Disclaimer: I don't own anything except for the characters I made up. I don't own the song "This Time" either.
Author: Britney Nicole
Pairing: Dawson and Joey, umm duh.
Rating: Probably PG-13, I can't write smut, you all know that. Even though im like Gutter Queen (coughBeacough) I can't write it, I blush to easily.
Summary: Joey and Pacey come back from their 3 month stint in the keys. And Joey has a secret to tell Dawson. Everything on the show except for a few parts that I added in has happened.
Authors Note: This is for the Valentines Challenge, even though it does not take place during valentines day but I thought it would be cute to post it for the challenge. The song "This Time" by Bryan Adams inspired me to write this story, I also dreamed it.
This Time
I
think about her all the time
She's my fantasy
An image burnin'
in my mind
Callin' out to me
While my imagination's
runnin' wild
Yeah - things are getting clearer
She was nervous, she hadn't seen him in 3 months. He was her best friend and they hadn't talked for 3 whole months. She had wrote him letters, tried to contact him, anything to get him to just talk to her, she wanted him to know how sorry she was for doing what she did. But he had pushed her, he had told her to go to him. Pacey didn't know about the letters, nobody did but her, except, maybe for Dawson, but she had guessed that he never opened them. She couldn't blame him, if this pain that he was feeling was anything like how she felt when him and Jen started dating then she knew how he felt, but she had a feeling that his pain was a lot worse then hers had ever been. She had talked to Bessie frequently, the first time she called her they were docked off the coast of North Carolina. Bessie had scolded her for just leaving without any prior knowledge. Joey knew that Bessie would act the way she did, she was just worried for her little sister, and considering her condition, Bessie didn't want anything to happen to her.
Now, here she was, standing in front of his house, the house they had first met at when they were 6, the house where they had fought, the house that she was at the moment she realized that she had fallen in love with her best friend. Slowly, walking up the lawn reaching the porch she took a deep breath, letting it out she knocked lightly on the door. A minute or two passed, but Joey wasn't sure considering all she could think about was seeing him again. She knocked harder, still, nobody answered. Lightly touching the knob she slowly turned it, surprised when the door popped open. Then she remembered, they never locked the door, Capeside was a fairly safe and small town, hardly anything happens, oh how wrong they are. She walked into the living room, looking around she noted that nothing really had changed much, except for maybe a new paint job.
"Mr. Leery? Mrs. Leery? Anybody home?" Joey gently yells, afraid that maybe she might wake somebody up.
No answer.
"Maybe their not home." Joey thinks to herself as she glances up the stairs, Dawson's Room.
Sighing she walks up the stairs. Cautiously, she opens the door. Walking in she is surprised at what she sees, the room is completely different. The room is now Green, with pictures all over the walls of Jen, Jack, and Andie. But none of her, or Pacey. Trying hard not to cry, Joey walks towards the door, she quickly glances towards the night stand, noticing something different. Walking over to the bed and sitting down she picks up the framed picture, a frame she recognized. In the picture Dawson had his arm loosely rapped around a girl that she did not recognize. She placed the photo back and opened up the night stand drawer. Under a pile a papers she found the picture that used to be in the frame, a picture of her and Dawson in a similar position, arms rapped tightly around each other, smiling broadly at the camera, obviously young, hopeful and in love. She places the picture back in the drawer, noticing another familiar picture she picks it up. It was a picture of herself that she had given Dawson when they were dating. On the back she had written,
"To Dawson, I will always Love you"
" Joey"
"Who are you?" Asked a hesitant voice braking Joey from her thoughts. Slowly turning around, Joey doesn't recognize the girl at first, but suddenly It occurs to her.
It was the girl in the photo with Dawson.
