Woody got back to his office to find Lu waiting for him.
"Hey" he greeted her with a small smile.
"Woody, what's going on?" She asked seriously.
"Well I just got back from a scene" he started to explain.
"Not with work, with you" she said annoyed at his attempt to side step the issue.
"What do you mean?" he asked, trying to feign innocence.
"I know what's going on with Jordan, that she's trying to get you back; did you honestly think I wouldn't find out? Police departments might as well be high schools as much gossip comes through this place" she said angrily.
"I'm sorry, I didn't want to tell you because I didn't want to upset you" Woody tried to explain half heartedly.
"No, you didn't want to tell me because you haven't decided what you're going to do, if you were sure you were going to stay with me you would have told me right off the bat and said don't worry honey, you have nothing to worry about" she told him.
Woody frowned in response "I'm sorry Lu, I didn't know this was going to happen" he said softly.
"But you hoped it would" she said back, determined to get to the truth.
Again, Woody frowned and looked away.
"I see, well I'm going to make this really easy for you, my old job in Virginia wants me back and the only thing holding me back was us but it seems there is no us so that's it" she said getting up and leaving his office with a slam of the door.
Woody put his face in his hands and exhaled deeply. Then he caught sight of a picture of him and Jordan out of the corner of his eye, the picture was of the two of them dancing that Lily had taken without them realizing it, they were holding each other close and not paying any attention whatsoever to anything except each other. He picked up the picture and stared at it then looked around his office and realized there weren't any pictures of him and Lu even though Lu had been his girlfriend and Jordan had not. Even though anyone looking at the picture of him and Jordan would have certainly thought they were a couple.
Woody went over to the morgue to find Jordan. He saw Lily in the hallway. "Woody" she called out to him.
"Hey Lily, Is Jordan around?" he asked.
"No, she decided to take a personal day" Lily told him.
Woody nodded and left.
"Bye" Lily said, but he was already gone.
Woody drove to Jordan's apartment; he knocked and got no answer. "Jordan?" he called out, in case she just wasn't answering the door. He suddenly remembered all the times he had been in Jordan's apartment, watching movies, making dinner, putting her to bed when she'd had too much to drink after a night out at her dad's bar, goodnight hugs and kisses on the cheek, attempts to give goodnight kisses on the lips, four years of memories between the two of them.
He figured maybe she'd gone for a run; she usually did that to unwind so he went to their running spot. She wasn't there either but again he remembered all the runs they'd taken, all the private talks they'd shared while on their jogs, the time she'd twisted her ankle and he'd carried her in his arms all the way back to her car then driven her home and taken care of her despite her protests, the bitter conversation they'd had about her going on a blind date before he got shot.
Next he went to the bar that was formerly the Pogue, figuring maybe she'd gone to get a drink but she wasn't there either. Even though the bar wasn't her dad's anymore and looked different, it was still the same to him, he could still picture all the times he's been there with Jordan and the gang, all the celebrations, all the crappy days after a bad day at work, and all the dances. He closed his eyes and swore he could feel her arms around him even then.
He decided to go back to her apartment and wait for her. She still wasn't back when he got there so he sat out in the hall to wait; he still had a key but didn't feel right about using it.
She got home a while later, he had his eyes closed, his head leaned back against the wall.
She smiled at the sight of him, she gently leaned down and touched his shoulder gently "Hey" she greeted him.
He quickly opened his eyes and grinned at her, "Hey, where have you been? I've been looking for you all day" he told her.
"Sorry, I took the day off so I've been running errands, getting stuff done I usually don't have time for, did you need something on a case?" she asked, opening her door.
"No, I needed to talk to you" he said seriously.
Jordan felt her stomach do a somersault, nervously wondering what he needed to talk to her about. "Oh?" she asked nervously, entering her apartment and nodding for him to come in too.
"Yeah I looked for you all over, I went to the morgue, and came here, and went to the bar, and everywhere I went I saw us, talking, laughing, dancing, fighting, crying" he told her.
She stared at him, unsure of where he was going with this "Yeah, I guess we've been through a lot" she said.
He grinned "That's an understatement if I ever heard one"
"So did you decide?" She asked, cutting to the chase, her nervousness reaching a breaking point, she had to know one way or the other.
He grinned, and crossed the room to her CD player and turned it on, then slowly made his way back over to her and held out his hand.
"Woody" she said.
He put his fingers over her lips to silence her and wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her close into his arms. She sighed and wrapped her arms around his shoulders, holding him tight and pressing his face into his neck.
"Lu and I broke up, she knew what was going on with us and she said I didn't tell her because I wasn't sure of what I was going to do, she said if I were going to choose her, I would have told her because she wouldn't have had anything to worry about but of course I couldn't do that, so she went back to Virginia to her old job" he told her. She smiled happily against his shoulder.
"I can tell you're smiling" he grinned, his head against hers. She laughed out loud at that.
"As soon as she left I noticed that picture of us dancing that Lily took and I realized that I didn't have any pictures of me and Lu even though we were actually a couple and you and I never were, but anyone who saw that picture would think we were a couple, the way we were holding each other so tight, not even noticing someone taking a picture" he said, pulling back to look at her.
"I'm in love with you Jordan Cavanaugh, and we have to be together" he grinned happily.
She laughed, teary eyed "Oh thank god" she said and pulled his face down to hers and kissed him deeply.
