Someday Never Comes

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Title:  Someday Never Comes
Rating: 15 (to be safe)
Summary: Kate wakes up handcuffed to Juliet in the jungle and is about to get more than she bargined for. Jack is gone and the camp will have to get used to a new doctor. What will Sawyer do when Kate brings Juliet back to camp and inststs no one lay a hand on her.
Words: 1,962
Spoilers: Up to Left Behind and on but what happend is different
Characters/Pairings: Mostly Kate & Juliet but others will feature, more so in future chapters.
Disclaimer: I do not own lost or anything else mentioned in this fic. However this fic is of may creation and i do own the original storylines in it.

 

Sunlight was harsh on my drug weary eyes when they trembled open. Slowly the jungle canopy above came into focus from a blurry green to just less than sharp but clear enough to make out that I was no longer in the Other’s village. My head spun as I sat. Too quickly the jungle around me was reduced back to a green smear. A weight on my wrist made me twist, again too quickly. I cursed myself as I waited for the world for the third time come back into focus on a pale figure slumbering beside me. My brain couldn’t recall the name of the blond but I knew who she was. As I looked down her arm coming towards my own I noticed that we were bound by the metal that had bound me on the plane. My mind was blank to it’s name though a second later it came to me, handcuffs. It couldn’t be more than 10 seconds since I had woken up but my mind was beginning to clear. The handcuffs and my dazed state suggested that Juliet, that was her name, was probably not asleep but still suffering from whatever that gas was that had knocked me out.

A sharp pain shot through my throat, the kind of pain you get from running or cycling until you get out of breath. I coughed impulsively but immediately regretted it as the pain had gone from running for too long to days without water. I closed my eyes and pulled my arms to my chest as the pain rippled through my body. That was mistake number 2, the jolt of my arms jerked Juliet awake and I was in no fit state to defend myself if she attacked. I kept my eyes shut tight but instead of a punishing fist I felt the gentle comfort of a hand on my shoulder.

“Kate” her voice was scratchy and quiet. When I didn’t reply she repeated it adding “what’s wrong?”

I had to laugh was she really asking that sounding concerned when only days ago she had held a gun to me. My eyes opened slowly, looking onto her face. I didn’t know what to do. Should I reply? Trying to run away was pointless as we were literally bound so replying seemed the only option.

“You gassed me!” I rasped

“I was making a cup of tea; a canister came though the window. When I got to the door it was locked and I was unconscious before I reached the window.” She sounded sincere but I still didn’t trust her after all she was one of them. Why would they leave her behind? I asked her, but instead of answering she turned so that her back was facing me and lifted up her shirt to reveal her lower back. I gasped as I stared at the burn scar. It was as though she had been branded, a sign telling everyone who she was. It looked recent. Still red around the edges and swollen, the scar was in the shape of a symbol I had never seen before. It looked like the kind of symbol you see in sci-fi films, old like a lost language but with a new age twist. Juliet spoke again “After you and Sawyer escaped…” she paused “They strapped me to the table and pushed white hot metal on my back. They know that I let you escape, that I killed Danny.” She took a deep breath “They put me on trial. I was to be executed until some genius worked out that they needed me alive. I was the only doctor they had.” She smirked, it was phoney and that was effortless to see. “But they still punished me. I’ve been under 24 hour supervision since then. I guess they got sick of me.

“Why did you do it?” I asked “Why did you let us escape?” She told me of Mittelos Bioscience, Rachel, her three years on the island and all the women who had died in her care. She told me how she wanted to leave and would do anything to get home just like us.

“Why did I let you escape? Because I thought maybe that if I helped that you might find a way to get home and that maybe I would get to go home to.” She sounded sincere. “They stole three years of my life and now they’ve just thrown me out like trash. Now that they have a new doctor… a surgeon. I am no longer of use apparently.” She was bitter.

My mind whirled back to my conversation with John Locke. When I had asked about Jack he had told me that Jack was going with them, that he had found a purpose. I hadn’t believed him but there I was in the jungle with no Jack. Where should I go from there? Return to camp without their leader and strapped to an Other?  If I didn’t return where would I go? I could go after Jack but he seemed to have made his mind up.

“Come on” I stood up “We’re going to my camp and then we can get these stupid cuffs off.” Juliet smiled all the way to her eyes. “This doesn’t mean that I trust you or that you’ll be one of us. It just means that I’m going there and that I seem to have no choice but to bring you.” Her smile fell.

We had been walking for abut an hour in silence when it started to rain. It was already getting dark and soon we would not be able to see a thing. Within five minutes we sat soaked in a thicket that sheltered us from most of the rain’s ferocity. We had barely sat down when I heard it. It was the thing the smoke… monster? Whatever it was it was close. I heard it’s scream first then the breaking of trees and bushes. I felt Juliet tense by side.

“What is it?” she strained. When I didn’t answer she rephrased, only this time louder. “Kate, what the hell…” I covered her mouth and shushed her before she could finish. A crunch of trees and a scream close enough to us that all I could see beyond the thicket was smoke. A bright light flashed on and off 3 times before the creature screamed and then disappeared. We sat perfectly still for what seemed like an eternity before I dared to remove my hand from silencing Juliet. “Is it gone?” she whispered.

 “How the hell should I know?!” I almost shouted “You’re telling me that you’ve never seen that before?”

“No!” she protested. I snorted. “What you don’t believe me! Incase you hadn’t noticed Kate I wasn’t exactly kept in the loop back with Ben and I am apparently now disposable enough to throw away with a wanted murderer. So no Kate I don’t know what it is but I do know that I haven’t shown an inch of distrust to you. You who are one of the most wanted women in America!”

“You locked me in a cage and watched me break rocks all day, you but a bag over my head and held me at gun point! So please tell me Juliet what exactly it is about my past encounters with you that suggest that I trust you!” We were both shouting now.

“Well that’s kind of tuff Kate because it seems as though you’re stuck with me at least until we get back to the beach. So can we stop shouting at each other and just get on with it!” she was breathing heavy when she finished. She looked like she was on the edge and in the confined space I wasn’t about to push her over it. I sat back against the tree behind me and took a deep breath as I saw her start to relax.

“Sorry” I whispered “I just can’t believe that Jack would go with them. What could they possibly offered him that would make him leave us?”

“Freedom” she sounded lungful “The offered him freedom. As soon as Ben if fully recovered and given the all clear they will let him go home.”

“Oh” I had to wonder if I would have taken the offer, I probably would. “We better get some sleep. Then we can set off at first light.” Juliet nodded.

I woke with a start to daylight and birds singing. I pulled myself up from my slumped position and rubbed my eyes.

“Good morning” she was smiling and it showed with a lilting in her voice. “In the three years I’ve been here I haven’t seen a more beautiful morning, but them again I have never seen the sun rise from the middle of the jungle before”

I smiled back “We should get going if we want to make the beach by midday.” I stood up slowly as the handcuffs were proving a logistical problem. After walking for about 4 hours only engaging in small talk Juliet broke the light air.

“I’m scared, Kate.”

“Why?” I was confused by her sudden honesty. I had never pegged her as the kind of girl who wears her heart on her sleeve and pours it out to someone she barely knew.

“I’m one of them, or at least I was, but I still will be to them. Sawyer… Sawyer… he won’t welcome me. I’m scared of what he will do and Sayid too. He blames us for Shannon’s death.”

“How do you know about Shannon?” I stopped walking and looked at her “We hear things and we know all about you all. For example, Kate Austen, you grew up in Iowa with your Mom and Dad. Your Mom and Dad broke up and then your step Dad moved in, he hit your Mom so you killed him leaving your Mom with the insurance money. You’ve been on the run since you’re Mom gave you up and you then found out that the man you killed was actually your biological father and it made you sick to the stomach. Going back to your high school you loved biology and English literature you got an A in both but your other studies brought your GPA down.”

“So you know a lot then” I was embarrassed and annoyed, not at Juliet but at the invasion of privacy that the others had so readily engaged in.

“I know everything Kate” she looked me straight in the eye. It was about an hour before either of us spoke again.

“We’re nearly there” I muttered, Juliet acknowledged that I’d spoke but barely.

“Kate, can I ask you something?” she turned to me as we walked “How have you been feeling since you and Sawyer escaped the other island?”

“Why?” why would she be asking that and why would she even care

“You could be pregnant”

“I’m not!” I laughed, it was fake and I think she could tell. I hadn’t even considered it, not even after Juliet had told me why she was brought to the island.

“There’s a medical station not far from here. Will you let me find out for sure?”

I was terrified by the thought that something inside of me could be killing me slowly, it was like having a tumor but one that would be born and grow up and love. I did want kids, a long time ago but that had all changed when I went on the run. I couldn’t possibly raise a child in that environment. I had to find out if I was going to die, I had to find out if I would ever get off this island so I agreed and we went west.