Chapter 8 S.O.S. Part 2

Disclaimer: I don't own LOST.

A/N: Okay here is the last chapter! I am sad to see it go, but it means that I will slowly start to finish all my many other stories I have going right now. Anyways, most of this chapter is made up besides the few famous lines. This is pretty long because I really wanted this to be extra jatey to make up for the lack of jateness on the show.

It was now dark and Jack refused to sit. It had stopped raining a couple of hours ago and now Kate was trying to gather wood for a fire. It was obvious that Jack wasn't going to go anywhere anytime soon and Kate wasn't going to leave without Jack.

Kate threw all the wood she had gathered and put in it a pile. She walked over to Jack, who was standing in the middle of the clearing still. He hadn't yelled for a while as his voice had gone out.

"Jack they're not coming, why don't you come sit down?" Kate suggested, pointing to a huge log she had found.

Jack looked at her and seemed to be thinking about sitting down.

"If they come, you'll still see them."

"They'll come." Jack said firmly.

Kate sighed. "Just sit down and rest. You can barely talk."

Jack finally nodded and together they walked to the log. They sat down and Kate fumbled for the fruit in her backpack as Jack pulled out his water bottle from his backpack.

Kate took out some apples and handed him one.

Jack gave her a small smile as he took it. "Thanks. When did you pick these?"

"When you were yelling," Kate said with a knowing smile.

"Oh." Jack bit into the apple. "This is really good."

Kate smiled again and looked down as she bit into her own apple.

"Do you want some water?" Jack offered her his bottle.

Kate stared at it for a second before she took it. She still hadn't gotten used to sharing water bottles with other people, not that she minded sharing one with Jack.

"Listen, I'm going to go look for some more firewood." Kate stood up and grabbed her backpack.

Jack looked up at her. "I'll go with you. You shouldn't be out there alone right now."

"I'll be fine. I can take care of myself."

Jack stood up. "I don't want anything to happen to you again."

Kate noticed that his voice had faltered.

"I'll be fine. I promise I won't go too far away."

"Kate…"Jack looked away for a second then looked back at her. "Okay. Just be careful. If anything happens just scream." He pulled the gun out of his waistband and handed it to her. "Here."

"Thanks." Kate nodded at him as she walked away. When she knew she was far enough away from him she sat on the ground and pulled out her journal. She didn't want to forget this day and she wanted to write about it, not that she ever thought that she would forget.

Dear Jack,

Well there you go again. You really have me in your grasp. I can't quit thinking about you and being around you now makes my heart beat so fast. You reached out to me. I can't believe it. I really hope that we can work through everything so that it's not so awkward between us. You mean so much to me. I've decided that I'm going to burn this journal. If you ever read it I think you will hate me, or at least be mad at me. I don't want to risk you being mad at me again. I like being where we are now. Of course I'd love for it to be more, but being friends again like we used to is nice too.

Love, Kate.

Kate smiled as she closed the journal. She thought that it was a nice last entry. She was planning on burning the journal as soon as they got back to camp. She just couldn't risk him reading it. It would be embarrassing.

Kate stood up and quickly walked back before Jack got worried.

Sure enough, Jack was pacing around the fire.

"What's wrong?" Kate asked.

"Well finally! Where were you?"

"I was looking for wood like I told you."

"You don't have any!"

"I-I couldn't find any!" Kate stammered.

Jack threw up his hands. "I was so worried. What if they had gotten you? I would have not even known."

"You were worried about me?" Kate smiled.

Jack looked away. "Of course."

Kate handed him the gun and he looked at her again and then they both looked away.

They sat down then and Kate couldn't stop her heart from beating. He cared for her. He really did.

They sat there in the uncomfortable silence for at least fifteen minutes before Kate talked. "How long are you going to wait Jack?" Not that Kate minded sitting there alone with him. It had been so hard to get him to talk to her in the past couple of weeks and now he was sitting right next to her, with no where to go.

"Until I get my voice back. Then I'm going to yell some more."

Kate realized that it was going to take something big for him to give up and go back. She knew that the Others weren't going to show up, but she also knew Jack and knew that he wouldn't stop until something happened.

"Maybe they can't hear you."

"They can hear me." Jack's voice was hoarse but she could still detect the determination in his words.

Kate sighed and looked at the fire. Suddenly she decided that this was her chance to get him to talk to her. They were finally on speaking terms, but she wanted things to be okay with them.

"I'm sorry I kissed you." Kate said quickly, avoiding his gaze. He didn't answer for a long while and her heart continued to beat faster and faster, and finally it sank.

"I'm not."

Kate whipped her head around to look at him. He was looking at her hopefully, with a sincere expression on his face.

For a second she had to remind herself to speak. "You're-you're not?"

Jack stared at her. "I'm not." He repeated.

"Well," Kate said slowly. "Neither am I."

Jack grinned. "You just said you were."

"Yeah but that was before I knew how you felt." Kate admitted.

"You didn't know that?"

"How could I know? You've been ignoring me for days!"

"Ignoring you? You're the one that's been avoiding me!" Jack said.

"What?!"

"You ran Kate, remember?"

Kate looked down. "I guess what I should have said was that I'm sorry I ran, but I'm not sorry that I kissed you. I just.. I was going through a lot at the time, I was stressed, and you were there for me. Before I knew it, I was kissing you. I was afraid that I wasn't good enough for you, so I ran. It's what I do." Kate whispered the last part and looked into the fire again, not sure of what Jack was going to say.

For a few minutes, Jack didn't say anything.

Kate felt Jack's fingers softly take her chin into his hand as he turned her to look at him.

"Kate, when you ran, I felt so hurt and confused. After that, you didn't look at me. I decided to give you some space. I'm sorry that I was so mean to you afterwards. I just didn't want you to get hurt. When you got taken by the Others, it scared me so much. I'm sorry. I know I did avoid you after that and I shouldn't have. It was wrong of me."

"You hurt me Jack. You yelled at me, and then you refused to tell me anything. I missed you." Kate looked down again, afraid she had said too much.

"Hey. Kate. I missed you too." Jack said softly. "I missed talking to you. I missed your laugh, your smile, but most of all, I missed the way that you made me feel when you were around me. I wanted to talk to you, but when you started hanging around Sawyer more and more, I just thought that you didn't feel the same way, so I gave you some space."

"You were hanging around with Ana Lucia. You were confiding in her Jack. Do you know how that made me feel? I felt hurt. I thought that you had replaced me with her."

Jack smiled and looked away. "I guess we both just misunderstood each other huh?"

"Yeah I guess so."

"Well I hope that doesn't happen again." Jack looked at her once more and she looked at him.

"So you really missed me?" Kate smiled.

"Yeah, I did."

"You don't know how that makes me feel."

"Well if you feel like how I feel right now then I probably do."

"So.. friends?" Kate asked.

Jack's face fell instantly. "Friends?"

"What?"

"Well I was hoping that you would want to be more than that."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I thought that was obvious."

"Well it's hard to tell with you sometimes Jack."

"Well hopefully this will clear things up."

Kate watched as Jack leaned into kiss her, and she closed her eyes as their lips met.

Kate reached for his face much like she did the first time, and Jack put his arms around her and pulled her close to him. Soon she was almost in his lap.

Kate could go on forever kissing him, and she wished that she could but her lungs were telling her otherwise as she pulled away a little.

"Oh no you don't." Jack pulled her back and kissed her again.

Kate pulled away again and gasped for air as she reluctantly opened her eyes.

Jack opened his too but he didn't let go of her.

"You're not going to run are you?" Jack asked in part fear and part fun.

"No. I just have to breathe every once in a while. Don't you?"

"No." Jack smiled.

Kate looked at him with a playful expression on her face.

"Okay yes." Jack admitted.

Kate leaned in to kiss him again but she pushed too hard and they fell off the log.

They started to laugh and but then Jack silenced her with a kiss.

"I love you." Jack said tenderly in between kisses.

They stopped for a second and they stared at each other. Jack had dared to say the three words that she had wanted to hear.

"I love you too." Kate said breathlessly and Jack let out a huge sigh.

"Okay good, or else this would be really awkward." Jack laughed.

Kate got off of Jack and sat up, remembering the journal in her backpack.

"What's wrong?" Jack asked as he sat up too.

"I just need to do something." Kate got up and grabbed her backpack and pulled out the journal.

"What's that?" Jack asked as he joined Kate on the log where she had sat.

Kate smiled and held the journal tight in her hands.

"This Jack, is my letters that I've been writing, to you." Kate nervously glanced at Jack.

"What?"

"I missed talking to you so much that I started to write letters to you." Kate gave a tiny laugh. "Isn't that pathetic?"

Jack's face was serious. "Can I read them?"

"I-I don't know if you should. In some entries I was mad, and in others I was kind of lovesick, if you know what I'm saying."

Jack took the journal in his hands. "Well if you don't want me to, then I won't."

"Why don't you just read the first and the last one?" Kate suggested. "The middle ones are kind of insane."

Jack started to open it, but then he quickly closed it. "Kate these were your personal thoughts. You've already told me of how you felt during the last couple of weeks. If there's more, I'm sure you'll tell me."

Kate nodded. "Okay. I want to burn the journal."

"I think that's a good idea. Burning this journal will signify a new chapter in our life, don't you think? I hope that it will be a promise to both of us, that we will try to be more understanding with each other, and that we will always be there for each other no matter what."

"I like that."
Kate carefully took the journal from Jack and stared at it. "This had been of great comfort to me you know. It helped a lot. But I know that from now on I won't need to write letters to talk to you. You'll be there for me." Kate smiled at him and then took a deep breath as she threw the journal in the fire.

Jack put his arm around Kate as they watched it slowly burn.

"Things are going to change now huh?" Kate asked.

"Yeah. Yeah they are." Jack nodded. "But I think that things will change for the better."

Suddenly Kate heard rustling in the trees and Jack quickly stood up and took the gun out.

They both walked towards the figure that stumbled forwards and suddenly fell into the grass.

Kate and Jack walked over to it and Kate turned him over.

"It's Michael."

A/N: Yay it's over! Thank you for being loyal reviewers and putting up with my lack of updates! Please let me know what you thought of this!