A/N – I know I should be updating Undeniable, thing is I'm having a bit of trouble with writers block then I saw Lost the other night and as a very true and faithful Jacket / Skate fan I was shocked to see Juliet and Sawyer shacking up but when I re watched the show I couldn't help thinking they make a pretty awesome couple and not to mention, what a brilliant way to make Jack and Kate ubberly jealous!

Sawyer

He couldn't quite tell you when it happened just that it did. Love, he used to laugh at the suckers that fell in and out of it claiming it controlled their lives; that was part of his problem with Jack, Jack had always been so bloody emotional. It was also part of the reason Kate had been so appealing, he'd thought he'd finally found someone as annoyed with 'Love' as he was.

Problem was he'd fallen in 'love' with Kate; bigger problem was she kept thinking she was in 'love' with the doc.

He would have thrown himself at the others before he would have admitted that he'd fall in 'love' twice in his lifetime. Let alone with someone like Juliet someone who off the island would have been considered safe, calm, and even ordinary.

He couldn't quite tell you when it happened just that every time he saw her, every time he heard her voice, every time she stepped up to something that no one else would do, every time she got his back she sucked him in just a little bit further until one morning he couldn't remember having ever loved anyone else.

The first time he kissed her – boy was that an incredible night – he felt hopeful, he'd never really cared all that much about getting off the Island, sure if it happened that be great but what sis he really have out there that he didn't have right there on the Island, especially now that there was Juliet to consider, and he considered her with every decision he made. Another thing that blew him away, when did he start thinking about someone else's feelings, someone else's reactions before he made decisions?

That also must have come on gradually.

When he thinks back to the beginning of their relationship, before you could even call it a relationship, he's dumbfounded, she tazed him for Christ's sake. He should have known in that very moment that she would overtake him.

In a way she had saved him, given him something to look forward to, everyday was different with her, she had a way of making even the mundane seem new and exciting. Every once and a while they would sneak out in the middle of the night, head back to the beach, visit the rest of camp in the caves, sometimes they'd find some hidden cove or a huge tree with just the right amount of cover then they'd make love like they were still teenagers, they'd take time exploring each other's bodies and trying new things the first time she flipped him over and took control he nearly lost it before they'd even begun. She was so much more than anyone ever gave her credit for.

He couldn't quite tell you when it happened just that he was bloody thrilled it did.

Juliet

She knew exactly when it happened. Love, how many times in her life had she claimed to be in 'love' how many times had she truly believed she'd met the right one? This was different; this wasn't her feeling it and him trying to catch up to her, quite the opposite in fact.

*Flashback*

"Come on Juliet! Can't you ever let anyone else win?" Horace threw the cards onto the table, the Dharma people held these gatherings lots of people crammed into a small community center if you could even call it that. They played poker, every week they would take an already tight situation and make it even worse by setting up a poker table. Juliet won every single time, didn't matter who they were playing Juliet always won.

"Why do we even let her play anymore?" Miles added his cards to the discard pile and Juliet's face broke into a grin.

"You've been here nearly a year now do you think you can tell us where you learned?" Horace leaned forward, Juliet adapter a serious expression and moved forwards so that she was leaning across the table towards Horace, she could see Sawyer shifting uncomfortably on the other side of the room as he attempted to continue his conversation with Amy.

"You want to know my secret, my trick of the trade?" Horace nodded leaning a little bit closer, everyone seemed to be listening.

"Truth is, I hadn't played a single game of poker until I walked on to this camp, I watched you guys the first month and then I decided to try my hand at it, I seem to be doing pretty well don't you think?" She smiled at him again and as she leaned back she dragged the chips she'd won towards her.

They didn't play for money, what was the point everything was provided for them by the Dharma Initiative. They divvied up a set of chips and played till someone had won (Juliet) and then they'd put 'em all back until the following week.

Juliet pulled herself away from the table and started to walk away. "You headed home Jules?" Tiffany one of the other girls who was a regular at the poker table chimed in.

"Yeah the nursery got another shipment of flowers, I want to scope 'em out before everyone else gets there." Juliet winked and then slipped out of the center, again catching Sawyer with the corner of her eye, they'd been so in tune with each other over the last year always aware of where the other was.

She saw him say good night to Amy and make his way to the door, he was fallowing her and she was not going to play his game. She ignored him all the way back to her house, Juliet had moved in with Amy. Sawyer had been staying with Horace after the way things had been lately it was only a matter of time before Amy moved in with Horace.

"I know you know I'm following you," Juliet stopped at the top of her front porch and turned around she couldn't help smiling at him, Sawyer had become her best friend over the past year, he knew her better than anyone.

"Then why are you doing it?" There was a look in his eye, a look she wasn't familiar with, a look she wasn't sure she felt all that comfortable with. Then before she could open her mouth to question him he had her up against the front door his hands were in her hair, at her waist, everywhere and his lips were working hers in a way that she had never before experienced.

It took her a moment to get into it and then another moment before she realized what she was doing, she pushed him off of her and they stood a foot apart neither quite capable of catching their breath.

*Flashback*

She knew exactly when it happened and it wasn't that moment. It came two weeks after that first kiss, she showed up at the motor pool to find her station covered in flowers, every inch, it was absolutely absurd a greasy grimy work zone covered in the most exquisite flowers. It had only taken her a second to notice that they beautiful flowers had all come from her very own garden.

"You used my flowers,"

"You deserve the best, aint my fault you grow all the prettiest flowers." It was that statement and that statement alone that hit her so incredibly hard.

Yes she knew exactly when it happened, she knew exactly when she'd fallen in love with him, she also knew that he probably hadn't had a clue it was coming.

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