Update number 2!

"Yeah, Dad…" Matt laughed, still on Jack's back, "And then…and then…and then Mom was like…" Matt stopped abruptly looking around.

"What's wrong, sweetie?" Kate asked him, sensing his uneasiness.

"Where are we?" Matt asked her.

"We're at the beach, Matthew." Kate informed him.

"It's where we've been staying since the crash." Jack told Matt, placing him back on the floor.

"Okay." Matt nodded.

"Hey guys!" Charlie said jogging up to them. "Where've you guys been, we were wondering where you were…and, who's that?"

"I'm Matt." Matthew introduced himself, squinting up at Charlie.

"It's a long story." Kate said, lifting Matt up onto her hip. "We'll talk later." She said and walked off to her tent, ignoring everyone's questioning stares.

"Jack?" Charlie turned to him.

"Later, Charlie." Jack watched Kate and their son disappear into her tent. "I should really…" He gestured towards Kate's tent.

"Oh yeah, sure." Charlie said as Jack walked away.

"Hey, you okay?" Jack asked walking into Kate's tent.

"Yeah." She smiled weakly, holding her son close.

"Good." Jack nodded. "What about Matt, you okay, buddy?" Matt looked up at him, smiled and then snuggled into his mother, causing both Jack and Kate to smile.

"You know Jack…" Kate started, and kissed her son's head. "They're not going to believe us."

"They will." He told her.

"They won't." She argued back.

"Kate they will believe us, because…I have evidence." He smiled.

"Hmmm…what kind of evidence?" She asked him, her eyebrows raised.

"Something." Jack grinned sitting down beside her.

"But what sort of something?" She asked him.

"Just something."

"Jack!" She playfully shoved his shoulder.

"Trust me, they'll believe us."

"Yeah, yeah, as you keep saying." She shook her head, smiling slightly. It felt good to be able to smile and laugh and just generally be around Jack. She'd always known she'd missed it, but after the crash, it felt good, because they were around each other, a lot; and then he started ignoring her, and that hurt. She'd already lost him once; she didn't want to have lost him again.

"They will, Katie, they will." Jack laughed.

"So, who's kid do you think that was?" Charlie asked the group of friends.

"Kate's maybe?"

"Whoa, dude…Kate has a kid?" Hurley asked.

"Maybe." Charlie mused. "All I know, is that Kate and Jack buggered off hours ago, and then came back with a kid in tow, who Kate carried off to her tent."

"You didn't ask them?" Hurley asked.

"I tried, but Kate walked off and Jack wouldn't say a word." Charlie told him.

"Perhaps we should ask 'em now? They're coming this way." Hurley said.

"Right…right…look inconspicuous." Charlie looked down into the sand, and then looked up when Kate, Jack and the kid came closer. "Hi guys, we were just…we were…well, we definitely weren't talking about you." Charlie stuttered his face turning red.

"Yeah." Hurley hit Charlie upside the head. "Real inconspicuous, dude." He whispered.

"Bloody hell." Charlie muttered under his breath, and turned to see Jack and Kate sit down, on the other side of the fire, with the strange child sitting in between them. "So…" Charlie started, looking straight over the fire to Jack and Kate. "What were you two lovebirds doing today?"

Kate shook her head, as Jack laughed. "We're not…"

"Dude, we've heard it before. You're not together, yeah, yeah, yeah. But seriously, who's the kid?"

"His name is Matthew. He's my son." Kate smiled, and looked up at Jack, meeting his gaze; he gave her a little confidence. "Our son." She informed the group.

"Wow…" Sawyer whistled. "If I were crazy, I coulda sworn that sounded a lot like 'our son', freckles."

"Dude, that's what she said." Hurley told him.

"Ha!" Was all Sawyer responded with.

"Your kid?" Charlie asked them.

"Our kid." Jack nodded.

"Dudes, you realise you can't go off for a few hours and come back with a kid that old?"

"We were married." Kate said quickly.

"You what now?" Charlie asked, not understanding a word of what she'd just said.

"We're married." Jack also said quickly.

"You're married?" Claire asked, surprised.

"Like, married, married?" Charlie asked them.

"Dude, is there any other way you can be married?" Hurley turned to Charlie.

"Well, I don't know. I've never been married, now, have I?"

"Boys…" Claire interrupted. "So you're married, and you never told us? You kept saying you're not together."

"Dudes, if you're married, you're together!" Hurley told them.

Kate sighed. "We were married." She said emphasising the 'were'.

"Nah." Sawyer laughed. "You and Jackass, weren't married."

"Sawyer!" Kate scolded pulling Matt to her.

"Ooooooo…" Sawyer shook his head. "Still don't think it's possible. I mean…Freckles and the Doc? Nice joke…Like you'd ever procreate."

"Sawyer." Jack growled at him. "We were married."

"Yeah right." Sawyer scoffed.

"You want proof?" Jack asked him.

"Well, if you've got any."

"Will this do?" Jack asked, pulling his wallet out of his back pocket, briefly wondering, why the hell he still carried around, but was thankful he did. Jack showed Kate the picture briefly and she smiled up at him.

"I didn't know you had that."

"Hey!" Matt exclaimed. "That's a picture of you and Mommy!"

"Yeah kid." Jack smiled. "It is."

"Sawyer?" Jack asked, walking round to him, showing him the creased photo.

"Hmmph." Sawyer sighed. "That's a ring." He pointed to Kate's hand that was splayed across Jack's chest, as she titled her head back, laughing at him.

"Well, you know, that's what married people have." Jack informed him, taking the photo back.

"Okay, Jacko, so I believe you…doesn't mean I'm happy about it. Why would she marry you?"

"I don't know…I guess you'd have to ask her, huh?" He smiled at Kate, who shook her head, laughing slightly, knowing she couldn't really answer that.

"Can we have a look?" Charlie asked, itching to see the proof of the Jack and Kate relationship he and Hurley had been egging on since day one.

Jack looked up at Kate, who nodded, and he handed it over to Charlie and the gang, before sitting back down next Kate and Matt.

"Aww." Charlie squealed excitedly. "I knew there was something between you!"

"Oh wow…" Claire gasped. "Nice rock, Kate!"

"Wasn't it just?" Kate smiled, reminiscing.

"We bought it in Vegas, when we packed to go home, she wouldn't stop looking at it, told me she was in love with the ring." Jack laughed. "You know…I heard her say she loved me…but I swear…she was more in love with that ring than with me."

Kate playfully poked her tongue out at him, and taking Matt off of her lap, moved closer to Jack. Her eyes softened as she looked up at him.

"I did love you Jack." She said softly.

"I know." He smiled.

"But…wow…that ring!" She laughed. Jack wrapped his arm around her and pulled her up against his side.

"Say it." He told her.

"Say what?" She smiled, and gave him an 'I'm innocent' look.

"You know." He said.

"What?" She smirked.

"Say: 'Jack I loved that ring more than you.'" He told her.

"Well…maybe." She bit her lip, and bent her head to look up at him. "Maybe at first…for a while." She said softly. "But at the end…I loved you more than the ring." She told him, as her eyes filled with tears, and she kissed his cheek.

"Oh Katie…" He sighed, looking at her.

She blinked back the tears, and succeeded in making them disappear. "What Jack? I'm fine." She told him.

"Katie…" He gave her an 'I know you better than that' look.

"I'm fine!" She told him and turned to her son. "I'm fine, aren't I Matty?"

"Yup." He grinned sweetly, and cuddled up against her. "Mommy?" He looked up at her.

"Yes sweetie?" She smiled, looking down at her son.

"I'm tired." He told her.

"Okay." She pulled Matt onto her lap, and hugged him close. "I'm gonna go…put Matt to bed, we'll be in my tent." She told Jack, standing up, taking her child with her.

"Sure." He said, folding up the creased picture.

"Hey." Jack said quietly entering Kate's tent once again.

She smiled up at him, from watching their son sleep. "Hey…" She stood up and pulled him outside of her tent, not wanting to wake her sleeping son. "I can't believe you've been carrying that photo around."

"I don't clean out my wallet." Jack shrugged.

"So, you'd got one of Sarah in there too?" She asked him.

"No, I got rid of it when we divorced, replaced it with you." He told her as they sat on the sand outside her tent.

"Why? Why replace her photo with mine, we broke up a long time ago Jack."

"I know." He sighed. "I think…it's because…in a way, she was…sort of…a replacement for you."

"What?" She asked him, not really understanding.

"I never wanted to be with her." He sighed again. "I wanted to be with you."

"So you went off and married Sarah." She laughed

"It's what you told me to do." He reminded her.

"I was stupid." Kate shook her head. "I only told you that because I wanted you to be happy, to be with someone you loved."

"Kind of took that away from me, when you walked out Kate." He said bluntly.

"I wanted…I wanted you." Tears filled her eyes. "I wanted you to be with me because you loved me. I wanted you to show me you loved me, and not her. I wanted you to put up a fight. I wanted you, to make me stay." She told him as the tears rolled down her face.

"You wouldn't let me, I tried." He told her, his heart aching, watching the tears roll down her face.

"Not hard enough." She said, looking in his eyes.

"I didn't know how to make you stay." Jack admitted. "I did try though. I tried the night before you left. I told you I loved you, and that I wanted to be with you. And you still left! I tried the day we signed the papers. Hell, I even tried later on, just before I married Sarah, to make sure I wasn't making a mistake. But you wouldn't open the door."

Kate bit her lip. "Because…because, I was pregnant." She sighed. "I was almost 9 months pregnant, and I didn't want you to know that. I didn't want to ruin your life; I didn't want you to give everything up for me, because of some obligation." She told him.

"Oh Katie…" He pulled her onto his lap, and she didn't have the energy to resist. "Being with you would never have been an obligation; it would have been an honour." He said kissing her temple. "How was I supposed to make you stay, Katie?" He asked her, holding her tightly, not wanting to let go again.

"I don't know." She admitted. "It just felt like everything we did, wasn't enough."

Jack laughed slightly. "So, short of giving you the moon, nothing would have been enough?"

"Pretty much." She laughed. "I'm sorry."

"What for?" He asked, running a hand through her hair.

"For being so stupid." She said looking into his eyes. "I'm sorry that I convinced myself you didn't love me, that I didn't listen to you, and that I never told you about Matt. I'm sorry about everything that happened."

"You don't have to be sorry anymore, Kate." He kissed her forehead again.

"I do." She nodded. "I didn't want to ruin your life, but I did, didn't I? By refusing to believe you, to stay with you." She sighed.

"You didn't ruin my life, because I found you again." He smiled softly at her.

"Actually, I found you." She said recalling the day of the crash.

"Hmm…you did, didn't you?" He paused for a moment. "What's a few wasted years." He smiled. "Do you think we could start again? Do you think I can convince you that actually, I do love you?" He asked.

"You do? Really?" She asked him, still not quite believing him.

"Very much so, Katie." He whispered into her ear, kissing her cheek.

"Then maybe we can." She sighed softly, before meeting his lips for a soft kiss.

A/N: And this is where we all say: Awwwwwwww I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I just re-read it, and I know I did. Haha. I'd love it if you'd review. This fic is almost done, there's just another chapter or so to go.