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Chapter 4: Special
"So, where do you think we are?" Kate asked Jack. She was sitting next to him on the edge of her bed.
Jack looked around the room again. "Probably another hatch. In the hallway there was a Dharma logo with a flame in it."
"The Flame maybe?" Kate guessed while Jack looked at her stunned. "It was on that note in the air tubes, just before we were taken."
He realized she was right. "Yeah. I also saw doors more doors like yours and mine."
"That must be where Sawyer and the rest are."
Jack grabbed her hand and squeezed it. "Sawyer and the rest will be fine. I'm going to find a way for us to get out. I promise Kate."
She nodded. Having Jack back was helping her deal with this. At the same time, Jack was coping better having Kate here with him.
"Is that your parents?" Jack asked changing the subject.
Kate got up and got the three pictures on her bookshelf. "This is my mom Diane." She handed it for Jack to see. The picture was old and Kate was about 4 sitting with her mom.
Jack saw the sadden look in Kate's eyes. "What happened to her?"
"She died last year. She had cancer."
Jack hugged her close. How much stuff has Kate gone through?
Jack wiped her eyes. "I know what you're going through Katie."
"Your dad?" Kate asked remembering, while also smiling slightly for Jack calling her Katie.
"Christian." Jack nodded. He then noticed one of the other pictures of Kate's. It was of her and a military man. "I didn't know you were an Army brat."
Kate laughed at the comment. "I only lived on base when I visited my dad every summer. That's Sergeant Sam Austen."
"That explains how you know about gun and tracking. So, should I be scared of him? Asking out his daughter." Jack asked joking.
"No." She smiled. "He would like you." Kate left it at that. Sam was her father in everyway that mattered. She didn't want to tell Jack about Wayne yet.
Jack picked up the 3rd picture. It was of Kate with 2 boys and a girl her age in high school. "Who are they?"
Kate smiled. "My best friends. That's Tom. He was a doctor too. That's Beth, the DriveShaft fan. And that's Karl."
Jack noticed the far away look in her eyes again. "What happened to them?" He asked stroking her hair.
"They're gone. I got Tom killed. He tried to help me run, but he was shot. He had a wife and a little boy. He didn't deserve to die." Kate explained now in tears.
Jack hugged her close. He's who the toy airplane belonged to. Jack figured out. "It's ok." Jack said as he rubbed her back.
Jack was going to ask more, but Kate's door opened. A young woman with dark hair and blue eyes stepped in. She was wearing nurses' scrubs. Jack and Kate recognized her from the night before. The girl carried in two trays of food and shut the door, leaving the 3 of them alone.
"I have breakfast for you both." The girl sat it down at the table each room held.
It dawned on Kate who this girl was. "Alex?"
The young girl turned around, startled that they knew her name.
Danielle's daughter? Jack thought. She did look like Danielle and seemed 16.
"Claire told you?" Alex asked.
Jack and Kate looked at each other. "Yes." Kate answered. "You helped Claire?"
"Yes. How is her son? She had to have him by now. The ultrasounds looked good."
Jack was stunned that they had that technology. "She and the baby's fine." Jack answered. "She had a healthy boy." He and Kate had an odd sense that they could trust Alex.
"That's good." Alex smiled. "He wouldn't want to grow up here."
"Can you help us?" Kate asked.
Alex looked down sad. "No. Not yet. They are keeping a close eye on all of you."
Jack needed some answers. "Why do they need us?"
"I don't know." Alex replied truthfully. "He says the 3 of you are special."
"Is "He" Henry?" Jack asked.
Alex nodded. "I don't know his real name but that's what he goes by."
"So Henry did all of that to get us?" Kate asked wide-eyed.
"Yes."
"Do you know where Sawyer is?" Kate continued.
"You mean James?" They nodded. "He's in his room. Is he always so mean and rude?"
"Unfortunately yes." Jack said as Kate smiled.
"Oh." Alex nodded. "I wish I could tell you more, but that's all I know."
"You will help us?" Jack asked.
Alex nodded. "I'll try."
"Thank you." Kate smiled.
"Eat. Juliet will be back for Jack soon." Alex knocked on the door and Tom opened it for her.
After the door closed, Kate looked at Jack afraid. "What do they mean by special?"
He held her close. "I don't know."
