Author's Note: Hahaha.. you guys really like my plot bunny don't you? Didn't you people ever learn not to feed the wild animals? Then they just keep coming back.. with a vengeance.

Well, fortunately the plot bunny is actually very generous.. he's making good on his deal for giving you guys a longer chapter, and tonight even! Here you go!

This one goes out to Aurora1020, for asking the question that I think EVERYONE was asking themselves: How much do Ben and Ethan really remember? (That question will be answered soon)

All Over Again: Day 15

You don't gotta be a prisoner in your mind,

Let your heart be your guide,

You will know that you're good if you just trust in the good.

(Just Stand Up)

Juliet groaned as she sat up. The aching in her shoulder was annoying, but not horrible.. it was the massive migraine bothering her the most. She brought her hand up to her forehead and frowned when she felt something wet and sticky. When she brought her hand back down and saw the blood she let out another groan.

She stood and looked around, studying her surroundings. She was in one of the lab rooms and she made the attempt to push the door open but it wouldn't budge. She narrowed her eyes slightly before kicking the door. "Ethan you son of a bitch!! Open the door!!" she yelled out, not even entirely sure if he was anywhere near by. She nearly stopped pounding at the door in shock at her own language use before she wiped the thought away.

Ethan had shot Goodwin. He'd shot him. Where was Goodwin? Claire? The man that Ethan had tried to hang?

"Juliet..?"

Juliet's head turned quickly and she turned, watching as Claire's head poked out from behind a lab table. Her eyes softened slightly at the younger woman and she walked away from the door, heading towards Claire and squatting down in front of her. "Hey there.." she said, her voice becoming gentle. "You're Claire, right?"

Claire frowned. She didn't know why she was remembering all sorts of different memories.. memories of her unborn son, of people from the beach dying, she wasn't sure why but she knew they were real memories too. And she remembered Juliet having saved her life once when she had first joined them on the beach, Charlie had told her. But why didn't Juliet remember? Then again.. the first time all of this happened, Juliet hadn't been there when Ethan hung Charlie from the tree.

"Yes.." she answered at last. Maybe Juliet just didn't remember yet, or maybe she herself was just losing her mind. "If you're one of them.. why did you help me and Charlie?"

Juliet smiled sadly. "Ethan was never supposed to hurt anybody.." she explained. She wasn't sure how much she should actually tell the young woman, but at this point, she was losing her faith in the island, Ben.. their people, and even 'Jacob' if he even existed.. "The injections he's been giving you were designed to help you during your pregnancy.." she told her carefully. "Women haven't been able to give birth on this island in a long time.."

Claire frowned for show and nodded her head apprehensively. She'd heard all of this before.

"I'll get you out of here," Juliet promised. She glanced around before noticing that there was clearly no one else in the room. "What did.." she paused. "Did Ethan.. leave them out there?" she asked Claire finally.

Claire nodded slowly.

Juliet closed her eyes and sat down, suddenly not feeling strong enough to remain squatting.

"I'm sorry about your friend.." Claire said solemnly. But the look on Juliet's face made her hesitate. "More then a friend.." she said quietly. "Did you.. love him?" she asked, remembering Juliet and Jack's closeness for a brief moment.

"Love?" Juliet questioned. She'd never actually questioned whether or not she loved Goodwin before. Neither had he. "I don't.." she paused.

"Mm.. somethin' smells good.."

"Hey there.." -- "Is that for me?"

"You were amazing today.."

"Thank you for believing in me.." -- "I love you.."

"Hm.. I love you too.."

Claire stared at Juliet's suddenly glazed over eyes. "Juliet..?" she questioned.

Juliet blinked as whatever she just imagined faded. That had been at the barracks.. but she was positive that it had never happened before. What the hell was happening to her? First she imagined Goodwin as a corpse, now she was imagining herself with a non-existent man? But.. now Goodwin was a corpse..

"Are you okay?" Claire asked, watching a ton of different emotions display over Juliet's normally calm and collected features. She inched forward to reach out to Juliet when the other woman's eyes simply rolled back and she dropped to a laying position unconscious. "Juliet?!" she squeaked out, shaking her shoulders lightly.

"What happened?" Ethan questioned, opening the door and going over to both the women.

Claire shook her head in confusion. "I.. I don't know," she answered honestly. "She just.. just dropped.."

Ethan frowned before picking Juliet up into his arms.

"What are you going to do to her?" Claire questioned, standing slowly with her hands over her stomach.

Ethan glanced at Claire but said nothing as he carried Juliet out of the room and locked the door shut behind him. He needed to get a hold of Ben, and fast.

~*~*~*~

Charlie followed Jack, Kate and Sawyer towards the medical station. "So you guys are telling me.. that you blew up a hydrogen bomb to reset things?" he questioned with uncertainty.

"That about sums it up," Sawyer answered.

"So.. what I remember, about dying, happened?" he asked next.

Sawyer glanced at him. "Not anymore.."

"But I remember, you said the plan was to land in LA and.. forget," Charlie pointed out.

Sawyer frowned and rolled his eyes. "Yeah well.. guess our plan sucked," he stated resentfully.

Charlie was quiet for a moment. "What happened to you before you blew up that bomb that your so angry?" he asked next. "Not that you weren't always angry, but now you just seem worse."

Kate glanced back at Sawyer and gave him a warning look. It wasn't Charlie's fault that he had no idea what happened after his dead.

"Juliet died.." Sawyer answered after a few beats of silence.

Charlie narrowed his eyes. "Well.. she is one of--"

"Don't even say it," Sawyer warned him, his voice seething with hostility.

Kate put a hand on Charlie's shoulder. "Was.. Charlie," she stated quietly. "She did just save your life, it doesn't matter that she's one of them right now, what matters is that we know she's a prisoner on this island just as much as the rest of us. She's one of us whether she knows it or not."

Charlie was silent in response to Kate's statement. He glanced back at Sawyer and sighed. "But.. what I don't understand is that you never liked her in the first place."

Sawyer eyed him. A few years ago, he probably would have just punched the guy by now. But all he needed not to do that now was the image of Juliet, placing a hand gently on his arm and saying 'James..' to stop him from doing that now. Charlie was just stating the facts that he knew. "Yeah well.. things change, shortstack."

Charlie chuckled. "So you like her now?" he questioned. He watched the look on Sawyer's face. "Oh.. OH.." he stated thoughtfully. "Wow, didn't see that coming."

Jack snorted out a laugh in response, not able to hold it in any longer. That was always one of the things he missed about Charlie. When they finally came up to the bushes outside of the medical station he put his arm out, stopping all of them. "Who the hell is that?" he whispered.

Sawyer glanced out from behind the bushes. "Son of a bitch.." he muttered under his breath, watching as Ethan let Richard Alpert and Ben's daughter Alex into the medical station.

~*~*~*~

"Where is she?" Richard questioned, following Ethan through the doors of the medical station.

Ethan sighed, opening of the doors and pointing to Juliet laying on one of the beds. "Right there."

"And what happened to her?" Richard questioned, heading over towards Juliet.

"She's losing her mind," Ethan stated. "She attacked me when I was getting Claire, so I had to knock her out," he admitted. "I put her in the room with Claire, she woke up and banged on the door, so I was heading over to let her out, when I went in there, she was out cold on the floor with Claire trying to shake her awake."

Richard glanced at him. "Anything else?"

Ethan sighed. "She woke up a little while ago, had no idea about anything that went on today, last thing she remembered was dropping off the injections at my drop point," he explained. "I told her to get some sleep, she's been out since, hasn't woken up for anything.."

Richard narrowed his eyes slightly. He sat down, trying to think of his next move. Jacob said she would remember, but every time she tended to remember things, she would forget them.. and everything else that happened around that time.

"Ben said you were on your way here already, do you know what's wrong with her?" Ethan questioned. "Because I'm not going to lie.. I've never seen anything like this, and I'm a doctor."

Richard waved him off. "I need to take her with me," he stated, lifting Juliet into his arms.

"Take her with you where?" Ethan questioned out of curiosity.

Richard eyed him carefully. "That's not important," he stated. "Alex is here to help you, Tom will be here soon as well," he told him, walking passed and heading back for the doors of the medical station.

Ethan and Alex both watched him leave.

Richard glanced down at her. Perhaps it was time to take her for a visit to see Jacob. Before her memories caused her to hurt herself.

~*~*~*~

Sawyer stared in shock as Richard came back out just a few minutes later with an unconscious Juliet and shut the doors to the medical station behind him. He didn't hesitate to run forward towards him. "Richard!"

Richard turned to the voice immediately, and although he was surprised to see the man, he hid it well. "Imagine seeing you again.." he stated cautiously. He narrowed his eyes slightly and glanced down at the blonde in his arms. Jacob had said she would need to at least remember something on her own without forgetting.. perhaps she needed something more familiar to jog her memory.

"So you remember me.." Sawyer stated.

"You're a hard man to forget," Richard admitted. "If you're planning on going in there to get the girl back, I'm not going to stop you," he told him. "But I'm warning you now, that Claire needs that serum that Ethan's going to administer if she's going to survive her pregnancy.."

Sawyer glanced behind him and Jack, Kate and Charlie who froze at the statement.

"Why should we trust you on that?" Kate questioned.

Sawyer just put his hand out to stop them. He glanced back at Juliet in his arms. "Can I take her?" he questioned.

"Somehow I don't think saying no would stop you from trying," Richard stated with a hint of a smile before transferring Juliet to his arms. He glanced up at the cameras and shook his head, as long as Ethan wasn't at the monitors they would be fine. The cameras only emitted live feed, there was no playbacks here. "You do realize, she doesn't remember anything that happened back then.. don't you?"

Sawyer glanced down as Juliet's head rested against his shoulder. "Yeah.. I know," he admitted.

Richard nodded. "I would suggest.. leaving Claire here for now," he told them. "We know that she'll be set free by Alex soon, but Ethan needs to finish administering that serum."

Sawyer narrowed his eyes.

"Taking her now would be killing her," Richard stated. "If Alex for some reason does not release Claire, then I'll come and take her back to you myself."

Charlie frowned. "We're just gonna take this creeps word that he'll give Claire back to us?"

Sawyer glanced back at Charlie. "He's never lied yet.."

Richard nodded. "You've got my word that I won't let anything happen to her, though.. if anyone finds out Juliet isn't with me, I'll have to tell them you took her."

Sawyer chuckled. "Let 'em try and take her back."

Richard just smiled and shook his head. "Now I know why she let go to save you," he stated before turning and walking into the jungle.

"Well?" Jack stated, watching Sawyer.

"I believe Richard just fine.." he stated. "But Ethan's another story, I don't trust him at all."

Charlie narrowed his eyes. "You're really gonna trust that guy to just give Claire back to us?" he asked in shock.

"Richard is honest," Kate stated, remembering how honest he was to her and Sawyer about little Ben when they gave the boy to him. "I've seen it for myself.. Sawyer's right, Charlie.." she stated. "Think about it, we keep trying to change things and bad things start happening."

"And they start happening faster," Sawyer pointed out. "But I still don't think we should leave Claire here."

Charlie glanced at the blonde in Sawyer's arms. "And you don't think we're taking her back to the beach just a wee bit too fast?"

Jack sighed, shaking his head. "Knock it off, Charlie.." he told him. "We didn't say we were leaving her here, Sawyer already said that he didn't trust Ethan, obviously none of us do.."

Charlie frowned. He wasn't liking the idea at all of leaving Claire with Ethan. "Alright.." he stated. "Alright.. let's get her," he stated, going to pull the doors open to the medical station. "The bloody things aren't budging.."

Jack frowned, moving over to help Charlie. But he was right, the doors were locked tight. "We gotta find something to get these doors open.." he stated, glancing at all of them.

All of them looked up as they heard voices heading towards them.

"Let's go, before someone sees us," Jack stated, ushering them all away. He grabbed Charlie's arm pulling him in the direction of the beach. "Come on, we're gonna come back for her Charlie, we can't save her if we get killed."

Charlie frowned but reluctantly followed Jack and the rest of them back to the beach.

~*~*~*~

Sun watched as Sawyer came back onto the beach with Juliet in his arms. She nudged Jin and pointed. "Look.. they found Juliet.."

Jin looked up immediately and stood, heading over to them. He saw Jack, Kate and Charlie coming around the beach from the other direction and grabbing everyone's attention. "Does she.. remember?" he asked.

"Not yet.." Sawyer admitted. He laid her down inside his tent and frowned, staring the the stitches on her forehead and running his finger over them.

Juliet's eyes snapped open immediately, grabbing the offending hand on her forehead. She sat up and backed away instantly. "Who the hell are you?" she questioned immediately.

"Calm down," Sawyer stated, putting his hands up in a mock surrender before she decided to attack him.

Jin stepped out of Sawyer's make-shift tent, leaving the two alone.

Juliet stared at him. She couldn't place the familiarity, almost as though she knew him. "Who are you?" she questioned again, her voice calm now.

"Name's James," he drawled out instantly.

"Juliet.." she stated warily. She couldn't even begin to wonder how the hell she'd gotten to the beach camp of the survivors but she was fairly certain Ben wasn't going to be happy about this. James.. James Ford was one of the survivors she'd read a file on. She'd only vaguely skimmed it though.

"Now lemme see that," he stated, lifting his hand up to her forehead once again.

Once again, Juliet grabbed his hand as he reached out for her and she was vaguely shocked when he entwined their fingers. She sucked in a deep breath, suddenly she didn't feel so well. "Where are we?" she questioned quietly.

Sawyer pulled her to her feet and led her out of the tent. "Welcome to the camp of the survivor's, Juliet.."

Juliet glanced around. All of it seems familiar. He seemed familiar. She glanced back down at their hands with bafflement. It felt.. right.

"I love you.."

"I love you back.."

"Oh my god.." she whispered.

Sawyer glanced at her look of shock.

"It worked.."

Sawyer grinned down at her. "You remember?"

Juliet nodded, turning to look at him.

Sawyer just laughed before leaning down and capturing her lips with his. "Don't you ever do that again.." he muttered.

Juliet smiled softly. "I won't.."

"Dudes.. I think she remembers.." Hurley stated, pointing to Sawyer and Juliet down the beach.

Charlie, Jack and Kate all looked over at them.

"Holy.." Charlie muttered. "Talk about love and hate.."

Kate chuckled, but not before noticing something in the woods. Heading fast towards Sawyer and Juliet. "SAWYER! JULIET!!" she screamed.

Juliet opened her eyes at Kate's scream and pulled away from him. She glanced behind Sawyer and her eyes widened. She didn't hesitate to shove Sawyer aside and that was all it took for her to hit the ground in an instant. The last thing she saw was Sawyer running up the beach after her as she was dragged back into the jungle by the smoke monster. "JAMES!!"

()()END()()

Well.. talk about short-lived reunions eh?

Smokey doesn't like it when you try to change things too quickly.. bad smokey.