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[QUOTE]Originally posted by CaptainMike: [QB] [IMG]http://captainmike.org/Stuff/MVC-146a.gif[/IMG] Dawson walked into his room to find the last thing he expected, crying on his bed. Joey. She immediately stopped upon his entrance. "Joey..." "Dawson, I am so sorry.""What happened, Joey?""I told you, Jack kissed me and--" "No, not Jack. This is not about Jack. About us. What is going on between us?" "I don't know, Dawson." "Ever since we got together I feel like you've been pulling away from me. I thought this was what you wanted, you know? I thought I was what you wanted." "You are.""Am I?""You're what I'm going to want, Dawson.""What does that mean?" "For so long, all I've thought about was you. All I dreamed about wasyou." "What happened?" "I got my dream and now I feel like I don't have anything else. I mean, you have your future so perfectly planned, Dawson, you know exactly what you want to do, what you want to accomplish, and I don't even know who I am, let alone who I want to be or accomplish and I need to figure that out. I need to find my something.""So go find it." "It can't include you, Dawson. It has to be my doing, and mine alone. You make me so happy, you know? But I have to make myself happy first. That's probably the one thing in this whole world that you can't do for me." "So what are you saying?" Joey sadly walked away from him and started towards the window. "Joey?Joey, no, Joey!" Dawson said in a panicked confusion. "I... I loveyou." Joey stopped in her tracks and walked back to him."I love you, too, Dawson." Dawson took the words to mean that everything was going to be all right and leaned in to kiss her. Joey pulled away and went back towards the window. Dawson didn't understand. "Wait, b-b-but how can it be over? We can't just say I love you for the first time and have it be over!" Joey stayed strong. "I have to go, Dawson. Goodnight," she said before climbing out thewindow. She stopped to lean against the house and compose herself before running off into the night. Dawson's confusion turned to anger. He violently threw whatever was in reach, hoping to make the object feel the stinging he suddenly couldn't bear. He watched Joey run for a moment before kicking down the ladder, going back into his room, and slamming the window shut. You are my fire,The one desire.Believe when I say I want it that way. Dawson lay awake in his bed even though it was three in the morning. To the naive onlooker, everything looked normal. The window was open again to let in the night air. The lights were all off and Dawson was still. The only sound audible was his breathing. But everything wasn't normal. Dawson's whole world had just been ripped apart. His feet were pulled out from under him and he could not regain his balance. For two months, he had lived for nothing but Joey. He couldn't even remember what he used to think about before he started to obsess over her. There was nothing except for movies and movie nights and... Joey. How could she leave me? he thought. I wanted to fix things. Shedidn't. They weren't perfect, but I-- we could have fixed things. How could she leave when I finally realized-- I love her. Dawson felt his neckgetting stiff, but he didn't care. He continued lying on his side, staring at the window and hoping Joey would materialize. He scoffed at his eternal optimism... it wasn't going to help him this time. Then he realized something else that he hadn't noticed yet through the silence and the darkness: he was crying. But we are two worlds apart. Can't reach to your heart,When you say that'I want it that way'. Joey woke up from her useless sleep for the third time that night. She lay in numbness, staring at the ceiling. Joey was surprised that she could remain as composed as she did, that she actually went through with it. She stifled a sob. She couldn't let anyone else in her house see or hear her cry. She never had been able to, she always had to keep on her strong exterior. Of course, that didn't help her deal with loss too well. She knew if she didn't have the privacy to burst into tears comfortably sometime soon, it was not going to be good for her. She swallowed and turned on her side, looking out the window at the cresent moon. She hadn't been able to stop replaying that night's events over and over in her mind. The talk with Jack, Dawson throwing a punch, going back to Dawson's room... She started to sing the only line she knew from "Somewhere Out There". She thought it was such a beautiful line she had even bothered to memorize it. That's what she got for being secretly romantic. But as she looked at the sky, she smiled briefly because she knew it applied. "Somewhere out there," she sang, almost in a whisper, "beneaththe pale moonlight... someone's thinking of me, and loving me tonight." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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