Hey guys! Sorry the update is late but thank you very much for all the kind reviews! Here's Chapter 1, I'm afraid there isn't much Jate in this chapter and it's rather short but if it makes you feel any better I wrote Chapters 5 and 6 today and you're going to love me! (I hope)

Chapter 1

About ten minutes later they arrived at the hatch, Jack let go of Kate's hand as he bent over and tried to catch his breath. "You ok?" He asked glancing over at Kate. She nodded in reply, her deep breathing mirroring his.

"Jack! Kate!"

They both snapped their heads up at Locke's voice. "Where have you been? Everyone else is already here!"

They soon got shooed into the hatch, and helped secure the door behind them. It transpired that the hatch was more like an underground house. Hurley had come across another piece of metal on the forest floor in the early afternoon. It took almost the rest of the day to dig it up and even longer to bury it again once they'd found the entrance to hide it from The Others.

They walked down the metal corridor and into the main room.

"What do you think this is?" Charlie said as he came and stood by Jack.

"I dunno…I guess it's just a shelter. I have no idea why though…" He trailed off and took a better look around. Everyone had piled all of the food in the room where they were standing. There were several rooms off to the side, same large and some quite small.

Kate went over to Sun and stared talking to her about rationing food while Jack went to explore the rest of the hatch.

"Hey man!" A familiar voice greeted Jack as he turned around to see Hurley walking towards him.

"Hey."

Hurley caught up to him and smiled proudly, obviously liking the idea that he was in charge of something for once. "Ok, so most people have already taken claim of the rooms and there's only one left…" He trailed off as he stopped in front of a room, or what some might call a broom cupboard.

"This is it?" Jack said peering into the small, dank room.

"Yep. Sorry it's a bit small; you might be able to fit one more person in here but no more. We thought it was perfect for you because you see that door there?" He asked pointing to a door on the left that Jack hadn't noticed before.

"Yeah?" He replied.

"Well that…" Hurley walked over to it and opened the door for Jack as he walked through "…is your very own doctor's room".

He nodded in approval as he looked around; there were shelves on one side of the wall for his medicines and someone had already laid out some aeroplane blankets on the floor serving as a bed.

"Wow, that's great." Jack said turning to face Hurley, genuinely happy that he had thought this out. "Thanks mate."

He smiled in response "Anytime, Jack."

Some shouting in the corridor interrupted them. Jack gave Hurley an apologetic smile before dashing out to see what the fuss was about. To his dismay, he found two men who Jack hardly knew screaming at each other and it looked like they were of the verge of having a full-blown fistfight. He stood still for a minute, unsure of what to do as he watched mesmerised like the others crowded around the fighting men until…

"SHUT UP!"

The corridor instantly became silent as twenty or so heads turned to the source of the female voice.

Kate.

Hope you liked it! Please review.

- Katie xxx