2014-2004
Jack sat on the beach talking 'calmly' with John who had decided to go back to come back to the beach after the Freighter left with Sayid and Desmond.
John had brought all the people back as well. And it was of course Sawyer who came and interrupted Jack and John's little talk about weather or not Faraday and Charlotte should stay or not.
"Hey, Doc, you seen Betty Boop around I have a bone to pick with her." He said angrily.
"No Sawyer I think she's still sleeping." He said waving a hand at Kate's tent.
"It's like four in the afternoon," He mumbled as he slowly turned around only to be ran into by Sun.
"Sorry Sawyer." She said looking at Jack with a terrified look.
"What's wrong Sun?" Jack asked standing up.
"It's Kate, I was just checking on her, she went to bed early last night around five and hasn't woken up yet. So I checked on her. She wouldn't wake up. So I checked for a pulse…and" She swallowed hard breaking down into a fit of tears.
Jack looked at Sawyer and then darted for Kate's tent.
Hurley was standing next to it talking to Bernard. When both Jack and Sawyer barged into Kate's tent.
"Hey dudes, what are you doing?" He asked looking in to see Jack with his head on Kate's chest and Sawyer holding her wrist checking for pulse.
Jack picked her up and carried her out into the sun. He grabbed a bottle of water and poured some in her mouth.
A crying Sun and a confused Jin came over looking at Jack who had begun to give Kate CPR.
"Hey man is she alright?" Hurley asked.
"She has no pulse." Jack said sitting Kate's cold stiff body up. "And it's obvious she died quite a few hours ago." Jack cracked and a single tear fell down his face as he buried his face in the crook of her neck.
"Jack what are you doing?" Juliet asked staring at the small group formed around Kate's tent.
"She's dead." Sawyer proclaimed and stood up trying to hide the tears building up in the back of his eyes.
"Dead? How?" Juliet asked kneeling beside Jack.
"It seems like she went to bed and just never woke up." He said.
Juliet took Kate's wrist and squeezed it tight feeling for any bit of blood still running through her body.
"Jack put on her back." Juliet said as she let go of Kate's pale hand and watched it refill with color.
"Why?" He asked through tears.
"Jack, she hasn't been dead that long we might be able to save her." She said. Jack just shook his head. "Look." Juliet took Kate's wrist again and squeezed it hard and tight watching as the circulation was cut of and Kate's had grew pale then she released it and everyone watched it fill with blood and color.
Jack dropped Kate on the ground and watched with amazement as Juliet did CPR while pouring water in her limp mouth. Then to everyone's surprise Kate jumped up screaming and gasping.
Jack grabbed Kate and held her so tight she felt she might burst. "Kate. What happened?" He asked.
"Jack?" She said looking up at him smiling.
She turned around to see Sawyer sitting next her smiling. I suggest you act like you only know the Oceanic six that's what he had said. So she did she pushed up against Jack, "Who are you people?" She asked looking around and then caught sight of Hurley, Sun and Jin. "Hurley, Sun" She said.
"Where are we?" She stood up and backed into her tent. "And where are my children…and…and Kevin. Ben did this to me, he actually sent me back, but then who are all you people?" She looked at the rest of the group, John, Claire who was holding Aaron in her arms, Bernard, Rose, Faraday and Charlotte and a smiling Ben.
"Kate is you a little delusional." Jack said standing up.
Kate just shook her head and ran to Ben. "Ben what year is it?" She said grabbing the collar of his shirt.
He smiled bigger and said "Ten years ago." Kate pushed him on the ground.
"In my living room, what did you inject me with?"
"When?"
"2014, my husband was there, Sawyer, Juliet and Claire were on the phone Jack took my daughter up stairs and then him and my son were in the room when everything went black. Ben what did you do to me?"
"I sent you back." He whispered before laughing like a manic. "And Kate, I suggest you listen to your husband and stick to the 'There was only eight survivors' story you and Jack made up."
Kate turned around to face them all. "I remember all of you from the plane…but…but you died, how you could be here?" she asked running towards Jack.
"Kate what did he mean by ten years ago?" Juliet asked.
Kate stared at her "Were you even on the plane?"
Juliet looked at Jack who shrugged
"Kate before you died what do you remember?"
"I remember me and Jack finding the satellite phone then we got contact with the Freighter they said they'd pick us up today." She said making up this part as she went.
"Okay Kate now I know something's wrong." Jack said looking into her eyes.
Kate shook her head and looked at Daniel who was turned around looking at something else. "There in his pants!" Kate yelled.
Jack looked at Daniel. "Kate that's Dan."
"Dan? You mean Daniel Faraday? The man that answered the phone on the Freighter?" She asked looking at him. Then she remembered he worked with time travel I have to talk to him.
"Kate you need to lay down, I'll go get you some food and you just go and relax." Jack said pushing her into her own tent.
Kate sat down in the corner sighing. Then she saw it. The picture she had taken on her sons ninth birthday. It had Jack, Sayid, Hurley and Sun in it. They had come to his party which was in the front yard of Kate's new house. She held in her arms the four week old Claire and had her lips on her husbands cheek. Jack had James on his shoulders and Sayid and Hurley stood on either side of them. Sun was on Kate's other side with the laughing seven year old Ji Yoen. This will convince them. Kate told herself.
Then suddenly she started to cry. She didn't know why, but she did. So she stood and snuck out of her tent heading towards Daniel who was sitting on the beach with Charlotte.
"Dan?" She asked sitting next to him.
"Hey Kate welcome back, heard you…" He was hit in the arm by Charlotte. "Didn't have the best morning, anything I can help you with?"
Kate looked at Charlotte. "I need to talk to you…alone." She said and Charlotte nodded and walked away. "Dan, what do you know about…time travel?" she asked looking him in the eye.
"A lot actually, why?"
"Because the last thing I remember, before coming back to life this morning was standing in my living room telling me that he was going to let Ben take me back and then Ben killed me, and when I died in 2014 I died now in 2004 and but I woke up now, I don't know if I did then. And that's what I need to find out, I know I can call someone in that time but I need the sat. phone."
"Wow. Kate I'm sorry to say but, um, Jack has the phone."
Kate looked behind her at her tent. She saw Jack standing outside of it holding a bowl of something. "Thanks, I'll…I'll talk to him, but I'm going to need your help to phone them."
"Anything I can do to help Kate." She said with a smile.
Kate walked beside Daniel up the beach towards Jack who was watching her looking irritated.
"Kate I thought I told you to lay down."
"I had to talk to Dan." She said taking the picture out of her pocket. "Jack, listen I have proof that we got off this god-for-saken island." She handed him the picture and he almost dropped the food.
"What? Who is this?" he said pointing at the baby Kate was holding.
"That's my daughter Claire, and the boy on your shoulders is my son James. The man beside me is my husband Kevin and the baby Sun is holding is Ji Yoen her daughter. See Jack I'm not crazy, we got off this island, and we are the oceanic six,"
"There are only five of us in this picture."
"Yeah, Jin, he…he died before his daughter was born."
Jack looked at Kate. "Oh," He murmured sadly.
"We're in front of my brand new house." She said smiling. "But Jack listen, I…I need to phone you in 2014, ten years from now, two months before this picture. I need to phone you and I need to ask what the hell happened after Ben killed me in both 2014 and 2004 so I need the phone."
Jack looked at Kate as though she was crazy. "Here." He took the phone from his back pocket and gave it to Kate who gave it to Daniel who immediately started hitting buttons.
After about five minutes he asked. "Kate hurry what's the number in 2014, the number you want to call."
"Um it's --," She said quickly.
"Hey that's…that's my home number." Jack said.
"Yeah, Jack I'm phoning you which means you have to be quiet because if you say something it could change the whole future."
Daniel handed Kate the phone which was ringing aloud, "Sorry Kate, but I don't want to risk pushing any buttons, which includes the 'Speaker' button."
Kate just nodded and then she pulled Jack and Daniel into her tent and sat down in the corner waiting for someone to answer the damn phone.
Then two minutes later someone answered. "Hello, Dr. Shepard's residence may I ask who's speaking?"
Kate looked up at Jack. "Yeah, can I please speak with Dr. Shepard."
"Do you have an appointment?"
"No, just tell him it's Kate and…and Ben sent me back."
"Okay just hold on one moment."
A few seconds later someone else was on the phone. "Kate?"
"Jack! What year is it?" She asked quickly.
"2014, why? And where are you? After Ben killed you, and I knew you were dead because I checked your pulse and it was completely gone, but after Ben killed some of hi people, including Richard came in and took you and Kevin, I was left with your Kids, who I could get to stop crying. I phoned the police and they let James and Claire stay with me since I'm their godfather."
"Jack, I'm back on the island and it's 2004. And I'm not with Kevin, infact I'm sitting in my tent with you and Faraday."
"Faraday? He…he's alive?"
"Yeah, Jack you haven't killed him yet, you haven't even found out about Michael yet."
"Kate, remember what Kevin said? About you pretending to only know about the oceanic six?"
"Yeah."
"Do it, but tell someone that you remember, tell me."
"No you'll just tell Juliet."
"No, Kate I always loved you and I would never tell anyone anything that you told me not to tell. Never."
"Hold on. Daniel could you maybe, leave for a minute or two?"
"Uh, yeah sure tell me if it dies." He said before pushing out of the tent.
"Jack you can go if you want too, you don't need to hear this."
"But I'm telling you stuff that you should all ready know."
"Jack you still there?"
"Yeah, and that was weird hearing myself talk. And Kate as weird as this may sound it's true, I'm telling you something you should know."
"Jack it's maybe three weeks after I really hurt you."
"Kate, I told you I don't care, I really don't care. I mean did think you loved him and I was ready to go with that, anything to make you happy. But when you told me everything I understood. You don't love him and he never loved you it was just a weird way how things worked out."
"Yeah it was."
"Kate your son is here should I put him on?"
"YES! Yes please let me talk to James."
"Mommy?"
"Hey baby, are you alright?"
"I thought you were dead?"
"No baby, I'm alright. I'm fine. Listen mummy loves you and she probably won't see you for awhile. But I promise that uncle Jack will explain everything to you. And-" Then the line went dead and the phone started to beep.
Kate hit a random button on the phone to shut it off then started to cry. Jack pushed over to sit next to Kate and hug her.
"Hey, hey, it's alright. It's alright."
"You believe me now?"
"I kind of have to."
She smiled. "Good."
"Kate you know that I love you and I would never tell anyone right?"
Kate moved closer to him. "I know, I know."