Jen Lindley
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Jennifer Lindley or "Jen" is a character on television series Dawson's Creek, played by Michelle Williams.
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[edit] Season One
Jen was introduced to the show in the first episode when she arrived from New York City to live with her grandmother "Grams" after her parents found her having sex. She initially provided a love interest for Dawson Leery, and the two dated throughout the first season, which caused tension between Jen and Joey Potter. Jen was the girl who grew up too fast and Joey was the girl who wondered what it would be like to do the things that Jen had done, so Joey was immediately threatened by the "City Girl". Jen and Dawson broke up when Jen's ex-boyfriend Billy came to Capeside to win her back. Billy caused immediate tension between Dawson and Jen, as Jen's past was coming back to haunt her and Dawson. Dawson in the heat of the moment basically called Jen a "Slut", and she broke up with him because, she had never been made to feel so cheap by anyone. By the end of the season she was regretting her decision to break up with him, and wanted Dawson back, especially as her sick Grandfather died.
[edit] Season Two
After the Jen and Dawson breakup Jen became isolated from the rest of the main characters for much of the second season, especially with Joey as Jen attempts to win back Dawson were stepping on Joey's toes. Jen became friends with Abby Morgan, the girl everybody hated, as she was seen as the Devil incarnate, and Jen and Abby often drank together. They both were intrigued by a sailor, who was docked at Capeside and they both made moves on him, he liked Jen and this caused Abby's and Jen's short friendship to break. Jen was caught with the sailor in her home, by Grams. During her sophomore year Jen briefly dated a conservative Christian, but broke up with him after he was revealed as a homophobe, this came out while gay rumors were circulating about Jack McPhee. While Dawson was writing his script, she served as a mentor to him, in getting his inner youth out of him, and she was also a shoulder to cry on while his parents were going through their marriage troubles. She also again befriended the abrasive Abby Morgan, who died after falling off a pier while drunk. After Jen gave a brutally honest speech at Abby's funeral, Grams kicked Jen out of the house as Jen clearly showed a lack of respect, even though Grams had done everything she could to help her. Jen briefly stayed with the Leery's before she attempted a reconciliation with her parents, but they again rejected her. So Jen then went to live with Jack McPhee, as Andie and his father left for Providence to get Andie some help. But eventually they decided that they couldn't afford to live in the house by themselves, and so Jack and Jen moved back in with Grams and became close.
[edit] Season Three
In the third season, although Jack moved out to live with Andie again, his relationship with Jen remained close - not unlike a sibling relationship. Jen and Pacey agreed to have a purely physical relationship to satisfy their bodies' urges, but they realised that there was just no spark between them. She was aggressively courted by Capeside High's star freshman quarterback, Henry Parker (Michael Pitt). The two dated throughout most of Jen's junior year. During Henry's pursuit, Jen also accidentally became Capeside's head cheerleader and was elected homecoming queen. She and Jack were caught up in the whirlwind of the Dawson-Joey-Pacey triangle for the remainder of season three.
[edit] Season Four
Jen's senior year comprised much of the fourth season. Henry, who had accepted a football scholarship to a private school, broke up with Jen through Jack, devastating Jen. She became closer with Jack after the break-up and the two almost shared a drunken sexual encounter on the school ski trip. One of Jen's old acquaintance's from her days on the New York party scene, Drue Valentine, moved to Capeside and brought an unhappy reminder of her past He offered her Ecstacy which accepted off him, but never took. But before they all went to a rave, Andie took the Ecstasy, which mixed with her Medication and she had a small Overdose. This caused a massive rift between Jen and the rest of her friends, which was only healed after Andie told them that she was leaving for Italy. While her friends were all applying to colleges, Jen was reluctant to do so; Jack eventually applied to several schools for her, using previous school work for the essays. Though she considers returning to New York for school, she decides to go to Boston instead to attend the fictional Boston Bay College with Jack after miserably attending her senior prom with Drue.
[edit] Season Five
The fifth season, which spanned Jen's freshman year in college, was somewhat tumultuous. Grams moved to Boston with Jen and Jack and the three lived together until Jack joined a fraternity, which (coupled with the alcohol abuse and academic decline it coincided with) created a rift in Jen and Jack's relationship. While at Boston Bay Jen briefly dated musician Charlie (Chad Michael Murray) and ran a school radio show However she found out that Charlie was cheating on her and she comically made him confess. After the death of Mitch Leery, Jen and Dawson slept together while attending a film festival in which Mitch had entered one of his son's films. The two began a relationship, but Jen eventually broke it off as the relationship was just not working out.
[edit] Season Six
During the sixth season, Jen embarked on a relationship with C.J. (Jensen Ackles). Grams was diagnosed with breast cancer; as a result, Grams, Jen, and Jack decide to move to New York to live with Jen's mother (Mimi Rogers) while Grams underwent treatment.
In the two-part series finale, set five years after the rest of the sixth season, Jen is revealed to have had a baby, Amy, with a boyfriend who subsequently abandoned her. Jen died of a heart condition and left Jack, Amy's godfather, to raise her daughter.
| Dawson's Creek |
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| Characters |
| Dawson Leery | Jen Lindley | Joey Potter | Pacey Witter |
| Locations |
| Capeside | Capeside High | Worthington University |
| Other |
| Young Americans | List of Dawson's Creek episodes |
