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"Kate, Juliet, could you girls help me getting some firewood?" Jack asked finishing the last of his fruit.
"Sure." Juliet replied.
"I…uh…I have something else to do, sorry." Kate replied already walking away.
"Like Sawyer." The blonde woman crudely added and Kate was thankful Jack hadn't heard anything.
"Shut up." Kate hissed.
"Will you kiss me to?"
"…"
"Okay, c'mon Juliet let's go." Shepard said grabbing his backpack.
"No? Maybe Jack will. Let's ask him, Ja-"
"You know what Jack? I'll come with." Kate rushed out.
"You sure?" Jack asked turning around with a wary look.
"Yep, hundred percent sure."
"Why the sudden change in mind?"
"Because she thinks that way you won't try to have your way with me." Juliet said winking at the male doctor.
Kate glared at her while Jack chuckled and blushed.
"C'mon, let's go. Just… get along. No attacks please."
"Where are you Stranded and Other heading off to?" Sawyer suddenly appeared.
"This should be entertaining." Juliet murmured to Kate and the younger returned her glare at her. "Like a double date."
"You are not dating him."
"What would you know?" Juliet countered back earning a sneer.
Kate childishly mocker her. "What would you know?"
"We are getting some firewood." Jack answered Sawyer.
"And you were taking the woman all for yourself weren't you?"
"Yeah, you know me. Women magnet, that's why I chose to become a doctor. C'mon."
"I second that." Juliet started pointedly at Kate. "Although for different reasons. Fertilization and all."
Jack laughed and passed an arm over her shoulders.
"Thank God you are a woman or that could have been taken the wrong way."
"Well, I'm a woman of many talents." She said half-hugging him back.
"That I don't doubt." The male doctor replied.
Kate bristled crossing her arms over her chest and turning to look the other way while she walked.
"Would torture happen to be one of your talents, Doc?" Sawyer asked unkindly.
"Sawyer." Jack warned.
"Not physical, although I think I'll manage." She smiled dryly at Ford.
"And mentally?"
"The human mind can be as strong as it can be weak, James. Corrupting it is not difficult as long as you know which way to approach. With the right determination, anybody in here could destroy and fool somebody's mind and much effort wouldn't be needed. I think you'll find emotional distress is worse than the physical one. So, yeah, emotionally, mentally, anybody here can do it. That I'm willing, it's another thing, and you should know that I'm not."
"Could we not talk about stuff like that?" Kate asked a little freaked.
"Sure." Juliet agreed.
"What would you like to talk about Freckles?"
"I'm not in the mood for talking, you guys talk, I'll participate a little. Just talk about nice things, there should be no problem."
"When are you ever in the mood?" Juliet taunted.
"Oh, shut up." Kate bristled.
After an hour had passed, they had managed to get separated.
The women on one side and the men on the other.
Said men, decided to head back to the camp taking the firewood they had collected, leaving Kate and Juliet behind.
"Why did you slap me?"
"I… don't know. A reflex I guess."
"So you slap every person you kiss?"
"I didn't kiss you…"
"You know you did."
"Whatever, I'm heading back."
Juliet got into Kate's personal space and after some intense staring session, the brunette had no choice but to kiss her.
When she realized once again what she had done she pushed the other woman away and opted for her favorite choice: running.
"Wait!" Juliet said catching up to Kate.
"What?"
"Kate, c'mon!" Juliet said grabbing Austen's arm.
Kate's response was throwing her over her shoulder.
Juliet took a sharp intake of breath when she hit the ground and kicked Kate's legs of the ground quickly straddling her.
"What's your problem?" Juliet asked from above her.
"You!" Kate said shrugging her off and straddling Juliet back.
"Me? You kiss me and then slap me. You kiss me again and then run away! How am I your problem?"
"You just are okay? Now leave me alone!" Kate said getting up and started to walk away.
Juliet got on her feet and quickly pinned the brunette's arms above her head against a tree.
"You want me Kate, get over it!"
"I don't-"
This time Kate was the silenced one by a pair of lips.
Juliet broke the kiss.
"Why can't you just accept it?" Juliet gritted out.
"Cuz you are one of them!"
"That's your reason?" The blonde had a very skeptical look.
"Well yeah… a-and you are a woman, I've never been with a woman."
"And you think I have?"
"Well you are pretty straightforward I just though… that's not the point, let go off me!"
"No, 'til you say it."
"I won't cuz I don't want you!"
"Fine, be as childish as you want, but I know you want me Katherine so there's no point in denying it. You'll just look pathetic doing so and give me a headache. Now, if you'll excuse I have some place to be. You can deny it all you want Kate, but I know you'll be back for more. This is just getting started."
Juliet said angrily turning away and stomping her way through the dense high grass and woods.
"What did you do to her?" Rose asked approaching Kate at the beach. "She looked a little angry, and that's something coming from her."
"I didn't do anything." The brunette mulishly replied.
"Is that why she's mad?"
"What?"
"Because you didn't do anything?"
"I…"
"Did you kiss her again darling?"
"I didn't…"
"And you run away."
"Yeah."
"So you did kiss her and ran away." The woman confirmed.
"Yes, but it was just an accident."
"How so darling? She fell on your lips?"
"Errrr… no. I fell on her lips."
"And…?"
"I don't know Rose. She was just standing so close and… I just had this great impulse to… and I did it."
"And then you pushed her away."
Kate turned to Rose. "How do you know so much? Were you spying on us? A little bird told you?" Kate asked with a small smile.
"I'm pretty good with the guessing game."
"So I see."
"Well, she's a good person Kate. She was forced to change and do things to survive and protect her family. She's not one of them. Unfortunate circumstances shaped her a little bit hard and cold but she's a good woman."
"You just know it, right?"
"Right."
"I just need to figure things out… I mean, out of all people on this island," The brunette moved her arms to indicate the people surrounding them. "I get interested in Juliet. Juliet of all people. A woman! I've never been with a woman before. Sure I've made out with one but… not to extents of actually feeling something for them."
"So you do feel something for Juliet?"
"That's the thing. I don't know. I mean, I guess I do but…"
"You need to figure it out."
"Yes."
"Honey, there's nothing wrong if you feel hopelessly attracted to her. Like I said, she is a nice person."
"I know, but she still did what she did."
"Because she had to."
"What if she is lying to us?"
"Kate…"
"Really, what if this is some sort of plan? She's a great liar Rose, how do we know she's not lying to us? How can we trust her? What if she wants to get closer to me so I trust her and then she can take me away back to them?"
"Those are questions you should be asking her, not me. But if you ask me; that woman is not lying when she says that being away from them is the best thing that has happened to her since she first arrived to this place."
"Hmm…"
"Just get to know her. Things already have a fast and intense pace set between you two, so try to make use of time and give her the benefit of the doubt."
"Yeah… maybe you are right. But I can't help that fight or flight response, with my preference for the latter."
"With the right incentive you'll learn to stay and face things. She might just be that."
"She might…" Kate agreed with a small smile she wasn't aware was playing on her lips.
Rose shook her head and went in search of her love.
To be young and in love…
It made her want to look for her man and pour out all her love for him in one of those heated looks or heartfelt embrace.
To be young and in love again…