"Awww, see that's the way things should go" Lily said, overjoyed with the sickeningly sweet story.
"Lily is the resident romantic, good luck living up to her little happily ever after fantasy world Matt" Woody said bitterly.
Everyone glared at him. Their eyes shooting daggers at him.
"What?" he asked, oblivious as usual to his assiness.
"Well it's a good thing Aidan isn't a stubborn jackass as Lily put it or it wouldn't be that way, you guys wouldn't be friends, wouldn't hang out or talk or do any of the stuff you used to do" Jordan said somberly as she stood up and kissed Aidan on the cheek before heading to the bar for another drink.
Everyone noticed that Woody watched her walk away, his eyes transfixed on her retreating form.
"Well why don't we go get another round of drinks" Nigel suggested, ushering Lily, Matt & Bug over to the bar with Jordan and giving Aidan & Jamie a minute alone to speak to or scream at Woody.
"Woody, my wife is bound and determined to interfere with your and Jordan's relationship, or utter lack there of, but I'm just going to ask you one simple question and if the answer is no, then we'll leave you both alone and let you get on with your lives without interference from us" Aidan said.
"But" Jamie tried to protest, not yet ready to admit defeat.
"Honey, it's only fair, let the man talk" Aidan convinced her.
"Fine" she answered poutily
Aidan just smiled at her lovingly.
"Well my relationship with Jordan isn't any of your business but I'll bite, what's the question?" Woody asked curiously.
"Do you still love her?" Aidan asked, straight to the point.
"Still?" Woody asked curiously, having never openly admitted his feelings for Jordan.
Aidan just raised his eyebrows at him "Come on" he said, prompting him to speak truthfully.
Woody turned his attention and his gaze to Jordan, who was now laughing happily with her friends. God how he missed her smile and her laugh, he hadn't seen much of either recently. He smiled to himself. "Yes" He answered softly, his words catching in his throat.
"I tried not to love her, not to think about her every second of the day but it's impossible, she's imbedded in my head and in my heart at the end of the day no matter what" he answered completely truthfully.
"Maybe you should tell her that" Jamie smiled happily & squeezed his hand.
He nodded and stood up "Thanks guys" he grinned thankfully.
He walked over to the bar where Jordan was and the guys all quickly dispersed, leaving them alone.
"Hey" he greeted her.
"Hey" she said back quietly.
"Can we talk?" he asked
"I don't know, can we?" she asked back.
"I want to" he told her.
"Okay then" she shrugged non-chalantly.
"But not here, let's go somewhere else" he suggested. "Let me just settle up" he said handing the bartender his credit card and informing him to put everything on his tab.
Jordan smiled, pleased at a little glimpse of the old Woody, the generous Woody, not the selfish jerk he had recently morphed into.
They went for a walk in the cool night air, Jordan crossed her arms and rubbed her arms for warmth.
"Cold?" Woody asked, rubbing her arms himself. He felt her tense up as soon as he touched her. He sighed and took his hands off of her and wrapped his suit jacket around her shoulders.
"I hate it that you're nervous around me now" he said.
"I hate it too" she admitted.
"When you were with your friends at the bar you were smiling and laughing, I didn't realize how much I missed that. When you smile your whole face just lights up and your laugh, you have this devious little laugh with this twinkle in your eye"
"I do not have a devious laugh" she defended
He laughed, same old Jordan he thought.
"I miss you" he admitted, stopping & turning to her, putting his hands on her shoulders to force her to look at him.
"I miss you too" she admitted back, "but if you're screwing with me, so help me God Woody…" she threatened.
"I love you" he said effectively shutting her up.
She just stared at him, her mouth hanging open, unable to respond.
"Wow, after all this time and everything we've been through you wouldn't think that would be so scary but it is" he said nervously.
"I'm not scared" she said sure of herself.
"You're not?" he asked skeptically.
"Not now, when you got shot and all the time since then I was scared, scared of losing you forever but I'm not scared of this" she said and leaned up and kissed him deeply, his arms immediately encircling her waist and pulling her closer into his embrace, they couldn't get close enough..
They broke the kiss and just held each other as tight as they could. Woody rested his forehead on hers and gently wiped the happy tears off of her cheeks with his fingertips.
"So am I officially no longer a stubborn jackass?" he grinned playfully.