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Early Edition Meets What About Joan
(an Early Edition/What About Joan Cross-over Fanfiction)


Cast of Characters

Early Edition: * What about Joan:
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Gary Hobson * Joan Gallagher
Marissa Clark * Jake Evans
Erica Paget * Ruby Stern
Henry Paget * Alice Adams
Patrick Quinn * Mark Ludlow
Chuck Fishman * & Steinie
Carl the cat *
& Spike *




Chapter 1
December 21,2001
4:15 PM
Jake`s Office

The phone on Jake`s desk rings as he walks in from his break. He just was wondering when he was going to hear from the Bureau of Vital Statistics to see if they had any information he could use about his biological family. He picks up the still ringing phone.

"Hello, Jake Evans here."

"Jake this is Mike Smythe at the Bureau of Vital Statistics and I got some info for you. There is some good news and some bad news, Which do you want first?"

" Give me the bad first then maybe the good will cheer me up."

"Ok, here goes your parents passed away in a car accident,you would have been five yaers old then. You ok that i told you that?"

"Yeah,I will be. Now what`s the good news?"

"Well I also found your mother`s sister 'Lois' and her husband 'Bernard Hobson' they live in Indiana and they have a son 'Gary' living not very far from you right there in Chicago."



9:30 PM
Joan`s Apartment

"You`ve been looking for your parents for two years."

"Yeah."

"I know they`re gone,and I`m sorry. But now you at least know where your Aunt,Uncle,& Cousin are. You could talk to them and even though you`ll be going out of town next week you could go spend a few days with your cousin."

" But Joan, I wouldn`t know what to say to Gary if I found him what if the family doesn`t want me around or even know about me or even remember me?"

" But Jake!, How can you be so sure of that and how do you know how they feel about you? The only way you can find out is if you go there. Anyways don`t you think they miss your parents or are maybe even curious about how you ended up?"

"Well...I guess you have a point i`ll see if I can`t call-off from work tomorrow go find McGinty`s. Mike said Gary is co-owner and lives above the place so I guess he probably is there most of the time ok?"

"Great!,I`d go with you but tomorrow is going to be busy and I can`t miss most of it."

"I know, If I find him you could always meet him some other time."


end of chapter one.

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