Pacey turns and leaves. Dawson is sitting in his directors chair just watching Joey sleep. He knows he could easily go to the guest room and sleep, but he wants to be here if she wakes up. He is sitting there slowly drifting off to sleep when Joey suddenly sits uprite in bed screaming at the top of her lungs. Dawson is up and next to her in a heart beat.

"SHH Joey it is ok i am here." Dawson tells her in a sothing voice.

"Dawson is that really you?" Joey asks

"Yes Jo i am here, your in my room. You passed out after i threw Mark out."

"I rememebr now, I can't go back now. He is going to be really mad." Joey says

"It is ok Joey i am here now he will never hurt you again." Dawson stands up so she can lay back down."Here Jo lay down and get some sleep.

"No Dawson Hold me, please, Even if it is only tonight. Hold me and don't let go." Joey tells him with tears in her eyes.

Dawson climbs into bed with her and raps his arms around her. He can feel the tention leave her as his arms close around her. "Sure Jo, just sleep, I'll be here when you wake up."

"Safe now, oh feel safe now." Joey says even though the last is but a wisper as she is already back to sleep.

"Yes Jo you're safe now." Dawson wispers as he kisses her head.

NEXT MORNING DAWSONS ROOM

We see Dawson and Joey still in the same postions, as when they fell asleep. Dawson is clearly awake but hasn't moved, he doesn't want to wake Joey. He watches as his mom walks in and looks at him. He motions for her to leave so as not to wake her up. His mom nods her head, and slowly leaves closing his door.

Several hours later Joey starts to stir. Dawson starts to release her but she grabs his arms and holds them tightly around her.

"Afternoon Jo." Dawson says

"Afternoon?" Joey says as she sits up in bed. "How long have i been asleep?"

"Well, lets see, it is one thirty now and it was ten thirty when you passed out. So that would be about fifteen hours." Dawson informs her.

"Oh God, i haven't slept that much in years. I'm sorry Dawson, for causeing you to lose a day of your vist, and for everything last night." She says looking away from him.

"Joey, your a friend, you don't have to thank me. I will always be here to help you, All you would have had to do was call and ask. Oh by the way Bessie wants you to call her." Dawson tells her handing her his cell phone.

"Yeah, I'm sure she does. Ok, Dawson think i can have a couple of minutes to myself to talk to her. I owe so many people apoligies. You see i figured that what i was getting was because of what i did to you." Dawson starts to say something, but joey puts a finger over his lips and shakes her head. "Dawson please listen." He nods his head.

"You see, five years ago, i said things completely wrong. You completely miss understood what i was trying to say to you in my dormroom. I tried in vain to find you, but your plane was just leaving when i arrived. Since you had decided to leave, i decided you had made your choice, so i left you alone. Then Almost at the end of my second year in college, i meet Mark. Oh Dawson at first he was so nice and kind, He reminded me of you in so many ways, at least at first. Then after we had been together for about a year it started, slowly at first. When we moved back here after i graduated he had me so scared, and i just knew this was my punishment for the bad things i had done to you. When my family and friends tried to stop it. Well lets just say, i wasn't nice to them. I even told them, that if they couldn't except Mark the way he is then i wouldn't come around anymore. Dawson i was so mean to them. I'm not sure they will ever be able to forgive me, i mean i did it to Bessie, your mom and dad, Pacey, Jack and Andie, Jen. Every one who has ever caried about me and who i have cared about. God Dawson how do i say i am sorry for three years of being mean?" Joey finishes with tears running down her cheeks and looking away so Dawson can't see the shame there.

Dawson looks at her knowing his help has just began. "Joey, it is simple. You start by saying i am sorry please forgive me. If they were your true friends and family, and they trully loved you, they will forgive you. I did, didn't i?"

"Well, yes but you haven't been around for the last four years. Dawson when i get done with Bessie do you think we can have another talk? There is something i really need to tell you." Joey says

"Sure Jo, just come down and get me ok, I'm going to make us something to eat. You're hungry right?"

"I am famished Dawson."

He nods his head as he gets up to head down stairs.

"Dawson, i am really glade you came back to vist, i have missed you more than you will know." She tells him

"Me too Joey, me too." He smiles at her, and recives one in return. Not a smile like he got last night, this is one he is sure she hasn't given in a long time. With that he leaves her to make her phone call.

She is sitting there on his bed thinking to herself. ' Could this really be happening, do i really deserve this. Do i deserve to have Dawson come back and save me again. After what i did, i can't believe he even decided to try to help me. I am the luckeist person on earth.' Now it was time to face the music. She dails Bessie's number.

"Hello" Bessie says into the phone.

Joey starts crying almost at once.

"Joey sweetheart is that you. Don't cry sis, we still love you, we always will." Bessie says into the phone, and in the back ground she can hear Bodie saying. "Oh Joey we love you so much kiddo." Bessie then says. " Joey talk to me, please."

"Bessie the only thing i can say is i am so sorry. I wish none of this would have happened, can you guys ever forgive me?" Joey says into the Phone as the sobs rack her so hard she almost can't finish.

"Oh Joey there is nothing to forgive, we are just glade you are out of it and safe now back with us where you belong. Hey i have someone who wants to talk to you." Bessie says and then hands the phone to a little boy.

"Mommy is that you, i miss you mommy when do i get to see you next? Me and Alex are haveing fun mommy we are making sand castles. Mommy are you there?" Joey son asks.

"Oh Wade sweety mommy will see you later today if it is ok with anut Bessie. I love you so much Wade, mommy is getting better. She has an old friend who is helping her." Joey tells her son before the tears take over and she can't talk.

"Anut Bessie, mommy wants to know if it is ok if we see eachother later today?" Wade asks, and Joey can hear both Bessie and Bodie say yes.

"See mommy aunt Bessie and Unucle Bodie don't care." He gets serious, or at least as serious as a four year old can. "Mommy, Daddy won't be there will he, he scares me with the things he does to you."

"No baby, we are done with your dad, he will never hurt us again, i promise you that." Joey says

"Good i am gla gla oh happy about that." Wade says

"You meant glad."

"Yeah that is the word, thanks mommy. Ok mommy i am going to go pleay i will see you later today, mommy i love you." With that Wade hands the phone back to Bessie and runs out the door to go play with Alex.

"Sis are you there?" Bessie says and then hears the sobs on the other end of the line. "Oh Joey it will be ok now, now you can start to rebuild with him. As long as you stay away from Mark you can even keep him with you." Bessie tells her.

"Oh Bessie i am done with Mark. I have no clue what i am going to do now, But i am done with him. After what Dawson did last night, i can't let him down. He took a big risk, and i am sure the only reason why he helped was because Mark pissed him off last night." Joey says

"Oh Joey, i think there was more to it than that. I think he looked into your eyes and couldn't find that spark for life that was always there, and knew he had to do something cause he couldn't stand it. Don't forget he loves you, maybe more now than ever before. Even if it is just as a friend." Bessie tells her.

"Yeah, well what ever his reasons i'm not sure if i will ever be able to thank him enough. I'm not sure i even know how to start. The first thing i have to do is explain Wade and the situation, it is going to be hard. I have to aploigize to Mitch and Gail as well. Ok Bessie i am going to let you go so i can finish my talk with Dawson and his parents. I'll see you guys a little later, and Bessie, thank you so much for forgiving me, tell Bodie the same. And Bessie I love you guys." Joey says.

"Ok Joey, i will tell him. Take your time, we aren't going any where. Jo, we love you Too." Bessie tells her before hanging up.