Disclaimer: I do not own Lost or its characters. I only own the story in my head.

Summary: They changed everything. Flight 815 never crashed, the island is underwater, and the same people are living different lives. So they think, because fate as other plans.

Sideways Stories from the Castaways

Jack and Kate

She stood by Claire as they rolled Aaron out of the room to take him to the nursery. She smiles at the young woman.

"Alright, the baby's born, everyone's ok. So we can go now" Miles says breaking her reprieve. She sighs as her reality comes crashing back to her. She'd never have this, they made sure of it. She turns to him and nods. He reaches over and un-cuffs her from the bed and places it back on her other wrist.

"Congratulations, Claire. He's beautiful." She smiles again, she still looked so scared, but she somehow knew it would be ok.

"Hi, Miss Littleton I brought your stuff" a teenage girl says entering the room.

"Thank you, Alex" Claire says to her.

"Did I miss him?" Alex asks.

"They just took him, I can see if they can bring him back if you want to see him?" Claire tells her.

She watches as the teenager puts the bag on Claire's bed and starts taking her stuff out of it. She takes that as her cue to leave.

Miles gently grabs her arms and escorts her out of the room. She walks through the hallway with her arms behind her back, she looks up to see a short man in a hospital gown and sneakers running towards her with some orderlies chasing him. He starts pushing things over to slow them down when he gets closer he pushes a gurney out of his way she doesn't have a lot of room to move and she feels the stinging as the gurney nicks her in the side.

"Hey!" She hears Miles say as the man just kept running. She tries to see the damage and sees that her shirt is ripped.

"Are you ok?" She hears a man's voice say. "I just saw that, I'm sorry"

"Why? It wasn't your fault" she tells him.

"I should take a look at that, I'm a doctor" he says smiling.

"I think the lab coat gave it away, Chico" Miles says to him.

The doctor just looks at him. "Can we take her to room so I can look at it?" He asks Miles.

Miles sighs and nods. "Someone really doesn't want you to go to jail" Miles whispers in her ear.

"I'm Dr. Shephard" He tells her as he sees the officer handcuff her to the gurney. He had the strangest feeling that he's seen her before.

"Kate" she replies.

"You were on airplane" he says suddenly. He remembered that but it felt like more. He felt like he knew her.

"I'm sorry" She says startled.

"The plane, flight 815 we ran into each other at the lavatories"

"Oh, right we did" she replies. When she saw him it had felt like déjà vu, she didn't really believe in that. But being her with him again the feeling was stronger.

"Well anyway let me take a look" he says lifting her shirt up slightly. "It got you pretty good; you're going to need stitches." He tells her and rolls his chair back to the cabinet to pull out the supplies he needs. He rolls back and starts to clean out her wound. "Did you ever patch up a pair of jeans?" He asks

"I, um, sewed the drapes in my apartment" She replies.

"I'm sorry I don't know why I asked that." He says looking down and laughing to himself, wondering what was wrong with him, what did that have to do with anything?

"That's ok" She says smiling and having the feeling they had said to each other before, which was impossible because they didn't say too much to each other on the plane and she's never seen him before that.

"Yeah, were in the Twilight Zone, freaky. Now can we hurry it up?" Miles asks. "We had to wait for Littleton to have her kid and now we're stuck with Dr. Giggles"

Jack looks up at the sound of that name. "Did you Littleton?" He asks.

"Yeah" Miles answers.

"What's her first name?" He asks his heart beat had sped up. It couldn't be that would be too much of a coincidence.

"Claire" Kate answers. "Do you know her?" She was getting a little worried his face had gone white and he looked like he was going to pass out or something. She reaches out and touches his shoulder. She felt a little awkward doing that since she didn't know him but she had an overwhelming need to comfort him.

"…I was looking for her." He begins. "She…her name was in my father's will, but I got busy." He laughs. "It can't be the same one, I'm sure there are others with her name."

"Is she Australian?" Miles asks.

Jack swallows. "…yes"

"She was in your father's will, what does that mean?" Kate asks him.

"I don't know, that's what I wanted to ask her." He says finishing up the last of the stitches. In the back of his mind he thought he knew who she was, he just kept hoping it wasn't true. Christian Shephard was a hard man to love but this? He didn't want to believe.

"We can go together…to ask her" Kate suggests. For some reason she knew that what he was about to find out would affect him and he would need someone to there with him.

"No, he can go alone. He's a big boy." Miles tells her. Kate looks at him. "I'm not my partner your puppy dog eyes won't work on me." Miles says.

"I can't let him do this alone" Kate tells him. "I just have this feeling that he's going to need someone"

"You think the sweet I-want-to-help-everyone act is going to stop you from going to jail?" He asks her.

"No, the jail will still be there when where done." She says.

Jack was watching them argue back and forth of whether to help or not and it felt familiar only he wasn't standing in a hospital, he was on a beach. He shakes his head, he really needed some rest.

Miles sighs; he knew that if that girl was in his father's will the most obvious reason would not something you want to hear about your father. He rubs his face; he didn't know what possessed him to do this. "I guess were going back to Oz" he says rolling his eyes.

"Thank you" Kate says to him.

"Live together or die alone" Jack says. They both look at him. Why did he say that? Ever since he started talking to Kate he was having these strange feelings of being somewhere else with her. He shook himself out of it and they start walking towards Claire's room.