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[bliss_immunity]

Continued from Operating Room Unveiling

Will you walk me home? is a request he can certainly handle. So he nods and replies, "Sure."

He's at a loss for conversation so he just walks quietly with her.

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[blondieburke.livejournal.com]

God, she feels like she's sixteen, admitting a secret crush, and right at this moment she wouldn't mind disappearing and reappearing anywhere else on the island, even Dino territory.

"I don't want to over step or come between whatever it is you and Carolyn have, I'm sorry..."

[blissimmunity.livejournal.com]

"Carolyn ... and I? You don't want to come between our friendship?" He's trying to follow whatever it is she's saying.

"Juliet, what's this about?"

[blondieburke.livejournal.com]

She looks just as shocked as he sounds, and she looks up at him in surprise. "You're just friends?" She'd thought for sure that there was something else there.

[blissimmunity.livejournal.com]

"You thought something else was going on?" He's quiet for a moment and then he laughs. "I ... I've never had anything other than friendships and professional relationships. I'm flattered you thought that though."

[blondieburke.livejournal.com]

"You do understand that I just said I like you, right?" she asks with a slight frown, because she's sure he didn't.

[blissimmunity.livejournal.com]

His smile lasts for a few moments after she speaks and then fades rather quickly. "What? You don't mean as in you enjoy my companionship or even in a platonic way, do you?"

And then he's back pedaling even further. "Don't answer that actually." And he's set aside his cup and he's standing and shaking his head. "You know. You know what. Maybe I should go."

"I should go," he says decisively, though he hesitates a moment before actually going.

[blondieburke.livejournal.com]

Juliet's so shocked by this reaction, because it isn't what she expected, and now she really feels like shit.

"Joshua, don't, I'm not, I didn't..." She takes a deep breath and tries again.

"Please don't go. I didn't even mean for it to come out like that...or...at all. But I do want your help. I need your help."

[blissimmunity.livejournal.com]

"Listen, I'll help you. Don't worry about that. Just don't like me. Not like that."

"I'm sorry. It's... just... not a good time. I'm..." He closes his eyes for a moment because suddenly this has turned into a train wreck with him actually trying to run away from her. And only half of it has to do with his past and none of it has to do with her.

"I have to go," he repeats again, opening his eyes. This time he does go, but not back to his hut. He goes for a long walk to clear his head and try to figure out what just happened and how he'd lost it so badly just then.

[blondieburke.livejournal.com]

Juliet feels like an ass, because she hadn't meant for anything to go down like that, she hadn't even meant to tell him anything. And now she's just afraid it will be awkward - who is she kidding, it will be, and she buries her face in her hands.

She'll just give him space, she decides. If he ever feels like talking to her again, things will work out.