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Chapter ONE

It had been about a week since Woody turned Jordan away at the hospital. For Woody, it felt like it had been years. Why, of all the possible times she could have chosen to listen to him, did she pick that moment to listen to him, to do what he wanted? Well damn her for it. If she loved him, she would have protested. Stayed! Done anything other than leave. He didn't truly believe that, but he did believe that trying to believe that would be the only way to ever move on with his life. Life without Jordan Cavanaugh. Now that was a scary thought. She had been more than a small part of his life for the last four years, and now she was gone. Well, she wasn't really gone. He only thought about her every second of the day, and dreamed about her every night. She was still very much with him, just not physically. She would be, but because of him, she wasn't. He hated to think of all the things she could (but he doubted) be doing now. After only a week, she still could have found a new guy, anyone, that wouldn't turn her away like that. But what was he thinking? Who was the one who turned away from their relationship for the past four years? It was her. Who could never say what he wanted to hear, even after he said it to her? Jordan. As much as he hated to admit it, in his mind, he knew that he needed her now, more than ever, and he had sent her away. "Oh well, at least I'll be out of here, and able to check up on her within the next week or so" he told himself. Then, a nurse came in with his supper, which always came with some polite conversation, so he tried, as hard as he could, to push her face out of his head, but he knew it would never go away. Never.

Jordan sat at her desk finishing up some paperwork on the body she had just autopsied. As she sat, slowly writing her report, she heard a knock on the door. She didn't look up, but replied "Come in" in a low, soft voice. She didn't care who had come to see her. She didn't care about anything anymore, not since she had left that hospital a week ago.

"Jordan, we need to talk." Lily said. Jordan was in no mood to talk. She was in no mood to do anything but do her paperwork, and go home. That's all she had done for the last week, and Slokum was quite happy with it. At least it kept him off her case, because that was the last thing she needed.

"About what?" Jordan asked, although she was quite aware of what Lily was going to say.

"Jordan, you can't keep avoiding this issue. You've been doing nothing but acting un-Jordan like ever since you came back to work from seeing Woody at the hospital that day, now are you going to talk to me about it, or are you going to wait, and let things get worse, and then talk to me about it?" Lily told Jordan, her voice raising the slightest bit. Jordan got up, walked across the room, and shut the door tightly.

"Fine" She said, sitting back down, "What do you want to know, that you haven't already assumed, or figured out?" Lily just sat there for a moment, forming in her head the right words to say. Well, it was more like thinking of words to say. Talking to Jordan now-a-days wasn't an easy thing to do, and Jordan sure as hell wasn't going to help her out here. She'd have to ask the right questions, and get Jordan to talk.

"Well, can you tell me exactly what happened at the hospital that day for starters?" Lily said, finally coming up with words. Lily sensed something in Jordan change, like she tightened up even tighter than she had been before the question was asked. Then, for the first time since Lily had entered the room, Jordan looked up, and looked Lily straight in the eye. Lily looked back at Jordan, a bit surprised to see tears forming in her eyes.

"Well, it's pretty simple actually," Jordan started, "I went into the room, and started casual conversation. Woody just looked at me for a while, and didn't say anything. Then he started talking about what I had said before, when he was coming into the hospital in the first place, and said that I said what I said because I felt sorry for him, and told me to leave." Tears started rolling down Jordan's cheeks. "I…I just didn't know what to say. I stood there for a minute, looking at Woody, wondering how I could convince him that I really meant it. I did mean it. I meant every word of it, and I don't know how he could think otherwise, so I left. I left, and I never went back, and I still haven't gone back, because for once, I'm going to do as Woody asks." Lily sat there for a moment, taking in the information she had just received. She again, was at a loss for words. She hadn't expected Jordan to tell her that much, that quickly and without a fight. She just looked at Jordan for another minute and then finally she decided she had to say something.

"Jordan, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I don't understand why Woody wouldn't believe you; it isn't like him to do something like that. It was probably just because he was confused. He didn't know exactly what was going on, and he was on so many pills, and tired from just coming out of surgery. I think you should go talk to him. I mean, he's probably lonely at the hospital, and I'll bet he's thinking about you just as much as you're thinking about him." Jordan looked up and sort of smiled.

"You think?" she asked, in a sort of shy voice Lily didn't think she'd ever heard come from her friend before.

"Yeah, I do." Lily answered her. "When are you off?"

"Right as soon as I finish this paperwork." Jordan told her.

"Alright, finish it quickly, and we'll head over to the hospital before visiting hours end. Sound alright?" Lily asked, hoping to god that the answer would be some sort of positive indication.

"Yeah, sure." Jordan told her, giving her a hug. Lily turned to leave, and just as she was heading out the door Jordan called after her "Thanks." Lily smiled and shut the door behind her.