Kate and Sawyer sat on the cool wet sand one morning, the waves crashing at their feet. Kate was looking at her ring as it caught the sunlight reflecting little orbs of light all around them.

"Okay, I do have to ask, where did you find this?"

He knew that would come along at somepoint.

"I found it a long time ago when I was lootin' the plane. It was in sombody's bag all new and shiny. Either someone just got rejected or they were on their way to be rejected."

"You're such an optimist!" Kate laughed, sarcastically. "Just wanted to make sure you didn't pry it off of some poor deceased woman or something."

"Well Hell, Freckles, they wouldn't exactly need it though, would they?"

"You're morbid, seriously." She looked back down on her ring with a happy sigh. "I never could predict I'd be propsed to on the middle of an island nearly nine months pregnant..." She looked over at him, shading the sun from her eyes with her right hand. "Just sucks that we can't be officially married, you know?"

Sawyer looked over at his bride to be, taking her left hand in his.

"Look, marriage to me is honestly nothin' but a piece of paper." Sawyer stated.

"You just don't want to ever be legally married to anyone because then you might have to pay alimony or give up half your stuff."

"Hey, I asked you to marry me, didn't I?"

"Yeah, cuz then your alimony & child support would be Mango and Papaya." Kate chuckled.

"Hey sweetchecks, at least this way I know you ain't just marryin' me for my money."

He smirked. "What I was honestly trying to say was, bein' married don't prove we love each other. But I wanted to show you I'm gonna stick around."

Kate smiled wide, she had confidence in their future together, but she still had fears. Fears of her fate if they were ever rescued. Though she had many people who would back her up in court, she doubted it would matter much. But as Sawyer gently placed his hand on her stomach, feeling the baby move, she felt that whatever happened, their child would be all right.

----------------------------------------------------

"What're you doing?" Kate asked Claire as she stood before her and Aaron. Claire hadn't even noticed her walk up, she nervously threw her craft behind her back and gave Kate an awkawrd smile.

"Ohhh...nothing at all!" She declared.

"Funny, nothing looks a lot like something."

"Just uh...making some Nappies for Aaron." Claire said, giving the first excuse that came to mind.

"Since when do you put flowers on Aaron's diapers?" Kate asked.

"Do you enjoy ruining surprises? I'm not going to tell you what's going on."

She didn't think she'd soon see the day where Sawyer and Claire were in an elusive alliance together. Hell, she never thought she'd see the day she and Sawyer would be together...especially having a baby and engaged. She often thought she was dreaming, but then Sawyer would slip in a jackass comment here and there and she'd be reminded it was her reality, but she wasn't complaining.

"Ah, ah, ah." Sawyer said, startling Kate as he walked up.

"No Interrogatin' good ole Claire, Sassafras."

"You two weird me out." Kate said as Claire and Sawyer gave her guilty grins.

"If you had patience you'd soon enough find out." Claire stated.

"Aaron, if only you could say more then Mama & Banana, I'm sure you'd tell me everything." Kate said, smiling at the little blonde baby, hitting the sand repeatedly with a stick and giggling. He then looked up at Kate and offered her the stick, babbling something along the lines of, "Oah Dah Maga Mah."

Claire couldn't help but laugh. "Traitor." She chuckled.

Kate happily accepted the stick with a smile.

"I'm exhausted." Kate said, with a yawn, after she handed the stick back to Aaron.

"Well, sweetcheeks, we're votin you off the island then. Why don't you go take a nap." Sawyer said, guiding her back to their shelter. "I promise when you wake up, you'll get you'll get your surprise."

"I'm supposed to sleep after you tell me this?" She questioned, with a sly smile. Sawyer kissed her gently, sitting down next to her as she laid down.

He ran his hand down her side, resting it on her hip.

"I Love You, Sawyer." She sleepily said, "I'm so-" She trailed off her voice barely audible as she fell asleep.

Sawyer gave a soft smile, touching her cheek gently.

He had done so much wrong in his life, he was surpsied he could ever get something so wonderful. He never thought he'd ever do right.