Author's Note: I am so sorry to everyone. I know I normally update very quickly.. but unfortunately I am having a lot of issues the passed few days. Its going to space out my updates a little. But I won't let them get too far apart if I can help it.
Heartland:
Chapter 11: Reunited
Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt
(These are the tears of things, and our mortality cuts to the heart.)
-Vergil
Sawyer was too worried about Juliet to find it stange that Sayid had just come out of nowhere looking for them. And honestly, he was barely listening to a word the Iraqi said until he heard Juliet's name from him. "What did you say?"
"I said I ran into Juliet," Sayid stated, glancing at Sawyer.
"Where?" Sawyer questioned, now giving him his full attention.
Sayid pointed. "A about twenty minutes that way," he explained.
Sawyer raised an eyebrow up in response. "And you didn't think it was a little strange that she was out there by herself?"
Sayid rolled his eyes. "Of course I did," he admitted. "She was following a woman when I saw her. I asked her about the woman, she told me only that it was the smoke monster," he explained.
Kate frowned. That monster had given Juliet nightmares, why in the world would she have followed it off into the jungle? Now it was closing in on dawn.
"Where did she go?" Sawyer asked, before anyone else could say anything.
"There were two Dharma men with guns," Sayid stated. "They took her."
Sawyer couldn't help it as he slammed Sayid into the nearest tree. "And you didn't help her?!"
"Sawyer!" Jack said, pulling him off of Sayid. "Calm down. We're gonna find her."
"Jack's right," Kate said, putting her hand on Sawyer's shoulder. "Slamming Sayid around won't make you feel better."
"Quiet.." Jin stated, shushing everyone. He pointed them all towards the noises and at once they all squatted and glanced out over the bushes.
Sawyer watched. He watched as practically all of the security men from Dharma came tromping through the forest, seemingly heading towards the caves. "There's only two people who would know to tell all of them to look in the caves.." he whispered. "Richard Alpert.. and Juliet.." he hated to admit this, but if he were a betting man, he'd be betting on the latter.
Everyone remained silent as Sawyer's acknowlegement ran through all of their heads.
At least until Sawyer began inching his way out of the forest.
"Where the hell are you going?" Kate questioned in a hushed voice. "Theres about a dozen of them!"
Sawyer narrowed his eyes at her. "I'm goin' to find Juliet," he told her. "Ain't nothin' or nobody stoppin' me either."
"I believe I have a reason for you not to go after them."
Everyone froze and turned to look at Richard Alpert now standing behind them.
"Oh yeah?" Sawyer questioned. "And that would be, what exactly?"
Richard smiled. "Because Amy's preparing to get us into the barracks."
Sawyer didn't mask the confusion now. "Amy?" he asked. "Why the hell would Amy do you a favor?"
"Because she's one of us," Richard stated. "Now if you'd like to help us go in and get Juliet and Amy, you can feel free. Or you can wait here for us to bring her to you."
"I'm coming."
"Sawyer!" Kate hissed out. "We can't trust him!"
Sawyer glanced at her. "Once upon a time Kate, I woulda been doin' this for you," he admitted. "But now I'm doin' it for her," he explained. "I love Juliet, and I'm goin' in there regardless of whether or not I can trust the man offering to help me get her out."
Kate's eyes softened. It was the first time she'd heard Sawyer say those words about Juliet in front of the group of them. "Okay.." she stated. "Then I guess I'm going too."
Jack glanced around at the rest of them, Jin, Hurley, Miles, Dan.. they all seemed to agree as well. "We all are," he stated. "She's one of us," he explained. "Let's go get her."
Sawyer nodded and turned back to Richard. "Tell us the plan.."
()()FLASHBACK()()
Sawyer frowned as he stood in front of the door to Juliet's Dharma house. It was now a year and a half into their Dharma stay. He thought it was strange when one of the men in the motor pool had told him Juliet took off early, complaining she hadn't felt well. He was about to knock when he heard a crash from inside the little house. Instead he opened the door and went in. "Juliet?" he questioned.
Juliet glanced up from in the bathroom. She cursed silently at the fact she was currently naked and grabbed a towel as she heard him coming down the hall. For once thing, she hadn't bothered to close the bathroom door. She quickly pulled the towel in front of her as she watched Sawyer stop in front of the bathroom and stare at her in shock.
"Uh.." Sawyer muttered, not entirely sure what to say. "I didn't mean to.." he mumbled. "I heard a noise.."
Juliet raised an eyebrow up at him and glanced down at the glass toothbrush holder she had knocked off the counter and broke. "That's okay.." she replied, not sure what to do. She was naked besides the towel she'd pulled up in front of her, and thoroughly embarrassed at the moment.
Sawyer couldn't help but glance down at her bare legs and he frowned.
"What?" she asked. Did he think she looked bad? 'Shit..' she thought to herself. 'I probably do look like crap.. I have grease marks all over my face..'
"You're bleeding.." Sawyer stated, stepping forward and squatting down.
Juliet looked shocked and stepped back when he went to grab her leg. "What are you doing?"
Sawyer glanced up at her. "Your leg is bleeding, I'm making sure its okay."
Juliet glanced down at her leg. He was right, of course. "It must have happened when I broke.." she got flustered when he grabbed her leg to look at it. "The.. uh.. the thing.. on the.. thing.."
Sawyer looked up at her and raised an eyebrow. "The thing on the thing?" he questioned. It only took him a moment to realize what he was doing, and to remember the fact she was only covering herself with a towel. Now he found himself flustered as well. He stood up, meaning to get a little futher from her, but instead winding up practically nose to nose with her.
Juliet glanced at him, looking him in the eyes. She wasn't entirely sure how long they sat there staring at each other, neither one entirely sure what to do or say.
"Sorry.." Sawyer stated, backing away. "I should uh.. wait outside.."
Juliet nodded silently, watching as he went to leave and she wrapped the towel all the way around her before she turned around, taking a deep breath. That had been a little intense of a moment.
Sawyer groaned inwardly and rolled his eyes. It was a little too late to go back, he just couldn't do it. "Juliet.."
"Yes..?" she questioned, turning around only to have Sawyer's lips against hers. Unlike the first time, she didn't freeze this time. She kissed him back, and she realized that whether or not she wanted to fall for Sawyer, the heart wants what it wants, and for some reason, it was asking for him.
Sawyer was surprised when it was her who backed him up against the wall. That was something entirely new. Sawyer chuckled. He looked down and noted that Juliet's fingers had zipped his Dharma jumpsuit down slightly. He raised an eyebrow and looked at her. "When did you do that?"
Juliet glanced and felt the pink come to her cheeks. She hadn't even realized it, even as her fingers still remained on the zipper. She narrowed her eyes before she laughed, then she felt his lips come in contact with hers once more.
Sawyer grinned and pulled out of the kiss, pulling her closer to him and putting his mouth by her ear. "Your towel fell."
Juliet froze and looked down. He was right. She let her mouth remain open in shock, not enitrely sure what to do. So she pulled away grabbing the towel quickly and attempted to pull it back around her.
Sawyer just shook his head, grabbing her wrist before she put the towel back on and pulled her back to him.
"James.. I.." she whispered, but then was cut off by his lips on hers for the third time. "Want to join me?" she asked quietly, nodding her head towards the shower.
Sawyer glanced at her, slightly surprised by the question. He knew she was straight-forward with most things, but he hadn't imagined that a joint-shower was one of those things. He just smiled, and nodded.
()()END FB()()
"You're saying that you are practically starting a war with them?" Sawyer questioned, an eyebrow raised up.
Richard smirked. "In a sense, James, yes."
Sawyer rolled his eyes. "Well alrighty then. Let's do this."
"We're heading to the treeline beyond the fences, Amy has turned them off for us, in twenty minutes she'll cut power to the security room," Richard stated as they all continued walking. "We'll go in unnoticed for the most part."
Sawyer nodded. "Alright."
Richard glanced at all of them. "I assume you are all armed?"
Sawyer smirked. "Yep.."
"Good.." Richard stated.
~*~*~*~
Juliet found herself laying on her make-shift cell bed She was close to letting herself simply pass out when suddenly the power in the entire building went out and everything went dark. She sat up, not entirely sure what to do as she glanced around and attempted to adjust her eyes to the sudden darkness.
A few minutes strolled by until Juliet heard the door open and saw the flashlight enter the area.
"You okay, Juliet?"
It was Amy's voice. Juliet was definitely relieved to hear it. "It's time already?"
Amy smiled into the darkness. "They'll be heading through the fences any minute now.." she whispered.
They both waited in an eerie silence as they waited for a sign of the trouble to come. It was only about ten minutes when they heard the first shots of gunfire. Amy poked her head out of the cell area and looked at the security person run by. "What's going on?!" she yelled.
"Amy! Do you have Ethan?" he asked.
Amy nodded, showing the infant to the security man.
"Good!" he told her. "Stay locked in here.. don't come out!"
Amy nodded and shut the door. She glanced back at Juliet. "Let's get going.." she stated, heading over and unlocking the cell.
Juliet smiled a little. It was an odd combination, for the two of them to be wandering towards utter disaster, one holding a child, the other carrying one. They snuck from the room and out of the security building. It truly seemed like a war-zone out there. People shooting each other. Under normal circumstances, this wouldn't have bothered her so much, but right now it was making her stomach twist and twirl.
"Come on.." Amy whispered, grabbing Juliet's hand and pulling her along towards the fences, away from all the screaming and shooting.
Juliet followed as best she could, trying to ignore the fact her stomach was starting to do backflips. "Amy.. Amy go.." she muttered pulling her hand out of the other woman's.
Amy stopped and watched as Juliet squatted, emptying the contents of her stomach. She frowned going to sit beside her when she watched someone from Dharma heading towards them, rifle aimed. "Juliet.." she whispered.
Juliet took deep breaths, watching the man run towards them. "Go Amy!" she shouted, waving her off. "Go before they stop you!"
Amy glanced up and frowned, then looked back down at her.
"Go!"
Amy bit her lip and ran for the fence with Ethan.
Juliet coughed, sitting now on her hands and knees when she heard the gun cock. She glanced up, looking at Horace. She wondered if he saw it was Amy who went running. He had been pretty far off, perhaps he hadn't.
Horace frowned, looking down at her. It was too hard to forget all the things Juliet had done for them. She'd saved Amy and Ethan. "Dammit.. go Juliet.."
Juliet stared at him with surprise.
"The man says go, I think it would be best to take his offer Juliet.."
Juliet glanced up at Richard Alpert. She frowned. "What the hell are you doing here?" she questioned.
Horace narrowed his eyes, trying to hide the confusion. If Juliet wasn't working for the Hostiles, who the hell was she? Perhaps it truly was a boat wreck afterall.
"Helping you out," Richard stated, offering her his hand.
Juliet narrowed her eyes. "I don't want your help."
Richard blinked. He supposed he couldn't blame her for her hard feelings. He had pretty much almost killed her with the judgement.
"Where is James?" she questioned.
"He's around," he stated.
Juliet frowned.
Horace watched the interaction. What in the world were LaFleur's and Juliet's true intentions on this island then?
"Horace! Don't worry, I've got your back!"
Horace watched now as Jerry came up beside him, holding his gun on Richard. "Thanks.. Jerry," he managed to say.
~*~*~*~
"Sawyer!" Kate shouted out.
Sawyer glanced over at what Kate was pointing at. Richard had told them to stay in the treeline and wait for them to bring Juliet. Going out there would cause some issues. So they did. But what he saw now was too much to handle. Two men, holding guns on Richard and Juliet.
Jack glanced at him. "Come on!"
Sawyer nodded, taking off beside Jack towards them.
Juliet frowned and glanced away. She should have just listened and run like Horace told her. She squinted her eyes at hearing all the gunshots and felt her stomach turn once again.
"Hey, H!"
Juliet looked up in shock at the voice. It was definitely Sawyer. She watched as two men came flying into the two men holding guns to herself and Richard. Her eyes widened slightly. Jack and Sawyer had just tackled both Horace and Jerry, knocking the wind out of them both.
"Juliet.." Sawyer stated, pulling her up. "Come on.. we gotta get you outta here. Fast."
Juliet frowned. "I just.. I don't feel too.."
Sawyer frowned as well. He put her arm around his neck and his other arm under her knee's lifting her up into his arms. "Well I ain't leavin' you behind.." he stated. "Let's go Doc, Richard.."
Richard nodded slightly in acknowlegement.
~*~*~*~
It was later when they all found themselves back on the beach that Juliet sat off to the side with Sawyer. "James I.."
"You're sick.." he stated, glancing at her pale face.
Juliet smiled a little. "Not.. exactly," she told him, shaking her head.
Sawyer glanced at her with confusion and sudden interest.
Juliet frowned, glancing down. "I'm uh.." she muttered. She knew she had to tell him. It would be wrong not to tell him. "I'm pregnant.." she stated quietly.
Sawyer stared at her in disbelief. "You're.. wait.. pregnant? A baby?"
Juliet raised an eyebrow. "Typically yes.. when people get pregnant it means they're going to have a baby."
Sawyer grinned at her. "We're gonna have a baby?"
"I don't know.." she stated, her voice filled with dread. "On this island.. they can't in our time James.. women can't.. "
Sawyer's grin faded at the realization. "Juliet.."
Juliet looked up at him. "I need to get off this island, James.." she said quietly. "I don't want to lose this baby.."
Sawyer pulled her closer to him. "I'm gonna get us out of here.." he told her. "I'm not gonna lose you.. and I'm not gonna lose that baby either.. we're not gonna lose her."
"Her?" Juliet questioned with a small smile.
Sawyer grinned again. "Its gonna be a girl.. trust me."
Juliet's eyes softened and she smiled at him. "I do love you, James.."
"Well I love you too.." he told her, placing a kiss on her foreheard as she rested her head on his shoulder.
()()END()()
Getting closer to the real end!
