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Sawyer approached the girl. "What are you doing here?"

She made mention of getting up. "Hmm, can I?" Alex looked at Sawyer.

"Sure, you can get up." Sawyer lowered his weapon. Everyone else was quieter to see he knew her. Sayid, Locke and Jin returned to the lookout.

Alex ran to see how Karl was. He was fainted by the blow he had received from Sawyer. She put his head on his lap and Jack approached.

"I can see?" He bent down and tried to look at the bruise, but it was hard to see something in the dark. "It seems to be bleeding but it's not very serious, it'll be fine." Jack reassured Alex.

"So, what are you and your boyfriend doing so far from the village?"

"We're running away." Alex answered, stroking Karl's face, still fainted on the floor. "My father said he would stop torturing Karl, but he stopped for a day and then it all came back." She looked at Karl, he had just woken up. "It was impossible to stay there, I could not take another minute."

"And you had to come here soon?" Sawyer was disappointed. "Ben is already attacking us, if he knows his daughter is here he's going to throw us a bomb."

"I'm sorry, we did not want to cause any problems." She got up and tried to pull Karl to lift him too, but he still could not. "We did not even plan to stop here." She started to pull Karl to the opposite side of the camp.

"Hey, wait a minute." Jack called her. "He can not walk like that, where are you going?"

"We do not know." She was still struggling to keep Karl standing.

"You should stay with us at least tonight." Jack offered. He looked at Sawyer who shook his head. He thought they were Ben's target.

Alex looked at Karl. "Well, I guess he needs it, right?" She spoke shyly.

"Yes, he does." Jack stepped forward to help her with Karl. "They can stay in Kate's tent." He told Sawyer. "She's not using it." Jack kept looking at him, waiting for Sawyer to help them.

"It's all right." Sawyer relented. He came over and took Alex's place, resting Karl's other arm on his shoulder.

Jack and Sawyer took him to Kate's tent while the girl accompanied them, worried about her boyfriend.

They laid him down on the bed and Jack could see the wound on Karl's head better. It was nothing serious, he just needed to rest.

"Well, be comfortable, if you need anything, we'll be making the rounds." Jack warned Alex to leave the tent along with Sawyer.

"Hang on." She called them. "Why are you watching the camp?"

"Because your father sends someone here every night to kill someone as long as he does not have what he wants." Sawyer replied, as if it were something obvious.

"You mean Kate?" Alex asked.

Jack nodded.

"He will not attack them for three days, I heard this morning when he talked to Tom." The girl explained. "My dad wants you to think the attacks have stopped, so it will be much easier for them to take Kate to the lab."

"So we have three days of peace?" Sawyer celebrated.

"Three days to think of something very well planned." Jack corrected him. He turned to Alex. "Are you sure about that?"

"Yes, I do." She spoke very firmly.

Jack and Sawyer left the tent and left Alex and Karl alone but the doctor was still suspicious.

"I'm afraid it's one more of Ben's tricks." Jack sloshed as they walked away from the tent.

"Well, you put them at the camp in first place, Doc." Sawyer said the usual sarcastic way. "But I trust her, she and her boyfriend helped me and Kate when we escaped.

Jack was quieter at this. "I'll tell others that you can sleep then." His eyes looked away, where his friends were awake watching. "There's no need to waste energy ahead of time."

"I'll tell them." Sawyer offered and slapped Jack's shoulder lightly. He knew Jack needed rest.

"OK." Jack thanked him and smiled. He turned to go to his tent, was exhausted. This was the second night he had not slept. That was when she remembered the promise she had made to Kate. Jack turned and sneaked into Juliet's tent. She and Kate were already asleep, the brunette holding her hand tight. Kate stirred a little, as if she was dreaming.

Jack bent down beside her bed and tenderly placed a hand on her freckled face. She was a little warm. Feeling Jack's hand on her face, she gave an involuntary jump, probably something her mind had created inside the dream. He slid his hand down her cheek. "Shh, it's okay, it's me, baby. It's Jack."

He watched her slowly stop moving and opening his eyes. "I told you I'd come back, did not I?" He smiled to see she was waking up.

"It's already morning?" She asked in the sleepiest voice Jack had heard. "It looks so dark." Kate snuggled into the blanket.

"It's still dawn, baby." He kissed her cheek. "That's why I came here, to ask you if you want to go to sleep with me." He ran his hand through her hair.

"Your turn is over?" She asked, sleepy.

"It's over, Katie." He was looking at her with a smile.

Kate sat on the bed and put her arms around his neck, to hug him. As the brunette let go of Juliet's hand, she woke up, and her eyes opened with immense rapidity. It was as if she was ready to wake up if anyone tried to take Kate.

"It's okay, Juliet." Jack said as he took Kate in his arms and stood with her. "I'm taking her to my tent."

Juliet reassured herself that it was Jack who was there. "Oh ok." She rubbed her face with her hands to try to take some of the sleep she felt. "Take the blanket with her, it's cold, Jack."

Juliet got up and put the blanket that Kate used to sleep around the brunette. Juliet felt her temperature a little high. "Is it my impression or does she have a fever again?"

Jack put his hand on Kate's forehead. "Are you feeling all right, Katie?"

She nodded, her eyes already closed.

"She looks good." Jack answered.

"Yeah .." Juliet nodded, but not sure.

Jack returned with Kate to his own tent and laid her down. He lay down beside her, and how good it was to take his feet off the ground. Jack's pillar was killing him, and the pain in his feet as well.

He finally closed his eyes to sleep.

"Jack ..." He heard Kate call him.

"I'm here." He stroked her face. "Something wrong, baby?"

"My belly hurts." She complained.

Jack took a deep breath to get up, he was so tired, but he did not want her to be in pain. "Let me see that, Katie." He took the blanket off her, she had both hands clutching her belly.

He gently removed her hands and touched the area. "Is not that your period, Katie?"

She blushed, but shook her head. "It's not on the right day yet."

"That's weird," Jack said quietly to himself. "It's a little swollen." He lifted her shirt a little to be sure. "Is it really hurting, baby?" Jack lowered his T-shirt back.

"Enough to bother me." She turned sideways.

He stroked her back. "I can give you medicine to stop the pain."

She shook her head. "I think I can handle it."

"It's a very light medicine." He was still sitting next to her. "Are you sure?"

She nodded.

"OK then." Jack lay down and Kate lay on his chest. "If it gets worse you wake me up, okay, honey?"

"OK." She replied softly.

Jack kissed her head and it was not long until they fell asleep.


The sun was barely born and Jack woke with Kate screaming. They were screams of pain and she had her hands pressed on her belly.

"Katie?" He turned and saw her face in pain. "What happened? Is your tummy hurting?" He put his hand on her face. Kate squirmed in pain. The fever had gotten so bad.

She nodded, she could not speak.

"It's okay, I'm going to look at your belly to see what's going on, okay?" Jack pulled the blanket off of her to see the brunette's belly. Alex who heard shouts in the tent on the side of hers ran to see what was happening. "What happened to her?" Alex asked, startled.

Jack had not noticed Alex's presence there until now. "Please, ask Juliet to come here quickly. And fill that bottle with hot water. "Jack handed Alex an empty bottle.

Alex nodded but did not leave. Jack looked at her as he gave a pill to Kate. "Please Alex, fast."

She was scared and ran after Juliet, soon she found her leaving her tent, she had just woken up

"Alex, what are you doing here?" Juliet hugged the girl, who was panting.

"Jack is calling you, needs to be quick." She barely had time to answer Juliet's question. The blonde ran to Jack's tent while Alex ask Bernard to fill the bottle with the water he was boiling. She didn't even answered him when he asked her why she needed that. Alex run to the tent and saw that Juliet was startled. Kate was still screaming and crying in pain, she did not take her hands off her belly.

"What is it?" Juliet approached, trying to understand what had happened. "Is it not cramps?" She took the bottle from Alex's hands, Juliet snuggled Kate in her lap and placed it gently on Kate's belly. She thought it might ease the pain a bit.

"I have no idea, she had pain before bed and she woke up like this, but she said it is not cramps." Jack had looked at her belly and there was nothing abnormal, taking a small swelling.

Alex was still watching the scene and gave the bottle to Jack. "Did they give her anything?"

"Who, dear?" Juliet asked, not looking at the girl. She was more concerned about helping Jack.

"The doctors at Barracks' hospital." Alex was getting a little nervous that Juliet and Jack practically ignored her. She knew what she was talking about. "Did they give her any medicine?"

Jack finally turned and looked at Alex. "She just got an injection, but she needed to, she was sick .."

"An injection? God, you should not trust anyone there." Alex almost screamed. "This is not cramps."

"Honey, the medicine they gave her made her better, she had a fever and tiredness all the time." Juliet explained calmly, she did not agree with Alex. "Now she's fine, well,..." Juliet looked at Kate as she turned in pain. "...at least she was."

Alex approached Kate and placed a hand on her forehead. She shook her head. "It helps at the beginning...after a couple days they are not even sure about what can happen.. It's the same thing they gave the blonde girl pregnant."

"Claire?" Jack asked.

"Yes, Claire." Alex spoke very quickly. "I remember I needed to help her out of the medical station before they killed her and the baby of so many tests they did. They are inconsequential."

"Alex." Jack took a deep breath. "Do you know what they gave her?"

"I do not know, they're doing tests. Claire, it was because of the pregnancy." She turned her eyes to Kate "But Kate.. I have no idea why they were trying to do tests on her."

"How did Claire's body react?" Jack tried to remain calm, but it was difficult with Kate crying in pain in front of him. "Do you remember?"

"I remember she bleed, but I do not remember her having felt pain like this." Alex tried to force his memory but nothing came.

"Let's get Kate to the medical station. Right now." Juliet suggested. "It's abandoned, right Alex?"

"Yes, it is." The girl agreed.

"What difference does it take to get her there, Juliet?" Jack did not understand.

"It's a medical station, Jack." Juliet explained in her calm voice. "It has all the necessary equipment to us find out what they gave her."

Jack did not think that was a very good idea, but he hadn't a better one.

"Katie, we need to get you to a place to see the reason for this pain, okay?" Jack kissed her cheek. Kate still held the hot bottle in her belly, but she was almost unconscious by the intensity of the pain. She did not answer.

He wrapped her in the blanket and tried to leave her as comfortable as he could in her lap. He and Juliet walked a few miles with Kate until they finally arrived.

The station was really abandoned. There was nothing there, apparently. But Juliet knew where to find things. There were secret passages that only those who were part of the "Others" would know.

She entered a room, followed by Jack and Kate. There was a bed and an ultrasound. The doctor laid the brunette on the bed, but remained close to her. The pain did not seem to go away, even though now she seemed to be dealing with it better.

"Jack, can you let her belly show, please?" Juliet asked as she turned on the ultrasound machine.

He unlaced her from the blanket and lifted Kate's T-shirt. Juliet began to move the device through her belly. She screamed in pain as Juliet pressed the sore spot.

"I'm sorry, darling." Juliet felt so bad that she was causing Kate more pain. "It's about to end, okay?"

Jack hugged her, and kept his face close to hers so she could hear the soothing words he was telling her. She was unconscious now.

"Jack, look at this." Juliet drew his attention to the monitor. She moved the device a little more into Kate's belly. "Can you see this stain?"

"It's on her womb, right?" Jack looked closely.

"Yes, it looks hurt." Juliet pointed at the monitor. "Can you see that it is almost all parts thinner already?"

"That's the reason it's hurting so much." Jack concluded. "I'm pretty sure they have injected some hormone into her body."

"Why do you think that?" Juliet was confused. She put the ultrasound equipment down and lowered Kate's shirt. Her body was hot as fire.

"Because hormones make this." Everything made sense to him now. "At the time they still hoped she was pregnant. Or that she would stay.." Jack remembered what happened that day at the hospital with Danny. "But hopefully she is not. Her body is reacting but there's no baby in there, causing the uterus to soar uncontrollably." Jack sighed as he saw Kate suffering. "What causes pain is like having menstrual cramps but at a much greater intensity. I'm surprised she's not bleeding."

Juliet looked at Kate and kissed her head while still holding her. "But why did it take days to take effect?"

"Well, I don't know..it takes days for normal menstruation to appear after the ova mature." Jack explained. "I think it was the same process. They probably apply this hormone to pregnant women with the intention of protecting the baby, as they did with Claire."

"Claire did not get pregnant on the island." Juliet interrupted him.

"Maybe that's why they wanted her for testing." Jack replied firmly. "They want to know what to do so they can reproduce normally in here."

"Jack ..." Juliet called out. He was walking around the room. "What do you think makes Kate the only woman capable of getting pregnant and having the baby here on the island?"

Jack sighed. "I have no idea, Juliet, by the examinations we saw was the amount of her antibodies and by the thickness of the uterus but I'm not sure now." He sat down next to where she was with Kate. "This island is still a mystery to me in so many ways." He took Kate's hand. "There's something different inside her body. Something that I still can not understand."

"Yeah .." Juliet nodded. Even after three years she also did not know how well the island worked.


They were waiting for Kate to wake up to see if the pain was gone. Jack had checked all the cabinets and stored several different medicines in his backpack. The stock he had in his tent was running out.

Juliet was sitting next to where Kate was lying. As she stroked her brown curls, she tried to imagine what might have been different about Kate. She was tempted to try to find out, but she shook her head to get the idea away. She was no longer one of the Others.

A few minutes later Kate opened her eyes and looked around, trying to identify where she would be.

"Jack, she woke up." Juliet called the doctor who was still looking for things in the closet. Juliet smiled to her. "Hey Katie."

He turned and sat next to them. Jack slid his fingers down her cheek and smiled. "How are you feeling? Do you still have pain?"

"Yeah.." She tried to sit down but could not. The pain had subsided but it was still strong.

"Hey hey, calm down." Jack made her lie down comfortably on Juliet's lap again. "You need to rest."

"I wanna go home." She asked as a small tear slid from her right eye.

Jack sighed and looked at Juliet. He had already put everything he needed in his backpack, and if Kate wanted to get away, it was all right for them. "Ok baby come here." Jack took her in his arms and laid her head on his shoulder. "We're going to take you home." He kept a hand on her head to calm her.

""I think that will help." Juliet gently placed a bag of hot water inside Kate's T-shirt, on top of her belly, where the pain was.

All the way back Jack was thinking about in what the Others would be planning. At least they had two more days to prepare for whatever might come.

Upon reaching the beach again, Alex soon approached, this time with Karl on his side. "Have you figured out what it is?"

"Something in her womb." Juliet replied.

"But you were right, Alex ... it was them." Jack answered and kept walking. He wanted to let Kate lie down.

"I will not go back there, ever again." Alex spoke to Juliet and Karl. "They are evil."

"I know, my dear, I do not plan to go back either." Juliet hugged her. "But I doubt your father will let you stay here when he finds out."

Alex shook her head, she knew it was true. But she would refuse to return. Karl took her hand to comfort her.


Jack entered his tent with Kate, and Sayid was waiting for him there. He was sitting, holding a piece of wood, just to pass the time.

"Jack, I was expecting you." Sayid spoke looking at him. "We need to decide what to do."

"I know, Sayid ... I've been thinking about it all day" Jack sat with Kate still on her lap, she was burning in fever. "But I'm a little worried about Kate now."

"I heard she was in pain." Sayid could see Jack's concern for the way he looked at her.

"Yes, I wanted to spend time with her, to see if those pains will go away."

"OK." Sayid understood, but was visibly disappointed. "I hope you get better soon, Kate." He stroked her back before he left.

Jack knew they needed to figure out what to do when the Others attacked, but he could not think of so many things at once. What he wanted at that moment was to make sure Kate was feeling better. Only that. "You still feel pain, honey?"

She nodded.

"Soon you'll get better, okay?" Jack kissed her head and laid her on the bed.

"What's happening to me, Jack?" She asked in a tearful voice.

"Baby." He sat down to face her. "Your body is reacting to that injection the Others gave you, remember?"

"What did they have in the injection?" she asked.

"It was possibly the same thing they gave Claire." Jack stroked her face as he saw her expression changing. "Claire is fine, which means you're going to be fine too, sweetheart."

She still had more questions to ask, but gave up doing them. "I think you should go talk to Sayid, Jack."

"I'm not going to get away from you." Jack took her hand. "Not until you're all right, Katie." He knew that maybe that was not the right decision to make, but it was what he felt he should do right now.


The day was running out and people started to get worried. The night was always scary to them.

Sayid worried even more that they did not have a definite strategy. He was starting to get tired of waiting for Jack.