"Katie, look at me." Jack wiped the Kate's tears and spoke in a paternal voice. "Danny is away from here, maybe he's dead ... okay, honey? It's all right, you do not have to be afraid of anything."

"He's here, Jack, I've seen him, please believe me." She was panicking. "I'm not crazy," she cried.

"You're not crazy, Katie. You're just scared, our brains tease us when we're scared." He stroked her face. "I'll show you how it's not Danny who's there, okay?"

"Jack, please, I do not want to go there, please." Kate tried to control her voice so Danny would not hear it. She was terrified.

"Honey, it's okay, do you trust me?" Jack tried to wipe Kate's tears but they fell faster than he could clean them.

"Jack, please ..." her voice barely quit.

"I'm with you to protect you, sweetie, okay?" He wanted to show Kate that it was all her imagination.

"OK." Kate held Jack's neck so hard he almost felt short of breath as he led her to the tent. Jack entered the tent with Kate and heard a noise. There really was someone there.

It was dark but Kate could see him. Her eyes met his.

The guy ran off as Jack quickly put Kate in the sand and ran after him, shouting for him to stop.

Kate started to feel short of breath.

Sayid saw the movement, and Jack ran after that stranger. He was nearer and jumped on top of him. She held him so Jack could talk to him.

"What's going on, who is this?" Sayid asked.

Jack gripped the stranger on the floor. "Please go see how Kate is," he told Sayid. Turned the guy hard to see his face.

It was Danny.

Jack was out of reaction for a few seconds. When he returned to reality he began to punch Danny.

"What are you doing here?" He bellowed. "What did you do to Kate?" He punched the man without stopping.


Sayid ran to where Kate was. Sun was trying to make her breathe normal again, Kate was almost out of breath. Kate had her head on Sun's lap.

"Try to stay calm, Kate. Take a slow breath." He tried to help while she cried. "Slowly." He saw that Kate was struggling to calm down, and that started to help.

"Sun, keep reassuring, I need to help Jack." He ran off.


Jack dabbed in the face of Danny, who was almost out of breath. Sayid pulled Jack off him with much effort. The man remained on the ground. in pain.

"Jack, who is this?" Sayid asked, startled.

"He's one of the Others, he's the reason Kate was bad like that." Jack stepped up to hit the man again, but Sayid stopped him.

"What did you come here to do?" The Arab asked, his voice serious.

"I was kicked out ..." He was in a lot of pain. His face was swollen, and covered with blood. "Ben kicked me out ... I ... needed food." I could not speak.

"Why did you get kicked out?" Sayid asked,

"By .. what I did .. with the girl." He spoke with difficulty.

Jack wanted to kill Danny at that moment. "WHY DID YOU DO THAT TO HER, WHY?" He screamed.

"I do not know ... I was ... having a bad day and she was there, so beautiful ..."

That was too much for Jack. He jumped on top of the man, and punched him again, even stronger. "Were you having a bad day? Can you imagine what she's going through now? How are her days?" Jack's hand was already bleeding, but he would not stop beating.

Sayid touched the doctor's shoulder. "Jack, you're going to kill him." He pulled Jack out of the exile. Jack started to cry like a child.

Sayid lifted Danny, who could barely stand. "If you come back here, you're going to die." And pushed him. The man staggered without strength, his whole face cut, bleeding, but he obeyed.

The Arab hugged Jack. "Are you alright?"

"No .. but I'll." He wiped the tears away. "Thank you."

Sayid nodded and smiled. He put his hand on Jack's shoulder.

The confusion had drawn several glances at Jack, who did not care at all. People were slowly going back to acting normally, while Jack went to see how Kate was.

She was lying on one of the plane seats on the island. Sun was sitting next to her, watching her sleep, running her hand lightly into her hair.

Jack approached. "Is she fine?" He bent down to see her better.

"She fell asleep." Sun smiled. "It looks like you have a fever, but I'm not sure."

"Let me see." Jack put his hand on her forehead. "Yeah, she's a little hot." Jack took a deep breath to calm himself, still agitated. "Sun, I do not even know how to thank you."

"It's all right, Jack, are you okay?" She saw the amount of blood he had in his hands.

"Yes I'm fine." He answered coldly.

"Okay, if you need anything, call me." She smiled suspiciously, and left.

Jack finally stopped to think about what he had done. He almost killed someone, but he did not consider it wrong because of the circumstances. That man had ruined Kate's life. He deserved to die, he deserved it. Jack looked at her, asleep. Why did he doubt her? She felt awful and tears streamed from her eyes.

"I'm sorry, Katie." He kissed Kate's hand. "Please forgive me, I should have believed you." Jack was crying.

Kate woke up. She opened her eyes slowly and saw Jack with his head down, holding his hand and crying. She took her other hand and stroked his head.

"Jack, what happened to you?" She had just woken up and her voice was still weak, but she could not tell that Jack was covered in blood.

He lifted his head and smiled at Kate. "How are you, sweetie?" He barely touched his hand against her so as not to stain her with blood.

"I think I'm fine, my chest is hurting but I think it was because of the lack of air." She settled herself on the bench with some difficulty.

"Lack of breath?"

"When I was frightened to see .. Danny." Her eyes filled with tears. His face lost its calm countenance and became a frightened countenance.

"Honey, I'm sorry I put you through this, but he's never coming back here, Katie. He stroked Kate's face with the back of her hand. "Now you're safe, okay? Really."

The tears that stuck in her eyes streamed down. She hugged Jack, who hugged her back at once.

"He looked into my eyes, Jack." She sobbed. "The way I looked when ..."

"Hey, Katie, do not think about it. It's all right now, you do not have to remember any of that." He kissed Kate's hair, interrupting her. He did not want to hear it, did not want her to remember it.

The sobbing of her drowned Jack's chest. He stroked her back. "I'm sorry I did not believe you." He pressed her against his body. Kate raised her head to look at Jack.

"It's okay," she said. She was still scared.

Jack pressed his forehead to her forehead. Hands on her face. "What I want now is to see you well .. okay?" She replied nodding positively.

Jack led her to his tent. Kate was very quiet, from the way to the moment they arrived. She stared at the flame of fire they had lit to illuminate the tent.

The doctor sat down next to Kate and put his arm around her. "What are you thinking, Katie?" She laid her head on Jack.

"Why did these things happen to me?" Her voice hardly came out. She did not take her eyes off the fire, she was almost crying. "It's not fair, I just want to have a normal life, Jack. But I guess I'll never have it." She cried.

"Kat ... Katie." He stammered. It hurt so much to know that she was right about her life not being fair. Why did she have to go through that? "Come here." He took her, who was crying, in his lap and snuggled her into his arms. His body was so small compared to Jack's hands. "You're going to have a normal life. You're very strong, Katie."

"I thought I was, Jack." She cried. "I tried to forget what Wayne did to me, I really thought I had, but now everything is back again, and much stronger." Jack could barely comprehend what she said about how much she was crying. "It hurts so much, Jack, it hurts everything, my body, my head, and it hurts inside, I feel dead inside." She wiped her own tears. "I can not stand the fact that I'm Wayne's daughter, and I'll always have a part of him in me. I feel like this is a curse, I will never be normal." She sobbed. "All I've been doing these two days is crying, I can not take it anymore, Jack, you must be so tired of me." She lowered her face and tried to hold the cry.

He lifted Kate's face with his hands so she would look at him. She looked at Jack and quickly lowered her face again. "Hey honey, I'll never be tired of you .. okay?" He kissed Kate's head and tucked her into his lap. "No problem crying .. Katie, I love being with you. And if you want me to be around, I'll love being with you."

"I wish I could die," she said quietly, between tears and sobs. Kate felt terrible.

Jack did not want to take what he had heard seriously, but he could not ignore it either. He had to think fast, because he did not know what to say.

"Katie, please look at me." He stroked Kate's hair, the fever seemed to have gotten worse. "Can you do that, sweetie?" He tried again. She lightly lifted her face and looked at the doctor unwillingly. "Hey, I'm going to do whatever it takes to make you feel better. I wonder how much it should hurt, honey, but we're going through this, okay? He kissed her forehead.

Kate lowered her face again. She believed Jack, knew he wanted to help her. But how? She just wanted it all to end. She felt cold, her head hurt, and as much as she felt safe with Jack, she still felt alone. I could not bear to cry any more but at the same time I could not stop. It was too much for Kate. She closed her eyes. Tears ran involuntarily. The only thing she felt was Jack's arms holding her tight.

They heard footsteps walking toward them. Kate did not even open her eyes, instead she hid her face in Jack. She did not want anyone else to see her like that. She wept when she heard Jack's voice.

"Hey, Locke."

"I could not help but hear the fight that happened a few minutes ago. Are you okay, Jack?" Locke sat down in front of them.

"I'm fine, do not worry." Jack shook his head, gave Locke a quick smile.

"And how is Kate?"

The doctor felt the girl cringe. "She ... will be fine, will not she, Kate?" He answered for her, stroking Kate's back.

"I was thinking I could watch her for a while, then you can go clean yourself." Locke smiled. "But only if she's comfortable with that."

"Thank you, Locke, but I do not think ..."

"Jack, be 'll have to change that bandage from her leg sooner or later. Will you do that with your hands covered in blood?"

Locke was right. The blood was dry, but it was still blood. He did not want to cause any infection that would make Kate worse off.

Jack looked down and saw that Kate had not moved. He pulled a lock of hair that made her face even more hidden. "What do you think, Katie? Will you be ok?"