Assignment: Joey Potter

Chapter 21

Author's Note- Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback! I really enjoy it! Especially Rachel!

After their night of passion, Pacey woke up before Joey. He just watched her chest fall softly up and down with her breathing. She was beautiful just sleeping sounding half under the covers. She shifted a little and was starting to wake up.

"Hey beautiful" He said to her as she was stretching her arms.

"The same to you" She said softly.

"You look absolutely beautiful"

"I do not! My hair is crazy. I haven't brushed my teeth. I look awful"

"Are you calling me a liar?" He teased.

"Yeah" She leaned over and kissed him.

"Never mind. You DO have bad breath." He joked. She punched him lightly in the ribs.

"Hey. You definably know how to ruin the mood."

"Sorry." There was a bang and then a gun shot heard from the living room.

"What was that?" Joey said terribly frightened, climbing in to Pacey's arms like a four year old at night that just had a bad dream.

"I don't know" He had a tint of fear in his voice too. He shifted Joey out of his lap and got up.

"Pacey. No! Don't go out there." She whispered so the people in the other room couldn't hear.

More gun shots and yelling. They were yelling Joey's name.

"Joey quick out the window! NOW"

"Joey scrambled out of bed, minus clothes and towards the window.

"Hurry up!"

The sounds were coming closer and closer. Yelling and banging and the breaking of breakables.

They made it out the window and were running into the woods when they heard the breaking through of Joey's bedroom door. The men were shouting that they saw them running away. Guns were being shot at them but missed their targets. Joey was grateful that Pacey could run with his stomach still healing. The men were chasing after them. After running through the woods they came to the main street with all the shops. Luckily Pacey had grabbed two sweat shirts that they had put on during their sprint. If they didn't they would be running around the town naked. Pacey ran to the police station and screamed that they were being followed by the people of the Breath gang. The officers radioed in to the main station of where Peters worked and told them to get special officers to help capture them. The men at the station were putting on their special duty safety equipment because the offenders were armed.

They came out of the station to stand up against the angry men who were chasing Joey and Pacey. All the officers had their guns ready to aim and shoot.

"Drop the guns and put your hands on your head!" Officer Dan Matthews shouted. Ever since Joey came to Capeside, they had stationed at least 10 more police in the small town. After a long battle and reasoning the 4 offenders were put into custody.

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Meanwhile, Joey and Pacey sat in a small little room where they couldn't get hurt by the chaos going on outside.

"Pacey?" Joey weakly asked, her tears falling freely.

"Yeah?" He was shaken up a bit too. He thought there was agents or something there that were going to protect them and there wasn't that much of a possibility of Breath's guys coming to Capeside.

"What's going to happen?"

"What do you mean?"

"what's going to happen to all this? What's going to happen to you when I am gone. Isn't this just a huge waste of the police's time? I just can't take it anymore. I should------" Peters burst into the small room.

"Thank god you're all right!"

"I would say so"

"How's everything doing out there?" Pacey asked.

"They just got the men in custody. Hopefully we can get some information from them about Breath and maybe the whereabouts of your sister."

"Thank goodness." Joey said crying. Pacey put an arm around her.

"Everything maybe going to turn all right Jo. Relax. We just captured four of them. We should be rejoicing."

"But Pacey. there's probably at least a dozen left plus Breath. Bessie's still missing. Bodie's going crazy. Alex is missing his mother. And I have no clue where Jen is. Everything is not all right." Joey argued.

"Where is Jen anyway?" Peters and Breath said at the same time.

"She said she had to do some business with you." Joey clarified.

"She NEVER came by my office and none of the people there saw her."

"And she said she was going to see her family." Joey reasoned, not wanting to think of the worst possible.

"I'll call her family right now and ask them if she came by."

"Good idea" Pacey hand handing him over the phone so Peters could use it."

"Hello? This is Officer Mike Peters. I was wondering is Jen Lindley is there?......She isn't......Has she been there in the last 48 hours?....... No?....Do you have her cell?..... No.....Okay thanks for your time and I'll call you if we have word from her.... Yes.....Thanks again. Good Bye....." He hung up the phone and looked over to Joey who had a scared white ashened face and Pacey who wasn't looking at him but at Joey.

"Well, I'll call the station and have a look out on her."

"Okay" Joey weakly agreed.

"Pacey could you come with me to my office and I can ask you a few question?"

"Sure" He got up and turned around to Joey and said a few calming words then kissed the top of her head. Next he followed Peters into his "office".

Joey was left alone into the small containment area, wondering where Jen was. She got up and left the room. Joey knew that she wasn't supposed to leave but she had to find where Jen was. Quietly she slipped through where the officers were working and none of them saw her. She walked into the main road and went to her house.

The house seemed eerie. All the lights were off in the building but one light keep flickering on and off in her bedroom. All the cops had left but they had left a large sign on the front door that said Do NOT ENTER. CRIME ZONE. She went in anyway. There were creaked vases and picture frames everywhere. She continued up to her room. It is a disaster area to say the lease. But it still smelled of their actives the night before. A window was broken to pieces all over the floor. She saw the light flickering on and off. The light was coming from inside the closet. She slowly pushed the door open. Something stopped it from being pushed all the way open. She pushed on it harder. It gave way. Blood stained the carpet. Blond hair scattered the floor in mounds. Flesh was seen. Joey gasped. Then shrieked. IT WAS A BODY. IT WAS THE BODY OF JEN. SHE WAS DEAD.

To be continued......

I will continue Bessie's and Wayne's story in the next chapter.