Chapter 6

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Kate had watched Jack disappear into the jungle. She knew he was trying to be secretive about it, and she knew that she was the only one that had seen him go. She smiled to herself. She hoped that he was going to have to time to himself, because he needed it. An hour later though, she became concerned when she still didn't see him.

She found herself going after him. She told herself it was because she was worried, and not because she missed him.

A while later she finally found him. Jack wasn't as good at hiding himself from everyone like he had thought. He hadn't even bothered trying to make his tracks discreet. She found him sitting on a log. He seemed to be deep in thought. She quietly walked away and hid in a bush, planning to talk to him when he stood up.

He got up a couple of minutes later and began walking back. He started out going in the right direction but soon Kate could tell that he was lost. She moved along side him from the trees.

Kate ran ahead and turned around so it would appear that she had just gone after him.

"Hey." Kate said.

Jack seemed surprised and he jumped back. "Where did you come from?"

Kate looked him over and saw that he looked horrible. Her heart ached to help him, but knew that he wouldn't ever accept her help.

"I was checking up on you. You're not as sneaky as you think." Kate said with a smile.

Jack grinned. "I wasn't trying to be sneaky."

"Yes you were."

Jack looked away as his smile vanished.

Kate realized that it was quickly getting awkward. This was worse then after they had kissed, and for a second Kate wondered if he knew about what Sawyer and Kate had done while they were with the Others. But there wasn't any way he could have found out, or was there?

"Admit it, you're lost." Kate forced herself to keep her smile.

"I'm not lost."

"Ok fine. You're not. I'll just let you find your own way back then." Kate turned around and started to walk away. She thought that Jack would call her back, but he didn't. She slowed down her pace and finally he did call her.

"Fine. I'm lost." Jack said reluctantly. His attitude had changed completely and there wasn't any trace of a smile even though Kate continued to.

"Okay. Let's go. You let yourself get out here pretty far. We need to hurry to get back in time." Kate looked up at the sky and noticed it was getting dark. "It's getting dark. And if I remember correctly, I think you once told me that you're afraid of the dark." Kate looked back at Jack with a grin, and he looked back at her. Still no smile. Kate turned around again.

They walked in silence for a few minutes but then Kate felt Jack grab her arm and Kate couldn't help but gasp.

"Kate, what are you doing?"

Kate turned around and Jack withdrew his hand from her arm.

"What do you mean?"

"Don't play with me Kate. I'm done with your games."

"What are you talking about?"

"Kate stop acting like this! I know about you and Sawyer!" Jack raised his voice.

"What? How?" Kate stepped back, shocked.

"They had cameras! How could you have been that dumb? They saw it, I saw it. Okay so you love Sawyer. Fine. But I had to find out through a camera. Do you have any idea of how much that hurt me?"

Kate was trying hard not to cry now, and Jack seemed pretty close to tears as well.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Kate asked in a whisper.

"Because I didn't want this to happen. Heck I thought that I wasn't going to see you ever again. At first it killed me to see you with him, and then I figured that it was better that way. You and Sawyer would get your happy ending, and I would never have to see it. I never thought that I would end up back here."

"Well I'm sorry for not coming to you first before I decided to be with someone that cared! Here I was, finally happy that someone actually gave me attention, someone who loved me for me and you're telling me I'm not allowed to?" Kate finally found her voice.

"Is that what you think? That I don't care about you?"

"You never act like it! You never have! You're too busy being the hero of the island!"

"Why do you think I came out here? I'm sick of everyone always wanting me to fix something. I can't handle it anymore!"

"You don't have to fix everything Jack." Kate gave him one final look. "Find your own way back."

Jack rolled his eyes, and he reached out to grab her, but then he quickly pulled back. If she wanted to run away again, then so be it.

Kate waited until she was far enough away from Jack before she burst into tears. She hadn't planned for it to do like this. All she wanted was for things to go back to normal with her and Jack, but now that Jack knew about her and Sawyer, there was no hope. Things would definitely be difficult from now on and Kate almost wished that Jack could go back to the other island. She quickly took that back though. Having to be around him now was better then not knowing if he was dead or alive. She actually decided that it was better to be mad at him rather than feel bad for being with Sawyer.

Speaking of Sawyer, she was grateful that she had him. He did love her, and if Jack would keep acting this way then she didn't need to trouble herself with him. She wiped her eyes before she continued towards the beach.

A few minutes later Kate heard some noise in front of her and Kate looked for something to defend herself with. She couldn't find anything so she just stood there waiting.

Juliet broke through the trees and stopped in front of Kate. "Oh hey Kate."

Kate wanted to find some way to wipe the grin off Juliet's face. "Hi Juliet." Kate matched Juliet's tone.

"Have you seen Jack?"

"He's back there some where." Kate motioned behind her, trying to act like she didn't care.

"Did you talk to him?"

"Yeah."

"What did he say?"

"I'm sorry Juliet but I don't really feel like talking to you right now." Kate said dryly and pushed past her.

Juliet smiled again and watched Kate walk past her. She hoped that Jack and Kate had had a fight. That was what they were going for. After Kate and Sawyer had left, Jack was reluctant to stay. He wanted to get off the island. So Ben and Juliet had to come up with some way to get Jack to want to stay with them. They decided to have Juliet and Jack go back to their island, where Jack would be forced to be around Kate. Once Jack had had enough, Juliet was going to suggest that they go back. And if that wouldn't work out, there was always plan B.

Juliet walked around and finally found Jack sitting down.

"Hey. I've been looking for you." Juliet gave him a bright smile.

Jack didn't make any move that suggested that he had heard her, so she tried again.

"Jack?" Juliet kneeled beside him and touched his arm.

Jack jumped and looked at her. "What?"

"Don't you want to go have dinner?"

"I'm not hungry."

"You're not going to refuse to eat again are you?" Juliet said with a grin.

"Juliet I'm not in the mood right now ok?"

"Will you at least come back to camp?"

Jack seemed to think about it and he finally stood up. Without saying anything he started to walk back, and Juliet matched his pace, trying to put her arm around Jack's.

Jack shoved her away. "Would you leave me alone? Stop trying to touch me all of the time. It's annoying."

"What's going on Jack?"

"Nothing. I'm just tired."

"Well when we get back to camp, why don't you go in your tent, and I'll tell everyone to leave you alone. How does that sound?"

Jack nodded.

"Are you mad at me Jack?"

Jack was mad at her, but he wasn't quite sure why. He knew why he was feeling the way he was. Kate had totally crushed him, as if he hadn't already been crushed enough and yet he didn't feel angry with her at all. That didn't mean that he wasn't upset with her, but he felt no hatred towards her, and yet here he hated Juliet for no reason.

"I just need to be alone."

They got to camp and Jack went into his tent and laid down, knowing that he wasn't going to get any sleep that night.

A/N: that was fun to write. Jack and Kate should have more fights.. For those of you wondering, this story is far from over.