Disclaimer: You really wanna read it over? If that's what you're really into, then go back to Chapter 1. Otherwise, on with the story!
Author's note: Hello again! I hope you're all pleased with this next chapter. I don't know if there is a student health center at Worthington, but it being a college and all, I'm assuming so. Any other characters other than the regular cast are of my own creation. Got it? Good. And let me know what you think please! Review or write to me at: note #2: Just a little FYI for the story, words italicized indicates character's thoughts. Hope that helps!
Summary: With college, work and a broken heart to take care of, Joey has enough to deal with in her life. But when an unexpected reminder of Dawson and Joey's one night together arises, things will change, unsaid words will finally be spoken, and fate will go to show that some lives are just forever entwined.
Spoilers: set after Instant Karma!
Rating: PG-13/R, for language and sensual descriptions, depending on the chapter.
Forever Entwined
Chapter 2
(Set 1 week later after Chapter 1)
"Joey! C'mon Joey, Get up already!"
"Uhhh, go away Audrey, I feel like crap already; don't make it any worse." Joey muttered as she lazily lifted an arm up to swat her pesky roommate away. Audrey, being the stubborn woman she was, just got up and yanked the comforter off of Joey.
"Hey! Give that back for God's sake, I don't bother you when you're sleeping in!" Joey dragged herself off of the bed and over to Audrey, ready to fight with all she had, which at the moment, given the fact that she wasn't quite up to par, wasn't much. But hey, hell hath no fury like a sick woman disturbed from her sleep.
"No way, sister. You are getting up, getting properly dressed and getting your sick ass to the student health center, you understand?" Audrey continued on as she dropped the blanket back on Joey's bed and headed over to the closet. "And I am not taking no for an answer. Joey, you have been sick as hell this past week. You can't keep a single meal down, you get dizzy now just from staring at a portrait, you sleep 20 hours of the day and while you're like this, it's making it a hell of a time for you-."
"Ok, Audrey! If I go, will you please just shut up?" Joey yelled back as she dropped herself back on the bed with a muffled thud. As Audrey placed a pair of jeans, a top, and Joey's jacket on Joey's lap, she stood in front of her friend, hands both on her hips. "Gladly. Besides, I'm going with you just to make sure you actually go."
"Audrey, come on-"
"Joey, please. I'm worried about you. Please do this for me. Just consider this as a thoughtful gesture from your wonderful roommate. Which really is when you think about-"
Joey quickly rose back up, putting her hand in the air. "Alright, alright. I'll keep my end of the bargain, just don't talk anymore. It's giving me a headache." She got up from the bed, clothes in hand and shuffled to the bathroom, slamming the door behind her.
"You can thank me later!"
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"Audrey, remind me when you got all 'angel of mercy' on me?"
"Since you got all 'I've broken up with the love of my life and I'm all sick with grief about it.'" Audrey replied, not looking up from the battered up magazine she picked up on the coffee table in the waiting room.
"He's not the love of my life." Joey threw the book down on the chair that she had been attempting to read for the past half-hour. "And how long do we have to wait here?"
Audrey looked up at Joey with that 'yeah right' face. "Joey, I've only known you for a year and even I know that you two are meant to be. You two have that whole angels singing, fireworks shooting, destined to be, happily ever after, riding into the sunset made for each other. Now granted, he's also a guy and he's definitely a bastard for doing what he did to you-"
"Josephine Potter?"
Joey turned to see a nurse with a clipboard standing with the door open, searching the waiting room. "About time" she muttered.
She grabbed her purse and stuffed the book back in. "Continue telling me about my horrible love life when we get back to the dorm and I'm heavily medicated." She stood up placing the purse on her shoulder.
Audrey dramatically pressed her hand against her heart, gasping. "Since when did sweet Joey Potter become such a hard-core cynic?"
"Since day one of my life."
Joey followed the nurse into a waiting room and after going through the usual check-ups; Joey was left alone as the nurse went for the doctor. She sat on the examining table with her flimsy paper gown, hoping to leave as soon as possible. Last time I ever let Audrey take me anywhere.
She thought about what Audrey had said in the waiting room. She had to admit, the girl did have a point. She hadn't been the most sociable person the first couple of days after Dawson had left. She had mechanically walked though her routine, going through the motions for the most part. Even Professor Heston was beginning to wonder what the hell was wrong with her. Now there's a thought. Like the man would ever give a damn about anything.
"Miss Potter?"
Joey looked up to see a woman enter the room with a clipboard and a stethoscope hanging around her neck. The thirty something blonde gave her a quick smile as she sat across from Joey. She extended her hand in Joey's direction. "Hi Josephine, I'm Doctor Byer."
Joey shook her hand. "Hi Doctor. Please call me Joey. I hate that name."
The doctor smiled at her. "Ok Joey. I read over your chart and I have a pretty good idea of your diagnosis." Joey smiled. "That's good. I am soooo ready to be over this stomach flu or what ever it is that I've got. I thought it would go away on its own, but it just kept getting worse. So, do I need a prescription for this?"
The doctor looked at her after jotting some notes down. "Well Joey, first of all, you're not sick. You are a perfectly young woman. So, don't need to worry about that. But these symptoms aren't going away for awhile."
Hearing those words made Joey's heart race a bit and her mind start panicking. Oh God, please don't let it be cancer. "What do you mean?"
"Well, you're pregnant Joey."