Can you die from a broken heart? She's never felt this way before in her life, so much hurt so much desperate. Never before neither when had her mother given her in to the police nor when she had to leave Kevin, not even when she saw her best friend Tom die because of her, that's when she thought there would be nothing more painful in her life.
But she was wrong this was beyond anything she could have imagined, even the wound on her shoulder felt like just a pinch and the pain from it had already faded away. The image of him walking away from her, walking to his death, walking to his unavoidable destiny, was the only thing on her mind for a very long time.
When she saw him leaving for the last time she was empty, her mind and her heart stopped the idea of not seeing him was unbearable, and when she jumped off the cliff she wished subconsciously that maybe she would die at the moment she would touch the water, she felt dead inside anyway.
But she didn't die, she had to take care of Claire, his sister, this was the last thing he asked her to do, he asked her to leave, he wanted her to be safe, he wanted to protect her. Many times in the past he had asked her either not to follow him or not to "go back" for him, but she never listened to him she went always after him. This time things are different, she has to listen to him, she lets him protect her.
He taught her not to run away when things get hard. The old Kate would have stayed with him but now she chose the hard way, the painful way, she chose to keep her word to Claire, she chose to leave the love of her life, she chose to do what she had to do and not what she wanted to do.
She is brokenhearted, the pain seems unbearable, every moment of the rest of her life will be haunted by his memory, the pain will remain forever, at some point she knows –or better she wishes- that it will become a bit easier but it will never pass.
Their love is one in a lifetime, she will be forever grateful because she found him, grateful because she loved him and grateful because she let him know that.
Jack FIXED her, he made her a better person, and Jack SAVED her in every way she could be saved. Love is hard to find and she's glad she did. Now she knows, she's sure she'll meet him again someday and she will let him know how much she missed him…