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Disclaimer: I
don't own LOST
A/N: I just want to let you all know that this might be the last thing I write for the summer. I am saving up for a computer right now but probably won't get it until July. But as soon as I get the computer I will be writing my stories again. But over the summer I will be reading and reviewing I just won't be writing… Ok so here we go. This is probably gonna be mostly Kate point of view and it might lean more towards Skate but we'll see what happens.
Chapter 1
This was pretty awkward Kate had to admit. All that had happened had overwhelmed her. She had heard Hurley crying in the other room and she figured that Libby had died. It was so sad. Hurley had finally found happiness and then it was taken away from him. Kate was also scared. Three of their people had been shot. Anything could happen now. But right now she wasn't thinking about that.
Right now, she was thinking about how embarrassed she was. Sawyer had caught her crying and she tried to hide it but it didn't work. He had seen. And then he did the most unexpected thing for him. He had comforted her. Kate had always known that somewhere inside of Sawyer there was a tiny tiny soft spot, she just didn't think it would take this for it to come out.
So here they sat silently. Kate racked her mind for something to say but she couldn't think of anything.
Finally Sawyer cleared his throat. "So… you ok?"
Kate smiled. "Yeah I'll be alright."
A few minutes passed.
"Thanks… for comforting me." Kate said. "It was so unlike you."
"Yeah well that's cause it's not me."
"I know. "
"Now don't you be expectin me to do this everyday now."
"I wasn't!"
"Right. You think I'm a changed person now or something. I know you Freckles. You're so desperate to find that good in me that's not there."
"If you're not good then why did you comfort me?"
Sawyer stood up and walked out of the room. Kate could hear him mutter, "Women…"
Kate smiled again. Then she shook her head and stood up and started cleaning the kitchen. She needed to keep her mind off of what was going on. She took the broken statue on table and threw it away. She then washed the dishes in the sink. Soon she had the kitchen spotless. She moved towards the couch area then moved away. There was blood on the couch and blood from where Libby had lain on the floor. There was no way she was going to clean that now. She would probably start crying again and she didn't want to have that awkward situation again.
Kate walked over to the room where Libby and Hurley were. Hurley was sitting next to Libby's bed. She was glad he seemed to have clamed down a bit.
Kate didn't want to intrude on Hurley so she walked back into the other room. She saw that Michael was in the armory staring at Ana.
She walked over to him.
"Michael?"
He just kept staring at Ana.
"Are you ok?"
Michael didn't respond,
"Hey." Kate laid her hand on Michael's shoulder. "Everything is going to be ok Michael alright?"
Michael looked at Kate. "It's all my fault." He said in a monotone voice.
"Michael no. It wasn't your fault. You were still weak and there was no way you could have stopped Henry from-"
"It was my fault Kate ok?" Michael yelled and he then looked back at Ana signaling that the conversation was over.
Kate sighed and left the room.
Chapter 2
Kate walked into the room where the computer was. Sawyer was sitting in the chair with a blank look on his face. Kate leaned against the doorway.
"Did you get close to Libby or Ana?" Kate said in a shaky voice. Michael had made her more depressed.
"Not really." Sawyer looked at her.
"I didn't either." Kate looked at the floor. "I talked to Libby a couple of times but we never became friends really and I never said a word to Ana once. I mean we were a couple of feet from each other sometimes but we never talked."
"Why are you telling me this Freckles?"
Kate didn't say anything.
"Cause if you're lookin for redemption or something to make you feel better, I'm not the guy you should be talking to. "
"Yeah I know. I just need to talk."
"Fine. Then talk."
"Well it would be nice if I wasn't having a one-sided conversation!" Kate said.
Sawyer looked back at the computer, then a couple of seconds later he said, "I didn't talk to Libby much. I probably talked more about her than to her. Now Ana I got to know pretty well before we got back over to this side of the island. After that we didn't have much interaction until…" then he stopped.
"until what?" Kate asked.
Sawyer looked up at Kate. "Until yesterday."
"What happened yesterday?"
"Nothing, We just talked while you and Jacko were off in the jungle playing who knows what."
"Jack and I were far from playing Sawyer."
"Right. And Ana and I were far from …." He trailed off.
"You're jealous!" Kate accused.
"Of what? There's nothing to be jealous about!" Sawyer stood up.
Kate walked until she was right up next to sawyer.
"Yeah there is. Jack and I were alone in the jungle. Who knows what could have happened?"
"Right. There's no way that anything could have happened because Jack was too involved with finding the others and all you were caring about was showing that you could be happy with or without Jack."
"What are you saying Sawyer?" Kate was really mad now.
"I'm saying, that there is no chance for a relationship between the two of you."
"Yeah and why's that?"
"This is stupid. Even you should see that."
They were a couple of inches apart now.
"no Sawyer I want to know why you think that there is no chance for Jack and I."
Sawyer sighed and looked away. Then he looked back at her right in the eyes.
"Cause he's perfect and you're not."
"Jack isn't perfect Sawyer."
"He's probably the closest you can get to perfect."
"No he's not. He-"
"Look Freckles I don't want to stand here listening to you defending him. I'm just telling you that there isn't a chance there."
"You're right. This is stupid."
"Then why are we talking about it?"
"You brought it up!"
"Oh yeah I brought it up. Right."
"You are so immature."
"I'm immature? Two people just died and all you want to know is my opinion on your relationship with Jack!"
"There's no relationship between me and Jack!"
"Then why are you so worked up over it?'
"How did we get into this conversation Sawyer?" Kate sighed and walked away." What is going to happen now? That's what we should be talking about."
"Yeah that's what we should be talking about but as you can see you and I are the only ones talking here." Sawyer sat back down in the chair.
"You're right. Where is everyone?"
"Well you know where Hurley is, Michael is somewhere out there and Jack's in the bathroom"
"The bathroom?" Kate raised an eyebrow.
"Hey don't be askin me." Sawyer threw up his hands.
"Oh no…."
"What?"
"Nothing." And then Kate left.
Chapter 3
That had to be one of the weirdest conversations she had had with Sawyer since meeting him. He could be so difficult sometimes.
But right now she was worried about Jack. She didn't know why she didn't think about it sooner. Even though Jack was a doctor, he had a hard time of letting go and he had a lot of problems with dealing with deaths. That is a bad trait to have if you are a doctor.
Kate paced the living room thinking of what to do.
She could go and knock on the door and ask if he was ok or she could just leave him alone until he came out. She would much rather knock on the door. So that's what she did.
"Jack?" Kate said softly as she knocked on the door.
No answer.
"Jack?" Kate said again but she didn't knock. If he didn't open the door then she would leave him alone.
He didn't open the door or answer.
Kate sighed and leaned her back against the door and thought of what to do next.
The only sane person to talk to right now was Sawyer and Kate didn't want another weird conversation with him.
After a couple of seconds she heard a clicking of the door. Jack was opening it.
She quickly turned around.
Jack opened the door and looked at her without saying anything.
"Jack? Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine." Jack said,
Jack's eyes looked hallow and he was obviously upset.
"Are you sure? You don't look ok." Kate was really concerned about him now.
"Yeah." Jack nodded. "Yeah I'm fine."
He moved back into the bathroom and pretended to be busy with something at the sink.
Kate stayed at the doorway watching him. He was definitely not ok.
"Is there something you need Kate?" Jack dropped the towel he was holding and looked over at Kate.
"Yeah Jack there's something I need." She walked over to him and laid a hand on his arm.
"You."
A/N: Aww how sweet is that? I thought about writing more but then I decided to just leave it like this. You can draw your own conclusions. :)
