Chapter 9

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A/N: I'm so sorry that I'm late in updating this. I've been kind of busy lately. Because of that I made this longer than usual.

Sawyer heatedly walked back into his tent and Jack quickly dropped Kate's hand, hoping Sawyer hadn't seen it. "What did she say?"

Sawyer looked at him in surprise. "How did you know?"

Jack shrugged.

"She insisted that they didn't do anything to her, but I don't believe her."

"For now we will just have to."

"That's it? You're not going to try to talk to her? This is Kate we're talking about! And Juliet's your girlfriend! She'd talk to you!"

"She's not my girlfriend." Jack said through gritted teeth. "You don't think I care? Of course I care. We don't have a lot of time to waste here. I'm going to go get some water."

Jack walked out of the tent and headed for Juliet. "What did you do to her?"

"What?" Juliet stood up from her spot in the sand.

"You heard me. What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything."

"Did any of the Others do anything to her at all?"

"Not to my knowledge no."
"Not to your knowledge? You knew everything that happened."

"Not everything."

"Juliet please."

"I told you that you loved her." Juliet said triumphantly.

"Does that make you happy Juliet?"

"No. It just proves my point."

Jack sighed and walked over to the water. He dipped the bottle in, and then he cupped his hands and splashed water on his face.

He approached Sawyer's tent but stopped right outside when he heard Sawyer talking to Kate.

"It's okay Freckles. Jack's gonna make you better and then we're gonna go to that waterfall I've been talkin' about."

Jack sighed again as he walked in. "Juliet says they didn't do anything."

"Do you believe her?"

"I want to, but I can't." Jack moved towards Kate and put some water on a rag. "We're just going to have to do our best."

Jack gently patted the rag on Kate's face, neck, and arms.

"Well what are you going to do?" Sawyer asked.

"I don't know."

"For being a doctor you sure don't know much. Are you sure you got a degree?"

"You know what Sawyer? I'm trying my best. Has it occurred to you that I am a spinal surgeon? I was never meant to do this kind of stuff!"

"Oh that's real comforting Jacko. Next the firefighters are gonna say that they only know how to drive a truck!"

Jack shook his head in frustration.

Sawyer changed his tone, knowing that getting angry at Jack wasn't going to help anything. "Look you know this stuff. I know you Jack. You're going to fix Kate and you're not going to stop until you do."

Jack slowly looked up at Sawyer. Sawyer was the first person in a long time that had told him that he had faith in Jack. Jack tried to hide how much it meant to him. "Well thanks for the vote of confidence but right now that doesn't help much if I don't know what's truly wrong with her."

Sawyer nodded and his gaze fell upon Kate. He hated to think that the Others had done something to her, but it was very likely that they had.

Juliet paced in front of her tent. The Others had done something to Kate, and Juliet was the only way that Kate would get better. She just had to decide whether to do it or not. She only had a few hours to decide before Kate would die. She knew that Jack loved Kate, and if Kate would die, then Jack would probably want to die too. If Kate lived, then there was a chance that this experience would have changed both Kate and Jack and then they would probably admit their feelings to each other, which meant that the plan to get Jack back to the other island wouldn't work out. Juliet had always known that Jack didn't truly love her. Now Juliet had to decide between doing the right thing, or doing the easy thing.

"Are you sure that there's nothing else that you can do?" Sawyer asked nervously. It was an hour later, and no matter what Jack did, Kate showed no sign of waking up.

Jack put a hand to his forehead as he thought. He didn't understand why this was so hard for him, actually he did know why. Kate meant so much to him and he didn't want anything to happen to her.

"We need Sun." Jack looked up. "Go get Sun."

"Why?"

"Herbal remedies. She might know one."

"Why do I have to go?"

"Because I will know what to do if Kate wakes up."

Sawyer sighed and walked out of the tent. That was the chance that Juliet had been looking for.

Jack looked up as she walked in.

"Okay. My people did do something to Kate. They put a poison in her that wouldn't start working for a long period of time."

"What? Why?" Jack demanded as Juliet sat down beside him.

Juliet shook her head. "It doesn't matter."

"Yes it does. You hurt her. You hurt Kate."

"Dharma. That's all you need to know."

"So how do we fix it?"

Juliet pulled something out of her pocket. "It's a antidote." She started to move towards Kate to put it in her through her wrist, but Jack pulled her hand back.

"How do I know you're not lying and this is the poison that you're going to put in her?"

"Jack you need to trust me. I'm going against my people here. If I don't put this in Kate, she's going to die in less than a couple of hours. "

"Trust you? I don't know if I can't trust you anymore Juliet."

"Just trust me on this one okay?"

"So I should only trust you on the one person that means the most to me?"

"Jack I never meant for it to go this far. You were just supposed to come and fix Ben, and then he had promised to let you go, but then he changed his mind. I'm sorry. I was supposed to get you to want to come back, but now I know that there is nothing from stopping you. You will never stop loving this woman, and I know that she loves you. I just don't want another relationship to get ruined." With that Juliet stuck the needle into Kate. "She should wake up in a couple of minutes."

Juliet stood up and started walking for the door.

"Where are you going?" Jack asked her.

"I'm going home. I can't stay here Jack."

Jack stood up and walked towards her. "But.. what about us?"

Juliet smiled. "Don't pretend that you care for me. I always knew you didn't. I was just a diversion to make you get attracted to me so that you would want to come back. I knew that it wasn't going to work, and it didn't."

"What will happen to you?"

Juliet sighed. "I don't really know, but I can't stay here."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome." Juliet nodded and left.

Jack stood there, stunned for a second, not sure of what to do, when he faintly heard his name.

He turned around and noticed that Kate was awake, staring at him.

"Kate!" Jack rushed to her. "How are you feeling?"

"Horrible. My head is killing me."

"I can get you some medicine for that."'

Kate stared at him and he stared back at her.

"What happened?"

Jack filled her in quickly and Kate looked away.

"I knew they put something in me that day, and ever since I haven't felt that great, but it really caught up to me."

"You should have told me sooner. I could have helped."

"No you couldn't have." Kate said softly.

Jack looked down.

"Where's Sawyer?"

Jack looked up at her again. "He went to get Sun. He'll be back soon."

Kate nodded. "Don't you have more important people to attend to?"

"Nope." Jack ginned slightly. "My assistant cleared my schedule for the day so I'm good."

"And who's your assistant?"

"Me."

Kate smiled. "You really need to get better management."

Jack laughed but soon the tent became silent again.

"Kate. I'm sorry for-"

Sawyer and Sun walked into the tent. "I got her." Sawyer said.

Jack and Kate looked up. "She's okay."

"Kate!" Sawyer walked over to her and grabbed her hand. "What happened?"

Kate looked at Jack. "He fixed me."

"How'd you do that?" Sawyer asked him.

Jack's eyes widened. He hadn't fixed her, and she knew that. So why was she saying that? He only shrugged and Sawyer was content with the answer.

"Jack?" Sun said quietly.

Jack turned to her. "If you don't need me for anything else then I'm going to go all right?"

Jack nodded, deciding that he was going to leave then too.

"If anything happens just let me know." Jack told Sawyer and then he left.

He spotted Juliet putting her backpack on and starting to walk towards the jungle.

"How are you going to get home?" Jack reached Juliet and walked alongside her.

Juliet smiled. "If I told you then I would have to kill you."

"What do you mean?"

"We have a underwater hatch that goes across to the other island."

"Wow. At least let me walk you to the opening."

"You can walk with me for a while, then I'm going to have to ask you to go back."

Jack nodded. "Will I ever see you again?'

"I don't know. I don't think so."

"Well you've been a good friend." Jack said.

Juliet smiled. "I wish we could have been more, but you love Kate a lot more than we thought."

"Yeah, I guess so."

"Tell her how you feel. She'll listen."

"I don't think so, but thanks."

Juliet stopped. "Okay. I'll have to ask you to go back now."

"So this is it then."

"Goodbye Jack."

"Yeah. Bye." Jack watched her walk away and then Jack walked back alone.

A/N: Yes I know kind of a blah ending, but there's only two more chapters so you guys can guess about what's coming.