Chapter 3

Woody was woken up several hours later by Jordan's screams. He was immediately by her side, trying to wake her up.

"Jo, baby, wake up, I need you to wake up. It's just a nightmare, come back to me please."

Jordan eyes slowly opened, but she couldn't wipe away the tears fast enough to prevent Woody from seeing them.

"Jo, what's wrong, what happened in your dream?"

"I, um, Danny, he died when we were down in the mine shaft, and I carried his dead body with me so that Todd didn't know that he had died, so that he would keep going. I was so scared that we wouldn't make it out alive. I was scared that I would never get to see you again."

Woody just held her, trying to comfort her. Jordan finally fell asleep, but as soon as Woody let go of her she woke up, but not so much as so that Woody would be able to tell. Woody left the room and went back to the couch and laid down, but before he could fall asleep, he heard Jordan crying in her room. Woody got up and went into the bedroom, and laid down beside Jordan, holding her as she cried. Finally they both fell asleep.

Some hours Later

"Jo, I have to go, they need me at work, but I'll be back later, I'll drop by the morgue and tell Garret that you are sick."

"Thanks Woody, but I'm fine to go to work. I'll see you at lunch okay?"

"Okay baby. I'll be there."

Woody walked out of the apartment, and headed to work. By the time he got to the scene, he noticed that Jordan was already there.

"Hey there slow pock. What took you so long?"

"Well, miss-I-don't-have-to-drive-the-speed-limit, I had to stop by work first, and it took me awhile to get out of bed, I mean when I woke up there was this gorgeous woman laying next to me."

"Hey, cut that out, we are at work you know"

"So, are we still on for lunch?"

"Sure are."

A black and white walked over to the two, smiling at the fact that they both were.

"What do we got?"

"Female, Caucasian, approximately five or six years of age, apparent cause of death is a shot for the back of the head."

"Good God."

"Looks like it's going to be a long day."

Woody grabbed hold of Jordan's hand, and gently kissed her on the cheek before allowing her to start her work.

"I'll see you later, I have to go and talk to witnesses. I'll meet you back at the morgue."

"I'll be waiting."

Jordan waved as he walked off, knowing that today wouldn't be that bad, and tomorrow would be even better, after all, she did have her farm boy.

The End