It was already past midnight and James tried his best not to worry over Juliet's absence. He understood that it was a hard decision for her and she needed her time to come to peace with all these things. After all it wasn't easy for him to watch Miles slowly drifting away from him, either, and he was just his friend not a family member, not his kid. He remembered how it felt for him to give up the hope to see Clem again (or for the first time in his case) and he wish Juliet wouldn't have had to face such a thing. But David didn't belong there and they didn't belong here, no matter what that 'here' was and she had to understand that.
All James could do for now was waiting for her to return and in the mean time trying to understand their present predicament and what that meant for their future.
"As if all that time traveling shit wasn't already enough" He muttered once again trying to solve the puzzle he had on his hands.
Two set of memories. One death. Feeling of disappearance from other's lives.
It had given him only huge headache without any real answer. Looked like he had to wait for Juliet and see what she could get out of that. After all she was a brainiac in their family while he preferred to act instead of thinking and researching. Maybe it was what he should have done now, stop waiting and start looking for others with memories of the Island. But where should he start? It could be any of plane crash survivors, people from freighter or worse Others. Should he start to look for his friends or his enemies?
"What a good thing, I'm a cop here. " He smiled in anticipation.
James grabbed a paper and wrote out all names he could remember. It shouldn't be hard enough to find them on the condition they hadn't changed their names and he doubted the majority of them had any reasons for that. Only criminals would choose to do that and there weren't so much of them on his list, sans commandos of course. And Kate.
"Shit!"
Kate was the one he had arrested that day. Then there was Sayid. Maybe he shouldn't have left criminals out of the plate yet. And why the hell hadn't he thought about them before? Was it one more effect of this crazy world or just his own stupidity?! There were too many questions for his liking and he was going to change that. If he was fortunate Juliet would join him soon enough.
James was still worried out of his mind for her being there somewhere on her own but now he had a plan for tomorrow and it felt good.
A/N: Now I'm really going somewhere with this story instead of just picturing what that could be for James and Juliet. Though it doesn't mean there won't be short fluffy chapters anymore.
GencoOliveOil. I think you can see where it's leading ;) After all both of them aren't past their insecurities and you need to leave everything aside before moving on.
Juliet Rocks, I hope he won't be that big of a problem, but I think he deserved to be mentioned. After all it can't be that easy for her to throw everything away just because.