Thanks to Kassandra Luem for the prompt :) and for introducing me to LOST and Kuliet.

I'm new to the show and the characters, and apologise for inconsistencies in the characters or storylines. It's just the way I see Kate and Juliet, and of course it won't be the same as everyone's views. I mean no offence to anyone or their favourite characters....just written in fun from my imagination. Set around season three, after the 'others' have left Juliet behind.

Enjoy xoxo

Through my eyes

Chapter 1

You can't say we never tried" she stated softly, a quiet, heavy sadness in her voice. She sits, dejected, aimlessly sifting the dirt through her fingers, staring at the firelight.

"That sounds like defeat." Sayid whispers in reply. "That isn't the Kate I know."

Maybe you don't know me half as well as you think you do, Kate tells herself, Maybe no one knows me.

"There was never any sense trying to make Jack understand. He isn't thinking with his head right now. "

The words stung. But as Kate looked over to Jack sleeping only metres from her, from Juliet, she knew it was true. The way Jack protected Juliet, defended her. He was attracted to her. He looked to Juliet the way he once looked to Kate.

"Sorry, I didn't mean…" Sayid mumbled, shifting his gaze to the ground, unable to look her in the eye. "It's time for action, time to take this out of Jack's hands."

"What are you gonna do?" Kate asked him sceptically. She already knew the answer, she'd seen it, that murderous gleam in his eyes. He was hungry for blood. Juliet;s blood.

"It's best you don't know the details." Sayid answered.

"You're going to kill her." Somehow Kate finds herself unable to speak Juliet's name aloud.

"She is a threat to all of us, our survival. She is more dangerous that you realise. It would be suicide to allow that woman to come back to the beach with us, to live among us. She has to be stopped. There is only one way. It's unfortunate. But this place is brutal. It's her, or us. I have to do what needs to be done, to protect the others."

It's not that Kate disagrees. It just sits uneasy with her. "When Jack finds out…." She warns.

"I'll make it look like an accident. A wild animal. Dangerous place the jungle. Camping here like this, anything could happen to any one of us."

It sends chills down her spine. Did Sayid think she'd be all for it? Why? Because of the insane jealousy she knows is oozing out of her every pore everytime Jack looks at Juliet? Or because she'd killed in the past? Did he think she wouldn't even flinch at the thought of taking a human life?

"Just keep jack out of the way, that's all I ask. If he wakes up, distract him"

"How?" She wants to know. If Jack woke, and found Sayid and Juliet gone, how could Kate stop him?

"You'll think of a way." Sayid answers with a wink.

Kate doesn't think she is of much interest to Jack these days. Not since he found out about Sawyer, not since Juliet came along. All she can do is hope and pray that Jack sleeps soundly through the entire thing.

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Kate wakes from her restless sleep to someone poking her. She assumes it is Sayid, wanting to make sure she was awake, keeping an eye on Jack, and she mumbles softly. "All right, I'm awake."

"Good." Comes the reply. But it isn't Sayid's voice. It isn't even Jack. It's her. Juliet.

"I need to go." Juliet whispers as Kate looks to her quizzically.

"Then go." Kate tells her. Good idea, run now while you still can.

"To the, uh, ladies room." Juliet explains.

Kate had to stifle her laughter, was this woman serious? "Then go." Kate repeats. "You don't need my permission."

"By myself?" Juliet asks incredulously.

"Yes, all by yourself. You're a big girl now. The five star facilities are just over that way. Watch out for snakes though."

Did Juliet really think Kate was gonna leave her nice warm spot by the fire just to escort her to the "ladies room"? After Juliet imprisoned her, lied to her, threw all her mistakes with Jack in her face? Juliet is standing there looking down at Kate expectantly. As if she actually expects Kate is going to get up, as if Kate owes her something.

As Kate turns away from Juliet's insistent gaze, she realised with irritation that she has to "go" as well. Kate stands to her feet, looking down to the men who were both sleeping soundly by the camp fire.

"Come on then, hurry up" Kate instructs. Truth be told, Kate led Juliet just a little bit further away from the camp than was necessary. Not because she had any sinister plans for the woman, just because she delighted in seeing Juliet squirm a little more with each dark footstep in to the jungle. It made her feel superior.

"Here?" Juliet looks around in disgust.

"What did you expect? You've never done this before, have you?"

"This? No." Juliet answers.

"How many years have you lived on this island? You've never been camping?"

"No. Why would I? We lived in perfectly comfortable civilisation, unlike some people. No need to go traipsing off into the jungle like barbarians."

"Believe it or not, I came from civilization too. My plane crashed here you know, I didn't choose to live like this. But you're gonna have to learn to make the best of it if you want to survive."

Juliet folds her arms defiantly "I'll just wait."

"Wait for what? Until we get to the five star bathrooms?"

"Until the morning, it's pitch black, I cant see a thing, I'll wait."

"Suit yourself." Again Kate tried to stifle her laughter at this image of Juliet completely out of her comfort zone. Juliet shot her an irritated glance and then her eyes clouded over with fear.

"What?" Kate asked, as she looked over her shoulder to find Sayid standing in the bushes. "It's just Sayid." Kate assured Juliet, rolling her eyes. And for a moment life really is that simple. Teasing Juliet as if they were school girls on a camping trip, hiding from the boys pretending to be monsters in the forest. It takes Kate a moment to realise it isn't 'just Sayid.' It's Sayid, with a knife in his hand, and a thirst for Juliet's blood. Juliet was right to be afraid. Not so foolish to take some company with her on the trip to the ladies room after all.

The expression on Juliet's face hardened instinctively after that brief uncharacteristic glimpse of human terror. Kate felt connected to Juliet somehow in that moment. Maybe that was all part of Juliet's plan, with that stupid handcuff trick, to make Kate think they were "In it together." Maybe Juliet had been skilfully playing her all along. Kate only knew that she somehow felt connected, after seeing fear in the other woman's eyes. That she looked to Juliet and for the first time saw her as a human being.

"Go back to camp, Kate." Sayid orders her.

Kate resents him in that moment, telling her what to do as if she were a child. Instead of turning and walking away, Kate turns and places herself protectively in front of Juilet. If anyone asked her later why she had done it, she wouldn't be able to give an answer.

Sayid hadn't been expecting it, the knife has already left his hand, and is hurtling through the night air towards Kate. Kate is frozen, but Juliet pushes her to the ground, falling on top of her. Kate hears the thump as the knife landed, slicing into the tree trunk, or was it the sound of her skull striking the rock on the ground? Kate feels Juliet's heart beating on top of her, feels her breath warm against her skin. And then, there was silent darkness.

"Look what you've done now." Sayid accuses Juliet.

"What I've done? I was trying to push her out of the way of your knife."

"What the hell is going on?" They both turn to see Jack standing metres away. He looks to the two of them, Sayid and Juliet. Then to Kate unconscious on the ground.

"What happened?"

"She attacked Kate." Sayid doesn't waste a moment telling his twisted side of the events. After all, there Kate is, lying unconscious on the ground, the evidence speaks for itself. "I told you it was dangerous to bring her along."

Jack isn't sure what to make of this. He looks towards Kate, contempt in his eyes. Still blaming her for wrecking his chance to get off the island, still hurt by the fact she betrayed him with Sawyer. Juliet, for her part, says nothing. Not a single word of denial or defence. And finally his Doctor self takes over and he bends down to Kate sweeping her hair from her face. In the dim light he can see the graze on her head, the rock where she fell.

"It was an accident." Juliet tells him as she crouches beside him "She fell."

"You would say that." Sayid taunts her.

"Enough." Jack picks Kate up into his arms, and carries her back to the campsite.

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