Author's Note: Well I know where I was all weekend and this week. But where did all of you guys go? Lucky for you I'm not spiteful about people pulling a Houdini these past two chapters.

Anyways. I'll be away this weekend for my birthday. I'll be back on Sunday! Hopefully you'll get a chapter that night. This chapter should clear up a LOT of things. But you may still have questions, and you can feel free to ask them! (This is a RE-Update.. some people had some problems opening up this chapter. So I removed it and updated it again.)

All Over Again:

Cause when the sky's the darkest,

You can see the stars,

And when you fall the hardest,

You find how strong you are.

Faith by Jordin Sparks

Jack had actually found himself listening intently to Ben's recount of Juliet's memory problems. It explained a lot about her recent actions. He wondered, briefly, if the memory loss was triggered by the trauma of the fall, an aftershock of them blowing up the bomb. Nothing seemed at all strange when it came to this island anymore.

He did try his best try look remotely uninterested in his words though, but it didn't matter. Because it was clear to anyone the he'd always had some kind of soft spot for the blonde fertility doctor even the first time around. Not love, but there was at least friendship there.

But both him and Ben jumped to their feet when the door slammed open to his fish tank of a cell.

"What are you--" Ben halted, staring at Juliet in Richard's arms. "What happened?!"

Richard shook his head, about to speak when Jack came and pushed Ben aside.

Jack moved passed Ben and looked at Juliet. Her injuries were.. they appeared to be from a fall if he was looking correctly. He glanced at her shirt which had ridden up slightly and caught sight of her waist, showing him the ghastly bruising in the shape of chain links. Her injuries from the fall had come back.. was this how she'd been left down in the hole? Alive yet dying?

"Can you help her?" Ben questioned, staring at Jack who was studying Juliet intently.

"I can try," he answered, checking her pulse and finding it, but just barely.

"That's all we can ask for," Richard stated for Ben. "Follow me."

Jack followed Richard who was walking so fast you could almost call it running. He was following behind him quickly with Ben right beside him.

~*~*~*~

Kate watched as Richard went running from the doors of one building and into the one across from it. "Sawyer!"

Sawyer glanced up and looked over, watching the same as Kate. He was only mildly surprised when Jack came running behind him and Ben in the rear walking at a normal pace. It didn't stop him from worrying, but it at least made him feel better. Because it was Jack.. he liked to fix things.

"She'll be okay," Kate assured him. "Jack won't let her die.."

Sawyer just nodded, locking eyes with Ben. The look the other man was giving him wasn't something he could explain, but he assumed Ben must've known something about the past that he wasn't sharing yet. He gripped the bars on the cage as Ben disappeared into the building. "I wanted her to remember.." he muttered.

Kate frowned as she watched Sawyer's face. He looked a little defeated. Her eyes softened slightly as he let go of the bars and sat down. "Sawyer.."

"But every time she remembers something happens to her, just look around.." he stated. "She remembers on the beach and smoky the bear comes bellowing out of the jungle and whisks her away.." he pointed out. "And this time.."

"This time she remembered because she asked to remember."

Sawyer stood up immediately and looked at the man who stepped in front of him. "Who the hell are-- what the hell?"

Kate narrowed her eyes slightly. There was something familiar about the man that just started talking to Sawyer.

"You're the damned guy who--" Sawyer started.

"I'm Jacob," he finished for him. "And yes, I am that guy."

Sawyer frowned. "Jacob.. as in, the island's own little God?" he questioned.

Jacob arched an eyebrow up in slight amusement. "Far from God, actually," he answered. "I'll assume Juliet told you about me during your time in the Dharma Initiative."

Sawyer nodded mutely. How would he know that? "What do you mean she remembered cause she asked? I remember and I damn well never asked to."

"That's correct, you didn't," Jacob answered. "But, I also don't recall you saying you didn't want to remember. Whereas, Juliet deemed she'd be better off having never met you."

"She still started remembering," Sawyer pointed out.

"Yes, she did," Jacob recalled watching her remember, and forget. "Unfortunately, because she originally had chosen to forget.. every time she remembered, she was forced to forget again. She had to forget, because the memories were coming to life, they would have killed her."

Sawyer frowned. "So you're telling me the giant smoke monster took her to make her forget.. that Juliet just relived the damn fall into the Swan?"

Jacob smiled sadly. "Actually.. that was a test, to see that if she did remember everything, would she still risk herself for you.." he admitted. "And she did indeed pass with flying colors," he explained. "The monster sometimes needs to check on certain people," he told him. "And Juliet has done a few questionable things in the past. And yes, when she requested to remember without the memory loss, she was put back into the state she was in after she fell."

"She's done what she had to," Sawyer defended. "She just wants to go home. We all just want to go home." He was still trying to understand about Juliet's state. "She was dead.. she fell, it was at least 50 feet.."

"Destiny won't always lead you where you want to go, James, and she was not dead," Jacob told him. "Juliet survived her fall, she survived because she was meant to survive," he stated casually. "She was left with the choice to lay there and die, or carry out her destiny, to save all those that have died and give them a second chance.."

Sawyer studied the man's face. As far as he could tell, he was telling the truth. "What kind of destiny makes her go through all of that again?"

"Destiny is a fickle bitch, James," he concluded to the conman. "But rest assured.. she won't die, she's not meant to die," he explained. "Had she chosen to forget, she would have died," he told him. "The memories coming and going would be like those flashes through time you experienced, they would have killed her.

Sawyer was silent at first, feeding on all the information and letting it sink in. "You're saying Juliet saved all of us? That everyone that died before won't die this time?"

"I'm telling you, that now you know how to make your lives better," he pointed out. "Perhaps some of those people were meant to die, such as Goodwin.." he admitted. "Goodwin's death was and always will be necessary for Juliet to continue her resentment for Ben. Which remind me.."

Sawyer watched him carefully.

"You'll want to be careful, keep your eye on Ben," Jacob explained to him. "He will not hesitate to get rid of you, just as he did with Goodwin. He remembers his childhood, he remembers you and Juliet," he admitted.

"What makes you so sure he'll kill me?" Sawyer questioned, although he could tell already the man was stating the truth.

"Well, because he's killed many people, maybe not always by his own hands," he explained. "He's killed Goodwin, using first Ana Lucia, and now Ethan," he pointed out. "He killed John Locke with his own hands, and even me.."

Sawyer looked shocked by the statement, and he felt shocked by it as well. Ben, Juliet had claimed he was the 'almighty' follower of Jacob, regardless of having never met him. And here was Jacob, saying he'd been killed by the man. "You?" he questioned.

"Indeed, I have Juliet to thank for being alive again," Jacob stated and turned to leave, but he stopped and turned to look back at Sawyer. "When she recovers, if she tries to push you away and distance herself, don't believe anything she says," he told the other man. "She will try to protect you again.. this time from Ben."

Sawyer frowned but he nodded in response.

Jacob turned to look at Kate. He smiled sadly at her and shook his head. "Well.. on the upside, I suppose you did stop stealing."

Kate watched in shock as he walked away.

Sawyer threw her a questionable look.

"Okay look.. I was eight, alright?" she muttered, putting her hands up in surrender.

Sawyer chuckled, regardless of the situation. When they both looked over for Jacob, he was simply gone.

~*~*~*~

After a week, hardly anyone came and went from the building. Jack had finally exited for the first time yesterday and was brought straight back across to the building he'd been in originally. Ben would come and go between buildings, but Richard and Juliet had never come out.

Sawyer only opened his eyes when he heard his cage door opening. He could only assume it was very early morning because the sun was just barely beginning to rise, and when he sat up he thought it was a dream. Because Juliet was coming towards him and sitting down in front of him. He wasn't entirely sure what to say to her, he could only look at the way her normally pale and flawless skin was riddled with healing cuts and bruises.

Juliet tilted her head to the side slightly and her eyes softened as Sawyer studied her with a look of uncertainty and guilt. She wasn't entirely sure how to feel at the moment. She didn't know if she was glad she remembered, that they were here together.. or if she was still worried about his feelings for her. But she felt guilty herself, for the words she spoke to him before she'd been pulled into the swan by those chains. "I'm sorry.." she finally admitted.

Sawyer frowned in response to her words. If what Jacob said was true, that she had relived the fall and received the same injuries, was it even possible for her to walk herself out of the building and be sitting here in front of him?

"I'm sorry for what I said to you.." Juliet clarified. "In the jungle.. I just.."

Sawyer shook his head. "You don't gotta apologize.." he told her, carefully placing his hand on her cheek and resting it there, it was his own attempt at proving she was really there, that she wasn't just a hallucination. "You had a right to say it.. I don't deserve you Juliet."

Juliet felt a piece of her heart break at his statement. No one had ever said anything like that to her before. "I didn't mean it," she encouraged. "I promise, I never meant it.."

"I love you," Sawyer stated softly. "But.. I guess love ain't always enough, is it?"

Juliet glanced away for a moment out of shame and guilt. "I guess it's not.." she answered.

Sawyer tried his best not to grimace at the vulnerability in her voice as she answered his question. He could see the different emotions crossing her face. The shame, the guilt, the sadness and the pain.

"I had a dream.." Juliet said after a few moments of silence. "The day the plane crashed again."

Sawyer waited silently for her to continue.

"It was the only thing I never forgot," she admitted. "And.. it seemed so strange, because I felt the pain of the chains.. and.. I was telling someone that I loved them, but I couldn't see their face.." she explained. "When I woke up.. it was like I'd just hit the bottom, and I looked and the bruises were there.. but when I looked again, they were gone. Just like your face.."

Sawyer wasn't entirely sure what to say.

Juliet leaned back against the bars of the cage and closed her eyes. "But.. everything felt so confusing," she admitted. "It didn't matter, the dream was always stuck in my head.. and I felt as though something was missing, something that I just couldn't recall."

"You know," Sawyer replied. "For the first couple minutes I didn't really remember either," he admitted. "The only things stuck in my head was a bomb and a pair of blue eyes that I didn't have a face for."

Juliet glanced down and studied him as he rested his head gently on her lap. She felt her hand automatically trail to his head as she ran her fingers through his now very short hair. "I miss your hair.." she admitted casually.

Sawyer chuckled in response and opened his eyes, looking directly up into her blue ones. "I think love is enough.. at least until we get out of here and can have more.." he stated.

Juliet smiled just a little down at him and tilted her head sideways. But it was a sad smile. "He'll never let me leave," she told him quietly.

Sawyer sat up moving his face closer to hers. "I'll never let him keep you here," he responded.

Juliet found only truth in his eyes and she felt it break down the wall that had erected when she saw him look at Kate. She leaned forward and captured his lips with his. They were safe for now with everyone sleeping and no one to see what was happening. Sure, Alex was watching the monitors.. but that teenager had admitted to her during a visit that she was remembering strange things. So she'd reciprocated to the girl. Her secret was in the hands of Alex at the moment.

"I love you," Sawyer told her once again when he finally pulled away.

Juliet smiled softly and wrapped her arms around him, burying her face in the safety of the crook of his neck. "I love you back.." she whispered.

()()END()()

Oooh. The reunion you all were waiting for!! Filled with confusion, guilt, shame, uncertainty, pure love, and a giant Jacob explanation! Prepare yourselves.. the next couple chapters MAY get intense.