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~~I don't know, Kate. Are you?~~

Tiger don't change its stripes.

~~Maybe if I have a reason.~~

I don't think you're the first person to tell me that.

~~Gotcha. Ain't enough that I offered to risk pissin' off Mr. Clean and keep you safe.~~

I wasn't tellin' you. I was remindin' myself. Makin' sure I don't make the same mistake twice.

I already told you all I needed to about that.

I guess you can finally say freely that I was nothing more than a notch on your belt, right? Is that how it goes?

~~And I still ain't buyin it.~~

You see it how you wanna see it, Kate. Lie to yourself to make it feel like you did the right thing. I ain't gonna stop ya.

~~That's not my problem if you don't. I'm not going to force you.~~

Because everything is just one big lie to me, James. Yeah, you're right on the dot with that one.

Well, pardon me, little miss honesty. I must have just imagined you hidin' that you were a fugitive and tryin' to get on that raft. Or pretendin' that you gave a damn about me when really, all you wanted to do was piss Jack off for playin' Romeo with Juliet. Hope that bed you made for yourself was nice and warm, Freckles, 'cause you're the one choosin' to lie in it, not me.

Like you told me a while ago, if I'm going to use you then why not just tell you straight rather than lie to you in your face? You can assume whatever you want, James. I don't care anymore.

So you admit it then?

You know what? It's alright. You do what you gotta do. Run. Go cry on Jack's shoulder about how I did you wrong.

~~Just know that it ain't ever gonna change how I feel about you. I hope you know that. Even if you lie to yourself about it.~~

*very quiet* You take care, Freckles.

I'm just repeating what you so happily assumed, Sawyer. You'd think that backhanding you would give you that incredible assumption that Jack wasn't something you should have boughten up at all - out of all things that we were discussing.

I'm not coming back. I want you to know that.

~~You're right. I really hate it when you do that.~~

Yep. I know.

Admit it. It wasn't all bad.

Stop what?