Hey. This is just something that started as a one line in my head, and then, as the time passed, grew into the whole story. This is my first try of writing about Jabies (for those of you who don´t know what Jaby is – it´s a shorter name for Jack and Kate baby) and I can honestly say that maybe this is my favorite mine fic so far. I think that my writing style is getting better with every story I wrote and I hope you´ll noticed it in this story. What more can I say? Please read it and review, ´cause this story really means much to me. Thanks.
CHAPTER 1: The Serenity
Jack was sitting by the shore; his feet emerged in the cold crystal water. Everything around him seemed so peaceful, so silent, so…calm. ˝Yeah, that was the right word. ˝he thought, looking into the ocean. ˝Calm.˝
He couldn´t believe how many years have passed since they crushed here. How much their lives changed. How much his life changed.
He looked down at the sleeping figure in his arms; her fragile little head, still wrinkled from the birth; her miniature little nose and half-opened mouth; her tiny little fingers that were wrapped up tightly around his forefinger. She was perfect. So tiny and yet, so….so person. He had Jamie, too, but this….this was different. Having daughter was different. She seemed so fragile, so…..girly. Everything from top of her head up to toes was giving an impression of gentleness, femininity.
His eyes continued to travel across her little body, watching her tiny chest moving up and down gently in the rhythm of the waves. He could not remember ever being so peaceful like in this very moment.
It was beginning to dawn, the sun appearing over the horizon, sending still shyly rays across the luminous sky. He smiled at the sight of her toes. After being around just baby boys, Kate and Claire have been longing for a baby girl to doll up. So, of course, when they somehow managed to find a nail polish in the hatch, they just couldn´t resist. So, yes, his girl was now having nails painted in red. Women!
He leaned down, putting one soothing kiss on the baby´s forehead. She felt so warm and had that odor that only kids have. The one that, even being natural, smelled most beautifully. He closed his eyes, enjoying the sound of the waves and taking in her scent. His little princess. Lily. Lily Sky. He liked the name. It exhaled with uniqueness, and yet, simplicity. They wanted their children to have meaningful names: usual, but special in some way. When they got Jamie, they decided to name him after Jack´s grandfather, James, with whom he had had a special relationship. But, not wanting it too sound too similar, they shortened it to Jamie. However, something had been missing. Something to spice it up a bit. So, one day, while lying on the beach and watching the sky, with Kate and the baby close by, the idea popped up on his mind, and they decided to name the baby Jamie Blue. Or JB, shorter.
For Lily, the naming was much more simple. Jamie´s first word, after ´ma-ma´ and ´dada´, was the one of the flower he picked for his mummy when she was feeling sick. The lily flower. Kate still kept it in one of the books Sawyer was so kind to borrow them. Few days before giving the birth, she was going through some stuff in the hatch, trying to find something to be occupied with, and she accidentally knocked the book off the table. It fell on the ground and opened itself on the page with the flower in it.
The second part of the name she got because they wanted to find a name that would get along with her brother´s, so when they finally got ´Blue Sky´, they immediately fell in love with it, because that was what their kids were doing to them: something that cleared all the clouds, leaving just the brightness…
Please, review, it would mean much to me, because this story is special to me. Thanks.