The two days had past and now they were on the plane to Hawaii.
Jack let Kate have the window seat knowing she loves to be up high. Jack sat next to her. Every time they hit turbulence Kate's hand would find Jacks.
They landed and immediately all three children complained about the heat.
"Suck it up, were going to have fun." Christian said.
And they did. They saw the sights and swam in the ocean. That is, they had fun until the last day.
The family hadn't just come for a vacation. Christian also had some convention he had to go to. So the last day was spent with just the kids and Margo.
Jack and Kate were in the ocean and the waves were pretty big. Claire was told to stay by Margo even though she badly wanted to go out. She was told she was too small to go out too far since she wasn't as far along with swimming as the two older kids, so she was aloud to stay in the shallow area. But she spent most of her time building sandcastles with Margo.
Jack and Kate were busy playing Marco Polo with some kids they met there that day. Kate was it and once she went under all the kids swam off. After more than ten second Kate still hadn't come back up. Then it was thirty seconds. Jack knew she could hold her breath for a long time, but she never did when they were playing Marco Polo.
"KATE? KATE WHERE ARE YOU?"
No answer.
"KATIE?" Jack screams.
Margo looks up at this panicked.
"JACK WHERE KATE?!" Margo calls out.
"I DONT KNOW, SHE DIDNT COME UP!" Jack yells back as he starts to panic. It's been about a minute. He starts to go under water to look around. The other kids join in. Soon parents are in the water. Jack is now a complete mess looking for her. He swims out further. After about a minute more of searching he spots her underwater tangled up in some seaweed. He goes up getting air then dives under. She's not awake. He tries to untie her ankle but it's really wrapped tightly. He goes back up for air only to quickly come back down. He bites at the seaweed. Finally it snaps and Jack brings Kate up to the surface. She's not breathing.
He quickly swims her to surface and drags her on shore. Everyone sees she was found so they start making their way back.
Jack starts CPR.
"COMMON KATIE, PLEASE WAKE UP!" Jack calls to her as he's doing compressions.
Margo is holding tightly onto Claire on the sidelines. Both crying.
After about three minutes Margo comes down to Jack.
"Jacky, Jack...I think she's gone."
"No no no no no no no no..." Jack says as Margo pulls him away.
He pushes her off him and starts to pound her chest hard. Everyone standing around is now crying.
"Katie please come back, I promise I wont be jealous of you liking Sawyer anymore, just please come back."
With the next hard pound Kate chokes out water then gasps for air.
"KATE!" Jack shouts as he lifts her up in his arms.
Kate is terrified that she can't talk. She just keeps choking. She barely has any strength but with whatever strength she has she buries her head in Jacks chest and cries.
"You know you're pretty when you cry." Jack says looking down at the shaking frail figure in his arms.
She was weak but she had enough energy to let a small smile escape from her lips.
Jack is now crying tears of happiness. He kisses Kate's forehead and rocks her back and fourth. Margo and Claire join the two on the sand and share a big group hug.
After a little while of sitting there, Margo and Claire quickly collect their things and head for the car to take her to the hospital. Margo offers to carry her but Jack says he will. She lets him knowing he is strong enough too.
"WHAT HAPPENED!?" Christian asks loudly while running into the emergency room of the hospital.
Margo turns around and sees her husband. He runs up to her.
"What happened?" He asks holding his wife's shoulders.
"Katie drowned."
Christian's hands fall.
"Jack saved her."
Christian lets out a loud breath and closes his eyes.
"She...they were playing Marco Polo and the waves were high. She never came back up. Jack found her and saved her; he used CPR and saved her..." Margo says still in shock from the whole ordeal. "I just...I don't know where he learned it, I couldn't help...I was too much in shock, it's like I couldn't move. But as soon as he got her on shore he started and then...then I tried to stop him, it had been so long and she wasn't waking up...but he pushed me away and started to beat on her chest, and next thing I knew she was in his arms crying and gasping for breath." Margo says while tears fill her eyes.
"See I told you he's going to be a doctor."
Margo laughs as Christian hugs her.
"I learned it from the discovery health channel." A small voice says as they back away breaking their hug.
Christian lifts up his son into a huge hug and then sets him back down on the ground. "I'm very proud of you Jack, what you did today was brave and heroic."
Jack smiles. Claire runs up and hugs her dad. "Daddy I was so scared."
"Oh I know baby, but everything is going to be alright now."
Claire nods into her dad's chest.
"Excuse me...Mrs. Shepard." A young nurse says.
"Yes?" Margo asks wondering what's going on with Kate.
"You can see her now."
Margo smiles. "Thank you."
The nurse looks at Christian and smiles. He nods. The family walks towards the room Kate is in and enter.
Claire leads the way, followed by Margo, Christian, and then Jack.
Claire runs to Kate's bed and sits on the end of it.
"How are you feeling Kate?" Claire asks quickly and loudly.
"Okay." Kate says in a rough voice but still smiling.
Margo comes next to her and gives her a kiss on the forehead. Christian rubs the top of her head.
"I'm so glad your okay Kate." Christian says.
Jack soon comes up and gives her a peck on the lips. He leans down next to her with his arms crossed. They just stare in each others eyes saying everything.
Margo watches as they are gazing at each other. Kate smiles and then Jack nods. She knew they had a strange thing with communicating with their eyes, but she noticed it was like they were really speaking.
The next day Kate was able to leave the hospital. She still had a sore throat, was fairly weak, and a little trouble breathing, but she begged her way out of that hospital saying she just wanted to go home.
They let her just because her guardian was a Doctor.
The whole plane ride back Jack watched her like a hawk. Even though she slept most of the way he watched her chest rise and fall.
When they landed she still wasn't awake. He was getting worried but his dad told him not to be so worried for her that she was just exhausted and this was helping her regain her strength.
Christian picked her up in her arms and they got off the plane. When they stepped out of the airport it was freezing cold. It didn't look like it had snowed yet though. It sure felt like it.
After about an hour of driving they finally reached home. Kate still wasn't awake and this was worrying Jack a lot. Christian put her in her own bed and shut the door.
"Let her sleep son."
Jack looks at him sadly and then nods his head.
They day passes and Jack is still waiting. Dinner is done but he doesn't know how much he can eat when he's this worried. He's just sitting there fiddling with his food.
"Jack eat your dinner." Margo says across the table. He looks down.
"Yeah Jack, listen to your mother." A voice says from the staircase.
Jack looks up and sees Kate walking down with a smile on her face. She seems much stronger than the last time he saw her awake.
"Glad you're up Kate, now Jack can finally stop acting so paranoid." Christian smiles at the young girl.
Kate smiles at Jack understanding why he was, because she would have been the same way if their positions were reversed.
Kate takes her seat and starts to eat. Jack just watches her, taking her in. Still worried that something could go wrong.
Kate looks at Jack. "I'm fine." She says quietly so no one else could hear and then gives Jack a heart melting smile.
Jack nods and starts to eat his food.
"Mom can I have some friends over tomorrow since I haven't seen them in a while."
Margo looks at Jack and nods. "Of course, only because you finished most of your assigned homework and because it's a three day weekend from school."
"Thanks mom." Jack smiles.
The kids head upstairs for bed but Jack doesn't want to sleep so he goes into Kate's room and lies on her bed with her.
"Promise me something Katie."
"Anything."
"Promise me you will marry me, and have lots of little babies with me, and be with me forever."
"I promise." Kate says drifting off to sleep.
Jack smiles and soon follows her into a deep slumber.
Early the next day there were already a bunch of kids over. Each one of the bundled up in about sixteen different items of clothing. Forgetting her children had this many friends she had to send Christian to the store for more food.
"Jack lets play red rover!" Ana yells over all the other kids fighting over what to play next after they had tried tag, and then lava tag they got bored with that.
Jack looks at Kate knowing she is still too weak to play. Kate smiles at him. "Its okay Jack, I can sit out."
"Are you sure."
"She said she could sit out hero, now let's play." Smarts Sawyer.
Jack sighs and rolls his eyes. "Fiiiiine."
They spilt up into two sides. Unfortunately there were 21 kids and couldn't be divided evenly since Kate wasn't playing. But they soon decided to have Claire and Shannon be counted as one person, since Claire was smaller than everyone, and Shannon...well was Shannon.
It took a long time for the game to be completed. There were a lot of kids and it was difficult to all agree on one person. Kate was out cold in the lawn chair. Jack just smiled at the sight of it. But after about two hours of red rover they decided to end it when Margo said dinner was ready.
Soon all the kids except Kate and Jack went running to the house. Jack sat next to Kate who was still sleeping. He noticed she was shivering and sweating badly. She was also squirming a lot in her sleep.
"Katie, Katie wake up, its time to eat." He says gently shaking her.
She springs up startled. Her eyes are wide with fear. She sees its Jack and clings to him.
"It's alright Katie; you were just having a nightmare." He says rubbing her back. It was hard to do because of all the layers of clothing.
"It was so real." She says into his ear.
"Its alright, you're safe now."
She nods into his chest.
"Let's go eat."
"Alright." She says when taking her hand in his and leading her back to the house.
Kids were starting to file outside. There were a bunch of blankets laid out. It was a giant picnic with almost every child in Ms. Helen's fifth grade class there. Well and Claire.
Everyone had one or two hotdogs, there was tons of soda, and lots of bowls around full of either chips or watermelon. All the kids had such a great time. Soon everyone was finished and just when they were about to bring up the idea of what to play next Margo brought out two big tubs of ice cream, followed by Christian with a ton of different flavors of syrup. All the kids jumped up and down with glee.
"You're parents are bloody awesome mate!" Charlie said to Jack.
"I know." Jack simply replied.
His parents smiled when they heard this. Margo whispers to Christian. "Give him a raise."
Christian smiles.
"Heeeey what about me?" Claire asks pouting behind her parents.
"Don't worry darling, you will get one too. All three of you will." Margo says picking up Claire and giving her a big kiss on the cheek.
"Ew." Claire says and then struggles to be let down so she can go get ice cream.
"Its so bloody cold but I don't care, I love ice cream." Charlie says.
After the ice cream, every last kid was on a sugar high.
"What should we play Jack?" Sayid asks.
"Why are you asking me, why can't you guys decide."
"Well...it's your house, and you're Jack." Sayid says.
"Yeah I know my name too."
"Well you're the leader of our little gang, Hero." Sawyer adds.
"Since when am I the leader?" He asks curious.
"Since like forever, duh." Shannon adds.
"Um...alright I guess...since it's getting dark what about ghosts in the graveyard."
"Yeah that's an awesome idea dude." Hurley says from behind Jack.
"Alright who wants to be ghosts first?" Jack asks. No one raises their hand.
"Alright people, put one foot in the middle!" Ana Orders everyone. She starts bubblegum.
The remaining two are Charlie and Sayid.
Soon they start. Charlie goes after Claire first. She trips and skins her cheek. Her eyes start to water.
"Claire are you okay?" He asks bending down looking at her cheek.
"I'll...I'll be okay." She says between sniffles.
"Are you sure love?" He asks as he leans down and kisses her cheek just above the scrape.
"Yeah, I'm good now." She says smiling.
"Alright, just trying to look out for you."
In her mind she was going crazy, a fourth grader kissed her. She couldn't wait to tell her friends back in school.
Charlie helps her up. "You still want to be a ghost with me?" He asks. "Cause I'll let you keep being a mortal if you like."
"No, I'll be a ghost with you Charlie."
He smiles. "We'll common love, lets go chase down some humans." He says while holding out his hand. She takes it and they run off to chase people again.
Kate and Sawyer were both on the safe zone which was the tree house; only two kids could be on the safe zone area at a time.
"So..." Sawyer says nervously.
Kate just looks at him like he's crazy.
He takes her hand. "I'm glad you're alright Kate." He says smiling.
Kate is smiling at him. Wondering where all this sweetness is coming from. He leans in and gives her a peck on the cheek.
Kate didn't know but Jack saw the whole thing. And when the kiss happened Jack stopped dead in his tracks causing Claire, who was chasing him to run straight into him causing them to both fall down. Since it was so dark Ana was running from Sayid and she fell on top of the pile and soon Sayid joined.
Kate quickly turned her head from Sawyer to the activity happening on the ground. She quickly went down the tree house to make sure everyone was okay.
Soon everyone was being helped up by one person or another and Jack was left. Kate helped him up. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." He says coldly shaking her off.
She looks at him hurt and confused. "Jack...are you sure you're..."
"Fine Kate, can you just back off." He snaps.
"Hey, why are you yelling at Kate like that?" Ana asks.
Jack just glares at her and then storms off towards the house.
