Kate woke up next to Jack and heard some birds sing outside, she had almost expected the bird sounds to change in the sound of cars, ambulances, police cars and to wake up in her lousy old bed in the centre of New York.
After which she would probably start making breakfast not to forget to make coffee for Ray.
Instead she found herself in the arms of the man she loved.
He had his eyes opened as well.
"You don't move."
He got out of bed and went downstairs but Kate didn't fell that there still was a reason to lay down any way.
The past months were all about work and she didn't want to quit that one.
There was still a lot that had to be done.
She wanted to go to the bath room and found herself staring at the room of the baby room.
She opened it softly and leaned against the doorway.
The cute little cradle standing in the middle of the room was surrounded by cup boards and a small baby bath room.
In a corner of the room a small seat was standing folded and the whole room was finished with small pictures of teddy bears.
She knew that the woman (she assumed it was) who decorated this place must've been in love with her child.
She held her hands before her belly and smiled hoping she would be a great mother to, she didn't knew how long she stood there until she heard Jack's footsteps in the hallway and closed the door softly.
The two months that passed since that moment Kate didn't really managed to stay out of the room.
In fact she stayed there for as long and as much as she could.
Asking Jack to bring some wool she started knitting baby clothes and teddy bears inside of the room hiding them in boxes so that Jack wouldn't see that much how much she was looking forward to this baby.
Despite the joy she felt of having this child she knew that Jack had to pay a heavy price for it.
What she didn't knew that every time she went to bed he would sneak upstairs and would look inside of the boxes feeling the exact same way.
After four months of pregnancy there was no denial any more and Kate started to wear tank tops and open shirts to make it more obvious to herself that this was real.
One evening Kate was sitting outside knitting (as always) while Jack was cooking dinner.
She was so overwhelmed by the thoughts of this little child and he's or hers thousand pieces of clothes that she didn't saw the car stopping in front of the house.
Jack got out of the kitchen as well alarmed by the sound of it.
His hair had grown a lot lately and he as well was becoming almost unrecognizable.
"Hi fellows, my name's Dave and this is my lovely wife Sandra. And these are our cute little kids Joshua, Melvin and Cassandra. We're travelling across the mountains and we were wondering wetter we could stay a week at that little spot at the lake. Next to the rocks."
"Sure, seems alright with me. How 'bout you honey."
Jack doubted a bit but finally thought that if there's one of us who knew what she was doing it had to be Kate.
"Yeah sure, why not. But you have to be careful up there. If you go to much to the left there will be a lot of rocks there and you can get easily lost there."
"Sure no problem. Euhm …"
Jack came closer followed by Kate and smiled.
"I'm Mark and this is my wife Kelly."
They shook hands and Dave placed his hat back on his head.
"Well, we have to go, it will be dark soon. Nice meeting you and I promise you won't even notice we're around here."
They took off and Jack and Kate went back inside, "We have to figure out a better story on that one in case something like that happens next."
"We can do that over a nice plate of spaghetti."
After the dishes and the talking they decided to watch a bit more television.
To their surprise there was just a documentary about their life on the island and afterwards.
Turned out Claire and Charlie got married and that she as well was pregnant.
Sun had delivered the baby and had named her Mei, she was still married to Jin.
Shannon and Sayid were married as well.
"Wow, turns out every body has a happily ever after life here."
"We to, considering the life we have now."
Kate's hand went trough his hair, she loved to do that ever since she told him that he had got to let it grow.
It made him look younger and maybe that was even what they both needed so much now.
She had continued dying her hair red and despite the fact that they only saw a few people around (five people including the family they just met) they still continued to be extra careful.
