It takes almost the whole day and we're striding back into camp. Everyone is ecstatic to see Jack, back safe and sound. Sayid, Kate, and I even receive some grateful hugs for bringing him back. No one even seems to notice Juliet until Sawyer opens his big mouth. "What the hell is she doing here?" he yells and the whole camp turns their heads in her direction, staring her down.

That night a large group of us stands at the kitchen, discussing our new camp member. Everyone but Jack is less than thrilled.

"Who is she? What does she do for them?" Sayid asks Jack.

"She's their fertility doctor. And she wants off this Island just as much as we do. Ben's kept her here like a prisoner. We can trust her."

"Trust her? She's one of them," Sun accuses.

"Not anymore. They left her behind."

"Oh yeah, where'd they go?" asks Charlie.

"I told you, I don't know."

"Well maybe we better ask her," Sawyer suggests.

"She doesn't know either."

"Well here's a wacky idea. Let's stick our resident Iraqi on her. Let him do what he does, then see what she says."

"No, I don't do that anymore," Sayid says next to me, from the kitchen table.

"Well ain't that convenient," Sawyer says bitterly.

"But I don't trust her, Jack," Sayid continues. "If she's so innocent, why won't she answer my questions?"

"Just give her some time, she's afraid."

"How much time does she need?" I ask.

"Look, the fact that I trust her should be enough."

"Yeah, well it's not."

"Where did Locke go?" Desmond asks.

"He went with them," Jack tells him. "Right after he destroyed the sub, the sub that was gonna take me off this Island."

The camp exchanges mutters of surprise. "They were gonna let you go?" Sawyer asks.

"Yeah."

"Said who?"

"Ben."

"Ben. Whose life you saved."

"Sawyer, lay off," Kate says, speaking up for the first time.

"You should have let that bug-eyed bastard die," Sawyer says, ignoring her.

"He did it for us," Kate pleads with Sawyer.

"Sounds like he did it for him."

"James."

"Something you wanna ask me, Sawyer?" Jack says.

"Yeah Jack, I wanna ask you why you're fighting every one of us and sticking up for one of them."

"Look I spent every moment over there trying to find a way off this Island. I was trying to help all of us. I was trying to get us rescued."

"Jack!" Charlie shouts from the edge of the group. "There's something wrong with Claire!"

Charlie is supporting Claire's body as she coughs into her hand. Her face is soon covered in blood from her mouth. Jack runs over and helps Charlie carry her back to her tent. "Put her head back. Let's get her up. How long's she been like this?"

"She started feeling bad this morning," Charlie says.

"Before she got back, was she showing any symptoms at all?"

"No she was fine."

"What about water, has she been drinking enough water?"

"I think so, yeah."

Jack starts working on Claire, Charlie by their side. Juliet comes out of nowhere. "What happened to her?"

Jin says something terse in Korean. "He said, what do you care?" Sun translates rudely.

Jack tells everyone to back off so I start to head back to my tent. "Tia! I need your help," Juliet calls to me, running up. "I need you to go and get Jack."

"Yeah, he's a little occupied right now."

"Please I have to talk to him."

"Why?"

"Because I think I know what's wrong with Claire."

"How?" I ask, confused.

"Because I did it to her."

It takes all of my willpower not to rip out her hair. "You better be lying, or so help me god…"

"Please, Tia. Please, just get Jack."

I look back toward Claire's tent and Jack has left it, looking defeated. "Fine," I say to her. "Let's go get him."

She leads the way and I catch Sayid's eye and wink at him as we get closer to Jack. We reach him and she starts to explain herself. "Claire's immune system is turning on her. She's having a latent reaction to a medication in her bloodstream."

"What medication?" Jack asks.

"It was designed to keep her alive during the late stages of her pregnancy."

"Designed by who?"

"By me," she says, sighing. "For some reason, the women here can't have babies. The mother's body turns on the pregnancy, treats it as a foreign invader. I saw it happen over and over. Every pregnant woman on this Island died. That is, every pregnant woman until Claire."

"What did you do to her?"

"One of our people infiltrated your camp, and began taking blood samples, right after your plane crashed."

"You mean Ethan," I say.

Juliet nods. "Even though Claire didn't conceive on this Island, we found that her symptoms were consistent with previous mothers so we tried to save her life."

"By kidnapping her?"

"No! That wasn't supposed to happen. She was our control case. I had developed a serum that I thought would reverse what was happening to her. Ethan was administering the injections. But then, you found out that he wasn't on the plane. So, he improvised. He kidnapped her, on his own. That was never the plan." Jack and I stand there in silence, staring at her. "Look, I know how this sounds," she continues. "But without those injections, Claire would have died. Without the serum, she's going into a form of withdrawal, and if I don't treat her quickly, her immune system could shut down entirely. Jack! I can fix this. I just need the serum. Ethan kept a stash of medical supplies near the caves where you used to live. If I go right now I can be back before it's too late."

"Do it. Get moving," Jack tells her.

Juliet goes back to her small amount of possessions and starts to get ready.

"Jack," I say. "It's almost dawn. Claire's been like this for a whole day. How does something like this just hit a person?"

"If what she says is true, about the pregnancies, we can trust her completely. Like I said, she's a fertility doctor."

"Oh, you better hope she was lying about the pregnancies. Least you forget our friend Sun, who is currently with child."

"You really think that would slip my mind?"

"I don't know, Jack. But right now, you sure are acting like your mind is on a slip. How could you just let her come back here? If you're really trying to protect her, you had to know bringing her here, with all of these angry people couldn't have been the best choice."

"I thought you all would trust my judgment."

"I never have, and you know that. You're not an idiot. So what makes you think I would trust you on this?"

"What did I ever do to make you hate me so much?" he asks.

"You made a promise you couldn't keep," I say with venom. "Boone might have let you off the hook, but I never did."

I walk away and the sun starts to rise. I see Juliet filling a water bottle, getting ready to leave.

Sayid and Sawyer walk up to me. "Why did you wink?" Sayid asks.

"Because, I might have said she's different from most of them, but that doesn't mean I trust her. And I certainly don't trust Jack."

"Glad we're all on the same page," Sawyer says. "Back on the other island, that blonde bitch threatened to kill Kate the moment I found a chance to escape. And she would have done it too. I watched her gun down one of her own, no mercy in her eye. She's a bad apple."

"Then I guess we can't let her run off into the jungle all on her own," I say.

"Well, Brown Eyes that would be positively irresponsible of us wouldn't it?"

"I guess we have a plan then."

"She's leaving," Sayid says. "Let's go."