What if 1/?
Summary: What if Pacey's dad was more abusive on the show? What if his abuse went unchecked. What if Joey and Dawson found out?
Disclaimer: I only own the plot
Rating: R to M
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"Pop please!" A 14-year-old Pacey begged using his father's easy father's easy chair as a barrier to keep his drunk father from getting close.
John chuckled menacingly his beer sloshing out of its bottle as he advanced on his son. Reaching one side of the chair he drunkenly extended his arm back handing Pacey sending him into the wall dazing him before he fell to the floor. "I told you not to disrespect me you little shit."
"I didn…" Pacey tried to defend himself, but his father dealt him another blow, his work boot going into Pacey's side.
"Bums on street are better than you." John hissed giving him one more swift kick to the ribs before turning and stomping toward his room, the door rattling as it slammed shut behind him.
For the last two years it had been like this, nearly daily beatings for no other reason than he walked through the door. His brother and sister abandoned him just before his father worsened two years ago and his mother followed three months later, leaving him with a drunk psychotic father.
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The water was becoming annoying. Every time Dawson called another retake Pacey wanted to jump out of the creek and punch his friend, but he could hardly breathe with the fire in his side.
"Hey…you, okay?" Joey asked after their fifth take, her eyes oddly filled with concern hearing his heavy breathing.
"I'm fine." Pacey cleared his throat trying to turn away but was shocked as she pressed a hand into his burning side making his breath catch in his throat.
Hearing his intake of breath, she turned on him with her classic Potter scowl. "Are you sure?"
"I'm fine." He growled in defiance, turning back to the water as Dawson yelled for them to take their places.
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