A/N: Kate is pregnant and doesn't know how to tell Jack, so she does a stupid thing and breaks up with him. Jate.
Kate was pregnant, plain and simple. Jack, her boyfriend of four months had gotten her pregnant. So what did she do? She broke up with him, plain and simple, well not really. Her story starts after she ran from the restaurant she had been having a date tears streaming down her cheeks. Her now ex-boyfriend slumped down in his chair deflated, what had gone wrong?
Kate rushed down the street jostling through the crowds. After what felt like hours she arrived at her destination, Claire's apartment. Claire was Kate's best friend and had been ever since high school.
Kate banged on Claire's front door persistently, "Claire, let me in." Her voiced wavered as she held back her sobs. The door flung open and a worried Claire stood in its frame.
"Kate, honey? What happened?" Claire's face reddened with anger as she remembered that Kate had had a date with Jack, a very important date too. The date Kate was going to tell Jack about her pregnancy. "How will he be killed? I have a gun in my nightstand, I can grab it if you wish." Claire had rushed Kate inside and onto the couch.
"No," Kate sobbed into her hands, "It's my fault, I ruined everything."
Claire wrapped her arms around her friend pulling her close, "Hey, come on," she soothed as Kate buried her head in Claire's shoulder. "It takes two."
"I messed up big, Claire." Kate looked up with red eyes. "I dumped him without even telling him that I'm you know." She grasped her stomach.
"You what?" Claire screeched jumping up. "You broke up with him?" Kate nodded. Claire looked at her dumbfounded for moments before returning to her post, babying Kate. "Why?" She asked in a normal tone.
"To save him all the work." Kate muttered bitterly.
"And how do you know he would end it, because of the baby?" Claire asked sharply.
"Well, I don't, but-"
Claire stopped her, "You don't exactly."
"But, Claire, think about it, you know why Sarah divorced him?" Kate asked.
"How do you know?" Claire wondered obviously surprised that Kate knew.
"Jack told me, she told him that he wasn't ready to commit." Kate paused to let her word sink in. "Having a baby is the biggest commitment you can make."
"Exactly, and that's why you shouldn't have to make it alone Katie." Claire said softly.
"I'm not going to be the one to trap him somewhere where he doesn't want to be." Kate sighed. "And besides I won't be completely alone, I'll have mom, you, and Shannon, maybe."
"What makes you think I'm not catching the next flight to Mexico?" Claire laughed lightly. "But seriously Kate, it's your decision and you know I'm always here for you."
"Thank-you." Kate whispered.
"Hey, what good are best-friends if not to comfort you through break-ups?" Claire asked as her doorbell rung. "And speaking of friends that is Shannon, I invited her over before you got here, for a girlie night."
Claire opened the door and Shannon sashayed inside, stopping dead in her tracks when she saw Kate and the condition Kate was currently in. Shannon too knew about Kate's unexpected baby and had been expecting Kate to be off having a sex filled night rather than on Claire's couch eyes puffy and red from crying. She dropped her large purse and fell to her knees in front of her friend. "How will that bastard die? I can have Sayid torture him until he takes you back, or just torture him to insanity your choice."
Sayid was Shannon's boyfriend, he had immigrated from Iraq, and had once served in the Iraqi republican guard. He had been trained to torture suspects until the information he wished for he had, and if they didn't have the proper information, they were executed. Despite all this though, Shannon knew he was just a big teddy bear.
Kate laughed at Shannon's concern. "No need to put him through all that."
Shannon looked at Claire puzzled, wasn't their break-up tradition to think up ways to painfully murder the ex? Claire made a disapproving face before explaining for Kate. "She the one who broke-up with him and before even telling him she was pregnant."
"You what?" Shannon yelled, "Katie, that was the stupidest thing you have ever done, no lie. This guy knocks you up and you don't tell him you just leave? What is he going to think when he sees you a year and a half from now pushing a pram through the park, with a little itty bitty occupant that looks a hell of a lot like him?" Shannon was known for being a little blunt. "Or, no, when he sees you giving birth in the hospital he works at?" She screamed.
"Shan, I know it was stupid," Shannon snorted at her comment. "But it's for the best."
"For the best, Kate?" Claire stepped in apparently abandoning her first choice to not question Kate's decision. "Stop thinking about yourself for a moment and think about Jack and his feelings. He is going to go through his whole life not knowing he has a child he might even meet your baby and never know that it is his flesh and blood. And just now, right now he's probably beating himself up over all the little fights you had, you just went into that restaurant and broke his heart without telling him why?"
Kate stood up to stop their rants. "I know I've screwed up I'm not oblivious, but I don't want to make him commit to something he doesn't want to commit to, and I know it selfish, but I don't want to be the one hurt over something I couldn't prevent."
"OK, OK, Kate, we don't mean to bother you about it, we're just making sure you made the best decision." Claire shot a glare at Shannon.
Shannon looked defensive, "Hey I'm not the only one to blame you were pestering her too."
Claire sighed, "Well pestering aside, I think the best thing right now is to not think about it, until our minds are clearer. Let us prepare the sacred Chinese take-out," Shannon started dialling as Claire continued on, "And worship our movies."
"Yeah about that," Shannon started guiltily. "I only brought one and I'm not sure it would be appropriate at the moment."
"What in the world did you get, not another one of those Scary Movie movies?" Claire asked exasperated.
"Not exactly," Shannon waited for a distraction that didn't come, before groaning and finishing her sentence: "It's Knocked Up."
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