Author's Note: Okay. I got a little tied up, but no worries! It still didn't take me too long to get this chapter up! I'm just glad everyone is still interested! (This would take place JUST the day before Claire wakes up the time Ethan's injecting her, which is Day 15)

All Over Again: Week Two, Juliet

Juliet was packing up the syringes and supplies inside the metal case for Tom to leave at Ethan's drop point when Ben and Tom came into her office in the infirmary. She glanced up at them both as she clicked the case shut and stood, picking up the case to hand it to Tom. "How do we know that what we're doing isn't hurting rather then helping Claire?" she questioned.

Tom waved the case off, refusing to accept it.

"Because she's still alive," Ben answered simply. "Unfortunately Tom needs to do something else today, but Ethan still needs that serum," he admitted thoughtfully. "Juliet do you know where Ethan's drop point is?"

Juliet eyed him carefully. "Yes.." she answered almost mechanically. For the passed two weeks Ben hadn't let her leave the vicinity of the barracks and she'd been shoved into rather annoying therapy sessions with Harper about things that happened the day of the plane crash that she didn't recall. What had suddenly changed his mind now?

"Good," Ben stated. "I need you to get that to the drop point quickly. Ethan will be out of the serum, and he needs to do another injection by the end of the day."

Juliet narrowed her eyes slightly but she retracted her arm with the case in it. "Why me?" she finally questioned, watching as Tom headed out of the room.

Ben arched an eyebrow up at her.

"For two weeks you haven't let me go anywhere besides my house, my office, or Harper's couch," she exemplified. "Do you suddenly have some boost of confidence that I can walk more then 50 feet on my own?" she asked, her voice steeled with ice.

Ben pondered her words for a moment too long because she was speaking again already.

"Or is it because Tom's got something better to do and you don't know anyone else willing to go running out there with that monster on it's tirade out in the jungle?" Juliet questioned, watching as he seemed slightly surprised by her outburst.

Ben shook his head and sighed. "There's no time to discuss it or find anyone else," he pointed out. "Ethan needs that serum, so you better get running if you don't want another pregnant woman on this island to die."

Juliet frowned. "Fine," she lamented, finally agreeing to do it. The bug-eyed creep always knew which buttons to push to get her to do as he asked. She narrowed her eyes slightly. Bug-eyed creep? Where had that thought come from? Although she admitted it suited him. "I'll be back as quickly as possible."

Ben nodded. He watched as she headed for the door without even removing the lab coat she was currently wearing. "And Juliet."

"Yes, Ben?" she asked, not bothering to turn around, only pausing with her hand on the door.

Ben held back a chuckle. The woman was cold as steel, and he wasn't sure why that made him enjoy having her around even more. He supposed he had a masochistic side. "If you see it, hide in the banyan trees. They make good cover."

Juliet turned her head and glanced back at him. In all honesty she hadn't ever seen this monster they always spoke of. Over three years and you'd think that she would have, but she didn't. "I know," she stated, before heading out the door.

"Wait."

Juliet stopped and once again turned to look at Ben.

Ben walked after her and stopped in front of her.

Juliet nearly took a step back in response to the sudden closeness but she managed not to. Instead she stood her ground and held eye contact with him.

"Stay at the medical station for tonight," he told her. "After you make the drop head straight to the there."

Juliet felt her brow line crease in response to his statement. Was he showing actual concern all the sudden for her well-being? Although the idea slipped out of her mind as soon as he spoke again.

"Tomorrow night Ethan will bring over a report on the camp, you'll bring it back to me, understand?"

Juliet would have rolled her eyes but she decided against it. "Of course," she agreed before turning and this time, actually getting away from him. She made her way out of the barracks quickly, ignoring a few choice looks of confusion in her direction.

It wasn't long before she was through the pylons and making her way through the jungle at a pace that would have made the rest of her people squirm.

She could already feel it getting dark when she finally reached his drop point and she carefully checked the mark on the tree before she knelt down. She uncovered the previous case and opened it up, noticing that he was indeed out of the serum just as Ben had told her. She quickly put the new case in its place and grabbed hold of the empty one.

She paused though, trying to figure out why it felt as though someone was watching her. Not to mention why it was she felt like she'd been here before. She frowned as she glanced around the area, but she didn't see anyone else. If Ethan was out there, he would have simply come and gotten the case, not waited for her to leave.

Finally she stood, not taking her eyes off the area around her. Someone was definitely out there. She was about to take a look around when the noises invaded her ears. She narrowed her eyes, turning around in time to see the trees moving not too far off, and whatever the hell this thing was, it was heading in her direction. "Damn it.." she muttered, grasping the empty case and turning her back on it. If she ran, the medical station was only twenty, thirty minutes at the most.

So she ran.

~*~*~

"Jack!" Kate hissed out, throwing her hand in front of him to stop him. She yanked him down to a crouch in seconds. "Look, someone's coming.."

Jack watched with Kate from the bushes. The first thing he noticed was the white lab coat, the kind a doctor would wear. The second was the blonde hair going down the woman's shoulders. "Oh my god.." he mumbled, noticing after a moment who they were seeing.

Kate's eyes widened in response. She noticed Jack getting ready to stand and she quickly yanked him back down behind the bushes. "Jack wait.." she whispered. "Think about it.. if she remembered anything, anything at all.. she would have come to the beach."

Jack frowned in response. He knew she was right, knew that what they were seeing had probably happened exactly the same the last time around. Juliet went right back to her old self. Back to being an Other. "What do we do.." he muttered, more to himself then to Kate.

"We can't tell Sawyer.." she told him hastily. "He's got hope that she remembers.. this would just.."

Jack sighed. He knew Kate was right again. It would destroy Sawyer if he knew Juliet had no memory of him what-so-ever. But if that was the case, how in the hell would they ever convince Juliet to come back with them. He watched now as Juliet's head shot up and she began glancing around and he and Kate quickly ducked their heads down below the bush.

He couldn't help but glance around the edge of the bush and he was shocked to see that Juliet was staring directly in their direction with a look that could only be considered as cold and calculating. This was the old Juliet, not the one they had come to know over the years. But it wasn't until he saw Juliet turn quickly in the opposite direction that he and Kate dared to look at what she was looking at.

"Oh no.. Jack.." Kate muttered. "The smoke monster.."

Jack stared at Kate. "She's been here for three years, I'm sure she knows how to deal with it Kate.."

Kate shook her head and she watched as Juliet took off running. "When she handcuffed herself to me in the jungle, she told me she's never seen that thing before.. she was serious, Jack."

Jack's eye's widened as he watched the smoke monster tear through the jungle not far behind Juliet. There wasn't a damn thing they could do and they both knew it.

It was the screech only a minute later that had them both taking off running in the direction the smoke monster had chased Juliet.

~*~*~

Juliet cursed Ben to the ends of the Earth as she dropped the empty case down onto the ground. There was no way in hell she was going to keep slowing herself down by carting that stupid hunk of metal through the jungle. For just a second she allowed herself to glance back and she nearly stopped running just out of shock. It was a giant pillar of smoke hauling through the jungle after her.

And it wasn't until she felt something coil around the ankle of her foot and yank her feet out from under her that she let out an involuntary screech in response. She let out another cry when she fell backwards as her foot was jerked upwards and she landed back on her shoulder and heard, felt.. the sickening crunch in her shoulder before she was hauled up and left hanging from the tree by her foot.

She stared down at the ground as the giant monster of smoke simply disappeared into the jungle and left her. She wasn't sure if she was relieved that it did so or frightened that she had know idea where in the hell it went. She winced at the shooting pains in her shoulder and quickly reached into her pocket with her good hand and pulled out her pocket knife. Why did she get the feeling that cutting herself loose was probably a bad option?

Either way, she managed to bend upwards and get the knife against the rope to start cutting it. But she couldn't manage it as the knife fumbled from her fingers and she dropped back upside down with a frustrated groan. Now she was stuck.

"Juliet!"

Juliet's head snapped towards the person who said her name and she looked at Ethan in shock. "Ethan, get me the hell down from here!"

Ethan knelt down and grabbed the knife she'd been using. "You're going to cut yourself loose, alright? Landing on the ground is just going to hurt, you cut yourself loose, I catch you, got it?"

Juliet sighed but agreed. "Alright," she stated. She reached her arm out and caught the knife as he threw it up and quickly bent upward and began slicing at the rope again. There was another involuntary screech as she managed to break the rope and she dropped down immediately, right down into Ethan's arms.

"You okay?" Ethan questioned, settling her down on the ground on her feet. He could see the way she had favored her arm while she was up there, the same way she was doing so right now. "You dislocated it again, didn't you?" he asked her.

Juliet reluctantly smiled as he took the hand of her dislocated shoulder into his. "Do it," she stated calmly.

Ethan nodded.

And when he did get it into place, Juliet let out a scream regardless of how much she tried not to. She could already feel a few tears making there way down, but Ethan hadn't thought any less of her the first time she did this on the island and cried, and he certainly didn't seem to think any less of her now. She felt weird suddenly, light-headed and she had the sudden vision of herself in a blue jumpsuit, holding an infant.

"Have you and Horace decided on a name yet?"

"Yes.. we're going to name him Ethan."

"Juliet?" Ethan questioned, staring at her look of confusion.

Juliet shook the strange thought out of her head. "I didn't even think that damned thing was real until suddenly it was chasing me through the damn jungle like a bat out of hell.."

Ethan chuckled. "Well, I'll walk you to the medical station," he told her. "Tom told me you'd be staying there tonight on the previous drop to wait for my report."

Juliet simply nodded despite the fact that meant she'd been lied too. Tom and Ben had been planning to send her for days that meant. What were they trying to do by sending her out here with that thing? Kill her? If they meant to injure her, they had definitely succeeded.

They weren't surprisingly far from the medical station, only a good five minute walk. Ethan turned to look at her after he pulled open the doors. "Why don't I come down with you and make you a sling for that arm," he suggested. "You know it's not good to leave it just hanging right after you just got it back in.."

Juliet smiled a little. "I can do it on my own," she stated. "I'll be fine, Ethan."

Ethan nodded. "Alright."

"I'll see you tomorrow night."

Ethan gave a wave and helped her shut the doors behind her before heading back off towards the drop point. Neither one noticed Jack and Kate watching.

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Yes. This was Juliet's chapter. But I stuck a minor bit of Jack and Kate in there. Now that they've seen Juliet, what are they going to do about it??