Note: Thanks all for the nice feedback, I dunno if you read (posted a review which said it) but I have a page for my fanfics. I'm still working on it but it's up, along with some pics, including the one about this fanfic. Check it out.
Note2: Also I'm moving the meeting chapter up to chapter 18. Enjoy.
superfan24: Oh my God, I know. It's weird, Katie pregnant. It already thought it was weird her and Tom. He's 16 years older…then again I can't judge them, I don't know how they are together. They could be very in love and be very Pacey/Joey-ish, I dunno. I'm happy for them besides the weirdness. Mike Potter Pacey's father. That would make Joey and Pacey half brother/sister. EWW. No way. Audrey and Eddie, well Audrey I sort of liked besides the whole dating Pacey and coming between his and Joey's relationship. They could have gotten back together sooner if it wasn't for Audrey. Eddie I never saw, excepts pics, but I read the scripts and I still don't like him. I hope I'll get to watch Supernatural soon.
elwoodluver00034: Thanks, and I dunno, I was talking with a friend about it the other day. I'm thinking of just stopping around where Season 1 of 4400 ended and start writing right on the sequel. Which should go on for a while since I have some nice ideas for it. About OC I dunno which ep I'm at, it's the one where Summer finds out about the dean and that bitch who is now social chair having a relationship. That's the last I've seen. Probably will see the next one this weekend, which is probably the one having shown Thursday night by you. Watched some eps of One Three Hill, I like Nathan and Hailey or something, they got married. I like it but I'm afraid to watch it, I don't want to see them break up which I know will happen since it's a drama series. I much rather live with the thought they ended up married and together.
paceyandjoeyfan4Eva: Eww, Mike as Pacey's father. Don't get me wrong he's the best father out of the 4 teens but that would make Joey and Pacey half brother/sister. EWW, that just can't be. Besides this way you get the brother stuff and much more drama because they may have to deal with Dawson yet again.
Chapter 17 – John Witter and Drue part 2
"Thanks Shawn, for dropping me off." Joey said to her friends as she got out of the car.
"No, problem. Just take care of Pacey, alright."
"I will, bye." Joey said and Shawn raised a hand and as good bye before driving off the hospital to pick up Jen.
Joey looked at the prison gate in front of her and gathered her strength before walking towards the guard.
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Pacey walked up the table outside in the fenced area his mother was sitting at.
"Hi mom." He said casually.
His mother smiled at she looked at him and said "Hi, Pacey. Is everything ok?" she asked noticing something was up.
"I just visited dad. Had a nice conversation with him, don't worry he's not awake. I have my ways to talk to people in coma. He told me an interesting story. How you didn't have a one night stand with a random guy but had been doing Mitch Leery for a while!" he almost yelled at his mother.
"He's lying." His mother told him.
"Oh, spare me your lies mother, I know he was telling the truth." Pacey told her.
Tears were forming in his mothers eyes "I'm sorry Pacey. It's just, I thought he and I had something special. But the moment Gail was pregnant I didn't matter anymore. He had just been using me. I didn't want you to find out he might be your father because I don't want him to hurt you like he hurt me."
"I think you are the one who hurt me most out off all these years of lies. Mitch has been a better parent to me then both you and d-John combined." Pacey told her.
"Listen to me Pacey, Mitch Leery will do anything to not let this come out. He will not risk losing his family for you." Mrs. Witter told him.
"You don't get it, do you mom? I don't need a father anymore. I needed a father years ago. To give me advice about girls, to help me with school, to be proud of me when I accomplished something good, to support me when I was going through tough times. I don't care what he's going to say when I tell him. But he at least deserves to know, what he does afterwards is up to him." Pacey told her.
"What do you expect will happen when you tell him Pacey. That he'll welcome you with open arms. He will make sure you will not tell anyone about it. Not anyone." His mother told him.
"I can take care of myself mom. And to be truthful I don't know how he's going to react. But I do know that whatever happens I will get through it." Pacey told her.
"We will." Joey said suddenly causing both Mrs. Witter and Pacey to look up and see her approach. "I will make sure he'll get through it. But I can't help him if he won't let me help him" Joey said and looked at Pacey.
"Joey, how did you…Jen." Pacey said.
"Yes Jen, at least she's a good friend. She was worried about you. You on the other hand the guy who is supposed to me my boyfriend tells me nothing, keeps me out of major events that happen in his life." Joey told him.
"I was going to tell you Jo but…I wanted to deal with it first. I didn't want to burden you with my problems." Pacey told her.
"Pacey, I'm your girlfriend. I dump my problems on you and you are supposed to dump yours on me. That's how a relationship works. We help each other deal with each others problems." Joey told him.
"But you're dealing with so much already." Pacey told her.
"But knowing that you're there for me to help me deal with them helps me. Allows me to have fun, to be happy and myself. You need to trust me to help you Pace. Or we're not going to make it as a couple." She told him seriously.
Pacey looked at her and put his arms around her hugging her close to her. "I love you Jo, and I'm sorry I didn't tell you before."
Joey allowed Pacey to hug her close to him and felt her hurt and anger for him melt away as she was in his arms, breathed in his typical Pacey scent.
A voice made them look at Mrs. Witter "You hang on to this one Pacey. I can see that you love each other, deeply. I'm sorry I lied to you Pacey but I did what I thought was right. Everyone makes mistakes. Mine was believing Mitch Leery's lies. But if I hadn't I may not have had you. I love you Pacey, I understand if you can't forgive me for this but please remember that I love you, now and forever. You're my little boy." Mrs. Witter touched his cheek and through her eyes she saw a scared little boy standing there after his father had hit him for the first time. He had apologized back then. But that first time was still etched in her memory. She didn't have the strength to leave him back that, hadn't had a bond with his son a mother should have. But although she had neglected him she still had cared about him. She had talked to John about it and John had not hit Pacey again until he was older. The second time she had witnessed it he had been in Junior high, after a bad grade. Pacey still tried in school back then. It became more regular when Pacey started high school and did almost nothing in school. Still, she did nothing, she talked to John about it at times but didn't push their conversations about Pacey in fear he might leave her. Leave their family. Part of her had been glad that somewhere in his sophomore year in high school Pacey was doing good in school. And his father didn't hit him much anymore. She had suggested a fishing trip to John. And they had went and she hoped that it would make John see Pacey was a good boy and deserved his love. But again nothing, until Pacey's girl had called their house and John had answered. For the first time in a long while she witnessed concern he had about Pacey. That he cared about him. But after Andie and Pacey broke up and Pacey's grades started to slip again the hitting came again. Pacey was less and less home, until he moved out to his brothers place. She didn't see much of him after that.
"I'm sorry." She told him and knew Pacey knew what she was apologizing for he could read it in her eyes.
"I know." He said softly.
"I wasn't strong enough…I should have left him but I was afraid." Mrs. Witter said.
"And I wasn't mom? I was 10 years old when it started." Pacey told his mother.
"I know, I remember. I will never forget. I should have left him then but what was I supposed to do? I had more then just you to think about Pacey. There was also your brother and sisters that needed to be taken care off. At least that's the excuse I used to help myself sleep at night. But even when your sisters an brother were out of he house I still stayed with him. I had gotten used to it, how horrible it may sound. I even sometimes believed your father about you. But it's different now. It will be different when I get out. I promise you honey." Mrs. Witter said to him.
Joey stood there confused on what they were talking about exactly but knowing it was serious, "What are you talking about exactly? Did Mr. Witter hurt Pacey other then emotionally or something?" she asked looking from Mrs. Witter to Pacey afraid of the answer but needing to know.
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Shawn arrived at the hospital in the Potter truck, Jen was waiting for him outside. "Hey, thanks for picking me up." Jen said as she got into the passenger seat.
"No problem, so whereto? Joey said something about visiting an old friend." Shawn asked.
"Yeah I need to see Drue and ask him about the last night I was in New York. I tracked him down and he's in LA, which is about 3 hours away." Jen replied.
"Ok, you sure about this?" he asked her.
"Yeah, it's time to confront my past. I want to move on and the only way I will be able to do that is to know what happened." Jen told him.
"Alright." Shawn said then after a moment of pause he asked "So why did Pacey want you at the hospital and not me, wouldn't it have been easier if I just woke his father up?"
"Pacey isn't ready to deal with his father being awake. His father has hurt him, badly over the years he grew up with him. And today I found out it wasn't just emotionally that John Witter hurt Pacey." Jen told him.
"What? He hit Pacey?" Shawn asked.
Jen just nodded the sadness, pain and anger she felt when she found out still flowing through her body. Sadness and pain were now mostly what she was feeling, she had let some anger out on John Witter but mostly kept that in check because she knew Pacey wouldn't want her to hurt his father, no matter what he had done to him. Pacey still seemed to care about him. That is what her surprised her. She couldn't remember what her father had done but whatever it was had killed her relationship with him. She didn't care about him, his life. She wasn't a killer but should he get a heart attack or something like that and die she wouldn't be too sad about it. But he couldn't die before she had confronted him with the truth, whatever that was.
"Jesus, this little group we have is really screwed up when it comes to father. I think Joey has the best one, and he's a two time offended drug dealer. Your father did something so bad it traumatized you and made you forget what it was. My father bailed on my mom, Danny and me when I was 12. And now Pacey's father who told him all his life he was basically a loser and screw up and now it seems he hit him as well." Shawn said.
Jen gave a small smile "I know, we're one screwed up bunch. The four of us."
"Thankfully we have each other to help us through the tough times." Shawn said to her "I feel that as long as all of us are together there is nothing that we can't handle."
Jen looked at him and took his right hand in hers "I know" she then said surprising herself when she said and but knew instantly she indeed knew that as long as they stayed together there was nothing they would not be able to handle.
Shawn looked at her and smiled then looked back at the road, Jen took this as her cue to change the radio to a fitting song for her current mood. "Superman" by "Five For Fighting"
"I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find
The better part of me
I'm more than a bird
I'm more than a plane
I'm more than some pretty face beside a train
And it's not easy to be me
I wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
'Bout a home I'll never see
It may sound absurd
But don't be naive
Even heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed
But won't you concede
Even heroes have the right to dream
And it's not easy to be me
Up, up and away, away from me
Well it's alright
You can all sleep sound tonight
I'm not crazy or anything
I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
Men weren't meant to ride
With clouds between their knees
I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
I'm only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me, inside of me
Inside of me, yeah inside of me, inside of me
I'm only a man in a funny red sheet
I'm only a man looking for a dream
I'm only a man in a funny red sheet
And it's not easy…
It's not easy to be me"
(sigh I just love the music vid about Pacey with that song)
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"You haven't told her? I thought she already knew about…I'm sorry to bring this up when you're not ready to let her know, honey." Mrs. Witter said to her son.
"It's ok, it's time she knew. The only person I ever told this was Dawson. And I made him swear not to tell anyone, not even his parents…. Jo…" Pacey swallowed and took a breath before he looked in her eyes needing her strength to tell her this.
Joey took his hand in hers and squeezed it "it's ok, Pace. You can tell me."
Pacey smiled weakly at her "remember sometimes that I stayed at Dawson's because things were bad at home. Well they were, at times when my father was angry or displeased with me…he used to beat me." He stopped as he saw Joey's eyes widen then pain appearing in them. Pain for him. "It's ok Jo, don't feel too bad. I always knew when things got to bad. I either stayed with Dawson or all those nights I stayed at the Potter B & B when we were still building it and getting it off the ground." He was cut off by Joey throwing her arms around him hugging him tight to her.
"I'm so sorry Pace. I should have known. Those nights at Dawson, the bruises you claimed were from falls or bumping into something. I should have known, I could have helped-"
"No, you could not have helped me Joey. I wouldn't have let you. I was such a mess back then. The only person that was really there for me was Dawson, he lend me his world to escape in. You and I weren't that close then, we fought over Dawson's attention, you needing to escape from your own life a much as I needed to. But that escaping didn't solve things. It made me more messed up and at the same time sometimes happy. When we started to get close, the first time I wanted to tell you but I didn't. Your mother was sick and you had enough to deal with. I couldn't involve you into more problems. Things were bad around that time, dad hated the fact I was hanging out with you when your father was being suspected by him of dealing drugs. It's not your fault, I chose to defy him continuously on seeing you and being your friend. As long as I had you and Dawson a beating from him wasn't as bad." Pacey paused as he felt hot tears from Joey on his shirt.
He carefully pulled back just far enough so he could raised her head and look into her eyes, he smiled at her and wiped a tear away with his thump. "Hey, there is no need to cry, Jo. I survived, we're together. Everything turned out all right. Well except for 3 years of our lives missing but the little green men or whatever is responsible for that."
Joey looked into those beautiful stormy blue eyes and felt herself calm down, "I love you Pace." She whispered. "But you should have told me this sooner. No matter that I had other stuff to deal with. You were, are important in my life. You were back then and you still are. You were dealing with this and helping me deal with my mothers sickness. I should have had the chance to help you."
"Things were different back then Jo, I was younger. I didn't know how to deal with it. Sharing my feelings, with anyone scared the hell out of me. Especially since I was constantly told was a stupid screw up I was. I've come a long way from being that emotionally screwed up to where I am now. Still emotionally screwed up, but not as much as I was back then. I have Tamara, Jen, Andie, Dawson, Jack, Will, Shawn, and especially you to thank for. You have helped me so much by just being there loving me, you have no idea how much you mean to me Joey. I love you so much, I have hidden it from myself, tried to ignore it, fought not to." Pacey smiled at her "but I can't stop myself from loving you. I know you can do better then me but I don't think I have the strength to let you go. I know it's selfish but I need you."
"Let me go? Pacey if you ever let me go…I don't even want to think about it. I need you in my life Pacey, promise me you'll never leave me. Whatever problems we'll have that we'll talk about it." Joey said as she looked at him.
"I promise Jo, I don't want to leave you but I sometimes feel like I'm holding you back from the person you can be. What you can achieve." Pacey told her.
"Stop being silly Pacey. Ever since Junior year when I cried over Dawson at your shoulder you've been challenging me. You made me the woman I always dreamt to be. Strong, loved and happy. You give me strength, you make me feel loved, you make me happy, you make me feel beautiful. You make me feel more then I ever thought I could be. I don't know about soul mates Pace, but I do know that what we have is special." Joey told him.
Pacey smiled at her "God you're beautiful." She smiled and he leaned in kissing her lips softly.
The clearing of a throat interrupted them and the looked guiltily, or at least Joey did, Pacey was smirking, at a guard. "visiting hours are over." The guard told them.
"Ok, let me just say goodbye to my mom." Pacey said and turned to his mother. "Bye, I'll…I'll see you when I see you ma." He gave her a small smile and then with his arm still around Joey turned to leave.
"Bye Mrs. Witter." Joey called as she and Pacey walked away.
"Bye Pacey, Joey. Take good care of each other." Mrs. Witter said as she watched her son and his girlfriend go. The fear of him taking to Mitch was still there but not as strong as it had been when he broke the news to her, for she knew Joey and his friends would be there for him. To take care of him as they took care of each other. "alright let's go, inside." The guard said to her and with one last look she turned around and walked along with the other prison women back inside.
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Shawn pulled the truck up the parking lot by a club for rich people, Drue's mother owned it and made Drue help out from time to time.
"Maybe it's best if you waited here, Drue can be…difficult to deal with." Jen said.
"Which is exactly why you might need me Jen, come on don't shut me out now." Shawn told her.
Jen sighted and took a deep breath "ok, let's go."
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"Hey Drue" Jen said walking up to the bar he was sitting at. Shawn took a seat beside Jen.
"Jen Lindley, I wondered what had happened to you. Where did the Lindley's hide you all those years? And what is your secret, you still look like you're 17." Drue asked her.
Jen smiled "Capeside, not really a secret considering I am one of the 4400, but you knew that. You must have read the list on the internet by now."
Drue smiled "I saw it but I didn't believe it until now."
"I need to ask you something Drue, and I need you to answer it honestly because I can't remember." Jen paused then asked "What happened that last night between me and my father when I was in New York?"
"Hmm. Well, you invited me over because your horrible parents were sending you away. We
began at my place, where we emptied out my pop's liquor cabinet. Then we picked up some
good stuff in Washington Square Park before heading back to your deluxe apartment in the sky. Now, if I remember correctly, we got particularly comfy on the sofa, heard keys in the door, and hid in your room, where you continued to ravage me.
It was quite mind-blowing. Especially the part
when your mother walked in and joined us." Drue told Jen.
"You're repulsive, you know that? Why are you doing this?" Jen asked him.
"Why are you? The past is past, Lindley. Just let it be." Drue replied.
"Well, I'd like to, all right, but I can't. I just need to know what happened. Won't you please
tell me?" Jen asked him.
"You know what? I haven't worked through it yet." Drue replied.
Jen sighted deeply "You know, I thought that maybe just once you'd be able to help me out here. Maybe you had changed. I guess I was wrong."
"Just tell her what happened." Shawn told Drue.
"This is private, whoever you are." Drue asked.
"This is Shawn, a friend." Jen said to him.
"You are not going to leave me alone until I tell you, are you?" Drue asked.
"Nope, and you know with all the attacks on 4400 you could get hurt while we're around you." Shawn told him.
Drue sighted "Fine, the truth about what happened that night, since it means so much to you." Drue said.
"I'm listening." Jen replied.
"The truth is, you were really wasted that day, and when you brought me back to your place, I was shocked. I mean, you told me about what happened with Billy and how you guys got
caught, but you still brought me home. We sat on the sofa, where you waited for me to clumsily make a move. You knew I kind of liked you, but, um, you really didn't seem that into it. Whatever. We didn't get very far before your parents came home.
"And my dad?" Jen asked him.
"Your dad... your dad was furious. You guys just started going at it. He called you a slut. You
called him a hypocrite. Just as it started getting interesting, he tossed my ass.
"So that's it. You don't know what else we were fighting about?" Jen asked.
"No. But you made it perfectly clear that it wasn't about us. Nothing that night was about us." Drue told her.
"I used you to provoke him, didn't I?" Jen asked then sighted deeply "Oh, god. That's why you didn't want to talk about it."
"No worries. I just figured you were a lesbian or something." Drue replied.
"Heh heh! I wish. Drue, I'm sorry. I'm real sorry I used you." Jen said smiling slightly.
"Apology accepted." Drue replied.
"Good, thanks." Jen said to him.
Drue's cell phone rang. "No worries, hey baby." He said answering his cell phone.
Jen shook her head and smiled "Let's go." She said to Shawn and looked at Drew one last time waved, he waved back and out she walked.
"Freak" Jen heard but when she turned around it was too late, a knife was plunged inside her.
"JEN!" Shawn called out seeing Billy with a bloodied knife as Jen stumbled backwards. Rage flowed through him and needed to get out and he jumped Billy. They dropped to the ground, he didn't even feel the knife slash his arm as he landed on top of Billy and his hands were on Billy's arms and he felt Billy's life force being sucked into him. He saw the blood on his arm and saw the wound slowly close itself. 'Jen!' his mind screamed and he quickly got off Billy and let him go to rush over to Jen and placed his hands over her stab wound.
"You're going to be ok, Jen" Shawn said as he felt his power kick in and life his, Billy's and Jen's life force all flowing to her wound. Moments later her wound was closed and she looked at him.
"Shawn?" she asked "what happened, my stomach…"
"Is healed, you were stabbed by your ex Billy." Shawn told her.
"Oh, thanks. You didn't…." Jen asked without asking.
"No, he's still breathing. He'll be fine in a couple of hours." Shawn told her.
"Ok, good. Last thing I need is you going to jail because of me." Jen told him.
"Jen, I would do anything for you…and Pacey and Joey. You are my family, the people I trust my life to." 'and my heart' he added silently.
She smiled, "Same here." She looked at each other and their lips closed in and before either knew it their lips met and brushed over each other gently but filled with love and passion, the moment was so sexually charged for both of them that they were soon lost in a deep kiss.
When the pulled back for the need of oxygen they looked at each other "wow" Jen said looking into his eyes.
"I know" Shawn said smiling, "that was one great kiss."
"It was." Jen agreed then asked "what does it mean?"
"Whatever you want it to mean Jen. I mean I do have feelings for you beyond friendship, I like you, a lot. But I don't think you really need a boyfriend right now, or do you?" he asked.
Jen looked at the ground thinking then back into his eyes "I don't know. Everything is so complicated with my father. I like to talk to you, I don't want to lose that if this goes badly. I'm not good with relationships."
"Me neither, but if we continue to do this we can talk and make out." Shawn said.
"I don't know, give me some time to think about it. Please?" she asked him.
Shawn smiled "Sure, I can wait." He said to her.
She smiled back at him then looked around "I think we should probably go. Before police or worse you uncle shows up."
Shawn smiled and got up, he extended his hand and helped her up before they walked back to the truck.
Next chapter, the meeting. Review please.