Ok, so now this is my post Jump Push Fall fic… but I figured there are enough multi-chapter stories set after this episode that really WORK, so I figured I would just write a small thing that is set right after he told her to get out. Once again, I left the ending a bit open-ended, so make up your own mind and REVIEW!
Ok… and it's school holidays! YAY!
The words rung in her ears. Get out, now. This wasn't the Woody she knew. This wasn't the Woody she loved. He was exactly like her and that's why it hurt. She turned to walk away. Walking out of the hospital room meant walking out of his life forever. It was just too hard it do without knowing it was the right thing to do. How could something be right if it made you die inside, because death is never right. It might be an answer, but it's the wrong answer.
And Jordan wasn't going to make another mistake. She turned around, looking back at Woody's face, now so cold. It broke her heart to see him like this, but she knew that underneath all the layers of hurt and anger was the same old Woody, just the way he used to be. Her farm boy, who always had been hers, though she had never had the strength to say it. Until now. She couldn't leave without him knowing everything.
"Pity? You think it was pity?" She spat out, her face getting more and more angry. "I only pity you because you are incapable of believing! You know better than most people what it takes for me to say something personal, and talk about my feelings. For me to say it, it has to be true. So true that it blocks everything else out of my head because it's all I can think about! What I said to you, Woody, was true, so very true and you are just dismissing it! You think everything's just about you? About how you got shot and everybody pities got shot and everybody pities you? What about the other people, Woody? Other people who love you, and don't want to ever lose you? This may shock you, but people like that do exist! I'm that person, Woody, and I love you so much. I want to scream it to the world, and I could, but it doesn't matter if the whole world believes me when I say that I love you, because it only matters that you believe me. Do you believe me? And if you do, what are you going to do about it? Is it too late, because if you just want me to give my love to someone else, you have to give it back to me right now!"
Sighing, Jordan wiped away the tears running down her cheeks. "I wanted you to know that I meant it, ok? So know you can make an educated decision. And you better make up your mind, so soon, because by the time I walk out of that door I am out of your life forever… and after a while I will come to accept it, as I'm sure you will too."
She turned, once again, and made her way to the door. There, the truth told. She couldn't believe that her years of friendship with Woody had landed them here, in a hospital room where it had become all or nothing. They could never be that in-between again.
Jordan was about to shut the door behind her when a voice stopped her.