Disclamer- I don't own any of the Dawson's Creek characters.

Author's Note- This takes place in college. Everyone is there except Dawson. Jen is going out with Cliff and Jack is not gay.

Rating- Pg-13

Stacey Warner drives along the rode in anticipation listening to Jen Lindley's college talk show on the radio in her blue Blazer.

Jen- "You're listening to 'Under the Covers' with Jen on WJSC at Penalton University. We're still talking to........"

Caller- "Jane."

Jen- "Yes, Jane."

Jane- "Yeah, hi I'm a sophmore."

Jen- "So Jane you keep stealing your roomate's birth control pills?"

Jane- "Borrowing ok. And besides she's never noticed before because I have been replacing them with baby asprins

Jen- "What?"

Jane- "Baby asprins. It looks exactly the same. Well anyway now shes pregnent and has to leave school and how am I gonna find a roomate this late in the simester?" Stacey reaches her hand back to a huge case of cassettes. She picks out a certain one. Next to the case is a parka. She takes the tape out of the case. When she looks back at the rode she is on the other side of the rode and a car is about to run into her. She quickly turns the wheel and makes it one the other side with the other car honking at her.

Stacey- "Oh my god." She starts breathing fast. She puts her hand over her chest and breaths.

Jen- "Ok thank you Jane. Next caller." Stacey puts the tape into the player. Its Celine Deion's "My heart will go on." She starts to sing along with it. She passes a gas station filled with cars. She sees drops of water on her wind shield. She turns on the window wipers. She then realizes that she has no gas left.

Stacey- "Shit." She looks ahead and sees another gas station with no cars there. "Ok, please make it." She reaches the gas station and pulls in. It is now raining very hard. She waits for a worker to come out and help her but no one comes out. She honks the horn and looks to the back when a strange man hits her window. He has long hair and a small hump on his right shoulder. She gasps and looks at him scared. He starts to talk but has trouble. She realizes he has a stutter.

Man- "Rrrrrr-ruuunn out--out oo-offfff ga-gasssss."

Stacey- "Yeah." She rolls down the window a tiny bit and gives him a credit card. "Fill her up please." He grabs it and walks away. She rolls the window back up. "Freak show." The man grabs the gas pump and sticks it in. He looks around waiting for the gas to fill up the car when he looks into the back seat. He looks at it strange and runs away into the store. Stacey watches him go in curiosity. "What the......" After a little while he comes out and knocks on her window.

Man- "PPP-pp-phooo-phone ca--a-call. The V--Visa com--company." She takes a breath.

Stacey- "Ok, I'll be in, in a second." He runs in and leaves the door open. She takes off her seat belt and gets out of the car. She locks it and follows the man into the store. She goes to the phone while he closes the door. She gasps when she picks up the phone to hear a dile tone. The man locks the door and runs to her grabbing her shoulders.

Man- "Li---Listen..........." She screams. He begins to talk again when she grabs pepper spray from her pocket and sprays it in his face. He screams and she goes to the door to find it locked. She grabs the phone and throws it at the window. She goes through it and falls down on the ground. "Wait." She runs to her car hitting the unlock button on her keys. The man unlocks the door and runs out after her rubbing his eyes. She gets in and locks her car. He gets up to her window and tries to open the door. "Opppee---Open tth-the door." She finally gets the car started and drives away. The gas pump breaks off. He runs after her and stops. He yells at the top of her lungs.

"Sooomm- Soome- Someone's in the back seat."

Stacey is crying listening to the music. She sings along to stop her tears. Someone in the back seat stands up wearing the parka holding an axe. She looks at her mirror and sees them. She looks back screaming when the person swings the axe at Stacey's head. It hits it and then hits the window with blood on it.

We are now at Penelton University. Jen is on her radio station.

Jen- "Your listening to 'Under the Covers' with Jen on WJSC at Penelton University. Next Caller."

Caller- "Hello." The speakers make a high pitch noise. Jen signals the guy in the glass booth to turn it down. He nods and turns it down.

Jen- "Yes how can I help you..........." She looks at the guy and he holds up a card with the name Felicia written on it. "Felicia, how may I help you?"

Felicia- "Yeah well I'm kind of embarrssed." Jen walks over to her chair and sits down.

Jen- "Come on Felicia spit it out."

Felicia- "Thats just the thing I didn't."

Jen- "Oh, had yourself a little boy protein shake have you." The guy laughs in the booth.

Felicia- "Jen help me. I feel so sick. I swear I can feel them swimming inside of me." Jen gives the guy a funny look and makes a gun with her hand and puts it to her head imitating the girl. "Should I like get my stomach pumped?"

Jen- "Felicia I think the only think you need pumped is the air out of your head. First off, let me just congradulate you on your choice of sexual activity because sweetie, the world is not ready for you to reproduce. Second did you know that congestion of bodily fluids is a huge safe sex no-no?"

Felicia- "Really?"

Jen- "Really. My suggestion is to drink down a couple shots of pepto, and next time get away from the volcano before it erupts. That raps up another night. This is Jen signing off."

Joey is in a coffee house with two lattes walking towards Dawson listening to Jen on the radio.

Joey- "Dawson, how exactly does Jen come up with this stuff?"

Dawson- "She eats up every issue of 'Cosmo', calls it her bible." Joey sits down on the couch accross from Dawson and hands the latte to Andie. Andie sees Pacey walking in and starts to stare at him. She then turns to Dawson.

Andie- "So, Dawson finish the story about Stanley Hall." Dawson sits up from where he was laying on the couch.

Dawson- "Right, so this guy he was a professor on campus like 25 years ago."

Andie- "What did he teach?"

Dawson- "I don't know physics or something like that"

Pacey- "Abnormal physcology." They turn to see Pacey. Pacey looks at Dawson. "You know if you want to tell the story right....."

Dawson- "Thats not the point of the story paper boy. But fine abnormal physology it is. Anywho, this guy he just flips out you know goes completely crazy."Joey sips from her drink and Andie listens in curiosity. Dawson then grabs a butter knife which was on the table."He grabs a honey knife and strolls down to Stanley Hall. Bangs on every door." Dawson bangs on the table. "And every student who answers the door he takes that little knife and he cuts their throats ear to ear. Yeah, does away with an entire floor when finally he takes the knife and stabs himself straight through the heart." Dawson pretends he just stabbed himself with the knife and falls back on the couch with his toungue out. "And thus the mega beta party of a lifetime".
Joey and Andie both shake their heads.

Joey- "So you have a frat party to honor a massacre."

Dawson- "You betcha." Pacey walks up from behind him and sits on the couch.

Pacey- "So Dawson let me get this straight. When this happened like 25 years ago you were a sophmore?"

Dawson smiles and points his finger at him. "Its a bullshit story you hear at every campus in the northeast."

Joey- "Thank you. I mean where's your proof?"

Dawson- "See thats the thing, Penelton knew damn well that the enrollment would suffer permentily. So together with the national news media and other powerful sources----" Pacey reaches over him to get a muffin.

Pacey- "Diane Sawyer. Or is it Jack Ruby. Oh wait it was that FBI agent who used to prance around in women's underwear. Thats the guy that covered it all up, huh?" Dawson gives him a look while Joey and Andie laugh.

Then Pacey's bepper sounds. "Oh thats the news room, gotta go. See ya D-man."

Dawson- "Wait Pace, if theres another crisis in the cafeteria I want you to have the biggest, juiceiest burger on me." He pulls out a five and holds it out to Pacey. Pacey grabs it.

Pacey- "Don't mind if I do." He then leaves. Andie watches him.

Andie- "Bye Pacey." Dawson mimics her in a girly voice.

Dawson- "Bye Pacey. You know what his problem is? He can't stand any big story without having his ass on the bottom of it." Dawson walks away.

Andie- "Oh my gosh Pacey is such a babe." She turns to Joey. "Ok, did it seem like he was giving me the eye."

Joey- "Um, it was probaly the mirror behind us." Andie turns around and sees a mirror. "Oh damn, should I ask him out anyway?" Joey smiles and then Andie does.

Andie and Joey are walking outside.

Andie- "Ok, if Dawson's story is ture and all those kids were murdered, why haven't they torn down Stanley Hall?"

Joey- "Thats the thing the story isn't true, its just a legend."

Andie- "Well if its just a legend then whats the problem?"

Joey- "Don't ask me." Andie walks to an old building. Joey shakes her head.

Andie- "Oh come on Joey this is the half thereason why I came here? Ok, so what really happens when I say bloody mary five times."

Joey- "The person beside you wonders how you got into college in the first place." Andie smiles.

Andie- "Your scared Joey."

Joey- "Yeah right."

Andie- "Then come on lets do this. Come on, time to raise the dead." They run up to the building and stand on the steps laughing.

Joey- "I can't believe we're doing this." Andie starts talking in a weird, and scary voice.

Andie- "Bloody Mary. Bloody Mary." Joey laughs. "Bloody Mary. Bloody Mary." Joey then takes over and says it very quickly.

Joey- "Bloody Mary." Andie looks at her mad. "See, no answer. Maybe they're screening." They both laugh but then stop when they hear screams and other noises. They step back and scream when someone behind them stops them. Its Jack, and he's holding a flashlight. He has a small beard. Andie and Joey laugh.

Jack- "You called."

Joey- "She was trying to wake the dead Jack, not frat boys with badly grown facial hair." Andie laughs.

Jack- "Hey it took me a month to grow this thing."

Andie- "So is this what you do with your free time, walking around by yourself at night scaring people like a total freak."

Jack- "Only when I see two losers standing in front of this building trying to wake the dead. Have a cow. Geez, I'll see you guys in class tommorow." Jack walks away.

Andie- "Unfortuntly."

Joey- "See ya."

Andie- "Jerk."

Joey- "You know he was half way normal before Pledge Week."

Joey walks into her dorm building. She looks at the door once she is in and closes it. When she turns around she lets out a huge gasp to see the janitor right in front of her.

Joey- "Oh, so-sorry." She walks past him. He looks down and starts to mop again. Joey walks up the steps and goes to her door. She puts the key in and unlocks it to find her gothic roomate with a guy. She turns on the light and finds them in bed.

roomate- "Shut of the fucking light."

Joey- "Sorry." She turns it off and hops into bed while her rommate and boyfriend go at it. Joey puts on head phones and closes her eyes and finally falls alseep.

Professor Wexler- "Now last week we talked about folkglore as a gage, like the values of a soceity that created them." Jack yawns loudly. "Today we get more specific." He pushes a button and the overhead goes on to show a picture of a girl sitting on a couch on the phone and a guy on the other line behind her. Andie and Joey sit together. Andie has her pen by her ear clicking it. Jack and Dawson are behind them. "A babysister recieves annoying phone calls, and upon investigating them she realizes that they are coming from an upstairs bedroom, the very room where she has left the kids under her care to sleep. Now who has heard this before, huh?" Half the kids in the class raise their hands.

Andie- "Well that really happened to a girl in my hometown."

Professor Wexler- "Oh, I'm sure it did. I'm sure when you were growing up most of you thought this happened to a girl in your hometown, but it didn't. See the babysister and the man upstairs is what we like to call an urban legend. Contempory folkglore passed on as a true story. Now there are many different ways of telling this one going back to the 1960's all containing the same cultural admirition. Young women, mind your children or harm will come your way." Then the professor's watch goes off playing the baseball theme song. "Excuse me." He walks up the steps and turns it off. Andie looks at Joey who is laughing.

Andie- "What?" Joey whispers in her ear and they both laugh. The professor looks at them annoyed.

Professor- "Something funny you care to share with us Miss Potter."

Joey- "No, I was just saying maybe the cultural admirition is don't babysit." Everyone laughs except the professor.

Professor- "Why don't you come up here and help me in my little experiment."

Jack- "I think that is a great idea."

Professor- "Now young lady." Joey gets up and walks up the steps. Jack watches her butt. "Yeah baby, yeah." Andie laughs. She gets up there and he throws her something. She catches them. "Had those before.

Joey- "Yeah they're pop rocks. They crackle in your mouth."

Professor- "Have some." She shrugs and opens the bag and pours them in her mouth. He hands her a pepsi and she looks at it in fright. "Thirsty." She shakes her head and backs away. "Whats wrong. Something you might have heard about mixing pop rock and soda."

Joey- "Well, I hear dthat your stomach and everything inside just bursts."

Professor- "Really, anyone you know die this way?" She shakes her head.

Joey- "Mikey, from the cereal commercial. Give it to Mikey he'll eat anything."

Professor- "Oh you mean him." He pushes his button and it shows a picture of Mikey. Jack then speaks in a small kid voice.

Jack- "Mikey likes it." Everyone laughs. The professor looks at him but he ducks. The professor turns to Joey.

Professor- "What if i told you that this is Mickey." he pushes the button again to reveal a picture of Mickey now. "Alive and well, and working as an add exectutive in New York city. Would you do it then?" Joey looks down and is about to answer when Jack raises his hand.

Jack- "I'll do it."He runs up the steps and grabs a pack of pop rocks. He opens it and puts the whole bag full of them in his mouth. He then takes the soda sips it.

Professor- "Ta-da. Still alive. Like I said this is an urb--" Jack grabs the Professor's shoulder and misses and falls down the steps, choking.

Dawson- " Hes gonna explode. Somebody call 911." Joey screams and Jack keeps coughing. Jack stops choking and looks at Joey and smiles. She shakes her head and throws the pack of pop rocks at him. Dawson laughs.

Professor- sarcastically- "Thank you for your help."

Dawson- "Brilliant, he's brilliant."

Joey and Andie are walking.

Joey- "Yeah, I can't believe it. our brother is such a moron."

Andie- "Yeah but who fell for it." Joey laughs. They look up to find kids reading newspapers and the dean and a policewoman grabbing the papers from the kids and the rest of the papers.

Policewoman- "Excuse me I'll take those." Joey grabs the paper and sees its a story on Stacey Warner that reads 'Lunatic on Campus?'

Andie- "She went to Pendelton, oh my gosh I knew I should have gone to NYU."

Pacey comes up behind them.

Pacey- "Tragic, huh?" Joey and Andie turn around. Andie smiles

Andie- "Hi, Pacey." He gies her a half smile and looks down.

Pacey- "Hey."

Joey- "Is this true?"

Pacey- "I hope so or I'm gonna have one hell of a retraction on my hands." Pacey sees them taking away his papers. "Hey." He walks over to them. "What do you think you're doing? You can't just come and take every copy away."

Dean-"Your the one who wrote this inflammitory piece of rubbish."

Pacey- "Well actually the quotes about being torn and heart sick, those are yours Dean Adams."

Dean- "Let me tell you something Mr. Witter the only lunatic on campus is you."

Pacey- "Fabulous." He puts up his recorder to the Dean's face. "Can I quote you on that?" The policewoman grabs the recorder.

Policewoman- "I have a quote for you, Us new and world report named Penelton the safest university in this country, and I plan to keep it that way." She walks away.

Pacey- "Thanks Reese, I'll be sure to put that in the School Safety Edition."

Joey grabs Andie and they begin to walk away when Pacey stops them. "He about some interviews, you know students reactions to the tragity on campus." Joey is mad.

Andie- "Sure." Pacey holds up the recorder. "I am deeply moved by this sudden---"

Joey- "This is someone's life Pacey, did you ever stop to think abou that?"

Pacey- "No, but thanks to my story 3,500 students will. I think thats enough to help me sleep at night." Joey shrugs and walks away. Andie looks at Pacey and follows her.

Tv News Reporter- "The decapitated body of 21 year-old, Penelton student Stacey Warner was found in her car. Sources say her accelent was probaly hiding in the back seat. In the mean time the search continues for Micheal McDonald, the pripritor of this gas station where Stacey was last seen. The police are saying if anyone has any information to the location of his where-abouts to contact them immediately. This is David McAree reporting live." They all look away from the television set and back to the world. They are all at the coffee shop. Dawson and Jen are sitting next eachother on the couch, Joey is in the chair, Jack is in the chair beside her, and Andie is on the other couch.

Dawson- "Well thats horrible."

Jen- "Someone said that she was listening to my show when it happened. My voice was probaly the last thing she heard, can you imagine."

Andie- "Guys what if their is a lunatic on campus."

Jack- "Fine with me, I'm hitting the half pipes this weekend."

Andie- "Hey did anyone here know her, she roomed in Daily." Everyone shakes their head except Joey who is not even paying attention. Andie looks at her.

"Hello. Space Cadet?"

Joey- "Oh, no I didn't know her."

Jack- "Wait I think I did know her."

Jen- "You did?"

Jack- "Yep, and I'm gonna missher cause that girl gave great HEAD." Jen and Dawson start cracking up. Andie gives him a look.

"Oh come on she gave great head, get it. Oh come on."

Joey's roomate, Tosh is listening to music and it is very loud, she is on the internet and smoking. Joey walks in and puts her keys on her desk. Tosh turns around to see it is Joey and gives an annoyed look and gets back to the internet.

Joey- "Hey Tosh. Sorry bout last night."

Tosh- "Yeah well don't let it happen again." Joey looks at the ground to find a case of pills. She picks them up and reads 'Lithium' on the side. She hands them to Tosh.

Joey- "Here you dropped these." Tosh grabs them. Joey picks up the phone and hears the internet. "Tosh? Excuse me." Tosh puts a fake smile on her face and disconnects the cord from her labtop.

Tosh- "This is my phone line too." With that Tosh storms out. She goes to her message machine:

Andie- "Hey its Andie. Listen are you ok, you were acting pretty weird today. Call me."

beep

Bessie- "Joey its Bessie. Listen Jo, I'm just calling to see if your ok. Isn't it horribe about Stacey. Please call ok. We're worried about you. I love you."

beep.

Joey smiles and grabs her yearbook from 4th grade. She sits on her bed and flips open to a certain page. Its a picture of her and teh gril that died, Stacey. She remembers she met Stacey in 4th grade and they were best friends. Dawson and Pacey never met her because she moved away the next year. Someone knocks on the door.

Joey- "Come in." Its Jack.

Jack- "Hey I was in the neighborhood, just though I'd drop by. Wanna go over to the house. Dawson said he's gonna pierce Hootie's nose."

Joey- "Hooty's a dog."

Jack- "Thats no reason he can't be hip."

Joey- "No, thats ok Jack."

Jack- "Whats up Jo, you alright?"

Joey- "Yeah I'm fine." Jack moves closer to her and sits on the bed.

Jack- "Listen we don't have to go hang out with a bunch of druken frat boys.We could just go some place and talk. I don't want this to get round campus but I am actuallly a pretty good listener every once in a while." He rubs her shoulder. "Ok?"

Joey- "Ok."

Joey is in the car when Jack gets in.

Jack- "Little something to warm you up."

Joey- "Sure." He opens a pepsi and hands it to her.

Jack- "There you go."

Joey- "Thanks." He turns the key to the car but it doesn't start.

Jack- "Its a slight process." She smiles. He tries it again. He hits it and then it starst. The radio is playing Paula Cole's "I don't wanna wait." he quickly switches it off. "I hate that song." She smiles. He drives away.

Jack and Joey are now out in the woods by them selfs.

Jack- "So you and Stacey were friends.

Joey- "Yeah."

Jack- "So what happened?"

Joey- "You know what Jack I'd rather not talk about it."

Jack- "I completely understand if you don't want to open up. Thats fine. But I want you to know that I know exactly what your going through.

Joey- "You do?"

Jack- "Sure, I lost somebody close to me, my girlfriend, well shes dead and........." Joey gasps.

Joey- "Oh I'm so sorry."

Jack- "No it's ok, she was sick for a while and she had a syndrome. And after that I was afraid to get close to anyone for a long time. But then it hit me, why am I being so selfish. I still ahve so much love inside of me left to give."

Joey- "You do?"

Jack- "Yes and Jo, your in need of loving."

Joey- "I am?"

Jack- "Yes. Your lonely, your depressed, your aching to break lose. Those are the type of problems that only a man can fix."

Joey- "And I suppose your that man."

Jack- "You know it." He leans foward to kiss her but she pushes him to the other side of the car.

Joey- "Nice try Jack that was a farely good impression of a human being."

Jack- "I understand your afraid. But you don't have to be afraid anymore Joey. You don't have to be afraid to love." He leans fowrad to kiss her agian but this time she socks him in the face.

Joey- "Start the car right now."

Jack- "You know that hurt. And look I'm just trying to help you out here. You don't have to act like such a bitch."

Joey- "It's not an act believe me."

Jack- "You sure you don't want to think this over because I'm all about healing Jo."

Joey- "One black eye or two, Jack you decide."

Jack- "Fine, I'm going to go take a piss. I'll be right back." He gets out of the car.

Joey- "Pig." Jack walks away from the car and goes behind some trees and unzips his pants and goes pee. A branch snaps. he turns to the side when a person puts a rope around his head. He struggles with the it. The guy throws Jack on the ground with the rope still around his neck. Joey looks at her watch and laughs. "Ok, Jack anytime now." Joey looks around but sees nothing. She gets out of the car. "Jack, shake a leg. Lets go." She hears something and turns around to find someone in a parka in front of her. She screams and runs to teh the car. She gets to it and opens the door and gets in. The person walks towards her. Joey locks the door and rolls up the window. Ther person walks around to the back of the car and ties the rope to the bumper.Joey tries to start the car but it won't. "Come on."
"Jacckkkkkkkkkkkkkk." She stops when she hears banging coming from the top of the car. She gasps and tries to start the car. She then hears squeaking coming from the top of the car.

Jack is hanging from a rope. The tip of his shoes are scratching on the roof. He tries to talk but the rope makes it so he can't. "Joey don't start the car. Joey."

Joey hear something but can't make out what it is. The person then pops in front pof her on the wind shield. She screams and then hits the car. It starts and she puts it in drive. Jack goes up choking. The rope stops her so the person flies off the car and in front of her. She watches him and he gets up and walks towards her. She tries to drive but can't. The killer gets up to her and get sup on the car and smashes the window. Joey screams and puts it in reverse. She goes backward making the killer fly off. She hits the tree behind her and she hears a sound. All of a sudden Jack's body hits the wind shield with blood on his face. She screams and runs out of the car. She looks back but no one is there. She runs away.

Reese is watching a Jackie Brown movie and saying the lines with her holding up a gun.

Reese- "This is the end of your life you Mother fucker." She pretends to fire the gun. "It was easy for him cause he really didn't believe it was coming. But it ain't gonna be easy for you cause you better belive this is coming." She pretends to fire the gun again. Joey runs in crying. "Girl whats wrong with you?"

Joey- "They killed him, somebody killed him." Reese gasps.

They are now driving to the same spot where Joey was with Jack. They are on a bridge.

Joey- "It's right past this bridge." They get to the spot but nothing is there.

Reese- "I don't see nothing. Are you sure this was the spot?" They get otu and look around.

Joey- "I don't get it the car was right--"

Reese- "Here. If you don't mind me asking what the hell are you on?"

Joey- "Nothing the car was right here." Reese picks up a pepsi from the ground.

Reese- "Right here."

Joey- "Reese I saw his body, I touched it.Its probaly the same person who killed Stacey Warner."

Reese- "That's impossible baby. The police arrested that gas station attendent earlier today." Joey just shakes her head and starts to cry.

To be continued...