"What are you two doing here, I thought you went home?" A confused Slokum asked as he saw them pass by his office. "Up to no good I assume?"
"No, we're just here to get a head start on some paperwork, I mean, we really have nothing better to do." Lily told him with a little smile.
"Well, as long as your hear, get to work." He instructed them. Jordan opened her mouth to give a snide reply and then closed it.
"Will do." She told him. Slokum gave the two girls a perplexed look, and got back to work. Jordan headed to her office and Lily did the same. They weren't exactly sure what they were going to do to find out if Bug liked Lily as more than a friend, but they had to do something. Jordan's chance to help Lily came when Slokum knocked on her office door. "Come in." She called after a minute of making him stand there.
"You're services are needed in Trace" He told her, "There's been what appears to be a double homicide coming in, so you and Bug can work together on this one. I have some other business to attend to." With that, he left. Jordan got up, and smiled. Before heading into trace, she stopped in at Lily's office.
"Guess who's going into what could be doing hours worth of forensic investigating with you-know-who?" Jordan joked. Lily looked up and smiled.
"Oh, I couldn't. Just don't say anything that is too obvious, is going to make him feel uncomfortable or will make me feel uncomfortable at a later time please." Lily advised.
"Who me? I wouldn't dare!" Jordan laughed, shutting the door as she left. Lily shook her head, and got back to work. Jordan headed to trace to set things up. Bug had gone to the scene of the crime and Jordan set up in trace and waited. Finally, Bug and the bodies arrived. A detective named Jake Fredrick came with him. Detective Jake was Woody's replacement on the force until Woody was able to make a full recovery. Jordan had a hard time at first, because still all she could think about after she met Detective Jake was Woody, and how she wished he was on the case with her. For two hours, Detective Jake, Jordan and Bug worked hard to get any leads on who had committed this double homicide, and who the victims were. Finally, after two hours, Jordan had a chance to talk to Bug about Lily. Jake had just left to go get them some more coffee since the machine in the break room was broken, and Bug said he needed a break. Jordan followed him into the break room, where she planned to start her interrogation. But, Bug decided to start a nice conversation before Jordan got the chance to.
"So, Jordan, Detective Jake seems nice." Bug said. Jordan nodded.
"Yes. Yes, he does."
"He seems to be quite fond of you, if you know what I mean" Bug said smugly, assuming she knew. Jordan was a bit puzzled.
"What do you mean by that?" Jordan asked him.
"You hadn't noticed?" Bug asked her with a bit of sarcasm.
"I haven't the slightest clue what you're talking about Bug." Jordan told him, "But would you please just tell me? I really want to know." Well, I really want to get this conversation over so I can ask you who you're quite fond of, Jordan added in her head.
"So you're telling me you haven't noticed how Detective Jake looks at you, and talks to you? And that he's pretty much "in love?" with you" He said, emphasizing the "in love" part with a smile.
"What? No! I wasn't paying attention at all! Seriously Bug, I have many other very important things on my mind that are certainly not the new detective, thank you very much." Jordan told him, "and how would you know what a guy looks like when he's looking at someone who he is "in love" with anyways?" Jordan questioned Bug, liking how this situation was working out to her advantage.
"Because it's the exact same way I look at…" Bug said, so caught up in the conversation, he was hardly paying attention to what he was talking about. He caught himself before the name was out of his mouth. "Never mind."
"No, Bug, not never mind! Who do you look at that way?" Jordan asked with a small encouraging smile, as if to tell Bug he could trust her with the information. So far, she hadn't really broken any of Lily's interrogation rules. And by the looks of it, she wouldn't have to. This must be her lucky day.
"You'd think it was dumb." He told her, "You wouldn't understand."
"What's with guys and thinking their feelings are dumb. I will understand perfectly Bug, so just tell me." It's not like I don't know whose name you're going to say, she added in her head.
"Fine." He said giving her a quizzical look. She guessed he was wondering how many other guys Jordan had been giving love advice to that day. She had guessed right, but Bug didn't even want to know. "It's… Lily." Jordan smiled.
"I
knew it!" She exclaimed triumphantly. "Now that wasn't so hard
was it?"
"Well, no I guess not…" Bug said.
"So now, you just have to go ask her out." Jordan told him, "Then you'll have no regrets. Trust me. It's better to do it now then four years from now. It will make things a lot easier." Bug gave her another quizzical look, and then dismissed the thought. He got the hint now that she was talking about her and Woody's relationship, but he really didn't want to get into that very delicate topic right then.
"Ask her out?" He said, "Uh… No. I don't think so. She'd never go out with me. She's beautiful, and smart, and funny…" Bug probably would have continued on and on with a very long list, so Jordan cut him off.
"How do you know she doesn't feel the same way about you?" She said, in a sing song voice. Bug sensed that Jordan had history in discussing the topic of him and Lily, and he guessed it was with Lily, since it wasn't with him.
"What do you know about me and Lily that I don't know?" He demanded. Jordan smiled.
"My lips are sealed."
"Then I guess you're not going to find out what Detective Jake said about you." He told her smugly, knowing that he'd gotten her there.
"Fine, fine. But, I'm telling you for your own good… not because I want to know what Jake said. Lily, well… she likes you too. A lot. She feels about the same way about you two as you do. She didn't think you would like her that way at all, and she would never ask you out because she'd be to scared you'd say no."
"But that's crazy! She's absolutely amazing! Why would anyone ever say no to her?" Bug exclaimed. "I'll ask her out once our shift is done tonight, alright?" Jordan nodded and Bug continued with his part of the deal. "Well, when you went to run those DNA tests on our victim… Detective and I started talking, and the subject of you came up." Jordan raised her eyebrow and kept listening. "He didn't have too many questions about you, the only one was basically, were you single? He did have a lot to say though. I don't even want to repeat it because I truly would not feel comfortable." Jordan laughed at Bug's expression there, but she wondered what exactly had Detective Jake been saying about her? "Well I will say this. Is being in love with Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh part of that job description or what? Woody and now Jake. Geeze Jordan, you have a way with detectives." They both laughed at that, and headed back to trace.
