Okay here is my new fic. The plot has been running through my mind for the last few days… it must be tired laughs no response from readers Oh forget it still laughs……. I mainly wrote this because I have always wanted to write a teen Jate fic.

Summary – Margo Shepherd is a social worker. One day she ask to take orphan Kate home with her. With the permission she needs, Kate leaves with her, but, how will this one girl change the life of the 17 year old son Jack?

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This fic may have points/parts that could cause upset to some readers, so please don't read if this is the case, I don't want to upset anybody.

Chapter 1

"Come on sweetie, its okay" The man said as he approached the small shaking child. She looked to be about seven years old. She was sat out in the snow all by herself, hugging her own small frame to keep warm. "I wont hurt you" She looked up at him with her deep green eyes. There were trails from where the tears had flowed down the sides of her face and dried. He slowly came closer but stopped as she tried desperately to scoot away. "I promise I wont hurt you He assured." The woman behind him sighed, the girl wasn't responding to him, and they couldn't help her if she was too scared to come near them. She walked forward then placed a hand on his shoulder and silently told him to move back. He nodded and slowly got up and walked away. The woman looked at the girl and made her way forward. She was quite tall, with a high raised eyebrow line, and dark wavy hair. The child watched as she made her way towards her. The woman knelt in front of her and smiled.

"What's your name sweetheart?" The child shivered as a cold breeze attacked her small arms. "Its okay you can tell me" The girl didn't know what it was about the woman but she had the strangest feeling she could trust her.

"Ka - Kate" She stuttered in a quiet voice. The woman smiled and nodded at her.

"I'm Margo" She held her hand out to her. "Nice to meet you Kate" The little girl looked at Margo's hand warily before she shook it softly. When the child let go she resumed hugging herself to keep warm. Margo stood up and faced the man. "Carl can you get the blanket from the back of the truck?"

"Sure thing" He disappeared for no more than a minute, and Kate watched him all the time, she even watched the spot he had just been in when he disappeared from sight. He returned with a fluffy pink blanket. She carefully went towards Kate, when she got close enough with out her flinching she returned to the kneeling position she was in back there.

"Thanks"

"Its fine" Carl said smiling at Kate.

"Lets get this around you Kate, you don't want to catch cold" Margo said sweetly, Kate nodded and allowed her to wrap the blanket over her small shoulders. When she was wrapped up, she smiled at Margo. "Don't worry Kate" She said as she pushed a hair away from the child's eyes. "We'll take care of you now"

Ten years later, Kate was sat in the window of her room. The orphanage was not where Kate still expected to be after all these years. She thought she would be with some family by now. Surrounded by many "relatives" to love and protect her. Make her feel safe and help her when she needed it. But instead she was stuck with different children, either her age or a lot younger. One more year and she was old enough to be allowed to go off and live by herself. That scared Kate more than she would like to admit. She hated been on her own. Her childhood was lonely enough as it was, without adult hood been the same. She stared out the window and down onto the school yard that was close by. It was about four in the afternoon and all the kids were leaving to go home. She watched as some loaded on to the school bus and others jumped in theirs or their friends cars. She was envious as she watched them all laugh and joke, while others hugged their friends good bye for another day.

"Kate?" She heard a voice from behind her shout, breaking her from her thoughts. She looked around and smiled.

"Hey Margo" She said as she got up and hugged the older woman. She smiled at her, Margo had been there for her since day one, Kate trusted her more than anyone

"How are you feeling?"

"Okay" She said with a sigh before returning to the window to watch the world she was been deprived from. Margo smiled softly at her. "Better" Margo nodded.

"That's good Kate" She smiled and Kate returned a small smile in her direction. "What you been doing? Keeping yourself busy?"

"You could say that"

"What did you do?"

"Cooked" She said with a sigh, Kate hated cooking. Margo knew this, so hearing she did it made her giggle.

"What did you cook?" Kate looked at her and rolled her eyes.

"Your asking a lot of questions" She said with a raised eyebrow. Margo smiled and nodded.

"Yes I do. But its only because I care and want to know how you are" Kate bit her lip and nodded.

"Pizza" Margo smiled at her warmly. Kate returned it brightly, before giggling. "I burnt it" Margo joined in laughing. As the laughter subsided they both shook their heads. Kate turned hers back towards the window, smiling at the world, something she hardly ever did. Margo watched as Kate leaned on the window frame. She looked quite content just sat there watching, whatever it was.

"What you looking at?" She asked.

"Nothing" Kate offered before turning away and walking towards her bed. The deep white colour of the duvet made the orange tank top and black skinny jeans she was wearing stand out. Kate could never say she didn't have nice clothes. Margo personally bought her clothes and make up at Christmas and on Kate's birthday.

"I wish you would let me help you Katie" The seventeen year old shuddered.

"Please don't call me Katie, you know I hate it" Margo nodded. "Bad memories" The elder woman bit her coloured red lips and walked towards the window. She looked down at all the children. A smile came across her face as she saw her son leaving the grounds. He, and his friends Sawyer, Charlie, Shannon and Claire were all getting in his car and probably heading off to their house. Margo smiled and realised that she needed to get home as soon as she could. She turned to look at Kate who had tears streaming down her face. "Your leaving aren't you?"

"I have to, Jack's going home. He and his friends normally cause lots of damage." She said with a chuckle. Kate had only ever met Jack once, they were both only seven. Kate could hardly remember him that much. He had begged Margo to let him go with her to work, and when he was there he was begging to leave. Kate nodded, but her face scrunched up and she turned away, so the only person she could trust didn't see her breaking. Margo's heart ached as she watched the young girl suffer, she went over and wrapped her arms around her.

"Kate it will be okay" She soothed as Kate cried into her shoulder. "What's up?"

"Its just you get to go home to your family, and what have I got?" She wiped some of the tears with the back of her hand. "This orphanage, and next year I wont even have that" Margo knew this was true. There was no denying it. She looked down at Kate and sighed. Looking out the window she thought about Jack. "That boy doesn't know how lucky he is" She thought to herself. Jack could be cocky when he wanted to be. Arrogant, just like his father. Demanding his own way, Margo blamed herself, she had always given him exactly what he wanted. He wasn't all bad. He was getting better as he got older, but it was still there. She closed her eyes for a minute, then an idea popped into her head.

"Kate, how would you like to come home with me?" Kate pulled away and looked at her dead in the eye. Happiness spreading into her young features, but then as quickly as they appeared, they vanished.

"I couldn't. What would your husband say? …. And your son?" Margo shook her head. She had had this idea before.

"I talked about it with Christian before, he says I should do it. He says I should have the day we found you" Kate smiled. She had met Christian loads of times, she had always liked him, and now that had just doubled. "And Jack wont mind Kate" Kate looked around the room.

"No" Kate felt like she was dying on the inside as she said that word.

"No?"

"I can't" She said. "I'm sorry"

"Kate this is your chance for a life, you don't have to leave at 18. You can get a job. We can help you Kate. Let us help you" She looked at Margo and sighed. Tears slowly began to flow down her cheeks once again. She shook her head. "I thought you wanted to be in a family"

"I do, you know I do, more than anything. But I don't want to intrude on yours" She said softly.

"Kate we would love you there" She said with a smile. "You could help brighten the place up" Kate laughed. She took a deep breathe and sat back down. Slumping forward, she placed her head in her hands. "So what do you say?"

"Yes" She whispered softly.

"What?"

"I would love to" Margo smiled and hugged Kate. Kate laughed and hugged her back. Margo pulled back and allowed Kate to wipe the tears.

"Pack your stuff. I will go and sign the papers."

"I'm going today?" She asked, almost certain she was dreaming.

"You sure are. I wont be long" Margo said before turning and leaving. Kate laughed to herself as the woman left. She smiled widely and fell on to her bed. Five minutes later Kate was rushing around her room, packing everything so she could go home to her new family.

Meanwhile

"Jack mate pass us a beer" Charlie shouted from the living room. Jack shook his head. He opened the fridge door and grabbed five cans from the shelf and headed back in. He handed them to his friends.

"Cheers" Sawyer said happily as he sipped on the frothy head before the cold liquid reached his lips. Jack fell back into the chair as he sipped on his cold beer. The girls had turned on the television and were scanning through for a chick flick, knowing them. Today had not been a great day for Jack. The girl he had been with for three years decided to move onto someone else. He began to wonder if they had been together for too long. She was extremely boring and Jack didn't know why he was with her for so long. To her he was a trophy boyfriend. He didn't mean anything to her, he was just the most handsome guy in the school who made her look good. The fact she left him wasn't the problem. The problem was she left him for the biggest jackass in the school.

"What's up Jack?" Claire asked as she scooted over to where he was sat. He looked at her and gave a small smile.

"Just thinking" He said.

"About Sarah?" He looked down at her and sighed. "Don't worry about her Jack, she is not worth it"

"Hmm"

"And you are way better than Tom. You know that Jack" Shannon added trying to help.

"Yea I guess"

"No guess about it Jacko" Sawyer said. Jack looked around at his friends and smiled.

"Thanks guys" Jack smiled at them all. He sighed as his phone started ringing. There were murmurs about his ring tone so he just laughed and walked into the kitchen. He looked down onto his caller ID. MOM. He rolled his eyes then picked up the phone.

"Hey mom"

"Hello Jack. I saw you go home."

"How?"

"I was at work and saw you out the window"

"Ohh"

"I also know that Sawyer, Charlie and the girls are there" Margo looked at Kate who had a worried expression on her face.

"So?"

"Jack I am on my way home now. I need them to be gone when I get back"

"Why?"

"Just do it Jack"

"Your never normally bothered"

"Jack.. just do what I say"

"Fine" He said with a sigh.

"Bye Jack"

"Bye mom" He slammed the phone down on the table. He shook his head before he walked back into the living room. Everyone turned to look at him. He shook his head and went back to his seat. "Okay guys you all got to go." They all walked over towards him.

"Why?"

"Mothers orders" He said snidely. They nodded in understandment. They all said their goodbyes and headed out. Leaving Jack on his own and to his thoughts. He had no idea why his mother was making them all leave. She never normally did. He rested his head in his hands and closed his eyes. He was so damn tired. Tired of everything. Half an hour later, Jack heard a car pull into the driveway. "Ah moms home" He said in a sarcastic cheery voice. "Great" He took a deep breath and waited for her to come in. The door opened and closed. There were footsteps, but it sounded like more than one pair of feet. He listened closer and could hear more than one voice. Then footsteps again, one set up the stairs and the other coming towards him. He looked around to see Margo.

"Hello Jack"

"Who are you talking to?" He asked. She bit her lip and sighed.

"Jack. Its.."

"You haven't?" He said suddenly realising what she might have done. "You haven't brought one of them home"

"Jack Shephard" She said sternly "Do not refer to her as 'one of them' its not nice" Jack looked ashamed.

"I'm sorry, but why mom?"

"Because she had nothing Jack. I have seen her everyday for the last ten years. She isn't improving. She needs a family" Jack nodded. He knew he wouldn't like this. "Please try for me Jack"

"Okay" He said softly. She smiled and hugged him briefly. "So want to meet her?"

"Have I before?"

"Yeah but you wont remember her" She said. Jack nodded and followed her as she headed up the stairs towards the spare room. She knocked on the door. "Kate?"

"Yeah" A voice shouted from behind the closed door.

"Can we come in?"

"Ermmm…. sure" Margo smiled and opened to door slowly. Kate was sat in a chair by the window. Her body curled up so her feet were on the chair. Her head was rested soundly on her knees. She looked towards the door. She nearly gasped when she saw who was with Margo. She guessed it was Jack. She hardly remember him. He had the most beautiful brown eyes she had ever seen. His tall, lean frame looked very welcoming. Kate stood up and walked towards them. Margo had to elbow Jack in the ribs so he would close his mouth. She was easily the prettiest girl he had ever laid eyes on. He smiled at her and held out his hand.

"I'm Jack" She nodded and softly shook his hand. A spark of electricity ran through them as they held each others hands.

"Kate"

Okay they met… they will argue… they will love… they will (this is for me to know and you to find out) hehe …. more will be reveal about Kate's childhood. Next chapter though. Kate adjusts to life with the shepherds.

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