A/N: Don't own LOST. :)

"Okay," Claire started, "First you have to pick husband."

"Come on," Kate laughed as she pushed a curl behind her ear.

"And it has to be people on the island," she insisted.

"Claire,"

"Do you have something better to do? Besides, you promised you'd keep me company now that Jack put me on bed rest. I am pregnant after all."

Kate leaned back in her plane seat and looked at the very pregnant Claire, notebook wedged between her chest and belly.

"Okay," she began as she scanned the beach for contenders. "Um, Jin."

"He's already married, you can't do that. You know you're going to put Sawyer and let's put Charlie."

Kate fought the urge to roll her eyes like she was in the eighth grade.

"We need two more, um, Jack…"she said as she began writing.

"And Locke," Kate insisted.

Claire burst into laughter, "Okay, good one. Do you want to add Boone?"

"No," Kate shook her head.

"Alright, now, location. Where do you want to live?"

"The Island," she said as they both laughed, "Um, LA, Sydney and, I don't know, Ames."

"Ames?"

"Iowa, it's where I'm from," she said quietly.

"Oh," Claire wrote it quickly. "Okay, so next? Let's see, pets."

Kate laughed, "I don't really want any pets. Just write Vincent for all four of those."

Claire laughed as she wrote, "Ok, children. Three!"

Kate groaned, "One, two, three, oh, zero."

"You're gonna have three kids with John Locke," she giggled.

"Anything else?" Kate asked with a smile.

"Nope," Claire answered, "Alright, now tell me when to stop."

She began tallying on her paper out of the eyesight of Kate.

"Stop."

Claire counted the tallies and came up with 8. She lowered the notebook so Kate could see her careful calculations. Claire tapped the paper eight times and crossed off John Locke.

"Ohhhh," Kate cried, "Man."

Claire laughed as she continued and crossed out a Vincent. She kept going.

"Oops, you're not going to live in a house," she said.

"That's alright," Kate laughed, "Right now I'm in a hut."

"No apartment either."

She kept counting until she came to Ames, "No Iowa for you."

"Thank god," Kate whispered.

The next thing she crossed out was shed, "It's a mansion for you!"

Kate smiled as the pencil kept moving to the Vincent section, "And you're going to own Vincent as a pet."

"No surprise," Kate said.

Both of them burst into laughter as she crossed out the Island. As Claire kept counting and came to the husband section Kate had to check herself from holding her breath. It's just a stupid game, she thought. The pencil landed on Charlie, in between Jack and Sawyer.

"Well, you're not going to marry Charlie," she said as she kept counting.

Kate wondered if she was imagining things with her tone in that statement…The next count came up and she watched as Sawyers name was crossed off.

"Looks like you're the new Mrs. Shepherd," Claire teased.

"Come on," Kate said.

"Annnd, you're living in LA."

I could do that, Kate thought.

She watched as the kid count was being tallied. First to go was zero. Then two. And finally three.

"With one little kid. A Jack Jr. maybe?" Claire said in a sing song voice. "Well there you have it, your future mapped out for you."

Kate laughed with Claire as she pulled her hair tighter in her pony tail.

"What's so funny?" Jack asked as he walked up and knelt down by Claire.

Both of the girls burst into a fresh round of laughter, "Oh, nothing." Claire managed to reply.

"Okay," he said with a knowing eyebrow raise, "I was just stopping to see how you were, Claire. Any dizziness? Pain? Are you drinking enough water?"

"No, I'm doing great," she said with a smile.

"And I see you've got a good nurse watching over you," he said as he pulled his back pack on his shoulders.

"I sure do," Claire said with a bigger smile, "She's the best."

"Alright," Jack said, knowing he wasn't in on the joke, "Come find me if anything changes. And don't forget the water."

"We will," Claire replied.

As Jack walked away, Kate tried to grab the paper away from her, "Alright, enough of this," she said with a grin.

"No way. You can keep this one that way when we're all off the island and you two are happily together you can thank me."

Kate laughed, "I think it's your turn now,"

Kate took the paper away from her and began to write.