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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
what she really wants, and you know it." She paused and knocked into him gently with her shoulder. "Go talk to her." "Can I ask you a question?" Pacey took a long drink from the bottle and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. "Why is she going?" "What do you mean?" "Well," he continued impatiently, "you're standing here telling me she doesn't want to go. Furthermore, you missed Jack by about twenty minutes, and you know what he was doing?" He met Jen's resigned and somewhat guilty expression with one of triumph. "That's right. He was telling me she doesn't want to go. 'She doesn't want to go with him, Pacey,' that's what Jackers had to say. 'Go talk to her, go tell her not to go, saddle up the white horse and get crackin'.' But, you know, neither one of you has explained to me why, if she doesn't want to go, she's sitting at her house with packed bags and an airline ticket, waiting for Dawson to cart her off to the other side of the country." "You know why. He's safe." Jen took a deep breath and continued. "Her dad died, Pacey. She doesn't know what to do. She doesn't know which end is up." "So, in other words, what you're saying is that the real problem is that her dad died?" "Kind of." "You do realize," he said as he watched a distant boat throw a wake across the water, "that if I go to her house and put into action whatever dramatic scenario you're envisioning in your inventive blonde noggin, and I tell her not to go, and she doesn't go, and she comes with me, her dad will still be dead?" Jen blinked several times. "Sure." "So what then?" When Jen didn't answer, Pacey continued. "What happens then? She's carrying around the fact that her mom died, she's carrying around the fact that her dad died, she's carrying around whatever the fuck it is she has about Dawson not thinking she was pretty when she was thirteen, she's carrying around how much she hates being tall, she's carrying around Bessie and the whole out-of-wedlock thing, she's carrying around being poor . . . there's not one of those things I can fix, and I can't keep getting my head kicked in over it." Jen looked at him incredulously. "You don't have to fix it, Pacey. You make it easier to take. People you love just make those things easier, you know that." "It isn't enough." He took another drink and handed the bottle back. "This is a new boat, Jen, and it's a pretty damn good boat, too. But I put Joey on this boat with the baggage she'd be bringing with her, and I guarantee she'll sink it." He jumped up and went back to work. "I can't believe you're going to let her go because you're too stubborn to go and get her - -"
Page 1: Disclaimers: Nope, don't own them.
Page 5 and 6: Joey suddenly felt the crush of sil
Page 7 and 8: "It was weird," Jen mused. "I reall
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Page 11 and 12: Jack held up his hands in defeat. "
Page 13 and 14: Jack and Jen both turned around to
Page 15 and 16: "Pacey, it's really good to see you
Page 17 and 18: Pacey would spend the next twenty y
Page 19 and 20: "You are not." He grinned again. "A
Page 21 and 22: How sad, she somehow had the time t
Page 23 and 24: he repeated. At this, she smiled, a
Page 25 and 26: *** Joey's mind wandered back to Th
Page 27 and 28: "You did. You thought I didn't want
Page 29 and 30: "Because if you didn't have that lo
Page 31 and 32: "You and I are meant to be, Jo." It
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Page 35 and 36: "No." Joey stared out the window de
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Page 39 and 40: He froze. "Is that the real reason?
Page 41 and 42: "Then why didn't you just get the h
Page 43 and 44: He wanted to take it back. It was t
Page 45 and 46: "Hello?" "Jen?" "Pacey?" "Yeah, yea
Page 47 and 48: "I'm crazy about you, Lindley, you
Page 49 and 50: This was a development Dawson hadn'
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"Well," Dawson said, picking up his
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"Thank you." He tossed the messages
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"What happened?" She leaned forward
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"And eventually she made the last a
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Jen suddenly could hear herself bre
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"Well, I'm proud of you." For some
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He scratched his head. "Well, I'm n
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"And how is the blushing bride?" Pa
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Pacey narrowed his eyes. "You'd rat
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on her brave face and tried to pull
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it's the perfect moment if you were
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"Have I ever told you that I find e
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"This is taking more than five minu
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They both laughed, low and throaty,
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Jen swallowed hard. "And you're tel
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She closed her eyes again, and list
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He put his feet on the coffee table
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"Joey?" Jen put a hand on Joey's ar
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inadvertent right cross. Seeing him
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"The buddy. The friend. The famous
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But not me, she thought with a nost
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them, sweeping them into something
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didn't need me as the best friend,
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"I feel bad," he said simply. "I fe
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He leaned over and brushed his lips
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She turned to look at him again, st
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Jen reached into the car through th
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"You never will, either. Just anoth
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The West coast had the sand and the
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"Me, too." She hit the button, drop
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"Yes." She nodded slowly. "I was fe
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Jen's eyes widened. "It -- it doesn
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One of Pacey's eyes popped open. "I
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day reminding himself -- in a way t
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