"Okay people, I want that script on my desk by tomorrow morning!" Dawson is sitting in his office, shouting things to people, ordering them to do stuff for him.

"Daisy, bring me a coffee!" He yells out to his secretary.

"Maybe you should go home, get some rest. It's the night before Christmas eve. You don't want to be tired while you celebrate Christmas, right ?"

Dawson stands up.

"Just bring me the coffee! Besides, I have nothing to celebrate"
he sits back down.

"I don't think that, I think that you have a lot to celebrate, you have a dream job, you're the most famous guy in the world. Not many people can say that. But I guess you're right, all that is nothing without your dream girl."

Dawson is getting irritated.

"Joey is her name, right ?" Daisy says.

Dawson looks up.

"How do you know that !" he asks suprised.

"Because I told her"
Miss Joey Potter walks into the room and lightens up Dawson's face.

"What, I don't get a hug from my best friend ?"

He stands up, walks up to her and gives her a hug.

"Joey ? What are you doing here ? Why aren't you with your husband "
He lets go of her.

"Pacey and I got divorced four months ago, I was trying to find the courage to tell you, but I couldn't, and I guess Pace couldn't either"
Joey's smile disappears.

"Oh, god. Joey, I'm so sorry. W... what happened ?"

"I don't know, I loved him, but I guess my heart wasn't with him anymore"
Dawson is very suprised to hear this, and deap down he is very glad too, but he doesn't let her show that, he doesn't want to chase her away, not again.

"Daisy, I'm going out! I'll see you tomorrow or the day after"
He calls out and he and Joey leave the office.

Joey and Dawson are walking down the street and they are drinking some egg nog.

"So, what are you planning to do tomorrow that you think you won't be in for work all day "
she asks.

He laughs.
"I don't know, you tell me."

She doesn't respond, she just smiles at him, finally they get to his place.

"I'm a, I'm kind of tired, and it's been a long day and I have no place to stay, so I was wondering if I could... "
he interrupts her.

"Say no more, you can have the bed, I'll just sleep on the sofa."

"Thanks Dawson"
She gives him a kiss on the cheek.

While Joey is sleeping, Dawson makes a phone call to the office.

"Hi, it's me. I was wondering if Daisy was still there. She is ? Can you get her for me ? Thanks. (He pauses.) Hey, Daisy, I just, I just wanted to say that I'm sorry I was so rude to you, I guess you were right and I was just tired or something else that you might have said, you can take tonight and tomorrow of, I won't be in so there is no need for my secretary to be in and tell everyone at the office to be home on time for Christmas. Yeah, happy Christmas to you too."

He puts the phone down and goes to sleep.

The next morning when Dawson wakes up, Joey is cooking.

"Joey ? W.. what are you doing ?" he asks still half asleep.

"I'm making breakfast, we have to eat, don't we ?" she smiles and gives him some eggs.

"And, have you been watching my show lately ?"

He mouth falls wide open.
"Are you kidding ! I LOOVVEE it! It's the best you've ever done! And that movie of yours, what was it called again, On Her Own, I loved it. I could see myself in it, well, every girl probably says that when she sees you."

He touches her hand.
"But it's not about every girl, it's just about one, the one, you."

Joey frightens and she stands up.
"Look, Dawson, I know we aren't teenagers anymore, so I can just say what I'm feeling, and every single time I come near you, I feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I'm not even sure if that's a word, fuzzy... But I do know that that is what I feel, it's like we are blessed by some kind of magic and we are always in love, but at the same time it feels like we are doomed by some curse that wants us to never find what we are looking for in each other. And I know, this is the time that miracles happen, it's Christmas, we're supposed to be happy, we are supposed to have happy lives. But honestly, I'm not sure if we can ever have that..."

Dawson's world falls apart when he hears that, he loves that girl, and he thinks she loves him, but to hear how frightened she is to be with him, frightens him too. Joey can't stand what she has just said, she is afraid she has lost him forever, and she runs out the house. Dawson doesn't follow her, he thinks, he hopes she'll come back.

Joey is walking around, not far from Dawson's house when she sees an old couple passing by. They look so happy together, unlike Joey, who has tears in her eyes. Joey walks by the couple who are now sitting on a bench.

"Excuse me, miss, are you okay ?" the lady asks.
Joey turns around, she had not expected this.

"Eum, sure, I guess..."

The old woman stands up and slowly approaches Joey.

"I can see your heart I hurting, child. If I may say something, (Joey nods) if you have the chance to be with whomever it is you want to be with, then do that. You only live once, don't be afraid to take risks."

She gives Joey a hand and walks back to her sweetheart. Joey gives her ones last smile and then starts running real real fast.
She runs for like a half an hour long till she is finnaly in front of Dawson's house. She hesitates if she should go in, but then remembers the words the old woman said "Don't be afraid to take risks..."

She rings the door bel.
The door slowly opens.
Dawson is standing there with a sad look upon his face, but as soon as he sees her, he forms a smile and wipes the sad look away.

"Come in."

They go into the living room and they don't speak for a few minutes.

"Joey... Dawson..." they both say at the same time.

"You first." Dawson says.

They sit down, she looks into his eyes, there's a twinkle in both their eyes.
She smiles and grabs his hand.

"I was scared, I loved Pacey, I always will, and still, our marriage failed. And, I think, that the reality is that life isn't a fairy tale, our relationship isn't a fairy tale, we can love each other so much, but our relationship can still fail. That's what frightens me. It always has, even more so the last years."

"Joey..." he says.

"Let me finish.. I love you, and I want to take a risk and see if we can work, if there can be a we. But I wanna take it slow"
She lets go of his hand, afraid of his reaction. He grabs her hand again.

"I love you too. And I'll do whatever it takes to make us work. Remember what we said all those years ago 'You and me, forever.' ? I never thought that would be the truth, until now."

Joey plans to say something, anything, until she suddenly sees that it is snowing. It is snowing in L.A., that almost never happens.
She drags Dawson outside into the cold on the balcony.

She spins herself around in the falling snow.
And lets herself fall in his arms.
And in one moment, one tiny second, right then, right there, she decides to kiss him.

However, it doesn't stay with one kiss, they kiss more and more, and move into the living room, into the bedroom.

"What happened with taking it slow ?" he asks, hoping he won't regret that.

"Screw that!" she says and she doesn't stop kissing him, she never stops kissing him, not in her mind anyway.

That night, they sleep with each other, for the second time in their lives, but it feels like their first time together.

"I love you..." they both say to each other after they had done it, then she falls asleep in his arms, he doesn't, he loves to watch her sleep, after all, he loves her.

The next morning, Joey awakes, in Dawson's arms.

"Good morning." she says and smiles.

"Happy Christmas"
He says to her and kisses her, tells her he loves her.

In his entire life, his whole existence, he has never felt this way before. Pure joy, that's what he's feeling, and what he'll feel forever.

This was a very magical Christmas for them both, the beginning of a new life, what can be more magical ?

xxx THE END xxx