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Chapter 4:

"Good morning doctor Shephard!"

Jack was sitting near his tent having breakfast. Hearing his name he lifted his head and looked directly in Kate's eyes.
She seemed to have woken up much more than he. Her eyes sparkled and she smiled at him. Her curly brown hair was tied to a pony-tail which streamed in the wind which was coming from the ocean in front of them.

"Good morning!", he murmured under a bite of his fruits.

"Your consulting hours are starting in exact..."

She looked at her watch.

"20 minutes."

"In 20 minutes..." Jack smiled. "Seems as you have all under control."

"Yes, I do!" She smiled again at Jack who seemed to be still tired.

"You don't like getting up early, right?", she asked him.

"No, I don't."

Kate grinned. She loved the imagination that Jack was not a morning person. He was so cute while he tried to make as few movements as possible and his eyes were still half closed.

"Why are you constantly smiling?", Jack asked embarrassed.

"It's nothing!", Kate said keeping on grinning.

"Nothing? Sure. So you seem to like getting up early, Kate?"

She sat down next to him. "Not really...but I learned it."

"You can learn that?", he smiled at her again wishing he would know why she had to learn getting up early, wish to know more about her former life, maybe about a job she was really educated in. But instead of asking her something about her past he just said:

"So, you've already had breakfast?"

"No,...yes, yes."

He looked at her a bit confused.

"Do you want to have one of my passion fruits?"

She looked at him following his hand which was stretching a passion fruit in her direction. Hesitating she took it.

"Thanks!"

For a while the both just sat there eating their passion fruits with passion.

"Well, who is the first on your list today?", Jack asked.

"Oh, just a moment."

Kate searched for a piece of paper in her trouser pocket. Having found it she started to read.

"The first is Hurley. He has a problem he just want to talk about with you."

Jack stopped his eating and lifted his head.

"A problem about he just want to talk about with me?"

Kate nodded with a smile on her face. "Yes. There are two possibilities. Either he attachs great importance to the medical confidentiality, or... it's a "male problem" about he doesn't want to talk about with me." She grinned.

"I see!", Jack said and there was also a broad grin on his face.

He took again a bite of his passion fruit. "Well, but if it's not the..."male problem" he could have also told his problem to you. You're my nurse, you are also bound to professional discretion."

Kate watched him a bit surprised, but then she smiled proudly.
"Yes, you're right. As your...nurse...I'm also bound to professional discretion, right, so he could have told that to me, too."

She took a voluptuous bite of her fruit. Jack smiled, he was really happy Kate had decided to work for him or better with him. He was sure that she would be a perfect nurse. She was very helpful and had a great talent in helping people especially in medical problems.
Thinking about it he couldn't remember when they had breakfast together the last time. Mostly he couldn't find her in the morning, she always seemed to be occupied. He knew that she was one of the persons who were looking for food like fruits, but he always thought she would mostly work at the garden with Sun. Now thinking about the fact that she was all the day when he couldn't find her anywhere in the unknown parts of the jungle he reproached himself somehow for haven't cared more about what she was doing all the day, for haven't cared more about her.
Kate was right, the work was really very exhausting and he had so much to do with helping people that he didn't find the time to find out with what Kate really spent her day.

"I decided to give you a lunchbreak from one and a half hours, if that's ok?", she looked questioning at him but before Jack could say anything she went on.
"I thought about the "normal doctors" at home, you know, a normal doctor's office, and as far as I know there are some who have a lunchbreak from one and others who have a break from two hours, so I thought let's have one and a half hours.", she said while she was eating her fruit.

Jack grinned, she was really cute. Kate was right, he really hated getting up early, but now Kate was working with him and maybe...hopefully from now on they would often have breakfast together, so maybe he would also learn getting up early, as Kate did,...with her help.

"Jack?"

"What? Yes, yes that sounds great. That means half an hour more than during my work at the hospital."

Kate swallowed the last piece of her passion fruit and then looked at Jack.

"Well, working at a hospital you also had to get up early, right? So why..."

"I always tried to be on late shift which went till deep in the night, so no getting up early.", Jack said smiling.

"And your colleagues always led you..."

"My dad was the boss of the ward in which I worked.", Jack said quickly then he looked grinning at Kate. "Connections..."

Kate watched him surprised. "So, your dad was also working as a doctor?"

Jack nodded. "Yes, typical constellation, father is a doctor, only son also gets a doctor."

Kate looked thoughtful at him, then she nodded.

"So, Kate, your father was in the army, right?", Jack asked sudden.

Startled Kate moved a bit away from him. "Why did you say WAS in the army?", she asked distrustful. Could he know that she killed her father, her biological father.

Jack looked confused at Kate who sudden seemed to be so different.

"I didn't mean anything special with the WAS, it's just that since we're here on the island all what was before, all what was or IS happening outside in the real world is..."

"I'm sorry, it's ok, I...he is in the army, right.", Kate quickly said. She looked at the ground. She was angry on herself, how could she be so distrustful on Jack, he couldn't know about Wayne, about the way he died.

Jack looked still confused and unsure at Kate. "Are you ok?"

She quickly lifted her head. "Yes, yes, I'm fine, I'm great...", she said quickly and tried to smile. "Well, then I'll look for your first patient and make sure that he'll come punctual to the caves."

With this word she quickly stood up, put the sand from her trouser and started her way to the caves.

Jack just sat there still confused and watched her go. He was angry on himself. It has been such a great morning, having breakfast with her and then...why couldn't he restrain himself, why did he have to ask her something about her father, about her past. He knew she didn't want to talk with him about that, no longer. But she had already told him that her father was in the army, so he had thought it would have been a good way in talking about her past, but now he knew he thought wrong.
He saw how she stopped next to Hurley, they talked, then she went on in the direction of the caves. He watched her the whole time, each movement of her. Even as she had been disappeared for a while he was looking in this direction, thinking about her, about what he did wrong, what it could have been that made her so confused when he said "WAS in the army". He didn't know, but he knew that he wanted to find it out, maybe not today and not tomorrow, but any time.

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