I am so incredibly sorry it has taken so long to update. I have been a very busy bee. Today I have strep throat which gives me good reason to update since I canceled everything for today and I think you all deserve an update.


"THERE'S SOMEONE HERE!" Charlie calls out towards the group who were standing a few feet away from Kate, discussing her well-being.

They all rush over longing for the best, Kate, even though now weak and frail joins them as well, her heart swelling with hope. And she is not all too shattered when she sees the blond woman walk out from the trees following an excited Charlie.

She hastens over towards her. "Where's Jack?" Kate demands as she uses what little strength she has left to burst through the small crowd.

"I don't know." Juliet lies.

"What? But you brought me to him, how can you not know?" Kate asks angered.

"Because they won't let me near him anymore Kate, not after that day. I haven't seen him since."

"I saw you in that room, why did you do that to him?" Kate says as tears fill her eyes at the memory.

Juliet looks down. "Why do you care Kate?"

Kate looks at her, completely blown away by the combative tone in her question. "Because I…"

"Don't even say it Kate, we all saw what you did with Sawyer, even Jack. You broke him Kate. If you really did feel what you were about to admit too, you would not have hurt him like that in the first place" She states aggressively.

Kate's breath hitches in her throat.

Juliet turns towards Sawyer. "Hello James." She greets as if she is already annoyed by him, as she pushes her way past the two and heads to the open area on the beach.

"Now what the hell is good ole' Juju doin' here?" Sawyer asks watching as the woman walked towards Locke.

"I don't know, but I don't believe her." Kate says as the tears work their way down her cheeks onto the soft sand below her.


"Jack." A small voice comes from out of the bathroom door. "Jack come here." It calls again.

He slowly gets up off the dense ground and heads towards the voice. "Who is that?"

"Shh, come in here."

He does as he is told and is greeted by a young girl with dark hair and blue eyes. "Are you Alex?"

She nods quickly.

"Look, in three days I can get you and your friends out of here."

"Who?"

"The woman and two children." She answers.

He nods liking where this is going. Knowing now he couldn't leave those three behind, they have helped him far too much.

"Okay, how."

"You just wait for my voice and I will help you from there, just be ready."

Jack nods as she runs and unlocks the door, quickly leaving and locking it behind her. This was going to be a long few days.


"Kate?" Juliet says coming up next to Kate who was sitting out on the shoreline yet again, this time it wasn't raining.

She looks up at the blond woman. "What do you want?"

Juliet hands Kate some juice. "I just want to say I'm sorry for before, it just had been a long journey and I was taking it out on you."

Kate eyes the juice suspiciously, and frankly she doesn't care if there is anything in it so she drinks. It feels so wonderful as it slides down her dry and achy throat, she hasn't had juice in a while and this juice seemed sweeter than anything else she has had on this island.

"You know you seem really sick and should be getting some rest and proper nutrition."

"What are you, a doctor?" Kate asks bitterly.

"As a matter of fact I am." Kate's head snaps towards the woman.

"If you are a doctor how come you know nothing about Jack, You were in there when that man knocked out the camera. Was he okay after that, have they done it since?"

"I don't know Kate, I haven't seen him since." She lies again. Kate could tell she was lying through her teeth. But she was too weak and tired to fight it. God this woman was such a manipulative bitch and Kate couldn't stand it. She knew Juliet knew about Jack, she just didn't want to share.

"I'm sorry I couldn't help you out with your questions more Kate. If you need me I'll be by Claire, she needs to be told something that is somewhat important." She gets up dusting the loose sand from her pants.

Kate wasn't even going to ask, knowing Claire would tell her later on.

And she was correct. Ten minutes later Claire was sitting next to her, Aaron tightly clenched to her chest, tears running down her cheeks.

"He's my brother." She says almost in a trance.

"What?" Kate asks wondering what in the hell the small blond woman was going on about.

"I…I knew my dad didn't want to be my family because he had a whole other family. We were his side family, me and my mum. But I never thought I would meet my sibling in a plane crash we both miraculously survived." She says in disbelief. "And now…now I don't think I will be able to ever talk to him or even see him knowing the same blood runs in his veins again."

"Claire, what are you talking about hunny, who is your brother?"

"Jack." She says simply.

Kate's mouth falls open.

"I knew his first name was Christian, and I remember when I was younger my mom said his last name in passing but since I've been here I never connected the two. His last name was Shephard, he was a top surgeon in LA, he had a son and a wife, and that is all I knew about him. So I did know I had a brother, I just never in a million years thought it could be Jack."

A small smile hints its way on Kate's face.

Claire looks at her strangely, and Kate gets the hint.

"It's just, that means Jack is Aaron's Uncle." Kate says as her smile gets a little bigger.

Claire soon joins and she herself starts to smile. "You're right." She pauses. "I wanted him back badly before, for everyone's sake and especially yours, but now I want him back even more than that for mine and Aaron's sake."

Kate nods and takes Claire's hand. Claire notices there is no strength in Kate's grip and her smile immediately fades.

"Please take care of yourself." Claire says almost pleading. "If not for me, do it for my brother." She stops. "That is so strange to say."

Kate swallows hard. She seems to stop and think for almost a minute before she looks Claire dead in the eye. "Alright." She nods her head. "Alright." She says again, this time with a hint of a sigh towards the end.

"Good." Claire says with a smile. She gets up and helps Kate up with her. The second Kate gets on her feet she is back on the ground again. "Whoa!" Claire says kneeling towards the fallen woman. "Kate are you alright?"

And that's the last thing Kate remembers before her entire world goes black.

"She is getting sicker, and I don't know how to help." Sun states outside Kate's tent where they all are gathered discussing their current predicament.

"We'll didn't you go through Jacks medicine?" Charlie asks.

"Yeah, there is nothing for fever in there, and I don't know what else can be used. I'm not a doctor."

"We'll you are the closest we have Sunshine." Sawyer states. "Unless we ask Jules."

They hear a moan from inside the tent.

"We are just going to have to wait it out and keep her warm, we can take shifts. I'll go first, then Sun, Charlie you go after sun, then Niki you can go, then Hurley and then Sawyer, alright." Claire forcefully states, finally deciding she will be the one to take action. "Sawyer, you can ask Juliet about the medication."

They all nod in agreement. "Can I go after Hurley instead?" Niki asks sending a glance towards Sawyer.

"Yeah, sure Dudette, I don't care."

She nods smiling towards Hurley.

"Alright then." There is another moan. Claire ducks into the tent and goes towards Kate's side. She places a cool cloth on her head as Kate squirms under it. She hasn't woken up since her fall earlier that day and seems to be getting worse as time went on.

"Why did you do this to yourself Kate, it isn't helping anyone. I know you are hurting but taking it out on your body is not the way to go sweetheart." Claire says wiping off Kate's neck which is soaked with sweat. 'You have to swear you will abide by your promise when you wake up, you have to take care of yourself.

About ten minutes later Sawyer enters the tent with a bottle of pills in his hand. "She says if she takes one of these twice a day she will be better in no time." He extends his hand towards Claire as she takes the bottle and pops it open.

"Can you hand me that water." Claire asks Sawyer pointing towards a water bottle in the corner of the tent.

He nods and hands it to her. She crushes up the pills placing them in Kate's mouth. "Kate you have to swallow darling, alright. It's the only way for you to get better."

She pours the water into Kate's mouth and some dribbles onto her chin, causing the coldness to run down her neck. Kate springs up panting. "KATE!" Sawyer and Claire both exclaim.

"Hunny are you okay, you had us really worried" Claire says brushing some of Kate's hair out of her face.

"I'm so tired and dizzy." She states as her eyelids bob up and down.

"Lie back down Kate, you need your rest." Claire pushes on Kate's shoulders forcing her back on the bed. She grabs some fruit that is placed next to her and mashes some up in a coconut for Kate. She starts to spoon feed the weak woman lying in front of her. Kate starts to choke on the first bite.

"Sawyer can you get behind her and hold her up."

He just nods, holding in his sick remark that is floating through his one-track mind at this point, knowing this is definitely not the time. He positions himself behind her as Claire continues to feed Kate. Once and a while she chokes on the food and coughs it back up. Claire is pretty talented at this since it's almost like feeding Aaron, just much bigger and she helps a bit more with chewing.

"It's sad." Kate says breathlessly.

"What is hunny."

"That…that I don't even have the strength to feed myself." She states.

Claire smiles warmly at her. "It's alright hunny, that's what you've got us for, plus I'm use to it."

Kate smiles weakly up at Claire, knowing what she is talking about. "Thank you." She says quietly.

"Of course hunny. I know you would do the same for me." She smiles.

Kate gently nods as her eyes start to close. Soon after she is softly snoring as both Sawyer and Claire exit the tent.

"God I am so worried about her." Claire says starting to pace.

"Geez with all that pacin' I'd say you were as bad as the Hero."

"It runs in our blood." She states quickly stopping herself from saying too much.

"What'd you just say?" Sawyer asks as he tilts his head to the side a bit.

"Nothing." She says as she starts to walk away.

"Ya'll are related?"

Claire stops and turns towards Sawyer. "Well I suppose it was going to get out sooner or later, yes we are related, it turns out he is my half brother I knew I had but never met."

"You serious?"

Claire nods fiercely. "Uh-huh." She says as she turns to walk away.

"This Island keeps getting weirder and weirder." Sawyer drawls out and heads off to go and both Juliet for the hell of it.

And he finds her starting to build her own shelter, right next to where Jacks still stands.

"Hiya there E.T. Whatcha' doin' so close to the Hero's tent?" He asks.

Juliet rolls her eyes. "Why E.T.?"

"Do you really think I'd answer that?"

"Yes I did, since I asked politely."

"That has never worked on me before and it ain't gonna work now."

"Why are you here James?"

"To ask you the same damn question." He sits down so he is flat out in her way.

"Do you want to move?" She scolds.

"Nah, I'm pretty cozy here actually." He says leaning back on his arms and sprawling his legs out in front of him. She kicks his legs out of the way so she can continue with what she was doing.

"So Barbie, ya gonna answer my question?"

"Not until you answer mine James."