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Epilogue

Upon their return to the main camp, Kate stopped having her insane dreams. Of course, she still dreamt of Chris at night, and sometimes her dreams would leave her craving the comfort that Jack readily offered her, but she no longer dreamed of a phantom baby with blood that she ran from. She no longer dreamt of Jack walking away from her with the baby. Instead, she started to enjoy her pregnancy in a way that she hadn't been able to with Chris's. She happily showed off her baby bump rather than needing to cover it up with thick jumpers and go for too long without food and just hope that no damage was done to the baby.

True to what they saw that day on the mysterious beach, Kate gave birth to twins seven and a half months later. A boy and a girl, just like they were shown. The labour was six hours long, long enought to become tiresome, but quicker than Claire's had been. Claire had sat at her side, helping her through the birth whilst Jack had brought their children into the world. Without a second thought, they named their daughter Lily, after everything that they had been through. Their son they named Luke, which Kate suggested. Jack had been with the boy, but hadn't heard his name until Kate suggested it, and they knew straight away why they had chosen those names.

Luke's middle name was Christopher, named for the half-brother that the twins would never know, and as the pair began to grow older, they came to understand that Mommy had another little boy once, but he lived in heaven with the angels now instead of with them. Chris became their guardian angel, and for the first time in her life, Kate was able to accept that her life could go on without the loss of her first son plaguing her.

Lily and Luke grew up on the island amongst all the other children. Aaron was a year older than them, with only a year and six days seperating them. Sun and Jin's daughter, Bailey, was two months older than the twins, and the four of them formed a tight knit group. Hurley and Libby also had a son, named Tito, after the grandfather that Hurley loved so much, and he was two years younger than the twins. As soon as he was able to walk, he was off getting into trouble with the rest of them.

And, as they had been told, every now and again, Jack and Kate would retrace the trail to the beach that the images of twins had lead them to. They took short holidays there, and every few months, they went there over night, or sometimes longer. They lived the images of them running up and down the beach, in a shelter that stayed standing whilst they were back at the main camp. When the twins were four years old, Kate broke the news that she was expecting another child, and eight months later, Jack delivered a second daughter, whom they named Jaime.

Jack and Kate lived a wonderful life together, and because she was happy, the nightmare she had never plagued her sleeping mind again. Every morning, she was able to wake up to the shining faces of her children, and that was more than enough for her.

As the children had told them once, they had seen. Kate had seen that she could be a good parent. All the disbelief that had came about in her mind after Chris's death was gone, because she came to see that motherhood wasn't as hard or as scary as she believed it was going to be. Jack, equally, had faced his fears, and found that he could protect his new family, and he liked nothing better than to be playing around in the sand with his children.

The one thing he did have an issue with, however, was that Lily, Jaime and Kate outnumbered him and Luke, but they were working on that now that Jaime was getting older.

THE END.