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Here's J; in honour of the letter J, it's Juliet's turn...you'll see.

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J is for Juggling

He knew it was a bad idea.

He knew and he still let her go and now he was sitting at the doors to the infirmary while Juliet lay inside.

Granted, he was probably overreacting; it was just a dislocated shoulder, one that had been dislocated before. That fact didn't sit well with him, but she didn't need surgery and there was no blood.

The doors slammed open and Juliet came storming out, her arm in a sling, a bottle of pain pills in the other, doctor running after her.

"Juliet, please, let me keep you over night-,"

"It will look the same in the morning, Jeff, now I'm going home. I'll see you tomorrow for a check up and that's it." her voice was barely contained or civil and Sawyer jumped up from his spot to rush over to her.

"Are you al-,"

"Let's go, please," she looked up at him briefly and then turned away, but not taking a step until his hand settled at the small of her back, guiding her home.

"What the hell happened out there? You were just goin' to fix the number eight."

"Turns out the number eight is a piece of junk and Rob is a bigger piece of junk." Her voice was pissed and he could hear the pain from her arm in it. They were nearing the house now and he didn't want to press until they got inside.

Once he had her settled, against her protests, in bed with a book and a glass of water to take a few pain pills, he began the interrogation. She popped the pills and settled with a grimace against the pillows. Sawyer watched her ease herself down and held his tongue until she was still.

"Why is Rob a piece of crap? Do I have to kick his ass?" He demanded, already gearing up for a fight with the other man.

"I said he was a piece of junk, and no, I'm sure he feels bad enough." Juliet felt a little better with the pills slowly taking over her system. The book sat forgotten.

"So what happened?" Sawyer asked again. He'd gone to the infirmary immediately when Miles radioed him saying Juliet was in with the doctor and that there'd been some sort of accident with a van. Naturally his mind were careening back to when he'd had his own run in with a van and stupid Jerry. He pictured her lying in the infirmary, all pale and not awake with bruises and morphine.

"He was supposed to be watching the van, trying to turn over the engine while I was under it; he wasn't paying attention and left the gear in neutral. He tripped over a root, shoved the van and it rolled over my shoulder." she said. Her eyes were feeling heavy. Her head rested back against the pillows, her attention slipping from his tense face.

"Damn hippie; I'm gonna go kick his ass,"

"No, James, he...he was good at, helping me put it back in and, offered to carry, me back to the compound." she was fading fast. These pills were amazing.

"Juggling in, no time," she breathed out.

"You feelin' okay Blondie?" Sawyer watched her eyelids got heavy and her lips part for a sigh.

"It's been popped out before, James...always goes back to the way it...was."

He smiled a little, despite his anger, and carefully shifted her on the bed, wary of her shoulder, and moved the book, settled the blankets around her.

He kissed her forehead and smoothed her hair, thankful in so many ways that she was his and he was hers.

Sawyer left the room as quietly as he could and went out the front door, a man on a mission.

Now to find this Rob character...

When Juliet went with Sawyer to grab Miles and Jin for lunch a few days later she noticed Rob a few houses down.

When he turned, she could clearly see a black eye and a bruise high on his cheek.

She bit her cheek and looked away at Sawyer who was coming around with Miles and Jin.

"Tell me you didn't," She sighed, good arm bent with her hand on her hip.

"Nope, I didn't." Sawyer said proudly. He grinned and clapped Jin on the back before nodding at Miles.

"These two yahoos beat me to it."

Juliet's jaw dropped. "You two beat up Rob?"

"He hurt you. He was supposed to look out for you. He didn't." Jin said simply with a small smile.

"Yeah, we're a crew here, remember? Besides, that guy was asking for it anyway, the dumbass." Miles retorted, turning the attention away from his blush.

Juliet just smiled at them and they turned towards the cafeteria, Miles' hand settling at the elbow on her injured arm. Jin walked next to him and they started up a new conversation about something Juliet and Sawyer tuned out.

"So, no juggling tonight?" Sawyer asked innocently, linking their fingers together.

Juliet just shot him a glare and tightened her grip.

yep, Juliet's turn to get hurt. but she's got her boys, so she's well taken care of :)

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