Chapter 14:

"Sawyer?"

"The one and only, Freckles."

"What the heck do you want?" asked Jack coming walking down the hallway to stand by Kate.

"Oh, I was just in the neighborhood," said Sawyer calmly. "Just thought I should stop by and say hey. It looks like you guys aren't that happy to see me."

"Maybe if you had come at a different time," said Kate still in her funeral outfit.

"Looks like you went to a funeral, who died?" asked Sawyer walking into the house without an invitation. He went over to the couch and sat down. He looked around at the pictures of Boone and Christian. "Who are they?"

"Those are my kids," said Kate proudly while trying to keep her emotions over Sayid's death under control. "And Sayid died."

"Your kids…. What!" said Sawyer suddenly, "Sayid's dead?"

"Yeah," said Jack coldly peering down at the man sitting comfortable on his couch. "In a car accident."

"Oh, I thought he would have died in some kind of suicide bombing," said Sawyer standing up, "That seems like his kind of thing."

Before Kate knew what she was doing she had walked over to Sawyer and with all her strength punched him in the face. Sawyer fell back onto the couch, passed out, his lip bleeding.

Kate looked down at the unconscious Sawyer; she could not believe what she had done. Jack walked over to her very amused by his wife and patted her on the back. He then walked over to Sawyer and put his legs up onto the couch and lifted his eyelids.

"He is definitely out cold," reported Jack walking back towards Kate. "He is going to have a real headache in the morning."

"Oh god my head" said a groggy Sawyer trying to sit up.

"Here," said Kate putting two aspirin into his hand and them handing him a glass of water.

"What happened?" asked Sawyer looking around the room to find it already morning.

"You got knocked out," said Kate simply. She stood up and went back across the room where Boone and Christian were playing in their playpen. She was wearing one of Jack's old shirts and an old pair of jeans. Her hair was back into a ponytail and the room around her was disorderly. She turned on the vacuum, but stopped quickly as Sawyer yelled.

"Damn it Freckles," said Sawyer, "My head! How did I pass out?"

"I thought you would never ask," said Kate giving him an innocent smile.

"You!" said Sawyer pointing a finger at her, "Knocked me out?"

"That's right," said Kate walking towards him until she was right next to him a whispered, "because you never insult my friends in front of me." She smiled again and then walked back over to the boys. "Whose hungry?"

Kate picked up each of the boys and took them into the kitchen, Sawyer following,rubbing his head.. He sat down at the table as Kate put each of the boys and put them into their highchairs. She sat in front of them opening a can of baby food and dipping a spoon into it. Sawyer noticed something on Kate's left hand…she had married Jack.

"You married him?" asked Sawyer.

"Yup, a couple of months ago."

"Why?"

"Because I love him, Sawyer."

"Why?"

"What are we doing, playing twenty questions?"

"Sure," said Sawyer.

"Fine," replied Kate feeding Boone smashed bananas, "You first."

"Okay, Can I get some food?" asked Sawyer.

"Sure, help yourself," replied Kate as Sawyer got up from the table and over to the refrigerator. "Why are you here?"

"Because I wanted to see you," replied Sawyer his head inside of the refrigerator.

"Oh," replied Kate trying not to sound to flattered. "Your turn."

"What are their names?" asked Sawyer coming out of the fridge with a carton of Chinese food.

"Boone and Christian," replied Kate looking lovingly at the boys, even though Christian had just spit bananas all over Kate's face. She took the sleeve of Jack's shirt and wiped it off.

"Nice," said Sawyer, "Why wasn't one names Sawyer?"

"Hey, it's my turn remember?" asked Kate.

"Not anymore," said Sawyer trying to tick her off, but Kate just laughed.

Just then Shannon walked into the room, dressed in her pajamas,despite the fact that it was already noon.

"What the hell?" she asked Kate pointing to Sawyer.

"I know," said Kate smiling at Shannon as she went over to the fridge, she looked inside and closed it spotting what she wanted across the table in Sawyer's hand. She grabbed a fork out of the drawer and walking over to Sawyer and taking the Chinese food away from him.

"Thank you," she said turning on her heel leaving the room.

Kate laughed even harder as Sawyer looked around dumb struck.

"Stupid, selfish…"

"Ah," said Kate interrupting him in mid-sentence, "Sawyer hand me the mashed peas."

She pointed to a can of green food in front of Sawyer, he looked at it with complete distaste.

"You are going to feed them that?" he asked.

"Yup," said Kate walking over to him and getting the jar herself. "It's good for them."

"Okay, what ever you say Mom," said Sawyer sarcastically.

"Why aren't you in jail?" she asked suddenly remembering the fact that Sawyer had killed a man.

"Convinced the court that I was framed," he said smugly, "They let me walk free."

"Ha," said Kate.

"And what about you?"

"I went free, I got off probation a week ago," said Kate wiping Boone's face them Christians. "Are you guys full, yeah, you big boys?"

Sawyer rolled his eyes at her cooing.

"You know that they don't have a clue what the hell you are saying, right Freckles?"

"Yes, they do," said Kate shooting him a disgusted look. "It's your turn to ask a question."

"So, it's you Jack and Shannon leaving here right?" he asked looking around the kitchen.

"My dad is here, until his house is finished, which should be in a week," she replied.

"Okay," said Sawyer as Kate picked up Boone and put him in Sawyer's arms. "What the hell?" He picked up the baby and tried to give him back.

"No, you are going to burp him," said Kate smiling knowing how much this is torturing Sawyer.

"I ain't burping nothing," said Sawyer as Boone cooed at him.

"Put him over your shoulder," she instructed him and softly pat his back. She put Christian over her shoulder to show sawyer. He put Boone over his shoulder and softly patted his back. "Where did you go after we were rescued?"

"Home," said Sawyer still patting Boone's back. "To my parents house."

"Oh," said Kate knowing how it felt to go back home after a very long time.

"What color socks are your favorite?" asked Sawyer.

"What?" asked Kate trying not to laugh, "Kind of question is that?"

"Just answer it," said Sawyer smiling for the first time in awhile.

"White," said Kate as Christian burped softly. Her took him off her shoulder and walked him back into the family room. She placed him into the playpen where he began to play with a rattle. Sawyer followed Kate to discover that Boone had fallen asleep on his shoulder. "Awe, see, Sawyer, someone likes you."

Sawyer laughed as Kate took the baby and placed him next to his brother. Kate went over to the empty bookshelf and dusted the top shelf.

"So where is Jack-O?" asked Sawyer looking around the room and spotting Kate and Jack's wedding pictures.

"Work," said Kate simply. "Can you hand me some books?"

"Sure, thing," said Sawyer picking up a couple books, but instead of handing the books to Kate he reached under her and put them onto the shelf his hand brushing up against her breast.

"Sawyer," said Kate knowing that the contact was not on accident. "I'm married, don't even try anything with me."

Sawyer smiled again handing her a book.

"No worries, Freckles, there are plenty of girls back home who want a piece of this."

"Oh really?" asked Kate, "Then why don't you go back home to one of them?"

"Ah, they'll always be there waiting," he said as Kate turned around to face him. Her body was close to his, she could smell the day-old clone, she could feel his breath on her face. He looked down at her…. right where he wanted her, he could see the freckles across her nose, her beautiful loving eyes...

Kate remembered kissing Sawyer under the tree on the island. He had been beaten and tourtured by Jack and Sayid. She had been so diappointed in Jack, kissing Sawyer seemed like a good way of getting back at him. She bent down infront of him, they pressed her lips of his and before she knew what she was doing she had opened her mouth inviting his tounge in...for a minute their tounge's danced, but suddenly Kate broke away. What had seen done? She looked down at Sawyer who finally admitted to not having Shannon's medicine. She hit him as hard as she could...that would be the last time she ever kissed him...Jack was the only person for her...Kissing Sawyer was only to get the medication nothing else...Jack was the only person she would ever love...

...he lent his head down to her, inviting her lips to meet his... Kate pushed him away.

"You need to leave," she said backing up from him. "This is not going to work…you staying here."

"I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me," replied Sawyer quickly.

"I think you do, Sawyer," replied Kate angrily, "and it is not going to work. I'm with Jack, Sawyer, you lose."

Before Sawyer could answer Shannon ran into the room and over to the television. She flipped it on, as Kate walked over to her.

"Shannon?" asked Kate, "What's wrong?"

"Look," replied Shannon softly pointing at the television screen.

Kate looked at the screen to see that Shannon turned on the news…there was a van on the screen that had been bashed in…police were removing two car seats…Kate recognized them…they were Boone's and Christian's…this was Jack's crash. Kate looked over at Christian and the cast that was covering his leg…she looked back at the screen to face the wreckage again. A woman's voice came over the sounds of the paramedics cutting the car doors loose.

"There have been recent reports that the deadly car crash last week on interstate 76, may have been intentional. There was on death in the accident…a Mr. Sayid Parra," the woman's voice said, "The car that hit them was owned by an acquaintance of Parra, that is the reason for the suspensions. The case will be further investigated, but for now, homicide is the charges facing the other driver."

Kate's heart sank…as Shannon began to cry…. Sayid may have been murdered….