As Lily and Julia were
finishing the filing, Nigel bounded in cheerfully.
"All done!
Autopsy was a breeze, now I get to see what you've been up to."
He flipped Julia's hair playfully.
"Not until you get those test results for me." Garret said as he came into the room.
Nigel's smile faded.
"I can go with you and watch." Julia said, making Nigel's smile instantly reappear.
The two of them went into the lab, leaving Garret and Lily to watch them go off laughing about old times.
"They seem close." Garret observed.
"Yea, apparently they've been keeping in contact for the past 2 years or so. Julia told me she's been off doing some sort of research and that letters and phone calls have been the only connection with Nigel…her uncle," Lily tried to get used to the phrase, "so it must be nice for them to see each other."
"You think?" Garret smirked as the Nigel and Julia's laughter echoed through the halls.
Lily smiled and sighed. "After all these years, I never knew he had a niece. I almost married the guy and I didn't know."
"No one knew. What are you getting at Lily?"
"Oh nothing, it just occurred to me that Nigel's always there to do whatever grunt work needed, he's incredibly talented, but we don't really know much about him at all."
"Well maybe now's
your chance to get to know him."
"You could too, you know."
Lily chided. Garret smiled and, rolling his eyes, walked out of the
room.