The next day Jordan was the responding M.E. on Woody's case.
He smiled at her nervously as she approached "Hey Jordan" he said, trying unsuccessfully to sound casual.
"Hey Woody, what's up?" she greeted him, trying to read his expression.
"Uh, nothing, how are you?" he asked nervously.
"I'm good, and you?" she asked, staring at him, trying to figure out why the hell he was acting so nervous around her.
"Good, I'm glad you're good, you deserve to be good" he bumbled.
"You are?" she asked incredulously
"Yeah of course, I mean you're a medical examiner for Christ's sake, I don't think you're appreciated enough, I applaud you Dr. Cavanaugh" he said blundering.
"You applaud me?" she said questioningly. "Woody, what the hell is wrong with you?"
"Nothing, I'm cool, what?" he asked.
"Why are you acting like this?" she asked exasperated.
"Like what? How am I acting? He asked oblivious.
"Like a buffoon!" she said irritated.
"You're right, I'm sorry, it's just…." He started, looking down at the ground.
"Woody, what is it? Spit it out! She demanded, looking at him expectantly.
"Lily read me your journal" he said quickly.
"What?" she said loudly
"No, no, don't be mad at her, she was just trying to help" he tried to explain.
"I'm going to kill her!" she hissed angrily.
"Nothing bad, strictly PG" he assured her.
"Oh my god, I cannot do this, I cannot" she said mortified at what Lily had done.
"Jordan its okay" he tried to soothe her.
"I've got to get to work, we are not to speak of this again while we're working understand?" Jordan made him agree. He nodded in response, not wanting to push her to talk about it, he knew she was an extremely private person and what Lily had done while trying to help was a complete invasion of privacy and Jordan was humiliated.
Jordan finished up at the scene as quickly as she could; she was desperate to be anywhere but there with Woody.
She got finished and headed back to the morgue on a mission to find and kill Lily.
She stormed into her office and slammed the door shut behind her with a loud thud, Lily was on the phone "I'm going to have to call you back" she said, noting Jordan's hostility.
"You had no right" Jordan yelled as Lily hung up the phone.
"Ok, what are we talking about?" Lily asked, trying to play innocent
"Oh don't give me that crap, you know exactly what we're talking about, you read Woody my personal, private journal! how could you?"
"I had to Jordan, I saw him slipping away from you and I decided we needed to do something drastic to keep you in the game, that's why I did it, you can be mad if you want to but I was only trying to help" she explained.
Jordan huffed and turned to go, retreating out the door and again slamming it behind her with a loud thud. Lily sighed.
Jordan reentered her office a moment later, swinging open the door but this time closing it softly behind her and walking calmly over and taking a seat across from Lily.
"What did he say?" she asked softly.
Lily smiled, happy her friend was still willing to talk to her.
"It got to him" Lily smiled triumphantly.
"It must have, he was acting like a total moron this morning when I saw him, he didn't know what to say" Jordan laughed.
"I think it looks good" Lily smiled encouragingly. "I think he just needed to know you're serious"
"Well I think he got that message loud and clear, now he just has to decide what to do about it" Jordan shrugged.
