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KAte was pacingher living room with red eyes and blurry vision, 'They must hate me...' she thought as the phone began to ring.
"Hello?"
"Tower of Liberty, three hours."
"Alright, thank you so much!"
"Now, get rid of the phone."
Kate looked at the powder blue crazer and frowned at the thought of throwing away such a nice phone; but all the same she threw it out the open window before grabbing her bag and dashed down the steps.
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It was two monthslater and Jack still couldn't understand why Jaclyn wouldn't leave him alone. She followed him everywhere.The only way he could get her off his back is if he asked her about herself, which she always replied with 'I'm going to get some water." For some unknown reason she reminded him of Kate...
"Jack?" She asked from where she was sitting at the bottom of the mango tree he was climbing.
"YEah?"
"Where you and Kate friends?" She asked looking down at her hands.
This was the first normal question she had ever asked. Her normal questions were about food and how to store water and once in awhile about Ben. She asked what his favorte place on the island is and abut the island animals, the smoke monster and polar bears, she never, ever talked about herself. All he knew was that she was 13 soon to be 14 and that she lived in New York.
He jumped out of the tree and sat down next to her realizing that she had tears swelling in her eyes. "I guess we used to be." She looked up at him as a single tear cascaded down her cheek.
"Then she left?"
"No, she just ruined somethign between me and her, and started something for someone else...that I don't like very much." She smiled.
"James Ford." She whispered.
JAck looked at her. "How do you know that?"
"She, loved..." She paused and shook her head, "She loves you."
"Who are you?" Jack said grabbing her wrist so she couldn't run, like Kate did the day she left.
She looked at his hand around her wrist and started to cry harder. "Did you take precautions with my mom?" She said putting her head between her knees.
"What?"
"Kate! Did you take precautions with my mother! Kate!" She screamed taking her wrist out of Jack's grip and standing up.
Jack stood up too. "What? You're KAte's daughter?"
"Yes, she gave me to Ben, and he brought me here."
"She gave you to Ben?"
"She told me that she'd see me soon. And that she loved me." She sat back down.
Jack just stared at the crying little girl sitting a few feet away from him with sympathy. "What did Ben say?" He asked looking away from her.
She thought for a minute then looked up at him. "He said, 'And KAte, they think you just left them. It seemed to really upset her."
"But she did just leave us... didnt she?" JAck said looking up at her.
"Because she told me not to. She also told me to stick to you. She told me about the island, how there were over seventy survivors, about my father and how she broke your heart. And about much she wishes Ben didnèt bring her back, because she never wanted to leave the island, because it was the one place she could be free."
"Ben forced her to leave?"
"Yeah she told me that she found out she was pregnant and she hated James so much because she told him that she wasnèt pregnant just to see his reaction, and he couldnt be happier, so she left and then a few months later when she was on the island doe six or seven months she found out that she was pregnant so, she...she went to Ben and asked him about the pregnant women, and he figured out she was pregnant and knocked her out and put her on a submarine. Then he took her back and been watching her ever since."
"Tell me the whole story, please." He said wanting to know as much about KAte as he could.
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Next Chapter: KAte arrives at the tower of LIberty, JAclyn takes after her mother and runs, and Jack finds out the truth about KAte, when her story is told to him by an old lover