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link. To (very) quickly sum them up, they met just after the plane crashed and had an instant connection. However, Jack soon found out that Kate was a fugitive and began not to trust her... and then there was
link. Kate was very torn between the two men, each with very different personalities.
When Jack, Kate, and Sawyer were captured oleh the Others,
link because she tought he was going to die. Jack found out. Jack and
link (a reformed Other), much to Kate's dismay, got very "friendly".
But at the end of season three (just after Jack kisses Juliet), he turns to Kate and tells her he loves her.
Both are rescused as part of the
link. Sawyer jumped out of the helicopter to save them, but before he did, he asked Kate to do him a favour and kissed her goodbye. While Kate's feelings were always in question, Sawyer's weren't - he loved her.
Off the Island, Jack and Kate are happily playing house with their "son",
link. They even get engaged. However, Kate is still trying to keep her promise to Sawyer, without Jack knowing. Jack finds out, and they fight.
Jack soon realizes that they have to go back to the Island, and nearly goes mad trying. He finds himself addicted to pain killers and an alcoholic... and without Kate.
Once he convinces her to go back with him, she
link, and is distraught. She runs back to Jack and spends the night with him. Then, along with the rest of the Oceanic Six (minus Aaron), they go back to the Island.
Their relationship is still rocky, and Jack realizes that Kate may have never liked him, while she tried to convince him that "it was not all misery."
In the
link, as Jack tried to "reset time" so that they can all go back to before the crash ever happened, Kate and Jack look at each other and smile. We realize that, although their relationship has always been rocky and neither of them have been perfect, they were always meant to be together in some way atau another. Jate is Fate, baby :)