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Pacey was in his office, absorbed in his thoughts...Joey had called him two days ago, she wasn't coming home to summer.... He was dying to see her, and she decides to get some stupid internship in a publishing house in London...If he hadn't too much to do, he would catch the first plane to London to solve this at once...God, he loved her, he missed her and he wanted to be with her, was that a crime? Or maybe she didn't want to see him...maybe she had made up her mind, and he wasn't in her plans for her future...Get a grip, Witter, he thought, you have to work. He didn't even notice his secretary entering the room.

"Mr. Witter? I know you are busy, but there's a young lady outside, she says she needs to talk to you right now"

He wondered a minute who could it be...maybe Jen or even one of his sisters...

"Let her in, Liz...I have a meeting only after 3, isn't it?"

"That's right, Mr. Witter. I'll let her in"

He turned his chair to face the outlines of the Big Apple for a while...he heard the door open, and turned around to face...Joey. He rose from his chair, stunned by her presence...

"What are you trying to do, Potter? Give me a heart attack?"

"Well, you seemed so sad that I wasn't coming home this summer that I decided to help this young over stressed business man out of his misery..." She was smiling, with all her heart.

"God, Jo, I missed you..." He put his arms around her, holding her so close, she couldn't breathe.

"Not more than I missed you, Pace..." She cupped his face between her hands, slowly kissing him, feeling him shocked at the beginning, and then kissing her back with the same hunger she felted...

"What is this, Jo?"

"Well, if you don't know, I'm doing something wrong here...I'm kissing you, idiot"

"Jo, you know what I'm talking about...you show up here, starts to kiss me, not that I'm complaining, but don't you think we should talk first? And don't gimme that look..."

"What look?" She kissed the spot between his ear and his neck.

"You're killing me here, Potter...I'm working, you know? This look of who I am and what I've done to Pacey Witter..."

"Ok, I'll behave...but you see I have this little problem...I think I'm addicted to you..."

"Josephine, are you on drugs or something?" His voice in a husky tone...she was still kissing his neck...

"Pacey, no, I'm not on drugs...you don't like this?" She asked, smiling.

"Like? I love it, Jo, but I think we really should talk first...and my office is not the best place in the world to have sex...at least not at 2 p.m. Where are you staying?"

"That's the point...I don't have a place to stay..."

"Miss Potter, were you trying to bribe me with sex, so you could crash on my place?"

"Was it working?"

"What do you think?" He held her even closer so she could feel the way she had affected him...

"Pacey, I'm serious now...can I stay with you?"

"For tonight?"

"No, the whole summer...and maybe more..."

"What does this mean, Jo?" His heart was suddenly filled with hope, a warming feeling he hadn't felt since she came aboard True Love, that summer so many years ago...

"I don't know where to start..."

"Wait a second, Potter." He called his secretary, cancelled all his appointments for  the rest of the day, grabbing Joey's hand, taking her with him, leaving a very surprised Liz sat there in front of his office.

"Pacey, where are you taking me?"

"Home...where we can talk..."

Commercial break.

They stopped at Jen's to pick up her luggage and went straight to his apartment ,Joey almost driving him crazy all the way...all she could do was giggle and kiss him, without saying a word.

"Joey, stop, I need to find the keys..." She was behind him, her arms on his waist, nuzzling his neck. "What is happening to you?"

"I miss you, isn't it clear?"

"You missed me before, but you were never like this...Right, the door is open, come on in."

Joey was laughing behind him. She knew he was kind of scared, but she never felt like that before, so happy, so free...Just the way he looked at her made her sure about the decision to come to NY. She knew that there were no more past ghosts, no more soul mates to get in the way, and she finally came to a decision, that would change her life, but somehow she wasn't scared anymore, no more running away in her life.

She entered the apartment taking a good look, not a bit what she had in mind. It was classic, elegant, no weird combinations of colors that she usually associated with him, thanks to his hideous Hawaiian shirts. She sat down on the large couch, feeling she was home.

"No more groping?" Pacey asked, still a little bit confused by the way she was acting.

"No, I decided we need to talk first...Can you sit here with me?"

He went there, sitting beside her, his gaze never letting her face, he couldn't believe on what he was seeing in her chocolate eyes.

"I guess you wanna know why I'm here and not in London..."She licked her lips.

"Joey, stop teasing, please...I'm happy you're here, but I think I deserve to know why you're here and you're acting like this..."

"Like this what?" She moved closer to him.

"Like this sexy, horny Josephine that I don't recall meeting before..."

"Are you sure, Pace? Don't you remember anything?"

"Potter!!! Please be serious" He was almost losing it.

"Ok, I'm all serious now...Pace, this whole year I spent in London made me realize many things about myself, about us..."

"Joey, first, you know, I have always, always loved you… whatever you want to tell me, I want you to know that whatever you wanna do, I want for you to be happy. It's really important for me that you be happy. So I want you to be with someone, whether it be Dawson, me or some man that you haven't even met yet. But I want you to be with someone who can be a part of the life that you want for yourself. I want you to be with someone who makes you feel like I feel when I'm with you. So, I guess the point to this long run-on sentence that's been the last 10 years of our lives is just that the simple act of being in love with you is enough for me." He held her hands and waited.

"Pace, everything in my life that I've done has led me here... right now… Pacey... I love you. You know that. And it's very real. It's so real that it's kept me moving, mostly running from it, never ready for it. And I love Dawson. He's my soul mate. He's tied to my childhood, and it's a love that is pure and eternally innocent. I can't just get the notion that it's ok to keep running." She had tears in her eyes now.

"So then, what exactly are you saying here?" The thought was too fantastic to be true.

"For a bright guy, you can be really daft some times…what the hell you think I'm trying to say? That I don't want anyone else but you, I crossed an ocean just to be here with you…the man I loved in my teen years, that I love now and I know I will always, always love…" Her eyes full of a passion she usually didn't show easily.

"So, what do we do here, Potter?" His blue eyes full of love, hope in the future.

"You really need to ask?" She rolled her eyes.

"Do tell."Now was his turn on the teasing game.

"Pace, can you just shut up and kiss me right now?"

He didn't need any other kind of encouragements. Their mouths met in a kiss that first was one of pure love and commitment…but soon the hunger caused by all the time apart came in, clothes being thrown away all over the room…Suddenly, Pacey stopped , just looking into her face, grinning.

"What now, Witter?" She was impatient.

"Can you just hit me?" 'Cause I think I'm in the middle of one of my recurrent fantasies with you…Ouch!!!" He was surprised when she really hit him. "That hurts."

"It will hurt even more if you don't take me right now to your bedroom or proceed with this here."

"Your wish is my command, my lady." He rose with her in his arms, kicking the room's door and putting her softly on the mattress. She just smiled, looking at him, inviting.

"I love you, Jo."

"I know." No more words were necessary.