Hey! This is my first try to post anything on this side and I hope it works. This is the first fanfic I wrote about jate, I hope you like it and please review and tell me what you think about it.
PS: English is a foreign language for me so I want to apologize for my language mistakes.
Summary: Kate is again confronted with her past when rescue is near. What will happen with jate on their last days on the island and finally when rescue comes.
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters in this story, they belong all to J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, ABC, Touchstone etc
A new life for Kate
Chapter 1:
Jack was collecting empty water bottles, it was hot as it usual was and he tried to find a place in the shadow where he could relax a bit. He went to a group of trees when he suddenly heard a beautiful voice from the tree on his left side. It was the voice of a woman and she was singing a baby song.
Jack walked into the direction from which he heard the song and then he stand there and just watched, fascinated by the scene he saw.
Kate was sitting under a palm tree, having little Aaron in her arms. She softly moved him in the rhythm of the baby song she was singing. She was so beautiful while sitting there with the baby in her arms, a warm smile was on her face and she seemed so content, quite and happy as Jack had never seen here before. He smiled, just couldn't stop watching them. I never thought of her as a mum, he thought by himself.
Suddenly the song ended.
„We've already seen you, you know!"
Jack smiled. „ I wasn't hiding!"
„Come and take a seat, you can help me, he just doesn't want to sleep since an hour."
Jack sat down next to Kate. „Where is Claire?"
„Oh, she and Charlie try to get some sleep. Aaron cried the whole night and they are very tired."
Jack nodded. „It's not easy with a baby, right?"
„Specially on an island like this", Kate added.
„Maybe...".
„Psst", Kate whispered, pointing to Aaron. „He's sleeping, you see that?"
„He likes it in your arms". Jack smiled watching Kate who was watching Aaron with a lovely smile.
„WHO DOESN'T ?"
Kate and Jack turned their heads around, finding Sawyer standing behind them.
„Are you crazy?" Kate whispered angry, „Aaron just fell asleep a minute ago. If he now will weak up again, I...".
„Kate", Jack whispered, „he is still sleeping."
Kate, Jack and Sawyer watched the sleeping baby in Kate's arms.
„Who is now crazy, huh?!" Sawyer said. He wasn't whispering but he spoke much more quiet now than he had before.
„So you're lucky!" Kate said.
Sawyer watched Jack and Kate, who were watching the sleeping baby boy.
„Playing parents?" he said annoyed.
Jack and Kate again turned their heads around, watching angry on Sawyer.
„Is there anything else you have to tell us?" Kate whispered.
„Calm down, Freckles, I'm not interested in taking part in your baby games."
He turned around walking back in the jungle, shaking his head.
For a while Jack and Kate sat there just watching Aaron, enjoy the silence and the other one next to them. Then Kate's face got serious.
"Claire asked me if I want to be Aaron's godmother when Eko is going to baptize him."
„Oh, wow, congratulations."Jack smiled surprised.
„I said no!", Kate said.
Jack seemed to be confused. He was looking at Kate now realizing the serious and sad expression on her face.
„Why? You would be the perfect choice. You helped Claire to deliver the baby."
Kate softly touched the forehead of the baby, remembering the day when she was so scared doing anything wrong, remembering the feeling when she was the first person who held little Aaron in her arms, the smile on Clair's face when she gave her the baby after the birth.
„He has good parents, he also should have a good godmother."
Jack watched at sad Kate. „But why can't that be you?"
Kate turned her face to Jack. Her eyes were wet and it was difficult for her to keep her voice quiet. „Because I can never be good!"
Jack didn't know what to say. It was terrible for him to see Kate so sad and full of hate for herself.
He slowly moved his arm in her direction just to touch her, just to show here that he doesn't think so, that he is there for her, but she moved away.
„Kate,..."
Kate did everything to hold back her tears. She turned her face away from Jack, not being able to watch his face, the expression in his eyes any longer.
„I could never be a good mum, I could never be a good godmother and I will never have the opportunity to be a good person."
She stand up, trying not to make any fast moves in order not not weake up the baby.
Jack couldn't believe what she said, how she could be so hard to herself and especially he wasn't able to see her so sad and confused.
„Kate, why do you say something like that?"
A tear run over Kate's face.
„I'm his daughter that's why I can never be good, no matter what I try, there's nothing I can do against him."
„Kate...".
Jack again tried to reach her with his hand but she again moved away.
„I better bring Aaron to his bed there it'll be better for him. He needs a godmother who is there for him when he needs her and not someone he has to visit in prison."
Kate turned around and walked back to the beach sleeping Aaron in her arms.