sorry for the long absence my lovelies! forgive a stressed college girl? you're the best.

here's T! i'm getting sadder and sadder as I get closer to Z. sequel? hmm...

enjoy!

T is for Together

The sun was setting, setting up a beautiful sunset and paving the way for a clear, starry night.

Sawyer lounged out on the porch in one of two wooden chairs and sipped a beer, glasses on the end of his nose as he read his book.

A few houses down, a newer member of the security team was getting home from a long shift and was being greeted by his wife; a hug, a kiss, the faint scent of roasting chicken as the door hung open.

"How's Gil doing?"

She couldn't sneak up on him anymore. It was almost impossible.

Sawyer slid his bookmark (a homemade one from Juliet) into his book and looked up at her with a smirk. "Aside from the sissy name, he's doin' alright I guess,"

She grinned down at him and settled into her own chair, a bottle of soda in her hand, her own book in the other. "What's for dinner ma'am? I'm starvin' out here," he teased, tossing her a smirk.

She raised an eyebrow and lifted her feet up onto the porch railing. "Dinner is whatever you make tonight, dear." She stressed the 'dear' and smiled wider as he chuckled. In the other direction, a woman (new, Sawyer thought her name was Isabelle) stormed out of her house followed by a man who was pleading with her to come back.

"Wonder what Henry did this time," Juliet mused, watching the scene for a moment until Henry caught up to Isabelle and she turned on him angrily.

Sawyer sighed. "Who knows, the man ain't all there, always with his head in the clouds, I don't think there's a filter between his pea brain and his big mouth," he commented.

Juliet stifled a laugh and shook her head, taking a sip of her soda. Sawyer watched her as she watched the children running through the grass and the people having barbeques and sitting on their own porches.

"She must love him though," she said, seemingly out of nowhere.

Sawyer smiled a little. "For some strange reason, I guess she does."

They both knew that they weren't talking about Henry and Isabelle anymore.

"You know why I love you, sunshine?" he said a few quiet moments later.

Juliet snapped out of her haze and turned her face to him with a soft smile. "Why's that James?"

"I love you because I asked you for two weeks and you've given me two and half years,"

Juliet grinned and tilted her head in that way Sawyer had determined meant she was either proud of him or shy by something someone said.

He reached over and pulled her feet into his lap, turning her body in the process and she let out a laugh.

"Why else?" she asked curiously, taking another sip of her cola. She was blushing.

"Because you always got my back; and you take my side even when it's stupid," this makes them both laugh a little.

Isabelle and Henry are holding hands and walking back to their house.

"And?" she pressed, enjoying herself.

His hand starts moving casually over a foot while the other holds his beer.

"You're the only person I think I've ever listened to, ever wanted to listen to. And you stop me from doin' stupid things just by glarin' at me,"

Juliet laughs again and sets her book on the arm of the chair, resting her head against the back so she can still look at him with a quiet smile.

"I love you because you don't make promises you can't keep." She said softly.

Sawyer switched feet and kept eye contact with her.

"And you always have my back, no matter what; you saved me from crazy, flaming arrows," This made him laugh out loud and he puts his beer down so he can feel her skin with both hands.

"Let's just say we love each other," Sawyer said with a grin. Juliet nodded once and looked up into the pastel sky.

"Very much,"

"Alright Lady Capulet, let's get dinner, I'm starvin' to death out here," he patted her foot and then pulled her up with him.

"Alright Romeo, but you're still making it."

He looked down at her with a raised eyebrow.

"What, you're the only one who gets to use dumb nicknames?"

She laughed and led the way into the house. He grinned and followed.

"What? You don't like bein' 'sweetheart'?"

ha. i love them.

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