superfan24: Thanks for the nice review. I love Smallville too, loved Season 5 eppie one. Clark finally knows Chloe knows. Sigh, didn't like the Clana ending though, I don't like Lana. I like Lois though, if Clark and Chloe won't end up together I want Lois and Clark to.

Alice, she's not real nice in the beginning. Just endure her and find out why. It will all be revealed later on. You'll even like her at some point. Haven't seen Supernatural yet, been reading a Supernatural/Dark Angel fanfic I found which reveal some stuff, I love it so far so I'm pretty sure I'll love the show as well.

elwoodluver00034: Thanks for the nice feedback as well. As for P/Jo, read and see. Alice, you'll probably like her later on. She's not from the show, but from the show. Meaning she comes in a season 2 eppie but under a different name, and how can a girl not be interested in Pacey. I mean you have looked at him, right? Lol. And the OC, I love it too. How can you not? Seth/Summer is so cute, Marissa/Ryan is nice. All the drama, the action. Sigh, I love the OC. Can't wait till I get to see eppie 5 of Season 3. Summer is going for revenge against that evil dean.

paceyandjoeyfan4Eva: Thanks, for the nice review, Alice is fun to write, don't worry, you'll get to like her eventually. When I'm done with Dawson's evil plan that is.

Chapter 17 – John Witter and Drue part 1

"You understand what I want you to do?" Dawson Leery's voice asked a young man and woman sitting across the small table from him.

The blonde woman smiled "Don't worry Mr. Famous director, we know how to do our job."

"Just worry about paying us." The dark haired man told the blond young man across from him.

"Don't worry, Eddie. You and Audrey will get your money." Dawson said smiling.

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The rest of the weekend was over fast, Susan had agreed to have Shawn transferred to Capeside High so they were mostly busy moving Shawn's stuff into Jack's old room at Mrs. Ryan's home in Capeside.

Joey and Jen seemed to have either forgotten or accepted that the boys would be skipping school Thursday afternoon and didn't mention it.

Monday approached and although they didn't like the idea of going back to school they were glad to have their small group at least complete. Jen and Shawn seemed to have the same schedule so neither of the 4 4400 attending Capeside High were now alone in a class.

"So you are the freak from Seattle who is Jen's new boyfriend?" Henry Parker asked Shawn as he saw him walking with Joey. Pacey had wanted to talk to Jen alone.

"Back off Henry." Joey told him.

"Now why would I do that Joey?" Henry asked "What are you going to do? You don't have your freak boyfriend to defend you this time."

"I don't need Pacey to deal with the like of you." Joey said narrowing her eyes at him.

"Why don't you just walk away, Henry was it." Shawn said to him.

"Or what city freak? I go where I want to go, and you better watch it or I'll be kicking your ass back into space along with your other freak friends." Henry said looking at Shawn.

"You and what army? Haven't you learned from the last time you challenged a 4400?" Shawn asked him.

"That was because of Lindley and Witter freak abilities. But I don't see them around this time." A big black guy, probably on the football team with Henry, said to the.

"Well, how do you know Shawn and I can't do anything normal humans can't. We are 4400." Joey told him. "Now get out of our way, before I make you get out of my way."

"I don't take orders from women." A big white guy on the other side of Henry said to her.

"Have it your way, then." Joey said and pushed the big guys next to Henry hard aside so the collided into the wall. Then she said to Henry "You're gonna move or do you want to see what Shawn can do?" Henry looked at them with fear with quickly turned into disgust and anger.

Shawn took a step towards Henry who then stepped aside to let Joey and Shawn pass.

Joey smiled "thanks you." They then walked off.

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"So what is it you wanted to talk with me about Pace?" Jen asked him.

"Well I was sort of hoping you would help me with something." Pacey told her.

Jen studied him, trying to read what he was trying to ask of her. "With what?" she asked him.

"My dad, or at least I think he is, I want to tell him something, and I want to make sure he gets every word I have to say to him. For that I need your help." Pacey told her.

"Sure Pace, but why don't you just ask Shawn to wake him up for you?" Jen asked him.

"Because I don't want him up. That bastard deserves to be lying there, I don't want him to wake up. At least not with any special help from Shawn. I need closure." Pacey told her.

"Ok, why don't you want Joey and Shawn to know?" Jen asked him.

"This is personal, my mess, my problem. They have enough to deal with, so do you, but I don't see any other way on how to deal with this." Pacey told her.

"Pacey, we're friends, best friends. None of us sees it that way. We'll be glad that we can help you through this. That you trust us enough to tell us these kind of things. If you shut Joey and Shawn out of this they will know something happened. And they will be hurt that you didn't trust them enough to tell them." Jen told him.

"I know, and I will tell them. I just want to get it over with first. You know deal with it first talk about it later." Pacey told her.

"Ok, fine. I'll help you Pacey. But however it is going to go you will tell Joey and Shawn and explain to them why you didn't tell them right away." Jen told him.

Pacey smiled "I will, thanks Jen. Now that brings us to our next problem. How are we going to get away from Jo and Shawn without letting them know where we are going?"

Jen smiled "Don't worry about that Pace, I have a plan."

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"You're going to drive all the way to Seattle for your hairbrush?" Joey asked Jen later at lunch.

"Well, no, not technically. Pacey offered to drive me." Jen replied.

"Ok, so we'll all go, have a road trip to Seattle." Joey told them.

"Oh, don't bother, we'll be right back. And this will give you some time to show Shawn all the beautiful places in Capeside Jen and I don't much feel for." Pacey told her.

"Ok…" Joey said looking at him and Jen suspiciously.

"Jo, it's not that I don't want you there, I just don't want you to endure another road trip, since we have driven a lot over the past couple of days." Pacey told her.

"Besides, we're going to be speeding a little and we know you hate it when we drive faster then allowed." Jen told Joey.

"Maybe some time apart will be good for us. You know how absence strengthens the feelings you have for the other person." Pacey said to her.

"Well, we have been together a lot since we got back. Maybe some time apart will be good for us." Joey gave in.

Pacey smiled and kissed her "I promise we'll be back as soon as we can."

"It's just, I love that hairbrush." Jen told them.

"What's so special about it?" Shawn asked.

"Grams gave it to me when we got back." Jen quickly made up.

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When Joey and Shawn watched Pacey drive Jen off she looked at Shawn.

"He's lying, we're following them." She told him as she walked to the Potter's truck.

"Ok, but I'm driving." Shawn said as he took the keys from Joey. "What? Pacey and Jen both say you're a terrible driver." He told her.

"Well Pacey taught me, so blame him." Joey told him.

"I would but seeing how Pacey drives good and you bad I'd have to blame the student and not the teacher." He said as he got into the car.

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"The hospital? What are they doing here?" Shawn asked confused.

Joey sighted "Pacey is going to see his father and he asked Jen to help him and not tell us anything. Come on, let's go. He'll tell us when he's ready." Joey said to Shawn and Shawn drove off.

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Pacey stood in front of his fathers bed looking down at the pale John Witter.

"Jen?" Pacey asked and she nodded and placed a hand on his back for support.

"So, I'm back pops, or should I call you Mr. Witter, or even better ass…at least now I finally know why you hated me all those years. Why, no matter how hard I tried I could never please you enough. I didn't go looking for what may be my real father those 3 years I have been gone. I wouldn't leave my friends like that. You, definitely but my friends deserve better. Unlike you they have always been there for me. No I was taken along with 4399 other people, including Joey Potter and Jennifer Lindley. By what or who we don't know. We came back in a ball of white light near mount Rainier. I'm going to do a DNA test to see if you're my father, I'm conflicted about what I want the result to be. On one side I despise you and how you've treated me all my life, on the other side I would just love to see your face if it turns out I am your son, for you to know you've been looking down on your own son my entire life. Either way, I am done with you. I don't need you, and if you ever wake up out of this coma. Don't you ever come near me, mom or any of us again…. I came here to talk to you to get closure so I could move on with my life. Which is what I am going to do now." Pacey told him.

"Wait son, you had your say not let me do mine." John Witter's voice sounded in Pacey's and Jen's head.

"I don't want to hear any more of your crap pops." Pacey told him. "If you want to talk to me so badly you're gonna have to wake up and tell me without Jen's help."

"You ungrateful loser. You will listen to what I have to say to you. If you want your god damn closure from me." John Witter told him.

"I'm not really interested on what you could possibly have to say to me to make up for all the years of emotional abuse I had to take from you and everyone else in my family." Pacey told him.

"She cheated on me son! Not the other way around. That bitch shot me when I told her to get over you. I never laid a hand on her. I loved your mother." John Witter told him.

"Yeah, just like you loved me, right pops. You hated mom for cheating on you and you hated me because I was a constant reminder of that she was unfaithful to you. I don't blame mom for cheating on you. Hell I would have encouraged her to do so, it is not as if you treat her with any respect! She deserves better then you." Pacey told his father.

"Oh you are so lucky I am not away right now boy. Or I would remind you who you are talking to. With my belt. Then again it is not like that has ever helped you from not being such a screw up." John Witter told his son.

"You used to hit Pacey?" Jen's shocked voice sounded through both Senior and Junior Witter.

"Jen not now." Pacey told her, his thoughts betraying his fear, about anyone finding out, to her. "Even if you woke up pops, you will find out things have changed. I have changed. If and when you wake up don't coming looking for me. I won't come looking for you. You were a bad father, Mitch Leery and Mike Potter were a better father to me then you ever were." Pacey told him.

"Figures, Mitch Leery would be a nice father figure to you, since he might be your real father." John told him.

Jen could feel his sick humor and knew Pacey could feel it as well, she could also feel Pacey's shock at that bit of information. "You didn't know? I thought your mom told you what had happened?" she asked him privately, cutting John off from the conversation.

"I did, she said it was some random guy, a one night stand." Pacey told her.

"You didn't know, did you? Figures your mother would make up some story to make you hate her less. What did she say? That she had a one night stand with some random guy?" John Witter asked.

"Mitch Leery may be my father?" Pacey asked still shocked by this piece of information.

"Apparently he was having no luck getting his wife knocked up so when my wife turned to him for comfort about our situation he turned to her for his. And their affair began. It wasn't until 2 months after that she found out she was pregnant. The little bitch went to talk to Mitch as soon as she found out, only to hear him happily tell her his own wife was pregnant. So she didn't tell him her news. Instead came crawling back to me asking for forgiveness and telling me the child she was carrying may be mine. When I asked for a test, she told me if I just loved you it wouldn't matter who his real father was, that I would be it." John Witter told his son the real story.

"But Pacey could still be your right?" Jen asked him.

"There is a slim chance, I did still have sex with her during her affair." John told them.

"Mitch Leery may be my real father…I may be Dawson Leery's half brother." Pacey thought to himself but his thoughts were also projected in Jen's and John Witter's head because of the connection Jen held open between the tree of them. "Is this the truth or another lie pops?" he asked his father.

"You should know me better then to lie to you Pacey. I never cared enough about you to lie to you. I tried hard for a long time to love you, but when I look at you all I see is her betrayal and my failure as a husband. I could never love you, you are a failure, a mistake your mother made." John Witter told him.

"Pacey may still be your son Mr. Witter. I'd consider that before telling him things you might regret if the test we had taken comes out with you as a positive match as his father. And Pacey is anything but a screw up. He's a caring young man who is there when you need him. He's a good friend and he will help make a difference in the world. That is what he, Joey, me and the other 4400 will do. Make a difference. You just wait." Jen told him.

They could feel the amusement and laughter of what Jen had just said to John Witter flowing from him. "What were they thinking picking him of all people. He'll find some way to screw it up girl. He always does." John told her.

"You may have tried hard to make Pacey into a screw up and loser because deep down you wanted him to be that so you could show your wife who is the better man. You or Mitch Leery. Who has the better Genes. But you haven't succeeded. Pacey doesn't care what you think, neither do I, or Joey. You don't deserve him. We don't deserve him either but he does deserve us. And he definitely deserves a whole lot of a better father then you." Jen told him. "Say goodbye Pacey, we're leaving." She told him.

"Bye pops." Pacey said and Jen cut the link before John Witter could reply.

"Come on, you have better things to worry about then his idiotic lies. For instance how to tell Joey all of this. And Shawn. To visit your mom and confront her with what you learned from him." Jen told Pacey placing an arm around his back as she led him out of the hospital room where John Witter was lying on the bed.

"I know" Pacey replied, "I appreciate what you did back there Jen. For helping me through this. But can you take a cab or the bus? I have to visit my mother now first." Pacey asked her.

"Pacey, you don't have to go through all this alone. Joey would want to be there for you. I already feel guilty about lying to her about coming here. She's your girlfriend, if you don't let her help you deal with your family problems she will be hurt and may start to not let you help her with her problems as well. Do you want that?" Jen asked him.

"No, but this is something I have to do alone." Pacey told her. "Please understand." He asked her.

Jen sighted but nodded, Pacey smiled and hugged her before saying "I'll be back soon." He then hurried of.

Jen watched him got then walked over to the pay phones "I may understand Pacey but I don't agree. Joey needs to know, you'll thank me for this later." She said as she threw in some money and dialed Shawn's cell phone number since Joey didn't have one.

"Shawn Farrell" Shawn's voice said after a few rings.

"Hey, Shawn. It's Jen. Can I talk to Joey?" Jen asked him.

"Sure, hang on. Jo." Shawn said and handed her the cell phone.

"Jen?" Joey asked "everything ok, is Pacey alright?"

"Not really, Pacey asked me to help him get I contact with his father. I wanted to just tell you but he promised me he would tell you afterwards. He just wanted to deal with it first." Jen told her.

"Yeah, I figured it would be something like that. Guys, when will they learn their girlfriends want to help them through their tough times. I knew you were at the hospital with him Jen. Shawn and I followed you because I knew he was lying. Hang on….Shawn keep the boat steady, if I fall into the creek I will kill you….Ok, so it went badly I take it." Joey told Jen.

"Yeah, we found out some stuff about the guy his mom had an affair with around the time he was conceived. His father said his mom was having a affair with Mitch Leery." Jen told her.

"Mitch? But his mom told him it-" Joey started.

"Was some random guy, I know. Pacey went to jail to confront his mother. Told me to get a cab. I don't think he should deal with alone, despite what he may say." Jen told her.

"Normally I would say that if he wants me there he'll ask. But I have to agree with you on this. He shouldn't deal with this alone. Thanks for calling me." Joey old Jen.

"No problem Joey. I'm just glad I can help him." Jen replied.

"I'll be glad when I find him. I'll see you tonight, your place right?" Joey asked her.

"Yeah, I'll see you then. Hang on to Shawn's cell and call mine if you need help with anything." Jen told her. Then added "Oh could you ask Shawn to pick me up, we're gonna visit an old friend of mine."

"I will, see ya later Jen." Joey told her.

"Bye Jo." Jen said hanging up the hospital phone.

Second part coming soon, review please.