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✨Masterlist✨

Boston was still the color of early morning when the SUV nosed down Lansdowne. The air had that salt bite off the harbor and a warm drift of bread from a bakery already turning out trays for the day. Streetlights blinked against a pearl gray that promised sun. Ahead, green rose out of brick and steel like a myth. Claire felt it before she saw it, the thump in the chest that belongs to places people love.

Fenway.

They rolled past a line of service cones and a security guard with coffee steaming in his hand. The SUV stopped by a tucked-away gate. Claire was out first, clipboard already up, envelope of credentials tucked under her arm. She said good morning by name where she could, voice low and sure, matching the tempo of a city that wakes early and refuses to slow for anyone.

“Credentials for production, band, press,” she told the guard, sliding laminated passes across a folding table. “RF scan window is eight fifteen. Audio needs access to the third base concourse. Satellite hit at nine twenty, radio at nine forty five.”

“Copy that,” he said, a little impressed. “Welcome to Fenway.”

Joe stepped into the cold, breath a small white curl. He pushed his hood back and just looked. The tunnel breathed a damp chill that smelled like steel and onions and grass that has been cared for by people who care. He grinned without trying to. “Good morning, Monster,” he murmured.

“Try not to lick the outfield,” Nick said, sliding out behind him with sunglasses already on.

Kevin clapped Joe’s shoulder as he passed, coffee in hand. “Let him have his moment, Nick. He’s been talking about this since January.”

They followed a security lead down the corridor, voices and wheels echoing around them. The damp smell of concrete gave way to sun. Then the ballpark opened like a held breath finally let go. The Green Monster rose at their left, thirty seven feet of painted history, watching them the way it has watched every legend who ever stood here. Empty green seats fanned like waves. Morning light pooled along the warning track. The infield clay lay smooth and taut, a surface that had been groomed like a promise.

Joe stopped on the track, sneakers crunching, chest full. “Holy…” He exhaled, a kid on the world’s biggest Christmas morning. “We are actually here.”

“It’s bigger than I imagined,” Claire said. Her clipboard stayed hugged to her ribs, but her mouth softened into something almost reverent.

“Everything about this is bigger,” Joe said, turning slow to take it in. He could not stop smiling. “Fenway, Claire. Fenway Park.”

“Joe,” Nick called, amused and impatient. “Quit making out with the grass. Soundcheck.”

Kevin jogged past him. “He’s going to try to marry it.”

They dropped bags by the visitors dugout. Cases rolled in from the truck ramp, bumping over seams in the concrete. A forklift hummed with a stack of risers. Claire slid into her lane, headset around her neck, camera strap crossed at her chest, pen tucked behind her ear. She matched the choreography without thinking, the quiet authority that pulled ten departments into one plan.

“Audio, go. RF scan in progress. Lighting, you’re clear to hang the last two movers. Pyro, hold while grounds walks the warning track.” She nudged a piece of tape with her foot to make a better cable path, then crouched and smoothed it with her palm.

Joe watched that palm for one beat longer than was good for him. He was supposed to be following a stagehand to check a riser. He detoured, skimming close enough to steal a second of private gravity.

“You look dangerous with that clipboard,” he said, low enough for only her.

“You look like you’re about to kiss a baseball stadium,” she answered, eyes still on her grid, and the corner of her mouth curved.

“Tempting.” He started away, then glanced back, voice softer. “Hey. We made it.”

She looked up at him then. The morning and the rules and the hungry city could not find them for a heartbeat. “We did.”

He tipped two fingers in a small salute and jogged toward the riser like a man who knows better than to push his luck.

They built the sound from bones. Kick, snare, toms, cymbal, bass. Each hit climbed the seats and came back different, shaped by steel and air and a wall that had learned to sing back. Claire listened with the part of her that likes things that fit. When Joe stepped to the mic, the emptiness made him larger and more human at once.

“Check, check,” he said, playful Boston tucked in his vowels. “How wicked is this.”

The local A-2 laughed into his sleeve.

Joe sang scales that did not sound like scales because his voice could not help being a song. He made up a line about green seats and coffee that rhymed with Fenway if you squinted. He hopped off the riser, ran the length of the stage, sprinted back to mark where he would breathe between verses. He thanked the monitor tech for each tweak. He did not perform at soundcheck, he made a room feel like it mattered, even when the room was a cathedral.

Kevin slid into harmony like it had been waiting. Nick turned a tuning peg by ear and lifted an eyebrow that meant again. They ran the opener at half volume. Chords rolled across the bowl and returned like weather. Claire watched meters and men at once. Her notes were ruthless. Her face was not. Somewhere in the first chorus, Joe looked left on instinct. She was there. She gave him nothing anyone could name, only the slightest tilt of her head that meant yes.

She felt the yes in her ribs.

The press hits started in the third base camera well. Two anchors in bright coats with colder hands. A producer chewing a pen cap and guarding a clock with her life. Claire stood just off frame with a folded packet of topics and her stopwatch. She had scheduled this because you do not take a show to a city like this and pretend they do not care.

“Boston is loud,” the anchor said, smiling against the cold. “Are you ready for it to sing back at you tonight?”

Joe’s grin hit full power without effort. “I think they were already singing when we landed.”

Kevin nodded. “We heard it in the jet bridge.”

Nick added the dry that saved them when they were tired. “We’ll be taking requests that are not Sweet Caroline.”

Laughter. Then Joe leaned closer to the mic and dropped his voice the way he does when he wants to pull a listener into the circle. “I heard a rumor,” he said conspiratorially, “that there’s a lyric, bum bum bum, that belongs to you. We’ll see what we can do.”

Claire did not roll her eyes. She did not smile either. She clicked the stopwatch. She was thrilled and she was a professional. She was allowed to be both.

As they reset, Nick hooked his arm over the dugout rail and studied Joe like a person who had seen him every day of his life. “You’re giddy,” he said, not a question.

Joe folded a mic cable with a little flourish. “I’m in a baseball temple.”

“Uh huh,” Nick drawled. “Or maybe you’re just giddy lately.”

Kevin sipped his coffee. “He’s lighter,” he said mildly. “Don’t pretend you haven’t seen it.”

Nick tipped his chin. “That model from L.A. Did you ever meet her?”

Joe barked a laugh. “No.”

“You bailed,” Nick said, satisfied with himself.

“I deleted her number,” Joe said, easy as truth.

Kevin’s brows went up. “Really.”

“Really,” Joe said, grin sliding private at the edges. “Not interested.”

Nick watched him a beat too long. “You’ve got a secret.”

“I’ve got a stadium to soundcheck,” Joe countered, and walked away with his cable over his shoulder.

Claire kept her eyes on her phone, tapping a schedule change for a union break, but her mouth betrayed her with the smallest curve. She slipped the stopwatch into her pocket and raised her headset.

Between hits there was the work no one photographs. An RF spike near the dugout turned a row of numbers red and left them there. Claire traced it to a camera feed and two stubborn pieces of metal trying to own the same air. She knelt on cold concrete with an RF tech and pulled a cable with her fingers until it lay like it should. She closed her eyes for one count and listened. Clean. She breathed.

Joe looked down from the riser to where she crouched and turned the moment into a little scene for the handful of crew within earshot. “If Claire leaves, we’re going to have to go acoustic. Very romantic, very bad for business.”

“Tell him to sing louder,” Nick called.

“Always,” Kevin added.

A grounds crewman paused with a rake, watching for a minute that was not on his clipboard. Joe noticed and tipped the mic his way. “Can you do the thing,” he asked the band, then sang four bars of something anyone in this city knows in their bones. The crewman answered the ba ba bas before he could think better of it. Two others joined in from deeper in the warning track. Joe stopped and pointed at them like they had pulled a card from the middle of the deck and picked the right one.

“There it is,” he said, delighted. “Perfect.”

It was nothing and everything. The park felt different after that, like the music had found the route it wanted.

Claire fielded a call from management about content. “We want a behind the scenes reel, Fenway deserves a look.”

“I have someone,” she said, glancing at the camera strap across her chest. “Already embedded. She sees us the way we want to be seen.”

“Send selects by five,” the manager said. “Make it sing.”

She hung up and looked toward third base. Joe was sitting on an amp case, wiping sweat with the hem of his shirt. He tipped his chin toward the strap. “Is that for me or for Rolling Stone?”

“Today,” she said, letting herself smile because no one was close enough to read its exact shape, “it’s for Fenway.”

“Boss signed off,” he guessed.

“She did,” Claire said. “Don’t make me regret it.”

“Never,” he answered, and meant it.

She lifted the camera and the world shrank to lines and light. Joe on the warning track with the Monster a green ghost behind him, a cable looping like handwriting across the frame. Nick in profile with a small private smile he didn’t know he wore when he listened to Kevin’s harmony. Kevin with his head tipped back, eyes closed, holding a joy that made a picture feel like a secret you were allowed to keep.

Joe felt her before he saw her and turned his face a fraction, not to pose, but to let her see him. The shutter clicked like a heartbeat.

“Which will you send,” he asked later, when she let him swipe through the back of the camera.

“This,” she said, tapping a frame where he was mid laugh, eyes half closed, the Monster just a suggestion behind him. “This is what today felt like.”

He looked at it the way people look at old photographs of people they love. “Save that one for me.”

“I already did,” she said softly.

They found thirty quiet seconds in a tunnel that smelled like paint and damp brick. Nobody else came by. That was luck. Joe leaned one shoulder to the wall, head tipped to look down at her. He had his hoodie on again. It made his eyes look darker.

“You okay?” he asked.

She exhaled. “I am.”

He held out his hand. She passed a folded piece of paper without touching his palm. He opened it. Her handwriting on the corner of a call sheet. After. Hotel. Dinner. Dessert. Two forks. Wine. Kisses?

His mouth did the soft smile she kept for herself. He flipped it and wrote on the blank edge. After. Yes. Also, save me a smile left field when the house goes black.

She tucked it into the back of her phone case like a talisman. “We are not crossing the pedal board,” she said, professional again because they had to be.

“Never,” he said solemnly, and she didn’t need to look to know he was lying.

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