Author's Note: Ahaha! Found you all! Uhh.. this is a belated birthday present. I tried to get it up on Sunday, but I just never got the chance to finish it until now. And sorry for any missed errors.. it's 5am and I'm in desperate need of sleep. I have class at 11am :(

This one goes to teh-Sara.

All Over Again:

I've had enough and this is the end,

And now I understand,

The heart breaks it does not bend.

by Valencia

After a few days of Juliet coming and going during the middle of the night, Sawyer was getting used to the routine. Sometimes she would stay for an hour, sometimes more, and sometimes less. Sometimes they would talk the entire time, and other times they spent the entire hour in silence, simply enjoying their time together.

There was still the unspoken line drawn between them from the incident just before she fell. Where they had fought and she had, in a sense, ended 'them'. They never really spoke about anything important, they only talked about before the incident. But he had that annoying feeling in the pit of his stomach that they couldn't just keep letting it go by them without speaking about it. They couldn't move on until they did.

He knew they needed a little bit of time to let it settle in that no matter what, they were right back where they started again. And they remembered, and Jacob was right, because this was their chance to make their lives better with a second chance. He wondered, if she hadn't ever remembered, would he have been able to make her fall in love with him all over again? Would he have tried? Or would he have simply give in to her wish, to have never met him?

Originally his plan was just to get her to the beach, get her away from Ben and the rest of the Others. But he'd had hope when she remembered and after that he just couldn't stop himself from continuing to go after her, he couldn't help but try to get her to remember again, and he had.. but at what cost? Her body had been practically broken from the net, the smoke monster, Ethan.. and then the fall. But she explained that it was the island that saved her, that people healed faster here then they would anywhere else.

At first he thought it was her coming towards his cage, but almost instantly he realized it was Alex instead.

"I turned them off," she admitted, studying the man in the cage. She noticed that Kate in the opposite cage was watching her as well but she ignored that. "I need to ask you something."

Sawyer narrowed his eyes slightly. The kid had a hell of a poker face, because he couldn't figure out if she remembered what Ben did to her or not, if she even remembered anything at all. "Alright Underdog, shoot."

Alex felt the smirk come across her face, she remembered the first time he said that. "You still want that basket?" she questioned jokingly.

Sawyer chuckled. That answered what he wondered. "That yer' question?"

"Funny," Alex stated with a roll of her eyes. "Actually, I wanted to know what kind of game you're playing with Juliet," she stated calmly, eying him with uncertainty.

Sawyer almost flinched at the accusatory tone of her voice. "What are you talking about?"

Alex sighed. She admitted it was strange to remember the old stuff and do all of this again, it hurt to remember and she almost wished she could forget it all. "Look.." she began, folding her arms across her chest. "I've read your file too ya know," she pointed out. "But Juliet, she's different from the rest of them," she admitted.

"I know that," Sawyer replied, still not entirely sure what the teenager was trying to insinuate.

Alex shook her head. "She's going to get hurt," she stated bluntly. "If she keeps coming out here like she has been and someone figures it out? They're gonna go straight to Ben. And he's not going to be very happy.."

Sawyer opened his mouth to speak when Juliet came walking from the direction of the 'runway' they were building.

"Alex," she hissed. "Ben's coming, scoot."

Alex stared at her, but before she could leave she watched Ben come out behind Juliet.

"Alex, what are you doing?" he questioned arching an eyebrow up.

Alex shrugged. "Wandering."

"Wandering around the prisoners?" Ben asked in obvious disbelief.

Alex smirked. "Actually, I was wandering everywhere, I just stopped here because Juliet asked me what I was doing too."

Ben threw a questioning look at Juliet.

Juliet shrugged her shoulders in response. "It's true."

He glanced between the two with a bit of uncertainty. "Very well," he stated. "Continue, let's go Juliet," he told her, putting a hand out in a gesture for her to continue onward.

Juliet nodded and continued heading towards the hydra. She managed not to look at Sawyer, Kate or Alex which relieved her because then Ben would have known something was up.

Alex watched as the two shut the door to the hydra and she glanced back at Sawyer.

Sawyer kept his eyes on Ben the entire time. He kept his eyes on Ben's hand which was on Juliet's lower back as though he thought it were necessary to keep her on the right track. And even when they disappeared into the building, his eyes didn't leave the door.

"Look," Alex began. "I can see that for whatever reason, you do like her," she admitted. "I don't know, maybe she's right and you do love her," she stated. "But.. if you really do, then you'll let her go.."

Sawyer turned his head back to her immediately. "What?"

Kate couldn't be silent anymore in response to that. "What do you mean he should let her go?" she questioned immediately. "Do you know how much he's gone through just to get her back?"

Alex turned to look at Kate. "My fath.. Ben," she corrected. "He's not even remotely the same man he was the first time around," she admitted. "He's gotten worse, and I don't know what happened after.. my death," she continued. "I don't know what he did.. but it changed him for the worse." She sighed, glancing back at Sawyer.

"I can't just let her go," he admitted.

"Then why did you help them blow up that bomb?" Alex questioned. "Juliet told me about it," she explained. "You thought you'd never crash, so you helped blow it up.. why would you do that if you didn't want to lose her?"

"I--"

"He didn't want to do it."

Everyone turned and glanced at Juliet coming towards the cages.

"I did," she stated to Alex who raised an eyebrow up at her in response. "And.. she's right James," she stated quietly.

Alex watched Juliet in shock. Something was up, because when she'd suggested this very same thing to Juliet, the blonde had flat out refused to stop seeing him. This had something to do with Ben, she had no doubt about that.

"What do you mean she's right?" Sawyer questioned, getting as close to her as he could through the bars.

"We're not supposed to be together, James," she answered, and although she kept her face emotionless it didn't matter, because her voice betrayed her look of unfeeling, it displayed the emotion that her face didn't. "I.. I wasn't wrong, we--"

"Stop," Sawyer stated, reaching out and grabbing her hand. "Why are you doing this now, Juliet?" he questioned. "First you say we aren't meant to be together, then you say you lied, now you're back to the former.." he stated.

"I just.." Juliet paused, her voice breaking in response. She glanced over as the doors to the hydra opened and Ben stepped out. "I'm sorry," she apologized, pulling her hand from his and stepping back. "I just can't.."

Sawyer watched her gaze and he looked at Ben standing over at the doors with a smile of satisfaction on his face. He glanced back at Juliet who was now studying the ground. "Don't let him control you again, Juliet," he told her. "He took your freedom once and you got it back, take it back again," he stated quietly.

Alex stared at Ben by the door and frowned. Why did he get so much satisfaction from tearing people apart? Why did he find it so easy to take away their happiness?

Kate watched in silence at the heartbreak covering Sawyer's face. She wanted to to yell at Juliet, condemn her for what she was doing because she'd done the same thing to Sawyer once. But she herself had done it for selfish reasons, and she knew that Juliet was doing this for him. She was doing it to save him from Ben. She had loved Sawyer when she needed to love him, whereas the blonde before her had loved him for him, not out of need.

Juliet closed her eyes and shook her head. "It's a little too late," she answered quietly in response. She stepped up to the bars and looked him in the eyes. "If he takes you away from me.. that's okay.." she admitted. "But.. if he kills you.."

Sawyer felt grief stricken. She still didn't mean what she said, that they weren't meant to be together. She was admitting that with her statement. She was saying good-bye to save him. He couldn't let her do that. "Juliet.."

"If he kills you.." she repeated. "Then I won't have anything left on this island that's worth having my freedom for," she admitted.

Sawyer reached out just as she was turning away from him and he pulled her against the bars, crashing his lips down on hers before she had time to react.

Kate stared in shock. She stole a glance at Ben who remained unmoving, whose smile never faltered in response to the kiss between Sawyer and Juliet. She knew why he was smiling about it too. He was smiling because he knew he was tearing them apart.

Juliet found her eyes opening a moment or two later when he finally pulled away and stepped back from the bars. "James.." she whispered, trying to reach out for him as he walked to the other side of the cage.

"Head back inside, Juliet," Ben ordered. "I think he got the message now."

Juliet didn't move for a full minute as she stared at Sawyer's back. She felt the tears threatening, but she didn't let them fall. She couldn't let them fall. She only looked down when she felt a hand on her shoulder and she saw Alex giving her a look of pity. So she sucked it up. Maybe remembering wasn't such a good idea after all. She wasn't sure it was worth it to remember and lose him again.

Sawyer stared at the trees behind the cage in silence for a few minutes before he heard two pairs of footsteps walking away from the front of the cage.

"James Ford.. Sawyer.. and Jim LaFleur," Ben's voice stated as he walked up to Sawyer's cage. "You have a lot of personalities, James," he said calmly, watching as Sawyer turned to look at him. "Though.. how you conned Juliet into falling for you, I'm not sure I'll ever understand how you managed to pull that off."

Sawyer narrowed his eyes slightly.

"But I appreciate it all none the less," Ben stated with a shrug of his shoulders. "Because if she didn't love you, who would else would I have left to kill to get her to have some obedience?"

"You son of a bitch," Sawyer growled out.

Ben smiled. "You know, I learned a lesson about always keeping promises," he admitted. "There's always a way around them."

"What the hell are you talkin' about?" Sawyer questioned, heading over towards the bars where the other man was standing.

"Well," Ben began. "I may have promised her that if she stayed with me, I wouldn't kill you," he answered with a shrug. "But.. I never said I wouldn't have somebody else kill you."

Sawyer tried to reach out and grab Ben but he was already walking back towards the Hydra. "You son of a bitch!! Get back here!" he yelled out. "You hurt her and I swear I'll kill you!"

Kate looked on in a stunned silence. Ben was going to have someone else kill Sawyer. And Sawyer didn't care, he only cared that Juliet didn't get hurt. There had to be a way to talk to Juliet. There had to be a way to warn her that Ben was just going to have someone else kill Sawyer anyways. She just didn't know how to do it just yet.

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I apologize this is later then I said. I've been sick since the weekend. Never even got to go birthday celebrating. Combine that with classes.. and.. yes. I've been dwindling on my writing slightly. Sorry.