"Hello what service do you require?" An operator answered the phone after what seemed like years.

"Ambulance" He said hoarsely, as rain started to drum down around them. He shrugged of his jacket and wrapped it around Kate's cold body.

"1 moment" The woman said and then there was a click as Sawyer was put through to the ambulance department.

"Could you please tell me where you are and what's happened" A voice said.

"Uh…" Sawyer said looking around him quickly, that was a good point, where the were they? All he knew was that he had followed Kate and the others to the church and then to the reception, thankfully he had not been noticed. "Just outside the 360 club, Warlsaw Avenue." He said, spotting a road sign.

"And what is the problem sir?" She asked.

"There uh… the motorbike" Sawyer said, still struggling to come to terms with what had happened. "She was running away and in the road, the motorbike, knocked her down."

"Is she still breathing?" The woman asked, Sawyer hadn't made that much sense but she was used to calls like this.

"Yeah, but she's unconscious" He said, looking down at her tiny frame covered by his huge coat "Please come, quick please" He begged.

"Try and keep her warm, we will be with you as soon as we can" She said, clicking the phone down.

"Ya hear that Freckles?" he said, grabbing her hand again "There coming for ya, there coming its gonna be alright now, stay with me please" He said, pushing her wet brown curls away from her eyes.

"Please stay with me" He said urgently "Don't you die when I've just found you again, don't you make me loose the only thing I've got left… even if I already lost ya" he added sadly, he had ruined their love by leaving all those years ago, and nothing could make up for it, Sawyer knew that, but he swore with anyone as his witness that he would give everything in his power to try and make it better.

"J…Jack?" Kate said, her eyes fluttering open.

"No its me Sawyer" He said, Jack? Could that be Jack Shepherd, from college? That teachers pet goodie goodie? His unspoken rival for Kate all those years, was she with him now? He couldn't let himself think about that now, he had to stay strong for Kate. "Stay with me, there coming they will be here soon"

Kate's eyes fluttered again, her eyes rolling around in their sockets. They slowly fluttered shut again.

"No Kate!" Sawyer shouted "Wake up! Stay with me, c'mon baby I need ya" He begged desperately.

Sirens whirled loudly from behind him and Sawyer turned round to see the ambulance approaching behind them.

"See their here now, its all gonna be ok" he said "Its all gonna be ok"

"You called the ambulance?" A voice said from behind him, it was a paramedic.

"What does it look like?" He said sarcastically.

"No need to take that tone, how long has she been out?" He asked, squatting down to Kate's side.

"Bout 15 minutes, no thanks to you" Sawyer said "She woke up, but only for about a minute.

"Well were here now" The paramedic said "Eddie, can you get me the body board, were gonna have to lift her."

"Ok" Said another paramedic, obviously called Eddie. He brought the board out and the slid it under Kate. The paramedic Sawyer had talked to fastened a neck brace around Kate's neck.

"Why ya need that?" Sawyer asked.

"She may have neck injuries, we don't want to move them if she has" He replied.

"But the bike hit her legs?" Sawyer said.

"But the fall could have had an impact on her neck." He said, then he saw the look on Sawyers face "Don't worry, its just a precaution."

"Can I stay with her?" Sawyer asked, as the paramedics lifted her into the back of the ambulance.

"Yes of course" The paramedic said "Get in the back with us"

"Thanks" Sawyer said, climbing in.

He watched fearfully as the hooked several things into her and began to check her over, he began to mutter in a very doctorish way that Sawyer couldn't understand as the Ambulance pulled off.

Within 10 minutes they where at the hospital and a group of people had flocked around them, a nurse held Sawyer back and as much as he protested he wouldn't let him follow her.

"Are you family or friend?" She asked him.

"Friend" he said "I hope" he added but she didn't hear him.

"Would you like to wait in the waiting room? Ill come and let you know what's happening soon" She said.

"Ok" he said "Please can I see her?"

"Not now" She said "She will be with the doctors"

"Please come and tell me, please let her be ok" He said, his voice fading to a whisper.

"I'm sure the doctors will do their best" She soothed and she opened the door to the waiting room.

The room was small and empty. Sawyer sat down on one of the chairs but he couldn't stay still for long, he stood up and began to pace around the room.


Jacks pager bleeped as he sat down on his sofa at home. God, this is all I need he thought as he pulled on a coat and headed for the hospital.

"What's happened Leah?" He said to the nurse who had paged him.

"There's been a road accident, a motorbike knocked over a pedestrian" She explained "We don't know the extent of the damage yet but…" She trailed off.

"Ok" Jack replied "Have you do the x-rays, scans?"

"Yes" She replied "Were just waiting for the results"

"Ok, lets go and have a look" He said.

"Oh yeah, Jack" She said, sadness now crossing her face "They said her name was Kate, Kate Austen."