YOU GUYS! It's OVER! ALL DONE! GONE! FIN! FINETO! (Breaks down crying)
Ethan: Aww its okay Shiggity we'll all chip in and buy you a new story…
Sayid: I believe he has taken over Boone's spot of stupidity
Shannon:……B…b…Boone? WAHHHHHHHHHH
Sayid: (monotonously) there, there
Jack: I'm sure Boone is happy wherever he is…
Boone: (Standing on a rock in the middle of a magma field with pillars of fire shooting up by him) Where am I? Hey is this San Francisco?
Locke: No Boone this is hell…
Boone: Hell? Then what are you doing here?
Locke: I'm actually the devil…
Boone: I KNEW there was something not right about you!
Locke: Yeah well…you know
Boone: Wait why am I here? I've never stolen anything, or killed someone…
Locke: This is what incest buys you

Another

Chapter 23

The Greatest Gift

Kate huffed as she crossed her arms under the thin, sterile hospital bed sheet. She'd been awake for over six hours now, and they refused to tell her where Jack was. Anytime she asked a nurse who came in to offer her food, she'd just hold a forced smile and leave Kate in the room with only mechanical devices as companions.

Another nurse now ventured into the room, she picked up her chart and examined it thoroughly, then checked the room clock, then her watch. Kate watched uneasily from her bed as the nurse shook her head, in the last day she'd been poked and dissected in every which way. She just wanted to go home, with Jack and eat that meatloaf she'd been cooking, but every inch of her being knew it wasn't going to be that simple.

"Where's Jack?" Kate asked, her voice holding a certain edge to it. The nurse looked up at her and gave her another synthetic smirk, and that set her off, "No," Kate shook her head, "Why won't any of you answer me?" She asked staring at the medical official with glassed eyes.

When no answer came, something inside Kate snapped, "Fine," she whispered simple, she turned in the bed and flung her feet over the side.

"Miss," the nurse warned, "You can't get out of bed yet, you're throats swelling and you wouldn't be able to make it five feet without collapsing."

Kate ignored the nurse caveats and pushed her exhausted body to get out of bed, "You won't tell me where Jack is," Kate grunted as she pressured herself to stand without wobbling.

"Miss, sit back down or I'll have to sedate you," the nurse threatened as she put the chart back and stood up, ready to pounce.

"I just want to know where Jack Sheppard is," Kate enlightened, "He was brought in with me, he had a bullet wound to the chest, he works at this hospital for God's sake!"

"Miss, settle down, it's not good to over exasperate yourself in your condition," she informed as she held her hand up in a surrendering position.

"Just tell me where Jack is," Kate cried as she began to sway on her feet again. She met the nurse's eyes and could tell that the answer was not one she would want to hear, "no," Kate shook her eyes tears came to her eyes.

"Miss," the nurse sympathized as she approached, and reached for Kate's arm "I…"

"No!" Kate yelled as she ripped away her arm and collapsed on the ground beside the bed. She shot out her hands to cushion her landing.

"Miss, he came in with a bullet wound to the chest," Then nurse explained as she crouched down to Kate's level.

"No," Kate shook her head again, tears drenching the floor, making the risen tiles look like crystal in the light of the room.

"He went directly into surgery, but the injury was too severe and he died on the operating table," she explained desolately.

"No," Kate argued, "Jack wouldn't die because of a measly bullet wound, he's stronger then that."

"Sweetie," the nurse stressed, "He was only human, the bullet perforated a lung and the doctors tried, but they couldn't save him."

"No," Kate whispered morosely.

"Look, if you get back into bed, in a few minutes I'll take you down to the morgue and you can seem him one last time," the nurse promised.


This was all a nightmare, all some lurid dream of her subconscious come to life because of the drugs they kept pumping into her, she wasn't being wheeled down a long disgustingly white hallway that reflected the glow from the industrial sized lights that hung above them.

It was nauseatingly empty and only the weak noise of the nurse's shoes tapping the ground could be heard. Kate had explained she could walk, but the only way the nurse would let her see Jack was in the chair. Suddenly this chair reminded her of an electric one and the hospital, some elaborate jail.

It was incrementally becoming colder in down the hallway until the nurse stopped outside a large metallic door; it reminded Kate some a bank vault. The nurse paused for a moment before opening it, "I'm going to stand out here, if you need anything just call," she explained as she stood at the door and allowed Kate to enter the icy room.

Kate slowly walked into the intimidating room, her warm, bare feet leaving slight marks across the almost clanging ground. Ahead of her, she saw single steel table that sat beneath a long hanging light, the kind found in diners and pool halls.

Her breathe hitched in her throat when she saw who was lying on the table covered by another sterile sheet. His eyes were closed and his skin was alarmingly ash in color.

Kate carefully walked over to him, his eyes were sunken, and there were dark bags underneath them that hadn't been there before, "Oh Jack," Kate whispered with tears in her eyes. She lovingly put her hand on his face and was shocked by how cold it was, he was always the warm one.

"Oh Jack," she sobbed as she leaned over and sobbed against his soulless body, her tears soaking his lifeless, pale skin. Kate had stumbled upon the fact that many philosophers had argued about for centuries, she now knew first hand that history does repeat itself, she had once again killed the man she loved.

She knew however that this time, it would be different, she could feel it. She knew what the nurses knew, and what the doctors knew. She had found out a few days earlier before Anthony had come back for revenge. She was going to break it to him over dinner, but that chance never came, and now never will.

She gripped his cold, inert hand within one of her hands, while the other involuntarily wrapped protectively around her stomach. Jack would never know or meet his child, but she'd be dammed if she forgot about him.

In his lifetime and his sacrifice he'd given so much to her, shelter, food, friendship, respect, love, security, a fresh start without any questions, but this baby, this was the greatest gift, every time she looked or thought of it, she'd remember Jack and all his gifts.

She wept over him for sometime, a piece of her had broken off, a fraction of her died, and she knew that she could never genuinely love another man as much as she loved Jack, not another.

The End


Shiggity: WAHHHHH
Shannon: WAHHHHHH
Claire's Baby: WAHHHHH
Ethan: I know! Let's have a Dance Routine, I've been watching Retro Boogie Dance-a-thon all night!
Shiggity: (wipes tears from eyes) why would that make this better?
Ethan: Could it make it worse?
Everyone: YES!
Ethan: TO BAD! ON YOUR FEET! SLAVISH!
Jack: Kate did you build the background
Kate: think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts…
(Everything goes black, then stage lights come on and all the cast (save for Boone and Locke) are turned around…and somehow Jade has been mixed into it as well…)
Shiggity: What the?
(Guitar strikes chord)
Ethan: (turns around) It's astounding
Jack: (turns around) Time is fleeting
Claire: (turns around) But listen closely
Kate: (turns around) not for very much longer
Sayid: (turns around) I've got to keep control
Charlie: (turns around) I remember doing the time warp!
Shannon: (turns around) Drinking those moments when
Sun: (turns around) The blackness would hit me and the void would be calling
Everyone: Let's do the time warp again! Let's do the time warp again!
Ethan: It's just a jump to the left
(everyone jumps to the left)
Jack: And then a step to the right
(Everyone takes a step to the right except Charlie who takes a jump to the left)
Claire: With your hands on your hips
(everyone places their hands on their hips)
Kate: And bring your knees in tight!
(Everyone brings there knees in tight)
Ethan: And your left hand on blue!
(Everyone glares)
Ethan: I mean it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you in-sa-a-a-ain
Jack: This is rated PG13 remember, are we really allowed to be doing this I mean…SUN!
Sun: (stops from pelvic thrashing) what?
Everyone: Let's go the time warp again! Let's do the time warp again!
Ethan: In my way back machine…
(everyone glares)
Ethan: Stop looking into my soul!
Shiggity: Just so you know I don't own the time warp, and That had to be trimmed down from like a NC-17 rating tee hee PS People thrust your own hips people!

FanOfLost
Aww well I didn't make both of them die, and just so you know this was supposed to be the original ending so I expect some thanks for coming up with an especially fluffy one for you guys. And I'll tell you the story line in the last authors note

Lara Chubb of Deephollow
Lol yep, he has four pairs of sandals and he changes them between the period breaks, every. DAY! And then asks which ones look best and me and my friend just go "Holy S--- they're sandals!" and he's like "Accessorizing it the key to getting far in life…"

CrAzYhOrSeGiRl88
I hope the sad ending did justice as well, and I know it took me awhile to write, but I think it was worth it.

OctoberSky
Hey, the hospital in my city is that easy to get around in, no one's ever on duty, lol I know people who take stuff from our hospital all the time, and I did a work program there and like crashed everything. I got to drive a gurney and a drunken man called me sexy.

FluteMarcher
Hmm that idea does sound interesting, perhaps as a oneshot later on when I'm so totally mindscrewed that I just need to take a break. I'm glad you're interested in POG and I promise more updates once I get the next story on its feet metaphorically speaking.

Pink Pinker
I killed your Jack, I'm sorry, but you can share my Jack
Jack: I never agreed to
Ethan: I wanna be shared
Jack: NO ME!
Ethan: NO ME
(sigh) they get so jealous so easy

Diveprincess
Aww thanks for the favorites add, makes me feel loved! The spinoff is definitely happy and farfetched, and different. And totally JK, but it takes it so slowly…

Standard Black
Lol Eww Jell-O? I can't even look at the stuff (Sorry) it just reminds me of gross stuff and it tastes like plastic. I've never really had any before because once I try a teensy bit I get sick. Lol but of course there's always room for Jell-O…in my garbage can… But I get what you're saying (And I hope you don't think this was angry because I'm not just certain things (many certain things) make me sick, is all)
PS THANK YOU FOR UPDATING! I loved it (even though I didn't review (sorry but I got swamped with homework all week) But I really want to read more!

Gowland
Pssh, sorry but the point of it being a sad ending, was after all it having something sad in it, but I promise I'll make it up to you with tons of Jack/Kate fluff in the future

JasmineHR
Well I know you don't like sad endings, and I'm pretty sure no one does
Ethan: I do
You eat Vicks on toast you don't count
Ethan: touché
But I hoped it at least made up for it in the post-death fluff

AliasDoll
So could you handle it? Lol I hope I didn't make you use that much Kleenix
Ethan: I told you that people like me
I like you
Ethan: You don't count, you eat whipped cream on almost everything
touché

jackluver928
Tsk Tsk, don't you know that death goes in order by sexiness?
Ethan: I'm last! Whoo hoo
I'm first because I'm the sexiest of them all
Locke: (returns from hell) Oh I think not young one…
Ethan: Why do I sense a Mortal Kombat fight coming?

Orlando-crazy
Thanks and I hope you liked this chappie too, and make sure you check out the next story, whenever I pump it out…

Whirlwind-2005
Anthony did get shot by Gio who came up because the fire alarm was going off.
What bag idea?
Lol I can't wait for my next story either because I'm so proud of it, if it were a trophy I'd invite people over to my hose and be like "Yeah you see that, ya" lol

Rain1657
Good news I took out Eleanor because that would've made it actually suicidally sad. My original plan was to have Kate go back to her room after the morgue and Eleanor walk by and just go off on a bitchfest tangent explaining how Kate got what she wanted, which is jack's money, seems he left everything to her because he secretly knew. But then I axed that idea because it was getting into some dirty birds.

Lostobsessivefreak
Well school work comes first of course. Not like me, I still have to write that damn George Washington introduction speech to the constitutional assembly. Gah I still don't understand why I get all the hard parts (throws tantrum) all right I'm better now, and I totally can't wait for my story! Stinkbutt!


YOU GUYS! It's over!
Ethan: GROUP HUGE!
(Everyone group hugs)
Kate: Alright who had onions for lunch?
Ethan: Hey onions are a delicacy in Canada
Kate: No beer and Canadian bacon are
Ethan & Shiggity: Shut up
Kate: you know I'm right
Shiggity: yeah, yeah
Ethan: Who wants one of those Burger King Canadian Whooper things!
Kate: I do
Shiggity: Me, ME!
Ethan: Let's go, Shiggity can drive
Shiggity: I thought you wanted to go to Burger King no the hospital
Kate: Will go there later and steal stuff
Shiggity: Sweet, Night Y'all!


Next STORY!

My next tale of extravagance and epic quest of nobility is entitled "Just Incase" and it is a COMPLETE rewritten Lost. I'm going to take every episode of Lost and change them completely to include the spin off from 'Another'. So each chapter will be pretty darn long, and it will be never ending (well until the summer when there's no more episodes and I can't write anymore).
Anyway the plot is, Leo's last words to Kate were "Just incase," referring to if she became pregnant with his baby. Well, people I bring you that question answered. It will answer the incredibly over-asked question: What if Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on the island with Kate and her 5 month old baby!
Ethan: And the other question: What stupid name will Shiggity name the baby now?
(Shiggity bitchslaps Ethan)
Shiggity: You're in it fool
Anywho it's all KATE centric, so no other flashbacks except hers will be included, and from fluffy beginning to fluffy end it's totally Jack/Kate all the way
See you guys there!