Ok everyone I'm back with another update and it's ok to admit you've missed me. Hehe I'm such a geek. Anyway on with the next chapter. Not much you need to know besides Jate is Fate and Jack is hot.

CHAPTER 20 (Can you seriously believe it's been 20 chapters already?)

Kate gave Sawyer a skeptical look, "What?" she asked the disbelief evident in her voice.

"I swear to god Freckles the picture that Claire has is of Jack's dad." Sawyer said.

"First how do you even know what Jack's dad looks like? And don't you think he would've mentioned at some point that Claire was his sister?" Kate asked her arms folded across her chest.

"How should I know, look what I do know is I met Jack's old man in Sydney and Jack knows about it, and that was him. Now what Claire has to do with it, I have no idea. From the way Christian talked though he and Jack weren't real close so I mean anything is possible." Sawyer said.

"But" Kate stopped to think, "What are the chances that Jack and Claire are brother and sister, they don't know it and they both end up here on the island together?" Kate said rubbing her forehead; she was starting to get a headache.

"Uh how does anything happen on this damn island Freckles?" Sawyer asked rolling his eyes.

Kate bit her lip and thought for a second. "Well, I guess I should talk to Jack, maybe I can show him the picture and see what he says." Kate said thoughtfully. She looked at Sawyer "You're going to have to tell Claire."

Sawyer looked like Kate just told him she was really a man. "What? Why do I have to tell her?" Sawyer choked out.

"Because you are the only other person who knows what's going on." Kate said.

"Well, why do you get to tell Jack? Why can't I?" Sawyer asked almost whining.

Kate rolled her eyes, "Fine, you need to tell Charlie so he can tell Claire, it will probably be better coming from him anyway. Look I'm going to see if I can somehow borrow the picture from Claire."

Kate walked back to Claire's shelter. She saw Sawyer heading towards Charlie who was down the beach.

"Hey Claire, would you mind if I borrowed that photo of your father? I know it's a bizarre request but I swear it's important." Kate said hoping Claire wouldn't be too suspicious.

Claire and Shannon exchanged glances and Claire looked at Kate, "Um, ok but please be careful with it, I mean it's the only one I have" she said handing Kate the photo with a small smile. Kate took the picture and carefully tucked it into her pants. She smiled at the girls and turned to head down the beach towards the direction she had seen Jack go. She saw him walking in her direction with Alex. He looked up and saw her and gave her a small wave. Alex said something to Jack and headed off towards Walt who was playing with Vincent. Kate met up with him and noticed that Jack had a sad look in his eyes. She was slightly shocked when Jack pulled her into a tight hug and just held her close. Kate wrapped her arms around him tight and hugged him back, something was obviously bothering him. After a few minutes they pulled away and Kate looked at Jack who looked very tired.

"Hey" she whispered "What's wrong?" she asked concerned.

"Can we go somewhere? Where we can talk?" Jack asked.

Kate smiled at him, "I know just the spot"

A few minutes later Kate led Jack to an isolated area near the water. Jack looked around and a small smile appeared on his face.

"This is where we first met." Jack said.

"Yeah it is" Kate said slipping her arms around his waist. "Strangest, yet best day of my life."

Jack bent and kissed her gently after a few minutes Jack pulled away and rested his forehead on hers.

"What's bothering you baby?" Kate asked. Jack sat down in the sand and pulled Kate down into his lap.

"I had a talk with Alex and what that kid went through was so unbelievable." Jack said as Kate snuggled close and rested her head on his shoulder. "I mean that guy Tom who had you; he wanted Alex as a bride. She doesn't even know what a bride is." Jack said shaking his head. "They raped all the women in the camp and she saw it, she had to witness it and couldn't help them. She's just a kid for god's sake."

Kate felt the tears well on her eyes as she thought of the pain that Alex must have been through. She also felt for Jack and what he must have seen at the Other's camp. She snuggled close to Jack and they just sat together listening to the waves crash against the beach. Suddenly Kate remembered the whole reason why she was looking for Jack in the first place and she cringed. She was worried that this wasn't the right time to tell Jack.

Back at the camp Charlie and Sawyer managed to somehow stumble through an explanation to Claire that left the young mother stunned.

"Wait, wait you're saying Jack is my brother?" Claire asked shocked.

"Well. We think he is but we're not sure, I mean Kate went to talk to him and to let him look at the picture." Charlie said.

"Trust me Mamacita that picture is of one Christian Shephard." Sawyer said.

Claire paled, "Did you say his name is Christian?" Claire asked her voice rising. "The man who is in that picture is named Christian."

"See, told ya" Sawyer said.

"Claire how are you handling this?" Charlie asked her concerned.

"I don't know" Claire said. "I mean my whole life I used to resent him for leaving and I used to resent the fact that he left to be with his other family, his real family. But I had a good life I loved my family in Australia and I managed to work through all the pain and anger. I can't believe this, how is it possible that I have a brother and we both ended up here?"

"I don't know, but Freckles is breaking the news to Doc as we speak so you might want to figure out if you're up for a family reunion." Sawyer said. Claire sighed she had to make a decision.

Jack held Kate in his arms when he suddenly felt her tense. He looked down and saw her fiddling with her pant leg.

"Hey, I'm sorry if I bummed you. What's wrong" Jack asked tilting her chin up so he could see her eyes.

Kate sighed, "Jack this is such a horrible time to say this and I don't know if I can" Kate said. She felt Jack freeze under her and she saw a flash of panic cross his eyes and then it was gone.

"Uh what is it?" she heard the tightness in his voice and Kate realized what she said came out badly. She quickly wrapped her arms around him and hugged him close.

"What I have to tell you is big but it's not about you and me ok?" she said thinking if Jack said those exact words to her she'd probably have a heart attack. "Look, I'm letting it be your decision, if I told you I had some kind of life altering information for you would you want to know it?" Kate asked trying to make sense.

"Is it bad news?" Jack asked wondering what it could possibly be.

"I don't know that's kind of up for interpretation" Kate said with a mutter.

"What the hell, hit me." Jack said with a sigh.

Kate reached into her pocket and pulled out the photo and handed it to Jack.

Jack took it and looked it over he looked up at her confused. "Kate why do you have a picture of my father?"

Kate smiled nervously. "Oh sweetheart I need you to brace yourself. Someone on the island had the picture of your father. They had the picture because it is also a picture of their father." She said nibbling on her lip.

"What?" Jack asked dumbfounded.

"I'm saying that your father had another child and that child is on the island too." Kate said.

"But how, I mean wait how do you know all this?" Jack asked. He gently scooted Kate off his lap and stood to pace.

"Well Sawyer saw the picture and he knew it was your dad and things just kind of unfolded." Kate said standing to grab his arm and make him hold still.

"Uh well, who is it?" Jack asked rubbing the back of his head.

Kate took a deep breath and let it out. "Jack, you have a sister, and it's Claire."

Ok please review, I know this is a shorter chapter than normal but I don't have a lot of time to type tonight.