Kate shuffled to the bathroom with a whine. She felt miserable, her muscles were sore, not to mention other things. She practically yelped when she went to the bathroom and whined as she shuffled back out.
She stopped as a sleeping Sawyer caught her eye. He was asleep on the couch, bare chested with Lily asleep on his chest. Kate smiled through her pain and slowly walked over to them. She touched Lily's soft hair with her fingertips.
She's too beautiful for words. Kate thought, beaming with happiness at her brand new baby girl.
"Hey Gorgeous." Sawyer quietly said as his eyes fluttered open, focusing on Kate.
"Hi Handsome." She said with a soft smile.
"Guess you've come over for a celebratory quickie, ey Sweetcheeks?"
"I could kill you for saying that." She smirked as he slowly sat up trying not to wake the baby he cuddled to his chest. "I'm a born again virgin."
"Whoa, I didn't marry a nun, did I?"
"You have the next baby and we'll talk."
"You'd be the one and only woman I'd ever consider bearin' a child for, punkin'."
Sawyer handed Lily to Kate whose beauty glowed bright as she smiled with pride at her tiny daughter.
"You sure she wasn't an immaculate conception there, Sister Kate? She looks nothing like me." He said, peering over at the baby in Kate's arms. "She's all you."
Lily started to fuss and Kate giggled. "I think attitude wise, she's all you. Looks just like you when you're pissed off." Sawyer couldn't help but stare at Kate as she nursed their baby, it came to her naturally and they both looked so beautiful and at peace.
"I gotta go dig through the supplies and find some birth control. I'll throw it at everyone like Mardi Gras."
Kate laughed a little. "I don't think we'll be seeing anymore babies for a long time Sawyer."
"I ain't talkin' you and me, you didn't hear about Moonbeam & Stay-Puff?"
Kate's eyes widened as she looked over at Sawyer. "...What? How did you...oh, wait, I forgot you're the worst neighbor on the planet, especially when it comes to being nosey."
"Let's just say I'm observant." Sawyer started. "She don't got the flu, she keeps runnin' off pukin' her brains out. And he's runnin' around like a wild stallion. Hey, I get laid too you don't see me braggin'..."
"Actually Sawyer there was about four days of gloating before the initial holy shit from you when we found out I was pregnant."
"Yeah, well...I had to rub it into Doc's wounds..."
"Ass." Kate started. "Libby & Hurley? You sure you're not jumping to conclusions? You tend to do that...A LOT."
"Well, why don't we ask them?" Sawyer asked as he pointed to Hurley who was keeping up with Jack who had Libby in his arms. Kate looked a little red and covered her and the baby up with a blanket as the trio came in. Hurley hovering over Jack. Jack sat Libby up at the kitchen table, pulling her eyelids up and peering into her eyes and then pinching the skin on the top of her hand.
"She's severely dehydrated." Jack stated. "We need to slowly get water into her system."
Kate and Sawyer were listening with open ears. "The plot thickens." Sawyer smirked.
Hurley poured a glass of water and brought it over to Libby.
Lily finished nursing and Kate adjusted her shirt and put Lily over her shoulder, gently patting her back.
"Where you goin'? Sawyer asked as Kate got up, her eyes narrowing with pain.
"Oh, I forgot, you're in the "in" crowd, you can just squeeze your way in and no one will care."
Kate and Sawyer walked over as Libby pushed past them and ran to the bathroom.
"So, staypuff, is it a spring baby?"
"I don't know what you're talking about." Hurley said as he tried to move past Sawyer to follow Libby.
Jack looked over at Hurley, curious. "Hurley is Libby pregnant?"
Hurley looked at Jack, then to the floor, back up to Jack and back down to the floor. He then eyed Sawyer and Kate and blurted out. "She's pretty sure she is."
"BINGO!" Sawyer yelled in excitement. "Looks like I won that round." He wrapped his arm around Hurley's shoulders and grinned. "Looks like Jabba really did put the moves on Leia, awww, whatcha gonna name the little Ewok?"
But Hurley was barely amused by Sawyer's statements, instead he was enthralled with baby Lily, poking her little cheeks with a new kind of excitement, the nervous wonder that came with the birth of a child.
Kate smiled and she set the baby girl into Hurley's arms. Hurley smiled wide as he stared at the baby girl he cradled in his arms. "Wow." He said. "Wow." It hit Hurley like a ton of bricks, the consuming feeling of joy that cast its rays on everyone else around him. "Wow, I'm gonna have this, Dudes. Wow."
Kate left Lily with Sawyer and Hurley to go sit with Libby, who was on the bathroom floor, resting her forehead on the toilet seat.
"Libby?" Kate asked, a certain comforting tone in her voice.
"How do you deal with this?" Libby asked, raising her head weakly to stare up at Kate.
"Oh, it comes and goes, I promise it'll get better."
"Not being sick...having a baby?" Libby asked.
"Don't ask me, it's my first day on the job." Kate smiled.
"I don't think I've ever been so terrified in my life." Libby stated. "Did you see how happy he is? Once I told him It was a possibility, he looked like he was going to explode with sheer joy, and here I am feeling miserable and nervous."
Kate rested a comforting hand on Libby's shoulder. "I'm not gonna stand here and tell you its easy. As a matter of fact, its not. I am in so much pain right now but you know me I'm not going to lay in bed all day...but its not even the physical part of having a baby that's tough, its an emotional experience...But you can do this, I know you can."
Libby sighed. "Hey Sun made me this drink when I had really bad morning sickness. It helps, I have no idea what its made from...and it doesn't taste too fantastic but it works."
Libby nodded.
"Why don't you come out and lay down? Just SLOWLY try and drink water, don't force yourself to drink a whole glass, just sip it slowly and when youf eel okay to take another sip, go for it."
"You sure you just had a baby?" Libby asked with a faint smile. "You're amazing."
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Kate & Sawyer had gone back into the bunks and let Libby lay on the couch. Hurley had gone off to see if Sun could make a drink for Libby, he knew it was pretty late but also knew that Sun was always willing to help. Jack followed Hurley back to the beach to double check on everyone there.
Sawyer inhaled deeply, his eyes shooting open and his body sitting up when he noticed his chest felt much lighter then it did as he fell asleep. Lily was gone, the tiny baby who was cuddled on his chest was nowhere to be found. He searched the sheets and woke Kate ip, only to hear the baby whimper from outside the room. Both Kate and Sawyer raised their eyesbrows. Did Libby come in and take her? But then they noticed Libby was no longer on the couch. Unconcious, she was thrown over the shoulder of one of the Others. Lily began to wailf rom the arms of another one, a younger female. And the man Sawyer had come to call Zeke smirked at both Kate and Sawyer with an unmistakable sense of power.
It all happened so fast that Sawyer couldn't even stop and count the seconds that flew by. Two more emerged, grabbing Kate and repeatedly socking Sawyer in the gut and head. And before Sawyer could really put up a fight, he and Kate were locked in the armory.
The tears overwhelmed Kate, as Sawyer in a weakened state repeatedly yelled and kicked at the heavy door that kept them in.
It was silent in the hatch, as the Other escaped, running with satisfaction back towards their territory.
Sawyer turned, his back against the cool door. He slide down to his knees and three himself forward in agony.
Lily was the reason he and Kate were together now, Lily was the reason that Sawyer had a reason to finally do things right. Lily was his hope for the future, his foundation.
And she was gone.