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"We're saved! We're saved! Polar bears aren't gonna eat us! We're saved!" Seemed to be the words that roused anyone still sleeping from their sleep.
"Jack…" Kate said sleepily.
"Hmm, babe?" He replied, equally as tired.
"Tell Charlie to shut up." She said, rolling over, and closing her eyes.
"Charlie?" Jack called as he opened Kate's tent flap, where they'd stayed the previous night. "Some of us are still trying to sleep."
"Jack man!" Charlie ran up to Jack, like an excited puppy. "You won't believe it, we're saved!" He exclaimed, throwing his arms around the good doctor. "A boat's on its way, you and your girl should get all packed up…" Charlie said, gesturing towards the ocean. "Must run, more people to tell, ooooo I've gotta get to the caves!" Charlie shouted, as he ran off down the beach. Jack simply laughed as he turned back, the words only just sinking in, a smile gracing his face at the thought of being able to live happily, in the real world, with Kate, and eventually Jade, and any other children they came to have. His girl; his girls…
"Kate honey…" Jack started, kneeling down next to her.
"Sleeping." She moaned, and rolled away from him.
"Kate, rescue's finally here." He told her softly, and she rolled back over, a look of confusion evident on her face.
"Rescue?" She asked, her voice wavering.
"Rescue." He echoed.
"Oh God." She sunk into his shirt that she'd become accustomed to sleeping in over the past couple of months. "Jack…" She looked up at him with teary eyes. "I…I don't…I…"
"It'll be okay." He pulled her into his arms. "We'll be okay, Katie, I promise you, we'll be okay."
"But Jack…" She gripped the shirt he was wearing harder, "they'll…they'll, they'll take me away from you…it won't be good."
"Just think about Jade…" Jack whispered to her as her pressed a kiss to her temple. "We will be okay, we're going to make it Katie, we have to; for Jade. You'll see."
"Okay…" Kate smiled weakly at him.
Kate grasped Jack's hand firmly as they walked towards the rescue boat, as if even if she loosened her grip the slightest, she might be pulled from him. Jack squeezed her hand and pulled her into him, wrapping his arm around her, but keeping their hands entwined.
"Don't worry so much, we're going to be fine." He told her soothingly, and placed a kiss on the side of her head.
"I'm trying to believe that, honestly, I am…I'm just…scared." She shrugged.
"I know you are babe, but you don't have to be; I won't let them take you from me without a damn good fight." He told her causing her to let out a tiny giggle.
"Name, sir?" One of the crewmen asked, as the couple stepped onto the rescue boat.
"Jack Shephard." He told him, and he crossed the name off on a list.
"And you m'am?" Kate felt a brief wave of panic and looked up at Jack, as if to ask for help, he nodded at her, telling her with his eyes to tell the man her name.
"Kate…Austen." She finally said in a small voice. Jack noticed the crew man gesture towards more official looking people, with handcuffs, and guns; fearfully he drew Kate back into him.
"Jack." She gasped fearfully.
"Don't worry baby, we'll sort this out, you'll be okay, I promise." He said, before kissing her softly.
"Katherine." One of the marshals announced his arrival.
Kate shook her head, as she looked up desperately into Jack's eyes. "I don't…I don't want to…Jack…"
"I love you, so, so much." He told her, pressing a kiss to her temple and smoothing her hair back behind her hair. "Stay strong for me, and I promise you'll be okay."
Kate nodded and moved into him for one last, quick embrace. "I love you too." She whispered to him, kissing the skin just in front of his ear, before lightly giving him the faintest of kisses on the lips. Jack squeezed her tightly, before releasing her, and watching as she was made to follow the marshals, thankfully not in handcuffs. That had to mean something good, right?
Night was falling, that was one thing Jack could tell from his place, laying on the floor of his cabin room. It was slowly getting darker, inside and out. The other think he could tell, was that Kate was not there. She was not with him; she was not where she belonged.
Jack thought back over the events of the past 24 hours. They'd spent a wonderful night together, only to be disturbed long before either would rather be awake by a hyperactive Charlie yelling things about rescues and polar bears. He remembered Kate clutching to him like a lifeline, and looking up at him, with a look of such despair and helplessness in her eyes. He remembered trying to fight with the ships crew to let him past, let him see her, talk to her.
Then there was a knock at the door. His blood froze. Dread flooded him.
He really, really wasn't in the mood to see anyone, except from her. And it most likely wasn't her. Grumpily Jack got to his feet and skulked across the room to the door, he opened it a jar and muffled "Go…" before he saw who was standing there, a grin spread across his face.
"Kate!" He exclaimed happily, and threw the door back.
"Hey." She smiled sweetly, stepping into the room.
In no less than two seconds, she found herself in Jack's arms, being spun around.
"I'm so glad you're alright…what…what are you doing here?" He asked her.
"I want to see you more than anyone else." She smirked, and grabbed his hands pulling him to the bed. "Oooooooo…a bed, I haven't slept in one, let alone seen one for months!" She giggled as she sat on it, one leg crossed under her.
"I don't think any of us have, Kate." He smiled at her, and sitting beside her, ran his hand through her hair.
"Guess not." She smiled. "Soo…it turns out…that…once we hit land…I'm free to walk."
"You are?" He smiled as she nodded. "That's great!" He said pulling her into a tight embrace. "I told you it'd all work out."
"Yeah." Kate sighed as he pulled her down to lie on the bed beside him.
"So…" He began as their hands fused together. "As soon as you want to, we can go to New York, and look for a place to live…so that we can start our life together, properly."
"Sounds great." She smiled as she buried her self in his chest.
"We can even work on speeding up the whole having Jade thing…" He suggested, to be rewarded with a thump on the arm.
"We'll see about that." She smiled up at him. "Right now, I just want to lay here, with you." She kissed his Adam's apple, and felt his arms tighten around her.
"What did they say?" Jack asked, curious after about 10 minutes of silence.
"Who?"
"The marshals."
"Oh…well they said they'd found new evidence that proved I didn't commit the crime, but suggested someone else did, hence my wonderful freedom." Kate told him happily.
"I'm glad." He pressed a kiss to the hair he'd missed after just a few hours. "I missed you…" He told her quietly, "I know it was only a few hours…but…still."
"I know." She nodded. "I missed you too." She snuggled back down against him, happy to just lay there a while. Jack smoothed down her hair, and kept a firm grip on her waist with his other hand. "I love you." She whispered a moment latter, kissing his earlobe.
"Ah…I do in fact, remember getting that memo." He joked, and then said, more seriously; "I love you too."
"How much?" She asked him playfully, as she straddled him.
"Lots and lots." He said, pulling her down on top of him, kissing her tenderly.
"That's not very specific." She swatted him, pulling back from the kiss, and tucking her hair behind her ear.
"Tones and tones?" He raised an eyebrow, "is that better?"
"Getting there…" She smiled at him, and leant down to kiss him softly.
"Aren't you going to show me how much?" She asked, with a small pout, when he didn't try and deepen the kiss.
"Ah well, in that case…" He flipped her over; so that she was pinned beneath him, and leant down to kiss her passionately. "Is that an even better answer, your majesty?"
"We're getting there." She beamed up at him, wrapping her arms around his neck, pulling him down to her level. Their tongues clashed together repeatedly, in a battle of love, as their hands roamed.
"Mmmm." Kate hummed in approval, spurring Jack on, wanting her to moan for him again.
For a moment, Jack pulled away from her, and resting his weight on his hands, pushed up, and gazed down at her lovingly. "God I love you." He told her, before kissing her with everything he had.
It wasn't long before all their clothes were a mere half assembled thought laying scattered across the floor and they truly celebrated Kate's freedom.
"Thank you for last night." Kate smiled sleepily against Jack's naked chest, as she pulled the sheet up around them. "It wasn't the best day of my life, but I'm certain that you made my day…and it's right up there at the top now…" She smiled at him.
"It should be…" He mused and ran a hand up her naked side, sending shivers down her spine.
"Come here…let me warm you up…" Jack pulled Kate further towards him and kissed her passionately.
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