Chapter 7

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As he walked back to his abandoned back pack, emotionless with an unconscious kate in his arms, all he could think about was whether he could have stopped this from happening, if only he paid more attention to her rather than focusing on himself and the gun which had been pointed straight at him minutes ago. I should have been the one to take that bullet instead of her, he said to himself while glancing at his pale lover's face, her beautiful features slowly loosing their essence and with that worrying sight etched into his mind, he got right down to replacing his emotions with the doctor in him.

So with that he quickly went through his bag while keeping a firm hold on her, especially her right bleeding arm and seeing that he was having a tough time trying to hold kate and retrieve his medical supplies at the same time, Sun and Rose appeared at his side once again and wordlessly took kate over while jack went about trying to get what he needed. Although the one thing he needed was slowly withering away inches from him.

A few minutes later he got out what he needed and with that he instructed the two women to hold kate's wrists down because what he was about to do was powerful enough to wake anybody up from a dead sleep. In the real world they would have operated and removed the bullet,while the patient was put under the influence of anaesthesia, but here with no proper medical equipment, he was forced to pull the bullet out with his hand.

So once kate's wrists were lightly bound by the two other women, he crouched down in front of her, closed his eyes and slowly counted to five, hoping that with each count, his fear of losing her in the midst of this would slowly subside.

(Flashback)

"Well, fear's sort of an odd thing. When I was in residency, my first solo procedure was a spinal surgery on a 16 year old kid, a girl. And at the end, after 13 hours, I was closing her up and I, I accidentally ripped her dural sac. Shredded the base of the spine where all the nerves come together, membrane as thin as tissue. And so it ripped open. And the nerves just spilled out of her like angel hair pasta, spinal fluid flowing out of her and I... And the terror was just so... crazy. So real. And I knew I had to deal with it. So I just made a choice. I'd let the fear in, let it take over, let it do its thing, but only for five seconds, that's all I was going to give it. So I started to count: One, two, three, four, five. Then it was gone. I went back to work, sewed her up and she was fine."

(End of flashback)

Once he reached five, he slowly opened his eyes and slowly felt himself being overtaken by a sudden boost of confidence and determination and with that coursing through his veins, he got right down to getting the first stage done which was to retrieve the thing that was killing his lover.

As a doctor he saw many gruesome things in his life but this experience of inserting your fingers within the layers of flesh of the wound to retrieve the deeply embedded bullet was enough to make him gag almost immediately but in the end he stayed focused on the job and after an agonising twenty minutes, he managed to get the blood covered bullet out of her while the two other women managed to calm the previously screaming brunette to a slight whimper now and with that she slowly gave into her sleep once again, leaving jack to quickly bandage up her wound with one of the rags he had manged to salvage from one of his old shirts. When he was done he sat down exhausted emotionally and physically and in an effort to help himself calm down, he pulled kate's sleeping and weak form into his chest, his knees spread out on either side of her, her head tucked safely into the crevice of his neck and his muscular and strained arms tightly embracing her, almost afraid that she might be taken away from him, although twenty minutes ago he seriously thought that that would be the case, but thankfully in the end it wasn't.

For the next few minutes he just sat down holding her closely in his arms and it wasn't until his gaze travelled to his right, that he suddenly realised what had happened and what he had done in his moment of rage. What he saw was the satellite phone now in pieces, clearly suggesting to him and the discouraged people around him that their hopes of getting rescued had been severely shattered along with it in one single moment. This was seriously the last thing they needed now and all of a sudden he wished he would simply vanish into thin air, because yet again he felt that he was responsible not only for Jin, Bernard and Sayid getting killed, but for getting kate shot as well and now even ruining their chances of getting off this godforsaken island., but as he thought of this and mentally beat himself up, he suddenly remembered about Naomi saying that her boat was still docked a few miles from their beach. So if they returned to their "home" now then they could set out tomorrow to find her boat and hopefully go on from there. He went about the new plan in his head for a few more minutes and then confirmed it as their best way off this island. So with that he suddenly stood up carrying kate in his arms and called for everyone's attention to tell them of his plan.

To his surprise they willingly agreed and with that they followed their leader back to the place they had been forced to call home for the past two months. Half an hour into their trip, kate started to wake up slightly and upon noticing this, jack stopped immediately and set her down to try and give her some water because she was probably dehydrated he guessed. The people behind him were also more than glad to take a short break and with that they temporarily made camp of their present surroundings. Jack however walked with a mumbling kate under a tall tree, trying to keep her out of the sun as much as possible. As soon as he sat down and rested against the trunk of the tree with her still in his arms, her mumbling started to get louder and more stronger judging by her voice and it wasn't long before he was met with the sight of her dazzling green eyes once again and in response his eyes started to get filled with tears of happiness and relief.

"Jack!" she gasped out weakly "where happened? Where are we?" she asked trying her best to search his eyes for an answer and in response he simply leaned forward and sealed her lips in a life giving kiss. Within that one kiss kate felt herself feeling a whole lot better and once he pulled away, he grasped both sides of her face and started planting butterfly kisses all over her skin while saying…..

"I thought I had lost you kate! I thought I'd lost you" he whispered against her skin, allowing for his tears to fall once again and in response kate just kissed the path of his tears away while whispering words of comfort and reassurance to him in an effort to let him know that she would never leave him because she simply loved him too much and she made a point to say it to him again and again even if he didn't have the courage to say it back just yet. However he was about to surprise her and finally say it because after what had happened, he truly felt more for her now and if he didn't say to her, he felt that he would lose her again as a result and he wasn't sure as to whether he would survive it, so he was about to verbally proclaim his love for her when all of a sudden they were interrupted by the walkie tucked in the back of his jeans going off with another voice on the other end, a familiar voice he had come to know as….

"Hurley!! Hurley what are you doing back at the beach?" jack asked while walking slowly with kate who was starting to get stronger and stronger by the minute.

"Well dude I went back to help them and I saved them, it's okay they're okay" Hurley said rather proudly walking through the camp of the people who had survived the others' plans.

"Wait they're all okay sawyer, j.." he said hurriedly in the walkie and was cut off once again by Hurley.

"Yeah man they're all okay Juliet, Sawyer, Bernard, Jin, Sayid they…"hurley said looking at the surviving people but he was interrupted by jack this time who was in a complete state of shock at what he was hearing.

"Wait they're alive, they're with you" jack said aloud and clear into the walkie and hurley just responded by confirming that they were indeed okay and with that he just closed his eyes and threw his head back smiling in joy and relief and once he felt kate's arms going around his neck, he opened his eyes and met her gaze and with no hesitation whatsoever he picked her up and twirled her around to revel in the happy moment along with the other people in the background who were also rejoicing as well over their final victory over the others.

Hey guys so there it is!! I thought I would end this chapter on more of a happier note, so what do you think??