Secrets She Won't Share, part 2

Jack sat across the campfire in the cave and watched Jane with David. She looked so sad, so tense, so…unhappy. He figured it was because he couldn't save her sister. He felt like he had let Jane down. When he told her she said it wasn't his fault and he knew she was right but he couldn't help but feel there was something he could have done.

"Could you hand me that water bottle?" David's voice was raspy and hoarse from days without water. They had moved him to the caves after they knew he was going to be okay. Jane looked to her side and found a water bottle half full and handed it to the man. "Thank you, angle." He took a long drink from it. She watched him closely.

He had tan skin and rough hands. He worked with his hands a lot and they were callused and dry. He had whiskers lining his face now making him look older than the twenty-four year old he was. He had on a gray T-shirt from Sawyer's supply and a pair of jeans. He leaned his head back against the cave wall.

"Come here." David gestured for her to lay down with him. She did what she was told after a moment of hesitation. She lay on his chest with his big hands on her little belly. "That's our baby in there." He stated proudly.

"I know." Jane spoke softly.

"I wonder what it is?" His hands rearranged themselves to a different position but still on her stomach. She tensed under his touch.

"I don't know what it is." She felt she had to say something.

"I hope it's a boy. You know. So I can teach him how to play baseball and hockey. We can watch football together. Won't that be fun?" She didn't answer him but he could feel her nod against his chest. "Oh, Janie. I remember when you told me you were pregnant."

There was a long silence before Jane spoke. "Me too."

David walked into the house that he and Jane were presently living in. The smell of a home cooked meal hit him like a wall. He smiled when he saw Jane in her little red dress that she only wore on special occasions. He went into the kitchen where she was stirring something on the stove. He wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her temple. She was wearing her good perfume too.

"What are you doing?" He asked seductively.

"What do you mean? Can't I make a nice meal for my guy?" She smiled a small smile.

"No, I mean, you're wearing your good dress and you smell nice too." He sat down at a table for two Jane had prepared. A lone candle was lit and two plates sat on opposite sides of the table.

Jane watched him sit. 'This is all wrong' she thought. 'This is supposed to be a romantic evening with the man that I love. I'm not supposed to be afraid of what he'll say.' She turned around with two champagne glasses; one with real champagne and the other with sprite.

"What's this?" David asked receiving his slender crystal glass.

"It's a toast."

"To what?" He asked smoothly.

"To something very special. Something that is going to change our lives dramatically." She smiled her small smile again.

"What is going to change our lives that much, Angel?" He leaned back in his chair

She took a deep breath. 'Oh please god be on my side right now', "I'm pregnant, David." She held her breath and waited for a reaction from him.

His face softened and the corners of his mouth turned up into a smile. "You are? That's great. Oh my god do you know how much I love you right now?"

Jane sighed in relief. "I'm glad you're happy."

Jack still watched them from the other side of the fire. 'Something's not right' he thought. Jane and David didn't look right together.

000

Jack sat on the beach with six gray suitcases in front of him. He had one of them open and was taking out each piece of clothing and if it was sensible he would fold it up carefully and put it in a neat little pile to be hung later.

"Hey!" An Australian accent came from behind him and he immediately knew who it was. He didn't even turn around to acknowledge her. Jane came up and sat beside him. "What are you doing?"

"I am sorting through the luggage that washed up on shore yesterday." He said while folding a wet blue T-shirt.

"Can I help?" She looked at him pleadingly.

"Yeah. Go ahead." He watched her pull up a large suitcase and open it.

"What are the two piles?" She took out a shirt and then put it back down.

"One is for the sensible and one is for the insensible." He put a baby's blanket with pictures of ducks on it into the sensible pile. She smiled.

She picked up the first thing in the case. It was a black T-shirt with a very manly, very grotesque picture on it. "Well that's…interesting." She held the shirt up for better view. Jack leaned over to see what she was talking about and saw the picture. She looked at him out of the corner of his eye and he did the same to her. They looked back at the shirt and started laughing.

Once the laughter died down Jane put the shirt in the insensible pile. "No one in his or her right mind would wear that," she stated dryly. They went on for a while not talking, just sorting.

"Kate was helping me earlier. I don't know where she went. Oh, well it doesn't really matter I guess." Jack seemed to be talking to no one but Jane heard.

"She likes you, you know." Jane folded a pair of women's jeans and put them in the sensible pile. "Everybody can see it."

"No, you must be confusing me with Sawyer." Jack was a bit sensitive about the subject.

"No. I'm pretty sure she likes you. She's with you all the time." Jane smiled at Jack.

Jack didn't care to discuss his relationships with anyone. So, he changed the subject to something he could control. "Were you okay last night? You seemed pretty…" Jack searched for the right word, "…uncomfortable." He stopped folding.

"I was just upset about Jessie. That's all. You know me and my sister were very close."

"I'm really sorry, Jane. But that's not what I'm talking about. When you were sitting with David you seemed tense. Is there anything going on?" Jack asked. He hadn't picked up folding again yet, but he did watch Jane fold two items of clothing before she answered.

"Listen Jack. David is my fiancé and he loves me. I'm okay, don't worry." Jack knew better than that. There was something about David that made him uneasy and he could tell that there was something Jane was hiding from him. But what was it? He had to find out.

"Jane?" She looked over her shoulder and there was David. He looked tired.

"Oh, hi. You're awake. How did you sleep?" Jane dusted off her hands and got up to greet the man. She hugged him and gave him a soft kiss on the lips.

"Yeah, the Korean lady told me you came down this way."

"Sun. The Korean lady's name is Sun." She corrected.

"Whatever." He grumbled. He looked past his to-be-wife at the doctor that was staring at him. He gave him a small glare and took Jane's hand then guided her away. She looked back at Jack as if to say 'sorry'.

000

It was later in the afternoon, Jack was done with his sorting and was now enjoying the peace of the moment. It wasn't quite time for the sun to set but it was getting close. The rock of the waves was very soothing to him and he decided to lean back and close his eyes.

It wasn't the same minute that Jane sat down next to him. She didn't say anything, she just sat. He opened one eye to see who had sad down with him and to his surprise there was Jane sporting her red T-shirt and curly hair. She didn't know that he was watching her so he admired her for a few moments longer. "Yeah?" He asked finally.

"Oh! I didn't know you were awake. I just wanted to…" she trailed off.

"You just wanted to, what?" Jack propped himself up on his elbows.

"I wanted to apologize for David this morning. You know, the way he acted was totally inexcusable." She wouldn't look at him.

"You shouldn't be apologizing for him Jane. That's not your job. If he feels badly enough about it then he'll make amends with people."

"He's not usually like this. No, he's really sweet and caring." She piped. 'I don't know why I'm doing this. He's not Jack! He's a jackass and I don't know what to do about it. Just say that Jane. Say it!' She wanted to tell Jack everything. How David really was and most of all she didn't want to lie for him.

"Well, I'm sure he's a real sweetie when it's just the two of you." Jack realized how 'sawyer-ish' that statement sounded and immediately regretted saying it.

"Jack, he's just scared about being here. You know like I was when I got here. Trust me everything is fi…" Jane clutched her stomach with wide eyes. She laughed and a smile from ear to ear appeared on her face.

"Jane, are you okay?" Jack asked with a worried tone.

"Yeah, I'm fine. The baby just moved. That was the first time she ever did that." Jack smiled back at her. "Here." Jane took hold of Jack's hand and set it squarely on her round stomach. He felt something squirm and his smile grew bigger. "Did you feel it," she asked quickly.

"Yeah. Yeah, I did." He turned into a more comfortable position and he felt the flutter under his hand again. "It just did it again."

"This is the weirdest feeling." She looked up and caught him in her gaze. He stared back. Both of their smiles faded as they got lost in each other's eyes.

"Jane, what are you doing?" David asked in a low voice.

Jane eyes flooded with fear and Jack saw it this time. He took his hand off of her stomach and sat back again. He looked back at David and could see raging anger take over his body.

"Jane, what were you doing?" He asked again.

"Umm…David you remember Jack, the doctor right? I got scared that something was wrong and came to him." She was lying through her teeth and Jack knew it but did David?

"What was wrong? Did he fix you?" His voice was tinged with sarcasm as he emphasized the word fix.

"Actually, there was nothing wrong. The baby was moving around a lot and she didn't know if that was good or bad." Jack looked at Jane to see if it was okay that he had talked. She was looking at the ground; a hand on her stomach.

"Well, is it good or bad?" David asked.

Jack got to his feet so that he was eye level with the other man. He did trust him. "For where she is in her pregnancy…I'd say, in my professional opinion of course, that it's a good thing." David looked at Jack with seering anger. He knew they were lying. In a way that scared Jack.

"Come on, Jane. We're going back to the caves." David turned around.

"But David, I have a shelter here on the beach." Jane stood up in outrage. She had to walk the mile to the caves in the dark when there was a perfectly good shelter here on the beach? She wanted to tell how unreasonable he was being, but dared not too.

"You know what? I don't care. I like the caves better. Now come on!" He was already steps ahead of her and she trotted to catch up. She didn't even say goodbye to Jack.

She looked at the man she loved. He stirred a memory.

A doorbell sounded in the small house. "Jessie can you get that! I'm on the phone!" Jane's older sister Jessie ran to the door. Her long dirty blonde hair bounced as she moved. She couldn't tell who was at the door for the windowsheld designs.

She opened it with a cheerful hello until she saw it was David. He pushed her aside and entered the house.

Jane heard the commotion and hung up the phone. She walked around the corner and met David's hand. She stumbled backward and held her cheek as pain thrust through her face. If she would have fallen she didn't know what she would have done.

"Did you see that? She almost fell! She could have lost the baby, David!" Jessie yelled from behind the couple. He turned around and gave her a look of warning. Then he turned back to Jane.

"Get you stuff together, we're going home." He brushed passed her into her present bedroom.

"No, David. I'm staying here with Jessie. I want to be here…"

"NOW!" Jane jumped at the demand. She threw clothes into a blue travel bag and watched her husband-to-be yell to Jessie that she was coming also.

She went into her room and put on a pair of jeans with a nice blouse. Then she came out with a small bag of things and they left the house.

Jane hesitated on the steps. She didn't want to go back. Her sister lived here, in Australia, and she could maybe even find her birth parents here. Why go back home and marry someone she didn't love, who had wronged her in more way than one, and be with a family that didn't understand her at all.

"No." She said firmly. "I'm not coming with you."

David and Jessie turned around. "Come on, Jane. We're going home."

"NO!" She said again. "I like it here and I'm staying."

"You know what? I don't care. I like OUR home better. Now come on!" Jane couldn't fight him. She wasn't getting anywhere so she followed him.