Chapter 11

Hey guys it's me again and I come bringing yet another mystery and slightly angst filled installment. One that might unravel itself pretty soon, hopefully, hehe. Once again thanks so much for the reviews guys and I hope that you'll like this one as well ;)

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"So what do you do?" was the first question he had asked her, not even showing any humbleness or hesitation in his voice, and for some reason she felt slightly attracted and intimidated by it. Never the less she managed to pull herself out of it in the end, and with that she resumed with drinking from the glass of water he had given her earlier on.

"So?" Jack asked her again as he still got no verbal response from her, instead he got more of a longing glance. A glance that managed to make him shiver, and not in the good sense. He couldn't seem to explain it though cause the more he looked into her crystal blue eyes, the more he felt like he was looking at a mask, a false representation of what this person wanted him to see, for specific reasons they didn't want him to obviously know about. However he didn't want to come off as rude in any way because for all he knew she could in fact be an innocent as he would so call his clients these days, much to his sudden amusement of putting it that way. Maybe I should get a cape, he briefly said to himself while allowing his features to wear a slight smile.

"What are you smiling about?" the blonde woman teased from across the room, snapping the man out of his reverie.

"Nothing important. So you really haven't answered my question yet you know." Jack inquired for he felt was like the thousandth time, and this time he made sure to stay focused on her while he waited for an answer.

"Well you didn't answer mine." she shot back, eliciting a warm and friendly smile from him.

"Oh, but I asked first." he replied smiling, but it slowly faded once the blonde hung her head briefly to not only think over her story for the time being, but to also put some kind of tragic emotion behind it. So once she managed to summon a few stray tears to her eyes, she looked up at the slightly concerned man, and much to her good luck his expression of concern progressed even further. To the extent where he wordlessly walked forward and then took her into his arms, lulling her into a light and peaceful slumber, and once he was sure that she was resting, he briefly gazed at her peaceful expression once again, and then quietly left, jarring the door behind him.

However once he was out the door and completely out of her view, she instantly shot up out of the bed and went through her bag on the chair, looking for the phone she had left in there. Once she got hold of it, she flipped it open and typed in the number she had memorized by heart.

"Hello?" the voice on the other end spoke out in a soft but cautious tone. A tone the blonde knew all too well about the kind of person he was.

"No I don't want you to do it now. Get to know him first and then move to stage 2." the same voice instructed to the woman, and all she could do was nod in agreement to his instructions because she knew just like him that they had worked too hard to mess all of this up with so much as a slight glitch. So with that she went forward with explaining ever intricate detail to her plan and once she was done she anxiously waited for a complementing agreement of some kind.

"Good, Good and Juliet…." the voice asked, changing it's tone to a slightly louder volume at the last bit.

"Yes Ben." the woman asked of the man she had to always answer to no matter what she did.

"Good work." was all he said before he hung up on her. Not even taking the time to offer her the hint of a friendly sentiment, and at first she seemed quite offended by it, but the more she worked with him, the more she too developed that thick icy exterior, a thing Ben had insisted was a necessity in this line of work.

(Meanwhile back in Jack's office)

He just sat around waiting for the next case of his to maybe walk through the door, but instead all he got was the weird buzzing silence ringing in his ears, and as much as he would have graciously accepted it sometimes, now he felt like doing something, starting with finding out if the blonde in his bedroom was okay enough to eat something because she couldn't just go to bed hungry. Even he knew something like that would be wrong. So with that he proceeded to physically act on his verbal thoughts, starting with gently knocking on the door he knew she was residing behind.

Three knocks later and he still got nothing in response, and with that he not only continued to knock, but he also started to prepare himself for kicking the door down.

"Juliet are you o…." he started out, but as his foot made the move to kick the door down, he was suddenly met with the sight of a very visible Juliet now standing in front of him in nothing but a towel.

"I'm sorry Jack, but do you have a bathroom cause I would really feel a whole lot better once I wash this dirt and grime of me." she confessed while trying to hang the towel around her as loosely as possible, an attempt to try and break through the first stage of his exterior.

"Uh well it's……..it's um that way." Jack instructed while try his best to avert his gaze from the surprisingly nonchalant blonde standing in front of him, waiting for the instructions to further what she had asked of him.

Once her gaze followed to where his finger was pointing, she smiled slightly in wordless thanks, but she was still kind of disappointed at the fact that he was covering his face from her, so with spending a few more minutes in thought, she decided to step her plan up a notch a bit.

"I just wanna thank you so much for helping me Jack." the blonde tearfully uttered while slowly throwing her arms around him, not even taking the note to stop her towel from possibly falling, and much to Jack's uneasiness it did the very next minute, when she tightened her hold on him with her arms while her nude body pushed even more into the parts of him she hoped would react to her as an instinctual response.

"Uh…….it's okay" Jack stuttered to now get out not only because of her form forcefully pressing in to his, but also because he could now catch sight of a confused and slightly hurt Kate standing just outside the door to his office.

"Jack what is it?" Juliet inquired pulling away as she felt him tense in her embrace. However words weren't needed for her as she caught hold of his gaze now focusing on something at the doorway, and judging by the terror and worry she could see circling within his brown orbs, she knew that it probably involved the one woman she was assigned to make him forget.

"Excuse me!" he simply uttered not even bothering to look at her, except he chose to gaze nervously at the brunette he was now walking towards, and all the blonde woman behind him could do was shamefully pick up her towel and then continue on towards the bathroom.

"Hey." he nervously spoke out while tucking his hands into his pockets to clearly display the way she always made him feel, and as much as she wanted to just coo in cuteness and kiss him till the end of time, she knew that it was never that easy, especially when it came to them, and also cause of the fact of what she had just so painfully seen. However she didn't want to come off as some sort of whining teen, so she just composed her rising anger for the time being, and chose to just return his casual and friendly sentiment with nothing but a simple "hey" as well.

"So what's up?" Jack immediately inquired while attempting to inch himself closer to her, but as he dreadfully expected she backed away even further, an obvious sign to him that she was in fact bothered by what she had walked in on, but another part of him wondered as to why she would behave in this way. I mean it's not like they were together anymore, and the fact that she was with Sawyer was also a clear enough sign that she didn't even feel for him in the way he still felt so strongly for her, no matter how much he tried to move past it.

"Uh……. nothing, don't worry about it." she replied, making the quick decision to leave before things got nasty, and not just between him and her. However much to her bad luck he made the daring move to then grasp hold of her arm in a rough, but demanding fashion, and with that her anger started to surface from within once again, although this time she failed to try and control it in any way.

"Let go of me." she hissed at him while physically struggling to break free from his strengthening grasp and the more she tried to break free, the more he tried to pull her into him.

"No I won't, not until you tell me.." he lingeringly uttered while trying to still her form so that he could talk to her properly, but unfortunately his words seemed to make her movements more erratic, and when her ministrations seemed to be effortless against him, she then resorted to hitting him across the expanse of his chest, not with full force, but with a relatively immense amount of impact.

"Kate, Kate come on don't do this, please." Jack kept on silently pleading with her, but she was too consumed by her anger to even take note of the words he was trying to sooth her with.

"Stop, please, I…….I can't." she screamed out in a higher pitched tone one last time before her tears got the better of her once again, and they had progressed to a virtually uncontrollable state when she saw the same hint of tears starting to gather within his gaze as well, and before she knew it all she saw next was her face forcefully colliding with his chest, and once that was done his arms automatically wrapped themselves around her in what she could decipher as a loving death grip. One she really had no problem taking comfort in for the time being.

"It's okay Kate. You don't have to put a brave face on baby. I know how much it hurts. I can feel it too." Jack painfully confessed while pulling the brunette even closer as she continued to cry for the many reasons her still breaking heart felt the need for her to do so.

"I can't do this anymore Jack. I just………I can't. I'm going crazy." she replied into his chest, her voice now sounding so defeated and broken that it almost made Jack's heart break even more, but as much as he felt this, another part of him wanted to make her see and feel that she wasn't in this alone. So with that he pulled her face away from his chest so that he could look her in the eye while saying what he had to say. However as he made the move to open his lips and speak, he was suddenly silenced by a smaller finger briefly placing itself against the area, right before it was undoubtedly replaced by a pair of soft lips, now caressing his with nothing but comfort and could it be………. love? He wondered to himself as he continued to just stand there and play a more than willing victim to her mind numbing ministrations.

"Kate" he sensually moaned out into her mouth, and in return Kate just deepened the kiss even further, her right hand now grasping the back of his head, while her left wrapped itself around his neck, bringing him even closer into her.

"Kate you have to stop please, I can't cont…." he strained to utter while shutting his eyes to mainly control the pleasure which was not only rising from within him, but it was also spreading to the other place he was trying so desperately trying to hide from her now wandering hands, and much to his disappointment she stopped almost immediately as the words came out of his mouth, and judging by the look of confusion and hurt now masking itself over her freckled features, he knew that she had taken it the wrong way, and before he could grasp onto her again, she was already walking backwards away from him, and with one more look of guilt shared with him, she then sprinted off without looking back. Not even taking the note of the numerous calls of desperation.

What would I do? What could I do? He now wondered to himself as he sunk down into a seated position on the floor, feeling broken and defeated for yet another reason.

There it is guys. So what do you think?? and to angst things up a bit, come next chap Kate's gonna try and seek comfort from a certain someone. So if you guys wanna know what else happens then you know what review button to press, hehe. Thanks :)