Author's Note: Yes, I know this pairing hasn't been done much in Crossing Jordan, but I thought of it last night when I was watching an episode featuring Garret and I figured maybe I'd try it out. Bear with me. Thanks, yall. 

Summary: While Garret and Charley get closer and closer, Jordan feels some apprehension about their relationship. What is the building anxiety mounting inside her coming from?

Chapter 1

Beginning

Jordan watched him carefully insert a surgical knife into the corpse's chest and draw a crimson line down to its navel. With expert fingers he sliced another line which stretched from the intersection of the two lines and formed a bright red V. She crossed her arms and held the case file to her chest. He was smiling gently, his usually dark and focused eyes now somewhat mellow. For as long as she'd known him, she could not ever recall seeing him smile as he did now. Sighing, she pushed open the glass door to the morgue and stepped inside.

"Hey," she said with a quick nod. The smile disappeared and the eyes darkened, but he returned the gesture. "What have you got?" Garret shook his head slowly.

"Not much," he admitted. "His skin seems to have premature traces of decay for only being submerged thirty-six hours, but other than that it's a routine drowning." Jordan nodded.

"I was hoping you'd be able to check out his teeth," Jordan said, walking around the table and stretching rubber gloves over her fingers. Garret frowned. "Woody picked up something from his interview with the mother and apparently our boy had jaw surgery a few months back. If this really is our guy, he should still have clear signs of a partial recovery."

He nodded and slowly pried the corpse's mouth open with two steel tools. Jordan peered inside with a small flashlight and scanned the roof and lower set of teeth of the mouth. Garret rose his eyebrows.

"This guy's bottom jaw is perfectly aligned with the upper bicuspids," he murmured. "Too perfect." Jordan looked at him carefully. "Three months post-op there'd still be some obvious misalignment at the very rear of the jaw. Nothing serious, but it would cause some discomfort along the gum. We should be seeing some slight abrasions, but there are none."

"He never had surgery," Jordan sighed. "This isn't Adam Healy." Garret shook his head. She wrote something on her clipboard nodded. "Contact Missing Persons and see if anyone has been missing in the thirty-six to seventy two hour time frame. Report back to me or Woody when you get a reply."

"Will do," he said, removing his gloves and motioning to Bug to help him clean up. Jordan walked to the door and turned at the threshold. Garret glanced up. "Something else?" She opened her mouth to speak but pursed her lips shut after looking into his face for a moment.

"Nothing," she smiled briefly. "Just get me that report as soon as possible, alright?" She waved to Bug and left the autopsy room immediately.