"Sooo, how do you like your job?"
Silence. Jordan didn't answer; instead she casually flicked a bit of dead skin away from the body, dangerously close to Ray.
"Great, me too… do you like Boston?"
Silence. Jordan continued working with a reaction to Ray's words.
"Me neither." Ray had had absolutely no luck in getting Jordan to talk. Bent over her current corpse, Jordan seemed enraptured in what appeared to be fairly moldy lungs.
"Smoker?" Ray looked with disgust at the grayish lungs. For the first time, Jordan seemed jolted out of her decided silence.
"What?"
"Did he smoke? Is that why his lungs look like that?" Ray looked encouragingly at Jordan, hoping she would stop ignoring him.
"Who cares?" Jordan felt a pang of disappointment when Ray didn't answer. She had gotten used to his brainless questioning. She quickly pushed the disappointment down, however, leaning back over the body.
A mechanical beeping caused Jordan to look up again as Ray's cell phone went off. Jumping of the desk he had been lounging on, he walked swiftly out of the room, clearly hesitant to let Jordan overhear his conversation. Shrugging Jordan got back to work, waiting for him to come back.
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"Malloy," Ray answered softly.
"Evening, Detective. We think we might have a lead for you on that M.E. case." The young police officer's voice was fairly smooth, but a little nervous. Great, Ray thought to himself, On top of the pissed off M.E. the PD are sending rookies my way. Excellent. Ray sighed wearily.
"Where do I go?"
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Jordan tried not to look up when Ray reentered the room, but found it impossible when she noticed him leaving again.
"What's up?" Ray looked back at her in poorly disguised amusement.
"I got a lead on the Jefferson case," he said, nodding to the body on the table. "See ya later." Jordan raised her eyebrows.
"Well, I'm coming with you."
"What?"
"I'm coming wi…"
"No." Ray turned to leave but found Jordan pulling on her coat and heading towards the door. Ray stared at her for a few seconds and then shrugged, holding the door open for her.
"Don't get shot." Jordan smiled slightly at him.
"Don't shoot me."
Each chapter gets a little bit longer. Not much, just a little bit. Like I said, lots of tests this week, so don't hold your breath. Actually, try not to do that at all, it can't be good for you. Unless you're swimming. Then I definitely recommend you hold your breath.
Thanks for all the reviews. I agree that the first chapter wasn't too good, but I've been getting a lot of reviews so, gracias. Yay. Hallelujah. Whatever.
Whichever reviewer said that the 1st chapter wasn't very good and the Spanish tooth thing was weird…yeah, I know, I know. You're all very perceptive.
Longer chapter later—hahahaha. Hahaha. Ha. H. a. okay then.