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It was as if the world stopped when she looked up and her eyes locked on a deep blue pair which she knew and missed.

"Freckles" he couldn't take his eyes off her, he had missed her for so long and now to actually see her here was something else.

Freckles, he was calling her by her nickname again. She was longing to hear him call her by that since the last time she talked to him he was calling her by her name and not the nickname she loved. She was lost for words, just looking at him seeing him in the flesh again after 3 years it was something words couldn't describe.

He took a few steps closer to her, and looked down into her green eyes.

"Hey" he smiled

"Hey" Kate gave him a weak smile; this was all too real for her.

They stood in silence for a while before she managed to wrap her arms around him holding tightly onto him not wanting to lose him. Sawyer wrapped his arms around her waist also not wanting to let go of her.

They stayed like that for a minute before letting go, she looked round once more seeing everyone being reunited with their loved ones and family and thinking that if she hadn't of come Sawyer would have had no one.

"You wanna get out of here?" He asked, thinking they had a lot of catching up to do.

She looked back at him "Yeah."

They both made their way out of the airport close together, their hands touching occasionally. As soon as they hit the exit of the airport the press were already there shouting questions from all angles.

"IS IT TRUE YOU WERE A COUPLE ON THE ISLAND?"

"ARE YOU A COUPLE?"

"WHY DID SHE GET RESCUED BEFORE YOU?"

"DO YOU REGRET COMING HOME?"

Kate didn't know where to look so many questions were being shot at them, so many thoughts 'How did they know we were a couple?' was her main thought. Before she knew it he took her hand and pushed through the press trying to get out of there. As soon as they got away from the press he let her hand go asking

"Where you park ya car freckles?"

"Erm..." She looked around trying to remember, pointing in the direction of her car "over there."

"Okay then" He grinned, as they both made their way over to her car.

"Cool ride ya got here sweetheart" Sawyer noted looking at her car, must have cost a bit he thought. He got to the driver's side asking "You mind?"

Kate just shook her head tossing him her keys "You sure you still know how to drive" she joked.

"Hell Freckles, a guy ain't drove a car in a few years and you already thinking he can't drive"

Kate just laughed at him getting into the car.

"Where to?" He asked

Kate thought for a moment, well her place was empty but did she want him seeing where she lived or if he went snooping he might find some things which could wreck everything.

"My place"

"Freckles I ain't got a clue where your place is" Sawyer moaned looking confused.

Kate just laughed "I'll give you directions"

"If we get lost then don't go..." Sawyer moaned under his breath before Kate butted in.

"Just shut up and drive"

After an hour of driving since Sawyer didn't follow all of Kate's instructions it took them longer than she had expected.

As they entered her apartment, Sawyer couldn't believe the size of it: either she got a good job, Oceanic set this up for her, she robbed a bank or married someone rich.

"Nice place ya got yourself" Sawyer looked round

"Thanks, home sweet home" She put her keys down on the kitchen side. "You want anything to drink?" She shouted from the kitchen making herself a cup of coffee.

"You got any whiskey?" He asked, not caring about how early it still was, to him it was never too early to start drinking.

"Yeah" She shouted back. She brought the bottle of whiskey in and her cup of coffee knowing Sawyer wouldn't need a glass he would just be happy with the bottle.

"Thanks" he smiled.

She gave him the bottle both of them sitting on her sofa. She didn't know what to say now, what was she supposed to say, she was sorry for leaving, did he even want to talk about the island, about how life off the island was or whether he wanted to know if she had been pregnant or not.

"So..." They both began, then letting out a little laugh realising that neither knew what to say to the other.

After having a drink of whiskey Sawyer asked "So what you been up to then?"

"Not a lot really, Oceanic gave us a golden pass to fly wherever we wanted, and they also set me up with this place" She paused "Also my court case came up."

Sawyer nodded hearing her words "So I'm guessin ya got off then being here and all" trying to lighten the conversation before it turned sour.

She smiled "Yeah, well I thought it would never end but then the last day they called the case shut due to some evidence which got me off but the evidence was never shown."

"Yeah, well Sassafras look at all the weird stuff that's happened to us since we crashed on that damn island"

Kate nodded in agreement, he was right with everything that happened this just made the list longer.

"What about you what were you up to on the island while we were gone?" She asked

"Well the camp was wrecked so we made to build that up again, Johnny boy left us again decided he had some stuff to sort out. The doc left us so we had no leader and the good old folks on the island decided to make me the new sheriff."

Sawyer looked straight into her eyes all the friendly banter was just a mask, hiding the fact that his emotions were mixed. He was angry at her but then he wanted nothing more to just hold her and love her as if it was the last night on earth.

"So what you gonna do now you're off the island?" She asked generally, hoping that he would stay around for a while.

"Dunno yet" The truth was he didn't know what he was gonna do, but he wanted to stay to be with her for a while but then he also he knew it wouldn't be like that nothing was ever simple between them and their relationship. He picked up the courage to ask in a general way "You got a spare room?"

"Erm yeah" She was surprised to hear his question, did that mean he wanted to stay or that he just had some stuff to do before he went back home. But then if he stayed that meant he would find out about...no she couldn't let him find out straight away she would have to talk to him and figure out if he was to know it would be the right thing to do. "Give me to 2 minutes ok?"

She quickly made her way to the kitchen and picked the phone up and dialled Sun. "Hey Sun"

"Hey" her friend replied

"Hey, do you think you could do me a massive favour?"

"What?"

"Do you think you could keep him for a bit longer, because Sawyer's here and I don't want him finding out right now, I don't know if he'd understand or more importantly how he would take it"

"Yeah it's ok, he hasn't been a problem"

"Thanks Sun I really owe you"

She ended the call and made her way back into the other room to see Sawyer already lying down on her sofa the remote in one hand flicking thought the channels and the bottle of whiskey on the table.

"Making yourself at home I see" Kate smirked

"Hell yeah ain't anything wrong in that is there?" He looked up

She walked over to him "Well there is when you're putting your dirty shoes on my couch." She joked pushing his feet off the sofa.

"Fine then" He then kicked his shoes off placing his feet back on the couch.

Kate dramatically put her fingers on her nose "Another thought you can put your shoes back"

"Jeeze freckles a man can't do right for doing wrong with you" he joked.

"Well you can at least get a shower or something then and let me clean some of your clothes cause I'm guessing that bag you've got is full of dirty clothes from the island."

"Fine, fine you got your way" He grinned dimples showing as he got up "Where's ya shower?" He asked getting pushed in the direction of the shower.

As they got to the door his dimples showing lowered his voice "You sure you don't wanna join me I could sure do with a back rub."

Kate just laughed and pushed him into her bathroom "just get a shower" and closed the door she went back to wash her empty coffee mug.

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