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CHAPTER 12

To Jordan, it seemed like she had just fallen asleep when her alarm clock woke her up. Still very tired, she rolled out of bed and into the shower. Twenty minutes later, she was dressed and having coffee on the couch. She then placed a call to Slokum telling him she was sick and wouldn't be in that morning anyway, but she'd try to make it in the afternoon. It wasn't as if she couldn't take the afternoon off as well. She had accumulated so many days she could take off over the last few years, she could go on one very long vacation, but she never felt the need. If she hadn't already told Lily and Bug what she was doing, they would probably spend the whole day trying desperately to reach her, because when Jordan missed a day of work, they always assumed the worst had happened. She finished her coffee, grabbed her keys and headed out the door.

It was a cool fall day. It would have been beautiful for one of her and Woody's morning runs. She smiled and shook the thought out of her head. No more morning runs for a while. She got into her car, and headed to the hospital. When she got there, Woody had just woken up, and the nurse sent her in. "Hey Woody, how are you feeling this morning?" She asked him with a bright smile. He blinked a few times, remembering yesterday's happy events. Lily coming to see him, then Jordan, and admitting how they felt. It had been an amazing day. He was sure glad to see her.

"Hey. Oh, I'm doing okay… good under the circumstances." He replied with a small smile, "How are you?"

"I'm good." She told him. "You'll never guess what happened last night." She told him, restraining a laugh. He smiled, not knowing what to expect.

"What?" He asked hesitantly. She knew he thought it was going to be something bad, something about her, but she was going to tell him about the hot new couple at the morgue, of course.

"Lily and Bug." She said with a smile.

"Lily and Bug…?" He said, "What about them?" Jordan just continued smiling. "No…" He said with a laugh, "Lily and Bug?" He repeated, with a different sort of meaning.

"Yep." Jordan told him. "Geeze. You should have seen them kiss" She laughed. Woody laughed with her, but at the same time, he wished he wasn't so restrained. It would have been the perfect opportunity for him to do something totally wild, and say something to Jordan like: Was it anything like this? And kiss her. But he couldn't. He was stuck here in this bed, and she was standing at the end of it. If only there was a way… "What's on your mind Woody?" Jordan interrupted his thoughts, "You have a weird look on your face." She told him with a concerned smile.

"Oh… it's nothing." He lied. He considered telling her the truth, that he wanted to kiss her, considering where it had gotten him yesterday, it probably would be the right thing to do… but he didn't know if he could. He should try.

"No… I know it's something…you can tell me, really." She told him, as if to confirm his idea to tell the truth. He took a deep breath.

"Well… it's just, when you were telling me about Bug and Lily, I was just thinking how nice it would be if you and I could be like that… and…" But Jordan didn't let him continue. She knew what he meant, and she walked over until she was standing right beside him, and she kissed him. At first, it was just an innocent peck on the lips, but it was only a few seconds until it turned into more. Finally, they had to pull away. "And that." Woody sort of finished his sentence. Jordan smiled, and backed away until she was sitting on the chair beside the bed. She couldn't believe what she had just done. What had gotten into her? She didn't mind though, and neither did Woody, so everything was okay.

"How was your night last night Bug?" Nigel asked, trying to make some small talk while the two were waiting on some tests. Bug glanced up at him with a smile that Nigel had never really seen Bug show before. "Wow! What was that smile for?" Nigel asked with a laugh. Just then, Lily walked into trace to give them some files on the case. "Hey Lily" Nigel said, assuming Bug was going to wait until later when Nigel had to force what Bug did that was so exciting last night out of him. But, Lily didn't answer Nigel either, instead, her eyes locked into Bug's gaze, and she just stood there staring at him holding the files for a minute. "Am I invisible today or what?" He asked with a bit of sarcasm creeping into his voice. "What is going on with you too?" Nigel waited for a minute, but when neither of his two friend's gazes shifted the slightest bit, he knew something was really up. "Out with it already! What happened last night that was so important you can't tell me?" Nigel demanded.

"Oh, hi Nigel." Lily said, her eyes still not shifting. She seemed to be two minutes behind Nigel in the conversation. "Um… well, last night?" She asked him in a sort of dreamy, faraway voice.

"If I didn't know any better I'd think you to were…" Nigel started, before putting two and two together. "You're not… you aren't…" He stammered. Bug and Lily broke their gaze and looked at him. They nodded and he broke into a smile. "Way to go!" He cheered, "You two are perfect for each other!" "So when did this happen, and how?" He asked, curiously.

"Well, it all started yesterday when I went into Jordan's office." Lily told him, "I told her we needed to talk, and she of course wasn't being helpful about the matter. Then, I asked her to tell me what happened exactly, and she did, which was very surprising, and so not Jordan. I knew she was completely devastated and felt so alone by the way she told me right away, as if she knew she needed help, and telling me would be the easiest thing to do since I had asked. You see, when Woody went into the hospital, Jordan had made it there before they had gotten him into surgery, and she saw him on his way in. Apparently, she told him that she loved him, and she wanted to be with him before he went into surgery. Then, he came out of surgery and they still weren't sure of what was going on with him. That's when Jordan went into see him. He told her that he wanted nothing more to do with her because he knew she was just saying those things because she felt sorry for him."

"That's crazy!" Nigel interrupted her, "Jordan would never just say that. I wish she would have told us earlier!" He was going to continue when Lily shot him a look and continued.

"So, she left. She hadn't gone back to the hospital since that day. She was miserable, we could all tell that, but we weren't sure why, right?" She looked and saw both men nodding in agreement. "Well, that's why. So I told her that I was sure Woody didn't mean it, and that we'd go over to the hospital after work to see him, and we did. I went in to see him first. I heard the nurse tell him that there was a lady here to see him, and when I saw the look on his face when he saw it was me, and not Jordan, I could tell he didn't mean what he had said. I talked to him for a while, and got him to admit that he was still in love with Jordan, and of course, Jordan had been listening the whole time. Then, she walked in, and I left them to talk. And, that's where she is now, at the hospital visiting Woody. So there's the first part of the evening." Lily said with a smile, and a glance at Bug. "Then, on the way back to the morgue, I was driving, and my car broke down in the parking garage. Jordan said she could drive me home, but I said that I had some paperwork to go finish up here. When we were talking, she knew I had ulterior motives for coming back up here to work, and she was right. She got me to tell her that I hoped to see you, Bug, and she said since I had helped her out all night, and fixed her problems, she would help me find out if you liked me back." Lily told the two, blushing. It sounded so child-like when she recounted it. Before she could continue, Bug joined in. "Jordan sure got her chance. Soon after her and Lily had come in, I was sent out to a crime scene, the double homicide we're working on right now. Since Woody is taking a short break from his job, they hired a replacement officer for the time being, Detective Jake Fredrick, and he was on the case with me. Not a bad guy." He said with a smile, "After two hours of hard work on the case, Jake decided to go get us some coffee. That's when Jordan cornered me. Well, I started the conversation actually. I knew Jake liked Jordan. It was obvious by the way he looked at her, and he had asked me if she was seeing anyone when she went to run some tests earlier that evening. So I decided to ask her if she had noticed that he was 'in love' with her, and she said she hadn't, that she had other things on her mind. That's when she asked me how I could tell he was 'in love' with her, and that's when I admitted I was in love with you." Bug said with a small smile. Then Nigel took over.

"And then you all flew off to happy Ville and lived happily ever after until today right?" He laughed at his little joke.

"No, actually the four of us went out for coffee." Bug corrected him. Lily laughed, put the files down, kissed Bug on the cheek and left the room. Bug smiled again as Nigel added,

"You like working with your girlfriend, don't you Bug? So, what about this detective Jake and Jordan, what happened there?" But Bug didn't get time to reply because Jake walked into the room.

"Hey Bug." He said with a nod, and then he turned to Nigel. "Hey, I'm Detective Jake Fredrick, call me Jake."

"I'm Dr. Nigel Townsend, call me what you'd like." Nigel said with little expression before turning back to the computer. He didn't know what it was about this new detective Jake that he didn't like, but it was something. He just got a bad vibe from the guy. Bug shot him a quizzical look before getting back to work.

"So, anything new with the case this morning?" Jake asked, not sensing anything was wrong.

"Not yet." But told him, "But Nigel's working his computer skills trying to get us any leads."

"Yes, with no success so far." Nigel added with a frown. The victims had been found at the end of a back ally in a bad neighborhood. No ID's, and nothing to tell them who they were. It was going to be a tough case to solve. Nigel just wished it wasn't this detective on the case.