Hi!

This will be a short chapter but chapter 3 is almost done so I'll probably post it tomorrow or the other day. We might have a snow day tomorrow and that would be amazing! I could even finish chapter 4! (fingers crossed)

I don't usually update this soon by this story wont get out of my mind! I'm constantly thinking about it and I always have the urge to write (which also doesn't happen to me very often)

I hope you guys are enjoying this because I'm just starting :) I already have a ton of things planned!

And thank you so much for the reviews! They mean so much to me!

By the way I tried to check my grammar spelling etc. over and over again but it's almost 3 am here so I probably missed a lot of mistakes. Sorry!

She tried to say something but her eyes were still closed. She flinched in pain. Jack grabbed her hand and squeezed it tightly.

"I'm here, Kate." He said tenderly.

"Tom?" she asked. Jack noticed the smile on her face and realized that she was thinking he was someone else.

Then suddenly she started shaking frantically. Jack quickly looked out the window for any sign from the ambulance.

But there wasn't any.

And they didn't have much time left

"Kate…Kate, open your eyes!" he shook her lightly. "Please! Help is on the way. You can't give up now. Aaron… He's waiting for you..."

"Jack?" she asked this time, finally managing to open her eyes.

"I'm here."

"You shouldn't be here! It's not safe." she said loudly when she realized he was still sitting beside her.

"I'm not going anywhere until they come to rescue you."

"No!" She said. She tried to face him but moving even the slightest bit caused her an unbearable amount of pain. "The car must be leaking gas. It's dangerous for you to stay here. You need to leave!"

He knew all too well that staying with her was some sort of of a suicide but he also knew that he gave this woman a promise he really wanted to keep.

He wanted to help her.

There was something in her that seemed so familiar to him. Something in her eyes that made him feel like he'd known her all his life. He felt a very strong connection towards her but he couldn't really define it.

"Kate, I am not going to leave you alone."

There was a brief silence as the two tried to gain their strengths back. Kate seemed to be much better from a few minutes back. She was calm, conscious and talking.

"How old is he?" Jack asked. He was doing his best to make small talk.

"He'll be 4 in 2 months." Kate smiled picturing her beautiful boy's face. "He is very excited for his birthday."

"He seems like an amazing kid. Very brave too..."

"He is."

He noticed that she was shivering. Yes, the car was getting really cold but her shivering was not entirely caused because of the snow outside.

She was loosing too much blood.

"I'm cold Jack." She told him, seeking comfort from him.

He took his jacket off and covered her thin frame with it. He then pulled her brown locks away from her face and placed them behind her ears.

That was when he realized how beautiful she actually was. He found a box of wet wipes next to the front seat and gently started wiping off the blood on her face. He'd just gotten a sudden urge to do so.

Kate wasn't rejecting to this. His touch, his voice was comforting. Simply him being next to her made her feel better.

He made her feel safe despite the situation they were in.

He on the other hand, just wanted to see her clearer, get to know her better . He felt terrible for thinking about these things while she was fighting for her life but he couldn't help it. From the second his eyes met hers he was enchanted by her.

"Do you want me to call anyone? Your husband? Family maybe?"

"I don't have a husband or any family members. It's just Aaron and me." She answered with a sad smile.

"There must be someone. Friends? "

"No. Aaron is all I've got." she stopped when she realized that she was also all Aaron had left. "He's my entire world Jack. If anything happens to me..."

"Don't think about that right now."

"I can't die. I'm all he has left. He'll be all alone"

"Kate, you're not going to." He tried to reassure her but failed. At this point even he wouldn't believe what he just said.

She stared to cry, shaking and flinching again with every small move. Her breathing fastened and caused her to loose more blood.

"Kate... Kate, look at me." he said turning her face to his with a soft touch. "Calm down. You need to calm down. You're loosing too much blood this way. Don't' think about Aaron right now. Just focus on your breathing."

"I'm so scared." She said quietly.

He held her hand again and made direct eye contact with her, helped her focus on his eyes. He took slow, deep breaths with her and tried to distract her with a story.

"You know what, fear's sort of an odd thing. When I was in residency, my first solo procedure was a spinal surgery on a 16-year-old kid, a girl. And at the end, after 13 hours, I was closing her up and I- I accidentally ripped her dural sac. Shredded the base of the spine where all the nerves come together, membrane as thin as tissue…

And so it ripped open. And all the nerves just spilled out of her like angel hair pasta. Spinal fluid flowing out of her and I …And the terror was just so … crazy. So real…

And I knew I had to deal with it." A tear escapes down his face. "So I just made a choice. I'd let the fear in, let it take over; let it do its thing, but only for five seconds. That's all I was going to give it.

So I started to count: one, two, three, four, five.

Then it was gone. I went back to work, sewed her up and she was fine."

Kate was listening to his story in amazement.

She smiled at him. "If that had been me, I think I would have run for the door."

That made him chuckle. "I don't think that's true."

By now, her breathing had slowed down and so had the blood rushing out of her abdomen. They were talking like two normal people who just met. For a little while, they had even forgotten that they were still stuck inside a crashed car.

"I need you to do something for me, Jack." She said.

"Sure. Whatever I can."

"There's a letter I wrote a few days ago, when I decided to come to Seattle. It's inside the glove compartment. I wrote everything down about what should happen to Aaron if something ever happened to me." She was about to continue when Jack stopped her

"Kate, you will be fine. They can be here any second."

"Oh stop it. I don't have to be a doctor to know that I'm probably not going to make it to the hospital. So listen to me carefully Jack; you can only read that letter after I die. Don't open it if I don't."

"Why are you being so mysterious?" he joked. "Are you a secret agent or something? Can't you just tell me who to get into contact with if something happens to you?"

"Please just do want I said. And don't ask any questions." She said sternly. "Promise me that you won't read the letter if I survive.

The mood inside the car changed in an instant. She seriously was hiding something important and now, Jack was dying to find out what it was.

But of course now was not the time.

So he decided to do what she asked and give her another promise…

"I promise."

"Thank you." She sighed and closed her eyes in relief.

Suddenly the dark sky lit up into the bright red with the sirens coming from the ambulance. Jack's face lit up and he quickly turned around to see an ambulance and a rescue engine coming towards them. He turned back to Kate and saw that instead of being happy about this, she looked oddly worried.

She reached out and grabbed his shirt and pulled him closer.

"Jack! You can't let social services take Aaron when they take me to the hospital! You can't!"

"Kate he'll be just fine with the social workers. You have nothin-"

"You don't understand! They will take him away from me! I will loose him forever! Please don't inform the social services. I'm begging you Jack! I can't live without my son!" Kate started crying again. This time because of pure emotional pain she was feeling from the thought of loosing her son.

He was so confused and didn't know what to tell her. He couldn't come against the law. He was Dr. Jack Shepherd. The Jack Shepherd…

"Kate, what the hell is going on?"

"I know I'm asking a lot from you. But I promise, I will explain everything if I can get out of this alive. I'm sorry Jack, but please..."

"Okay... Okay I will do what you asked me to do. You don't have to worry about that any more. You just fight. Fight for your life. For your son..."

Malcolm came up to Jack while the rescue team rushed to tend Kate. They were shocked when they saw what exactly happened to her and quickly started discussing how to approach to this situation.

"Are you okay? You look hurt."

"I'm fine. You go back and make sure they take good care of her." he said and sent his friend to the other side of the car without letting him ask any more questions.

He knew that there were going to be many more questions he would need to answer. They would ask him how he found Kate and Aaron, if he knew them, what he and Kate talked about while they waited, whether or not he knew anyone to call from her family…

And most importantly they were going to ask him what to do with Aaron. Jack needed to calm down, take a deep breath and get his answers ready. He was never a good liar.

Jack didn't leave Kate's side.

He waited until they cut the branch off with a chainsaw.

He held Kate's hand while she shrieked in pain as they worked on her.

He stayed with her even after she passed out from all that pain.

He followed them to the ambulance, then ran back to his own car and found a female paramedic asking questions to the frightened little boy.

"How is he?" He asked while trying to catch his breath.

"He seems to be perfectly fine Dr. Shepherd. Should we take him with us in the ambulance?"

"No, he'll come with me. He shouldn't see his mom like that." He whispered and sent the woman away.

He knelt down to Aaron's eye level. "Hey buddy. Look, they came. Just like I told you they would. Everything will be okay now."

"Mommy was bleeding. I saw her." Aaron said with trembling lips and watery eyes. "Is she going to die?"

"No Aaron. They are going to take really good care of your mom."

The boy threw his arms around Jack and once again buried his face in Jacks shoulder as he cried. Jack slowly rubbed his back as he tried to soothe him.

"I'm going to take you to the hospital now. Okay? We'll meet up with your mommy there."

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