"Hey...hey...wake up."

Jack felt himself being tugged from the restless sleep he had succumbed to the previous night. "Hmm.." He moaned as he became more aware of the ache in his back that came from sleeping on nothing but uneven ground.

"Wake up, Daddy."

Daddy?

"Huh?" He mumbled, blearly opening his eyes.

Right in front of his face was a crouching child. A crouching child with dark hair, brown eyes, and freckles. He was so close, that he could have counted the freckles individually if he was still for long enough.

"Yay! You're awake!" He said brightly to him. "Come on." He added, sitting back on his heels. "We need to go, we're late."

"Wha? Late? For what?" Jack asked, still half asleep. In fact, he was still so out of it that he wasn't seeing anything strange about a young child he had never seen before talking to him in the jungle.

"Meeting Mommy and Lily." He said. "For the surprise."

"Surprise?" He repeated, adding the simple concept of confusion to his word. What surprise? Who were these people he wanted to meet? Why did he need to go?

"Lily's taking Mommy to the special place we found." He told Jack. "We need to meet them there."

"What?" He asked again. "Who's your mother? Who's Lily?"

The boy gave him a strange look and laughed. Jack recognised that smile...he just couldn't place it. "Don't be silly, Daddy. You know Mommy and my sister."

There it was again, calling him Daddy. Some strange things had happened on this island, but he was sure he would remember fathering a child. "Uhh..." He started, not sure of what else to say.

"Hurry up!"

The boy suddenly took off from the ground, and called to him again. Then he disappeared into the bushes that they were heading into before they bedded down for the night.

For a moment, Jack lay there, and then he brought himself into a sitting position, thinking over what had just happened. That kid, whoever he was, was calling him 'daddy'...and was looking for his mother and sister. The thing that got him, however, was the dusting of freckles on the child's cheeks.

Maybe...

"Whoa!" He called, jumping to his feet and grabbing his back when the ache intensified. "Wait up!" There was no answer to his shout other than the groans of the waking men around him. "Hey, kid, come back!" He called again.

"Jack?" Locke asked, coming to his senses.

"What the hell, Doc?" Sawyer asked. "We're trying to sleep here."

"We need to go." Jack said, crossing over to the ashes of their campfire where his bag lay. He put it up on his shoulders.

"Go where?" Sawyer asked.

"I think I know how to find Kate." Jack revealed, and without looking back to see if the others were following him, he took off after the little boy.

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"Mommy...wake up..."

After the previous day, the call of the little girl whispering in her ear wasn't something that phased her. Of course, she was still confused as to why this child was calling her 'mommy', when Kate never remembered delivering a child, but she had learned that whenever she asked those sorts of questions, she didn't get any sort of answer, because the girl treated it as something that she should automatically know, being her mother.

"Hmmm..." She muttered, as she sat up and rubbed the sleep from her eyes. "Good morning." She yawned.

"Come on, we've got to go." The girl insisted.

"Huh?"

"The place!" She reminded her. "Come on!"

"Oh...right..." Kate said, climbing to her feet with the aid of a nearby tree. Somehow, she didn't quite feel awake, like she had been sleeping for days on end, and for the first time, she had awaken. She now felt the aches in her body, unsure of how they had gotten there. She had been walking for a whole day, with few breaks, and now she was aching all over.

"We need to go now." The girl insisted again, tugging on her hand to get her walking.

"Okay." Kate said, and the girl released her hand, doing her usual of walking ahead of her, but not so far ahead that she lost sight of her. Behind her, she heard a rustling, and when she turned, she caught sight of a golden head in the bushes.

Vincent?

They walked for an hour or two, and then Kate stopped in her tracks. The girl noticed, and turned back to her.

"What's the matter?" She asked.

Kate was focusing on the surroundings...they looked so familiar. "We've been here before." She decided. She had definately been in this clearing yesterday when they were walking.

"Daddy said that last time." The girl told her.

Last time? Kate thought to herself. "What?" She asked.

"When we walk this way, Daddy always things we've been here before, but we haven't." The girl explained. "You said that the flowers weren't in the last place that looks like this one."

"What flowers?" She asked.

"My flowers." The girl replied. "My name flowers."

At that moment, Kate realised that she didn't know the girls name. She was calling her 'mommy', and she didn't even know the child's name. Instinctively, she started to look around for some flowers, but she couldn't see any...only greenery from the trees and bushes.

"Come on!" The girl called again before Kate could spot any flowers. "Hurry up!"

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As they walked, Jack kept his eyes trained for any movement in the bushes. The others followed him, but only Locke was doing any investigating on the terrain like Jack was. He couldn't understand why Jack was looking so hard for something though.

"Jack, what exactly are we following?" Locke asked.

"A child." He said, before he could stop himself. Great, now they probably thought that he was the crazy one.

"A kid?" Sawyer asked incredulously. "I thought we were looking for Freckles."

"The boy is leading us to her." Jack revealed, or at least, that's the conclusion he had come to.

"How the hell do you know that?" The Southerner asked irritantly.

"I just do." Jack said tiredly.

"Like thats a reason." Sawyer said sarcastically.

Jack turned to him, stopping in his tracks. "I know what I'm doing!" He insisted hotly. Sawyer was about to respond, probably with another sarcastic comment, when Locke spoke up.

"Jack, there's no trail." He revealed.

"What?" Jack asked.

"Since we started walking this morning, there hasn't been any trail...and we're moving away from Kate's trail."

"There has to be a trail." He insisted.

"There isn't." Locke said, shaking his head.

"No, there has to be something." Jack continued, starting to panick a little. Hadn't Locke seen the footprints that he had seen?

"There's nothing, Jack."

"Maybe you missed som-"

"We haven't missed anything, because there's nothing to miss." Locke cut him off.

There was a small silence, and then Sawyer spoke up. "Then what the hell are we following?"

Locke gave a twisted smile. "Jack's mind."

"John-" He started, but was cut of yet again.

"Last night you said you heard a child shouting 'goodnight' through the jungle, and now you wake up with the need to follow a boy." Locke pointed out.

"That's different, the call last night came from a girl." Jack told them.

"What exactly happened this morning, Jack?" Locke asked curiously.

He sighed, seeing as they already thought he was crazy he might as well tell them the whole story. "The boy was waking me up, saying that we needed to hurry to meet his sister and mother." He told them. "He said that they were going to a special place, and that we needed to meet them there."

Another silence fell upon them, whilst they all looked at Jack strangely.

"Doc, are you taking some of those pills from the back of the box?" Sawyer asked him, a curious expression on his face.

"It happened." Jack insisted. It couldn't be a hallucination.

"Maybe it's a sign." Locke offered.

"That's your excuse for everything." Sawyer complained.

"Kate's tracks were very well planned for someone who was sleepwalking." Locke told them, something that he clearly hadn't told them when they were following her trail before. "It's rare for someone to sleepwalk through a dream on the actual location that they are sleeping. There's only two explanations for that."

"Which are?" Jack asked.

"Either she knows for definate where she's going, or she's following someone."