Kate woke up, she rolled over and beamed up at Jack. He was sitting awake, reading a book. Jack looked down and smiled down at her sweetly then wrapped an arm around her and pulled her up easily, against his chest and kissed her. Kate smiled against his lips.
"So, how was it for you?" Jack asked bashfully.
"As if you need to ask." Kate said seductively, causing Jack to blush. She kissed his red cheek. "How was it for you?" She frowned nervously.
"As if you need to ask." Jack repeated and Kate grinned up at him happily. She snuggled into the crook in his neck and Jack played with the ends of her hairs. "We better get dressed. Amberly will be home soon." He said into her hair. Kate shook her head into Jack's neck.
"No…" She mumbled. Jack chuckled and continued to play with hair, enjoying the peaceful moment between them. Jack finally coaxed Kate to get out of bed and get dressed with him. They went into the kitchen and found Hurley and Sayid sitting there. This was the first time Jack had seen Hurley since he had found out Sawyer is sick. Jack smiled at Hurley.
"How are you doing, man?" Jack asked. Hurley shrugged. "How was it last night? Did you guys see him after dropping off Amberly?" Hurley nodded. "How was it?"
"It was fine." Hurley stated bluntly. "Where's Kate?" He asked.
"I think she's in the bathroom." Jack said. Jack pulled some cereal out of the cupboard. "Kate?" Jack called. "Do you want anything to eat?" Kate didn't answer and Jack shared a concerned glance with Sayid and Hurley. "Kate?" Jack called again. He ran to his room when Kate didn't answer. He opened the door and saw Kate standing in the bathroom, blood all over her hands, glass sticking out of them. She looked up and there were tears all over face and in her eyes. "Oh, Kate." He said coming towards her. "What happened, Sweetheart?" Jack saw that the small glass ornament on his sink was gone and he saw some broken pieces on the ground.
"I'm sorry." Kate choked out. Jack wrapped his arms around her slender waist and led her out the bathroom, careful of the glass. He led her into the kitchen.
"Oh, geez." Hurley said when he saw her and jumped up to make room for her to sit down. "What happened?" Sayid ran to the cupboard and pulled out the first aid as Jack was gingerly stroking Kate's hair and whispering into her ears, stroking her hair, basically attempting to calm her down.
Sayid brought the kit to Jack who poured some cleaning alcohol on her cuts, making Kate gasp. He then took tweezers and gently pulled the glass out. "I don't think she'll need stitches, and they won't get infected." He took out some Band-Aids and placed them over the cuts, as none of them were bleeding too badly. He then wrapped his arms around Kate and pulled her against his chest. "What happened, Kate?" He asked, rubbing her back in small, soothing circles.
"I was just looking at it, and I saw…well I saw it was given to you from Abigail, and I was shocked I dropped it. I tried to clean it up…but I was…I guess I was so upset it'd didn't really work."
Abigail had given a small, glass ornament of a man flying a kite with a little boy a few days after giving Amberly to him, she never said why, but Jack thought it was a thank you for taking on Amberly. She had had "to Jack" engraved on the bottom and "from Abigail" engraved on the bottom. Jack explained this story to Kate who sniffled into his neck. Hurley and Sayid watched them awkwardly from the counter.
Finally, Kate had calmed down a fair bit but her hands still shook a slight bit. There was a rap at the door and Hurley went to answer it and Amberly burst in. She ran from room to room calling Sawyers name.
She then burst into the kitchen and looked furiously at Jack. "Where is he?" She demanded. Jack started at his daughter blankly. "Where is he? Where is he? Where is he? Where is he? Where is he? Where is he?" She screamed throwing herself on the ground screaming and crying. Jack stood up with a sigh and scooped Amberly up off the floor and cradled her in his arms, sitting back down at the table, soon her shaking subsided and she whimpered into Jack's shoulder and drifted off. Jack smiled at Kate who was looking at him seriously.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"I need out of here, Jack. You need to put whatever plan you have into action soon." She told him. She went around the side of the table and took Amberly from him and cradled her small body against her own.
"How about we go out for lunch? And we can explain?" Sayid suggested. Jack looked at Kate who was looking at Amberly lovingly, contemplating. She gave Amberly back to Jack and went into the bedroom. She came back out ten minutes later, wearing an elaborate disguise. She had on large, black Ray Bans, Jack's big blue t shirt, with her own tight fitting black jacket. She wore a New York Lakers baseball hat with hair tucked under it. If Kate were to go out in public she was to be well disguised and not to speak to anyone, almost acting handicapped.
The five went down to Jacks car and drove to a nearby restaurant. They pulled up and climbed out, entering the restaurant, being seated immediately, without a wait. Kate sat down next to Jack in the booth, Amberly on Jack's lap, now awake and calm. Kate kept her sunglasses on. Hurley and Sayid shared a booth against a wooden and beaten up looking wall behind them.
"Explain." Kate muttered. The waitress came over and took their orders and when she asked Kate, Kate simply flinched and looked away, Jack ordered for her. The waitress left.
"We were thinking about making you mentally insane." Jack explained in a low voice. He now realized why Sayid had deiced they go into a public place, preventing Kate from making a scene and giving her time to think it over. "There is an illness that comes and goes over time, called a panic disorder. If we can appeal to a jury you had this illness then you could easily be let off. First you need to turn yourself in though. We were thinking you should do that…" He glanced at Sayid who nodded. "Like, next week."
