Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Crossing Jordan.

A/N: I am really sorry for all my spelling and grammatical errors but I haven't slept in weeks and by the time I have time to write these chapters it is usually late at night and I can't trust my own proofreading. I keep trying to identify these mistakes but sometimes I overlook some of them.

When Angels Cry

Chapter 6 – He's my son!

Jordan was examining the unidentified body for anything that could help find his identity. Nigel bustled in. "Where's Lily?"

"She was in the staff room last I saw her. She didn't handle the notification to Seely's parents very well."

"Oh dear, well Irene Glutton is here and I thought she wanted to do all the notifications."

"Well you could ask her, but maybe we should just leave her there for a while. You and I use to do notifications all the time, I'm sure we can still do them."

"Well yes Jordan but I think Lily would be pretty upset if that's what she wants to do. I think she feels she needs to be here because she owes it to Seely to take part in finding the person who killed him."

"All right well go ask her then and I'll change." Jordan went back to change so she could do another notification.

Nigel entered the staff room and discovered Lily asleep on the couch. "Lily," he said softly. She stirred slightly and then opened her eyes. "Where am I?"

"You're at work luv, Irene Glutton has arrived and I wanted to know if you were up to doing the notification."

"Yes, I'll be right there." Lily walked quickly to the washroom where she splashed some water on her face and then walked quickly to the conference room. Jordan was already waiting in the hallway outside the room. They entered together once again.

"Mrs. Glutton, I'm Lily Lebowski and this is Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh. We need you to look at a picture and tell us if it is your husband."

"Please call me Irene."

"Okay," Lily handed her the picture and Irene looked up. "Yes, it's him," she said as her voice cracked up. "Do you know what happened to him?"

"As far as we know, he was hit with a gunshot in his right side outside a bar," Jordan explained.

"Well why didn't anyone hear the shot?"

"It was a very loud bar, people probably couldn't hear it over the music. Anyway we aren't sure of all the details yet. Do you have any idea why your husband would have been at this bar?"

"No, I just know he went to work 2 days ago and never returned home. His work phoned me at about 10 in the morning to ask why he wasn't at work. I tried his cell phone, I called every hospital and then I phoned the police. They said he had to be missing for 48 hours to be considered a missing person, but I convinced them to consider him a missing person this morning and then you called. Is there anything else I should know?"

"Actually," Jordan said, "could you take a look at these pictures and let me know if you recognize any of the people?"

"All right, if that will help."

Jordan handed her the pictures. Irene looked at the first, then the second, shaking her head for both of them. Then she came upon the third and her eyes opened wider and her mouth dropped.

"Do you recognize him?" Jordan asked.

"Recognize him, he's my son."

Jordan and Lily exchanged glances. Jordan finally had an identity for her John Doe.

Irene told them her son, Kevin Patterson a.k.a. John Doe #4, was her only child. He was from her first husband. She told them Charlie married her when Kevin was 5 and he basically raised him as his own. Charlie couldn't have children because he had an extremely low sperm count.

"Was your son in any kind of trouble?" Jordan asked gently.

"My son has had his moments. He got heavily into drugs about 4 years ago and Charlie took him to rehab and get him cleaned up. He got him a steady job, an apartment and checked up on him twice a week. Charlie loved Kevin like his own son."

"If your son was in trouble would he call Charlie for help?"

"I suppose, he looked up to Charlie like his own father. If he really needed help I'm sure he would call him."

"Can you look at 2 more pictures for me?"

"Okay," Irene was beginning to get more worried.

Jordan handed her the picture of Seely and Irene said she had never seen him before. Next she handed her a picture of Sam Johnson and again Irene said she was unaware of who the person was.

"Thank you for coming Irene and I am really sorry for your loss."

"Thank you Dr. Cavanaugh. Please find who did this to the men I love, please."

"I'll do everything I can."

Irene smiled as she softly cried. Lily offered to walk her to the elevator and Lily listened as she talked about her husband and son.

Jordan went back and told Nigel they finally had an ID for John Doe #4. Nigel was ecstatic. "How did Lily handle this notification?"

"A little better she was mostly silent."

Jordan's phone began to ring, "Cavanaugh."

"Jordan, its Framus, I found out a little more information on Matt. I need you and Nigel to meet me somewhere, where we won't be heard after work."

"All right how about my apartment."

"Okay, I'll be there at about 6:30."

"Okay, bye."

Framus had already hung up before Jordan had even said goodbye.

"Hey Nige, that was Framus, she needs us to meet her tonight at my place at 6:30."

"I don't know Jordan what about Lily, why don't you 2 meet and then you can pass the information on to me."

"Okay."