Hehe ok so I thought I'd share this with you, if you have ever read any other of my fics you would know that I usually put a warning in the summary or at the authors note at the beginning of a chapter if there is going to be smut or possibly disturbing themes torture, rape things I try to warn people about. So yesterday I got an e-mail from an irate reader who is reading my fic I Don't Believe You. The reader went off on me that I didn't warn about the sexual content, and the language was horrific and I was basically an all around bad writer and should just give up writing. So needless to say I was a little stumped, I've been very fortunate and haven't received many bad reviews knocks on wood. So I go over the story which is rated m and there in the summary is warning of future smut. Each chapter had a little warning saying smut ensues and so forth. So I replied to the e-mail and was actually very polite (strange for me) and explained that I had smut warnings all over and I'm sorry they didn't see it and yadda yadda yadda. Well I get a reply it seems the reader didn't know what smut was and didn't realize what I was talking about when I said smut. They then criticized me for being vague and using made up terms and I should still give up writing. So just to clear up any misunderstandings I just wanted to let you know that if I use the term smut that means sexual behavior and I apologize if I have ruined your life by using that term. Ok so I hope everyone is caught up on that hehe and just to let you know I'm not planning on retiring from writing but if its that bad please let me know and I'll quit ASAP J Also I'm just winging the medical knowledge in this chapter so if I'm off its ok cause I'm not actually performing medical procedures on people. Oh yeah there is slight smut in this chapter.

CHAPTER 11

Jack and Kate returned back to the apartment after their lunch with Mark and Cynthia and Kate had a really good time. When they got in and hung their jackets up Kate immediately went to the couch and bundled herself in the blanket that Jack had left out. Kate snuggled under and gave Jack an expectant look. He smiled and sat next to her and she spread the blanket over both of them and curled her legs under her and snuggled close to his side.

"You know the heat is on in here" Jack said giving her a cute smile.

"Jack I'm from Vegas, you know that place near the desert. It is frappen freezing outside and the cold just doesn't seem to leave you. I swear if this keeps up our baby is going to come out with a pair of ear muffs on." Kate said trying to get warm from the bitter cold outside. The temperature outside was below zero is that even considered livable conditions she thought to herself.

Jack laughed, "Just wait, in July it will be a hundred degrees out and with the humidity it will feel like it's a hundred and fifteen. And we don't have that nifty dry heat you desert people have nope it will be like living in a sauna." Kate made a face having a feeling Spring and Fall were going to be her favorite seasons.

"So" Kate said feeling warmer but felt no need to move away from Jack, "I guess its time for the talk huh?"

Jack chuckled at her tone and he couldn't help teasing her, "Yes Kate it is that time, you see Kate when a man and a woman feel very strongly for each other, they want to show how they feel in a very specific way." He stopped when Kate smacked him on the arm.

"Oh I think you can skip that talk Jack. It won't do me any good anyway." She said rolling her eyes but gently rubbing her stomach.

"Ok well I guess we decided that you would be moving here." Jack said picking up her hand and rubbing it gently. "I think we've also decided we are a couple" he said.

Kate looked at him thoughtfully. "I guess we are aren't we?" she said with a small smile.

Jack smiled back at her, "It's funny a day hasn't passed since then that I haven't thought of you."

"Me too" Kate said her eyes growing soft as she looked at him. Jack wanted to ask why she left but decided that could come at the end of the discussion

"I know you wanted to look for your own place but I can't help think it would be best if you just moved in with me. I have all this room; we can turn the

guest bedroom into a nursery, paint it and everything. This is a good building and the people are nice and I think we could finagle free babysitting from Rose whenever we need. We're close to the downtown area and you also get a built in doctor whenever you need one." He said gently touching her stomach. "So what do you think of that?" he asked nervously.

Kate chewed on her lip, she had figured she'd need a place to say, she never imagined she'd end up in Jack's place with him asking her to move in. She liked the idea of being so close to Jack and it was a nice building. It wouldn't be too constricting to stay with Jack. It beat the constricting pain she felt when she had to leave him behind those some four months ago.

"I think I'd like that" Kate said with a shy smile and Jack grinned and kissed the top of her head.

"Well I guess we'll have to go out to Vegas and get your things. I have a lot of vacation time owed me so I could get off work." Jack said figuring things out in his head.

Kate shook her head, "I really don't need to go back, I traveled with all my important possessions. I could have my friend Shannon just box up the rest of my things and ship them out to me. I don't have a contract on my apartment I just pay month to month so I can just let him know I'm moving. Plus I need to ship some things back to Shannon." Kate said blushing slightly embarrassed.

"What things?" Jack asked.

"Well the winter jacket and a couple of sweaters. Her family lives in Colorado so she had cold weather clothes for me to borrow when I cam out here. I wasn't really expecting for things to happen so quickly, or for me to actually stay out here." Kate said playing with the fringe of the blanket. She was embarrassed by the fact she didn't even own a winter jacket.

Jack sensed her embarrassment and tried to smooth things over. "Well that's good, I'd hate for you to have bought things that over the next few month will have to be replaced by your growing tummy." He said affectionately. Kate looked up at him with a small smile, she had never really thought of that and it made sense.

"Maybe you can help me find a bank and I can transfer my account here too." Kate said. She started thinking of how much money she had and what she was going to be spending on wardrobe se chewed her lip nervously she was going to have to find a job.

Jack could see the wheels turning in Kate's head and he sighed, he was really dreading this part of the conversation.

"Ok so I need to talk to you about something but you have to promise to hear me completely out before you get angry with me or ignore me." Jack said and Kate shot him a strange look.

"Um ok" she said wondering what it was that he was going to say.

"I don't want you to worry about money." He held his hand up as if knowing she would argue with him. "Just listen please and then you can say whatever you want. I know you want to support yourself and I'm completely behind you on that. It's important to me as well that you can care for yourself and the baby in case something was to happen to me. I respect your independence. However, right now you're moving to a new city and you're not working. There are things you are going to need, like maternity clothes and such. I'm asking you to allow me to buy those things for you, because those things are also for my baby as well, like a winter jacket. Now if you want to find a job I will support you a hundred percent however I'm asking until the baby is born that maybe you find a job that isn't too physical straining or stressful. I don't see any reason to put you or the baby in risk when there is no need to. Now after the baby is here and you want to work somewhere else that's fine. I'm just asking for the remaining months for you to take it easy. I know it doesn't look like it by my décor but I do have money Kate, and it's just sitting there not being used. I want you to use that money for you and the baby. It's also my right as the father to support this child and I plan on doing that. The nursery, baby clothes, diapers all of that I want to help pay for those things. I also want to look into my medical plan and see if I can get you and the baby on my insurance. I'll also help you find an OBGYN as well if your doctor back in Vegas doesn't know of anyone." Jack said watching Kate for her reaction.

Kate took a deep breath in actuality Jack's argument made a lot of sense and she almost hated that she couldn't argue with him. It also made her feel giddy that he knew her well enough and respect her enough to compromise with her.

"Ok" she said thinking. "I will agree to your terms but you have to agree to mine. I know you want to do all of this and I appreciate it, I can't even begin to explain to you how relieved and stunned I am at that all of this is happening the way it is. I do want that paternity test. Part of my stress is coming from worry about all the remarks and looks and rumors you are going to have to deal with. If you want to support this child then I want to have proof for you." Kate said.

Jack realized this would be something Kate wanted. "Ok I understand you feel the need to do this, but I don't want you to do it for me. If you need to do it for yourself than that's fine but don't do this test for me Kate. I believe you and I believe this is my child. If you were lying you wouldn't be so set on doing this. Now I'm willing to wait until the baby is born and we can do a paternity test then. It would be just a simple blood test. The test they do while you're pregnant involves sticking a very large needle in your belly and extracting DNA that way. It can be very dangerous."

Kate sat up deep in thought and looked at Jack slightly stunned. "Jack, my family has a history of MS when I first went in they did a test similar to that and everything was ok. If they kept the result can we test that?" When they told her of the procedure she had been so nervous she really didn't pay attention to the name of it, she wasn't sure how they did the paternity test but if its already been done than she could finally have her proof for Jack and all the Anas in the world.

Jack looked at her still trying to contemplate what she was saying. "They ran an Amnio on you? Everything was ok?" he was more worried about that then the paternity test.

"Yes, everything's fine, but jack can we use it." Kate asked grabbing his arm.

"Well yeah if they ran all the tests including paternity I can have my own DNA run and they can compare the results." Jack said thoughtfully.

"Can we find out? Can we call and find out if they did?" Kate was like a kid at Christmas. Jack looked at her slightly amused.

"I guess so." He watched as Kate jumped up and grabbed her purse, she dug around and pulled out an address book. She opened it at handed it to him.

"That's my doctor's number we can call her right now." Kate said.

Jack chuckled at her enthusiasm. "Kate it's not so easy."

"Why not? You're a doctor I can call and ask and we can get your blood tested and they can send us the results." Kate said.

Jack looked at her and realized how lucky he was to have this woman in his life. He reached out and gently clasped his hand on the back of her head and drew her to him and he kissed her deeply. Kate whimpered and returned the kiss hungrily as he tasted her mouth with his tongue. Kate scooted closer and they broke away to catch their breath.

"Wow" Kate said trying to calm herself.

Jack smiled, "You are truly amazing you know that right?"

Kate smiled, and brushed her lips across his gently, "Can we call?"

Jack laughed at her stubbornness, "Yes, we can call."

Kate squealed and reached for the phone and began to dial. She scooted close to Jack and took his hand in hers. After a few minutes she asked to speak to her doctor and was put on hold.

"Dr. Reynolds? This is Kate Austen. I'm good thank you, actually I was calling about a couple things, first I'm actually sitting here with the father of the baby. Yeah I found him, I'm actually planning on moving out here to be with him so I was wondering if you knew of any good doctors in Chicago I could go to. Really that would be great let me give you the phone number you can reach me." Kate gave the doctor Jack's phone number. "I also had another question, when you ran that test to check for the MS did you run a DNA test as well? You did, really ok is there anyway you can send that information to Jack's hospital, here let me put him on the phone." Kate handed Jack the phone and he discussed the test results with the doctor and Kate didn't quite understand the conversation. Then he gave her the hospital's information and hung up. He then quickly dialed another number.

"Hey Mike its Jack, I need a favor, I have some test results coming in from Las Vegas General and I need you to run them against my DNA sample that I donated a couple months ago. Right, yeah she's going to fax the information now so you should be getting it soon. Ok yeah thanks ok." He hung up and looked at Kate who was watching him. "Ok he's going to look over the results and get back to me, maybe even by tonight."

"You have a DNA sample on file?" Kate asked and Jack chuckled.

"Don't panic its nothing shady, we were doing a DNA simulation and I volunteered. My blood isn't there but the charts and graphs are." Jack said. "The longest part of DNA testing is the actual analysis. Since we've both already done that they just have to read the results and get back to me. Normally it's more formal but Mike and I go way back so he's doing it as a favor for me."

Kate grinned, "So we've decided I'm moving in with you and you are going to help pay for a lot. What else do we need to discuss?" Kate asked leaning forward and gently brushing her lips across his neck. Jack smiled and pulled away.

"Well we have a lot settled but there is still things we should no about each other." He said with a smirk.

Kate surprised him by quickly crawling into his lap, straddling him. "My full name is Katherine Elizabeth Austen, I'm 28 I grew up in Nevada, I work in Vegas, I'm a vegetarian but I have agreed to eat meat so the baby can get proper proteins. I'm an only child and both my parents are gone. My dad left when I was born and my mom passed away when I was 19. I love chocolate and my favorite color is green. You are a spinal surgeon, you live in Chicago. You don't drink a lot and you from your orders in Vegas you love Italian food. You were once married to a shrew named Sarah but by the luck of the draw you managed to escape her. You're parents don't deserve you and you have a lot of really nice friends." Jack gave her a slightly stunned look as she went on her tirade. Kate rolled her eyes, "Jack we know everything about each other that we need to know. Everything else we can learn along the way. So now take me to bed." Kate said and she hungrily took his mouth with hers.

Jack returned the kiss stroking her back running his fingers up the back of her shirt. Kate was stroking his tongue with her own and she was pressing against him to be tighter. He stood to his feet keeping Kate with him and she instinctively wrapped her legs around his waist. She moaned excitedly as Jack began to bring her to the bedroom. She pressed her pelvis against his and ran her hands through his hair. They broke from the kiss to breathe but quickly crushed their mouths against each others again. Jack broke away and buried his face into her neck licking and nibbling at the sensitive skin. They hadn't moved from their spot and Kate whimpered.

"Forget the bedroom Jack; here just love me on the couch." She begged. Jack turned her and laid her on the couch and followed as she wrapped herself around him cradling him with her legs and arms.

Kate frantically tore at his shirt as he placed heated kisses on her neck and by her ear. Frustrated she let out a moan and Jack sensed her agitation so he quickly ripped off his shirt for her. He then pulled hers over her head and she attacked his jeans. She unbuttoned them and pulled the zipper down and was just about to slip her hand inside when the phone rang.

Jack let out a curse that made Kate giggle then she looked at him, "Could it be Mike?'

Jack quickly snatched the phone and answered as he stayed on top of her and Kate gently caressed his chest.

"Hey Mike" and Kate looked up quickly. "I'm going to put you on speaker hold on a second." Jack hit a button. "Ok go ahead."

"Well I gotta tell you this was the easiest analysis I've ever had to do; I just basically had to hold two scans up next to each other." Mike said with a chuckle. Jack leaned down and brushed Kate's lips with his own neither could wait much longer for the results. "Well Jack all I gotta say is congratulations you're a father." Mike said with a smile in his voice. Kate was so thrilled she hugged him close pulling him down to her.

"Thanks Mike" Jack called as he hit the end button on the phone. He then found himself being kissed senseless by Kate.

"I told you" Jack said with a smirk and Kate giggled.

"I just wanted you to know for sure." She said feeling so full of emotion. Jack stroked her check gently. "Where were we?" she gasped as Jack kissed her shoulder. She pushed his jeans down with her legs and he kicked them off. He unbuttoned Kate's pants and pulled them down. While he was doing that Kate quickly stripped her bra off and Jack reached up and pulled her panties down so she was completely naked. Jack looked at her naked body and his eyes fell to her slightly bulging tummy. He gave her a sweet smile and placed gentle kisses along her stomach. Kate felt her eyes fill with tears as he paid her stomach such soft attention. She wanted him right then more than she had ever wanted anything in her life.

"Jack, now" she said and Jack moved up her body as he quickly stripped off his boxers. He kissed her sensually and Kate lifted her legs higher around his waist and waited for him to claim her. He gently gripped her thighs and was about to enter her when the lights went out and they were plunged into darkness.

Ok so please read and review and I know the DNA thing was all so convenient but that's the joy of the fanfic world, I can make things just happen when I want to.