Scene 3 (Just Go)

Kate ran onto the pier "You alright?" She asked with concern.

Jack looked at her for a moment before he spoke, trying to process everything that had just happened. "How did you know where I was?"

"You must have been holding the receiver button down on the radio—I couldn't talk—but I could hear everything that was happening. That's how I found you."

Jack looked down at his hand. It was clenched tightly around the radio. He hadn't realized it until now. He loosened his grip on it letting it fall to the boat's floor. That's not what he had wanted. She put her life in more danger by following him. Jack grew angry at her stubbornness.

"I thought I told you to run Kate."

"I couldn't leave you Jack. Not like this." She paused and pushed back the tears. "Now let's go" She said sternly. Kate reached down trying to lift Juliet's body out of the boat.

"What are you doing?" Jack asked.

"We need this boat to get off this Island. Alex and Sawyer are waiting—we need to go now." Kate said with a sense of urgency.

Jack didn't comply and got out of the boat. Kate grew angry with frustration. She stood in front of him to block him from leaving the dock. Her palms came up to his chest in protest. "This is our only way back to the other island. They brought us to a different Island. Jack please, just…"

Jack grabbed her elbows to hold her at a distance. The pain he felt was too much, the closer she came to him the closer he was to loosing it. Then he stopped. He looked into her eyes, she was searching his face for answers—answers he didn't know himself. "Do I mean anything Kate? I mean to you."

"Jack…" Kate dropped her head lowering her gaze from his.

"Do I mean anything to you?" He repeated forcing her to look at him "I need to know."

Tears formed in Kate's eyes, her chin quivering, "Yes Jack…. You always have." She said as her tears fell.

Jack looked away painfully. "Just go Kate. I'm not going."

"Jack, I'm not leaving you here!"

Jack went to the boat and lifted Juliet's body out of the boat and placed her on the dock. He started to walk past Kate in the opposite direction, when she grabbed his hand to stop him.

"It was your first solo operation in residency… on a 16 year old girl. And after 13 hours of surgery you ripped her dural sac. You were so scared, but you knew you had to deal with it, so you let the fear in… but only for five seconds. So you counted. One—two—three—four—fi…"

Before she could finish Jack surprised Kate with a kiss, a kiss with so much force it would have knocked her down, if it hadn't been for Jack's arms holding her steady, assuring her that she wouldn't. Tears streamed down her eyes. She didn't stop him.

The kiss ended with them both breathless. There were tears forming in Jacks eyes.

"I am so sorry for what is happening. For whatever it was that they put you through—it's my fault—and I've got to make it right again, for all of us. For you Kate. So you have to listen to me and leave Kate; leave this place… for me."

"No! How can things possibly be right by you staying here?"

"If I go back and stabilize Ben, he'll take me back…back home, and I can get help! They'll come and rescue you and everyone."

Kate shakes her head in disbelief. "I just killed one of them! Jack, do you honestly think they will just let you go? They were just about to kill you and Sawyer—our lives mean nothing to them. If you stay here Jack, you'll die."

"That's just a risk I have to take." Jack said as he let his grip on Kate go.

A silence fell between them, when finally Jack broke it. "Goodbye Kate" He said as he sadly turned to leave.

Kate wasn't going to let it end this way, not after all they had been through, and with his back to her Kate hit Jack over his head with her gun, knocking him unconscious.

Kate caught him before he hit the ground and whispered into his ear, "I'm sorry Jack, but it's a risk I cannot take."

Finis

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