Disclaimer: I do not own anything here, and this is just for fun.
Note: this is an alternative season 5...It's pretty much the same about season 4; the differences will come here, in Joey's memories....
Thanks: to Lali, who always reads them and asks for more
Jack looked concerned to his friend...something had him totally and completely upset...He knew Jen had phoned Joey during the night, after the whole musical incident, but she was still sleeping, and he didn't want to wake her.. Pacey looked terrible, sat on the couch, looking to nowhere, like he hadn't slept all night long...Jack knew that it had something with Joey, he saw the heated looks they were giving each other yesterday...and Erin, he heard her leaving not too much time after Pacey got back from work...
"Hey, man, what's up?"
"Morning, Jackers, sorry about last night..."
"Witter, what is going on? I haven't seen you like this since the day you met Jo at that café" Jack sat beside Pacey.
"My life is such a mess, Jack...You know. I tried to put things in place again, to get over all the drama I went through this year, but it seems to haunt me.."
"Pacey, you had not tried...you're a smart guy and know that as well as I do...You are postponing it, and the same works with our lovely Ms. Potter...And don't say you are in love with Erin, 'cause I know that's bullshit. You guys work together, because you asked Danny to give her the job, just to be near her, but you guys were ignoring each other until last night, and most because Joey doesn't even hear you talk about your little girlfriend and you are scared to death to talk to her...and it seemed to work, but everyone here knows that you guys can't help that any longer."
"Is it that obvious? And by the way, ex- girlfriend since last night too...Erin thinks she deserves someone better than me..."
"She wants a guy who loves her, Pace, not to be some kind of replacement girl..."
'But what am I supposed to do? I can't get through all that again, Jack...I can't feel like I'm not good enough for her, to feel that first thing that happens she'll be running after Dawson all again..."
"So you were hiding behind a girl. Shame on you, Witter...and I'm the gay guy here..."
"This is not funny, Mc Phee...You know that can happen."
"Pace, I don' know why you are so worried about Dawson...he's in California..."
"He's always been the issue..."
"No, Pace, you and Joey made him the issue...Pacey, You guys should at least talk, not to be together again, but at least figure out what went wrong...you don't have any idea what Joey went through after you left, do you?"
"What do you mean? What happened?" He got worried...he remembered how she looked when he first saw her after the summer...
"See my point? You guys have to talk...And Pacey, if it makes you happy, she didn't even say good bye when he left, and as far as I know, she talked to him just last month, after thousands of e-mails and Jen begging her to."
"If I'm going to face her, I should take a shower, shave, you know, to have some strength..."
"You just wanna look handsome for her..."
"Mc Phee, if you keep this way, I swear, one day you'll be found dead...And, thanks, Jack..."
"You're welcome...and by the way...never play Springsteen again at 2 am, ok?"
Pacey threw a pillow over Jack and headed to the bathroom...what would happen now?"