Epilogue
Louisa Leery was born on the floor of the boat house 7 months later, her father tearfully watching on as the ambulance man delivered his first born. It was something that Joey would never let Dawson forget, how he refused to drive her to the hospital for the 8th time that week when she thought she had gone into labour. Luckily Jen and Jack were at the house helping to complete the refurbishment of the back room as the nursery. Jen was finally able to pay back Joey for helping her deliver Amy.
It was a shock at first, a tiny new life in their arms and in their lives but the two managed to survive the tough first months. Joey even managed when Dawson had the fly to LA to oversee the making of the new TV show his script had finally been picked up for. It took the whole pregnancy for the project to get of the ground and with the help of Nikki Green who came on to co write but finally Dawson had done it. Dawson had managed to convince the network the production of the show should be done on the east coast, to keep it looking authentic, but until the filming started in September he was to and from LA almost every week.
Luckily Jen and Jack had moved back to Capeside, having decided that living back in Grams house was a far more sensible option than the cool urban apartment they had been sharing since college. Both had got jobs at Capeside High and saw both Amy and Louisa become inseparable friends as they grew up together. Neither of their lives were empty. Jack found love in the most unlikely of quarters with Deputy Doug. Jen in the meantime rekindled a friendship with Drew Valentine, divorced from his trophy wife and returning to town with his newborn son Andy who she had abandoned with him soon after his birth. The two grew closer despite Jen's early protests. Soon enough they finally admitted to their self's and to the others. Luckily Jack accepted Drew into the family and moved in with Doug to make way for Drew and Andy. It was tough but they all pulled together to make the situation work for everyone. And it did, with Amy having a father in Drew, Andy having a mother in Jen and Doug and Jack becoming the cool uncles.
Andie also came back into the fold, having stayed away since her appearance at the wedding that never was. She stayed in Boston and stayed as a doctor, working at a children's hospital. It took a while for Audrey to forgive her but as the two became more and more aware of how much they had in common the easier it became. She finally settled down with a fellow doctor Stuart and they lived their lives in Boston with a child they had adopted from Russia, Anna.
Pacey and Audrey stayed in New York, as the diner became a huge success when their neighbourhood became the next property hot spot. Audrey kept singing and dancing on Broadway in various shows until she found out she too had become pregnant and Daniel Witter joined the second generation of Capeside alumni a mere 2 years after Amy and Louisa. They came home frequently and finally moved back permanently when Pacey bought a plot of land by the waterfront, determined to bring back one of Capeside's landmarks, The Icehouse. Audrey kept singing and made several demos but realised that her family and the restaurant was more important that any dreams of show business. One night Pacey found two kids going through his bins out of the back of the restaurant and after the boy had thrown a brick through his window and tried to attack him, Pacey found out they came from an abusive home and were living on the streets. Pacey and Audrey took both Gabe and Ellie into their home at once and finally adopted them.
Needless to say that the next time Joey found herself in Labour with Morgan and Mitchell Leery 2 years later she was pre booked into a hospital and had Jack on standby to take her to the hospital. However, the shock that two babies at once took on her body was massive and Dawson left his TV career to look after both his children and his wife. She recovered quickly but it cemented in both of their minds that the family was now their number one priority. Luckily the show had become a massive success and Dawson had carved himself a niche in Hollywood for intelligent teenage drama and comedy. He wrote several films and TV show episodes from home with Lily giving him guidance into how teenagers actually spoke before she left for college.
Gail remarried a man she had meet while taking Lily and Alex to a film festival that Lily had entered when she was 11. He was kind, a widower like herself with 2 young sons and the two fell in love quickly. So Gail handed over the keys to the house to Dawson for him to raise the family in, which was a good thing because the family had finally ran out of space in the cramped boat house. Joey got to use the boat house for what it was intended, her artwork. She set up a school in conjunction with the High School and began teaching in earnest. Dawson and Joey constantly embarrassed their kids with their displays of affection in public and at home, but the two soulmates would ignore them and laugh as they were caught in another compromising situation. It didn't matter to them, because they were together.
And so the Capeside 6 turned into the Capeside 19. On the anniversary of Joey and Dawson's wedding party the 8 adults would stand in the same spot and watch the sky for the fireworks.
And the fact they were together was all that would ever matter.
