Thanks, as always, to my reviewers. I feel very very very bad about not updating, so here you go, two at once. I'd like to announce that I have now seen all of the first series, and the first episode of the second series :D:D:D:D:D has party in mind Thanks to my mate :D So I know what's going on now. I know about Ethan, and SPOLIER as soon as I saw Desmond in Jack's flashback, I knew who was in the hatch. So here's the next chapter, even though lots of people might hate me for this.
Sam
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A few months passed, and the survivors began to regain their lives in civilisation. Charlie and Claire decided to stay in Sydney to raise Aaron together. No one had been more proud that Charlie when Aaron's first word was 'da-da' aimed at him. It brought tears to his and Claire's eyes. Sometimes, Aaron would sit and babble, occassionally mumbling the odd coherant word, usually da-da, and but he rarely spoke words other than names. He knew 'Jack-Jack' and 'Kate', who were his Godparents. Then there was 'Sun-Sun', 'Soy-soy' (his only way of pronoucing Sawyer), and 'Hur-hur' for Hurley.

Shannon and Sayid also stayed in Sydney, if only temporarily to make plans. Shannon wanted to travel elsewhere still, and Sayid, naturally, wanted to go with her. They decided to make a home ground in Sydney with the others before rushing off around the world. After all, they wanted somewhere to come back to. None of the others could see why they were rushing to get back on a plane again. Two months after they left the island, Shannon discovered that she was also pregnant, and Kate was glad not to have to go through pregnancy alone.

Jack and Kate got their own place, only a five minute walk from Claire and Charlie. It was a family sized house, with four bedrooms, one of which Jack was going to turn into a study. He wanted to back to being a doctor, but didn't want to be working all the time and missing out on Kate's pregnancy and his child growing up, so he came up with the solution of starting his own practice, by where there would be no long hours, and definately no night shifts. Kate was thrilled at this, as she had secretly dreaded him sinking back into hospital life. Kate had started to show now, and proudly wore her steadily growing bump.

Jack was out finalising the progress of his practice, and so Kate was joined by the three women in her garden. Shannon was slightly showing herself now, but her stomach was no where near as defined as Kate's was becoming.

"Have you thought of any names?" Claire asked her when conversation turned to her pregnancy once again.

"A little." She said. "We don't want to know what we're having though, we want to leave it a surprise." Her and Jack had talked a lot about the scan where the sex of the baby could be determined. She didn't want to know though, it took all the fun out of guessing.

"What about names?" Shannon repeated Claire's question. "Come on, girl, spill."

Kate laughed. "For a girl, we're thinking about Megan, and for a boy, probably Harley." She told them. "What about you, Shan?" She said, turning to Shannon.

"Sayid and I want something unique. So we're going with Asher-Boone for a boy, and Jessyn for a girl." She said proudly. They all knew that Boone's name would somehow make up their son's name - a lasting tribute to the uncle they would never know.

"Lovely." Sun said. "Beautiful names for no doubt beautiful children." She declared. Kate felt slightly bad that Sun had been with Jin for so long, yet had no child of their own. She had already asked all three women to be godmothers, and they were asking Charlie, Hurley and Sayid to be godfathers.

Kate stood up to get more drinks. She was only four months pregnant, and already she could feel the strains on her back beginning. Behind her, the girls continued talking, as she had refused their offers to come help her. "I'm pregnant, not an invalid." She told them for the upteenth time.

She picked up the glasses that she had brought the other day at a home and leisure store with Jack, having liked the bright floral design on them. Putting them on the tray, she filled a fresh pitcher with fruit juice and went to go back into the garden. She got out of the patio doors, and was almost to the other women again when a pain ripped through her stomach, and she doubled over clutching her stomach, the tray crashing to the ground.

They were on their feet and at her side in an instant. The pain didn't fade, and Kate could hear Claire giving instructions to the others. "Sun, call an ambulance, Shannon, get Jack here now. Kate, don't worry, you're going to be fine." Kate wondered what was going on at first, it felt vaugely like when she had appendicitis as a child, but she knew that there was no chance of that, and cried out in alarm when she felt blood running slowly down between her legs. Tears welled in her eyes, oh no, please no.

Everything happened in a blur. The ambulance came before Jack could arrive, and Kate was rushed to hospital. Claire was at her side, and Sun had followed with Shannon and baby Aaron in the car. Paramedics leaned over her, asking her her name, her age, how far along she was. She answered nonchalently, then asked what was happening, but no one told her. She asked Claire, but Claire didn't get an answer out of the paramedics either. All the time, Kate wanted Jack. Jack was a doctor, he could deal with whatever was happening. He could help her. Before she got to the hospital, she passed out, and didn't wake up for a long time.

Jack almost dropped the phone when he hung up. Locke was standing to the side of him, watching him intently. He had dropped by to see the development of his practice, when Shannon had rung him urgently. It had taken him long enough to get her to calm down enough to speak coherantly.

"Jack, what's the matter?" Locke asked him.

"That was Shannon." He said, his voice sounding hoarse. "Kate collapsed... She's bleeding... They think she might be having a - a..." He couldn't say it. So he grabbed his car keys and rushed out of the building, Locke following him at run. They got into Jack's car and made their way to the hospital, where Shannon had told him to meet her.

Ok, ok, ok, please don't hate me! Trust me, it's not all bad!