Sorry Guys for not updating...one word: exams. I'm still halfway through my exams, but i felt it was time to update. I realised that the new season of Lost is already out in America...shiiiit, my whole fanfic will be ruined! lol, i think that's the dread of any theory fanfictioneer is to have all their theories dashed against the wall. But, then again, we are not the writers of the actual things. Just bear with me on tis one.

This is not a funny chapter...believe me. I tried adding some lighter moments, but this is a comedy/drama, and I had to add a little tragedy as well.

Don't own Lost.

Going on a tropical holiday later (with new boyfriend)

Kate slumbered fitfully, tossing about. Sawyer's unexplainable arrival had made her uneasy, especially with the very real threat of The Others returning. She had dreams of being captured by faceless and nameless people or many Ethans and them taking away her child. She woke with a sudden start, only to find Hurley shaking her awake.

"Hurley, what is it?" she asked rubbing her eyes.

"It's Claire and Sun. They're having their babies." He said, holding a torch away from her eyes.

"Together? Damn…it's gonna be a long night." She groaned, getting out of bed.

They marched up to the caves, where both parties were having their babies. Jack hailed her over and she leant in for the discussion.

"Kate, I want you to deliver Claire's baby…you've worked with her before perfectly; she's already about to pop. I'm going to help Sun; she looks like she's having a bit of trouble." He said, and sure enough there was a loud screech of pain and several Korean expletives.

"Sure. I'm no mid-wife, but I'll do it." she said, wide awake now. Just as she was walking away, Jack stopped her.

"You'll need these." He said and gave her a pair of silicone gloves. She nodded and went over to Claire, who was huffing and gripping onto Charlie's hand tightly. Charlie looked in as much pain as his partner.

"Hello there. I'm going to be your mid-wife for this birth." Kate grinned, snapping on her gloves and wiggling her fingers in mock anticipation. Claire looked rather creeped out, "Alright then, how long have you been in labour for?"

"An hour." Said Charlie.

"You've been in labour for an hour…I was under the impression that Claire was the one giving birth" Kate quipped. Charlie blushed, while Claire tried to show that she was amused, but her smile was more like a grimace.

"Omigodomigosomigodomigodimagodimagod:gasp:omigawwwwwwwwwwwwd! Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!" Claire yelled as she contracted. There were some audible snaps as Charlie's hand was clenched tightly throughout the contraction. There was now lots of pushing, screaming, crying and swearing as Claire tried to push the baby out, and this went on for another half hour…soon:

"I can see the head!" Kate said triumphantly.

"Is it a boy or a girl?" Charlie asked anxiously. However, both mid-wife and mother ignored the stupidity of the question as they went through the last stages of labour.

"And push!"

"AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Holy Shit!" Claire screamed. And suddenly there were fresh young wails of a new born, and once again Claire did the funny mother thing by laughing and crying with the newborn in a blanket on a chest.

"Wow, the first words this one would hear would be swear words," Charlie laughed as he regarded his daughter for the first time, "wow, she's beautiful."

"She's got your lips, Charlie," Claire smiled warily.

"And I'm glad she has your nose…my nose would not look good on a girl…" Charlie stated and they glowed in parenthood.

Kate however had to deal with the afterbirth, which had decided to slop over Kate's sandals. She shuddered and cut the purplish umbilical cord, saying congratulations to the jubilant couple of their new baby girl. Kate immediately left to dispose of the placenta…she didn't want the dog to find it like he did at Shannon's birth. It wasn't a very pleasant sight.

In the end, she consented in dropping the little piece of Claire down the longdrop, however unethical it may have seen. Naturally, humans were supposed to eat the afterbirth…or so had Kate heard.

Gross…I hate afterbirth…I wonder how Jack is going she wondered and headed back to the caves. She found him with Sun, looking utterly exhausted. Sun looked like she was dying, she was so much in pain.

"Jack, what's happened?" She asked alarmed.

"Twins…but I think there is a problem…" He said as Sun went through another contraction, "I would do a caesarean, but Sun would bleed to death, and we have no anaesthetic."

Then suddenly a foot emerged, "Damn, this one's coming out the wrong way." He swore. Rangi, who was holding Sun's head, looked alarmed, "don't worry Rangi, I'm sure they'll be fine…" he said, but Kate could see the desperation in his face. Another hour later, a boy slipped out screaming; Kate took it in her arms, wrapping him in a blanket. She was going to give him to Sun, but she was trying to pass the other child through. Kate stood there, knowing that the child needed to be breastfed soon. She turned away from the distressing scene and reached Claire and Charlie, whose celebrations were dulled by Sun's troubled birth.

"Claire, I need a favour from you," Kate said, holding the squalling boy, "can you spare the other breast for this one? Until Sun gives birth to her other one at least."

Claire, bounded buy the laws set by maternal instincts, nodded and took the child immediately. She sat there, feeding both of them.

"Wow, I feel like a cow," she remarked, mainly to herself as Kate went back to where Sun was lying. She arrived in time to hear the last agonising crescendo, before the baby was delivered.

With horror, Kate heard no cry.

Sun fell unconscious with a slump, and Kate rushed to steady her with Rangi crying streams of tears. For a second, Kate thought Sun had died, but Sun's breathing was clearly audible. Once she had made she was safe and secure, she looked up to find Jack and the still-born gone.

Alarmed, she raced off to find the young doctor in a small clearing away from the caves, holding a tiny bundle. She could see in the early morning light that he was crying silently.

"I know how to deliver babies…I could've saved this one. This one could be alive." His voice cracked.

"Jack, I know you. I know you are a fantastic doctor, and you try with all your heart."

"I don't try hard enough…"

"Yes, you do. You tried to revive Charlie long after I would've given up. You tried with all your strength, putting your own health on the line, to save Boone. I know how much you care. This one…this is a tragedy that we could not have avoided." She said, taking the stillborn into her arms. She opened the blanket: the face was small and delicate, eyelashes delicately curled and hands clenched into tiny fists. One could almost think that it was sleeping, if the greyish tinge had not been there. She closed over the covers, fat tears rolling down her cheeks.

"I just help thinking, what if this happened to us? What happens if this was our child that we were holding? I don't think I could bear it." he said softly. She softly placed a hand on his cheek and turned his face to look at him more clearly.

"We don't know. We don't know what will happen. But for now, there is a young woman in there who is ill and needs a doctor's help. I don't want to lose Sun either." She whispered. He nodded and then caught her in a tight embrace.

"I don't want to lose you either." He said. She returned the embrace as much as she could with a dead child in her arms, and kept silent. He turned away without another word back inside the caves, leaving Kate alone in the forest, the morning light not piercing the darkness of the trees or in her heart.

:Starts crying her eyes out: It's sooo sad! nuuuuuuuuu!