Cinderella
I don't own Crossing Jordan. Or Cinderella. Those lucky ducks.
Summary:Jordan is a Modern-Day Cinderella.
Rating: K+ I guess. No bad words (woo hoo) or anything.
Characters Mentioned: Jordan, Woody, Cinderella, and Prince Charming. JD, Macy and company slightly noted.
She's trapped. Jordan Cavanaugh is trapped.
Big surprise there, right?
She's trapped in the depths of her mind, emotions, and thoughts. And, being trapped inside yourself is much worse than any other.
Jordan pictures herself as a modern Cinderella.
Jordan's pain of growing up without a mother is like Cinderella's rags. They follow wherever she goes, like it or not.
In many ways, Max and her relatives, Grandma and company, were like the evil stepmother and step sisters. Always there, putting weight on her shoulders.
Just like Cinderella had one chance to meet her Prince Charming, Jordan saw her re-hiring at the Boston Morgue as her one chance. Macy, of course, being her Fairy Godmother.
She took the chance, like Cinderella, eagerly, only to meet her Prince Charming. Woody.
Farm Boys always get the good roles, don't they?
The mice-turned-carriage-men were her old friends. Macy, Nigel, Bug, Lily. Helping her along the way, pushing her to Woody.
Jordan's Royal Ball was Boston, of course, instead of Prince Charming's mansion.
Her chance to get dressed up was changing from Running Jordan to Determined Jordan. Macy had helped in that. Boston helped.
The clock struck Midnight when JD was shot. Killed. Thrusting Jordan into a world of confusion and pain. Like Cinderella, Jordan didn't think about the ones left behind her.
Cinderella lost a shoe. It had to hurt her, right? Running in one glass slipper had to be painful.
Jordan lost trust, faith, and comfort. Somewhere along the way, she had lost her heart as well, to Pollack or Hoyt she wasn't sure.
Prince Charming had run after Cinderella, right? Well, so did Woody. Tracing back the slipper and the loss of trust, faith and comfort has to be one daunting task.
But out of love?
Eventually Prince Charming and Woody found what they were looking for. Charming-Cinderella, the slipper's owner. Woody-the root (and possible way to fix) Jordan's pain. After all, neither could stand to see their love get hurt.
So Modern Cinderella and Cinderella's stories differed from that point. Prince C and Cinderella got together and lived happily ever after, while Jordan and Woody.. just... lived.
Despite the losses on Jordan's end-Woody, her childhood- Cinderella gave Jordan hope.
Hope that maybe, just maybe, everything could be ok. That her life would be ok.