Chapter 3

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A/N: I'm so sorry that I didn't update sooner. I've got a couple more chapters written in this and that's the only reason why I'm able to post new chapters. I haven't been inspired at all lately to write anything, but I'll get working on it. Thanks for sticking with me!

"We're almost there." Sayid called back to Jason and Juliet and then looked at Kate.

"What should we tell them?" Kate asked him.

"We'll tell them the truth."

"What exactly is the truth?"

Sayid smiled at Kate. "We came to get Jack, and we got Jack."

"And Juliet?"

Sayid sighed. "We are going to have to do something about her."

"Kill her?" Kate's eyes widened.

"Maybe. Jack trusts her, but I don't."

"If you do, Jack will hold it against you."

"Jack no longer has a say in what goes on."

"You won't let him be the leader anymore?"

"I don't know."

"What's going on?" Jason asked, catching up with them.

"Nothing Jack." Sayid said as they moved forward.

"Look, I know you guys don't trust Juliet, but you just have to get to know her."

"She's one of them. You tried to get to know Ben, and that didn't work out too well did it, Jack?"

Jason slowed down and looked at Juliet.

"They will trust you. Don't worry." Juliet told him.

Jason nodded.

A couple hours later they reached camp.

"Hug people, Smile. Laugh. That's what Jack would do." Juliet whispered to Jason, a slight twinge of guilt slicing her heart.

Jason nodded and Juliet slowed down and let Jason walk right behind Sayid and Kate.

Juliet heard the survivors. "It's Jack!" "Jack's here!"

Juliet smiled sadly, and waited behind the bushes as she imagined the scene.

Jason smiled at the Korean woman that ran up to him, hugging him tightly. "Are you all right?"

Jason nodded. "Yeah."

A rather large man ran to Jack. "Dude!! You're okay!" He laughed as he hugged Jason.

"Hey Hugo." Jason smiled.

"Hugo? How do you even know that dude? Oh well." Hurley brushed it off and grinned. He turned and saw Kate walking towards Sawyer. He turned back to Jason and Jason briefly gave Kate a glance before hugging Charlie. Hurley looked back at Kate and Sawyer, now in a hug.

"What's she doin here?"

Hurley turned in the direction that Sawyer had pointed to, and gasped. A blonde woman was standing by herself, arms folded across her stomach.

Jason gave her a comforting smile and walked over to her, taking her hand and taking her back with him.

Hurley looked back at Kate, who was now separated from Sawyer. The jealousy and confusion on her face was evident, even from ten yards away.

"This is Juliet. She'll be staying with us."

Everyone began asking questions all at once, and Jason put up his hands. "Calm down. She's okay."

"Is she a Other?" Sun asked.

"What?" Jason asked, confused for a second, before he remembered that that was what Jack called them. "Yes. Yes she is a Other."

"Has Jack been brainwashed or something?" Jason heard many whispers around the camp, everyone staring at him with doubtful expressions on their faces.

"The Others abandoned Juliet, and I wasn't about to abandon her too."

"She would have abandoned you." Sayid pointed out.

Jason looked at Juliet. Would she have abandoned Jack?

"I understand that you all have questions about me, " Juliet said. "I know it's going to be hard to accept me. But I don't mean any harm. Jack was kind enough to let me come. I hope that we can all come to be friends."

"Yeah right. You kept us in cages, makin us break rocks, shocking us when we didn't, and we're supposed to trust you?" Sawyer sarcastically said.

"Yeah. Yeah you are James." Jason said.

The crowd looked at Sawyer and back at Jason.

"How did you know that?" Sawyer demanded, walking over to him.

"We told him." Juliet covered for Jason, remembering that she hadn't told him of Sawyer and Hurley's nicknames.

Sawyer approached Juliet, and Juliet fought the urge to back away. "I don't trust you, and I'm not going to let you do anything to us, even if Jack does." Sawyer glared at Jason and walked back over to Kate.

"Somethin's wrong with him." Sawyer stormed past Kate, and she followed him.

"I'm glad I'm not the only one to notice."

"What happened?"

Kate filled him in, but left out a few details. She couldn't help but wonder if Jack was acting this way because of her.

"Somethin's fishy about this whole thing." Sawyer frowned.

"What are we going to do?"

"We're going to keep a close eye on Jack."

"What if?" Kate paused. "What if he has been turned?" Kate couldn't bear to think of it.

Sawyer shrugged. "It's possible. He was going to just leave you there. That's not like him. Being with the Others changed all of us." Sawyer gave Kate a long look, and she looked down. "Some of us for worse, and some of us for better."

"I've gotta go." Kate murmured, leaving quickly. She couldn't handle talking to Sawyer about what had happened between them. It just hurt too much.

She turned around and walked away. She sighed as she noticed Jack, Juliet, and Sayid talking to each other. The crowd had dispersed, but they were still giving Jack and Juliet suspicious glances. Kate wished things could get back to the way they used to be.

A/N: I'll update really soon I promise. Jack and his clone are going to come face to face in the next chapter. It's gonna be a really long and exciting chapter.