The Crying Game


By: Kat
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to Dawson's Creek. This is only for recreational purposes, people!
Rating: PG-13
Author's Note: Thought's are beetween * *s.



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Setting: Dawson's bedroom
Characters: Dawson and Pacey

The sounds of Pacey's even breathing are starting to put Dawson to sleep. Pacey moans, and Dawson becomes alert. He is thankful because he's desperately trying to stay awake to the end of SNL.

*What am I going to do?!* Dawson thinks to himself.

He thinks back to what Pacey said before. He had confessed that his father had been riding him a lot more lately and his mother had started to get it on it, too. Talking had made Pacey even more upset and exhausted. Dawson tries to remember the last time he had ever seen Pacey cry.

Two thin brunettes, a boy and a girl, and one shorter, pudgier blonde boy, are sitting on the bedroom floor. The little boys are playing with action figures and the girl is glancing at the clock. It reads 6:30. "Oh no! I killed your guy, Pace. I'm sorry," Dawson says. He looks truly sorry.

"It's just a game Dawson. You act like you really killed it. But, OH NO! LOOK OUT," Pacey exclaims.

"What?"

"COUNTERATTACK!!!!!!!!" Both boys squeal, crashing their figures together. Unexpectedly a figure hits Pacey's forehead. He bursts out laughing.

"Pacey. Go wait for your mom downstairs," Joey says coldly.

"Jooooey! It's only 6:30. My moms coming at 7," he says softly. He feels bad correcting her, not wanting to hurt her feelings.

"Yea, Jo. Play with me and Pacey. You're staying till 7:30. When Pacey leaves we can do something else," Dawson states reasonably. Pacey nods. They go back to playing.

"NO! Pacey I wanna play with Dawson now!"

"You can play, too Joey. Then when I leave you play what you wanna play."

"NO! Go downstairs. Anyway Dawson's my best, best friend! Not you. You're just my best friend. We don't wanna play with you." He looks up at her, his blue-gray eyes filled with tears, his chin quivering. He gets up and runs out of the room.

Dawson just looks at Joey, on the verge of tears himself. He can hear his mother asking Pacey what's wrong. Then he hears his father pick up the phone to call Pacey's mom. As Dawson moves into the doorway he can hear Pacey sobbing, telling Mrs. Leery how mean Joey is.

"Dawson! Joey! Please come down here!" Mrs. Leery yells. Dawson walks down and outs a hand on his sobbing friends shoulder. Joey looks ice cold standing on the steps, glaring at Pacey.

Mrs. Leery proceeds to chastise them and inform Joey that her mom is coming to get her. Dawson apologizes to Pacey and tells him he can come over tomorrow and play. Pacey forgives him, but keeps on crying.

There is a knock on the front door and Mr. Leery answers it. Pacey's mom walks in and Pacey runs up to her. His mother scoops into her arms and starts to talk to Mrs. Leery. She says good-bye to Dawson and Joey and instructs Pacey to do the same. He refuses and buries his face in her shoulder.

And after that Pacey never cried again.

The room is still filled with Pacey's soft breathing. He moans again, softer this time. Dawson smiles. He remembers when it used to scare him, but he became accustomed to the strange noises over the years. Finally he lets his head hit the pillow and he too is asleep.

Setting: Jen's bedroom
Characters: Jen and Joey

"So after you screamed at him what happened?" Jen asked, seeming very interested.

"I grabbed Pacey and left. Then Pacey made up some lame excuse and I don't know where he is," Joey said still very upset.

"Oh! I just remembered. I saw Pacey climb into Dawson's window. He might have gone out the front because I didn't see him leave," she said.

Joey jumped up. "He might still be there! C'mon let's go!"

"Jo. It's kinda late," Jen argued.

"That's ok. C'mon." Jen shrugs and follows Joey out the door and down the stairs.

Setting: Dawson's bedroom
Characters: Dawson, Joey, Jen and Pacey

The girls climb up the ladder quietly to find the boys sound asleep. They giggle and tiptoe towards the foot of the bed. Then they hit the guys' feet, hard. Dawson woke up with a start. "What the?"

He looks up at the two girls who are now hysterical. Then they look disappointed because Pacey hasn't budged. He is in the same position, his chest silently rising and falling.

"Oh that sucks. He didn't even wake up!" Joey whined. Jen pouted along with her.

"Yea. What's the fun in that?" she asked. Dawson sighed and ran his fingers through his hairs.

"Leave him alone guys. He had a rough night."

"What's wrong? Why is he here anyway?" Joey asked.

"I'm assuming you already know what happened, Jen." Jen nods. "Well, Pacey came to apologize. He was really upset. I haven't seen him act like that since we were seven." Joey looked confused.

"Like what?"

Dawson stumbles with his words. "Well.... He was um .........."

Joey put her hands on her hips. "What? He was what Dawson?"

"He was crying ok? Pacey. Crying. I couldn't believe it. Don't look at me like that Jo. It's not my fault. It was about his dad and everything. He was really upset. Well, maybe I was part of it, but he was feeling guilty and depressed about before you know," Dawson said quietly.

"Wow. I can't imagine Pacey, crying. It's just too weird," Jen said.

"Yea. Is he. Is he ok?" Joey asked, sounding concerned.

Dawson smiles. "Doesn't he look ok?" She nods and smiles, gazing dreamily at him, watching him sleep. All of a sudden he moans. Loud. Jen jumps. Dawson and Joey just laugh.

"Relax Jen. He always makes weird noises when he sleeps," Joey explained laughing.

"Oh. Jeez that scared me," Jen said, covering her heart with her hand.

"It used to scare me, too. But we're used to it now. You wanna know what's really funny?" Dawson asked her. She nods. "He still doesn't know that he does it!"

They all laugh and Pacey stirs. He rubs his eyes and sits up.

"What's going on?" Pacey asked in a groggy voice.

"We didn't interrupt your beauty sleep did we? God knows you need it." Everyone but Pacey laughs. He just yawns.

"That's nice. Good night." He falls back onto the bed and is once again asleep. They all laugh.

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