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Summary: Lovers torn apart, a bomb, a flash of white light. What does it mean? My take on what happens next. A Suliet reunion fic.
I'm Coming Home.
"Change will come, change is here. Love fades out. Then love appears. Now my water turned to wine. And these thoughts I have. I now claim as mine. I'm coming home.
Change has been. And change will be. Time will tell. Then time will ease. Now my curtain has been drawn. And my heart can go where my heart does belong.
I'm coming home."
Reunion by Collective Soul.
Juliet places one hand on her stomach and the other one over it. She closed her eyes and the corners fill with tears.
"I know you knew" Jacob says to her.
She looks at him because she did know, she knew for about two days.
"You didn't tell him"
"The timing was never right" She replies and it wasn't the day she found out was when Jack had come to tell her that Kate had made Roger suspicious and then James had knocked Phil out because he had found the videotape of Kate and him taking Ben. Then everything went to hell. "The baby's ok?"
"The baby's fine" he says smiling at her.
She lets out a cry of relief that was one of the hardest decisions she ever had to make to kill herself and their unborn child. But she couldn't let all three of them die. If she had told James he would've died trying to save them. She knew nothing could, the chains were too tightly wrapped around her and they were already digging into her skin. The magnet wanted those chains and it would rip her in half to get them. She had to let go. "James! Is James ok?" She asks worryingly.
"He's alive" Jacob answers her.
"Bring me to him!" She says, not wanting James to have to go through the heartache of losing someone all over again. She thought when she hit the bomb that everything would disappear that he wouldn't remember her, she didn't want him to be in pain, not in the pain she saw on his face when she let go.
"It didn't work" she says to herself.
"No" He answers.
"Where are they? Are they still in the 70's?"
"No, they are where they are supposed to be"
"And where's that?" She asks.
"They are safe" he replies. He couldn't move her with them, they where he needed them to be and she was needed here.
"I still don't understand, why are you talking to me, why me,?"
Jacob laughs again everyone was always asking him that. "Because you never thought you were special"
Juliet shakes her head hopping she heard correctly. "What?"
He stares at Juliet, her face was covered in blood her, her shirt and pants are ripped and torn. She has both hands covering her stomach where her child is growing. He should've known that she was the one, when it didn't take much convincing for her to come to the island. She was supposed to be here. "Everyone on this island thinks they are special, that they are meant for some greater purpose or that this island can change who they were. They think this was their destiny. And because of that they became selfish and uncaring, their only purpose was to prove how special they are." He looks at her as she stares at him. "But not you"
She laughs now "So because I didn't think I was special, I am…special?"
He smiles he does really like her. "You didn't want to be special. You graduated at the top of your class in med school and didn't tell anyone. You snuck around doing experiments that could've made you rich and famous. But it was never about the money. Some of it was just for your curiosity, others you did because it would help someone. You don't do things because someone asks you too; you do things because it's right. "He pauses to see her reaction. "You're a savior, Juliet. You are always putting others above yourself no matter the cost to you. You've lost many chances off this island because of that selflessness" he's barely an inch away from her. "You are who I was looking for"
"For what?" she asks. He just looks at her and smiles and walks over to a corner, he returns with clothing in his hands.
"Put these on" He tells her. She takes them and lets the garment fall open.
"Is this a tunica?" She asked holding the garment up to herself it came down to her knees.
"Yes" Jacob answers impressed she knew it was called. "I thought you might want to change your clothes"
She did, but she didn't know if she was comfortable wearing what was basically a white sheet. She sighed and looked at him until he turned around. She peeled off her bloodied clothes and slid the tunica on. She looked down at it, when she looked up Jacob handed her a blue garment and she just looked at him. He smiled and helped wrap it around her body and clasp it at her shoulders. "Is the only thing that you have?" She asks because she looked like she was dressed for an elegant toga party.
"It will help you fit in better" was his reply as he motioned for her to go to the door. She had no idea why she trusted him. His touch had erased all her fears and doubts, she no longer felt angry at what the island had done to her. She felt free for the first time. Which she thought was strange since she was talking to the man that The Other followed willingly without question. Now here she was following him. She walked to the door and pushed it open. She covered her eyes from the bright sunlight from having been in the dark temple. When her eyes adjusted she walked out and her eyes widened in shock. She saw men, women and children walking around dressed like she was, some were talking, other's were building or gardening and children were running around chasing each other. She looked at the temples and saw the sun glisten of the stone, there were no cracks or overgrown vines. The trees around them were nicely trimmed. It looked nothing like the rundown mess she saw when they first brought her to temples a year after she came to the island. They looked to only be a couple hundred years old rather than thousands.
A dark haired teenager ran past her, he stopped and stared at her. He had tanned skin and dark eyes. He looked at her strangly "Ricardus" she heard another man say. The boy turned to look at the man.
"Bring some flowers back for your mother" she heard the man say in Latin. The boy nodded his head and took off. Juliet watched his retreating form "Richard" she said softly to herself.
She turned to Jacob who was now standing beside her. "That was Richard?" she asks and closes her eyes as he nods yes. "Why did you bring me here? Where is James?"
"If I sent you with them you and your child would die, I had to bring you here to this time"
She looks out once again at the all the people running around. She was way back in time to where Richard was a teenager. She turned around to face Jacob and he was gone. Of course she says to herself. She walks further outside and the man she figured was Richard's father walked up to her.
"I am Marius" he says putting his hand on his chest.
"Juliet" she says "Why are you not surprised to see me?" she asks him in Latin.
"Lacobus, told us we would" he answers.
Jacob She nods her head and he motions for her to follow him. They walk along the path and others stop what they are doing to stare at her. He brings her into one of the temples and tells her to clean herself off. She walks over to the bowl of water that was on a table and looks at reflection. She had forgotten that her face was covered in blood no wonder they were giving her strange looks. She cupped her hands in the water and brought them to her face. A cloth was put in her hands and she used it to dry herself. " Gratias maximas tibi ago." She says to the woman that was standing there.
Again she's being motioned to follow and she does. She's brought into another room where women were weaving tapestries of what looked like Greek or Egyptian myths. The woman takes her back outside where more women were hanging the finished tapestries. She walks over to look at one of them. The blonde woman that was hanging the tapestry drops it and Juliet turns to look at her. She catches her breath. "Claire?"
Tbc…