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She had been lying on the bed in the same position for the last few minutes and with each minute that passed, she grew more and more worried at the fact that jack had not returned yet, but she decided to wait for a little longer, that is until the silence got too much for her and she quickly dressed going in to check on chris first and then see what was keeping jack. On her way there she poked her head into all the rooms hoping to find jack in one of them but she was unsuccessful in the end so she went on to check on chris.
"How's my little soldier" kate cooed over the now awake infant reaching out for his mother and whining when she didn't at first. In the end she took him into her arms and cuddled him closely saying…
"So have you seen daddy anywhere sweetie?" she whispered to the clueless infant who just stuck his thumb in his little mouth in response making his mother chuckle at the action.
"Well why don't we go and see where he is then!!" she declared with a smile on her face but she was getting quite worried on the inside of what was really keeping him, oh god please let him be alive she hopefully thought to herself as she stepped into the next space which was none other than the locker room. She kept on calling out his name softly and when she got nothing in return she couldn't help but allow the tears of sadness and loss to fall from her fear filled eyes, but as she turned around to walk out of the room to check the next room, she was suddenly startled to hear a loud noise and once she turned around and looked down, she saw jack coming out of hidden hatch compartment in the floor of the locker room.
The whole time she just stood rooted to the same spot, frozen with chris in her arms, who was starting to reach out for jack. Although once jack made contact with her by touching her shoulder, she snapped out of it and crushed him in a fierce hug, breaking down completely once his arms were around her instantly in return embracing her as tightly.
"I thought you had…you, I…" she tried to say but she got wracked in her sobs.
"Hey! Kate, sweetheart look at me." he kept on saying when he pulled away, looking at her directly in the eye. "I'm not going anywhere and I never will, I promise" he said and then took her back into his arms again whispering those three words into her ear that she absolutely loved hearing. Poor little chris on the other hand had no idea of the emotional scene he was witnessing at the moment and so in his best efforts to gain attention he started squealing, throwing himself up and down in his mother's embrace and making the parents break apart laughing with swelling hearts at the scene. When the boy was done kate looked down in the direction of the hidden hatch on the locker room floor with a shocked and puzzled look on her face.
"What did you find?" kate simply asked making jack look in the same direction and suddenly realize what she was on about.
"Well what I found was a series of underground tunnels , which I'm assuming leads to the other stations, but I didn't want to go investigating just yet, cause you never know where it will lead us" he said in one breath making kate gasp in shock in shock at what she was hearing and she was about to respond when their conversation was interrupted by a weird moaning noise coming from down the hall and they both immediately assumed that Jaco had woken up so kate wordlessly put chris into jack's arms and went to check on him and see if he was okay, leaving jack alone once again.
On her way there she grew more wary and afraid with each step, suddenly remembering what had happened out in the jungle earlier but the other part of her who wanted to be his friend won out in the end and with that in mind she continued on towards the direction of his room genuinely concerned about him but yet again jack who was standing a few feet down the hall thought otherwise, but he ignored it this time and went back to their room with a now sleeping chris in his arms.
She finally entered the dark room cautiously and the only thing that could be heard was a distinct shuffling and heavy breathing to go along with it. All the signs in her head were telling her to bolt out of here and don't come back but she continued on anyway calling out his name softly, hoping for some kind of reply in return but all she got was the same noise but now it seemed a lot closer, the breathing getting louder and heavier, until she started to feel the urgency and the heat now breathing down on her neck. For the next few minutes she just stood in the same position, not really knowing what to do next, the fear slowly taking over her so she did the thing she needed to do to overcome it. She slowly closed her eyes and counted softly to herself "one…..two…..three…..four……………five", and once she opened them the heavy breathing had seized and all she heard now was the noise coming from the flickering light in the hallway. She then suddenly turned her gaze and saw Jacob huddled in the corner of the room muttering something to himself and then banging his head on the wall behind him continuously making kate react suddenly in concern. So she ran up to his hidden form and with her finger she raised his face up to meet hers and what she saw was enough to bring tears to her eyes. His face was literally covered in scratches and as she lowered her gaze to his shirtless body, the scratches seemed to have spread there as well.
"What did you do?" she asked softly trying to get a hold on her emotions.
He didn't respond but instead he just lowered his head and in a low voice he said, "I tried to get it out!"
"Get what out?" she asked sitting down in front of him.
"It, him, whatever they did to me!" he said burying his face in his hands, letting the defeat and stress take over him and as he got more lost in his emotions, the room they were in at the moment started to shake and grow more violent making kate fear at what he was really capable of. So in an effort to calm him down she just took hold of his hands and pulled them away from his face saying " hey Jacob look at me!! look at me!! whatever it is , we'll get through it together, I promise." To her utter shroud of luck, the shaking of the room calmed down along with him and she let out a sigh of relief in return.
"I wish it was as easy as that freckles!!" the man uttered still keeping a tight hold on her hands and watching as her face turned from a comforting smile to that of shock.
"What did you just call me?" kate said in utter amazement and all the blonde man did was smile warmly in return, allowing for the brunette who still taunted his dreams every second of his existence, to embrace him in a friendly hug. Although jack who had been standing outside the room the whole time was watching the scene in front of him with nothing but jealousy and sadness in his eyes, fearing that he was going to lose her again but this time he feared that he couldn't fix it.
Next chapter
We haven't seen the last of Jacob!!
And
Who took the survivors??
Sorry about the shortness of this chapter but I wanted to put out my theory about all the stations being possibly connected via tunnels, I mean if the people working in the stations were all quarantined then they had to get around to each other some other way!!! so there it is!!! I promise the next one will be longer and we also get to find out where the survivors are!!! Anyway guys please review and tell me what you think and I'll get typing with the next part which should see a whole Jekyll and Hyde thing going on with sawyer along with his new found powers!!!