Juliet stepped off the small boat holding on to Jacks hand. She looked back at Pickett and extended her arm out to him, only for him to hand her the walkie. "Hello... Ben?" "Yes Juliet." "Were here, Pickett just left Jack and I a few miles away from his beach." "Ok, good luck Juliet. Can you put Jack on"
Without answering she handed it to jack and tried to appear uninterested in what Ben would say. "Yes..." "Jack, I have done what we agreed to,Remember to keep your people away from our island or things will go back to the way they were. "Yes Benjamin, thank you for keeping your word." "Your very welcome Jack, and thank you for the surgery... and for taking our only doctor." Bens voice contained sarcasm, Jack rolled his eyes and shot a glance at Juliet.
"And Jack"
"Yeah"
"Take care of her." Jack didnt say anything else, and just handed the walkie back to Pickett. He pulled it out of Jacks hand with anger, hate radiating off his eyes. He then shot a look at Juliet.
"I hope you know what your doing Juliet.If you had any chances of getting off this island at all, theyre completely gone now." Juliet lifted her head up high and looked him straight in the eyes. "Goodby and good luck Pickett"
Once Pickett was off and on his way back to the island Jack put his hand on Juliets back and guided her in the direction of the beach. "They might not accept you right away but theyll get use to you. Theyre all good people." Juliet just smiled and nodded. She was scared, scared to death, and Jack knew it. But he didnt want to let her know he could see right though her.They walked for about an hour, sometimes hand in hand, other times one ahead of the other.Juliet wanted the walk to last forever, they talked about home, their families, about happy times when they were off the island. And when they walked hand in hand it was for support, but Juliet felt her knees go even weaker once his fingers wrapped around hers.
"The beach should be right around those bushes over there" Jack said pointing at a group of bushes about four feet away. She took a deep breath in and stopped in her tracks. jack noticed and walked back to her, wrapped his arm around her waist and whispered into her ear."Dont be afraid, I'm here, we'll be together." her mind flashed back to the first time she heard him say that, and she felt safe.She put her hand ontop of his to keep it there and smiled. They walked around the bushes, his arm still around her,
fright written allover her face, yet he flashed a big smile.
"Son of a bitch" "Why thank you Sawyer." Jack said giggling his man giggle.He took his hand off Juliet and brought it to meet Sawyers, patting his back a few times before pulling back and acknowledging the rest of the people that surrounded them. Juliet just stood back, studying how happy jack seemed to be back, he was happy to see these people, and they were obviously happy to see him.She couldnt recall ever feeling happy apon seeing one of HER people.
The closest she ever got to that was missing someone. She missed Goodwin the first few weeks.But she knew it wasnt because she loved him, it was because he filled the empty nights, and once Jack got there, she barely ever thought of him again. "Why is SHE here?" Kate asked alarmed. The group stepped back and analyzed the tall blonde standing infront of them. Not happy to see an "other" on their beach they all gave Juliet hard looks and whispered stuff between eachother that from what Juliet could hear wasnt all that pleasent. "She's here with me." Jack stepped out in front of his people and stood infront of Juliet, to shield her from the mean looks and words being thrown at her.
"That crazy woman electricuted me, and held a gun to Kates head! Why would you bring her here"
"She's not like them, She's nice, and sweet." Juliet felt her cheeks flush, but she regained herself when she heard Sawyer. "Sweet?! Hah! Maybe to you lover-boy!" Jack backed up to Juliet and gave her a reassuring look. "She wouldnt hurt any of us, and she did help You and Kate off the island. Trust me, I wouldnt bring her here if I didnt trust her." "Under one condition Doc. If Sadam over here interrogates her and gives the green light"
If looks could kill Sawyer would have died in less than a second by the look jack gave him.
Sayid stepped forward, as if preparing himself for the task.
"I hope you dont expect me to hand her over to you!" Jack yelled, surprised at how eager Sayid seemed at the idea.
"Jack we cant just let her onto our beach, just give me a few minutes with her alone"
"For what!? So you can tie her to a tree and rip her nails off"
"I wont do that Jack." Sayid replied annoyed by Jacks tone and by the way he protected this complete stranger.
"You know what? I expected alot more from all of you.I should have known better. If you guys cant accept that Juliet is here with me, then I'm not staying either." Jack turned around and grabbed Juliets hand, starting to walk away from his friends.