Hey peoples!

As promised, another chapter before Saturday! Hope you love it! Massive props to my Beta twilightmenrhot and my prereader whitegurl2013...you girlies ROCK!

As always, I own nothing and get paid less! Do obsessively look for Pete pics...but everyone needs a hobby!

JPOV

I get a text from Ali and it looks like I am on babysitting duty again tonight. Don't get me wrong, I like Iz and I was the one who told Ali that she wasn't coping but I was rather looking forward to seeing her shaking her ass on the Bourbon bar tonight instead of hiding out in The Dive to keep an eye out. But, I gotta do what my woman tells me. She is a force to be reckoned with after all!

So I pull into the bar on my bike at about 9pm and don't see Iz anywhere. I usually just sneak in, see that she is ok, have a drink and then head out. Tonight, I notice she is up on the stage. That is not like her. She hasn't sang in public since "the incident", I snort as I think that. I am hanging out with B.A and Ali too much. Good God! I referred to Rosie as B.A. I have definitely been spending far too much time with the women folk!

So, I walk through the small crowd to get to the bar and register what she is singing and hear the emotion in her voice.

And I don't know how
I can do without
I just need you now

The emotion I hear in her voice is haunting. God damn it C what have you done to this poor girl? Yes she is a girl, 21 years old for fucks sake! I shake my head, someone needs to do something about this! I use my iPhone to take some video of her singing it. Ali definitely needs to see this.

Another shot of whiskey
Can't stop looking at the door
Wishing you'd come sweeping
In the way you did before

Whiskey, oh yeh, 'cause that shit fixes everything!

And I wonder if I
Ever cross your mind
For me it happens all the time

It's a quarter after one
I'm a little drunk
And I need you now
Said I wouldn't call
But I've lost all control
And I need you now

And I don't know how
I can do without
I just need you now

Whoa, whoa
Guess I'd rather hurt
Than feel nothing at all

She looks hurt. Her face is much more gaunt and drawn in than I have ever seen it. I can't believe the change in the last few days.

It's a quarter after one
I'm all alone
And I need you now
And I said I wouldn't call
But I'm a little drunk
And I need you now

And I don't know how
I can do without
I just need you now
I just need you now

Oh baby, I need you now

She looks out to the crowd and I catch her gaze. I immediately stop filming. She looks furious with herself, me and everyone around her. She looks hesitant to speak but I need to make sure she is ok. Ali would have my balls as earrings if I didn't.

I move over to the bar where she has just begun to serve people. I notice her looking at me with a guarded expression. She finishes serving her customer and walks to the end of the bar where I am perched. I normally don't let her see me but I think it is needed tonight.

"Hey Iz…." What more can I say? I am no chick!

"Hiya Jazzy, what can I get ya? I know Den usually serves you when you come to check in," she says with a smirk. Shit, I have been busted! I know Den from ages ago and thought he would keep quiet, stupid sod!

"Iz, you know what I'm having then and I am only here because Ali doesn't want you to be alone. And by the look of that song tonight it's a good thing you're not!" I look at her pointedly and she hands over my Sam Adams. She gives a small smile and goes off to work. I stay until the end of my drink and then head out. I send her a wave as I leave. I have a very stubborn man to go and speak to.

Hope you loved it! I am a bit sad...nearly the end of this little fic, 2 chapters left and then an epilogue (I think)

Thanks to Nikroush for favouriting this lil story

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Cat xx