Juliet sat on her own corner of the beach, far away from the camp that she lived at with the other survivors. She sat, sipping from a bottle of Dharma Initiative rum she had kept for a 'special occasion', but since Jack left she hadn't felt any occasion to be special. However, tonight was especially depressing for some reason, and she felt getting shit-faced was the best way to combat her depression. Juliet had been thinking about Jack a lot recently, especially if she was not busy. As she was sitting on the beach, drinking herself into oblivion, Juliet started to recall their first night together. It was just after Charlie had drowned at the Looking Glass station. Jack and half of the camp had returned to the beach, and Juliet was the first to greet them.

"Hey, what happened, are you OK? Where are the others?" She hurriedly asked.

"I'll tell you later" was his reply, and he didn't talk to anyone after that, and retreated to his tent.

After three hours of Jack hiding in his tent, it was starting to get dark. Juliet decided to take matters into her own hands. She stormed over to his tent, ripped the tarp aside and stood facing him with her hands on her hips. Jack looked up at her, with a crooked smile on his face, clearly amused by an angry Juliet.

"Can I help you, Juliet?"

"Yeah, you can stop being suck a dick and just tell me what happened, how about that?"

"Look, not much happened. We managed to contact the freighter; they should be here any day now. Except…" He trailed off and looked away.

Juliet kneeled down to meet him face to face.

"What happened Jack?"

"It was Locke… he…he killed Naomi OK? And it's all my fault. I should have protected her. Just like I should have protected Charlie. And I should have killed Locke!"

Jack turned away from her, and Juliet knew he was resisting the urge to cry.

"Jack, this was so far from being your fault. All of this - it's all of our responsibility, its on all of our shoulders".

Juliet reached over and hugged him tight, trying to convey everything she felt, everything she wanted, in a single hug. Jack responded, gripping her as if his life depended on it, and they stayed like that for what seemed to be an eternity. Jack brought his face up to meet hers, and they stared into each other's eyes. They slowly bought their lips together, in a soft kiss, a tender, loving kiss. That kiss soon turned to one of desperation, each needed the other, and tongues were flying everywhere, clothes were being ripped off and soon they were going at it. They looked into each other's eyes, and stayed like that the whole time. After they had finished, they stayed lying together for a while, staring into each other's eyes, silently saying all the things that they couldn't say verbally. Juliet slowly got dressed, Jack's eyes not leaving her body for a second. She kissed him lightly, softly, and then left the tent, tears falling down her cheeks as she walked back to her own tent.

They had only had one other night together, just after the events at the Tempest, but it inevitably ended with her having to leave him before dawn, so that no one would find out. That was always how it would be on the island. And for a time, Juliet felt that maybe Jack loved her, only her. That feeling was slightly diminished, when Jack went running after Kate in the jungle, his surgery wound still fresh. Juliet was so angry, not just at Jack, but at herself, for falling so hard.

"Don't bleed to death, Jack".

They were her last words to him. Was he alive, or dead? Would he come back for her? Did he love her the way she loved him? Instead of pondering all of these questions, Juliet downed the last bit of rum and went to find Sawyer. She needed some cheering up.

From miles away, and miles up in the air, Jack awoke from a deep sleep. It was so strange. He had been dreaming of Juliet, sitting alone on the beach, far away from the camp, drinking rum. And he didn't know how he knew, but he knew that she was thinking of him. She hasn't given up on me yet. There's still time.

Next time: "Flight 234 to Korea, paging passengers Jack Shepard, Hugo Reyes, Sayid Jarrah, Kate Austen and Benjamin Linus. This is your final boarding call".

P.S. Sorry for no new chapters in a while, ill try and be more consistent from now on!! Read and review my friends!!