Disclaimer: I do not own Crossing Jordan. Nor have I ever owned it or the characters associated with it….it sucks, I know. The only character that is solely mine, is Liz.

Last time…

"I'm going out with Sidney," she said. "He's going to help me look for an apartment. Maybe you'll get lucky and I'll find one tonight."

"You know he's only after one thing, right?"

"Liz gave him a long, hard look. "Like you weren't?"

The door closed behind her leaving Bug in complete silence, totally stunned.

Liz, Sidney, and Lily sat at their table at Louie's Diner. They had been eating lunch together for the last week. The three of them became fast friends and Lily and Sidney had been crucial in helping Liz find an apartment.

"There's got to be someplace else I can live," Liz said running her hands through her dark brown hair. She hadn't even touched her lunch and she had to be back at the morgue in a few minutes.

"Come one, Liz. Bug can't be that bad to live with," Sidney said.

"It's not that he's bad to live with. He doesn't throw his clothes all over the floor or leave the toilet seat up or anything. It's just that he doesn't want me living with him and he let's me know it," Liz explained.

"Bug doesn't have a mean bone in his body," Sidney said.

"Really?" Lily said sipping her diet soda. "What about that fight that I had to break up in Autopsy One?"

"Okay, so he can act like an ass sometimes, but fundamentally, he's a good guy." Sidney refused to believe that Bug was as bad as Liz was saying.

"Bug's a great guy, but he can act like a jerk at times," Lily said.

"You guys are not helping," Liz said in frustration. "What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to continue staying with him in hopes that things will get better or do I find someplace else to live?"

"Maybe you'll find an apartment," Sidney said optimistically.

"Come on, in the last week, I must have looked at twenty apartments, most of which you were there for by the way and they were all crap or ridiculously expensive."

"Okay, well, Nigel will be back in two weeks. You can always stay with him," Sidney suggested.

Sidney looked at Lily who shook her head telling him silently that this was not a good topic for discussion.

"If you don't mind me asking, why did you and Bug break up? I mean I know that you guys were serious or at least I think you were, but I don't know why you broke up."

"Lily, how are things between you an Matt?" Liz asked changing the topic of conversation.

"Things are good," Lily nodded. "I mean, we've been together for a while, so things are cooling down. That's normal."

"Do you love him?" Liz asked running her finger along the edge of her glass.

Liz's question shocked Lily. She didn't know how to answer the question her friend had posed.

"Love who?" a voice from behind them asked.

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