I'm still stalling a bit to figure out exactly where this is all going to end up. I've got vauge ideas, but I'm still developing them. I am just wondering what you guys think about this: are you liking the relationships right now (Lily/Bug and Jordan/Woody) and if anyone has any suggestions on whether they should all be happy and stay together or split up just let me now! I would really appreciate some more reviews, and thanks to the three of you that gave me some!

"Okay Garrett. You're turn to share." Lily told him. He still didn't know what to say. Dammit! How could he do this to her?

"I… I don't really know how to tell you this Lily." He told her, not meeting her eyes. He couldn't.

"Just tell me Garrett. I can handle it. Tell me the truth." Lily told him, squeezing his hand. He shouldn't have called her. It was all a mistake. But, it was too late; he'd have to tell her something. She'd know if he was lying. She knew him so well, damn it. Why had he chosen to tell her?

"If you're sure." He started, closing his eyes for a moment. He re-opened them and decided to go with the truth. It would make things less complicated in the long run, he guessed. It seemed like honesty was having its rewards around the morgue lately anyways, he might as well try his luck. "Well, Lily, I'm just going to tell you this straight out. There's a reason I haven't been talking to anyone this past week, I wanted to. Oh god, I can't tell you how much I wanted to talk to someone, anyone. You, Jordan, Nigel, Woody, anybody, but you see, I couldn't."

"But why Garrett?" Lily asked, confused.

"That's the part I don't know how to say." He told her, "You see… I met someone." Lily smiled, not understanding what he met, well how could she? He'd been so unclear, and made it sound as if he'd ended up in a relationship like Woody or Jordan's or her and Bug's.

"It's not like that Lily, really." He told her, and she nodded. "Really, it's not that kind of meeting. I met this person about a week before Slokum came into the office."

"Who is it Garrett, and what does it have to do with Slokum?" She asked, even more confused than before.

"I can't tell you who it is, and it has everything to do with Slokum, and a double homicide that should be in trace by now." He told Lily. She didn't know what to say.

"Yeah, it came in last night. It's the one detective Jake came in with…" She told him, still very much confused.

"Oh god. I should have guessed that."

"Guessed what Garrett? What are you talking about, please tell me."

"Lily, if I tell you, you'll have to leave the morgue for now too. You'll have to stop talking to everyone, the same way I did. You can't do that. I can't tell you everything. I'll tell you as much as I can… and then you have to go back and tell Bug, Nigel and Jordan." He instructed her.

"Okay, I will. Just tell me everything you can." She told him, and he sighed. This was going to be one long conversation…

"No one could convince me something's not up with that guy now." Bug said as soon as Slokum left.

"No one's going to try." Jordan told him with a smile. "We just have to solve this, and link him to it in the process. Find out what this is all about and get things back to how they used to be."

"You know love," Nigel told her, "Things may never be how they used to be… Garrett's still the same Garrett, but can we really look at him the same knowing that he hid this from us all those years, all those years knowing he had done exactly what he told us never to do?"

"I don't know." Bug said, "But we can try." Jordan nodded in agreement, and Nigel shrugged his shoulders.

"Whatever you two say."

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"Hello Detective Hoyt." A nurse greeted him as she brought him his lunch, "You're looking especially happy today." Woody nodded. He couldn't get rid of the smile he had today if he tried. Things were great. He was going to get better, he was, and his physiotherapy would start soon, and he'd be up and about again, and then there was the little fact that Jordan had kissed him.

"Yeah. I'm feeling great."

"Was it because your girlfriend came to see you?" She asked with a laugh and a wink. As he started to tell her that Jordan wasn't his girlfriend, he stopped.

"Yeah, that had a lot to do with it." He answered with a laugh. Jordan had referred to him as her boyfriend last night, so it was fair he did the same. He couldn't wait to see her again tonight. It would be nice to see Nigel, Bug, Lily and some of his other friends again, but spending time alone with her was quite fine too.

"Well, I'm glad she came back. It must have been such a shock to her. It took her almost a week to come back."

"Yeah." Woody agreed, a little uncomfortable, because he knew it was his fault that she hadn't returned.

"Okay, well you seem to be doing quite fine, so take these pills and I'll come back in a little while." She told him, placing a few pills on the tray and heading out the door. He nodded and took them. Although he hated it, he wanted to get out. Back to Jordan and everyone else at the morgue, and so that this Jake guy could leave as soon as possible. He didn't like him around Jordan, especially since he had fallen in love with her as quickly as Woody had. He knew it wouldn't be a problem though. It had taken Jordan four years to finally admit she was in love with him too, and she had, so it wasn't as if she was going to go running off with some guy she had met yesterday, especially after she told Jake that he was her boyfriend. Every time he though about Jordan saying that, he couldn't think of anything else. Just her. Her smile, her personality, her beauty, and most of all, especially since this morning, her kiss.

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"Good afternoon!" Jake exclaimed as he walked into trace.

"Detective Jake." Bug said with a nod, and Jordan just looked up and smiled hello.

"Anything new?" Jake asked.

"We've got what we think could be a lead to who the victims are, but we're still checking it out, but other than that absolutely nothing." Jordan told him. He nodded and walked over to where Nigel was madly typing on his computer.

"What are you doing there?" He asked. Nigel looked up with a frown on his face.

"Nothing, just a little research on the possible victims." He told Jake. Jordan and Bug could tell that Nigel didn't like Jake, and that he didn't want him to stand there and watch him work, but Jake didn't get the hint.

"Wow! That's so cool!" Jake exclaimed at something Nigel was doing on the computer. Nigel shrugged and Bug and Jordan exchanged looks of surprise. Why didn't Nigel like Detective Jake? It was obvious he didn't. Nigel turning down the chance to tell and brag about whatever he was doing on the computer? It was a first! He was usually bragging and explaining when people didn't want to know, and got so excited when people asked. What had gotten into Nigel?