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"I'm as nowhere as I can be. Could you add some somewhere to me?" –Salina
"Little bit early, aren't you, Blondie?"
She hears his self-assured drawl behind her on the dock and she smirks into the darkness. "I know."
"The sub don't leave till tomorrow morning," he tells her, even though she already knows it, and he knows she already knows it. "How about a drink before you leave?"
"No thanks, James," Juliet says. He's sweet, though.
He sits down beside her and lets his feet dangle over the edge of the dock with hers, swinging in time to some song in her head that probably hasn't been written yet.
"Did you remember your toothbrush?" he asks after a while.
She's pretty sure he's joking, but she appreciates it anyway. "I won't need one on the sub," she answers, "and I can buy one when I get…" She trails off. Where is she going?
"When you get back," he finishes for her, because they both know that 'home' doesn't sound quite right. Home doesn't have a name for either of them right now, but part of her is afraid that the closest thing to it is the little yellow house she shares with James, Miles, Jin and Daniel.
"Make sure you catch a Simon and Garfunkel reunion concert," he jokes, and she laughs with him.
And in that moment she decides that two weeks isn't quite long enough for her to get to know James Ford.