This is my first fan fiction ever. And just so you know English isn't my native language so its not the best, sorry.
Lost is obviously not my creation. Don't sue.
Chapter One - Responsibility
Jack was feeling stressed out. There was so much left to do before Friday. He hadn't even started packing properly. He still couldn't believe he had gotten in to medical school. He knew his parents were proud of him, for once. He wasn't too fond of the idea of moving to New York though. He would miss all of his friends and his parents, but most of all he would miss Kate.
Walking around in his room his eyes fell on a framed photograph of the two of them. He smiled at the picture in his hand making a mental note to place it somewhere clearly visible in the new apartment.
Kate had been very withdrawn the last couple of months. Jack wondered if maybe had something to do with the fact that he was moving away.
Jack found himself standing in front of the bathroom mirror. Maybe there was something else wrong with Kate. It worried him that she was shutting everybody out. Most of all it worried him that she was shutting him out.
Stepping out of his clothes, Jack took a long needed shower to cleanse his head. After drying himself carelessly, he put on his PJ pants and left the bathroom.
He walked out to the kitchen and opened the fridge. Nothing. He sighted loudly and glanced over at the money on the kitchen island his parents had left him for pizza. They had been gone since yesterday morning. Jack checked his watch. 5'oclock, they should be back in a couple of hours.
He could hear the rain pouring down outside. His parents had probably had an awful time on the boat trip in all this rain.
The sound of the doorbell echoed through the house and he shut the fridge with his foot. He ran his hand threw his hair as he opened the front door.
"Kate?" She was inspecting her shoes, not wanting to meet his eyes. Jack knew that she was crying though, without actually seeing her face and he took a small step forward and gathered her in his arms.
"Hey, that's wrong?"
With the support of Jacks warm arms around her soaked and cold body Kate broke down completely. Noticing that the small figure in his arms was trembling uncontrollably Jack guided her in to the living room and sat her down on the couch. After placing a blanket over her shoulders he sat down next to her and embraced her again.
"What happened Kate? Please tell me what's wrong…" It killed him to see her like this, not being able to do anything.
He could feel her burying her face in his shoulder and sobbing wildly. She rarely expressed any feelings like this, thinking about it Jack couldn't think of a single time he had seen her cry like this.
Jack tried desperately to calm the young girl down, whispering soothing things in her ear. Finally Kate started to calm down. She rested her head against his chest and listened to his heartbeats.
Jack shifted slightly on the couch and moved her face with his right hand so that he could see her. His eyes were begging her to explain that had happened. Kate closed her eyes and bit her bottom lip. Something she only did when she was nervous or scared.
"It's okay. Just tell me. Everything will be alright, I promise." Kate opened her eyes again and shyly looked back up at the only on she had ever really trusted.
"Tom and I broke up."
"Oh Kate I'm sorry" He wasn't really that sorry. Tom was a great guy, but he knew that Kate hadn't been that happy with him, especially not the last couple of months. They had been fighting a lot and Kate had been shutting him out completely, "what happened?" he asked mostly out of politeness, he didn't really care what the reason was.
"I told him I was pregnant" her voice was shaky and her eyes unfocused.
Jack's whole world froze to ice the same second the words had left her mouth. Suddenly he cared hell of a lot about the reason for the break up. Kate was pregnant? He could feel the disgust growing inside of him. She had slept with Tom? He felt like yelling at her, he wasn't even sure why. Kate had been going out with Tom for a year. Considering the facts it wasn't that big of a surprise that they had had sex.
Remembering that Kate was still sitting next to him he focused his eyes on her and noticed that she was studying her hands lying in her lap. Jack reached over and put his hand on top of hers. "Kate…" She didn't look up. "Kate…" he tried again. She reluctantly moved her face towards him so that Jack could see the tears running down her cheeks.
"Come here" He hugged her closely afraid that she would break down again. He stroked her hair with one hand, the other one rested on her back.
Kate tried to hold back another sob. "I was at the clinic earlier and had some allergy tests taken" Her grip around Jacks waist tightened. "And well I guess they saw on my blood results that I was pregnant." She trailed off.
Jack nodded slightly not sure what to say next. He still couldn't believe that she was pregnant. Kate was pregnant. He didn't dare to think how her parents were going to react. Her mother would be so disappointed. He wondered how Tom had reacted. It couldn't have been pretty since they had broken up. Jack never thought Tom would just leave her like this though. It wasn't like him at all. "What did Tom say?"
"He said that we would figure it out and that we should get married" she almost chuckled.
Now that sounded a lot more like the Tom he knew.
"I couldn't let him do that. Just throw his life away. It's not his responsibility"
Jack moved his hands to each side of her shoulders and lowered his head so that he was looking directly at her. "Kate I don't want to sound judgmental or anything, but you're just seventeen. If Tom got you pregnant it is his responsibility. It's not more than right that he marries you and promises to be there for you and the baby. And if he doesn't, I will personally kick his ass." He realized he had raised his voice and that he sounded very big brotherly, but he couldn't help it.
"He didn't…" Kate looked devastated, not even bothering to wipe away the tears from her cheeks. Jack reached over to her and stroked them away with his thumb. "He didn't what?"
Kate brought her hands up and covered her face as she started to cry again. "He didn't!" Her sobbing got worse and she practically threw herself at Jack, arms around his neck, burying her face in his chest.
He's slowly wrapped his arms around her once more and rested his head on top of hers. Kate mumbled something against him, but Jack couldn't make out the words. He moved his hands to her sides and pushed her slightly away so that he could see her. "What?" He's voice was full of concern and love.
"He didn't get me pregnant" It was barely a whisper.
Well I am in serious need of guidance... Is it worth continuing this?