Author: AthenaIceGoddess
Title:Jumping In
Author: AthenaIceGoddess
Spoilers: Jump Push Fall
Angst/Romance/Drama
Summary: Just my take on what might happen post Jump Push Fall. Lots of WJ angst, so if you aren't a shipper... probably shouldn't read this one
Disclaimer: I own no part of Crossing Jordan. If I did, do you think I would be writing fanfiction?
Chapter 10
Jordan woke to a sound that sounded suspiciously like someone breaking down a door.Right above her head. She sighed in relief. Looked like she would be getting out of there after all.
She sat up, jumping to her feet, and immediately regretted the fast motion as her injured ribs screamed in protest. A voice was yelling ' Put your hands up! I will shoot!' , and it sounded suspiciously like that lieutenent Woody worked with sometimes.
"Hey! Hey! Down here! I'm down-" Jordan yelled at the top of her lungs. A crash like someone hitting the wall with something, followed by a yell of 'Damnit!' from none other then her detective.
Her detective? Where did that come from? She thought, slightly amused. Well, as amused as she could be locked in a tiny cell-room and in pain from a split lip and coughing roughly from her injured ribs.
"Woody! Woody! I'm down here! I'm- No, don't leave! Don't leave!" She cried, but all noises had stopped and she was left alone.
Blinking back uncharacteristic tears, she started searching the walls for any telltale signs or bumps that would betray an exit.
After a half hour of scouring the walls from top to bottom and not finding anything, she slumped to the floor with an uncharacteristic sniffing back of tears. There was no need to cry, Woody would find her. She knew it.
She'd just have to trust in him.
"Woody! My god, what did you do to your head?" Lily cried, noticing the dried blood that had been hidden by a baseball cap. Woody had decided that Jordan's friends deserved an update, the hell with what the chief said, so he headed to the morgue.
"It's nothing. I came here to give you guys a heads up on what's going on with Jordan." He replied, shrugging off her concern. Lily shook her head. "You can tell us while I get Bug to take a look at that." She said in a no nonsense tone, turning to find Bug and Nigel and New Guy. Woody followed, not knowing what else to do.
When he had searched that house, he'd been so sure she was there. Now, as he looked back, he saw that he should have put a tail on him, and then he would have had her. Now, they might spend days, weeks, or even months trying to find her, and by then... it would be too late. The said hindsight was twenty-twenty. Woody figured it was probably better,
"Hey Bug! We have a visitor. Woody's here to tell us about Jordan. After you stitch up his head." Lily added, sending a lethal look in Woddy's direction while Bug simply checked out the wound, cleaned it, and put a few stitches in it.
"We caught the guy who's been doing the killings, and we had a lead on where Jordan was, but by the time we got there, she had been moved." Woody sighed, running a hand down his face before he continued. "Now we have no idea where she is. I'm guessing the killer has an accomplice which means she's still in danger." He finished bitterly.
Lily blinked. She thought they were fighting, but the way he was acting... oh, well. Who knew when it came to those two? She stepped forward and squeezed the detective's arm comfortingly.
"Have some faith in yourself, Woody. You'll find her. It'll just take time." Woody smiled a smile that felt fake even to him down at the optimistic grief councellor. He sure hoped she was right.
A/N: Sorry about the wait and short chapter, but the next one will be much longer. Writer's block, but it's all gone now.