Joey and Dawson's room after the awards

(If you get there before i do by: Collin Raye is playing in the back ground.)

We see Joey and Dawson walk into the room still holding hands. She can't seem to stop smiling, while Dawson can't seem to accept the fact that he won.

i read a note

my grandma wrote

back in 1923

grandpa kept it in his coat

and he showed it once to me

he said boy you might not understand

"Congradulation Dawson," She says as she kisses him. " The Best man definatly won tonight. You so deserved that award." Joey states

"Thanks, I still can't believe I won. I was just happy to be nominated. I honestly didn't think I would win." Dawson tells her.

Joey has a shocked look on her face as he says this. She cant believe he still has these insecurities about his talent.

but a long time ago

grandma's daddy didn't like me none

but i loved your grandma so

we had this crazy plan

to meet and run away together

get married in the first town

we came to and live forever

but nailed to the tree

where we were suppose to meet

instead i found this letter

and this is what it said

" Dawson your joking right, you had to know that you had as good a chance as any of the others right." She asks

" Not really Joey, I mean my show has won awards and I know some people recognize me on the street or at different events, but this really blows me away to find out that my peers in the industry think I have talent."

"Dawson They are just conferming what all of us have been telling you all along. Dont you remember our first fight and what I told you." he kinda nods his head. " You are without a dought one of the most talented directors I have ever known. and I'm your biggest fan. I was then, I am now, and I always will be. Now if you can just start believing in yourself. Nothing can stop you." Joey tells him.

"Joey why have you always believed in me? I mean, we have said somethings and done things to each other, that most couple wouldn't survive. Yet through it all, you never stopped believing in me. Why?" Dawson asks.

if you get there before

i do don't give up on me

ill meet you my chores

are through i don't know

how long i'll be

"Two reasons Dawson. One: You have always believed in me. and Two: I watched you grow up. In that time I watched this little boy who was so engrossed into films, develope. He went from bad to good. Then he did something I knew he would. He decided to make a movie. Even with a non-exsiting budget, he still won the boston's junior's division. It was nothing i hadn't expected, I knew the talent was there. I had seen it emerge. Then came Mr. Brooks, and the movie about him. You won another award for that, from the festival you dad sent it to. You meet Oliver there, and made yet another one, and through it all I got to watch. No Dawson, I have never doubted your abilities and talents. Just like you have never doubted mine, why is that, I mean. It isn't like I never gave you a reason too." Joey says.

but i'm not going to let you down

darling wait and see

and between now and then

till i see you again

i'll be loving you

love me

"Jo, you think just because I was mad or hurt I would stop believeing in you? Come on Joey, just like you, I have seen it all where you are concerned. I have watched this scared little girl from accross the creek grow into the bueatiful woman who stands before me. For the longest time she didn't think she was worthy of good things in her life. She had a dream of being good enough for her bestfriend, but what she didn't realizes was. It took her best friend a while to actually be worthy of her love. Your life has never been easy, people have always doubted you, or put you and your family down. Did you let it effect you, nope. Because you were better than that, you had all this potinal inside of you. You worked your butt off and got out of the town you hated at the time. You proved all of the nay-sayers wrong. I knew you would for the simple fact, I can see into your soul Joey.I see the smart, sensitive, Intelligent, and indepentdant girl you were, and now you're even more so as a woman. You always knew what you wanted, maybe not always how to get it, but what you wanted. So yeah Jo, I never stopped believing in you, or your abilities. I think you could be just as good writting or painting, or both. If you ever decide to do either I will be there right by your side. Jo, I love you, more than a person should love someone Generally. But general rules don't apply to us, they never have. So this award here is because of you and for you." Dawson informs her as he hands it to her.

Joey has been listening to his every word, she can't believe he opened up and layed it all out there for her. Since they have gotten back together he has expressed his love, so she wouldn't doubt it. But this is the first time since L.A. that he has told her really how he felt. The tears start flowing freely now. The love in the air is plain for even the smallest child to see.

i read these words

just hours before

my grandma passed away

in a doorway of a chruch

were my and grandpa

stopped to pray

Dawson slowly moves his way toward her, closing the distance between them. He is thinking to himself. ' She is the one, no doubt about it. There is no way I am going to let her go, not this time.'

"Joey, marry me. Here, tomorrow. We can make all the arrangments tomorrow morning and get married tomorrow night. I love you, I want to spend the rest of my life together with you." Dawson asks her.

Joey can't believe she heard him right. " Excuse me, what did you say?"

i know i never seen him cry

in all my fifteen years

but as he said these words to her

his eyes filled up with tears

"Jo I said marry me. Here in Vegas, we can get the rest of the gang to help. By tomorrow night we could be husband and wife. What do you say?" Dawson asks her again.

"That is what I thought you said." Joey tells him. She is shocked he would suggest this, and in this city.

"Jo?"

"I'm sorry Dawson, I can't." Joey says.

Dawson looks shocked and confussed. He doesn't believe she just said no.

"Oh ok Joey, um- well I need to get something." With that he exits the room before Joey can get another word out. It never occured to him she didn't feel the same way. Maybe some of her old issues are coming back to huant her. 'How could I be so stupid. I thought we were past all of this. Guess not.' Dawson thinks to hinself.

Joey sits on the bed in utter turmoil. He completely misunderstood what she was saying. She has to let him know what she meant by her say she couldn't. She runs out of the room looking for him. Every where she looks she can't find him. She looks for him in the lobby, the restraunt, even the bar, with no avail. She feels as if she has lost him, with not being able to find him she returns to thier room. She sits on the bed and all of the tears that couldn't flow before, come out in a rush. She grabs her small photo album out of her bag and starts looking at the pictures of her and Dawson on thier road trip.

if you get there before

i do don't give up on me

i'll meet you my chores

are through i don't know

how long i'll be

but i'm not going

to let you down

darling wait and see

and between now and then

till i see you again

i'll be loving you

love me

Dawson meanwhile has left the hotel. By the look on his face he is in deep thought. 'I need time to think, to decide where I go from here.' We see him walking down the strip not paying much attention to the looks people are giving him.

Between now and then

till i see you again

i'll be loving you

love meeeeeee