Note: Edited by Zia Westerman 11/4/2017

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Planet: Earth

Location: Camp Jameson

"Jewels, I'm so sorry for what I did to you," I heard him say, I could feel him stroking my cheek with his fingers, but I could not do anything. I could not open my eyes nor move my body, I felt broken and trapped.

"I'm sorry if I hurt you, I never meant to do that, Jewels. I-I don't know if you can hear me, but what happened between Lucy and me won't ever happen again. I'm done with her for good." I felt him press a kiss to my forehead, my cheek, my neck then his warm breath fanned across my face before his lips landed on mine. He pulled away quickly and said, "I wish you would just wake up, I miss you, everyone does."

"James! How many times have I told you? Stop walking around, there's nothing you can do to help the girl so help yourself and rest," Tom's voice sounded distant as if he was yelling across the room.

"I want to be here when she wakes," James replied, and I felt him hold my hand and then a soft kiss was placed on my knuckles. "Besides just because you're the doctor, I'm also your boss, remember?"

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I did not remember falling asleep, it was all darkness.

I felt a different hand grab my own, our fingers intertwined. "I don't know how much longer I can last without knowing the truth." It was Jeremy, his voice was so gentle but it was filled with concern.

"I just want to know what happened, James said you didn't shoot him. But Lucy says you did," he released a sigh, his grip tightening on my hand. "I need you to wake up, I need to know."

"Time's up."

My hand fell from Jeremy's grasp, the bed slightly bounced signalling he had stood up. "Yeah I know, doc, I want to be the first person to know when she's awake."

"Geez, why don't you and James just bunk in her room? Would save me trouble." A chuckle erupted from Tom's throat. "Alright, I'll send word."

"Thanks." I could feel Jeremy's thumb glide along my right cheekbone, his breath hitting my ear as he whispered, "I miss you Jewels, come back to me."

*****

Time felt so differently when you cannot open your eyes and are surrounded by darkness, you are aware of the things that happen around you. The cold of the night and the heat of the day, the different smells lingering in the air around you. But you cannot tell how quickly the time has gone.

James and Jeremy visited me often, they would stay what felt like hours but could have only been minutes. But that seemed long ago, I recently have not been visited by either.

My thoughts drifted back to my mother, who did she mean by 'him?' Who was him? James? Jeremy? Even Mick or Brett.

But I would not know who he was because I did not know these feelings, they were new to me.

When James had first eaten my lips—kissed me, it felt differently than how I expected it to be. The way they felt against my lips, the feeling deep in the pit of my stomach.

This did not matter because the Zutorian's were coming, they would destroy everything. They would take this world by force, they would exterminate all humans who would not accept them as Earth's new rulers. Zutorian's did not know love, they only knew hatred and the thirst for war flows through their veins.

"Jewels," I felt the bed dip and a hand falls on my chest. "Jewels, please open your eyes, babe."

There was one man who called me that, I knew this was James.

"Open your eyes, please," he pleaded, hand moving from my chest to my cheek. "I need to tell you how sorry I am in person, I need your forgiveness—"

"Oh, my god, James? You're seriously falling for her?" Lucy, I heard her voice and it made the anger in me surface. "Forget about her."

"No! I need to forget about you," he snapped, his hand now wrapped around my own. "What happened between us is long over, Lucy, I don't know why I—"

"Why do you keep coming back to me? Because you can't resist me, James, you never could resist a woman that will offer herself to you," she said bitterly. "That's why you cheated on me, over and over, but I kept having you back."

"Lucy—"

"No, you're playing a dangerous game, James. She's dangerous, can't you see that? Or are you too blinded by your feelings for her?

"She's not dangerous, Lucy."

"Yeah? She shot you!"

James's hand tightened around mine as he said, "Lucy, she didn't even have a bloody gun! How could she—" there was a short pause before a gasp left his throat, "unless—it was you! You shot me?"

"What? How could you say that? I would never hurt you!"

"That's a lie and you know it," he bit back. "Leave, Lucy, leave my sight before—"

"Before what? You take me against a wall ag—"

His hand falls from mine and then there was the sound of skin hitting skin, followed by Lucy yelling, "You slapped me? You actually hit me!"

"I told you to leave, so leave! NOW!" James raised his voice. I could hear Lucy scoff but she did not reply then I heard footsteps that faded.

It was silent for a while, I was scared that James had left but then I felt the bed dip once more and he grabbed my hand with both of his. "I'm so sorry." A sob fell from his lips. "I'm such an idiot!" he growled, and I felt him place a kiss on the back of my hand. "I'm such a bloody idiot! I'm happy you don't feel the same way I do, Jewels." My hand was dropped and the bed moves, I hear him suck in a hard breath and then the sound of his feet hitting the floor.

"I don't deserve you."

I was scared he was going to leave, I was so scared of being alone. I did not want to be alone anymore, I did not want to feel unwanted on this planet, I did not want to feel scared.

"J—James ..." I was surprised when his name left my lips and my eyes finally fluttered open. I turned my head to the left to find James standing with his back to me, his body was tensed and hands were formed into fists. I was unsure if he heard me. "J—James," I said a little louder.

His body tensed even more, his head slowly turns and when his hazel eyes locked with mine something flashed in them, something I could not explain.

"Jewels?"

I smiled weakly at him, he returned my smile and in a matter of seconds he was at my side taking my hands in his. "Oh, my god, Jewels, I—" He blinked rapidly, his gaze falling to my lips.

I sucked in a large amount of air as he leant in, my hands fall from his and snake around his neck, pulling him to me, our lips connecting.

He sighed against me, his lips moving in sync with my own as he brings his hands to my face and cups it. Tilting his head to the side, he deepens the kiss but then pulls away and leant his forehead against mine. "You're awake," he said, but frowns. "I'm so sorry, Jewels."

"James, I know." After hearing everything he had said to me and telling me how he felt, it was my time to tell him how I feel and that I had forgiven him. "James, I—"

"She's awake?"

James pulled away from me. I noticed how he winced and holds his chest. "Yeah, she just woke up."

Tom appeared behind James. "Good, but I'm going to ask you to leave."

"What?" James spun his head around, narrowing his eyes at Tom. "Under whose orders?"

"Jeremy's." Lucy appeared behind Tom, a smirk plastered on her lips. "While Jeremy is away on a raid with Mick and with you still injured, Jeremy has placed me in charge. And I want her out!"

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