Disclaimer: I do not own LOST

A/N: I had intended for Maternity Leave to be a one shot but a lot of people asked me to update it and I decided that I didn't really end it all that well so there is a Maternity Part 2! But for the next episode there will be no part 2! So here goes…

"Sawyer, I need you to give me something and you won't do anything you are just going to give it to me." Jack said. He looked very sternly at Sawyer.

Sawyer was sitting on the row of airplane chairs and reading a book. "Oh yeah? I'm not giving you a gun." He said without looking up from the book.

"No I don't need a gun. I need a pregnancy test!" Jack said, exasperated.

"Is that so?" Sawyer finally looked up at Jack. "Is there something you've been meaning to tell everyone?" He grinned.

"Sawyer don't be immature. It's not for me and you know it." Jack said, not in the mood for Sawyer's games.

"Then who is it for?" Sawyer asked.

"Sun. Now give it." Jack said.

" Oh so she ran to the Doc after I said no. Seems like I'm the daddy of the island and you're the mommy. Daddy says no and then the kids run to mommy." Sawyer said.

"Sawyer, just give it to me." Jack said.

Sawyer had it in his pocket because he figured either someone would look through his stuff or someone would come ask him. He grabbed it and handed it to Jack. "Here you go. Have fun." Sawyer looked at Jack and grinned and sat down again.

"You are pathetic." Jack left and gave it to Sun secretly. Sun was really happy.

"Look, if you are, you need to tell me okay?" jack said.

"If I am I don't know if I am going to tell Jin." Sun said.

"Sun please. I need to know so I can take care of you properly if something happens." Jack said.

Sun sighed and looked around, then said, " Ok fine. But you can't tell anyone."

Jack left to go back to the hatch.

Scene switches to Kate and Claire, right after Jack left.

Kate is just standing there not knowing what to make of the situation. When she was staring at him with her hand on his arm she saw something flicker in his eyes. But whatever it had been, it had disappeared in a second. When he had realized she had gone to Sawyer and he had given her what she wanted she knew that Jack was hurt by it. His entire face had just fallen as soon as he had figured it out and it pained Kate to see him like that. Hadn't she already caused him enough grief? But wait, if she had caused him grief, doesn't that mean he had feelings for her? But before she could think more Claire interrupted Kate's thoughts..

"What do you think that was about?" Claire asked.

Kate gave her the most honest answer possible. "I have no idea." She turned around and looked at Claire.

"I'd better get back to Aaron." Claire said.

"Yeah I'd better get back to…" Kate just left the sentence unfinished., She had no one to go back to. Not even Sawyer. After what he had done to her she was done with him. Claire saw the pained expression on Kate's face.

"Isn't it your shift at the hatch Kate?"

"Yeah it is. I'll see you later Claire. "

Kate left towards the hatch.

Jack is walking back and he reaches the hatch.

"Well finally you're back. That was a long walk." Locke said.

"Sorry. Some things came up." Jack said.

"Well since you took some time out of my free time, can you stay here for a couple hours after your shift ends?" Locke asked.

"Sure." Jack nodded his head, too worn out to argue.

The door opened and someone was walking down the hallway and Kate appeared. She saw Jack and made a beeline for the computer.

"Who's on the shift with me?" Jack asked. He decided just to ignore Kate. She'd probably leave in a few minutes anyways. He looked at the chart to see who was on with him,

Locke didn't reply and just left.

Jack skimmed down the chart. It was Kate's shift. They would be alone. For six hours. Jack's heart skipped a beat. How was he going to deal with that! He glanced toward the computer room. There was no sound coming from it. He decided to just lay down on the couch and pretend to sleep. Maybe he'd fall asleep for the whole six hours and not have to deal with Kate. She could handle the button alone. So he went and lay down on the couch.

Kate couldn't believe Jack was here. Why was he here? When she had gotten there she didn't know what to do so she just went o the computer room and looked at the clock. 100 minutes. Great… She sat down at the monitor and stared at it listening in to the conversation Locke and Jack were having. It wasn't much of a conversation. Maybe they had already said everything before she had come, or they were hiding things from her. She heard Jack ask who was on the shift with him. Her heart skipped a beat. They would be together Alone. For six hours. No one had answered him. This was going to be a long six hours. She heard some shuffling across the floor then she heard someone sit on the couch. Then she heard nothing.

She looked up at the clock a little bit later. It read 80 minutes. The silence was very uncomfortable even though they weren't even in the same room. She wished anyone would walk in. anyone. Even Sawyer. Yes Sawyer. He was a pain in the butt but at least there were never any awkward silences with him around, She didn't want to start thinking about him so she shut her eyes and tried to think about nothing. It was very hard. But finally Kate dosed off.

The alarm clock was ringing.

No I don't want to wake up yet! Kate thought. She moved her hand around trying to find the alarm so she could press the snooze button.

"Kate!"

The yelling of her name brought her back to reality, She opened her eyes and saw Jack had pushed her chair away from the computer and he was typing in the numbers himself.

She yawned and stretched.

"You'd think the timer would be loud enough.," Jack muttered then walked out of the room.

What was wrong with him? She asked herself. Sure there was the kiss and running away thing and there was the thing where she had followed along when he had said no, but she really hadn't done anything wrong going with Claire. He seemed so mad about it. She didn't know how to make it better.

She got up and went to the kitchen to look for anything edible to eat that would look good. She finally decided to skip food and just have tea. She put a pot of water on the stove. She turned around and finally dared to look where she knew Jack was, but he was lying on the couch with his arm over his eyes. He obviously didn't want to talk to her. Fine then. He doesn't want to talk he doesn't have to. But he is going to have to share the couch. She went over to the couch and moved Jack's legs a little, which made her blush just touching him. She then plopped down loudly next to him and tried to drink her tea as loudly as possible. She slurped and everything. She realized since she had gotten her little nap she was in a much better mood and she wasn't as scared anymore to talk to Jack.

Jack wasn't really mad at Kate at all. When he had lain down in the first place he had fallen asleep. Then he had woken up to the timer going off and it made him think of Locke and how he loved to push it. He waited for Kate to turn it off. But she didn't. He decided he should go in there and see what was going on. He groaned as he got up. He really needed to take better care of himself. Why was he sleeping on the couch when there was a bunk bed in the other room? He didn't know why. He walked into the computer room and saw Kate sleeping on the chair. She looked beautiful. He had never seen her sleep before. Then he looked at the timer. It said 20 seconds. "Kate!" He shouted. He didn't know why. He just did.

He punched the numbers in. each number making him think of more reasons to hate Locke. He saw Kate stretching as if nothing had happened. He muttered, "You'd think the timer would be loud enough." And he walked out. He didn't know why he said it. He just felt that if he could somehow keep up that wall to make it seem like he was angry then he wouldn't have to deal with Kate. He wanted to deal with her. He wanted to talk with her and make everything better, but not yet. He didn't know what the outcome would be and he was so tired. He went and lay down on the couch and put his arm over his eyes in case Kate walked in. He still didn't feel like dealing with her. He had already established with himself that he was no longer angry. He was just hurt and confused. He was very hurt. He heard footsteps and rattling in the kitchen. A couple of minutes later he felt Kate's hands touching his legs. Touching his legs! He smiled. He couldn't help it. He quickly stopped it. He hoped she hadn't seen that. He had no clue what she was doing. Then he felt her plop down beside him. Then she slurped something. She kept slurping it. Finally the slurping stopped and he heard her put the cup down on the coffee table, loud. She sighed, loudly.

"Okay already!" Jack said, and took his arm off his eyes and sat up.

"You're awake!" Kate smiled at him with a merry look in her eyes.

"I was awake all along. What was up with all the slamming and stuff?" Jack asked.

"Oh you know.. just me being me." Kate said.

"Yeah uh huh." Jack said, rubbing his head.

"Here. I made you some coffee." Kate grabbed the coffee off the table and gave it to him.

"I didn't know we had coffee here." Jack said, surprised.

"I didn't either. But when you are desperate for something to distract yourself with you can see anything." Kate said, staring directly in his eyes. "And you're welcome."

"Thanks." jack said, looking back in her eyes. He felt the wall crumbling again. Soon it would break and he would be talking to her. Did he want to or did he want to just get up and leave? He battled with himself but Kate decided it for him.

"I'm sorry about everything. I mean everything. I don't know why I ran. I was just scared. When I kissed you I-" At this she paused, tears were threatening to spill out but she willed them not to. She bent over with her elbows on her knees. "I felt so safe. So loved." She whispered the last part but he still heard. "When we broke apart, I couldn't believe I had kissed you. I got really scared and I ran. I'm sorry."

"No I'm sorry." Jack said, clearing his throat. It hurt him to see her like this and all he wanted to do was hug her but he refrained. "I shouldn't have accused you of doing anything with Sawyer. I don't know what happened in that room."

It was a while before either of them spoke again. Finally, Kate spoke. She no longer felt like crying and so she got up and leaned against the back of the couch. "I was so mad at you for making me stay behind. I felt like you were getting payback or something. So I followed you. Then I was paying really close attention to you guys and then they got me." The tears threatened to spill again. Her voice got shaky." They" She couldn't continue.

Jack moved over closer to her and put his arm around her.

"Hey it's ok. I wasn't getting back at you. I wanted you to be safe." Jack said rubbing her shoulder. She leaned against him. She couldn't stop the tears from flowing. Finally she talked again and the sound of her voice in agony like that made Jack want to cry but he was able to force the tears back.

"I know you were and you were right. They grabbed me and asked me questions. Then they told me things. They knew about my past Jack." Kate looked up at him and was startled to see tears in his eyes. He looked down at her and saw her tear streaked face and that was enough for him. He turned away from her. She grabbed his hand and held it tight.

"Then you guys came along and soon that guy had me out there. When he had that gun at my head and you were just staring I felt so-" She couldn't continue. She started sobbing.

At the thought of Kate in gags and her actually thinking he would have let her be killed like that he started crying and didn't care that she saw anymore. He pulled her in a full-fledged hug.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." He whispered after a couple of minutes.

"I'm sorry too." Kate said. They had both calmed down and she was looking up at him. They stayed like that for a long time until the button went off. They both sighed.

"I'll go get it." Jack said, and got up.

Kate walked after him and after he punched the buttons in she went up behind him and put her arms around him. She whispered, "I love you Jack."

He turned around and put his arms around her as well and told her," I love you too," Then they kissed. They walked out of the computer room arm in arm and then Sun came in the room. "I need to talk to you." Sun had a sense of urgency in her voice.

" Sure Sun let's go over here." Jack said.

Kate sat on the couch and smiled to herself. She knew that things would be better now. She knew that Jack loved her and nothing would change that. She felt like she could overcome anything on the island, as long as she had Jack to protect her.

A/N: This was longer that part one! I really enjoyed writing this and I hope you enjoy reading it. This is the first time I have written a romance. I am writing romances but no one has kissed yet or anything in my other stories so this is my first time doing that. I hope it didn't sound cheesy or anything. Please review and tell me what you think.