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Summary: They had lied to world for 3 years now and they were starting to believe it themselves until Jack receives a visitor that makes him face the truth.
A/N: Since we aren't getting much news on the Jacket front I decided to make one of the promos that we did get more about them.
The Truth – Part 3
She closed her eyes and thought back to the day Juliet left. "I don't understand then…how she got on the same island as you?"
"Do you know the names to the people that represented the Mittelos? Jack asked
She closed her eyes trying to think of their names. "One was Mr. Albert, I think" she said
If he was one of the Others Jack had never met him. "Anyone else?"
"Mittelos Bioscience contacted Juliet by phone and offered her a job they said it was trial for six months, if she didn't like she could leave with no questions asked. She told me that they knew everything about her, all of the breakthroughs she accomplished, which is why they were offering the job with unlimited funding to do whatever she wanted." She told him.
Jack sat up straighter and listened.
"Her ex Edmund he was a real piece of work and Juliet was afraid of him"
"Her ex…husband? Jack asked he couldn't imagine Juliet being afraid of anyone other than Ben; even then she was more afraid for his life than hers.
"Yes" Rachel replied she wasn't surprised she didn't talk about him. "He was power hungry and used her because her skills were making him famous, he was verbally abusive and flaunted his conquests right in front of her. She was finally brave enough to divorce him but she couldn't leave her job." She still got angry thinking about it. "Anyways, she told the reps from Mittelos that she couldn't leave her job unless Edmund died, she actually used hit by a bus" Rachel said.
"And what happened?" Jack asked
"What do you think happened? Rachel asked him
Jack looked at her "…he was hit by a bus" Jack said rubbing his hand over his face.
She nodded and continued "I told her take the job and I know I shouldn't been happy that Edmund died, but all I could think of was Juliet was finally free to live her life." She bit her lip "I told her take that job, and help people because that's what she was always doing, it was only six months and I wanted her try something on her own. Because she helped me more then I could ever repay for her."
Jack smiled at Rachel knowing how much that was true, she would help people even if meant risking her own life.
"I was told I had Cancer about ten years ago"
"Oh, I'm sorry" Jack replied.
"Thank you, I've been in remission for almost seven years now"
Jack nodded his head "That's good"
"I wanted to have a baby more than anything else but the doctors told me to look for other options, because the chemo had destroyed everything. Juliet told me she'd find a way for me to have my baby"
Jack was very interested now.
"And she did" Rachel told him and pulled her wallet out of her purse and handed him pictures of her son. "That's Julian, I named him after her, and he's at home with my husband"
Jack was amazed as he looked at the pictures. Juliet had performed a medical breakthrough that would've made her famous. He now knew why Ben wanted her. She made something that was impossible, possible and that's why Ben thought she could solve the pregnancy problems on the island. "Where's home?" Jack asked.
"Miami, Juliet lived there too" Knowing that was the information he wanted.
Jack smiled.
And she remembered the name of the other man that offered Juliet a job. "Dr. Rom" She said out loud and at Jack's confused look "The other man that was with Mr. Albert"
"Ethan Rom?" Jack asked
"I think so…" Rachel thought about it "Yes, his name was Ethan" Rachel replied "Was he one of the Others?"
"Yes" Jack replied, the man that had kidnapped Claire his sister was also responsible for basically kidnapping Juliet. "I thought…I thought she was one of them, I didn't trust her. I thought she was one of them and they had killed and took so many of us…" he swallowed "They ambushed us and put sacks over our heads and brought us to their camp. A man named Ben wanted me to perform surgery on him; he had a tumor on his spine" he paused "I woke up in a locked glass room and Juliet was there and everyday she would bring me food and try to get me talk"
Rachel looked at him with a worried look on her face. Juliet sounded like she was his jailer.
Jack saw that he was causing her pain so he decided to skip ahead and tell her what Juliet had done for them for all of them. "But she wasn't…she wasn't really one of them. She risked her life and betrayed them to help us"
Rachel smiled at thought of her sister finding the bravery she always knew she had but at the same time worrying about her risking her life.
"They were going to kill her for something I did…I was about to kill Ben in order for him to let…my friends go" He paused "Kate and a man named Sawyer"
"Kate she was with you, one of the O6"
"Yes…Juliet followed them to make sure that they were let go" He took a deep breath not sure if he should tell Rachel that Juliet had killed a man to save them, he decided to leave that part out. "She watched… them…escape to safety, but she had gone against their orders by…doing so."
Rachel knew Jack was intentionally leaving parts out, she could tell by his pauses. "What made you trust Juliet?" she asked.
"When I found out that she was as much a prisoner as we were"
"Was it…because of what she did to let Kate and Sawyer go?" Rachel asked now knowing it had to been pretty bad for him to leave it out.
"Yes" Jack answered honestly; Ben promised her she could go home if she helped Kate and Sawyer escape, then she killed one of them to make sure they were safe knowing that she could be killed for doing that. If Alex hadn't told him…he couldn't even think of that. Betraying them was the biggest risk Juliet took and he knew she wanted to go home "but what made her finally risk it all?" He thought to himself. He knew they had something on her to keep her following their orders, he shook his head because he understood "Rachel and Julian" Ben used them to get Juliet to do the things he asked that's where her hatred of Ben really stemmed from. He wished Juliet had told him, but he understood why she kept it to herself, she dealt with Ben's mind games for three years and he only had dealt with them for 2 months.
Rachel watched Jack run his hand through his hair thinking in silence. She started to cry for her sister, something happened to her on that island was maybe still happening.
Jack hung his head he didn't want to see her cry "She took my appendix out" Jack said "On the beach"
Rachel wiped her eyes and looked at him.
"I'm alive because of her"
Rachel took that in; she saw that this man cared about Juliet even though he said he didn't know her very well, but he did seemed to know a Juliet that she didn't even know. Juliet may not have told him about her life but her actions spoke louder than words. Juliet cared for him too.
Even though she knew that Juliet was alive now it still hurt thinking about that day "I got a call a few hours after I dropped Juliet off at the airport…they told me her plane had crashed in Columbia River. They told me it had split in half and when they pulled it out there was no bodies. I was told that they must have floated out and could be in the Pacific by now, so they weren't going to look. I tried to pursue it because I wanted to bury my sister. I was told that the government doesn't have time to search the whole ocean for three people. So they just gave me her luggage which was everything except her purse."
Jack sighed and shook his head, Ben had faked Juliet's death, and he never had any intention of letting her go home. Jack brought his hand to his face and covered his eyes and felt the tears start to well in them. Juliet was more of prisoner then he thought, she was being held against her will and he just left her there. "…She saved my life"
Rachel got up and put her arm on Jack's shoulder and he looked up at her with tears in his eyes. "I'm so sorry, Juliet" He said out loud and hung his head.
"You couldn't have saved everyone" Rachel told him kneeling down in front of him and lifting his head up. "It's not your fault"
They had been talking for hours and Jack finally fell asleep so she found a blanked in a closet and covered him up with it and made up the couch for herself. She was afraid to leave him alone because she saw the empty bottles all over floor when she was looking at the maps with him.
In the morning she made some breakfast and handed him a cup of coffee and an aspirin. He took it and thanked her.
As he was walking her towards the door she stopped, sighed and turned around to ask "What else are you on; I know it's more than just alcohol?
Jack looked at her a little shocked "Uh" was all he could manage.
"I know it's a personal question but you're a doctor and I feel it's best to be straightforward in these types of situations" she replied
"What?" He asked the aspirin hadn't kicked in yet. "I'm…fine" he answered.
"I'm a counselor at Transitions it's a drug rehab facility in Miami" She told him
"What?" He said again.
"I'm going to leave you my card" She said handing to him "And if you want to stop by with your unlimited flights, I will be glad to help you"
He continued walking her towards the door and she placed her hand on his cheek. "You're in no shape to help anyone right now and you know it." She looked at him sadly and she looked so much like Juliet when she did that. "I want to help you find the island and find Juliet, but we can't until the real you is here"
He watched her go then shut the door. He leaned back against it and looked at the card.
The end.
A/N: I figured everyone's connected in way or another so why not connect Jack and Juliet.
