-1Title: Lost Love
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Jack/Juliet
Disclaimer: I do not own Lost or any of these characters
Chapter 1
Jack Shephard looked at his watch, 8:15am. He hadn't slept a wink all night. It was becoming a habit of his, not sleeping, and it had gotten worse since he had left the island. He knew it was a mistake, even if Kate insisted that it wasn't, he had to get back.
Back to her.
He was interrupted from his thoughts when he heard a nurse calling his name. "Dr. Shephard? Are you feeling okay?"
Jack straightened himself up and blinked a couple of times, "Yeah, yeah I'm fine.. I'm just gonna go check on this patient". He stared at the ground as he made his way into his patient - the woman he had saved from the burning car. Her son was sitting in a chair talking to a woman Jack didn't recognise.
"Oh hello", she smiled brightly. "You must be Dr. Shephard, I'm Karen, one of her closest friends". She gestured to the woman across the room in the hospital bed, who appeared to be sleeping. "I've been looking after her son, a couple of days a week while she's been in here. And can I just say Dr. Shephard, what you did, it was.."
"It was what anybody would have done", Jack answered, he was getting tired of people praising him for what he did.
Karen smiled again "Well, all I wanted to say was thank you". She glanced at the clock, "Oh, I'm already late, I better get going", she said as she began putting her coat on.
Jack nodded and forced a smile back when he noticed another woman curled up in a chair at the far end of the room, her hair messily fallen across her face she seemed to be sleeping too. "Who's she"
Karen looked from Jack to the woman. "That's her sister, she stayed up all night here, worrying about her, poor thing", she sighed and turned to the boy "I'll see you later okay?". The boy nodded as Karen left the room.
Jack wandered over to the patient's bed and picked up her chart, examining it. He could hear the woman who had been asleep in the chair moving behind him.
He looked over to the boy who was now trying to adjust his sling. Jack looked down at the chart again, desperately thinking up excuses of why he must leave the room suddenly, he really wasn't in the mood for more small talk with the friends and family.
"Julian, sweetheart let me do it". The woman got up and walked over to her sister's son and fixed the sling around his neck.
Jack froze.
No, no it couldn't be. It's impossible. You're just imagining things, Jack, snap out of it!
The woman looked up and their eyes met, her face went blank. Jack felt numb inside, he could barely utter the words.
"Juliet?"