A/N: Sorry for the long time of no updates. Last week was really hard on me.

Disclaimer: Don't own Lost. Coldplay owns the song 'The Scientist', not me.

-Ends Meet-
-Chapter 3-
-Sometimes-

Kate sighed, a thin blanket of sleep covering her as the evening turned to twilight. Claire had left earlier upon hearing Aaron sob in his sleep. Charlie had returned soon after that, and the two had disappeared into a cave for the night. Jack hadn't been seen, and as much as Kate wanted to deny it, she was worried for him.

Flashback

"Tom!" Kate laughed as her hands flew over the buttons of the tape recorder. She hadn't felt this way in a long time, not since her father left. A smile formed across her lips as she looked over at the 13-year-old guy next to her, a boyish grin on his face.

"What, Katie? It's true! We will get married, and we'll have 7 children together! Don't deny it, I know you don't want to." He laughed, a sense of comfort there. It was true, he really had hoped this would happen someday.

"I know! But this is for the time capsule. We don't want to plan out our future, we want to live it as it happens to us. More fun, more risky, that way." Kate had been known for a risk-taker in her town, and she wasn't about to change her ways.

"Good point, Katie. But I want us to know what we were thinking when we pull this up out of the ground 20 years later." He smiled, and kissed her gently on the lips.

Kate sighed dramatically, "Fine, say what you must." She grinned at him, and pressed the record button.

Un-Flashback

A sound of flip-flops moving across the rock woke Kate up early the next morning, and she opened her eyes gently only to see Jack resuming his position of sitting next to her. "Kate?" He whispered, "Wake up."

Kate quickly closed her eyes, and pretended to shift in her sleep at the sound of his voice. She didn't want to face him, and she wasn't, for as long as she could help it.

"Come on, Kate… I know you're awake. …We need to talk." His voice dropped slightly at the last sentence, and Kate knew he wasn't looking forward to it.

Neither was she.

Silently, though as much as her mind told her not to, she sat up, and looked into Jack's chocolate brown eyes. They pierced right through her, and his look was unforgiving. "We've been avoiding each other." He wasn't trying to make small talk, he just went up right to the problem, just like he always did.

"You know, we could have just been catching each other at bad times." She lied. Her voice was squeaky almost, and she didn't recognize it as her own.

"Stop lying, Kate. Excuses will get you nowhere in the real world." Jack shot back. He hadn't meant to sound as harsh as he had been, but he was just starting to get angry now. He wanted to know if Kate really loved him back, or if this was some sick game she played with everyone.

Her expression hardened, and her eyes turned on him, an unforgiving look glittered in them. "Excuse me for being pleasant." But the conversation had just turned nasty, and both knew that neither would back down until they got answers.

"Oh, so this is what you consider being pleasant? Wow, don't I feel just at home." Jack spoke back, a sarcastic factor lining it. He knew exactly where he was headed, and surprisingly enough, he felt good about it, Maybe breaking away from her would just be the best.

"Not my fault that my dad didn't teach me the ways of being polite." Her face was slowly turning a deeper shade of pink, compliments of this argument.

"That's because he was too busy running away from his family." Jack knew he had hit the nail right on the head, and Kate rolled over, her back to him.

She didn't want him to see that he had won, that he had just went from nothing to jackass in seconds. "Go to hell, Jack." Her voice tore, and she could feel the tears welling up in her eyes.

In the late morning, Kate found herself waking in a different cave, and it was Charlie and Claire by her side, not Jack. And somehow, that made her feel even worse.

-LOST-

Nobody said it was easy,
It's such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy,
No-one ever said it would be this hard,
Oh take me back to the start.

I was just guessing at numbers and figures,
Pulling your puzzles apart.
Questions of science, science and progress,
Do not speak as loud as my heart.

-LOST-

A/N: Extremely sorry for the short chapter. I hopefully will update soon with a longer one. Left you with a small cliffie there, sorry about that.