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In Another Life

Summary: It's 2007 and a plane crashes on the island. They are all strangers, except for eight passengers that remember everything.
They got a re-set, just not in the way they thought.

I have been here before.

But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door,
the sweet keen smell, the sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

You have been mine before.

How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar
your neck turned so, some veil did fall, I knew it all of yore.

Has this been thus before? And shall not thus time's eddying flight.

Still with our lives our love restore, in death's despite, and day and night yield one delight once more?

"Sudden Light" by Rossetti

Ch 2 – A New Life

***2004***

She woke up in the jungle to Alex worryingly screaming her name. She had no idea how she got there. She blacked out again, when she opened her eyes she brought her hand up to block out the light shining down at her.

"Welcome back Dr. Burke" Ethan said to her when she finally focused on him. She was in a bed in the infirmary.

"What happened?" She asked rubbing her forehead.

"I was hoping you could tell us, Alex said she found you passed out in the jungle" He said as he checked her vitals and drew some blood.

"That's the last thing I remember too" She tells him "What I supposed to be doing?" she asks drowsily, the room still felt like it was spinning and her back was killing her. She felt like she fell off a cliff.

"You said you heard a noise out in the jungle, you went to check it out" He tells her and then goes to the microscope. "Well, I can tell you why I think you fainted"

"Why?" she asks a little afraid of the answer.

"You're pregnant"

"I'm what!?" She asks making sure she heard correctly.

"You're pregnant" he repeats. "From what I can tell about a month along"

She lays back down and breaths, she sees Goodwin out of the corner of her eyes. She can't tell if he's angry or sad. They had stopped their relationship four months ago so it wasn't his. But she hadn't been with anyone else so she had no idea how this happened. "Well, that's great now I'm going to die"

Ethan places his hand on her shoulder. "You're not going to die, Juliet" he says "Now you have an even bigger motivation to solve the problem"

And she did, she didn't know who the father was but it was her child and she would do anything to save it. She worked day and night and through her morning sickness. But when the second trimester came she felt completely healthy. She checked her vitals every day and she was having a normal pregnancy. That didn't stop her from working though.

It was late she sat back in her chair and rested her hands on her swollen belly. She closed her eyes just for a little bit. In her dream she was holding onto a strong calloused hand and she felt safe, loved. She was smiling up at someone, and then she looks up and sees a metal scaffolding about to fall. She hears a man's voice begging her not to leave him but she knows she has to let go. So she does then she wakes up. She's been having that dream a lot ever since she found out she was pregnant. She can never see the face that the hand belongs too but she can feel how tightly it was holding on to her. The dream scared her because she wondered why she kept dreaming about her death and she wanted to see the face and no matter how hard she tried, she never could. She knew the face belonged to someone she loved and she didn't know why she couldn't remember.

By the third trimester she was still having a normal pregnancy and she was out of the danger zone. She had developed a serum that she was working so far but she only had one test subject the other women were too afraid. Her serum was able to fool the body into accepting the fetus, but you had to take the shot 8-10 times a day. Christina didn't mind, she wanted a baby.

She was still working in her lab when her water broke. On September 22, after a grueling sixteen hours she delivered a healthy eight pound fifteen ounce baby boy. ****

Present Day

She smiled down at her son now and rubbed her hand through his hair. She picked him up and walked outside. They were all standing there in shock watching the smoke trail still in the sky. She looked at her son and back at the sky. She felt something she couldn't explain. For some reason this plane crash made her smile.

They watched as Claire left with Aaron and go to Vincent. Then they looked at each other. "Do any of you remembering getting on that plane?" Hurley asks them. They all shake their heads. This wasn't what they expected to happen. Daniel had said that the bomb would stop Flight 815 from ever crashing and it did. But somehow they were all back on the island in another plane crash.

"Juliet!" James screams out suddenly. They turn to look at him. "If we never came here on that damn flight then she never died" he smiles to himself.

"What, Juliet died?" Sun looked to her husband. Jin bows his head. "When?" she asked.

"She fell, before we came here" he says.

"And how did we get here? What happened?" Sun asks, she was really confused. They all looked like they knew what had happened and none of them were filling her in on it. "What happened?" She asks again holding her daughter against her chest.

"Daniel said if we blew up a hydrogen bomb our flight never would've crashed on the island" Jin tells her. She should be shocked at her husband's near perfect English but everything else that was happening took precedent over that. "You blew up a bomb!" she says looking at them like they were crazy.

"No, it didn't work" Jack said "The bomb it didn't blow up"

"Well something happened" Hurley says "Somehow we got back here to our original time" Sun just looks at them it was a lot to take in.

"Where's Sayid and Locke" Hurley asks, he was looking for them in the crowd but they were nowhere to been seen.

"She didn't, we never came here so none of that happened" Sawyer says and takes off running into the jungle. "Sawyer!" Kate screams and then they all scream out and follow him. "Sawyer!"

He turns to them "She's alive, I have to find her" he tells them. When she looked at him, he knew what she was going to do when her hand left his he felt as if his whole world had ended. But if they had re-set it where they never crashed on this island then she never let go of his hand. They were given a second chance.

"If we never landed here then she won't know who we are" Hurley tells him as he was looking for which direction he should go in.

"We remember, maybe she does too" He says "I have to see" He looked at them with tears in his eyes. "If she's alive then I have to go to her…I love her" He couldn't even imagine a world where Juliet was not in it.

Hurley looked at Sawyer, he had changed so much in the three years they were gone. He couldn't say he was surprised that Juliet and Sawyer had hooked up. But he was surprised had how deeply they had fallen love. "If we never met her wouldn't she still be with the Others?" Hurley says to them "And you know… evil"

James whips his head around to them "She was never evil…everything she did was to protect Rachel and Julian" When she told him that Ben was using her family against her he wanted to hold her. He had no idea that she was a prisoner as much as they were. He thought she was one of them but she never was. All she wanted to do was go home to her family, to her sister and the nephew she's never met. He vowed to kill Ben if he ever saw him again for all the pain he had caused her.

"Who are they?" Hurley asks.

"Her sister and nephew" Jin answers.

"Everything she did was to protect them" Sawyer tells them and decides to go to the Dharma barracks first.

He starts walking and they follow. If Juliet was alive then they needed to go get her too. They had been walking for hours when he heard a voice, a voice that he would recognize anywhere. "Juliet". He ran towards it but Jin grabbed him and pushed him to the ground. They all crouched hiding themselves in the leaves as she came into view.

She walked purposely through the clearing followed by thirty other people all armed. She turned around to face them and they saw the gun in the back of her pants. He smiles as he sees her. She has her hair up in a messy bun and she's wearing a blue shirt half unbuttoned showing off a good amount of her cleavage and tight jeans.

They watch as Tom comes running through the jungle. "Juliet" he says out of breath. She turns to look at him. "The Middle Eastern and the bald man we found sneaking around the Hydra station…they" He has to stop and catch his breath.

"Did you give them food and water like I told you too?" she asks him.

He looks up at her. "They have the fish biscuits" another one pipes up.

"We are not savages!" She tells them all. "Give them food and water!" Tom nods and stands up. "Why didn't you just use your walkie, why did you come all the way over here to tell me?"

From there position in the leaves they can see and hear everything. They watched Sawyer stare at Juliet and they looked at each other. They had changed everything. Flight 815 never crashed and Juliet wasn't just still with the Others it looked like she was the leader. And they had Sayid and Locke as prisoners on the other island.

"I figured this was something you want to hear in person" he says "They are asking to speak to…Ben"

From the leaves they can see Juliet's demeanor change. "Ben" she says with a trace of anger in her voice "How do they know about Ben?" Tom just shakes his head." Tell them to feed them, if they don't eat just leave it out. I'm going to go over and talk to them" She faces the rest of the group. "The rest of you continue on your way, Jacob wants this finished by sundown" They nod and continue walking in the direction they were heading. Once she's alone she rubs her hand along the back of her neck. James wanted to go to her he knows when she does that she's scared. But he knows now she doesn't remember. They never crashed here so she never met him…them.

"Mommy!"

They all whip their heads around to the direction of the voice and see a small blonde boy running towards Juliet. She smiles and kneels down as the boy jumps in her arms. She hugs him tightly. "Jay, what are you doing here?"

"I'm sorry, Juliet" Alex says. Juliet watches as the nineteen year old runs up to them. "He gave me that look…and said he wanted to see you. I couldn't resist" she says smiling slightly. "I thought it would be ok"

She looks at her son and shakes her head and he just looks at her and smiles. He was charmer; he knew how to get the women with them to give him whatever he wanted. She had to wonder if that was one of her traits or if his father was like that.

James' mouth had dropped open as he stared at Juliet talking to the boy. The corner of his eyes filled with tears. They all looked at the boy with his mop of curly blonde hair and blue eyes. When he smiled he had the biggest dimples and there was no mistaking it, he was Sawyer's son.

Tbc…