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Chapter 1: Oceanic 6 2

Name: Jack Shepard

As He stepped off that plane he knew that for the first time in three years he was home.

He took a good sniff of the air and at the familiar stench of gas he smiled and sighed with relief. The faint glow of car head lights, and buildings shining through the rain was the best part of it. And when he heard the reporters taking pictures and asking questions he suddenly remembered what it was like to be around crowds.

He smiled again and turned to her. She was hand in hand with the love of her life and had a year and a half old baby in her arms. She looked up at him gave her famous 'bad girl' smile and the turned back to her love.

"Dude, we made it. We're finally home." Hugo was standing next to him, he was already soaked from the rain but he didn't care. He was used to being in the rain.

"Yeah, Hurley we're home." He nodded putting an arm over Hugs.

"Jack, where you going to go?" Sayid said clapping Jack on the shoulder.

"I have idea. Probably get an apartment or something. I don't know. I mean everything is gone. What am I supposed to do? I guess I'll just wait for awhile." He looked at "what about you?"

Sayid smiled "Iraq," He said with a very high accent. "I'm going to my home."

"Well I hope I see you again."

"Oh you will. I'm not staying there, just going to see if any of my possessions were saved."

He nodded and turned to Kate, James and little Ashley. "So?" He asked looking kate in the eye.

"Well be sure to stay in contact with uncle Jack won't we Ash?" Kate asked the girl in her arms.

"Yea! Jack!" Ashley said holding her arms out to him.

Kate handed her over and Jack took her happily. She looked so much like her mother. Her eyes and hair dark chocolate brow, but she had a wide face like her fathers and had an attitude problem like her father.

"Hey baby," He said snuggling her.

Then he heard a familiar voice cry out "Jack!"

He turned to see at the front of the crowd of reporters his ex-wife Sarah.

His smile disappeared almost immediately "Jack what's wrong?" Kate said putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Doc, you alright?" Sawyer said taking Ashley from him. "Doc!" Sawyer called out as he moved towards the blonde haired woman.

"Sarah?" He said not daring to get closer. She was pregnant and was crying.

"Jack." She said softly moving towards him.

He backed away slightly as the other survivors moved closer. "Sarah." He said again this time smiling. "You're pregnant." He stated regaining his smile.

"Yeah. But I'm alone."

"What happened to Kurt?" He asked.

"He left me said he was in it for the sex. Didn't want a kid." She smiled and put a hand on her stomach. "I made a mistake Jack."

"What do you mean?" He smiled at her reassuringly.

"I made a mistake leaving you for him. I was just so frustrated. I mean you were always at work and I never got to see you, I was scared that I wouldn't have kids, because I was asleep by the time you got home and then at work by the time you woke up."

"Sarah, I..." He didn't know what to say. He didn't love her any more, but he couldn't leave her like this.

"You don't have to give me an explanation, really." She smiled and pulled Jack into a hug. "When I saw that you were dead I cried my heart out. I just can't help but wonder what you went through over the last three years."

He pulled away and stared at her with worrying eyes. "I went through a lot of death, I can tell you that." She nodded and smiled at the other survivors who were all standing around Jack like body guards.

"Sarah this is every body, every body this is Sarah, my ex... my ex-wife." He was looking at the plane waiting for Juliet to come out. Not watching his friends.

"It's nice to meet you I'm Kate and this is Ashley." Kate shook Sarah's hand and smiled. "Jack who are you looking for?" Kate asked.

"Juliet. Did you see her get off the plane?"

"Dude she stayed with Locke." Hurley said.

"What?" he quickly turned to Hugo. "No Jin, Sun, and Chul, Ben, Alex, Charlie, Rousseau, Richard, and Rose, Micheal and Walt. They stayed. I remember giving Juliet a kiss before we got on the plane and I told her I'd see her on the other side and she started to cry. Then…no. How do you know she stayed?"

"Because I was one of the last to leave she was like balling her eyes out man and she…oops."

"What's oops?" He said very agitated.

"She told me to tell you she'll see you again and that she loves you, sorry man. I was really excited about getting home I forgot to be creeped out by what she said."

He just shook his head. He knew that he would see her again but it she loved him? Why didn't he tell her he loved her? Because he did! "It's okay, I should have stayed!" He said.

"No Jack you shouldn't have." Claire said.

"Yeah Uncle Jack if you stayed then you couldn't be with me." Aaron said with a big smile plastered on his face.

He just nodded and then said "Well I've had enough excitement for one day, time to go home." Jack smiled and gave all his friends a hug good bye making arrangements with Sayid, Kate, Sawyer, Hugo and Claire to meet at the air port in three days to be there when Sayid got on the plane.

Then he and Sarah went back to the house he grew up in.