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About a week ago, 3 very special Jaters who are very dear to my heart all had birthdays in the same week so I wanted to do something extra special. It turned out I bit off a little more than I could chew so it took me awhile to finish it. But here it is. Warning: This post is extremely image heavy so don't complain that I broke your interwebz! I warned you! :P
I know some of you aren't Jaters anymore, never were, never will be and that's okay. They aren't for everyone, shipping isn't for everyone, I totally get it. But in online fandom people who support these two, such as myself, get a lot of crap thrown in our faces. We're called delusional, batshit crazy -- we're mocked anytime we have a little bit of fun...all b/c we support the main relationship on the LOST and have fun doing it. And yes. It IS the main relationship whether you're a fan of it or not. Jaters, you know, we've heard all the same garbage about them over and over. No buildup, no chemistry, no hype, Kate's a WHORE, ABUSE! ABUSE! Yadda Yadda Yadda. LOL. Well. I'm here to personally balance things out a little bit. No other couple or bond on the show has been as focused on or as featured as Jack and Kate. I can't predict what the writers are going to do; all I know is what we've seen so far. And whatever happens, whether they end up together or not, I will always know they had the best story. And I met some amazing and beautiful people as a result of loving them. So this is for all of you. Feel free to discuss and celebrate Jack and Kate in your comments, there is enough hate and negativity in fandom, it's time to focus on what IS real and good. And it's time to have a little fun. It's a celebration, bitches. :D
_milz_ dracke kickflip_jater - I'm sorry I didn't get this done for your birthdays. But I hope you guys had an amazing day and I hope this puts a smile on your faces. I love you guys.
So without further ado- Carrie presents...
Jack Shephard && Kate Austen
I don't even have to try for perfect.
You already know all my secrets...
The things I keep hidden from everyone else.
Kate: So I might throw up on you.
Jack: (It hurts, but…) You’re doing fine.
[He watches her, this pretty young woman he doesn’t know, stitching him back together again]
“You’re not running now”
[Imagine the most spectacular view of the stars visible from the Earth. Bonfires and other survivors in the distance, but Jack & Kate are alone together here, using a piece of wreckage as a table. Jack can’t help but delight in this resolute young woman.]
Jack: (smiles) I don’t know your name.
Kate: I’m Kate.
Jack: …Jack.
They couldn't stop themselves. They were both so caught up in each other, that they both just sort of fell…
[We can pretend nothing’s changed. Pretend it's all the same. And there will be no pain,
Tonight. It's gonna be alright.]
Jack: I thought the pregnancy was just amping up her stress. I just didn't believe her
[Kate just looks at him, feeling his pain, wishing she knew what to say to make it go away]
“Just give me something real. Anything.”
[Jack's eyes snap open to see Kate standing over him, stroking his head and raising up her hand to see blood, she reaches for her bag and pulls out a rag and there is great INTIMACY as Kate dabs at his wound and puts her hand on the back of his neck. Kate immediately grabs him as he stumbles. She's deeply concerned.]
“That was real.”
[Charlie shoots up with a GASP, taking his first breath in minutes. Kate bursts into tears, scooping Charlie up in her arms as he sputters his way back to life. Jack leans back, looking at Kate until she puts her hand on his shoulder. Jack turns to look at her and Charlie, battered and still gasping but alive, Kate smiles through her tears and so does Jack...out of breath, heart and mind racing finally allowing himself a moment of joy after this ordeal...and off the three joined in this moment of victory however dark the context of it may be.]
[She turns and sees Jack. Hint of a smile. This will ALWAYS be their dynamic - deep concern baked under a warm fluffy crust of a chemistry neither can deny.]
Jack: If I didn’t know better, I’d say you’ve got a problem staying in one place very long, Kate.
He moved his hands to place them on either side of my face, forcing me to meet his gaze. He looked into my eyes for a long time. I wondered what he was looking for & what it was that he found.
[He touches the scratch gently, examining her injuries…purely professional it seems, and yet…]
Kate: Is this where you say, “I told you so?”
Jack: I’m not big on rubbing it in.
[Kate smiles. They’re CLOSE.]
I notice she’s your lover but she’s nowhere near your heart
Do I have to spell it out for you?
Or scream it to your face
Oh the chemistry between us could destroy this place.
Jack: Golf is…accuracy.
Kate: Well…why don’t we go play a few holes and see who’s more accurate?
I remember the days we spent together were not enough
It used to feel like dreaming except we always woke up,
Never thought not having you here now would hurt so much.
Jack: I just... I just wanted to tell you that what I said in there.....I didn't mean it.
Kate: You wanna follow me? Come by for a visit?
Jack: Uh... I actually gotta get over to the hospital but um maybe you and I can grab some coffee together or something?
Kate: I know why you don't want to see the baby, Jack... but until you do, until you want to, there's not going to be any you and me going for coffee. But um...if at any time you change your mind, come and see us.
I picture that smile you gave me, and I swear for that one second I could barely breathe.
Kate: Thank you for helping him. I know it was probably the last thing you wanted to do.
Jack: I didn’t do it for him.
I know that I’m nobody’s hero, You’re a hero to everyone
I would scream it to the galaxy
We were happy here in this life; I will find you in the next.
It’s not the plan you designed inside your mind; Your fairy tale is a shadow
Be sure to ask all your friends because in the end it’s all just smoke and mirrors
Give me something I can hold you to and I will give you somewhere you can bury your head
If you’ve got to believe in something, make it us.
[If you weren’t here, Jack…]
Stretching out as far as the ocean
As high as the tallest tree
I could never sway your ambition
As long as there’s room for me
I am hanging on for my dear life
As long as you’re near me
I could never be down.
[And we play up her indecision here: Is she going to give Jack her hand or not? Until she tentatively holds out her hand…slowly opens her palm. Jack puts his hand on top of hers, their hands touching softly as he carefully puts something inside…something too tiny for us to see. Kate looks at whatever it is and Jack smiles. This woman is magnetic to him, despite their issues. And as always, there’s so much going on between these two. But we’ll leave the audience wanting more…]
Shove my body up against yours and kiss me like you mean it
Let’s blind ourselves by love and be deaf to all who says it's fatal
Kate: You're a natural.
Jack: Yeah?
Kate: Yeah.
Jack: My old man used to read me that story.
Kate: Really?
Jack: What?
Kate: It’s just... It’s just sweet hearing you say nice things about your Dad.
Jack: I don't say nice things about my Dad? Well. He was a good story teller I'll give him that.
Jack: Hey...you okay?
Kate: Yeah. I just...I love seeing you with him. I'm so glad you changed your mind. I'm so glad that you're here.
Jack: Me too.
Call me over…You’ll win me over…
I’ve been beat down, broken up, sideways, baby
Strung out, screaming out of windows, baby
Falling over you
[Kate stands and steps up CLOSE, taking the straps of Jack’s backpack and reaching over his shoulder for a stray clip - her arms brush his TATTOOED SKIN repeatedly, a fact not lost on either of them, even as they try to be casual]
Kate: It’s just you…and your tattoos, just don’t add up. (playfully) What’re you - one of those really hardcore spinal surgeons?
Jack: Yeah. That’s me. Hardcore.
“I don’t want to be Eve…”
[And there is a part of Kate this wishes, more than anything else in the whole world, that he WERE asking. But that’s not the part of her that’s calling the shots.]
“If you need me, you know where to find me.”
[INT. THE VALLEY - NIGHT]
Where Jack watches the bonfire, thinking of Kate…
[EXT. BEACH - NIGHT]
…where Kate sits next to Sayid staring into the fire…thinking of Jack.
[Off the sadness of two kindred souls unable to connect…]
It's not that we're scared, It's just that it's delicate
So why do you fill my sorrow with the words you've borrowed
From the only place you've know and why do you sing Hallelujah
If it means nothing to you…Why do you sing with me at all?
[Intercutting fierce now - KATE AND JACK- WHERE IT ALL BEGAN - SHE'S LOSING IT-CRYNG--GIACCHINO'S MUSIC thumping in the background…]
Kate: I can’t leave without you
Jack: Yes you ARE, GO!
Kate: Jack, I can’t!
Jack: Kate, go now!
Kate: I CAN’T!!!
Jack: Kate, damnit RUN!
Remember all the things we wanted
Now all our memories, they're haunted
We were always meant to say goodbye
Look back don't you dare let me start to do that, I don't care if the things that I have
Only make me afraid to lose I need to let go, need to want to keep letting you know
That we both have a reason to follow, long as we let this lead I’m barely breathing.
[Kate is already running for them. She wraps her arms around Jack in the hug of all hugs.]
I cannot say that I was ready for this, but when worlds collide
And all that I have, is all that I want
the words seem to flow, and the thoughts they keep running
and all that I have is yours, all that I am is yours.
Jack: The other night, when I was reading to Aaron you said....that I was a natural.
Do you really... do you really think that I'm good at this?
Kate: Yeah. You're good at this.
Jack: Will you marry me?
Kate: Yes, of course I will, YES!
Fell pass the cheekbone here to a piece of the floor,
The hope of the world in an awkward spill.
Oh, she lie on her bed and stare into harsh white light,
And think that her hearts not right.
Cause love take her hand like a thief,
Took her heart like a robber.
And the feelings that scare her become hurriedly.
[And you said the fear was so…real. And you didn’t know what to do. So you counted to 5, and then you weren’t afraid anymore, and then it was just gone. And you fixed her, you saved her.]
“I just don’t want you to owe him anything”
[And that’s as close as Jack will ever get to declaring that he might just be JEALOUS. And OFF KATE, perhaps appreciating precisely that.]
I ran from you, and I know it.
I'm ashamed, and it's just you were the first man
That ever seemed to be interested in being around me.
It made me believe I couldn't be good enough in your eyes.
I watched you walk away without a backwards glance.
I think it was that exact moment that I heard my heart crack.
When I'm losing my control, the city spins around
You're the only one who knows, you slow it down
If ever there was a doubt - My love, she leans into me
[Jack sits at a small fire close to the ocean. Kate settles down next to him, hands him a cup of water. A few beats pass as they take in the night ocean together.]
Kate: Where were you today, Jack?
Jack: Just taking care of some things.
[And as always, not much has to be said between these two. In some kind of cosmic way, they just GET each other.]
Kate: That’s all I’m gonna get, huh?
Jack: My father died. In Sydney.
Kate: I’m sorry.
Happiness feels a lot like sorrow
Let it be, you can’t make it come or go
But you are gone- not for good but for now
Gone for now feels a lot like gone for good
[He’s my family, too.]
Come back for me. Quiet I’ll wait.
Will you find me here, underneath the raging sea?
I won't breathe.
I see you. I'm so afraid.
But I reach out. You never changed.
[I told you not to come back here for me
But I will come back here for you.]
When it started we had high hopes
Now my back's on the line, my back's on the ropes
When it started we were alright
But night makes a fool of us in daylight
[I have always been with you]
Keep my distance I tried, no use
but no matter the mile I’m back to you
I could try to forget what you do when I let you get
through to me but then you do it over again
I could rage like a fire and you'd bring rain I desire
till you get to me on my morning side
[I’m sorry I kissed you.]
[I’m not]
[Because I love you]
This time I won't try to reach you. You're already too far gone.
Slipped past, and I didn't notice. Did we ever sing the same song?
Two lives. Two books of illusion. A chapter in the essence of time.
The story we wrote in one season came to an end in one night.
Remember the times when we started believing,
Everything would be alright?
You carried my heart in the midst of this battle...in your hands.
[We have to go back!]
Nothing’s going to drag us down
Nothings going to take away
What we have, what we’ve worked through
The good, the bad, the ugly plans
When everything falls and we’re still standing
In the maze of this rat race
There’s a fine line in the ticking of time
You’ve got to punch in, punch out, walk the line
You talk about life, you talk about love,
You fall back daylight savings time
It’s Monday, mundane, and all the world somehow seems the same
Unless you’re here, unless you’re near
So come here, come on
Many thanks to Matthew and Evangeline for the magic they bring on screen and the way they make us feel. No one else could play Jack and Kate and no other friendship could represent them so well.
“He has become such a dear friend to me. We care about each other and we care for each other, and I think we’re very intent on keeping a dynamic of openness and communication and vulnerability on set so we can achieve what we need to on screen.” - Evi
