Chapter 2 – Quarantine
"I can't believe this is happening!" Joey exclaimed as she found out she Pacey and Jen had been gone for 3 years. "3 years of my life, gone. Bessie most be worried sick about me. And what about our friends, Dawson, Jack, Andie, Mitch, Gail, Grams, Henry, all off them. They must have been worried sick about us.
"I hate this too Jo, but what can we do about it. It happened. We just have to accept and deal." Pacey told her and the small group of 4 stood together dealing with their loss of time.
"How can you be so calm about this Pace?" Joey asked him as she threw her hands In the air and added "We lost 3 years, 3 years!"
"I know Jo, but freaking out about it isn't going to turn back time and get us our lives back." Pacey answered her.
"He's right Joey. We need to stay calm about this. I mean everybody here is freaked out about their loss of time." Jen said to her. "Some of us here have been gone for way longer then 3 years. At least we have a chance that our families are still alive. Imagine if you've been gone for 50 years, you have lost most of your life then, if not everything."
Joey was silent, thinking. "We're lucky to have at least each other" Jen added.
Joey managed a small smile, "I know, I don't know what I would do if you guys weren't here with me." She said to them.
"Ah Potter, you know that you'd be missing me like crazy if I weren't here with you." Pacey said smiling playfully.
Joey tried not to smile at him, but failed, as she said "Believe me Pacey you would be as much missed by me as toothache."
Pacey smiled back smugly "You know Potter I would almost believe that…if you weren't so obviously lying."
"Wipe that smug smile from your face Pacey or I just might do it myself." Joey said to him.
"Is that a promise Jo, because I have been waiting a very long time from a kiss from you." Pacey replied.
Joey blushed "I…you…that is not what I meant." Joey stumbled over her words.
Pacey smiled "Really?" he asked her.
"Ok guy, hate to break up you flirting with each other but we really do have to see if we can contact our families. And see how long they are going to keep us here." Jen said to them.
Joey blushed again saying "I, we weren't flirting Jen. We were fighting, as usual."
"Could have fooled me." Shawn said to them. "Are you both so blind you can't see you're into each other." He said to them.
Pacey was trying hard not to show that he was very much into her as he said "Joey and I are just friends." He said calmly to them.
"Pacey Witter interrogation room 1 please." A voice called out through the room.
"That'd be me." He said smiling slightly at the group before wandering towards room 1.
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"When were you abducted?" the voice of an NTAC agent asked him as Pacey sat in a chair.
"Junior year, 2000, on the side of the rode. Jo and I were talking and we saw this light thing and then I was suddenly by that lake 3 years later. I don't know what happened. Can I call some people? They must be worried sick about us." Pacey asked.
"Us? You're saying you are here with other people that you know? Interesting, what are their names?" the NTAC agent asked ignoring his question about calling people.
"Jennifer Lindley and Josephine Lillian Potter. Now about that phone call…" Pacey prompted.
"This is interesting Mr. Witter, you and your friends are the only ones here that know one and other. Now how would you declare your relationship to the ladies.
"They're my best friends." Pacey said to him.
"Interesting, did you ever had a romantic relationship with either one of your best friend?" the agent asked.
"Well Jen and I tried to do this sex pact thing we agreed on once but neither of us could go through with it. And Jo, well we never got along so well, only since junior year have we become close friends." Pacey answered.
"Do you have romantic feelings for her?" the agent asked.
"I don't see how that is any of your business if I did. Aren't you supposed to figure out what happened to us instead of interrogating me about my love life?" Pacey said getting fed up with the agent.
"Believe me Mr. Witter, we are doing everything we can to figure out where you have been for the last 3 years." The Agent assured him and then added "you aren't allowed to make any phone calls. When you and the others are cleared to leave your families will be contacted to come and pick you up."
"And when would that be? Look I don't give a shit about contacting my family just contact theirs and let them know that Jen and Jo are alright. And that we are together. Give them some peace of mind for Gods sake." Pacey said to the agent.
The agent was silent "I think that's enough Mr. Witter, you may leave."
Pacey glared at the man as he left the room.
"How did it go?" Jen asked him as Pacey came through the door back into the quarantine room.
"They asked me when I was taken and then when I mentioned I came here with two of my best friends he started to grill me about my love life." Pacey said bitter.
"Well that must have been fun. Did you tell them about Andie and Tamara?" Joey asked obviously not getting the substance of the question.
"Jo, they wanted to know about his feelings for us, right?" Jen said.
"Yeah, sorry Jen, I filled them in on our once made sex pact." Pacey said smirking slightly.
Jen rolled her eyes "honestly what has that to do with anything that has happened?" she said.
"I don't know, they said something about us being the only ones that actually know each other. Maybe they wanted to know just how well connected we were with each other." Pacey replied.
"What did you tell them about us?" Joey asked him.
"What do you think I told them Joey?" Pacey asked her smirking at her.
"That we're good friends who like to fight a lot" Joey said to him, but frowning as she did because that didn't really define their relationship somehow.
Pace looked at her seriously "You sure that is all we are Jo?" he asked her.
"Yes, no…I mean God I don't know Pacey, isn't that what we were arguing about before whatever it was that took us took us three years into the future." Joey said.
"So you admit you have feelings for me that go beyond friendship." Pacey said daring a small smile.
He was looking at her with such hope in his eyes, 'do I feel something else beside friendship for Pacey Witter?' She asked herself then shook her head to clear it of thoughts in that way, she couldn't think of him that way. 'Dawson would go crazy if he knew she was falling for his best friend…wait am I falling for him? I can't be I mean he's so…so Pacey.' Then another voice said in her head 'But Dawson hasn't seen or heard from us in 3 years. He must have moved on with his life by now. So If I wanted to I could be with Pacey. But everything is so confusing right now I can't just…'
She looked up at him again seeing he is still waiting for an answer "I can't do this now, not here. Not now." She said to him before hurrying off.
Jen looked at Pacey in sympathy before she went after Joey.
"Well that went well." Pacey said sarcastically.
"If it helps man, I can tell you she's into you. It's just a lot to deal with all of this going on." Shawn told him.
"I know it is, I mean I may not care about my family all that much but to know that Dawson and the others have had to deal with us suddenly disappearing it is…weird." Pacey replied.
"Tell me about it. I mean I'm worried about my cousin Kyle, he was with me when they took me. He must have seen something. And then there is my mom and my brother Danny." Shawn said sighting.
"I'm sure they're ok Farrel." Pacey said to him.
"Yeah you're probably right." Shawn said to him.
Pacey smirked "Joey and Jen haven't told you yet. I'm always right."
Shawn laughed amused, a little girl then came up to them.
"Hey there." Pace said smiling at her and he dropped in a crouching stance to talk to her.
"What's your name?" he asked gently.
"Maia Rutledge" the little girl said to him smiling slightly.
"Hi there Maia, I'm Pacey Witter and this is Shawn Farrel. How are you doing Maia?" he asked her.
"I'm ok, you don't have to worry about their families. They're ok." She said to him.
Pacey frowned "And how do you know that Maia?" he asked her.
"I don't know, I just do." She answered him.
"They sent you back with the ability to predict the future or something?" Shawn asked her.
"I don't know, I just know I know this before they happen." Maia told them.
"Ok, this is just weird, you think they sent us back with an ability as well?" Shawn asked Pacey.
"I dunno, I mean we haven't been able to do anything strange as of yet, have we?" Pacey asked him.
"No, I guess not." Shawn replied.
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