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part one: run
Pacey squinted at a smear of blood on his finger. He'd opened up the same fucking
blister he'd been swearing about for two weeks. He put down the sandpaper and
reached into the metal bucket he was using for a toolbox. One Band-Aid left. He heard
footsteps on the dock just as he finished wrapping the strip around his finger.
"Hey, Pace." It was Jen, of course. It was always Jen when he had just gotten through
doing something stupid, and it was especially always Jen when he was in no mood to be
incisively analyzed.
"Hey, Lindley. Wandering aimlessly in hopes of being captured by an eligible pirate?"
"No," she said, smiling a little. "I came to talk to you."
He nodded. "Okay. What's up?" He knew what was up.
There was a long and uncomfortable silence. Suddenly, after spending what felt like
long minutes unable to speak, Jen seemed to be saying about three things at the same
time. "Look, you know why I'm here, and we don't have to talk about it if you don't want
to, but I just think this is crazy, and I don't want to deal with you all year while you
mumble about regrets, and I don't think I have to tell you that --"
"Does this have something to do with Joey?" He stopped sanding and dropped down to
sit on the dock with his legs dangling over the edge. "Because I'm guessing that it
does."
"You know she's leaving. This is the day they leave, the moment of truth, the point of no
return." Jen sat down next to him. "She's going to be gone, you know. It's real."
He opened a bottle of beer and gave Jen the first shot at it. "Look, I appreciate what
you're trying to do here," he said, "but you can't really think I'm going to go down there
and make a scene at her house. Beg her to stay, put on a show, try to pry her out of
Dawson's clutches? Give him a boot to the forehead and grab her and run? It ain't
gonna happen, sister, so you can forget it. Besides, who am I to deprive her of the
college experience?"
"This isn't about the college experience, Pacey. She doesn't want to go. You know what
she's been like since you two broke up. I mean, sure, Dawson's doing his whole
wunderkind ex machina thing, emerging at the last minute to bail her out. But it isn't