Chapter 8

Disclaimer: I don't own LOST.

A/N: I did a Jack/Sun conversation this chapter, which I really wanted to do. So I hope you like it!

A few days past, and slowly Jack found it a bit easier to live as he continued on helping people and working with others. Juliet seemed to constantly be by his side, and Jack was trying to figure out why it annoyed him so much.

Jack was currently talking to Sun, who was starting to show that she was pregnant. She couldn't be happier though and Jack was happy for her.

"You're doing great. The baby will be fine as long as you don't go on any more missions like you did with Sayid."

Sun smiled and looked down. Jack had come to see her while she had been working on her garden. Jack was trying to get away from Juliet, and he decided that going to see Sun would work, and it had.

"Can I tell you something Jack?"

"Of course."

Sun avoided Jack's gaze as she talked. "When I was on the boat, alone, I shot one of them."

"That was you?"

Sun nodded and she spoke slowly. "Did you find out her name?"

Jack didn't talk for a second, and Sun patiently waited. "I tried to fix her. They wanted me too. I wasn't able to though. Her name was Colleen."

Sun closed her eyes. "So she died?"

Jack didn't say anything.

Sun opened her eyes and Jack saw that they were filled with tears. "It wasn't your fault Sun, she would have killed you, or worse, taken you. They might have hurt your baby if you had been taken. Those people are pure evil, and they don't care about us. Just talk to Kate and Sawyer and they will tell you."

"I know, I just feel terrible about it." Sun looked at Jack and Jack looked comfortingly at her.

"Jack, can I ask you why Kate and Sawyer are suddenly together and you've decided to be with one of them?"

Jack didn't answer, surprised by the sudden change in subject.

"Juliet is good. She's headstrong, and she's manipulative, but she's good."'

Sun raised an eyebrow and Jack laughed. "Yeah I know, it sounds weird."

"Not as weird as how you've been acting towards Kate. Why have you been acting so cold towards her?"

"Kate loves Sawyer. That's all there is to it. I'm merely leaving them alone."

"Do you love her?" Sun asked, meeting his eyes. "Because I know from experience Jack. If you love her, you shouldn't let anything, anything get in the way of that."

"Unless she doesn't love me." Jack smiled sadly and looked down. A couple of seconds later he stood up. "Thanks Sun."

"For what?"

"For just talking to me. A lot of people just want me to diagnose their problems and then they go away. "

"Well I care about you Jack. You've been there for everyone. I just want to see you happy."

Jack nodded as he walked away. It had been a long time since he had been truly happy, and he knew that he wasn't going to be happy for a long time.

It had been two days since Sawyer noticed that Kate had a fever, and she wasn't getting any better. She had gotten worse. She repeatedly refused to see Jack, but now he was going to get him since there was no way that Kate could stop him now.

Jack had just gotten back from seeing Sun when Sawyer approached him.

"Hey Doc."

"Sawyer." Jack didn't even look up at him as he continued to work on the medical tent.

"So how've you been?'

Jack looked up at Sawyer for a second before looking down again. "What do you want?"

"It's about Kate."

"What she's too good for you?" Jack muttered.

"No we're doin' fine. But she's not. She's sick."

"Sick." Jack tried to pretend like he didn't care. He suddenly realized why he had been doing better. He actually hadn't seen Kate in the last two days.

"Don't you want to know what's she's got?"

"Sawyer, I'll ask you one more time. What do you want?"

" I want you to come check on her! She's been running a fever for the past two days and she can't even get out of bed now. She's been asleep for over ten hours and I can't get her to wake up."

Now Jack was paying full attention to Sawyer. "Why didn't you come get me earlier?"

"Kate didn't want me to, and I actually respect her wishes." Sawyer looked at Jack in the eyes.

Jack had heard the conversation between Sawyer and Kate the other night outside his tent the day of their argument, and now he fully understood it.

"Well let's go see her." Jack said.

Jack walked out of the tent and headed for Kate's but Sawyer stopped him. "She's in my tent."

Jack could tell that Sawyer was bragging.

They reached Sawyer's tent and Jack went inside. The first thing he noticed was that Kate was wearing the same clothes she had been wearing the last time he had seen her.

He walked over to her and checked her pulse. It was ok. He checked her head and quickly pulled his hand back in surprise. "You should have gotten me earlier." Jack hissed at Sawyer as he checked her eyes.

Sawyer didn't say anything.

"Did she say what exactly was wrong with her?" Jack asked.

"No. Well she said she had a headache, and that she was stressed."

Jack squinted his eyes as he thought. "Well that could trigger a fever I guess if she was stressed enough. And not to mention the others could have done something to her."

Sawyer's eyes blazed at the thought of the others doing something to Kate. His Kate.

"It's all your fault." Sawyer accused Jack.

"What?"

"If you hadn't dragged all of us over there in the first place, we would have never gotten captured and Kate wouldn't have gotten sick."

"And you and Kate wouldn't have gotten together." Jack retorted, and Sawyer didn't miss the pain flash across his face.

Sawyer got quiet again, but then he suddenly walked out of the tent and Jack didn't have to think long before he figured out where he was going. Sawyer was going to go talk to Juliet.

Jack knelt beside Kate and watched her carefully.

"Oh Kate." He murmured.

Before he knew it, he was grabbing her hand with his. He took it and lifted it up to his lips as he kissed her hand.

"I'm so sorry." Jack's eyes filled with tears. He hated to think that he was the cause of this.

Jack tried to fight the lump in his throat as he sat there through blurred vision. For once in his life, he had no clue of how to fix this.