Yawning, four weary travelers pulled into the hospital car park. Seann gently unstrapped Aaron, careful not to wake the dozing infant and passed him to Kate.
"Shall we go and alert the mother ?" Chloe smiled.
"Sure why not ?" Jack laughed and they walked up the step's, taking two at a time and practically going 50 miles an hour to get to the room Claire was in. What they saw shocked them.
"Where the hell is Claire ?" asked Kate and Sawyer, Shannon and Sayid looked up. Sawyer's eye's lit up at the sight of the baby and he rushed to take it from Kate's arms.
"Hey son," he said gently and the baby whimpered in his sleep.
"Okay let me rephrase Kate's question shall I ? Where the hell on earth is Claire ?" Chloe practically yelled but restrained herself on account of the baby.
"Claire's gone," Sayid said and their jaws hit the floor.
"What ? How ? What ?" Jack said, collapsing on a chair.
"She took off in the night. She's gone," Shannon whispered. They sent a glance at Sawyer and the baby. Sawyer was in tear's as he looked at the baby in his arm's.
"I'm gonna take care of him," he said confidently, not letting his voice shake from the emotions running through him.
"We'll help you man," Jack said.
"Of course we will," Kate said quietly, sitting on the bed.
"Every step of the way," Chloe smiled, although tears threatened to spill from all of their eye's
"She told me she loved me," Sawyer whispered, and his shoulders shook from the silent sobs racking his body. They all fell into the deafening silence that had threatened to overtake them and they stared anywhere except Sawyer and the baby.
Two day's later and thing were going from bad to worse. Shannon still hadn't gone to the police and Sayid was still clueless. Since everyone was living with Jack and Kate they never had a moment's peace, especially now with a baby. Sawyer had no idea when it came to children and most of it was done by either Shannon, Kate or Chloe. Everyone was tired because the baby woke them up at least three times a night. There was still no sign of Claire and worse was that journalists had not stopped hounding them since they got back. Every day they got more than five calls asking about Claire and Aaron.
Jack and Kate collapsed wearily into bed that night, too tired to even sleep. " I didn't think caring for a baby would be this hard," Kate said.
"I know," Jack replied, pushing himself up from the bed. He pulled his t-shirt over his head revealing his muscular chest. His belt was next to go and then his pant's, leaving him in just his boxers. Kate licked her lips at the sight of him practically naked and sat up.
"Jack ?" she said, lust filling her voice.
"Mmm ?" Jack said turning to her.
"We haven't made love in like four day's and I'm getting kinda frustrated, if you know what I mean," she winked at him.
"Miss Austin are you trying to get me into bed ?" Jack teased her.
"Mmm let me see, yes," Kate giggled and wrapped her arm around his neck, pulling him down on top of her. Jack's lips grazed hers and his tongue pushed into her mouth, causing her to go up in flames. Kate arched her body into his, pushing her pelvis against his hardening erection.
"God Kate you drive me crazy," Jack moaned in between kisses. His tongue slid over her neck and down to the top of her bra.
"It kills me when your not inside me," Kate moaned and Jack grinned wickedly, expertly unhooking her bra and sliding it off her arms. Jack rolled her already hard nipples in between his forefinger and thumb and Kate jerked under him. "Jack !" she whimpered, rubbing against him.
"What do you want Kate ?" Jack asked.
"You inside me now," Kate gasped. Jack just smirked at her request, continuing to kiss her neck and shoulders. His hands slid to her thighs and he pushed her black panties down, flinging them along with his boxers in a heap with the rest of his clothes. Jack knealt between her leg's, running his hand over her thigh's to tease her. Kate moaned impatiently and Jack's finger's found the cleft between her leg's, dipping into her wet heat. Kate moaned softly and her hip's bucked at the contact. Jack pushed two fingers inside of her and moved his thumb over the tender bud of flesh, sending a shock of pleasure through Kate's body. Kate whimpered as he added a third finger and pumped them inside her roughly. Kate gripped onto the sheets of the bed for something to hang onto as Jack brought her closer to the edge. Jack stroked her clit once more and Kate flew over the edge, crying out Jack's name and almost clawing holes in the sheets.
"I see you enjoyed that then ?" Jack said and Kate slowly opened her eye's.
"Cocky aren't you ?" Kate asked him and Jack once again grinned.
"Very cocky," he smirked, lazily stroking his hard member. Kate's eye's widened and she lightly smacked his chest.
"Well I must admit, you are incredably cocky when I come to think of it," Kate said, lust flashing through her eyes. She reached down and stroked along his shaft, rubbing her thumb over his head. Jack's eyes fell shut but he managed to restrain himself. He pushed Kate's hand away. "What's wrong ?" Kate asked.
"I wanna come inside you," Jack said and his eye's opened. He pulled Kate to him and she fell against his chest. Kate raised her head and looked at him. Jack's eye's locked with hers and he kissed her, at the same time sinking into her, inch by slow, torturous inch. Kate moaned into Jacks mouth and his tongue swirled around hers, as he slowly made love to her.
Kate broke the kiss and rested her head on his shoulder, savouring the feeling of him inside of her. Kate's hip's moved in time with Jack's and with every thrust Jack went inside of her deeper. Jack moved faster, feeling his release creeping up on him as Kate's was doing exactly the same on her. His mouth found her tender nipples and he suckled them into his mouth, gently nipping them with his teeth. Kate pressed into him as she came and she cried out his name. As Kate's muscles clenched around him, Jack came, pumping his release inside her. They fell onto the bed exhuasted.
"Wow, just wow," Jack grinned goofily.
"You big goofball. I love you, you know that ?" Kate smiled at him.
"I love you too," Jack said, kissing her again. Soon after they were asleep.
The next morning they all sat at the breakfast table, quietly eating their food, when Sawyer padded into the room, his shoulders dropped and his eyes averted to the floor.
"Hey Sawyer," Shannon said but no reply came. He had been depressed for the last two days and hadn't left the house. All he did was watch little Aaron.
"How you doin this mornin buddy ?" Seann asked and Sawyer looked at him. Seann imediatly closed his mouth.
"So Sawyer we were thinkin of maybe going to town today and picking up some thing's for Aaron," Kate smiled at him.
"Sure you guy's do what ya like. I'll stay here," Sawyer said, his voice rough from the endless sobbing that he had done over past few days. He grabbed some toast and walked out of the room and they exchanged worried glances.
"I still don't understand why Claire just took off though," Chloe sighed, poking at her cerial. "She seemed thrilled when she had Aaron."
"Maybe it was post natel depression," Jack suggested.
"You should be a doctor," Shannon said and Jack smiled softly.
"Yeah," he said softly and they all fell into silence once again.
A/N: Dun dan den den dun dun daaaaaaan. :Indiana Jones theme play's while I dodge objects being chucked: I know and I'm sorry about all the depression but my fic shall liven up again. But faithful veiwers I need your help. Should I or should I not bring Claire back ? Tis up to you. :A shoe flies and hits me in the face: WHO THROWS A SHOE ? HONESTLY PEOPLE. :Storms off:
