Later that day, Joey and Pacey were at Doug's apartment. They were finishing their report on World War II. Pacey was recapitulating their speech.
"Okay, World War II was a collusion that involved every important power in the world. World War II happened because it was the product of the Great Depression. You see in the previous World War, the defeated Germany, dissatisfied Italy, and motivated Japan were ready to increase their powers…." Pacey acknowledged.
As Pacey continued the speech, Joey was shocked at Pacey improved work-studies. He had prepared and gathered everything they would need for the speech
After Pacey finished the speech, Joey said, "Wow Pacey. This is amazing. You did this all by yourself?"
"It's no big deal." Pacey said flustered.
"No it is a big deal. I mean, I felt like I didn't do anything. I mean, I never intended that you could do all of this." Joey said.
"Yeah, I can do a lot of things that you don't intend." Pacey said under his breath.
"What?" Joey said discouraged.
"Nothing." He cowered.
"No, you said something very rude... Pacey that was your fifth rude remark towards me ever since we started working. Now I've been trying to ignore them but if you keep on saying offensive stuff like that, you're going to leave me no choice, but to..." Joey repudiated.
"What am I doing?" He instigated.
"What are you doing?… Pacey you're being an ass. Everything was going fine between you and me, but…. You wanna know why I broke up with you. You were always a drag. When things started to make sense, you always did something to make it worse. I got sick of your gloomy sarcasm, stupidity, and selfishness." She elaborated.
"Now it might be your hormones, but did you not remember Dawson telling us that we could not talk about the past incidents, present conflicts, future developments." Pacey reminded.
"No, he told you, that you couldn't talk about it. But I can talk all I want about our past relationship." Joey said.
"What relationship? Joey, our relationship consisted of lies, problems, and mistakes." Pacey said straightforward.
Joey looked down at her stomach and then said tearfully, "Do you think this baby is a mistake?"
"What! God no!… See there you go again, everything I say, you assume the worse out of me… You know what was a mistake. It was a mistake the first time we kissed. It was a mistake that I ever thought I had a chance with Miss Perfect Joey Potter. It was a mistake that we know each other." Pacey confessed.
"Why do you say that?" Joey wondered.
"Joey did you know it has been exactly twenty-seven days since you last talked to me. I guess I didn't mean that much to you. Because after I agreed to put the baby up for adoption, you're still mad at me. Why are you still mad at me?" Pacey commenced.
"Why?" Joey repeated.
"That what I'm asking you? Why are you mad at me?" Pacey responded.
Pacey did not understand Joey's question so she elaborated, "No. Why did you agree with me? Why did you stop wanting to keep the baby?"
"Why does it matter now?" Pacey keeping quiet.
Joey did not know anything about Pacey's plans. Pacey and his father had a contact with Thomas J. Wellington, a lawyer. They had created a plan so that Pacey could have full custody of his child. Joey had no idea about his plan.
"Now everything looks in order. I contacted the hospital, social worker, friends of mine, ect, ect. Once the baby is born, Pacey J. Witter will have custody of his child." Thomas J. Wellington declared.
"Now Wellington, Pacey did sign his rights away in the agreement. What about that?" Mr. Witter actualized.
"Well, yeah. He did sign the agreement, but there was no legal guardian, no lawyer, nor a parent to help Pacey out. So I talked to the adoption agency and I was easily able to cancel it out." Wellington explained.
"That's great." Mr. Witter labeled.
"What about Joey? She signed the paper too but she had a legal guardian with her. Could she be able to receive custody of the baby?" Pacey wondered.
"It could be hard, but it would not be impossible. It happens all the time. The pregnant mother wants to give up her baby, but then she changes her mind all of a sudden." Wellington answered.
Mr. Witter then had an idea, "Do you think you could help Joey get custody. That deprived girl has no one to help her."
"No." Pacey said aversively.
"What?" Mr. Witter uttered.
"I don't want her to have custody." Pacey declared.
"Why?" Mr. Wellington said.
"Joey had months to change her mind. She's afraid to have an opinion. She's afraid to make a choice… So she lets other people make the choice for her. But by not making a choice, she already made up her mind. Why would it be a good idea for her to fight for custody?... She does not even know if she wants to keep the baby." Pacey justified.
"But Wellington said if she changed her mind, she could have custody. And once she hears this deal you have, I am sure she would want to keep the baby." Mr. Witter clarified.
"Does she have know about this? Does she Mr. Wellington?" Pacey asked.
"Pacey." Mr. Witter intervened.
"Dad, please. I know what I'm doing. I've been thinking about this for quite sometime and believe me, it's not easy saying this, but I'm just trying to do what is right. Please Dad. Please!" Pacey begged.
Mr. Witter took a breath and said, "Can we keep this private Tom?"
"We can keep this confidential." Mr. Wellington agreed.
"Why does it matter? After all this time, why does it matter? You don't want to have the baby! Do you?" Pacey continued his tirade.
"Of course I did Pacey! I wanted to keep my own child! I wanted to claim my responsibility. I knew that I could do it, but not by myself. That is why I needed your help, but when you decided to sign over your rights, you left me no choice." She stated.
Pacey realized that he has been making a huge mistake by not telling Joey about his agreement, "Joey there is something I need to tell you."
"No, Pacey. Just leave me alone." Joey grabbed her stuff ready to leave. Pacey did not even tried to stop her.
Nonetheless, before she left, Joey felt her body change. She started having aches in her stomach and pain in abdomen. She was feeling really uncomfortable. Then all of the sudden, water leaked to the ground.
"Oh my gosh. Pacey I think I'm in labor!" She said clearly.
Author's Note: I decided to edit right away. Anyways, for each chapter, I'll try to update on an average 2-3 days. But only if you reviewers can sent great reviews. The top two good reviewers, will recieve chapter 27.
Next Time on My Dawson's Creek FanFic: Joey is in labor!
