*All are needed by each one; nothing is fair or good alone*

Its about six in the morning, the sun is slowly starting to come up and Hannah and Peter are racing each other through the woods to the campground for their morning run. Neither one can keep a lead on the other, one second Peter's in front and the next Hannah is, so it's not quite evident who is winning. They finally make it to the dirt road leading back to Horizon but Hannah reached it first, beating Peter back to the finish line.

When they finally stop running they are both breathing heavily and Peter is doubled over cause he's exhausted and Hannah's checking her watch to see their time.

"We did 15 slower than last week." Hannah states.

"Oh," He says huffing, "well your getting old." he says jokingly, when she nods her head towards the bikers coming their way and they soon realize who it is.

"Looks like Bob Archers kids, from Hastings county." Hannah confirms,

"What are they doing up here? They got three gyms and two weight rooms."

"Could you be more jealous?" Hannah teases him.

"No Hannah" He says laughing.

"You know, I saw them kayaking the other day, I think their practicing for the X-Challenge race." She tells him

"Saw the banner up in town. " He confirms, "Ya know, maybe we outta get a team together this year from the cliffhangers." Peter suggests.

"Yea, it could be a good cooperative exercise."

"Yeah, I just don't know if we have enough room left at the trophy case back at school" He says

The bikers are now right in front of them and the leader, Bob stops in front of Peter and Hannah but turns back to look at his students "Come on, push it, push it." He commands them, clapping loudly to give them motivation, he then turns to look at Peter and Hannah after his students have ridden past them. "Peter, Hannah, how goes it?"

"Bob. You guys look awfully good." Peter compliments as the three of them look ahead to the riders going strong.

"Have them cross training six days a week. You should come by; it'd be an education."

Peter just laughs "I'd love to, except were going to be a little busy, putting together a team of our own this year."

Now Bob laughs. "Something funny Bob?" Hannah snaps at him for laughing.

"I know you think those delinquents are sweet, but this is a real competition."

"Real competition? Like that weekly basketball game we use to have?"

Bob looks down for a moment slightly embarrassed as Peter continues "Haven't seen you lately, you get tired of losing or what?"

"Been busy." Bob replies

"Huh,"

"Got athletes that needed me, real athletes."

"I smell a bet here, BOB. I bet that our cliffhangers can finishing the X-Challenge race before your guys. Loser buys dinner?" he says and extends his hand out for Bob to shake.

Bob does indeed shake it and replies "Your on" with a laugh. He then gets on his bike and rides away.

Hannah then looks at Peter with a look of disbelief. "Don't alright." he says trying to stop her before she scowls him. "Peter, you really want the cliffhangers in this race?"

"Mmmhmm."

"Pacey hasn't adjusted yet and the rest of them don't exactly run like a Swiss watch." She reminds him.

"Well, they need it more than most. Come on, I wanna beat your but lack to the lodge." Hannah laughs and says "Losers cooks breakfast."

"I sense a food thing going here huh? On 3, 1..2.." and he takes off running before he says three but he has Hannah hot on his trail.

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Meanwhile back at the school Pacey and Andie are in the cafeteria making out. The room is still slightly dark but the sun's natural light is providing them a romantic candlelight affect through the blinds. "Stop," she puts a hand on his chest and steps back but he just closes the gap between them again. "someone might see us." she say giggling, letting Pacey know that she's not really that serious. "No you don't understand, they're totally serious about rules here, if we get caught"

"You taste good." He says trying to shut her up.

Andie giggles again "Stop it, we'll be on restriction for like a month."

They hear the door open and they both look towards the hall and walk to the wall to hide behind it so that Hannah and Peter don't see them. Hannah again bets Peter in their second race and starts announcing how she'd like her breakfast "Eggs, pouched, toast dry and earth tea, oh in lets say 5 minutes." she says patting his shoulder. "Your not a very good winner. You know that right?" he says and Hannah playfully punches him in the arm. When Hannah finally walks away Pacey walks out towards Peter.

"Hey kid, your up early, are you on Kitchens?" Pacey has a dear in headlights look on his face but he quickly answers "Kitchens? Um, yeah." Peter however does notice his hesitation

"You okay? You look a little flushed. Not getting sick on me, are you?" he says as he puts an arm on his shoulder. "I need you healthy, I gotta go make some breakfast." he says and points his thumb towards the kitchen and then walks past Pacey into the kitchen. Pacey motions with his hand to Andie letting her know that the coast is clear and she walks by and whispers "That was close." as she walks past him and out of the lodge.

Later that day Peter has called all the cliffhangers into the lounge to tell them about the race. They are all sitting around on the couches and chairs as Peter's pacing back and forth in front of the fire place.

"Its called the X-Challenge race, kayaking, mountain biking and the last leg of the race is a run through the woods with a map and a compass. Its going to take you all day and you have to finish each leg of the race together as a team before you get the chance to move on." Peter tells them

Hannah speaks up to try to help convince the kids that it's a good idea, noticing that they all have a somber look on their face. "There'll be teams there from all over the country, but they're not all professionals. Lauren Hastings Prep also has a team." she says.

"They do it cause it looks good on their Harvard applications." Andie says with an eye roll.

"You don't have long to train; it'll be a tough road and I know you guys can do it." Peter says which causes Jack to chuckle a little.

"Come on guys it'll be great." Hannah says with a big smile that just makes Joey smirk and roll her eyes. Peter whispers to Hannah "Hope Archer doesn't have a big appetite." his eyes scan the room and stops on Kat "We need a team captain. Interested?"

"Yes, definitely." She says beaming

"So what if we don't want to do it?" Dawson asks while looking done towards the ground.

Peter just shrugs his shoulders "So what if we don't want to do it? It's up to you. You're in, you're out. You decide." He says walking towards him.

"Two words - no way. I'm so sick and tired of being covered head to toe in mud." Andie says and Dawson moves to take a seat next to her and defends her.

"Yeah, she's not a jeep. She's a jaguar." He says

"You know, I hear all the hot jocks lose like 10 pounds during the race." Joey says to Andie, knowing that anything she says about weight will get her attention. Andie leans forward to ask Joey "Really?"

"Mm-hmm." Joey says with a lift of her eyebrows.

"Yeah, I am not going out looking like a fool, either." Dawson interrupts.

"Dawson, you even know what those rich guys from Lawrence Hastings think?" Jack says, "They'd say, "that boy couldn't ride a mountain bike unless it has training wheels on it."

"Then I say we go kick some butt." Dawson says.

Pacey gets up from his chair on the other side of the room and goes across the room to walk out but as he walks past Dawson, Dawson grabs onto his arm. This makes Pacey turnaround to face him and Dawson gets up from the couch. "Hey, man. One in, all in. That's the way it is around here. Don't walk away from the family." Dawson tells him

"You're not my family." He says and turns to continue walking out, Andie gets up from her spot on the couch to chase after him.

"What's with him? His attitude stinks." Kat says.

"Do you remember what it's like to be new?" Peter askes her and takes a seat next to her.

"I was never that bad."

"Oh, no. You were worse. He's still settling in. He needs to be part of this team."

"Look, I know he's supposed to be some great athlete, but I don't want him on the team, and he obviously doesn't want to be on it."

Peter sighs "Katherine, you have to help him out here. He has to know he's not alone, even if he wants to be. Has to learn to trust you guys."

"All right, but he should learn to keep his mouth closed."

"Katherine"

she shrugs "I'm just looking out for his well-being is all, you know, before somebody shuts it for him." she say and just up to walk away

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Pacey had walked over to the cafeteria and grabbed the water pitcher off the counter and was pouring a glass when Andie walked over to him. She puts her elbow on the counter and leans on it as she's facing him but his body is turned away from her facing the counter. "You don't have to be the tough guy all the time, you know" Pacey puts the pitcher back and the counter and walks away from her to sit down. Andie rolls her eyes but continues for follow and sits at the head of the table that he sat on. "I mean it's cute and all, but everybody wants to do the race…"

"You sound like one of them" He says finally speaking to her but never actually lifting his eyes up from his food.

"I AM one of them." She sighs leans back in the chair but she quickly regains her posture and leans forward back into the table again. "You were like an amazing football player, you could help us soo much."

"This isn't football." He says shaking his head downward.

"But you were so good."

He finally cracks and pounds his fist on the table. "Will you stop telling me how good I was!" He looks at her from the corner of his eye and his voice starts breaking. "I'm stuck out here in the middle of nowhere now…. I'm not anything anymore." He says looking down again and Andie leans closer to him. "You are to me" she says trying to make Pacey feel better. "Couldn't you just try?" She pleads.

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The next morning all the cliffhangers are training with Peter on the trails with their hiking backpacks on. Peter and Kat are at the front of the line, Joey's in the middle and Andie's near the back running like a prissy princess. They finally make it to a stopping point at a small peak. "Don't just look at the map Kat, look around, compass, map and your head, alright?" Peter trains her to think as a leader.

Jack's the first to complain "My back is killing me" and Joey sits on the ground near him, "I'm tired" she says, followed by Dawson "I'm hungry."

Hannah interrupts them to tell them how great they're all doing, and Joey just looks at her like she's crazy.

"I cannot function at this hour without coffee and a cigarette" she says and Peter walks over to her and extends his arm out to pull her up to her feet again. "Ughhh, come on Peter" she whines "Let's go" he tells all of them and they start moving again as Joey mumbles "This sucks."

They finally reach their destination, "There it is Dylan rock….Hey I found it" Kat says smiling at herself. And they all stare at it for a brief moment. Hannah's first to break the silence. "Okay guys; get moving, harness up helmets on, chop chop."

"Now you wanna climb fast, but not get hurt." Peter says and he's the first to climb up the scaling mountain. "Safe and steady." He says looking back down or only a moment. "Alright piece of cake." He says from the top. "Ready to come down he tells them as he repels down the rope.

"Okay two by two, Jack and Dawson" Hannah calls out first. Andie's down below acting as their cheerleaders as she notices that Jack's having trouble climbing.

"This is totally pathetic" Pacey mumbles but Andie hears him.

"You could try to help you know."

But just as she says that the kids from Lauren Hastings pull up on their bikes. "Having a little trouble there Pete?" Bob calls out seeing Jack just dangling from the rope. "Awww the little girl can't even climb" says one of his students. "Peter, I'm feeling charitable today, so if you want out of that bet.."

Peter interrupts, "How do you think we're doing Kat?"

"Awesome"

"You wanna make that bet a little more interesting BOB? You name it."

"How's your singing voice?" He asks with a smirk on his face. "If you win, I'll sing in front of everybody at the bbq. If you lose, you sing."

Peter stays quiet.

"Ahhhh so you have outrun bears, kayak on the nastiest rivers but sing?"

"You're on." Peter says sternly

"Excellent, come on guys we've got a lot of ground to cover. " Bob says and leaves them to cover the rest of their training.

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The next morning is still filled with a full day training session of biking, kayaking and running, just like the race will be. The cliffhangers go into the shed to pick out their backpacks. Pacey was the last one to get his, and Peter walks to over him so that no one else will hear.

"Listen, Pacey, I don't want you faking any kind of enthusiasm, I really don't, I just want to beat the Laurens Hasting kids and I DO NOT want to sing. Got me? So please just help, just give it a try. That's all I ask." Peter pats him on the back then leaves. Pacey just sighs because he know that even though he tries to act like he doesn't care about anything or anyone, he cares about Peter for not quitting on him when his father did. He grabs his back pack and walks over to the cliff hangers.

"Let's go cliffhangers, and try to keep up." He says and walks ahead of them. But the entire day he leaves them behind just going at his own pace, which Peter notices.

They make it back to the lodge and everyone is sprawled out on the couches, tables and floor. "Hurts, it definitely hurts." Jack says.

"You guys did great, really." Kat tells them as she walks into the living room area.

Pacey's across the room sitting in a chair that is facing the wall "could you rest the whole cheerleader thing?" he looks over at her and the rest of the group, "You didn't do great, you're all pathetic."

"Lay off her man." Dawson snaps at him.

"Three conference championships" he stands up and walks over to Kat. "You know what that means? Huh? What did you ever win in your entire life?"

"I wish you would just shut up!" Now Kat gets in his face. She knows this game and two can play at it. "We all know you were captain and we all know what happened. They kicked you off cause you were too stoned to run straight! Big football star…So please, could you just shut up." She says and sits back down.

"Pacey if you wanna help, help. We're open to suggestions." Andie says trying to paint a happy face for everyone, but Pacey just walks away and in the hallway he runs into Peter.

"Hey, your attitude's not helping here."

"They don't know how to win!"

"Well maybe not because they don't do a lot of winning around here Pacey, they do a lot of just getting through, that kind of thing." Pacey looks to the side, not wanting to look Peter in the eyes, "I want you to stick with this, maybe you'll learn something."

Pacey looks back at Peter, "What I am supposed to learn from losing?!"

"What did you ever learn from winning?" He says and walks away leaving Pacey to think about that. But Pacey keeps walking and walks right past Joey who is leaning against the wall.

"Andie thinks she has some kind of hold on you." She says just as Pacey passes her. He stops and turns around but she's still looking in the direction that he came from. He walks to her and she sighs looking at him.

"It'll be so sad when she finds out the truth….You love it don't you?" He looks away from her again "Two girls crushing after you." He looks down at the ground and she takes a step forward to now be standing within arms reach of him. "Bet I can help you decide."

He slowly lefts his head up and looks her in the eyes. "I don't go for used cars." Pacey says and with a shrug of his shoulders, not because he's trying to hurt her, but because he's tying to deny that he is attracted to her as well. He walks away leaving Joey who trying hard to keep her chin up.

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Later that night Hannah and Peter are pacing around worrying about a missing Kat who hasn't show up at the school after her weekly volunteer jig. "She missed the bus, no one's seen her." Peter says

"It's been two hours Peter." Hannah says just as Kat runs in.

"I'm sorry" she says and they motion of her to go sit in one of the sofas as they talk amongst themselves.

"Dancing at Fabians….."

"It could be worse Peter; she could have been at a bar."

"You want to call her parents and tell them that? Yes it could have been worse but there's still consequences and she knows that."

"Katherine," Peter says as he walks over to her.

"I said I was sorry."

"But still"

"I said I was sorry but I'm not, I'm really not. I just wanted to go dancing, I just wanted one normal night, once, cant you get that?"

"Absolutely, but you're still responsible for being here on time. You lose your town privileges for a week, and you're off the X challenge team."

"They'll loose without me!"

"Then we lose. What do you want me to do? I'm sorry." But she gets up and stomps out of the room angrily.

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The next morning the cliffhangers are gathered around some tables in the cafeteria as Kat is telling them the bad news, with Peter standing just a few feet behind her for support. "I just wanted to say I was sorry, for letting everyone down." She puts on hands down on the table and leans forward. "I know you guys will still do great in the race."

"Of course you will." Peter chimes in

Joey starts playing with the food on her plate and has an unsure look on her face; she's not sure how they are going to do this race without Kat.

"Come on don't kick her off, just put her on restriction." Andie suggests in her usual whiney voice.

"Come on Peter, be human just ONCE." Joey seconds that option.

Peter just looks over to Pacey how looking down at his lap.

"We need a new team captain, Pacey, your it" Pacey quickly his head up quickly and his eyes scan Peters and sees that he's not joking.

"What?"

"Your it"

"Nuh uh" Pacey stands up and takes a step towards Peter. "No way, this team's a joke."

"Then make a good joke." Peter straightens up taller than he was standing before and turns to walk away.

"Let's see what you can do, three time football champ." Kat says with a smirk and her face knowing there's no way Pacey will get the team across with his attitude.

"Give him a chance." Andie defends him.

"Alright, first thing, Joey and Andie, you're going to shut up and stop complaining."

"Pacey!" Andie blurts out.

"Hey don't talk to her like that" Dawson defends her.

"Dawson, you're going to drop the attitude and figure out a way to get Jack across the finish line alive. Now uh, check your gear, and look at map and try not to do anything too stupid." He says and runs a hand through his hair and leaves the café to go find Peter who was in the lounge playing chess with another consular.

"Why you making me do this?" Pacey asks standing next to Peter and crossing his arms across his chest, his voice clearly showing his irritation. Peter looks over at Pacey then back down at the chess game before he responds.

"Because this race is important to me."

Pacey scuffs "they don't care."

Peter looks back at him. "I think they do, and I think this race is a good thing, for all the kids"

"Man, you know what, just leave it! It's so obvious that this race is about YOU! You and your ego. You want to prove that your school is better than Lauren's Hastings's so we got to run some stupid race? If you're looking for a new team captain how about yourself?"

Peter finally stands up meeting Pacey's eye level. "So what should I do? Leave you alone, let you take it easy and enjoy the mountain air?!"

Pacey start walking away "Huh?" Peter calls after him.

"No no no, you take it easy, let us ran the race for you." He says the motioning with his arms as he speaks.

Peter looks down and shakes his head a little. "Okay, your right." He looks back up. "My pride did get the cliffhangers into this race, but I hate to loose, and sometimes I'm too competitive, its' not the best part of my personality. Okay?" Pacey nods and Peter continues. "You taught me something about myself, but what about you? You don't want to lead this team, but I think maybe it's a good chance for you to learn something about yourself."

"I'm not going to learn anything from these losers." Pacey says his mouth is so tense that it looks as if he is clenching his jaw as he speaks. "I'm not running anymore races, I'm not team captain anymore"

"Pacey, I know things were bad at home" Pacey starts looking away, not wanting to Peter to see the pain in his eyes at just the mere mention of home, "But you loved football, you love being a leader. Do not throw out the things you love, finish that race, run that last mile, let yourself feel like a winner again." Peter says and puts a hand on his shoulder and Pacey takes a step back.

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At the race the cliffhanger's booth is step up right next to Lauren's Hastings and they can hear them chanting "LHS,LHS" as their team is getting ready. The ref walks over to Horizon and lets them know that they are next to start with Lauren's Hastings's.

"Go get em captain." Peter says, patting Pacey on the back.

"We got to get ready, don't we?" Jack asks all panicky, "Don't freak out, where is everybody?" Pacey asks and they walk over to gather the rest of the group and they get ready for the first leg of the race with is the kayaking portion.

Pacey's the first to strap in and doesn't bother to help the rest out or even check to see if they need help.

"Come on man, let's move it." He tells Dawson when he sees him pulling the kayak next to his.

Finally the whistle blows and takes a huge lead head the rest of the Lauren's Hastings's group and his own teammates. When he makes it to back to land he decides to try to cheer for his team hoping to get them moving, but again when they reach the land, he takes off running ahead of them, at his own speed instead of running with his team. He makes it through the first check point and runs to the ref. "Horizon, I'm here."

"Alright, the mountain bikes are over there."

"Hey wait" Andie says, the rest of the team just caught up.

"Can we rest a min?" He doesn't respond to her, he just jogs over to the bikes and they follow, thoroughly exhausted.

Again Pacey keeps a pretty good lead in front of the group, ignoring Andie's pleads for him to wait for her.

He actually manages to catch up and pass the Lauren's Hastings's group and is pleased with himself for his accomplishment. Again, he gets to the check point before anyone else.

"Horizon, I'm here." He says grabbing a cup of water.

"Where's the rest of your team?" the ref asks.

"Back there somewhere, I'm here."

"Well good for you, but the time won't count until they all get here." Just then Lauren's Hastings shows up.

Pacey just sits down on the ground leaning against the booth, waiting for his team to show. It was starting to get dark when they finally all slowed up.

"Come on, let's move." He tells them.

"Okay, can't move, can't speak" Jacks says breathlessly.

"We need a min." Andie tells him.

"Fine, you wanna loose, stay here, you want to win, come with me now."

"Hey, you've got a bad attitude man." Dawson tells him pointing to his chest.

"Step off alright; I got a race to run."

"Look around, you're here because everybody gave up on you. Your parents, your teacher's, all of them. They gave up on us too." Dawson says

"We only have each other." Andie say.

"Pathetic isn't it?" Joey replies almost laughing. "You walk away from here; you walk away from the only thing you've got." Joey tells him but he just takes off to do the last half of the race.

The cliffhangers start back up shortly after he leaves but they never catch up to him.

"I don't see him anymore." Jack says and looks down at the map.

"Which way Jack?" Dawson asks.

"Let me see that." Andie says and grabs the map; she can tell that neither of the boys knows where to go.

"Just decide so we can get out of this nightmare." Joey pleads and they finally pick a direction to go in, but as their running Dawson falls down a small hill and sprains his ankle. They all race down when see him tumble,

"Is it broken? Did you hear a snap?" Joey asks, showing genuine concern for him.

"It's not broken; I think I just twisted it."

"Do you think you can get up?" Andie asks and the girls try to help him up but it's no use, he's in too much pain.

"Andie, you have that rescue radio?" Joey asks

"Yea," she get's it out and hands it to her.

"Hello, this is Horizon." Nothing.

"Hello this is team Horizon, can anyone hear me?" she tries again and finally gets a reply from one of the refs.

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Meanwhile Pacey has just crossed the finish line and Kat walks over to him having just gotten the news that someone is hurt.

"Where is everyone?!" She demands as Pacey leans forward, placing his hands on his knees. Exhausted at the speed that he just ran that race. "Who got hurt?" she asks again now realizing what he did. Peter finally walks over to them she Kat blurt outs, "He just left them!"

"You did what!?"

Pacey finally stands up straight, "I finished. I did."

"Yea you did it, you did it all by yourself. You didn't learn anything did you, you just give up."

"Open your eyes! I'm here!" Pacey explains, yelling slightly "I finished. I didn't just give up."

"You were the team captain!" Peter yells back at him.

"This is your school! You run the place not me. Those losers back there aren't my fault. Your wanna blame someone, blame yourself."

"Didn't you ever lose a game Pacey? Didn't you ever drop a pass? Huh? Most of them, they've never won at anything in their lives. Their whole life is a dropped pass, and you just threw them another one! I was on lots of teams, and just like you, I messed up, but you know I still remember how good it feels to be part of something. I still remember that Pacey, it's a good feeling, even when you lose and you had a chance to share that with them today; you had a chance to help them feel that, but NO! For just once in their life. But where's your team at now?" Peter walks away leaving Pacey to think about what he just said, and Pacey turn's around and runs back into the woods for his teammates.

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"Where are they already?" Jack states angrily.

"Well this has been just soo much fun." Andie moans.

"I'm sorry." Dawson tells her

"It's not your fault. I've never been so filthy in my life!" She says and Joey laughing.

"Joey what?"

"I just keep thinking about Jack in his Kayak." They all start laughing

"At least I was trying!" He tells them.

"You almost drowned" Dawson jokes

"Oh look whose talking." Jack replies.

"Hey we may all be lost, but Peter has to sing." Joey reminds them and they all start laughing again

"Dawson, I'm sorry but I'm so glad you fell cause now we can go home and shower." Andie says just as Pacey finds them.

"No one's going home." He tells them.

"Hey...the jerk man cometh." Jack says.

"You guys wanna finish?" Pacey asks.

"A little late to be team captain." Andie tells him.

"I know, I messed that up, like everything else, I just, I'm sorry okay? That's it. Now I know you guys are beat, but the finish line is just over that ridge. So I don't care if we have to carry Dawson, but we're going to make it. Okay?"

"Why do you care?" Dawson asks

"Because everybody in this race, everybody back at the school, they all knew we couldn't do it. We sit here and we just prove them right."

"What's the big deal? We already know what we are." Andie says.

"Yea we're losers." Dawson says.

"We're not even loser until we cross the finish line. We sit here, and we're nothing. We move, and we're a team. At least where that." Just then Hannah pulls up in the jeep to rescue them and drive them back to school. The hear the jeep coming so the all turn their heads to the right and see Hannah jump out the jeep and run towards them.

"What happened?! Dawson?" she says and squats down in front of the ground to be at their eye level, while Pacey is still standing looking down at them.

"Ahh" he starts shaking his head, "it's nothing, just stupid" Hannah examines his ankle, "it's not too bad, we'll get you back."

"No no no, give me a second" Dawson tells her and Hannah stands back up and takes a step back to be next to Pacey, as Dawson looks over at Joey on his right and Andie on his left. "You guys want to help me up?"

Joey smiles as he puts both his arms around their shoulders and the girls slowly stand him up. "I don't think I'm going to need your ride."

"Dawson, that ankle."

"We'll get him through" Pacey jumps causing Hannah to look over at him, surprised by his change of attitude about the group and the race.

"Come on Hannah, we've been through too much, we have to finish." Joey says backing Pacey up.

"Yeah, we may be losers, but we're not quitters." Dawson reconfirms.

"Come on guys" He says as they start walking forward leaving Pacey and Hannah behind. Pacey looks over at Hannah and she notices his face, he doesn't look so angry anymore. "Good luck" she tells him, her faith in him finally coming around. He just nods and jogs off to catch up with the group and help get them to the finish.

At the finish Peter and Hannah are waiting for them clapping and clearing as everyone else has already packed up and gone home. Kat finally walks over to Pacey to congratulate him. "You did great, getting them back here."

"Nah, they're your team, you trained them. I just took them the last mile." He tells her as she nods to him, her way of showing respect to him and what he did for the group. Kat walks back towards the group as she notices Peter coming towards Pacey.

"You brought them home in style, filthy and dead last and smiling." He laughs and nods over to Joey who is smiling with the rest of her group. He extends he's hand to shake Pacey's and make they're way back home.

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Once they get back to Horizon, the group gets showered and changed and heads back to the kitchen to help cook for Bob and his students since they lost the bet. Pacey walks in the kitchen holding an apron just as Joey walks out of the pantry holding a box full of paper plates and napkins. She walks right past him and turns around to face his back

"Hate serving those jerks" she says smiling

Pacey sighs, keeping his back turned, "yea and we have to listen to Peter sing." He says looking down at the ground.

"That was really cool, what you did." She says in all seriousness, as Pacey finally turns around to face her.

"Coming back for us" He takes a step closer to her "I mean everyone else still hates you, but you came through, you're one of us now." She says jokingly.

He finally looks into her eyes, and sees more than just the girl who's shut off to the rest of the world. He knows there's more to her just like there's more to him. "I guess it's not so bad being one of you." He tells her. "Listen, all that stuff that I said, about you and the other guys."

Joey's the one that looks down this time. "Ah used car" she replies slowly.

"Yea…I'm sorry" He says causing her to look up into his eyes this time and giving him her shy half smile.

"Maybe we can hangout, see if there's something about me," Pacey starts to smile, "something you might like? Maybe?" She asks both now smiling towards each other. Talking here with her now is the first time he's not felt angry, and it's refreshing. It's a feeling he wants to continue to have.

"Yea, maybe" he replies to her and walks towards the kitchen to cook the hot dogs. And she walks away smiling, returning to her chores as well.

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They're all finally done cooking and eating outside by the bonfire when Bob speaks up. "Okay Peter, Alright everybody let's here it! Peter! Peter!" they start chanting as he start walking up towards the front, red from embarrassment. "I believe it's time for dessert." Bob says "here's the lyrics." He says and hands him a sheet of paper and turns on the cd play to start playing "YMCA" Peter starts singing, horribly, Pacey notices the look on his face and goes to the rest of the group.

"Come on" Pacey says to everyone

"What, I'm not going up there." Andie says with a snotty attitude.

"We win together, we lose together" he tells her and goes up to join Peter without her, but the rest of the cliffhangers soon follow, and everyone starts singing the YMCA together as a team.