Chapter 4: Suspicions

Lily was in the trace lab, watching Nigel run some evidence from Woody and Jordan's case. She wondered if their John Doe had had a family. Maybe he had a mother who was fretting over if he was alright or not. Maybe his siblings were putting up posters with his stats, such as height and weight, and numbers on which they could be found. Maybe he even had a wife and kid crying over the fact that he was missing.

The doors to the lab swung open, causing Lily to jump in surprise. Corri came striding in. Lily noticed that she looked a bit paler than she had been this morning. In her hands was a bag marked 'evidence'.

"Hey, Corri," Lily gave her a warm smile and rested a hand on her large belly. "Are you okay? You look a bit pale."

Nigel turned around so quickly that he was almost a blur. He quickly gave Corri a good looking over. "Lily's right. You're paler than you were earlier." There was a concerned look on his face.

She gave them both a slight smile. "I'm fine. I've got a bit of a quesy stomach and a slight headache because the vic's room reeked of the disgusting smell of vanilla." She gagged slightly, as if the mere thought made her sick.

"You hate the smell of vanilla? I absolutely love it." Lily frowned slightly.

"Eh, I'm more of the fruity person myself." Corri gave Lily a playful grin. "By the way," she handed Nigel the bag that was in her hands. "I need you to run DNA on this. It might be the killer's."

"I'll get right on that," Nigel replied, giving her a warm smile.

She returned his smile. "Alrighty then." The two of them held eye contact longer than was nessary.

Lily gave a little cough, just to remind them that she was still there. Corri gave the two of them one final smile, then left.

Nigel's eyes followed her out and lingered on the still swinging doors. He sighed, clearly miserable.

Lily giggled. "You look like a lovesick puppy, Nige."

He glared at her, but before he could retort, the doors swung open once more.

Jordan passed Micheals in the hall. She was heading out of the trace lab. Jordan stopped her and said, "Some little girl and her mother are here looking for you, Detective Micheals."

Micheals gave her a smile. "Thanks. Call me Corri."

"Jordan," she replied, nodding. She still couldn't quite shake the feeling that Micheals was hiding something major from them all.

She strode into the trace lab and found Lily giggling and Nigel glaring. Deciding not to ask, Jordan said, "Hey Nige. Did you finish running trace?"

After a final glare at Lily, Nigel replied, "Yeah I did, Jordan. It's not trace, it's DNA. I was just about to run over to the DNA lab and run this and Corri's samples."

Jordan nodded. She began to wonder what exactly it was that Corri was hiding. But then again, it was her first day. Maybe with a little time, she would open up a bit and wouldn't seem so mysterious.

"Jordan?" Nigel looked at her inquiringly.

"Yes?"

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." She gave him a smile. "Why do you ask?"

"You look troubled," Nigel replied simply.

"I'm not…Nothing's on my mind, Nige."

He didn't look satisfied, but he said, "Okay. Whatever you say."

Before she realized she was going to ask it, Jordan blurted out, "What do you think of the new detective?"

Lily smiled. "I really like her. She's very sweet."

Nigel nodded. "Yep."

The way Nigel said 'yep' made Jordan raise her eyebrows at him. He had his head down and was apparently absorbed in turning a bag over and over in his hands. He glanced up and saw the expression on her face.

"What?"

Smiling slightly, Jordan shook her head. "Nothing," she replied, trying not to laugh.