Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Crossing Jordan.
A/N: Please have patience with me, I just got over an illness, but I promise to finish this story before I dare start a new one. I will get this done. I feel really bad it's taking me so long to write this but now that my fever's down and I can move my neck pain free I will get this done.
When Angels Cry
Chapter 11 – Dead ends
Lily wandered out to her car and began to drive. She needed to clear her head, if Jordan was missing, she needed to find her. As Lily drove she decided to visit Woody until Nigel contacted her about Jordan. She went straight to his room and saw him sleeping in his bed. His appearance made her want to cry. He looked as though he lost 50 pounds all in muscle mass. He looked thin, pale and sickly. She could see how this would bother Jordan, nonetheless she wandered in and sat beside his bed. She reached out and touched his hand. He awoke with a start. "Lily what are you doing here? Don't you have to work?"
"I took some time off." Lily noticed how gruff his voice was, he was not the same. "Any changes?"
"Actually, yes, I got some feeling back in my toes today." His voice lightened at that sentence.
"Does Jordan know?"
"No, I haven't seen her in a while."
"I thought she visited you every morning."
"She did."
"Well Woody that's great. You'll be walking again in no time. When do you start rehab?"
"Tomorrow, they are going to start working with my toes."
Lily smiled, at least she could now put her mind at ease knowing Woody would eventually be able to walk.
"How's Seely's case going?" Woody asked, pulling Lily from her thoughts.
"Not so well. We've hit a dead end and Jordan has disappeared with Harold Seely."
"Who the hell is Harold Seely?"
"Matt's father."
"What do you mean she's disappeared with him?"
"Well, he showed up and asked to speak to her privately. Then Framus, Nigel and myself waited in her office for her to come back and tell us what that was all about. Bug showed up at the door and told us she'd gone for coffee with him but she appeared really tense. We tried her cell and there was no answer."
"Jordan not answering her phone is a big deal."
"Well I know but I'm sure she'll turn up."
"Lily tell the nurse you are signing me out."
"Woody, I can't just sign you out."
"Yes you can, I can leave for a few hours now that I'm starting rehab. I can take the wheelchair. Just talk to the nurse."
Back at the morgue Nigel is looking at Seely's body for any clues while they wait to track down Jordan's phone. While he examines the x – rays he notices numerous healed fractures in Seely's arms. "Roz."
"What?"
"Seely's been abused, perhaps as a child."
"So the abusive father takes the medical examiner doing his sons autopsy for a drive. What the hell does this mean? We must be missing something."
Framus's phone began to ring. "Framus."
"Nigel lets go, they've found the location of her phone."
Nigel's heart skipped a beat. It was somewhere on the interstate. Nigel phoned Lily and she agreed to meet him there, however she left out the part about bringing Woody.
When they all arrived they found Jordan's phone just lying in the ditch slightly damaged as though it had been thrown from a moving vehicle. Lily began to cry. She couldn't lose Jordan, Jordan was her best friend. She fell to her knees and felt Nigel's arms wrap around her. He pulled her close and she cried into him. She needed him now, the attraction grew stronger as she held him for comfort. "Love why don't you go home and I promise we will call you when anything changes but all we have are dead ends."