"No, he's not expecting me! Don't you know the meaning of the word 'SURPRISE'? Find a dictionary and look it up." It was the beginning of an end to a five minute long rampage at the reception desk of the Boston Morgue. A young woman was standing with a frustrated posture in front of the receptionist, who was in shrunken back in nervous fear.

"I'm sorry ma'am, but visitors are not permitted back…"

"Oh forget it!"

The infuriated woman stormed past the desk, through the doors and began scanning the rooms.

"Hey! Can I help you?" asked a redheaded woman.

"Yea, you can..."the intruder started angrily, whirling around, "oh, you," her voice became slightly warmer. "You're Lily, right?"

"Um, well yes. Lily Lebowski. Have we met?"

"No, but you almost married my uncle."

Lily's eyes widened. "How did you….I almost married?...the only person I've come close to marrying was…..he has a niece?" Lily stormed past the visitor and burst into an autopsy room where two men were just taking their gloves off and disposing of them.

"YOU HAVE A NIECE? I never even knew you had a sibling, let alone a NIECE! How could you not tell me?"

"Whoa whoa whoa, slow down luv. What did you just say?"

"Yea, what's all this hubbub about a niece?"
"He has a niece, Bug. A niece…family, that he never bothered to tell us about!"

Bug, an Indian man with a mixed accent with strong overtones originating from an Oxford education, began to laugh.

"Oh come on now, you can't be serious. And it's not like any of the rest of us have any supposed long-lost relatives that the rest of us don't know about, if there even are any. Well alright, how about it Nigel? Nigel?"

The other man, a tall, dark haired, incredibly obvious British man had already taken quick, large strides over to the door where the visitor that had caused such a ruckus at the reception desk was standing with a smile the size of Big Ben's face. Nigel's face was beaming. He scooped the woman up into his arms and spun around, letting out a laugh full of warmth and sheer delight. The young woman seemed to instantly change into a younger, almost childlike version of herself as she shrieked with delight from being embraced and spun in the air. Nigel finally put down his passenger. He stood back and placed his hands on her shoulders, looking down at her with smiling, shimmering eyes.

"Hello Nigel," she said. Her eyes were a mirror image of his.

"Hello Julia."

"Everybody, this is Julia, my niece." Nigel beamed with pride. "Julia, well you've met Lily, and this is Bug. Oh Garret!" A stern looking man walked into the room, looking up from some papers by peering over his glasses.

"What's going on in here?" a gruff voice asked.

"Dr. M, this is my niece, Julia." Nigel explained excitedly. "Julia, this is my boss and head M.E. here, Dr. Garret Macy."

"How do you do, Dr. Macy." Julia extended her hand.

"Manners, how refreshing," Dr. Macy said approvingly, shaking the outstretched hand. "Call me Garret."

Julia nodded with a smile in response.

"So when did you get here? I didn't even know you were coming!" Nigel asked.
"Just this morning. Thought I'd surprise you. Oh don't worry Dr. Ma….Garret. I won't be getting in the way."
"Of course she won't," Nigel interrupted, visually pleading with Garret to say it would be alright for Julia to stay.
" I'm sure you won't."

Nigel let out a sigh of relief.

"You still have a lot of explaining to do." Lily scolded.

"I'm sorry luv, I never saw the need to divulge the limbs of my family tree. Julia is my brother's daughter."

"I never knew you had a brother," Bug interjected, matching Lily's tone.

"Well 'had' would be the correct wording."

"Oh Nige, I'm sorry." Lily started. Nigel held up a hand.

"Don't worry about it. It was a while ago." He glimpsed at Julia, who showed only the slightest twinge of the remembrance of pain. He smiled, proud of the strength of his niece. Lily, ever the intuitive one, began to say something but was stopped with the knowing smile of Julia.

The figure of a long haired woman appeared in the doorway. "What's everyone doing in here?"

"Jordan!" Nigel nearly jumped at seeing her.

"Ah, so THIS is the legendary Jordan Cavanaugh. Nice to put a face to the name. I'm Julia, Nigel is my uncle."

Jordan cleared her throat in surprise. "Well, um…hi!" She threw Nigel a quizzical look. Bug explained.

"This is Nigel's late brother's daughter."

"Oh…ok."

"Right, so anyway, shouldn't you people be working or something?" Julia said as she noticed Garret shifting impatiently. They all laughed, somewhat embarrassedly.

"You're right. I like this girl, she has sense." Garret laughed. "Alright everybody, back to work."

Nigel turned to Julia, "Now I get to show you some more tricks of me trade, eh luv?"

"Or maybe I'll show you." Julia playfully shot back.

"Wow, I think I like her too!" Jordan said somewhat surprised.

Nigel and Julia laughed.

"Hey Nige, mind helping finish up here?" Bug asked.

"Oh sure mate, just um…"
"I'll find something to do with myself until you're done. Do your job and help you friend." Julia smiled at Bug, who returned the smile with an admirable nod.

"So Lily, need any help with anything? Get you coffee…staple something..." Julia asked.

"Oh..um..sure, I guess…I actually have to do a notification in a few minutes but I do have some filing you could do."
"Great, just show me where."

A little later, Lily came back to her office to find ever shred of paper properly filed and stored away.
"Guess you've had some secretarial experience, huh?"
Julia looked up, "You could say that. I'm like my uncle…many hidden, or not so hidden, talents."