Disclaimer: I do not own LOST...

The trip from the island to Fiji took almost the whole week to get there and then the survivors were made to get onto a plane. They flew to Sydney, Australia, the place where everything had started in the first place. Not many were sure that they wanted to go to Sydney and were fine with just staying in Fiji but they had to move on. The two trips they took were rather uneventful and seemed to have flown by so fast that the survivors weren't sure if they were just dreaming that everything happened. The plane touched down in the familiar airport that the survivors remembered looking the exact same way as when they set off years ago. They were practically kicked off the plane and made to gather in the airport. They looked tired even though they had a week on a boat and then a few hours on a plane. News reporters swarmed around them and questions started up but all the questions sounded the same to them. The man that had been on the boat with them had stepped in front and put up his arms.

"Who are you?" asked one of the reporters.

"I am Jason Nichols, part of the search party. All the survivors will be free for interviews if they want after they go to the hospital for exams."

They fought through the sea of cameras and reporters and they all forgot how much the world was actually like. They were put into vans and taken off to the hospital to see if there was anything wrong with them. DNA tests were used on the children to see who they really belong to and some vaccines were distributed so that no one would catch any diseases... or transmit them.

The door opened to the room Kate was sitting in and she looked over to see a man in a police uniform standing there. He gave her a scowl.

"Well, well...Ms. Austen..."

"Yes officer?"

"I'd really like to arrest you right now..."

"But?" Kate asked, confused.

"I can't." He pulled out a piece of paper. "Orders that say you are pardoned of all charges"

"What?"

"But we'll be watching you...I hope you know that." The man left the room.

Kate sat in the room alone and in shock from the news. Now she could be with her daughter and she wouldn't have to give her up. Then, there was Jack and what she felt for him but she didn't know what to do about that.

"Kate, when you are safe, tell me that story." Jack's voice came through the walkie talkie.

Kate felt the tears run down her cheeks as she glance over at Sawyer, who was still at gun point by Pickett. She did not want to leave Sawyer there because she actually loved him but there was still something she felt for Jack deep down. Sawyer was going to be shot and either she could get out of there or watch him die. She clutched the walkie talkie like it was a person.

"Kate, did you hear me?" Jack asked through the walkie talkie.

She put it near her mouth and she knew her voice was shaking as much as her hand holding the walkie talkie was. "Y-yeah...but Sawyer..."

"GET OUT OF THERE!"

"Jack, please!"

"I can't do anything for him!" She thought she could hear anger in his voice.

"I don't want to leave him."

"I can only get you out of there. Now go!"

She looked at Sawyer and he met her eyes. "Go Freckles. There's nothing you can do for me now. Might as well safe yourself."

"Sawyer..." her voice was breaking.

"You heard Doc, now go!"

His eyes pleaded with her to go and against her own stubborn wishes, she felt her legs move. It was like her legs had a mind of there own. She was a good distance away from the site of the cages when she heard a gunshot and she fell to her knees. The tears fell harder and she wasn't sure that she could go any farther. She managed back to her feet and kept running as fast as she could. There was nothing that she could do now even though her mind was telling her to go back because she didn't want to see if there was a body.

A doctor interrupted her thoughts as he walked into the room where Kate was sitting. He stood in front of where she was sitting with a file in his hands.

"Ms. Austen...we checked the child and she is your child and now we know who the father is. We have this envelope if you'd rather look at it rather than having someone like me telling you."

"Thank you."

"Both you and your daughter are completely healthy." He handed over the envelope to her and headed for the door. Before going out, he said, "We are going to send your daughter in."

Kate held the envelope with shaking hands and she did not know if she really wanted to open the envelope. In her hands, she held the truth about her child's father. What if it was Sawyer? Could she handle that? But what if it was Jack? She didn't know if he wanted to have a daughter at this moment.

"Jack, where are we?" Kate asked, out of breath.

"The other side of their island. Juliet said that there would be a boat over here."

"When did you trust her?"

"I don't," he said, finding the boat and untying it from the dock is attached to.

Jack help Kate in the boat and then started to sail away toward the other island, as they figured out that they had been on a separate island.

Kate turned on Jack suddenly. "Why didn't you save him, too?"

He shrugged. "There was nothing I could do. He would have tried to shoot him either way."

"You could have tried! Why only me?"

He looked at her, anger coming over his face. "You loved him more, that's easy to tell. They had a camera near the cages and I was about to escape. I stumbled in to the camera room and I saw you and him."

"So, you're jealous, Jack?" she asked, practically yelling.

He couldn't meet her eyes as he kept navigating the boat back to the island.

"It's because you love me, too," she said, "Great, just great."

The boat slammed into the sandy shore of their island and sent them flying forward. When they fell, Kate landed on top of Jack. She looked down at him and in that split second, her lips collided with his. There was passion in the kiss and Jack could tell that she had feelings for him, too, and that her feelings were just all jumbled together at this moment. Her hands started to pull off his shirt as they laid there on the deck of the boat.

Kate was pulled out of the flashback in her mind when her daughter entered the room. Sydney gave her a smile and ran over to give her mother a hug. It was like the two had been separated for months instead of just a few hours, if that.

"Do I have a daddy like Aaron does?" Sydney asked her mother.

Kate situated the girl on her lap. "Of course you do."

"Does he love me?"

"Yes, he does."

"Then why don't I know him?"

"It's complicated, Syd. Don't worry you will know who your father is then." Kate looked down at the envelope in her hands and opened it up. She fumbled with the sheet of paper inside and finally pulled it out. She read some of the things on the paper that made no sense to her and soon her eyes fell on the name. Her smile widened and she let out a sigh of relief. "You'll get to know your father really soon." She looked at the door, wondering when they would get done with everything and they could finally have a normal life once again.

A/N: I hope that the chapter was fine...