"I'm sorry Dawson i guess i miss read this whole thing i guess i need to go." She says.
"Jo, Wait." Dawson says as he grabs her arm making her flinch away from him. He realizes she has a long way to go to be fully recovered. "Sorry Joey i didn't mean to scare you." He says as she slowly regains her compossure. "You have to understand something first. I have a girlfriend. So before we can start anything i have to finish things with her first. Trust me it isn't that i don't want to kiss you, because i do, more than anything in the world. But right now it wouldn't be fair to Erica or to you. Do you understand?"
"So the only reason you turned away is because you want to end things with this other girl first? You mean you really want me back, you really want a relationship with me, even after everthing that has happened and knowing all you know? How i let him kill one of my children and have another taken from me, how is that possible?" She asks.
"Simple Jo, you were then, are now, and shall always be, the love of my life. We have all made mistakes, even me. No one is perfect. What makes us better people is the ability to forgive. Joey none of this is completely your fault, yes some is no escaping that, some is mine, but most of it is Mark's. He is the one who has done the most wrong." Dawson tells her.
"So i guess it is going to be one step at a time, huh?" Joey asks.
"Yes it is. Joey i know we are suppose to go over to Bessie's later, but you think i could drop you off and then meet up with you a little bit later. There are a few things i need to take care of."Dawson asks her.
"Sure Dawson that would be ok, as long as you come back and meet Wade." Joey says.
"Wade? His first name is my middle name?" Dawson asks her.
"His name is Wade Mitchell Potter. My little girl's name was Lillian Gail Potter, she is buried next to my mother." Joey informs him.
"Well maybe tomorrow you can take me there and introduce me to her as well." Dawson says.
"Dawson she is dead, she is gone." Joey says with tears in her eyes.
"Jo, she isn't gone, not as long as you have memories of her. Besides she is your daughter i want to meet her." Dawson says.
"Ok Dawson i will take you there tomorrow or the next day." Joey tells him.
"Let me guess you haven't been there since the funeral have you?"
"No it was too hard, but maybe with you at my side i will be able to." She says
"Good then it is a plan. WE will go see both of them, day after tomorrow ok?" Dawson inquires.
"Sure Dawson, but now i think i need to go to Bessie's and see my son. Do you think your mom and dad would mind if i kept him with me here overnight?" Joey asks kinda nervous.
"Lets find out." He picks up his cell phone and call his mom. "Mom hey Joey wants to know if you guys would be ok with her keeping Wade here with her overnight?" He asks into the phone. "Ok, yeah i see sure i will ok mom i love you as well, bye." He looks at her and says. "They have no problem with it, in fact i was told to tell you that if you didn't bring him over they were going to be angry at you." Dawson says with a chuckle.
She smiles a knowing smile and says. "Your parents are the best you know that. They have always treated me as an equal, as part of thier family. I think your mom and dad kinda see me as a daughter, which is so cool because they took the place, kinda, of my parents when they weren't around anymore. I mean Bessie did alot and i love her for it, But so did your mom and dad." Joey finishes with tears in her eyes.
"Yeah thier great like that sometimes. So Jo what about your dad? Have you heard from him at all?" Dawson asks her
"Yeah he got out again, just after you left. He decided he needed to get his life back on track before he came back here. That was five years ago, last we knew he was in Kansas some where, doing farm work. We always hoped he would come back at least for a vist, but he hasn't, at least not yet." She tells him.