Chapter 5 – 2 Weeks
During the flashes, he had relied on the fact that she had his back. He didn't think he would ever admit it, and only half admitted it to himself that he needed her.
With the final flash, and Old Baldie falling down the well, she had calmed him, an affect he wasn't aware she had on him.
The others were annoying at best, apart from Jin, but he didn't even speak English. In these situations, he needed someone he could trust.
When they got into the Dharma con, he was almost looking forward to running the con with her, another fact he would never admit.
After the drama of them arriving had died down and he had made arrangements he had sought her out, he wanted to share the smugness he felt from getting away with the con with her. He wanted to hear what she thought.
He found her on the dock and she explained why she wanted to get on the sub.
By now he had figured that the way to argue or convince Juliet was with facts.
So he used the fact of if she left now she would never get home, he did not want her to leave, he needed someone to get his back in a con this big.
So he admitted it, he needed her to get his back.
He had never asked a woman for anything like this before, he didn't know how to get her to stay.
So he settled for a trial.
He asked for two weeks . . . .
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Juliet found it hard to pin her hopes of rescue on a mentally unstable man falling down a well. But she couldn't deny she did hope, but chalked it down to that she had no other option.
She backed James' idea to go to the beach, they could survive there for a while at least.
Later when she woke up in the Dharma barracks, she decided to keep her mouth shut and let James do the talking. After all he was the one who lied for a living.
It was strange being back in the barracks, it was so familiar and so different at the same time.
She had a feeling that James would manage to convince the hippie that they should be able to stay. But all she could think of was finally getting off this unholy island.
When everything had calmed down, she quietly headed to the dock, to be alone, and to think.
After a while he sought her out. In the back of her mind she expected it, she didn't understand why she did, or why he would want to.
When he did, she saw he was pleased with himself, and knew he had managed to con a way for them to stay.
When she told him she planned to leave, she could see he didn't want her to go, but didn't understand why he wanted her here.
His arguments for her staying were true, and when he smiled at her that way she understood how he did what he did.
What he was asking for wasn't a long time, what was it compared to three years? It might be entertaining to stay here, she dare not even let herself hope or think that John would come back and rescue them.
So she agreed.
Two weeks. . . .
