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She took a few moments to regain her composure before she told Nigel everything she knew. It wasn't much but Nigel began working his magic. He found out some background information on Dr. Switzer, in fact Switzer was her late husbands name. Her maiden name turned out to be Hall. This little discovery led them to many others. Kate Hall came from a middle class neighborhood and family. Her parents were Catholic and strict ones too. Needless to say when she ended up pregnant at fourteen her parents were less than thrilled and send her to a boarding school for girls, or as it was known then, a school for underage pregnant girls.
She left the school at the age of sixteen for New York. There the trail seemed to get a bit hazy but Nigel managed to find a few clues to her whereabouts there. She lived on the streets as far as they could tell before Kate Hall vanished and Kate Switzer emerged.
"Damn it Nige, can't we find anything about her after New York?" Jordan asked.
Nigel eager to help her reassured her he would keep working on it till he found something. "Love, I will not give up. For now this is all I have but rest assured I will continue looking. Right now we both need to move on to our work if we still want to work here that is."
She sighed knowing he was right, "yea Nige, I will be damned if either Garret or myself lose this job now after everything we've been through. Dr. Hall doesn't know who she is dealing with."
"I'd hate to be in her shoes. Alright run along now love and play nice."
"I always do Nige…I always do…" she gave him a kiss on the cheek before she left for her office to catch up on some work she told Nigel.
Unbeknownst to Nigel however, she went to pay the doctor in question a visit. For some reason she felt like seeing her. She wanted to let her know that she wasn't planning on just stepping aside while she waltzed all over Garret and herself in a way.
She found Dr. Switzer in trace, where else she thought? She's working very hard to take over Garret's job, Jordan thought to herself as she was standing outside of the room. She stood there for quite a while and it was Kate that noticed her standing there before she went in.
"Dr. Cavanaugh," she said as she looked straight at Jordan not missing a beat. Jordan wasn't quite sure what to make of her tone. She heard something in her voice that she couldn't quite place. "What can I do for you?" There it was again. Whatever it was it didn't sit well with Jordan.
"Dr. Switzer, I'm just checking in to see if I can lend a hand. I've pretty much finished up all my outstanding cases and seeing as we share the workload, I thought I could lend you a hand. I've got two free ones right here." Jordan was playing it cool and that last joke came almost naturally.
"Oh? Really, you want to help out? Hmm ok let's see…sure why not." Kate wasn't sure what to think of Jordan. She never had offered before to help and seeing as how she was stepping into Jordan's world unwanted to say at best, she knew that she was hated on some level. This however struck her as odd but it was welcome. She wasn't here to fight her…not her.
"So what do we got here?" Jordan asked. However much she wanted to just call Kate out on her intentions, there was still an unsolved case to be dealt with.
I'm just doing the preliminary exam, go ahead and tell me what you think. I'll observe you."
Jordan sprung into action. She quickly donned a pair of exam gloves. "Let's see Caucasian female, age mid twenties, gunshot wound on the left side of her head. Do we have an ID?" she asked Kate.
"Dr. Townsend is working on it as we speak. He's running her DNA through the database. What else do you notice?" This was as good a time as any to see how good she really was. Jordan's reputation preceded her and Kate had heard stories. She wasn't sure which ones were true but the one story that was always the same was Jordan's uncanny ability to solve a case.
Jordan felt as if she was being tested but didn't back down. If Kate really wanted to test her she was ready and more than willing to fight back. "She has some bruises on her arms, abdomen and her thighs…signs of struggle, possible rape. Did you get a rape kit Dr. Switzer?"
"Yes, I'm having Nigel run the analysis as soon as he's done with the DNA test." She was starting to realize that Jordan was taking over. When she offered to observe she didn't really think that Jordan would take over. She made a mental note not to make that mistake again. She made an effort to move things along, "Dr. Cavanaugh you're not telling me anything new, perhaps I should take over again."
"Ouch. Ok sure thing Dr. Switzer why don't you take over again. I wasn't trying to take over your case." As soon as she had walked in Jordan had felt something…something she couldn't quite place. She now realized it was Kate tensing up. She feels threatened by me! Jordan realized. Dr. Switzer feeling threatened by her presence was an additional bonus. This could come in useful so she backed down…for now. "I'll go see if I can speed things up with Nigel."
As long as she left her alone Dr. Switzer didn't really care who she went to see even if it was her case. "Yes, that'd be very helpful."
"All right glad to help." Jordan responded as she got rid of the gloves and went to search for Nigel. On her way out a she gave Kate a last look…she more than ready for her.
Jordan found Nigel behind his computer. She smiled at him as he looked up once he noticed her presence. "Love I don't have anything new to report. Things picked up right after you left." He said as his eyes were glued to his screen again.
"Nige, no worries. I'm here to check on Dr. Switzer's DNA results. Any progress?"
Nigel was clearly confused, "what? You want to get her results? Ok love what are you up to?"
"Nigel, I'm shocked," she said in a mock shocked voice. "Me? Up to something? I'm just trying to help her…really."
Right…and was all that earlier? Something about Dr. M…"
"Ok, ok. I went to see her after we finished up. I didn't mean to but I think she felt threatened by me when I offered to help so I came here."
"Hmm…that's interesting, although you shouldn't have gone to her so quickly."
"Maybe. So any luck so far?"
"Yes and no. Our Jane Doe was a virgin so that rules out rape but that still doesn't explain the bruises. I'm waiting on the DNA results as we speak. I've this new program, not quite legal yet but very thorough, so any minute now we should get the results."
As on queue the results came in, "Deborah Connor, 26 reported missing two weeks ago. Should I inform the lovely Dr. Kate or would you like to?"
"Nige, you're terrific. I'll let you do the honor and let the detective in charge know as well. Who needs the BPD when we have you?" She left feeling things might work out after all. As she walked towards her office she realized that she was feeling like this for the first time in a long while. Maybe I'm doing better than I thought.
A/N: I have no clue what the process would be when examining a body so if anything is not how it should be then that's why. I'm making this up as I go along and since its fanfic I'm less tempted to go do some actual research.