Jordan sipped her cup of coffee, absentmindly, as she watched Eve play in the backyard with five year old twins, Cory and Christopher Lebowski. Lily and Bug's sons. She shook her head and brought her attention back to the woman sitting across from her at the kitchen table. "To say that I was surprised to see you at parents day, would be an understatement." She mumbled and took another sip before discarding the cup.

Lily smiled at Jordan and nodded. "Surprised would be an understatement. I didn't even know you were in town and neither did Bug." A sly smile wormed its way onto her lips. "I'm a little jealous, though. I've never been able to make my husband faint before."

A chuckle escaped from Jordan's mouth and she smiled. "I still can't believe he did that. But it reminded me how much I missed everyone."

Her attention once again wondered to the caramel skinned children playing with her daughter. They were lighter than Bug but much darker than Lily. They had jet black hair and brown eyes. Their physical features were very much like their fathers but their smiles definitely came from Lily. As did their laid back, easy going personalities. "I bet they're a handful." She didn't look away this time.

"Yes, but not always. Chris gets into more trouble than Cory but Cory is usually the mastermind behind getting Chris in trouble. They have a lot of energy and rarely sleep more than six hours a night. Bug said something about being a little 'hellion' when he was little so I blame him." Lily was all smiles and couldn't wait to start questioning Jordan about her life away from Boston.

"Ah, I see. Well I would have my hair pulled out if Eve only slept six hours a night. Lucky for me that she's a sound sleeper. Once I get her to bed, she doesn't get up until I wake her up. Sometimes that is a task within itself. Mark needed two alarm clocks to get up for work so I guess I can blame as well." Jordan finally looked back to Lily and noticed the mischievous look in her eyes. 'Uh oh." Was all she could think as she prepared herself for questioning.

"Mark? Is that Eve's father?" She was careful to not say husband since she wasn't sure. She had noticed the rings that Jordan was wearing but you could never be too careful when it came to Jordan's personal life. Lily watched the emotions that crossed Jordan's face but stayed quiet.

"Yes." She said quietly and cleared her throat. "Mark was my husband and Eve's father. He died a year ago." She looked down at the rings and ran a finger over the diamond on the wedding ring. "He was a cop and died in the line of duty." She really didn't want to talk about her late husband and hoped Lily picked up on that. Ever since her breakdown, three months ago, she had tried to stay clear of subjects that made her uncomfortable. Mark was one of them. She didn't want a repeat of that night. She had cried all night about everything ranging from her son to Mark. In the morning she ended up calling off sick and keeping Eve home from daycare just to be close to her. She almost lost her job over it and she didn't want a repeat of that. Jordan was still a very private person but she had learned what to tell people to appease them.

"I'm sorry to hear that." Lily reached across the table and placed her hand on Jordan's. A sigh of comfort between friends. She changed the subject knowing how painful it would be for her to talk about Bug if anything happened to him and didn't want to make Jordan uncomfortable. "So what do you do now? You obviously didn't return to your old job or Bug would have said something."

"No. When I left Boston I wanted to become a different person. I still worked as a Medical Examiner during the day but at night I took classes to become a Pediatrician. I didn't do anything with my degree right away and I had only been practicing for six months when Mark was killed. Don't get me wrong, I still keep up to date on my M.E's licence and I'm certified to do that as well. I just needed to know that I could do something other than cutting up bodies if I had to. I wasn't first in my class but I graduated in the top five." She shrugged. "So when I moved back here, I took a job at one of Boston Generals clinics. It's close to where I live and pays well enough for me to maintain my was of life. And give Eve the best education. What about you? I know a M.E's salary doesn't pay enough to put two kids through Madison Heights Academy." Jordan began to relax. At first she wasn't sure how she'd react to being around her old friends but she had missed them. She knew that now. "And why do the kids have your last name?" She asked, offhandedly.

Lily was silent for a minute then smiled. "Cory and Christopher have their fathers name as well as mine. It's on the birth certificate but we figured that it would be easier for them to just go by my last name until they got out of school or until they were old enough to deal with it's length and pronunciation. Then they can decide which name they want." She shrugged a little. "It was Bug's idea, really. He wanted to follow traditions but he and his parents had a falling out when he told them he was marrying me. So he settled on average first names and my last name. I think it was a bit of rebellion on his part. Going against his parents for the first time in his life. I'm just sad that they won't ever know their grandsons." She glanced out the window and smiled before continuing. "Bug works part time at the M.E's office and part time with a research company that uses bugs extensively in their studies. It pays well enough that I'm able to stay at home with the boys and afford to send them to Madison Heights Academy. That was another one of Bugs ideas. He wanted his boys to have the best American education that money could buy and who was I to argue?" She smiled. "Look at them playing. You would think that they were raised together. Cory and Chris are usually shy around girls but they seem to like Eve."

Jordan followed Lily's gaze and nodded. "Mark had two brothers and a sister all with kids. They all lived close by so Eve grew up around children of all ages. But James had a son born a few days after Eve. Tanner was Eve's favorite cousin. I think they bonded the first time they saw each other. Tanner was a complicated birth so he wasn't released from the hospital for a week while doctors ran tests and monitored his condition. James brought him over to the house to meet us. It was the cutest thing. I swear that Eve and Tanner reached out to each other and held onto each others hand for dear life. I have pictures somewhere of it." She smiled. "Ever since, Eve's been able to tame the wildest of little boys."

"James? Your brother James?" Lily raised an eye brow. "The brother that is dead?" She was sure that the last she heard of Jordan's brother was that he had jumped out a window and into the river. No body had ever been found but he was presumed dead and the case against him closed.

"The one and only." Jordan said, sarcastically, getting protective of her brother. "He survived the fall. What can I say, he's a survivor like me. It would take more than a fall out of a window into a river to get rid of my brother. I can't say that I was surprised when he showed up on our doorstep one day. Sure, I was shocked but Mark welcomed him with open arms so I did too. He stayed, began a new life like me. He met Fiona, Tanner's mother, at the local grocery store and they hit it off. Three months later they were married and ecstatic about having a baby." She grew quiet again and watched her daughter play with the boys. "Fiona ran out on James. She started having an affair with a truck driver during the last month of her pregnancy. That's why the birth was complicated. She had some kind of STD from the trucker. Luckily, it wasn't passed to Tanner. She stuck around for the first six months then split with Earl, the truck driver, when she found out that she was pregnant again but not to my brother. Broke his heart but he was a good father. He still is. Tanner is growing up with a great role model. I know James has a dark past but I can't fault him for something that I share with him. Like brother, like sister. We both turned out ok, despite what our pasts were like."

"Wow. Sounds like you two bonded as well." She raised an eyebrow. "Must be hard being a single parent but being a single father must be harder." Lily noticed Jordan nodding in agreement to her statement and smiled. "I'm sorry Bug couldn't be here. He had been looking forward to this since we made the plans two weeks ago. But Garrett called him since things were backed up. Let's just say that he didn't go quietly and the boys will probably be spouting out some words that I'll have to wash Bugs mouth out, with soap, for."

"Ya. I was looking forward to seeing him too. But no worries. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon so tell him that he owes me dinner and coffee. Now we should really be going." Jordan stood and smiled as Lily called the children inside. She picked Eve up and ruffled Cory and Chris's hair before heading towards the door. She stopped and turned back to the family. "Eve just informed me that she wants all of you to come to her birthday party next week. Apparently, your boys have made a impression upon her. I'll call you with the details." She opened the door and left while listening to the sounds of two excited little boys begging their mother to let them go to the birthday party. She chuckled as she buckled Eve in and the smile never faded from her face as she drove home.