Come September
Part 2
Karen H.

FLASHBACK - ABOUT 5 MONTHS EARLIER.

Scene: - Joey’s hospital room. A few days later.

Pacey and Jack have returned and been told about Joey’s condition. They are also told that they can’t tell her anything about her life but Pacey is allowed to tell her that they aren’t involved anymore.
PACEY (getting up from the chair he’s siting in) : “I know that this must still be really hard for you to take right now, especially with everything else that’s happened. But we had to tell you this. You had to know that we weren’t together.”
JOEY: “Why can’t you just tell me who the father of my baby was. That’s all I want to know.”
PACEY: “We can’t you have to remember yourself.”
JOEY: “Please tell me something, anything.”
PACEY: “Joey, I can’t . . ”
JOEY: “Was it someone from college?”
PACEY: “Joey . . .”
JOEY (her eyes start to water) : “Please just tell me!”
PACEY: “Yes.”
JOEY: “He’s been told to stay away from me hasn’t he?? Because I don’t know who he is. Because if he’s here then I’ll know.”
PACEY: “I’m so sorry this happened.”
JOEY (Crying) : “Does he love me?”
PACEY (as he answers a tear falls down his face) : “With all his heart.”
JOEY: “Pacey can’t you tell me anything about him?? It doesn’t have to be big, please.”
PACEY: “Joey . . . his eyes light up when you walk in a room. It’s been like that ever since I’ve know him. I know how much he still loves you, because I can hear it in his voice when he says something about you. . . I know that he wishes he could be here for you in every way that he wants to be. That the one thing he wants to do more than anything else is to just hold you in his arms.”
JOEY: “Pacey?”
PACEY: “Yeah.”
JOEY: “Thank you. And could you do me a favour?”
PACEY: “What?”
JOEY: “Next time you talk to him tell him that I love him!! And that I’ll try to remember.”
We then see Dawson standing at the crack in the door, tears streaming down his face.
PACEY (he sees Dawson standing there) : “Sure. But somehow I think that he already knows.”

Scene: - Gram’s house.

Jen and Jack are sitting on the porch talking.
JEN: “I don’t know who this must be worse for, Dawson or Joey?”
JACK: “Well when you think about it Joey doesn’t remember anything from the past few years. And she’s just found out that she’s lost a baby that she didn’t even know that she was having.”
JEN: “But then think of how Dawson must feel. His world has turned completely upside down again. He’s lost so much and the worst thing is, the one person who would share all of that pain with him is part of the cause of all that pain. And she doesn’t even remember their relationship. He’s trying to help Joey through this, but who helps him??”
JACK: “I guess we have to try and help him.”

JOEY VOICE OVER: “I want to know what happened over the past few years. Do you have any idea how it feels not to know?? I want to know who loved me. I want to know who the man was that I had planned a future with. Most of all I just want answers. Although I do take little comfort from knowing that someone out there loves me. From knowing that I was finally happy with my life. Everyone has been so helpful, but sometimes it gets to me that they know stuff that I don’t. And because of this I’ve started to snap at them. I’ve even seen some changes in the way they act around me now, including how my best friend acts.
I look in Dawson’s eyes and I don’t see in them what I used to see. All I see in them now is a mixture of pain, confusion, love and hope. Even after everything that we’ve been through there’s still love there. Maybe there always will be. I know that I still feel something for him. But maybe it’s just because he’s my friend. And lately when I look in his eyes it seems as though one of these is slowly dwindling. It seems as though day by day, they don’t show as much hope as they used to. As though he’s given up hope of my memory ever returning. I wish that he could tell me everything. I wish that I could be his best friend again, in the way that I used to be. I know that a few years back we had drifted apart. That was because of me being with Pacey. I don’t know for sure but I sense that we had become the best of friends again. That’s what I miss most of all. I miss my best friend. I want him here with me. But I can’t help the fact I’m pushing him further away. I seem to be saying things to him before thinking about what I’m saying. And it kills me to know that I’m hurting him. It kills me to see he’s hurting.”

FLASHBACK - Not long after the last flashback.

Scene: - Joey’s hospital room.

JOEY: “Why didn’t you just tell me Dawson?? Why couldn’t you just have told me about Pacey?”
DAWSON: “It wasn’t my place to tell you.”
JOEY: “Are you going to gloat now about me not being with Pacey? Knowing that you where right about me and him must make you ‘so’ happy!”
DAWSON (looks hurt and shocked by what she said) : “What??!”
JOEY (looking away from him) : “Nothing, forget I said anything.”

JOEY VOICE OVER: “I didn’t think about what I was saying but the damage was already done. I saw the pain in his eyes as I said it. I saw how much my saying that to him had hurt him. I even felt it cut through him like a thousand knives. I wish that they could just tell me everything.
It seemed as though through all of this that there was only one small comfort. My bedroom. It still looks the same way it did the last time I remember seeing it. And it was my first journey back to my room that brought another hurtful encounter with Dawson. It makes me wonder why is he still helping me when all I seem to do is hurt him. Am I subconsciously hurting him on purpose?? Am I trying to deflect some of my pain onto Dawson?? Trying to make him suffer too??”

FLASHBACK - FOUR AND A HALF MONTHS AGO.

Scene: - Potter B & B. Joey’s room.

Dawson and Bessie are in Joey’s room putting away some of her things from a box and a suitcase. As Joey enters the room, Dawson picks up a few books. He walks over to the bookcase and puts them in a space on the middle shelf.
JOEY (looking annoyed) : “Dawson, that’s not where they go!”
She walks over to the bookcase, picks up the books and puts one on the top shelf and the other on the bottom shelf.
BESSIE: “Joey, he was just trying to help.”
JOEY: “It doesn’t help when I can’t find things!”
BESSIE: “Joey . . . ”
DAWSON (to Bessie) : “It’s okay Bessie. I’ll just go so that you two can put things back the way that Joey wants.” To Joey: “It’s good to have you home Joey.”
He walks out of her room and doesn’t even pick up his jacket. He passes Pacey, who was standing just outside Joey’s room and then he walks out of the house. Pacey walks into Joey’s room, grabs Dawson’s jacket and follows him outside.

Well another part done. So what do people think?? Did you cry? Did it get to the point where the screen got all blurry and you had to go find a tissue?? I’ll admit that I cried when I was writing it, probably because it’s kinda like getting into character. Anyways, I’d like to know what people think about my story. Bye bye Karen x x x .