Subject, Predicate

Author's Note: I'm stunned by the response to this, and I'm so glad you have enjoyed it! Undoubtedly, I'll do another set in the future. These are too fun to pass up. :) Also, since most of you told me your favorites, I'll tell you mine: from the first set, my favorites are Wishing and Belief; from this set, my favorites are Sorrow and Horizon. Be sure to tell me yours as well!

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1 Sentence Challenge [50/50]

[26] Jump

She hangs one foot off the dock, barely dips a toe in the water, and commences shaking in her vehemently; James yells at her from the water, trying to convince her that it will be easier if she just takes the leap, and she knows he's right about more than just the water.

[27] Jester

Miles is always good for a laugh, but never more than the day he asks Juliet on a date, and James' face when she agrees.

[28] Jousting

He could spend the whole day teasing her, and what he loves is that she will always have something to throw back at him.

[29] Jewel

He's sitting on the front porch, humming some song and bobbing his head right along, until she comes out, stands silently for a while, and then asks, incredulously, "Are you humming Jewel?"

[30] Just

"You're supposed to protect everyone equally!" she shouts as he steps out the door, but he turns around and gives her a look that tells her she better not step outside the house until he gets back, and she doesn't.

[31] Smirk

He sits on the kitchen counter and watches her with a bemused smirk as she attempts to flip the pancakes without a spatula, and when she successfully does so, she glances at his surprised expression and tells him that his face will stick that way.

[32] Sorrow

She sits on the dock, looking out over an ocean that she knows she will never cross, but she doesn't feel the overwhelming sadness she once felt, because she knows that behind her, she has a home, a job, a life, and a future.

[33] Stupidity

"It's just common sense!" she scolds as she pulls them off and places them by the door, doing a Vanna White production of showing him, to which he smiles and replies, "Sorry, sweet cheeks, but if you pull that again, one of those boots will be up your ass," in such a way that instead of being offended, she bursts out laughing.

[34] Serenade

He's sitting on the couch when she walks out in her pajamas, hair still wet and pulled up into a bun, and he looks back at her with a grin and says, "Thanks for that brilliant rendition of 'Downtown'."

[35] Sarcasm

When she burns the cornbread and serves him tepid soup beans, she's sure that he's just being sarcastic when he pulls her into his lap and tells her that it's the best meal he's ever had.

[36] Sordid

He always leaves the toilet seat up, never leaves his boots at the door, never puts any of his dirty clothes into the hamper, and, to her, basically exhibits the worse possible aspects of mankind, but despite all this, she can't live without him.

[37] Soliloquy

Sometimes he talks to himself, and she listens outside his bedroom door for as long as he does, hoping that he's not actually talking to Kate, and hoping that one day, he'll mention her name, and to her surprise, one day he does, but only to say, "Juliet, I know you're out there."

[38] Sojourn

They lay together in bed and he trails his hand up her arm, wondering how two weeks turned to two years, and he wants nothing more than to read her mind, hoping that she plans to stay forever in this little niche they've found.

[39] Share

James catches Miles staring at Juliet one day, and he takes the other man by the arm and says, "Listen, I'm not very good at sharing," and although he was attempting to be menacing, Miles continues to stare, then states, "And neither am I."

[40] Solitary

One night, he finds her in her bedroom crying and stands in her doorway for a while before she waves him away, because she's not sure she can take it if she lets him get any closer.

[41] Nowhere

"Why didn't you get on the sub?" he asks one day, but she can't give him a straight answer, because he'd never believe that it's because there is nowhere she'd rather be than where she already is.

[42] Neutral

Whenever they fight, it's Jin they both go to, and he never speaks badly about either one of them, only listens to their stubborn rants, and that's probably why they go, because he doesn't know enough English to talk them out of it.

[43] Nuance

Everything's still the same when they finally get together; they still argue, they still tease each other, but it's like having the same sweater in a different color: the color makes all the difference.

[44] Near

She's like a human space-heater, and despite all his attempts to get away from her in the night, he still wakes up sweating, with her pressed against his back, knees in the back of his, but he wouldn't change it for anything.

[45] Natural

She must not be a natural blonde, because she almost never does or says anything stupid, and so he spends most of his days trying to find one thing to tease her about, but he'd never tell her how hard it really is.

[46] Horizon

He wraps one arm around her, and her head drops to his shoulder and they wait; when the sun finally creeps up, he hears her snoring softly, and he has to carry her back to the Dharma van, all the while muttering that he'll never do anything romantic for her again.

[47] Valiant

It takes everything he can muster to get her to stay home when there's a security alert, and when he asks her why, she blushes and says, "Because no one out there has your back."

[48] Virtuous

He doesn't know why he started wondering what Juliet would think of him, and he doesn't know how that this woman he started out hating, this woman with a dark past to rival his own, made him want to be a better man.

[49] Victory

There's no one he'd rather tell about his promotion, so he goes straight to the motor pool where she's working, and when he tells her, she does some silly little dance for him, and he rolls his eyes and tries to play it off, but he's happy she's proud of him.

[50] Defeat

"You owe me 1000 dollars," she says exuberantly, and he sighs: he's already given her all his money and half his property, so he throws over the last of his property cards and hums Taps as he removes the little car from the board.