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Glorified G- Chapter 13

A/N just a quick lil note, I know the ten tour was long as heck, but for the sake of my fic I’m gonna pretend it was only a month- so please just go along with me and my bs, thank you! Also feel free to ask me anything!

The days all merged into one and Joanne was so focused on finding a lead for this case she didn’t notice how quickly her birthday had crept up on her. Over the past few days she had barely left home after work, her kitchen had been transformed into the brainstorming HQ, the times she had left the apartment had been to buy more coffee and to scope out the beach where the bodies were found. That was another thing that baffled her, the beach was always busy and it wasn’t a secluded area. Eddie had called her every other night, checking in on her and asking if she needed anything. She even had a few calls from Chris, Stone and Mike checking in as they hadn’t seen her in a while.

When she woke on her birthday she let out a groan, she hated her birthday and she never celebrated it. In a zombie-like state she made her way to the kitchen and made a pot of coffee, she was quick to down a mug of the bitter black coffee. She needed a boost to wake up, her sleep schedule was non-existent thanks to the case. She disappeared into her bedroom trying to find an outfit for work, she ended up wearing a pencil skirt and a white shirt- “I fuckin hate skirts, I need to wash my shit.” She grumbled to herself, as she wriggled into the tight black skirt. She slid on some low black heels and ran a hand through her hair, opting to leave it down she grabbed her bag and began to put the case files from the kitchen table into it.

There was a sudden knock on the door which made Joanne jump, dropping the stack of paper back onto the table. She opened the door to see a very smiley Eddie, with the rest of Pearl Jam standing behind him.

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY JO!” They all sang, she laughed and stepped aside letting them in, she was quick to move the files, they didn’t need to see that so early in the morning.

“Please don’t tell me you are going to work on your birthday. It’s your twenty-first, which means you can buy alcohol now!” Eddie began, Stone was quick to add,

“You can buy us our kegs now!” He smirked, she smiled at them,

“Sorry guys, I’ll come out tonight, but serial killers don’t take days off.” She rolled her eyes, the guys all paused for a moment before Eddie put forward an idea,

“Aren’t you essentially working a cold case?” He asked and Joanne shook her head,

“That would mean it is unsolved, and I refuse to let it go cold.” Eddie sighed,

“Okay, but when was the last murder, don’t you think you can take this one day off?” Joanne thought about it for a few seconds and the phone rang, she quickly answered,

“Taylor.” She heard a chuckle through the phone,

“Good morning agent Taylor, and happy birthday! You don’t need to come in today, Eleanor will continue your investigation without you for today. Please enjoy today, it’s a special one.” She rolled her eyes, it’s just another damn day.

“Okay, well thank you, sir. I’ll see you tomorrow.”

As she put the phone down the guys were all staring at her like excited puppies,

“I’ve got the day off.” She said, a small smile creeping onto her face,

“Go and get changed and we can go for breakfast then start drinking!” Eddie cheered, nodding she wandered back into her bedroom she decided to throw on some skinny jeans and her red flannel shirt with a black t-shirt underneath, in the kitchen she put her docs on and finished her coffee, “You ready?” Eddie asked she nodded. They all walked to a diner a few blocks from Joanne’s apartment, as they walked Joanne was filled in on the itinerary for the day.

“So we’re gonna go and eat because you can’t drink on an empty stomach.” Jeff started,

“Then we are gonna take a little road trip to easy street records, where you can choose a vinyl or two as your present from us.” Stone continued,

“Then we will probably get some lunch as drinking in the morning is generally frowned upon.” Mike went on,

“Then we will wander to a bar- any bar, where we will stay for the majority of the night unless you’d rather move around all of the bars.” Dave finished, Joanne laughed,

“Well you’ve really thought about this, why don’t we do a pub crawl?” That question earned her a few confused looks, “You know what a pub crawl is, surely. You know when you have a pint at a pub then move on to the next pub, and carry on until you are too drunk or you run out of pubs.” She explained, “there used to be a really good pub crawl in London, I think it was sixteen pubs, I never made it past six.” She let out a laugh, the guys nodded.

“Let's do it.”

The diner was great, Joanne had some pancakes and another coffee- if she was going to be drinking a lot tonight she needed to get enough caffeine in her system to keep her awake. She laughed internally as the waitress subtly checked out the guys. Eddie drove to easy street records and Joanne had to follow behind in her car as they couldn’t all fit in Eddie’s. At the record store, Joanne scanned the vinyl for a copy of Ten, when she found one she made her way over to the guys,

“I wouldn’t mind this one, I’ve heard they are an alright set of guys.” She smirked slightly, Eddie took the vinyl off her and grinned,

“Anything else?” Joanne shook her head,

“You don’t have to get me shit.”

“Well, we wanted to.”

Lunch was pretty uneventful, the group ended up playing twenty questions as it were to get to know each other. Of course, the guys knew each other relatively well so it was just a chance for Joanne to get to know them better, and for them to get to know her. She froze when Mike asked about her parents, not wanting to shut them out she decided to open up to them,

“Well, my parents are kind of Bonnie and Clyde, they ditched me when I was a baby so my grandma raised me. But I don’t have any memories of them, so it’s like they don’t exist.” She had accepted it a long time ago, she’d never meet her parents she never wanted to meet them, they were monsters from what she had read and she had no intention of having anything to do with them. They popped up in her nightmares all the time, but she didn’t know what their faces looked like, she had seen a few photographs as a child and that was the only memory she had of them. The conversation quickly picked back up with Jeff poking fun at Stone’s full name,

“Stone Carpenter Gossard? Really?” Joanne asked with a small smirk, Stone nodded,

“Fucking hippie parents.” He retorted, the group burst into laughter, “hey guys it’s officially not morning shall we get this show on the road?” Stone asked everyone nodded.

The drove back towards Joanne’s apartment so they could leave the cars and collect them in the morning. Joanne was really excited to finally be able to buy alcohol, so the first round at the first bar was on her. The first drink went down like water, just quenching their thirst, they moved on to the next bar and repeated. The conversation made less sense as the pub crawl continued, as they walked to the next bar Joanne began asking the important questions,

“Would you rather be chased by ten horse sized ducks or by ten duck sized horses?” The guys genuinely considered it for a few moments,

“Duck sized horses!” Eddie cheered, Joanne gradually felt herself getting drunker, she wasn’t really much of a drinker in that she wouldn’t go for nights out regularly, she normally had a few beers and that was it- so suddenly drinking like a fish got to her.

She started to feel really happy as the night went on, they were staggering to the next bar at around six Eddie and Joanne had fallen slightly behind the group,

“Eddie, thank you for being nice to me-” she half whispered, then she spoke up, “I love you guys! You’re the family I never had!” She slurred as she spoke the guys turned around and stopped walking for a moment to pull her into a big group hug, she was in the middle and they were all just squashing her, a few moments later the group continued their pilgrimage to the next bar. She took Eddie’s hand and stopped him, so they fell behind the group again,”Have you listened to my mixtape yet?” She asked with a laugh, he nodded, “well what did you think?” He paused for a few moments,

“I mean it’s definitely different to what I’d normally listen to, you’ll have to give me a full track run down and tell me why you picked each song. I must admit I didn’t peg you to listen to that kind of music, it’s pretty intense.” Joanne laughed at him for a few moments,

“What did you think I’d listen to?” She pressed,

“I don’t know to be honest.” He let out a quiet laugh. Joanne quickly changed the subject,

“Any news? How's things with Beth?” Eddie linked arms with her and started walking to catch up with the group,

“I dunno, we haven’t spoken really. I think I’m gonna surprise her in San Diego when we go there on tour.” He grinned excitedly,

“That will be ace! When do you go on tour?” Eddie looked at the floor sheepishly,

“Tomorrow.” Joanne was shocked,

“For how long?” She interrogated him,

“Just a month.” That answer seemed to please Joanne,

“Well, it’ll be a dull month for me-” She laughed, “But we should celebrate you going on tour too! The last hurrah!” Eddie laughed at her, “I might even do a forwards roll later.” She chuckled.

By midnight the group were steaming, anyone a foot near to them could smell the fumes coming off their breath. They weren’t ready to let the night end so they continued to drink, after finishing her drink Joanne decided to go stand outside for a few minutes to get some air, the smell of stale peanuts and beer in the bar they were at was overwhelming her slightly. She stood outside with her back against the wall, every now and then she would find herself having what she called a ‘moment’ it would be when she would suddenly get overwhelmed with emotions because things are just right, and things are good- she was having a moment as she stood outside the smelly bar, she had found such a great group of guys who helped her to feel at home in Seattle without even knowing her, it was rare that Joanne got all sentimental but when she did, it was intense. She stood grinning like a fool, she had family here and she knew she could rely on them for anything, her moment was interrupted by Eddie sprinting out of the bar and running over to the bins throwing up, Joanne ran over and grabbed his hair for him and patted him on the back she couldn’t help but laugh at the sight, she’d never been the one to hold someone else’s hair back- it was always her throwing up in the ladies room.

“You good Ed?” He straightened up, grabbed Joanne and dragged her back into the bar where he downed his drink,

“Shall we move on to the next bar?” Eddie asked, the guys all stood up and walked out- leading the way to the next bar.

Many bars later they decided to call it a night, Joanne was holding up pretty well- mainly because she had the sense to have a few glasses of water between beers, the others were managing they just weren’t as chipper as Joanne.

“Hey, guys!” She whisper shouted as they walked through the car park of their final bar, everyone stopped and stared at her, “I owe you a forwards roll.” She laughed, she stood away from them all and stood with her arms out to the side, and within ten seconds had done a forwards roll across the car park, Joanne’s forwards roll inspired Stone to attempt one which ended with my just falling flat on his face somehow, the six burst out laughing as Stone sat patting himself down,

“I meant to do that.”

Upon finally arriving home Joanne grabbed a large glass of water and went to bed trying to prepare herself for the killer hangover she would have in the morning, she fell asleep replaying the day and how perfect it had been- everything was just as it should be.

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