Beth95: I'm glad you like! Of course I'll keep going!

Dragon Blade5: Okay…I'm glad to finally meet someone who loves Jack/OC pairings as much as me. I don't know why but I love to experiment with them. I'm working on another story with a Jack/OC pairing that I'll start posting as soon as I'm done with this one!

Getting Along

Jane stepped into the caves and looked around. It was like nothing she's ever seen before. It was very alive. There were a lot of people inhabiting it if she did say so herself. She knew that there were over forty of them to begin with but a third of them had to be here other than the beech.

As she walked around, her water bottle in hand, she could see individual camps set up around a central fire. There was a woman and a man sitting together and they had a baby. She figured that was Claire and Charlie from what Locke had told her. There was the Korean woman Sun and her husband Jin. She had never spoken with them before. Not that she could speak to Jin at all.

The cave was big. Bigger than she had expected. Jack had a small hospital area set up for himself on the edge of the cave's opening. Inside of the cave there was a few camps set back further. She couldn't guess whom they belonged to. The cave went back so far that the light from outside couldn't reach the back. She doubted that anyone had ever thought to explore the depths of it anyway.

There was a small pond with a waterfall just as small off to the side of the cave. It was very quaint and Jane smiled. That was what she was looking for. She walked over and kneeled so that she could dip her water bottle into it. There were other people she didn't recognize getting water as well and that all to familiar feeling of awkwardness set in again. A few of them stared at her. She could only guess why. She was new and pregnant. She kind of drew attention to herself and she mentally cursed herself for going there in the first place.

"You had to come here didn't you. You couldn't wait till they brought the next batch of water bottles down to the beech. You know what they say Jane? Curiosity killed the cat!" She mumbled more to herself and looked up to see that now everyone getting water was staring at her. "Crap! Why did I do that? I know that talking to yourself freaks people out, so why do I do it." She sighed. "I'm doing it again."

Jane decided to rap up her water quest and get back to the beech as soon as possible. She decided the caves were not the place for her. She disturbed to many people.

Jane watched the others who were bent over the water's edge get up and leave and she twisted the cap on her bottle hastily proving she was angry with herself all while mumbling again.

She stood up and shook the water off of her hands and turned around to see Jack standing right behind her. She gasped quite loudly and threw her hands onto her chest to steady her heart as it jumped. She dropped her water, which in turn rolled into the water making a huge splash. Seeing that it was only Jack, Jane sighed in relief.

"Oh, you scared me! Do you always stand behind people like a stalker!" Jane breathed heavily and turned around to get her water. Jack beat her to it. He handed it to her. "Thank you."

"What are you doing here?"

"What does it look like? I'm making a fool of myself!" She said sarcastically, drying off her bottle on her shirt.

Jack chuckled at her. "If you wanted water I was just heading down to the beech for my afternoon rounds."

"Looks like I'm a little to early for you. I know I should have waited but Locke and me are building my shelter. And we ran out of water so I took it upon myself to replenish the stash."

"Well sounds like we're headed to the same place. Would you like company on the ways back down to the beech?" She looked at him and rolled her eyes.

"Sure." She smiled

000

They were quiet for the first few minutes. But Jack soon started up a conversation about 'life after island'. They talked about what they were going to do once they all got rescued.

"Well, I'll probably go back to work at the hospital. I'm wondering if they will even give me my job back if they know I'm alive. I have been gone for almost two months." He stopped. Jane turned around to see why. He had a dazed look to his face. "Two months. I can't believe it's been two months already. So much has happened in two months. Two months and no one has come for us." He started walking again and caught up with Jane.

The mood was too heavy for her again. She hated heavy moods. She had to say something to lighten Jack up. "It could be worse. You could have been here two YEARS!" Jack laughed. "Besides…they are probably looking for my plane now. And if I'm not mistaken it wasn't to far from here that I crashed and this place is pretty big…if they don't see it…" She was head of Jack again. She turned around and walked backwards so she could see him as she talked.

"I would turn back around if I were you." He smiled.

"Why? I'll have you know that I'm an expert at walking backwards. I do it all the time." She teased.

"Yeah, well, you don't do it all the time in a jungle with roots and shrubs that you could trip over. You are going to hurt yourself." He was suddenly very informative.

"You are such a doctor!" Jane smiled flirtatiously and turned around in the right direction.

"I am not!" Jack was shocked that she would say something so…true.

"Are too!" She turned back around and stopped in front of Jack; her feet planted firmly on the ground and her hands on her hips. "You are always thinking of the worst possible thing that could go wrong at any given moment. You always ask questions. AANND…" She was interrupted by a loud screech. Not a screech. Jane didn't know what it was. It didn't sound human! She looked at Jack who looked at her. Panic in his eyes.

"Run!" He took off down the man made path leading to the beech and grabbed Jane's hand so that she could keep up with him.

"Jack what is that! Why are we running!"

He let go of her hand and yelled behind to her, "Just run!"

She ran. He ran. They ran together. Both of them ran as fast as they could. Jane's legs burned. She hadn't been running since she found out about the baby. She used to run all the time. Sometimes for fun, mostly for health reasons, so she could stay fit.

Why did I ever quite running, she wondered to herself. The thing sounded again. That add an extra jump to Jane's step. She whizzed passed trees and low hanging vines. It was a wonder she could tell where she was going. Everything Jane saw was green. The only hope she had of getting out of the jungle without the misfortune of some sort of accident was the doctor up ahead of her. She had to keep up with him.

Jack was a ways in front of her and she yelled out to him. She could see the edge of the beech now. She sped up so that she could catch up with him. The ground shook as the thing behind them came closer. Jane's feet hit the sand and she saw Jack trip on a log right outside of the jungle's edge. He flew froward and caught himself on his hands. Jane staggered up to him and kneeled at his side. Both were breathing heavily and took a moment to calm themselves before they spoke.

Jane sat down next to Jack now. "What…was that thing?" She breathed. "Why were we running from it? Is it going to hurt us or something?" She looked at Jack for answers.

"Now look at who's asking questions!" He stood up and brushed himself off. The thing was gone, or at least he couldn't hear it anymore. He started walking towards the rest of camp with the water bottles half-sticking out of his backpack.

"Jack! I'm serious!" Jane was angry again. Why wouldn't he just tell her why they were afraid of whatever it was they were running from.

He turned around and looked at her very carefully. "It was the monster." He turned back around and took up walking again. Jane was stunned at confused all at the same time. They were no such things as monsters…were there? She took the opportunity to fall onto her back and sigh.

000

It was getting dark. Jane and Locke had finished her shelter. It was the most 'gilligan's isle' thing she had ever seen. Her 'house' didn't have anything metal on it like the others did. Locke had used four bamboo poles to hold up a roof made of palm leaves held together with his homemade glue. It wasn't a bad size either. It was only a lean-to but it would do the job of keeping the rain out. Jane smiled at Locke, as they looked at the finished product together.

"Not bad if I do say so myself." She rubbed the back of his head with a dirty hand.

"No. Not bad at all." She walked into it and spun around then sat down and looked up at her roof. It was just a little bit taller than she was so it was just a perfect for her. "Thank you so much for helping me! I could have never done this on my own." Locke smiled a toothless smile causing creases in his face to become more apparent. He nodded to her as a goodbye and walked away to get something to eat.

His presence was soon replaced by Jack's. "Hey you got it done." He rested a hand on one of the four bamboo poles. He smiled.

"Yep. I'm quite surprised myself. I thought it would take us much longer than this to put it together." She got up with little difficulty and walked passed him. "Are you going back to the caves tonight?" Jane stopped to hear his answer.

"Yeah…why?" Jack wondered why she would even ask that.

"It's just with that thing out there…why take a chance. Stay here for the night; be safe."

"I'm not going to get hurt." He was being a doctor again.

"How do know that? You can't say that. I'm surprised; this from the man who expects the worst out of everything."

He shook his head. "I just know. I've been here two months. I know what I can and can't do." He brushed passed her, headed for the trial back to the caves.

"Then, if you're so smart and know everything that's going on, would you care to explain to me what's going on." He stopped and faced her. "Jack, I'm clueless. Locke was talking about some French woman. And I don't what the monster is or what it can do. Something tells there's more to this island than meets the eye."

Jack looked at her; really looked at her. Her hair was tied back in a ponytail and seemed redder than he remembered it being, probably from the fire glow. She wasn't tall but she wasn't short, just average. She looked somewhat like Kate in his opinion. She had the same narrow face that Kate did and the curly hair framed her face. Only there was one major difference between Jane and Kate. Jane had a warmth that Kate didn't. He didn't know if it was the maternal factor playing in or just that Jane seemed more open than Kate did. The large red shirt she had on hid her small pregnant stomach and Jack couldn't help but smile and nod.

"Of course I'll tell you going on."

The couple sat in Jane's newly built hut eating a portion of fish Jin had caught earlier that morning while Jack explained everything. About how their first days on the island were the hardest, about how they found the caves, and the French woman-Danielle-and about everybody who had left them in the process of getting them home; including Boone.

A/N: Umm…I'm confusing myself now. Okay…this takes place after Boone's death and after Claire names the baby but the raft didn't take off. I'm to mad at the producers for the ending of the season finale. You know with the others taking Walt and Sawyer being shot and everything. I'm just going to pretend it didn't even happen. ;) R & R!