Author's Note: Well, I did indeed promise another chapter again tonight. I figure it would be pretty rude to ignore that promise! I apologize its REALLY late at night, so most of you won't even see it until morning, but I seem to have gotten sick :( I can't breathe through my nose, my throats all swollen and I slept about 16 hours today. Ew..

This chapter's for CarolynneRuth..she makes me giggle profusely. Thank god you fed the kids! LOL. Just for you, I'm making this chapter extra long! Hope you enjoy it!

All Over Again:

I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish ,

I'll be your fantasy. I'll be your hope,

I'll be your love, be everything that you need,

I love you more with every breath,

Truly, Madly, Deeply do.

-Savage Garden

"Anything?!" Jack yelled out.

"Nothing," Sayid answered.

Jack let out a breath of frustration. It had been over an hour since Juliet and Sawyer had taken 'the plunge' so to speak. He understood why Sawyer took his chances by jumping, but they could have saved Juliet if she'd just given them her then free hand. She had flat out refused. She had kicked off the side and hoped for the best, and now they hadn't found either one.

Had that been her point? She didn't want to take the chance that if they pulled her up she wouldn't see Sawyer again? Did she love Sawyer that much? He couldn't help the thought that if he had given her a real chance, would she have loved him the same amount? Or would Kate ever love him the way Juliet loved Sawyer?

He already knew those thoughts were the reason it would have never, and would never, work between him and Juliet. Sure, his thoughts could vaguely stray to Juliet but they would switch to Kate quickly and compare and contrast.

"Hey.."

Jack already knew it was Kate as soon as he felt her hand on his shoulder.

"We're going to find them, Jack.." Kate assured him. "What do you think happened to her out in the jungle?" she asked quietly.

Jack could only shake his head. He had no idea what had possibly drove her into such delusions. Or even what had happened to her hands. They had been scratched and bleeding and he couldn't for the life of him figure out how it had happened. "Let's just concentrate on finding them.."

Kate frowned but nodded her head in response. "Alright.."

~*~*~*~

"Juliet.."

Crack.. crack.. hit the bomb.. hit the bomb.. BAM.. BAM.. blow it up.. blow it up.. son of a bitch, why won't it blow up? Rocks cutting into skin.. hand bleeding.. need to switch hands.. gotta blow up the bomb.. blow it up.. blow it up, other hands bleeding now.. dying.. dying.. everyone's dying.

"Juliet!"

Running away, running away, you're running. Taken away.. being taken away, you're being taken away.. now everyone's safe.. the bomb won't blow..

"JULIET!"

Blues eyes opened immediately as she coughed and sputtered and spit water from her mouth to find herself still staring up into James' eyes. Her first thought was that the black death swirl was no longer around him, her next though was that he didn't have the slight glow proving he'd been saved. She had saved him from one thing but he was still in danger?

"Relax.." Sawyer stated quietly, placing a kiss on her forehead. He sighed slightly in relief. She hadn't been breathing for at least a minute and it had felt like hours. "We're on the wrong side of the cliff.." he told her. "We gotta cut around it and get back to our side.."

Juliet nodded mutely in response.

"Hey.." he whispered, resting his forehead against hers. "If we made it through that, we can make it through anything, darlin'.."

Juliet smiled faintly. "Ben's.. gonna find me.."

Sawyer took a deep breath and let it out. "He ain't gonna touch you.." he assured her.

"Tired.." she muttered out.. feeling her eyelids growing heavy.

"Rest then," Sawyer told her, pulling her into his arms. "I'll get us back." He was more then just a little worried by her short responses.

Juliet nodded just a little as her head lolled to the side and rested against his shoulder. "Love.. you.."

Sawyer smiled a little. "Yeah yeah.. love you too," he stated as he stood to his feet.

"Freeze!"

And freeze was exactly what Sawyer did as he turned to look at who yelled at them. He was shocked as he stared at Miles. How the hell had Miles gotten here? "Sonuvabitch.. Miles?"

Miles froze now and then lowered the gun. "Jesus, Jim," he stated, tucking the gun into his pants and walking over to him. "I'd say its good to see you, but you both look like crap, what the hell happened? You guys get in a water fight?"

Sawyer nodded his head up towards the cliff. "Took an accidental nose-dive."

Miles stared up at the cliff before looking down at the water below. "Holy shit.."

"How the hell did you get back here?" Sawyer questioned, staring at him with slight confusion. "You guys shouldn't show up for a while.."

Miles sighed. "Yeah no kidding, but I think its more then just us who remember, Widmore got us on that freighter even faster then last time. This time I opt'd to get onto the helicopter with Naomi."

"Where is she?" he questioned, walking with Miles back to the beach.

Miles eyed him carefully. "No idea, she jumped, I jumped.. haven't seen her yet," he admitted. "You look a little shaky.. want me to carry her?"

Sawyer shook his head.

"Fine, let me carry her, you look like you're gonna fall over on your ass any minute now, boss," Miles pointed out carefully. "In case you can't remember, you both just nose-dived off a cliff into a rock-bottomed ocean?"

Sawyer sighed as Miles relinquished his hold on Juliet and took her himself. He glanced at the blonde and frowned. "Why'd you come back?" he finally questioned.

"And leave you guys here?" Miles asked. "Three years and I actually liked you, Juliet and Jin.." he admitted. "Friends don't forget about each other, they come back for each other."

Sawyer smiled a little. Sure, Miles was a selfish jackass, but only with people he wasn't friends with. You became his friend, he was the most loyal sonuvabitch you'd ever meet. This proved that. "You're in for the ride of your life, ghostbuster," he told him. "Its even crazier this time around.."

Miles smirked. "We flashing through time yet?" he asked.

Sawyer glanced at him. "Touche.."

"Does everyone remember?" Miles questioned. "Cause Dan and Charlotte.. I don't think they did. Or Naomi."

Sawyer glanced at him. "Not everyone right away. The people who were still alive remembered almost immediately but everyone who died.. they took a while."

Miles glanced down at Juliet. "How long did it take for her to remember?"

Sawyer pondered explaining it all to him. After all they'd been through, Miles would believe it. "For a while.. every time she remembered, she would forget.." he admitted, glancing down at Juliet's pale skin. "It almost killed her, it still could.. if it happens again," he explained. "Her memory coming and was effecting her just like the flashes effected Charlotte.."

Miles was too stunned to respond for a moment. He glanced down at Juliet and then back over at Sawyer. "So.. she stopped forgetting though, right?" he asked immediately. "She's alright now?"

"She should.." Sawyer told him. "But there's a chance if she keeps getting hurt she could relapse.. she could start forgetting again.. it would kill her."

Miles was silent now. If she kept getting hurt? What kept happening to her? "So.. we protect her, right?"

Sawyer frowned. "I've tried.. we went to sleep last night though, in the morning she was gone.. Kate tracked her.. she was out in the jungle, just standing there. Her hands were bleeding and she was crying.."

"Jesus.." Miles muttered.

"She can't freakin' see.." he muttered back to Miles. "She's blind, but somehow she can see people who are gonna die though.." he admitted.

Miles would have thought he was insane if he couldn't speak to the dead.

"When she realizes she can see me, she goes runnin' off, and I barely got her before she ran off the cliff.." he admitted. "But she kept sayin' me and her were gonna die.. that she didn't know how to save us and that I had to just let her go.." he admitted. "She took a step back.. the ledge crumbled and I got her back up.. but then it broke under both of us and we dropped."

Miles stared at him in shock.

"She's freakin' in danger.. and I haven't been able to do a damned thing to keep her safe," Sawyer mumbled.

Miles arched an eyebrow up at in inquisitively. "I don't think she'd agree with you on that," he pointed out. "Take a look at her.. you just nose-dived off a cliff for her."

Sawyer blinked his eyes in response, as if the idea of that had only just dawned on him.

"I guess you don't realize how often you save her," Miles stated with a shrug. "Not that I doesn't go both ways, there's been plenty of times she's saved you too.."

Sawyer felt the dread in his stomach.. "Like at the Swan.."

Miles nodded mutely in response. "She didn't let go, you would've gone down with her.. she was saving your life." He sighed. "Too bad about the ba--" he paused.

"About the what?" Sawyer questioned, staring strangely at Miles.

"Nothing.." Miles assured him, shaking his head. "My head's a little fuzzy, I just fell out of a helicopter."

Sawyer narrowed his eyes slightly but he said nothing in response. Miles was lying to him, and he had no idea what, but he was gonna find out what he meant to say.

Miles gave a questioning glance down at Juliet who had pinched him when he was talking before. Obviously she wasn't really asleep.

"I'd prefer to walk now.."

Sawyer glanced down at her as well. "You really shouldn't--"

"James.." she warned, as Miles obligingly put her onto her feet. "I'm not helpless.. don't treat me like I am."

Sawyer frowned. She was withdrawing into herself once again. Her mood swings were absolutely insane. But he understood now. She was afraid.. she knew Ben was out there somewhere, and she was right. He was probably looking for her right now. He grabbed her hand and glanced at Miles. "Wanna give us a minute?"

Miles glanced between the two and nodded before walking out of hearing distance.

"Look.." Sawyer stated, meeting her eyes with his own. "I know you're afraid of Ben.." he told her quietly. "But Juliet.. I'm not going to let him near you, he's not going to hurt you.. not if I can help it."

Juliet couldn't help the anger that simmered in response. "You honestly don't understand, do you?" she questioned, the annoyance clear in her voice. "It's not me I'm afraid he's going to hurt, James.. it's you."

Sawyer was silent now.

"Ben will try and kill you, I know he will.." she explained, pulling her hand from his. "And if he kills you, a piece of me dies with you James, and I can't live with that.. I'd rather live without you and know you're at least alive."

Sawyer was stunned as she walked away from him and headed back towards the beach. He took a deep breath and let it go before following after her with Miles at his side. How did she even know where she was going? Though he assumed she didn't actually know where she was going. She seemed to be lucky at the moment and heading in the right direction.

"She been like that the entire time?" Miles questioned quietly.

Sawyer simply nodded.

"Look.. I should probably tell you something.." Miles stated, keeping his voice low.

"What?" Sawyer questioned. "Whatever it was you stopped yourself from saying before?"

Miles nodded.

"Alright.. shoot.." Sawyer stated.

"Juliet.. she was.." Miles frowned, wondering how exactly he could put this. He realized there was no real easy way to put it though. "She was pregnant.."

Sawyer stopped short immediately in response to Miles' statement.

"It's Juliet!!"

He watched her in stunned silence as Claire embraced Juliet and everyone was heading towards her. "She was.. a baby?"

Miles nodded solemnly. "I guess she decided it was better not to tell you, since she'd never gotten the chance anyways.." he admitted. "But.. that's probably why she's so moody.. she's trying to cope with it."

"Why didn't see tell me before?" Sawyer questioned. "Why did she tell you?"

Miles shrugged. "She didn't.. technically tell me," he admitted. "I heard her talking to Amy, the day before Sayid broke out of the cell and shot Ben.." he sighed. "I asked her about it, she said.. well.." he frowned.

"She said what?" Sawyer questioned immediately.

"Well.. she said she was going to tell you the next day, I guess everything got so out of hand that.. she just never got the chance to tell you," Miles explained quietly.

Sawyer watched as her eyes met his. Suddenly everything she'd been doing, acting, it all made sense. Until this moment he didn't even know how much he'd lost to the incident at the Swan. He didn't hesitate to head over to her, ignoring the questioning looks people were throwing him as he ignored them. He grabbed her hand and led her with him down the beach, he was only a little surprised that she went with him without any objections.

Juliet allowed him to lead her down the beach away from everyone. She should have known if Miles had ever come back he would tell Sawyer. She just hadn't expected him to come back so soon and she wasn't ready to tell him. Though.. she wasn't sure she ever would have been ready to tell him.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Sawyer questioned immediately, his voice getting a little louder then he meant it to be.

Juliet opened her mouth to respond, but he wasn't sure what to say. So instead she closed her mouth and remained silent as she looked away from him.

"Juliet, look at me," Sawyer told her, trying to get some sort of eye-contact with her now. She was withdrawing, just as she had been doing over and over again since he'd gotten her back. "Why didn't you tell me you were pregnant? Why the hell would you even get off that sub if you knew you were?!"

Juliet flinched slightly in response to his words. She'd been thinking about that the entire time. She never should have gotten off the sub. Never should have agreed with Kate..

Sawyer felt his eyes soften on instinct when she flinched from his words. "Juliet.."

"I.. I don't know.." Juliet whispered in response.

Sawyer frowned and closed his eyes for a moment.

"I was going to tell you.." Juliet admitted. "I wanted to, I planned to tell you after we stopped Jack but.."

Sawyer froze. He had looked at Kate. She had changed her mind. Blow up the bomb.. never meet him.. "You wanted.."

Juliet looked away from him.

"You looked at Kate and I just thought.." she paused. "I just thought that she was what you wanted.. not me.." she admitted, taking a step away from him. "And.. if I had told you.. you would have stayed, I know that.."

"So why didn't you tell me?!" Sawyer asked, getting angrier then he meant to.

"I.. just didn't want to--"

"You didn't want to tell me?" Sawyer questioned.

"No, no!" Juliet stated quickly. He had cut her off before she'd finished her statement. "James.." she muttered.

Sawyer shook his head. "You let go, you let go knowing you and the baby would die!"

Juliet opened her mouth to speak but he had already turned and walked away from her. She took a second before she ran up the beach after him and grabbed his hand. "James wait.. just listen--"

"Let go.." Sawyer stated, yanking his hand from hers and heading away from her. "You never should have gotten off that sub."

"So it's all my fault?" Juliet asked him.

Sawyer dared to glance back at her. He wasn't sure what he was seeing on her face, it was blank, just like old times.. "Yeah.. if you'd stayed on the sub, none of this would have happened."

Juliet was silent now as he turned and walked away from her. She bit down on her lower lip and took a deep breath. She jumped when she felt someone's hand on her shoulder and turned to look, forgetting for a moment she might not be able to see whoever it was. And she couldn't..

"Juliet.."

Juliet knew the voice. It was Rose. "He's right.." she whispered.

Rose shook her head. "No, sweetie.. he's not right," he assured her, watching as Juliet turned to face her, or at least.. tried her best to face her. She gave the blonde props for being able to keep on her feet so much in her condition.

"Everyone heard?"

Rose was about to nod when she remembered Juliet couldn't see her. "Yes.." she admitted. "Juliet, it wasn't your fault, it was no one's fault," she told the younger woman. "He's angry, sure.. he just found out he lost a baby.." she explained.

"I lost everything.." Juliet whispered.

"No, sweetie.." Rose stated, wrapping her arms around her. "You're alive.."

Juliet shook her head. "It's not worth it.." she told Rose. "I can't.. I just can't handle all of this, I need to go back.."

"Go back?" Rose questioned immediately.

"To the Others.. Ben," Juliet told her. "If I don't.. everyone will die."

Rose stared at her in shock. "Don't you dare go back there," she warned her. "You know that's not true.."

"Yes.. it is.." Juliet told her. "I have to keep James safe.. this is the only way I know how.."

Rose watched in shock as Juliet glanced around.

Juliet listened, and heard the ocean behind her which meant one thing. Going forward would be the jungle. She glanced over and watched Sawyer disappear into the distance down the beach and frowned. This was best right? She was going to have to return to Ben to keep him safe. To keep everyone safe if her dream was true.

"Don't.." Rose told her again.

"Just.. tell him I'm sorry, and that I love him?" Juliet requested to Rose.

Rose tried to grab Juliet's hand again, but the blonde was already heading for the jungle.

Miles did the only thing he could think of. He ran after Sawyer immediately. "Jim!!" he called out. "JIM! Get back here!"

"What?" Sawyer questioned out of annoyance, watching Miles come running down the beach calling after him.

"Juliet.. she just--"

"She just what?" Sawyer questioned. Suddenly the worry hit him. He'd just blamed everything on her. "Is she okay? What happened?"

Miles frowned. "She just went off into the jungle.."

"Sonuvabitch!" Sawyer growled out running back quickly.

~*~*~*~

Juliet hadn't gotten far before she heard the whispers again. At least she didn't think she'd gotten very far, she couldn't be sure.

"Run away.. run away.. you're running away."

Juliet listened, for anything else, but the whispers were all that she could hear.

Crack.. crack..

"Run.. run.. run.. they're coming for you."

Juliet felt her heart racing. What the hell was trying to talk to her? What did it want her to do? Run? She heard the first crack beneath footsteps from behind her and she turned but she could see nothing. She glanced in all directions but it didn't help, the only thing it served was to cause her to be unsure which direction she had been going in the first place.

"Hello, Juliet.."

Juliet froze immediately, her head turning in the direction of the voice. She didn't have to see him to know who it was. It was Ben. Taken away.. being taken away.. you're being taken away.

()()TBC()()

Uh-oh.. Well.. Good news?? This was one of the longest chapters of the stories. Other good news? I'm sick, which means.. another update by tomorrow night, because I have nothing better to do! Bad news? I left another cliffhanger.. just not as literal. My bad.