A later experience
Author's note- this is a sequel to an earlier meeting, and yes I never quite finished that. I couldn't come up with a good ending but if you read it you know what was about to happen. This story picks up around now in 2006.
Disclaimer- I don't own Crossing Jordan but a few of the characters in this are mine.
Chapter 1 Morning rush hour
The smell of cooking poptarts and brewing coffee filled the Hoyt home as it did every morning. Jordan Hoyt sat at the kitchen table and watched as the morning rush hour began. She smiled with amusement as her three children rushed around looking for homework, books, shoes ect. Just then her husband Woody came down the stairs.
" Morning Jo." He greeted
"Morning Woods." They shared a quick kiss before they are interrupted.
" Mom, have you seen my backpack?" Their son Will asked. Technically it was Woodrow Wilson Hoyt Jr. At first Jordan had banned the name but after Will's birth she suggested it after seeing how much he resembled his father. Will was the nickname she came up with so he wouldn't "get his butt kicked on the playground".
" Cheek the closet." She offered knowing she had picked it up and put it in there last night. He ran off in that direction. His twin sister Jacey sat down with a blueberry poptart. As she sat down Jordan noticed the six-year olds socks. One was blue with purple flowers. The other was orange with a pumpkin on it.
"Jacey Kennedy, what are on your feet?" she asked with a slight chuckle at her daughter's odd sock choice.
" Socks." The young girl answered brightly. At this point Woody let out a laugh.
" I can see that but they don't really match."
" I felt like mixing it up." Woody laughed harder now.
" Alright go put on your shoes." The girl nodded and went off to put on her shoes. Woody was still laughing.
" What are you laughing at? This just shows much she is your daughter. Do I have to remind you of the ties you used to wear? "
" They weren't that bad."
" I have pictures." They smiled at each other as the oldest Hoyt child came into the kitchen. Rory was wearing a Boston Red Sox sweatshirt and jeans. Her hair fell in long loose curls, like her mothers. The sixteen year old had a worried expression on her face.
" Have you seen my Spanish book?"
"Coffee table." Jordan answered. The girl blew out a sigh of relief and went in that direction. She returned looking at her watch.
" Ahhh, I'm gonna be late. Jacey, Will lets go." Rory grabbed a poptart and headed for the door. Two sets of footsteps thundered down the stairs.
" Have a good day at …." Woody tried to say but was interrupted by the door closing. The morning rush was over.
Rory managed to get to school after dropping her bother and sister at school. She quickly gathered her books and headed for her first class. She entered the room and was greeted by her best friend Bridget.
" I tried to call you."
" Yeah my cell was dead and I forgot to charge it." Rory responded with a shrug of her shoulders. "Why what's up?"
" You ready for this… Logan Matthews wants to ask you to homecoming."
" Where did you hear that?" she asked being her usual skeptical self
" From a girl that's friends with Cory his best friend."
" Well that's a reliable source."
" Come on Rory, why aren't you happy about this?"
" I would be if I knew it was true for sure, what you have just told me is a rumor. I'll believe it when I see it or in this case hear it for myself." She retorted
" Always a skeptic."
" Yeah, well."
" Alright class time to start." Mrs. Andrews said ushering the students to quiet down.
Rory couldn't help but wonder if what she had been told was true. She had known Logan since the 7th grade when he moved to Boston. The past few years there had been some mild flirtation and they had attended some of the same parties but nothing more. She wouldn't mind though. Logan Matthews had sandy blond hair and green eyes; in a word he was HOT. She couldn't help but smile at that thought. Just then her thoughts were interrupted.
" Would you like to answer number five." The teacher asked knowing she hadn't been paying attention. She looked down at her paper she hadn't taken any notes. Math was the farthest thing from her mind. If it ad been any other class she probably could have made up an answer to save herself but math was not her strong point by any means.
" Do you have an answer Aurora?" she asked. She was one of those teachers that called you by your full name regardless if you asked her to call you something else or not. She jut hoped Will wouldn't ever get her.
" Sorry no." she said ending the little standoff.
The class ended without any more embarrassing moments.
" Man she really doesn't like you." Bridget stated as they went out into the hallway.
" You're telling me." Rory responded with an eye roll.
At the morgue
Jordan sat in her office finishing up some paper work on a case when there was a knock on the door. She looked up to see Lily holding two- year old Samara. Samara was Lily and Bug's daughter. They got together about four years ago and were married soon after.
"Hey." Jordan said with a smile.
" Hey, Samara wanted to visit her Aunt Jordan." Lily replied
" Hi Samara." Jordan said as she held her "niece".
The two women talked for a while before there was another knock on the door.
" Jordan, Nigel is bringing in two bodies you're working with Woody." Garret said in a very serious tone, more serious then usual.
" Ok, I'll be there."
Jordan arrived in autopsy 1 to see Woody and Nigel. Nigel was studying one the body and Woody had a somber look on his face.
" What do we have." She asked.
" Officers Collins and Buck." Nigel replied
That explained everything, Garret's seriousness and the quiet and somber domineer of her husband. Cop killings always hit close to home for him because of his father. A double made it that much worse.
Jordan began her exam and couldn't help but gasp when she looked down at one of the victims.
" It pierced his Kevlar."
" Went straight through." Nigel said holding up the other officers Kevlar and revealed a bullet hole.
The preliminary exam ended without Woody saying a word he just wrote info down in his notebook. Jordan led him to her office and closed the door.
" Are you okay Woody?"
" I have to catch his guy Jordan."
" I know and we will." She said putting a quick kiss on his lips. They hugged and Woody left.
Later that day Jordan was finishing the autopsy of Officer Collins when she heard the door push open.
" Doctor Cavanaugh?" Jordan looked up to see a woman with short blonde hair." She must've been new because she had never seen her before.
" Can I help you?"
" I'm Detective Simmons I'm working on the cop killing case. I just wanted to know if you had any more information.
" Did Woody take himself off the case?" Jordan asked concerned thinking that maybe Woody couldn't this and if that were the case then she had to make sure he was okay.
" Detective Hoyt? No I'm new and the chief put me on this to help."
" Alright well I have couple things in my office. If you want to wait for me to finish up here I can get them for you. It won't take long.
" That's fine, take your time."
Jordan finished and led the detective to her office. As Jordan gathered up the ballistics report and the tox screens she notice the detective looking at the pictures on her desk. One in particular, her wedding picture.
" I didn't know you two were married." She stated
" Yeah, well I use Cavanaugh while I'm at work so it wasn't that obvious.
" I should have figured he would be taken." At this Jordan had to keep herself from laughing out load. She knew many of the female detectives had crushes on Woody but none had come out and said it especially not to her. Jordan couldn't wait to tease Woody about his newest little groupie.
" You have beautiful children." She added commenting on another picture on her desk.
" Thank you." She said politely handing her the file.
Jordan opened the front door to her house to hear the yelling of the twins.
" Give it back Will!" Jacey yelled as she chased her brother who was holding one of her dolls.
" Woodrow Wilson, give your sister back her doll now!" Jordan said with force, which neither child had expected because they hadn't heard her enter.
" Ha-ha she called you Woodrow." Jacey said smiling as she walked away with her doll.
Jordan headed up stairs. She entered her daughter's room. Rory was lying on her bed reading a book and listening to her mp3 player.
" Rory!" She said loudly so she could get her attention. Rory pulled out her ear pieces and looked up
" Hey" She replied.
" Do you know where your dad is?"
" He said he needed help on a case." She responded with a shrug of her shoulders and replaced the headphones.
That's all Jordan needed to know. Fifteen minutes later she entered the Porgue Mahone. Over the years Max and Woody had formed a pretty strong bond. Max was always eager to help Woody with a case. She looked down at the end of the bar and sure enough there they were. Woody had all the case files scattered about the bar and the two were studying some of its contents. Max was the first to notice her.
" Oh Woodrow I think she found you." Woody looked up quickly.
" Oh hey Jo." He said giving her a kiss then went back to studying the paper he had been a minute before. Max left to serve a customer.
" This case is really getting to you isn't it."
" Yeah I guess, I just can't put this all together. I mean they were shot with a high-powered bullet, one powerful enough to pierce Kevlar. Those are special bullets you can't just buy them. That means that there was a motive, it was planed. I just can't figure out why. We tracked down someone that might tell us where the bullets came from and who bought them."
" Well then you have got a lot for the first day of the investigation. I know why you're working so hard on this but you can't burn yourself out. We will catch this bastard but for right now lets get home and …." Jordan was interrupted by the ring of Woody's cell phone.
" Hoyt." He answered. " Okay I'll be there." He hung up
"What?"
" I'll have to take a rain check. There's been another shooting." He sated flatly.
Please read and review, more to come. It's all I can do till CJ comes back. I'm so angry that we got bumped by a reality show hosted by Bob Saget! That's just stupid. Ok I'm done venting
