Kate yawned and looked around her, where was everyone? Unfortunately, she could not remember the contents of the previous night nor knew where she was. When foot steps sounded like they were coming closer, her heart began pounding.

"W-Who's there?" Kate asked.

When there was no answer, Kate began feeling panicked. The footsteps came closer and Kate felt her side for her gun.

"I have a gun!" She yelled. "Don't come any closer!"

A figure came into view but due to the time of early day Kate could not distinguish who it was.

Kate pointed her gun up. "Stay back, I'll shoot." Suddenly a pain shot through her body and she fell to the ground. "Ah!"

The figure came running up. "Aw, Freckles?"

"Sawyer..." Kate still felt the tremendous twinge of whatever was causing her to ache but was relieved it was just Sawyer. "You scared me."

"Can't say you didn't either, what are you doing in this part of the jungle?" He asked, lending his hand to help up Kate.

"Thanks, Sawyer. To answer your question, I'm not really sure. Can't remember anything from last night." She held her hip.

Sawyer looked down to where Kate's hand was and saw that a giant red spot had covered the entirety of her left thigh had been soaked. "Uh, Freckles?"

"What?" Kate followed Sawyer's eyes. "That's not good." She said before passing out.

Kate woke up again to a different place, Seriously? She remembered passing out and seeing Sawyer. She felt such a sharp pain in her hip that she nearly screamed. "Owww." She whimpered.

"Kate's up!" She heard someone say, Hurley maybe?

Jack came running over. "Hey, Kate."

"Hello? What's going on? What happened to my hip?" Kate began freaking out at the fact that so much was happening yet she knew so little.

"Calm down." Jack instructed. "Sawyer carried you up here from the jungle saying something had punctured you pretty deep. From what I can tell, I'm guessing that it was part of a branch."

"Jack, it hurts." Was all Kate could mutter out before nearly passing out again.

"Stay with me, Kate." Jack said. "I need you to be awake so I can give you some antibiotics.

"But, It's hard...' Kate whimpered. "Can you fix it?"

Jack laughed at her innocence. "Of course, Kate. You're going to be fine."

Kate smiled at him. "Thank you."

Sawyer came up. "What about me, Freckles? No thank you to the man who carried you 4 miles back to camp?" He wasn't truly mad, just halfway joking with her.

"Thank you." Kate said with a small smile, not wanting to argue.

"That's all I ask, a simple thank you for my workin'. Couldn't hurt you to slip it by me every now and then, Doc."

"Shut up." Jack rolled his eyes.

"So, are you ready to tell me what happened?" Jack asked Kate as he handed her a water bottle and a sandwich labeled Dharma.

Kate sighed. "I already told you, I don't remember anything before waking up to find Sawyer rustling around in the jungle."

Jack tried a little harder. "Can you try to remember? This way we can find out why-"

"I said I don't know." Kate said, it was obvious that she was getting aggravated by the persistent questions.

"Why don't you leave her alone, Doctor ask-y." Sawyer offered. "She said she don't know about none of it, so just stop askin'. Simple as that."

Jack furrowed one brow. "Seeming by you obsession with it, am I so wrong as to think maybe you had something to do with it?"

Sawyer scoffed. "Why would I hurt Freckles?"

"I'm not sure, but you were the only one out there to witness anything."

"Shut up, doc." Sawyer warned. "Don't you accuse me of nothin'."

Jack ignored and continued to tend to Kate vicious wounds.

Sawyer twiddled with a pencil that he'd found in the hatch. "Damn that doc and all his inquisitions." He muttered to himself.

"What was that?" Charlie asked.

"Nothin', cheeky."

Charlie frowned. "Why don't you stop with the insults? It's not that funny anymore."

"Whatever." Sawyer wasn't in the mood.

"Sawyer!" Jack came running up to him. "I knew you did it, I knew you were the one that stabbed Kate. It wasn't a branch, you tried to kill her with a knife!"

Sawyer just stood there laughing maliciously. "I'll kill her, doc. One day, I'll fucking kill that bitch."

Kate shot up awake, her breathing rapid and her back sweaty.

Jack jolted. "Woah, what's happening." He looked to Kate who was disoriented and had teary eyes. "What's wrong?"

"I-I had a bad dream." She said.

Jack felt her trembling body against his own. "Was it the same one?"

Kate nodded. "We've been off that island for nearly 4 months and I'm still having that same dream almost every night."

"You endured a shit ton on that damn island." Jack reassured. "It's normal for victims of trauma to have reoccurring nightmares."

"You act like I was in the war." Kate sat up. "It's freaking me out because every time I think Sawyer's laugh gets scarier."

Jack rubbed little circles on her back. "It's going to be okay, they should stop once we get back to our 'normal' lives if there even is such a thing."

Kate laughed lightly. "I'm going to get some coffee, want any?"

"Nah, I don't like to caffeinate myself until it's at least 6:00 am." He joked.

Kate facetiously rolled her eyes and headed downstairs for her drink. Waiting on her coffee to brew, Kate opened the cabinet to get her special mug that Jack had bought from her as soon as they returned from the island. She reached in and saw Sawyer's face. Kate screamed and dropped the coffee mug; attempting to get away, she slipped and fell on the shattered pieces of mug. "Ah!" Her foot felt the impact and she knew it was bleeding.

Jack came running down the stairs. "What happened?"

"I was just trying to make coff-" Kate couldn't finish her sentence before crumbling into a pile of tears.

Jack turned on the kitchen lights and leaned down to help his confused and upset girlfriend. "Don't cry, sweetheart." Jack lifted her to the couch and got a broom to clean up the broken pieces.

"I'm sorry, Jack." Kate closed her eyes. "You got me that mug."

"Honey, don't worry. It was an accident." He Kate was upset about things more than just the mug breaking but that was what had set her off. "I'll clean this so no one else gets hurt, then I'll grab the gauze and alcohol and clean up that foot."

"Can you get some wine while you're at it." Kate kidded.

"That's what I like to see, that beautiful smile." Jack said.