A/N: Hey! Thanks for all the reviews. Sorry about the slow update! We can only update in the holidays!

Pacey and Joey entered Gerry's office. When he saw them his heart sank. They never seemed to work out any of their problems and after Pacey's drunken fiasco last night he doubted that they would be able to sort it out today. Sometimes he thought this job was easy money. But not when the Witters were involved.

"Good morning," he said wearily. "What can I do for you today?" he asked sarcastically.

"Ha, ha…" Joey replied irritably.

Pacey smiled slightly. He understood Gerry's sense of humour but Joey would never find it funny, especially now that she was nine months pregnant. "Hey Gerry… thanks for bringing me home last night."

Joey tutted, "You should have left him to wallow," she said. "He doesn't deserve your kindness…"

"Joey, sometimes you just talk too much!" Pacey replied. "Look… to be honest Gerry… things aren't getting much better…"

"I thought you said Witters aren't quitters?" Joey responded bitterly.

"Did I say that? Oh…"

Gerry looked between the two. They looked so miserable. And their body language looked worse then ever. "Ok… I have a plan."

"A plan?"

"A plan!"

He pulled out a DVD. He was grinning from ear to ear. "Ever heard of the The Creek?!"

Joey looked at Pacey with malice. "I can't believe you told him!"

"I was drunk!"

"That's your excuse for everything!"

"It wasn't my excuse for the baby!"

"Don't even start on the baby…. I don't want to have anything to do with the Creek Dr. Walsh. So just put it away!"

Gerry looked slightly hurt. "Oh come on. I spent all day trying to bribe my daughter into giving me this. I had to give her $50 dollars. It's like her bible. Who knows what she'll spend it on?"

Pacey shrugged. "I dunno… so what are you going to do with the Creek? I mean it was done by Dawson Leery. It's a completely unfair representation of what actually happened! And if I say so myself, it's a poor acted play as well…"

Joey rolled her eyes. "Any chance to slate Dawson, hey Pace? It was actually nominated for a daytime Emmy."

"Whoop de doo…" Pacey muttered. "Perfect Dawson, with his perfect show and perfect Emmy! What a perfect father he would make!"

"Ok! Stop bringing your male sub ordinance issues with Dawson into this!"

"You started it!"

"No I didn't!"

"Hey, hey, hey!" Gerry shouted. "Look I thought we got through this. Seriously! I brought this DVD along to try and bring you together, not pull you apart. Come on! I want you to remember the good times!"

Joey and Pacey remained silent.

"There were some good times?" Gerry asked nervously. He was starting to think that this was some sort of arranged marriage or something. They seemed so incompatible.

"There were good times…" Pacey replied, sadly.

Joey nodded. "Yeah…"

Gerry smiled. "Then let's do this…"

He put the DVD into the player and began to fast forward the adverts, "Now I found a part in the DVD that I thought was especially interesting and would be good for conversation…" He looked over at them. "I was watching this all last night!"

"Wow, you really have no life!" Joey replied.

"Says the women who watches the Creek every Saturday!"

"Yeah!" Joey argued. "For moral support for Dawson!"

"Hmm… Moral support!"

"Shut up!"

"Hey guys!" Gerry waved. "Come on now. Now just watch the DVD. Sink back into yester years…"

He pressed play and a scene came up. He played the episode where Joey had to help Pacey with his Biology. Or rather Sam and Petey.

Joey and Pacey watched it for a while fairly engaged in the show.

Joey frowned. "That's not what happened!" she commented when it showed Sam and Petey getting changed and Petey watching Sam closely.

Gerry looked up, "It didn't? I thought your friend stuck close to reality…"

"Hey I would have known if that doofus was watching me!"

Pacey grinned, "Well clearly you didn't…"

Joey looked at him in shook.

The scene changed to the where Petey kissed Sam. She pushed him away and after an embarrassed pause she left.

Pacey grinned. "The first three kisses I've had with you, you pushed me away! That does a lot for a man's confidence… No wonder we're in councelling!"

Joey laughed slightly. "Yeah well… I was in a different place then… I wasn't attracted to you…"

"You've always been attracted to me! But you never want to admit it. To yourself!"

"Right doofus! If you say so…"

"Hmm…" Pondered Gerry. "Well you know I think you've got something there Pacey."

"What?"

"You've always had some kind of attraction to the guy. I mean you held his hand in the forest and you felt safe. It was Pacey you turned to for comfort when your mother passed away and when Pacey had his ice hockey match you came along for no real reason…"

Joey raised an eyebrow.

"And when he kissed you…" he continued.

"Ok stop! They were all things to do with childhood! I mean they weren't serious!"

"If you say so…" Gerry responded. "The fact is, you two had an attraction to each other for a long time!"

"Sometimes attractions change. Don't they Joe!"

Joey looked up sharply. "Pacey!" She didn't know what to say. "You would know!"

Gerry looked hesitantly between them. "Anyway! So tell me about this kiss. What did it mean to you?"

Pacey sighed. "It meant to me that I would never be what she wanted. I would never be Dawson!"

Joey sighed.

"It's true!" He argued.

"Well I'm sorry it meant such a depressing thing to you Pace. To me it meant that someone actually liked me. That I didn't have to be blonde and big breasted to have a guy like me. I didn't have to be Jen! That kiss, even though I rejected you, meant something to me!"

"Oh," Pacey said simply.

"I mean… I was so mad when you and Jen got together. One because I liked you. But two because you were that guy who liked me, not her…" Joey saw Gerry watching her intently and felt embarrassed. "Never mind. That's another story!"

"Really? Well maybe that's the root to these issues!"

"It's not!" Pacey replied slowly. "Jen's not here anymore. It's not a problem at all."

Joey nodded sadly.

Gerry sighed. "Well Pacey. You say you and Joey have some serious problems but look… That kiss… it meant so much to your wife… she remembers it now… and if you can take anything away from these sessions it's that there is still hope… Now tell me Pacey. What did that kiss really mean to you?"

Pacey pondered. "Well I guess it was the start of our serious friendship. It was one of the first times I saw Joey as someone other then Dawson's weird best friend. It almost drew the line between us being foes and us being friends. And after Tamara, I guess it was nice to have a friend who was a girl…. Without it being… like a relationship thing… It was the first time that I saw Joey as a real person… not that she isn't!" he corrected hastily. "I mean wasn't… but she wasn't just someone in the way of me and Dawson's friendship. She was a friend in herself."

Gerry smiled. "That's what marriage is about. Being with you're best friend."

He looked at the couple and they were smiling at each other… for once. "Ok…. So whose Tamara?"

A/N: Hope you liked. Just wanted to show that Pacey and Joey still have some hope. Unfortunately it won't last till the next chapter! Please review! Thanks x