Pandie

Pandie is the het ship between Andie and Pacey from the Dawson's Creek fandom.

Canon
Andie and Pacey meet when Andie accidentally hits Pacey, who is in his dad's squad car. Andie immediately thinks that Pacey is a police officer and promptly frets as she has just gotten her license. Pacey plays along and 'let's Andie go with a warning', for which she's very grateful. Later at school, Andie sees Pacey bragging about fooling her and confronts him. He plays it off, but is caught off guard when Kristy Livingstone passes them and greets Andie. Flustered, Pacey asks how Andie knows her and Andie, picking up on Pacey's crush, offers to set up an intro after Pacey insults her. Pacey continues to be rude to Andie, as he gets to meet with Kristy. He asks her out and, much to his surprise, she agrees. On the evening of the date, Pacey waits a while and when Kristy finally shows up, she tells him that she has a boyfriend. Pacey's confused until Kristy reveals that Andie told her he had a fake illness and Pacey realises that Andie's played him in a long con. He heads to Molly's Market to get some dye and spots Andie. She teases him about her revenge prank, and Pacey finally opens up a bit about why it was important to him and his self-esteem issues. Andie feels compassion for Pacey and offers to help him get the right dye. Pacey's suspicious and Andie playfully tells him he'll just have to take a risk in trusting her.

When Pacey realises nobody remembers his 16th birthday, he decides to throw himself a party at the pier. He puts an invite on Andie's car, and they immediately resume their bantering. Pacey's dyed his hair back successfully, but still carries a grudge over Andie's prank. She continues bantering, but then apologises, calling a truce. She shows interest in going to the party, but Pacey shuts her down out of spite. Andie shows up anyway and Pacey, loathe to admit it, is actually happy to see someone he knows at his party. Andie continues bantering with him and Pacey again gets defensive and tells her she should mingle. Andie confesses that new people make her nervous, much to Pacey's surprise, until she relays that he irritates her more than makes her nervous. Andie proceeds to play wingwoman for Pacey, continuing the playful banter. Later, Pacey doesn't have a good time at his party as he walks around by himself and fights with Dawson when the latter shows up and finally realises he forgot Pacey's birthday. At night, Pacey sits on a dock when Andie comes over with a present for him. He's surprised she knew it was his birthday, but Andie explains she heard Dawson and Pacey argue about it. She tells Pacey it's not much, but encourages him to open it. Pacey gives a faint smile, indicating he appreciates Andie's efforts. He opens the present to reveal a magic 8-ball. Andie tells him to use it and Pacey asks a few questions as they enjoy hanging out together. He gives it to Andie to try, but she accidentally drops it into the water. She apologises, but Pacey tells her it's the thought that counts. Pacey's still in a bad mood and Andie tries to cheer him up, managing to make him laugh.

Andie and Pacey are paired in an home ec project where they are assigned jobs and have to budget as though they were a family. Andie is laser-focused on getting a good grade, while Pacey is laidback and only cares about budgeting in a Viper. They continue their playful banter as they work in the café at Molly's Market. Andie decides they should go look at real apartment rentals for research, which leads to a fight when Pacey again assumes that Andie is a rich kid with an easy life compared to his own. Andie gets really upset with him and bails on the project. Pacey tries to find her to apologise and looks for her at the Icehouse, where he meets Jack. Jack learns what happened and sets Pacey straight on his perception of their 'rich, carefree' family. Pacey does apologise by making a really good report for their project and they make amends, understanding each other a little better. Pacey grapples with Tamara Jacobs's return to Capeside, while Andie goes to visit Dawson one day, looking asking about Pacey. Dawson surmises that Andie likes Pacey, and she gets very flustered and starts bantering about how obnoxious Pacey is, then admits to Dawson that he's right. She asks Dawson never to say anything to Pacey and Dawson says he won't. When trying to help Pacey steer clear of the anguish Ms. Jacobs caused Pacey last time she was in town, Dawson reveals that Andie likes Pacey, to try and make him see that not only should Pacey move on, but he can actually be happy with someone who is right for him.

Fanon
Andie and Pacey quickly became one of the biggest pairings in the fandom when the show aired originally. Along with DJo, this was the biggest pairing of the series in Season 2. Viewers were aghast when Pandie was broken up at the start of Season 3, with Andie cheating, only to 'clear the way' for Pacey to be paired with Joey in a love triangle with Dawson, leaving Andie completely out of the picture (and less and less a part of the stories of the show). The grievance among viewers only increased when, in the early episodes of Season 4, Meredith Monroe was fired and the character of Andie written off the show, with a rumour at the time persisting that they couldn't think of a storyline for her except her dating Dawson. Pacey's sister was arguably introduced as a 'placeholder' for the third female character on the show, although viewers did not buy it nor were they ever persuaded that Andie's disappearance from the show had any merit whatsoever.

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