten back. Sawyer was greeted by a moody Ana Lucia while Jack, spotting Kate, came up to her. Her heart leaped with just one look from Jack's hazel eyes and sure smile that made him so easy to trust. Now seeing him Kate knew what she was going to do. She opened her mouth and the words spilled out of her.

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