Visiting Joe's grave

Disclaimer: I do not own Blue Bloods or any of the characters.

 A/N: So I am going to say Eddie and Jamie are already a couple and dating in this story. Also it is a special anniversary for Jamie and Joe. So Jamie is really taking it hard. If you can't stand intense hurt and pain then I urge you not to read this. Please read, enjoy, and review.

Today was an important day for Joe and me. It was the anniversary of our first road trip together. It was really hard for me today. It had been the only road trip we had been able to take before his sudden death. Every year on this day it is so painful to get up and do my day. But this year I have Eddie. And she is helping mend my heart. I couldn't wait to bring her to see Joe and introduce her. I know in my heart if he were here today he would have liked her a lot. He would have been proud of me for being such an amazing cop. I would tell him I learned from the best. Joe was my hero in so many ways. Danny couldn't even compare and yet sometimes Danny had his moments where he reminded me of Joe. Erin sometimes does things Joe did and when she does it makes me cry because I know Joe would have laughed at her for copying him. Joe was this incredible, amazing, and wonderful person all wrapped into a package.

When we took that road trip Joe wanted me to have some fun before I graduated law school and had to start working. We were going to drive around for the week I had off from school. Just me and him visiting different cities and sampling the food and site seeing. It had been his idea to do a road trip but my idea to go to multiple places. We took turns driving and everything. We saw the Grand Canyon, the Seattle space needle, and even the Washington monument to name a few things. I couldn't remember ever having so much fun in my entire life. Joe, he just smiled and laughed the whole trip. You could tell he had been having it rough at work and needed this vacation really bad. We took lots of pictures together when we saw the Grand Canyon. Joe said he always wanted to remember what it looked like in case he never got a chance to see it again. I thought it was strange at the time that he worded it like that but thought nothing of it. I just had fun snapping photos of him in goofy poses by the canyon.

When we got to the top of the Seattle space needle everything below us looked like ants. We laughed so hard. Everyone stared at us but we didn't care because we were having fun together. Joe went up close to the window and looked down again. He motioned for me to get close but I had been scared of the height at the time. Joe just took my hand and held it tightly while we looked together. I remembered feeling like a frightened child but he made it all better. We grabbed lunch at a small restaurant inside the space needle. It was a great lunch. I will never forget that chicken. I don't know how they prepared it so well but it was unforgettable. They also made a mean mac and cheese gratin and Joe couldn't put down his fork. We also shared a huge piece of this chocolate layer cake with butter cream icing. It was one of the best lunches he ever had. He secretly wanted to take Eddie there sometime and show her what Joe and he saw together. He also wanted to take her to the Grand Canyon as she had never been before.

When we finally made it to the Washington monument we were dead tired. The trip had worn us out. We wondered if we had saved the best for last because it was the capital of the states. It was so cool there and we had a lot of fun site seeing. We even saw the Abe Lincoln statue too. Joe was rather impressed with it and the size of the statue. I really liked the monument. I liked that it was so tall for a pillar and that it was so significant and important. Joe and I even found time between sampling the food to go walk around this fancy botanical garden. Now that I think about it, I bet Eddie would love it there. There were so many flowers, trees, and shrubs inside the gardens. It had so many plants Joe and I had never even seen or heard of before. It was breathtaking. We snapped a lot of photos of cool looking plants and their names. Joe even took photos of me in this greenhouse with some tropical plants and cactuses. That was fun and the cactuses were super cool.