As Joey and Pacey were basking in the glow of their plot, Dawson was sitting in his office at his production studio, contemplating what had just happened. In the past year, he had lost Jen, seen Pacey and Joey get back together, and almost finished the first two seasons of his startlingly successful television show, The Creek. All that, and he still couldn't get used to how different things had become in his life. He had success, and friends, but he still felt lonely, like something was missing in his life. It seemed like everyone in his life had someone to love, his mom had just remarried, Jack had Doug, and Joey and Pacey had each other. Sure, he'd been on dates, and there were plenty of women knocking practically knocking down his door, mostly all aspiring actresses hoping for a role in his next production, or a chance for a recurring role in The Creek. Actually, one of them held out some promise to play the character that represented Andy, but other than that he was absolutely not interested in any of them. Well, whatever was going to happen in his life, right now he had some travel plans to make.

"Daphne, could you get Chuck on the phone. I need to make some travel arrangements." Dawson called out to his assistant, who came scampering into the room.

"Sure thing, where you headed?" The petite brunette asked as she smoothed out her skirt. No doubt she had been playing around with James, one of the grips from The Creek.

"Capeside, I've got a wedding to go to." He smiled at her attempts to correct her disheveled appearance. "Why don't you just get me Chuck, and then you and James can take off for the evening."

Daphne's cheeks grew red as she turned to exit the office. Moments later, Dawson was on the phone with Chuck, planning for the trip to Capeside. He figured he'd head back a week before the wedding. It would give him some time to check in with everybody and spend some time with his mother and sister.

At the same time, on the other side of LA, Gretchen was doing almost the exact same thing as Dawson. She sat in front of her computer, staring at Travelocity.com, trying to find the best fare to Boston. The only problem was that the best fare available was for one week earlier than she needed to be there, and her Boss had just given her an assignment for the day the flight left. She was supposed to interview some young, new producer, but she had yet to learn whom. Oh well, she thought, A week will give me some time visit some people I haven't seen in a long time.

Just as she finished making the reservation, her phone rang. It was her boss, Linda. "Yeah, boss."

"I just got a call on that interview you were supposed to do next month, and we're going to have to postpone it. Seems the subject just found out he has to leave town for a week."

Gretchen couldn't help but grin at the news. "That's kind of fortuitous. I was just about to call you and tell you that I needed to reschedule the interview so that I can go home for my brother's wedding."

"That worked out well then. His office wanted to reschedule for the Wednesday of the following week. Does that work for you?"

"I'm good with that," Gretchen replied, unable to believe her luck. What were the odds that her first interview subject, whom she was going to have to postpone, would have to leave town at the same time she did? "I'll see you tomorrow, Linda."

"Later, Gretch."

Gretchen hung up the phone and printed off her confirmation information for her flight. Then, she wrote a short e-mail to Joey, letting her know when she would be arriving. Without a doubt, Gretchen knew that it would be an interesting trip. At the same time, back in Dawson's office he was doing to same thing.