"Jordan!" Lily called as she saw her friend get off the elevator.

"Hey Lily, what's up?" Jordan asked with a smile.

"Oh, nothing more exciting than last night." Lily told her, "Got a date tonight." Jordan smiled and mentally scratched Bug and Lily off Woody's visitor list.

"Glad to hear it." Jordan replied with a hug. She was so glad to see Lily so happy and excited. "Have you told Nige yet?" She asked with a laugh, thinking of how Nigel would react to the news.

"Yeah, we told him all about last night a little while ago. He was ecstatic." Lily said with a smile.

"So he knows all about Woody and I too?" Jordan asked.

"Yeah, he does. But does anyone other than you and Woody know the whole story?" Lily asked, hinting for Jordan to tell her what had gone on that morning at the hospital. The two made there way to Jordan's office.

"Do I kiss and tell?" Jordan asked with a smug smile. Lily gave her a hug.

"You better!" She told her in a mock threatening voice.

"Okay, okay." Jordan said with a laugh of sarcastic defeat. "I went over to the hospital right after I called in sick for the morning. I started off by telling him about you and Bug. He says congratulations by the way. I told him all about you two and your kissing." Jordan said with a laugh, "And that's the point where we had our first kiss of the day." Jordan told her with a smile, remembering the happy moment.

"First?" Lily asked, "There was more than one?" Jordan nodded, her smile growing, before continuing.

"Then I told him all about exactly what happened last night with you, Bug and Detective Jake."

"He wasn't mad about Detective Jake at all was he? He shouldn't have been… there was nothing to be mad about." Lily said in one long, fast breath.

"No, no. He wasn't mad… a little jealous at first, but jealous looks cute on him" She said with a laugh. "Then after my story is about the time our second kiss occurred. I left soon after that, I need to get back here so I didn't have you all worried about me." Jordan said with a smile.

"Maybe you should have stayed." Lily said, "We would have known everything was alright."

"Are you kidding? Nigel and Bug probably would have started calling my cell phone non-stop after lunch! They would have assumed Woody changed his mind and sent me away, and I got upset and ran. Seriously, I have to keep you informed every step of the way with my history." Jordan said with a smile, but inside she was a little hurt. She knew every word she had said was true, but she had never realized before how little trust her friends had in her.

"Nah." Lily told her, "You would have called me if something went wrong, and if they did, and you had ran, how long you bet it would have been before one of them was at that hospital ready to send Woody back into surgery?" Lily said with a sarcastic laugh. Jordan laughed, her suspicions vanishing. She shouldn't doubt her friends; they were just caring about her.

"So anything new work-wise?" She asked, hoping it had been a slow morning and the answer was no.

"No. Nigel and Bug are still working on that double homicide that came in last night, and there's nothing new besides that yet."

"And how's our favourite chief ME this morning?" Jordan asked her voice dripping with sarcasm as she referred to Jack Slokum.

"Oh, a little stressed you weren't coming in for the morning." Lily told her, "But he'll survive. He's probably looking for me now, so I'd better be on my way…" Lily told Jordan, "But I will talk to you later today, and call you tonight after my date!" She said before heading out the door.

"Bye and okay!" Jordan called after her. She headed to find Slokum, since she had successfully and surprisingly caught up on all her paperwork the day before.

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"So you and Lily, huh?" Sidney teased Bug as soon as he caught wind of the true rumor from Nigel. Bug just nodded and shook his head.

"It's sick how you use Sidney to see me embarrassed." Bug told Nigel as soon as Sidney had left the room. Nigel smiled wickedly and shook his head.

"Oh Buggles, I'm just playing with you." He said with a laugh.

"Please, please don't call me that." Bug pleaded helplessly; knowing him protesting to the unwanted nickname would just make Nigel want to use it more.

"Jordan's here." Lily announced as she stepped into the room for a brief second, smiled at the two and left.

"God I love her." Bug said to no one in particular. Nigel just smiled and continued typing away at his keyboard. Anyone could tell Bug was completely in love with Lily and vise versa. It was about time they did something about it, he didn't want to have to watch another four year Jordan/Woody fiasco. He didn't think the morgue could handle any more relationships like that. He just hoped that everything would work out for the best, because if it didn't things could get very, very awkward. But, for once, Nigel had a good feeling about things, as long as that Detective Jake didn't get in the way. Speaking of which, Nigel had to do some detective work of his own on their new detective friend. Who was Jake Fredrick, and how did he really end up in Boston?

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"Dr. Cavanaugh!" Jordan heard a voice that was getting more familiar, but no less annoying call her name. She spun around to find herself almost face to face with Slokum. "I don't know what illness you had this morning, but I see your feeling better." He told her, and she nodded. What was this about? Was he trying to establish some sort of friendly co-worker relationship? Was he really trying to take Garrett's place in all aspects?

"Glad to hear it." She said, a bit harsher than she had intended. He looked at her for a minute and then spoke again.

"Do you know of any leads on that double homicide case, any idea who the victims are yet?" He asked her.

"Um, no, sorry, I don't. Maybe Nigel or Bug, or someone who's been recently working on the case would." She told him. Why in the world would he be asking her?

"Oh, alright." He replied. "Thanks." And with that, he was off down the hall and into trace to talk to Nigel and Bug. What the hell was that about? Jordan thought. She'd have to ask Lily later. Then she realized Slokum hadn't assigned her any cases yet. Something must have come in… but since she hadn't been assigned anything, she might-as-well see what Lily was up to.

As Jordan set out to find Lily, Slokum entered trace and Nigel and Bug silently groaned. What did he want now? "Dr. Townsend, Dr. Vijay." He greeted them.

"Dr. Slokum." Bug said in response as Nigel sat quietly typing away at the screen.

"What's new with the case?" He asked.

"Nothing yet, as far as we can tell." Nigel informed him, "Although I think I may have a lead on whom the victims are. I'm just researching the possibilities." Slokum looked surprised for a moment.

"Good, well keep up the hard work." He told them before leaving. The two exchanged quizzical looks.

"What was that all about?" Bug asked.

"Keep up the hard work?" Nigel repeated, "You're guess is as good as mine." He told Bug as Jordan entered the room. "Hello love, what's bothering you?" He asked, seeing the look on Jordan's face.

"Well, it's Slokum. He's acting..." Jordan started,

"Strange?" Bug interrupted, "Yeah, we just experienced it."

"Well, something's up. He hasn't been acting weirdly around Lily, I just asked her, and Sidney said that when Slokum discussed the case that Sidney was dealing with, he was less than considerate. It's got to be something about this case…" Jordan said.

"Yeah, and we're going to find out what it is." Nigel chimed in.

"If it's something that's enough to make him civil to us, it must be something pretty big…" Jordan added.

"Which means it could help us get Dr. Macy back here." Bug finished. They smiled and got back to work with much more determination then they had before.

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