Chapter 15

Pacey opens the door slowly. We make it through the cafeteria rather quickly considering Pacey is practically carrying Jack. We make it to the stairwell that leads to the maintenance door when there's a beep from the PA system. It's Matt Caulfield, he's letting everyone go, but us. I look at Pacey and grab his arm.

"Jen, Joey...you have to get Jack out of here, he needs to be in the hospital," he says.

"Pace, what about what Caulfield said? It's only going to get worse." Jack whispers.

"I don't care about that, man, I care about you, Joey, Jen, Andie, and Dawson. I started this and I'm going to finish it. I'm going to get you to Doug's car and then I'll come back and settle this with Caulfield once and for all."

"Pace, no, you can't!" I'm yelling at him.

"Jo, listen to me, I'm not going to let him hurt you or anyone else I care about."

Suddenly the door at the end of the hall bursts open. "Freeze! Witter! Potter! Now or I shoot!"

"GO JEN! Get Jack out of here!"

Jack throws his arm around Jen's shoulder as Pacey shoves them through the door, they immediately start down the staircase.

Pacey pushes me behind him as the masked figure comes towards us weilding a gun. I hear the door shut and I feel slight relief that Jen and Jack got out, but I'm terrified as I hold onto Pacey's hand.

"Well if it isn't Capeside's cutest couple," the masked gunman taunts. He pulls his mask off to reveal his identity. I can't remember his name but he's one of Caulfeild's cronies, "just who we were looking for."

He waves the gun to signal us to walk. He takes us through the gym, down a hallway, past the students rushing out of the school and into the kitchen area of the cafeteria. There are at least five other gunmen present, all dressed in black.

"Against the wall, both of you," someone yells at us.

Pacey sheilds me as we back up against a wall. I hold onto him for dear life, I've never been so scared in my whole life. That's when we hear the second announcment. Dawson and Andie? That's when Matt walks in. I tighten my grip on Pacey's arms. He looks at us.

"Where are Lindley and McPhee?"

"Gone, we..." before he can finish Matt snaps.

"Why did you let them get away? I told you I want all of them to pay."

"McPhee was bleeding we must've hit him during one of the shootings."

Matt laughs and turns his attention back to us.

"Well, well, well...what to do with you two? For now we'll just wait for your friends to join us."

I look at Pacey, I'm holding on so tightly that I can barely feel my fingers.