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Chapter 3 – Uncle Tommy and more interrogations

"Joey wait!" Jen yelled catching up with her.

Joey stopped and turned around a confused and lost expression met Jen's eyes. "Joey, I know you have a lot to deal with right now but you can't run from something potentially good in your life."

Joey looked at Jen as she said "How do you do it?"

"Do what?" Jen asked Joey confused.

"How are you able to remain so calm and in control about all of this. You're so fearless Jen, Pacey is the same way and I just wish I could be more like you guys but I'm just so scared." Joey said to her.

Jen smiled "Let me fill you in on a little secret Joey. Us so called fearless, it's just all a tough exterior. Inside we are just as easily hurt as you. Maybe even more so because we don't give our hearts easily to someone."

Joey gave her a small smile then sighted "It's just, I don't know what it means you know. Before we got taken Pacey and I were arguing about why I thought of him first before anyone else. It was really confusing for me at the time, especially since he gave me that look, you know that look." Jen nodded smiling at her but saying nothing so she could continue "Next thing I know it's three years later and we are by some lake. During the ride over here I've been going over and over it and I'm really confused as to why he suddenly wants to become more then just close friends. And what is really scary is that part of me really wanted him to kiss me."

"Well Jo, Pacey had fallen for you months before he picked you up. Maybe even longer but he just didn't realize it. Point is, there is something there between the two of you. You're obviously upset and confused about it but if you didn't feel the same way about him as he does about you. You wouldn't be making such a big deal out of it. You wouldn't be so upset and confused. Dawson isn't an issue since three years have passed and I'm pretty sure he's moved on. You need to kiss him Joey and find out for yourself if you two could be something more. And yes, it's risking your friendship with him but not doing anything about it and just staying friends could kill your friendship just as easily." Jen told Joey and was surprised when Joey gave her a hug "Thanks Jen." Joey whispered to her.

Jen smiled and hugged Joey back "anytime." She said then heard her name being called as it was her turn for interrogation.

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"When were you taken?"

"Didn't Pacey already fill you in on this?" Jen replied.

"I'm asking you questions not the other way around." The voice of the NTAC officer said.

"Well if you were to ask questions you didn't already know the answer to I'll answer them, otherwise you're wasting both of our time." Jen replied.

"Answer the question miss Lindley." The agent demanded.

Jen sighted and rolled her eyes. "Fine, the year 2000, Like Pacey probably told you, him Joey and I were in our Junior year, they were taken just outside Capeside off the road. And I was taken in Capeside by the docks of the restaurant Leery's Fresh Fish. Anything else I can indulge you with?" she asked him.

The agent asked a few more questions about Jen's family and her relationship with Joey and Pacey before letting her go.

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Joey walked up to Pacey, Shawn and a little girl, "hey" she greeted them.

Pacey looked up "hey" he said back, "I'd like you to meet Maia" he added.

Joey smiled at Maia "hey there, you know I have a nephew who is about your age now."

"I know, he and your sister are fine so you needn't worry about them." Maia said to her.

Joey looked strangely at Pacey who then explained about Maia's unusual ability. After he was done explaining Joey said "Oh, well this is just great!" she said sarcastically, "Now I can suddenly make things fly across the room or something like that."

"Jo, calm down, it's going to alright, whatever they did to us we'll figure it out and deal with it when we do." Pacey said to her as he enveloped her in a hug.

Joey sighted against Pacey feeling her fear and concern about everything leave her body and she breathed in his scent. He smelled like a little like sweat and just his typical Pacey smell. She loved how he smelled and she felt herself get wet and realized how badly she wanted to kiss him he pulled back a little and looked at her, his eyes dark with desire "Pacey" she breathed.

"Yes Jo?" Pacey asked her warm body so close to his making it hard to think clearly and not just kiss her.

Their lips were close together almost touching when she suddenly withdrew from him and said "Just give me some time"

Pacey nodded still trying to force his hardened member to calm down as he watched her. She smiled at him then turned her attention to Maia afraid to lose control and just let herself go.

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Jen came out of the interrogation room to see Shawn waiting for her, "what a waste of time. Where are Pacey and Joey?" she asked him.

Shawn chuckled amused by Jen before answering her question "They're playing with Maia, she's this little girl who was taken in 1946. Poor girl, her parents are probably dead by now. But that's not the strangest thing about her being taken. Apparently she has some sort of ability to see the future."

Jen looked at where Pacey and Joey were playing with the little girl and then back to Shawn "Why would they take a little girl from their parents and then sent her back with the ability to see the future?" she asked him.

Shawn shrugged "I don't know, but why take any of us? And did they change us as well?" he asked her.

"Well I can't see the future if that's what you mean." She replied sitting down in a chair.

Shawn sat in a chair next to hers and said "well me neither but maybe all of us here have a different ability, we just don't know what it is and how to use it." He paused for a few seconds before adding "It's scary, to think we might just suddenly blow someone up or something like that without knowing how or meaning to. I don't want to be different when I get back. I just want to be normal, like everybody else."

Jen smiled at him and took his hand so he looked up at her "Shawn, whatever happens when we get out of here. However people will react to us, you have to try and ignore them and just be yourself. And well, you can always call Pacey, Joey or me."

Shawn gave her a smile and realized how beautiful Jen was as he stared into her brown eyes, both of them leaned forwards towards each other not really feeling like they were but like some spell had taken over control over their bodies, then…"Joey Potter, interrogation room 1 please." A voice called and the spell was broken both pulling back from one and other and sat uncomfortable around each other when Joey, Pacey and Maia came up to them.

"Hey there, you must be Maia, I'm Jen." Jen said smiling at Maia.

"Hello" Maia said to her smiling back at her while Joey excused herself an walked up to interrogation room 1.

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"I really don't see anything that I can tell you that Jen and Pacey haven't already told you." Joey said to the agent interviewing her. "I was taken in the year 2000, I was with Pacey when it happened. We were discussing something off the road just outside of Capeside and suddenly there was this light and I lost three years of my life and am by some lake In the mountains."

"How would you define your relationship with Mr. Witter and Miss Lindley?" the agent asked.

"They're my best friends, although I Jen and I had some trouble and Pacey and I never actually got close until earlier this year…I mean earlier three years ago." She answered him.

"What kind of trouble did you have with Miss Lindley?" the agent asked.

Joey sighted "well let's see, I was in love with Dawson, my other best friend and suddenly Jen came into our lives and took him away from me. She disrupted our friendship circle and things never got quite the same since she came into our lives. It took a while for us to become friends." She said to the agent.

"Did this sex pact between Miss Lindley and Mr. Witter upset you?" the agent then asked her.

"What?" Joey asked a bit shocked they would ask her that. "I don't see how that has anything to do with this." The agent nodded making a note and ignoring Joey's glare. "I think that is all for today miss Potter, you may go." He the said to her.

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"Shawn Farrell interrogation room 3 please" a voice called.

Shawn looked at his newfound friends and smiled slightly, "I hope that I get to talk to my uncle Tommy. He works for NTAC, maybe he can give us some answers."

"Sounds good. Good luck" Jen said to him and received a warm smile from him before he turned to head for the interrogation room 3.

Pacey was watching Jen with an amused expression on his face, when Jen tore her eyes of Shawn and saw him she blushed slightly but tried to hide it "What?" she asked him.

Pacey smirked "Oh nothing" he said and led Jen think he was letting it go only to add "So Shawn is a nice guy huh?"

Jen looked at him "I don't know I guess so. I don't know him that well yet." She said trying not to sound nervous while talking about it.

"Well he seems to like you a lot, in fact it seemed we were interrupting something between the two of you just then." He said to her.

"And what about you and Joey Pacey?" Jen asked him trying to change the subject.

"She needs time" Pacey answered and then turned back to the original topic "So you like him?" he asked her.

"Well he is cute Pace, and nice. But for me it feels like I'm still with Henry. I need to process that he's graduated by now." Jen said to him.

"I know what you mean, I mean all our friends are done with High school while we still have a year of it to go. With probably some make up tests for finals we missed. All while Jack, Dawson and Andie are probably all in Collage. Andie would be at Harvard, Dawson in LA, I wonder how many time he's been mugged by now? And Jack, I don't know Boston maybe?"

"Poor Dawson, it must have been hell for him to suddenly lose his two best friends" Jen said but Pacey interrupted. "Three best friends Jen, you know he would miss you too, even though he knew Jo and I the longest. I wonder how any of them have made it through without your advice. I mean I would have missed you like crazy if you were suddenly ripped out of my life. And not just because you give good advise on my situation with Joey but because I'd be the only tough person left of the group." He said smirking.

Jen smiled slightly then asked "Who do you think took care of them while we were gone?"

"Well they'd take care of each other, Jack would take care of Andie, Grams and Dawson, while Bodie would take care of Bessie. Mitch and Gail would try to help Dawson deal as well, and my family, they'd be throwing a party having finally gotten writhe of me." He said half joking half serious.

Jen smiled and was about to say something when Maia said "They haven't forgotten about you Pacey."

Pacey turned to Maia with a questioning look on his face "Is that so? Who would have guessed? I know I wouldn't have missed them if I could remember the last three years."

Jen laughed "yeah I'd love to see that one, "4400 people sent back by aliens because one 17 year old boy couldn't stop crying about how much he missed his family." That'd would be the same as me crying about missing my mom and dad."

Pacey chuckled "so aliens huh? You think that's what took us?" he asked her.

"I don't know, it's possible, I mean we did come back by a ball of light from out of space." She told him.

"It doesn't make any sense though, I mean, why take us and over 4000 other people in the last 60 years or so to just sent us back altered. What reason could be behind it?" he asked her.

"All questions will be answered in time" Maia said to them just as Joey joined them again.

"What does that mean?" she asked her "Do you know why they took us? And who they are?" she asked.

Pacey and Joey looked at Joey then back at Maia "I don't know, I just know we'll get answers in time."

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"Uncle Tommy, hi! It's good to see you! Look, what's going on, nobody will tell us anything." Shawn said as he saw his uncle when he walked into the interrogation room.

Agent Tom Baldwin appears to be in shock at seeing his nephew "We'll let you know as soon as we find out. I still can't believe it's you."

"How do you think I feel? Listen, do you know how long they're gonna keep us, because I really want to go home." Shawn replied.

Tom gestures for Shawn to sit before he asks "Shawn, do you remember anything? Anything at all about what happened that night?"

"See, nothing! Nothing. One minute I'm sitting there with Kyle, on the beach, the next, it's two years later, and I'm standing next to some mountain with a couple thousand strangers around me. Listen Uncle Tommy, some people are saying that we were abducted by aliens." Shawn said needed to know answers.

"We can't rule anything out yet." His uncle told him

"Well can you give me anything? How's my Mom? How's Danny?" he asked his uncle anxious to know.

"Fine, they're all fine. They miss you." Tom replied.

"Hey, what about Kyle? He must have seen something the night I disappeared. Did he tell you anything?" Shawn asked him standing up and walking around the room

Tom watched him as he answered "he hasn't said a word."

"He's ok, isn't he? Isn't he?" Shawn asked somehow already knowing he wasn't but afraid to think about it.

"Kyle's in a coma, Shawn." His uncle informed him.

"What are you talking about?" Shawn asked not believing what he is hearing.

"What I'm talking about, is Kyle, lying in a bed, with a ventilator down his throat. Being fed down one tube and pissing out of another. He's been like that ever since the night you left." Tom said his tone saying he thought Shawn had something to do with that.

"He was fine last time I saw him. We were having a couple of beers…" Shawn said to his uncle not believing his best friend and cousin has been in a coma for 2 years, he sat back down.

"Look, don't you lie to me Shawn!" He uncle said angrily.

"I'm not." Shawn said to him not quite believing his ears as his uncle would actually think he would lie about something like this.

"Don't you lie to me! I've been waiting two years to hear the truth from you, so please don't lie to me." His uncle shouted at him angrily.

Shawn stared at his uncle a second before getting angry himself he jumped up "I just told you the truth! Is that what you've been thinking, this whole time? That I gave Kyle something that messed him up and then I just took off?" Shawn yells at him and then walks around the room not believing his uncle would actually think that bad about him he then turned to his uncle again saying "Screw you Uncle Tommy! I just told you everything I know!" He picks up a chair and throws it at the unbreakable glass between him and his uncle "Dammit! He yells frustrated and angrily before he storms out of the interrogation room leaving his uncle there to think.

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Jen watched Shawn come out of the interrogation room upset and excused herself from Joey, Pacey and Maia as she headed over to him.

"Hey, you ok?" she said to him as she approached him.

Shawn looked up and saw Jen, "I'm not really in a talking mood" he said to her as he sat down against the wall.

Jen looked at him considering her option to leave him alone for a while or to try and find out what happened and try to make it better. She decided to go with the latter one and sat down next to him not saying anything but waiting for him to talk.

Shawn knew she was sitting next to him, although he was sitting with his eyes closed against the wall. After a few minutes he started to talk to her about his cousin, about how his uncle thought he had done something to him that put him in a coma for two years. About how his conversation basically went.

When he was done Jen was silent for a moment as he now looked at her with his brown eyes showing in which she felt like somehow she was seeing his soul, it scared her but she pushed her fear aside and said "I know this is hard Shawn but you have to understand that your uncle must not have wanted to believe you did something to your cousin right away. When a person is told over and over again that whoever was with him and in this case disappeared without a trace it eventually makes sense and you start to accept it. Even if you don't want it to make sense and accept it you eventually do because you have no other explanation. Look at the facts, there would be no trace of anyone else on the beach you were at, you were drinking, it is a logical conclusion. A wrong one but a logical, it will take your uncle some time unbelieving what he has finally accepted to believe. It is no one's fault, well except the ones that took us, the must have done something to your cousin."

Shawn was silent listening to her and letting the information process and after a while he finally said "I guess so, thanks Jen."

They smiled at each other, the Jen took his hand and said "anytime."

They continued to sit there in comfortable silence, hand in hand and Pacey nudged Joey.

"Pacey" Joey said shooting him a look and Pacey smirked as he turned her head in Jen and Shawn's direction. "Oh…you think there is something going on between them?" she asked him.

"There is definitely some something going on between them. Jen told me earlier she liked him but it felt weird since she also feels she's still with Henry." He told Joey.

"Well it is weird I guess." She replied to him then added as she looked at Jen and Shawn again "then again, it would be nice if something good came out of all this." She said and finished looking at Pacey.

Pacey looked back at her seeing something that made him smile "Potter, are you flirting with me" he said amused.

Joey blushed at his words as she said "I…no…keep dreaming Pacey" she finally said to him and turned her back to him.

Pacey smirked and walked around so he was facing her again "Oh come on Josephine, you know you like me" he said teasingly.

She looked at him trying hard to glare but then smiled at him and said "maybe I do" with which she knew she would catch him off guard with.

Pacey smiled a genuine smile at her and asked "really."

She had planned to make a joke about it but seeing him standing there so deliciously she suddenly lunged forwards kissing him passionately on his lips.

Pacey was in shock, Joey was kissing him, he quickly wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her closer to him as he returned the kiss. Joey moaned in satisfaction and put her arms around his neck.

Someone cleared her throat behind Joey and they froze and then slowly broke apart and saw a woman standing there with a disapproving look on her face. "Really shouldn't be doing that in front of a child" she said to them.

Maia smiled at the woman "It is ok, they're in love. I'm happy for them."

The woman kept her disapproving glare at the two saying "that doesn't make that grope fest appropriate for someone of your age to see." She said.

"Sorry" Joey apologized.

"We just sorta lost control, sorry." Pacey said to her.

"Well don't let it happen again. We don't have the privacy for such things in this place." The woman said to them before leaving them alone with Maia once more.

"So we should talk about what just happened" Pacey suggested after a couple of minutes of uncomfortable silence between them.

Joey sighted "I guess we should." She replied.

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