Stone and Eddie (a Pearl Jam-ish fanfiction)

Chapter eighteen

Eddie Vedder

Recording has been a major pain in the ass. It takes forever to even get one song done and we get here super early and leave super late, and by the time we're home we're so tired we fall asleep right when our head hits the pillow. Me and Stone barely even get to talk except in the car. It's tiring me out and all I want is some alone time with him.

It's our fifth day straight of recording and we're on our ninth song. We've got to finish soon. "I will walk...... With my hands bound, I will walk......." I sing, but really I'm just wondering when the next time is I'll get to be with Stone. Like really be with him. "Into your garden, garden of stone." After I finish singing and the song is over, I sigh, exasperated. All the recordings of the instruments for this song are finished, except for the vocals.

We all go and listen to the track together, and they agree that I need to do one more recording of it. Great.

I would usually be all for playing music, but when it's nonstop for days at a time inside a stuffy recording studio it gets to me. Around five minutes later we huddle around the speaker and listen to what we just recorded. They say that with some editing it would be perfect and we all cheer and high five each other.

"Well let's go home now", Stone announces, looking at me with a wink. It's seven, way earlier than the time we usually leave, but I think we all deserve a bit of a shorter day. We all agree eagerly and me and Stone hop into the truck, waving goodbye to the guys. As soon as we get into the truck Stone scoots closer to me and I wrap my arm around him. He sighs, sounding exhausted. "Ugh, I just want to get this over with", he states.

"Me too. But even more, I want to get home so I can spend time with you." He smiles and blushes probably. I wrap my arm around him tighter and pull him as close as I can, so close I can smell his signature scent of shampoo and citrus. When we get home I go into my room and pick up my book as he goes to the bathroom. He comes in here a few minutes later and curls up against me. He looks serene as I look down and see his eyes lightly closed, his long hair spread out around his head. I smile at how fuckin' adorable he is.

I was convinced he was asleep so when he says something it makes me jump. He laughs at me. "What did you say?" I ask him, not quite remembering since I was half scared to death.

"I said, do you want to do something else?"

"Like what?"

"I have an idea", he says, his voice dripping with seductiveness and he leans in to kiss me.

"Yeah, I'd be okay with doing this", I tell him and climb on top of him.

~*~

I just finished singing the last song, 'Release', and we all agreed that it would work. Thank god it's over with. Now we just need to get Tim, our mixer, to edit it."Wanna go get drinks?" Jeff asks.

"I think you know the answer to that", I say and we all agree to meet at my favorite little bar in half an hour, giving all of us enough time to drop out stuff off at our houses.

When we get in the car Stone gives me a quick kiss. "You did a great job on the album", he tells me.

"Thanks. You did too. I'm just glad it's over." We go home, drop our instruments off and get to the bar right on time. I spot Jeff sitting in a booth in the corner by himself. He greets us when we get over there and me and Stone sit down in the leather seat across from him. Stone starts playing with my hair as we wait for the the others. I look at Jeff and he's staring at us in what I think is disbelief.

"What?" I ask him.

"You and Stone are discusting."

"Nuh uh", Stone protests before I can.

"Yuh huh", Jeff mutters back.

"Nope."

"Fine, but if you two start making out I'm gonna leave."

"Oh", Stone says, his eyes lighting up. "Then I'll make sure to." Then he grabs my face and as we kiss I can feel him smiling.

"The fuck?!" Someone yells from right next to me. I pull away and see Mike starting at us looking grossed out. "Just putting on a show for Jeff or something?"

I chuckle. "Long story."

"Uh huh", he says, still sounding kind of curious. A few minutes later Dave arrives and sits down next to Stone, making Stone scoot over in the both and squish me into the wall.

"Ow..." I say quietly.

"Sorry baby", he says with a laugh and tries to scoot over to un-squish me but ends up accidentally pushing Dave out of the booth. We all explode with laughter and when the waitress comes over we're still laughing. Dave gets on the side of the booth with Mike and Jeff in it so he "Doesn't have to sit by us lovebirds".

The waitress asks us all what we want and we all say beer, except for Stone who just asks for water. "Not getting a drink drink?" I ask him.

He shakes his head. "We need a designated driver, ya know?"

"I can buy you a beer since you don't have an ID", Mike offers but Stone still shakes his head. "Well if you want one later just ask." Then we just sat there discussing random stupid things and being guys for I don't know how long. The way I measured time was the number of beers we all had and it got to about three or four beers per person (except for Stone who just stuck with water). It felt good to just let loose and not have a care in the world.

"Eddie, I'm getting tired", Stone said with a yawn.

"Do you wanna go home?"

"Yeah", he mumbles.

"Okay, I'll pay and then we can go." I can tell I'm slurring my words.

"But I'm driving", he says with a laugh.