In a way, Garret had been waiting for him to come.
He didn't think it would be so quickly, or so intensly, but he'd known he would come.
"Where the hell is she?" He heard him thundering down the hall towards his office. He jumped up and met him in the hallway.
"Woody?" Hoyt was shaking, his always perfectly tossuled hair was now just messy. The red rimsof his eyes did nothing to hide the fear in them.
"Where is she Dr. M?" He shot Macy a pained look. He stood his ground. "If you won't tell me Nigel will. Nige! I swear to God I will rip this place appart until someone tells me something! They're on there way Dr. M. Tell me now so I can help her."
"Woody calm down!" Lu Simmons jogged down the hallway stopping only when Hoyt's hand came up gesturing that she should.
"I told you to wait in the car." He said coldly. "What is it with me and girls who won't wait in the damn-? Garret please tell me where she is. I need to know she's all right."
"I'm sure she's fine. It's Jordan she runs. It's what she does." Macy was trying to be flippant, but Woody's panic was tangble, it made the air thicker. The younger man was shaking his head adamently.
"No. Not anymore. She wouldn't run.. she promised no more running." He pushed his hand through his hair and paced in short strides up and down the hallway.
"Woody let me take you home." Simmons tried again, reaching out and touching his arm. He learched away ignoring her very presence.
"She would have come to me. She always comes to me." He looked back at Macy. "Why didn't she just come to me?"
Macy looked a Simmons before looking back at Woody's questioning face.
"Oh God." Hoyt had followed his eyes to the blonde, understanding the gesture. "What did I do?" He asked breathlessly. "I ruined everything, didn't I? She doesn't trust me any-. She thinks I think she-." He closed his eyes. "I screwed it up. I never even told her."
"Told her what Woody?" Garret asked firmly.
"She said it. Did you know that?" He looked at Macy. "She said the words. I never.. I didn't say it.." Macy watched Woody's eyes press together tightly. "She doesn't know. She thinks I-." He shot another glance at Tallulah before looking at the floor. "What the hell did I do?"
"Woody wait for me in my office." Garret said softly. Woody looked at him, shaking his head.
"I have to find her. I have to make this right." He whispered. Macy took him by the shoulders firmly looking into the detectives eyes. "I have to tell her."
"Wait in my office." He ordered. "We'll get this figured out."
"I never told her Garret." Hoyt whispered the words like he was being haunted by them. Maybe he was Garret decided.
"Woody." He turned back around to Lu and back to Woody. "Wait for me in my office."
Hoyt nodded and walked down the hall. Macy looked at Simmons.
"I'll take care of him. I'll calm him down and we'll figure something out."
Her POV
Garret was telling Simmons something as Woody wandered into Macy's office. He was wiping his hand over his damp eyes when he dropped into the CME's chair. He leaned forward, holding his face in his hands. He didn't look up or turn on the light.
She tried to stay queit, resisting the urdge to go to him.
He didn't see her. He didn't know she was there until she took a staggared breath and his eyes shot to the corner where she stood.
"Jordan." It slipped so quietly out of his mouth she wasn't sure he'd actually spoke the word out loud. She pressed her finger against her lips. They froze listening to Garret talk to Simmons in the hallway.
His eyes burned into hers. She pressed her trembling lips together and made an invoulentary move towards her before grabbing the arms of the chair and looking towards the hall.
The voices were getting further and further away, until one set of shoes could be heard coming back down the hall. Macy stopped at the door, with out looking inside he pulled it closed and locked it.
Jordan pushed herself forward onto his lap. He wrapped one arm around her waist and weaved the other hand back through her hair. Pulling her lips to his and kissing her. She melted against him when he pulled his mouth away from hers.
He pressed her shaking body into his until her tears were soaking his shoulder. He pulled her closer, muffling her sobs with his body. Stroking his hand from the top of her curls to the small of her back while she cried. He kept his eyes pinched closed, she wondered if he was mad or afraid she'd vanish.
"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry." He whispered to her. She pressed her palm under his chin running her thumb across his lip to silence him. He moved his arms underneath her and lifted her body to his carrying her to the couch. She let him move her body around his until she was half on top of him and half tucked into the space between him and the sofa back. He pressed her head to his chest until she could hear the frantic beat of his heart. "I was so scared, Jordan. Why did you run?"
"I panicked." She murmered.
"Why didn't you wait for me?"
"Simmons said-."
"She said what?"
"Nothing, it's not important. I know now." She ran her hand across his chest.
"I never said it, Jordan."
She looked up at him with her tear filled eyes.
"I love you Jordan. You know that right?" He pleaded.
"Still?" She breathed.
"Always." He promised leaning his lips down to meet hers. "Always, Sweetheart."
"I love you." She whispered to him. "And I do trust you Woody. I do."
"Why didn't you come to me?" He asked sounding defeated.
"I didn't know what to.. I didn't want to.. Simmons said I'd ruin your career and she's right." She choaked out.
"Jordan.." He moved his hands through her hair. "We'll get through this. We always do."
"Woody."
"It always comes back to us. I always come back to us." She nodded into his chest, burrowing deeper into his arms. "I will always come back to you."
"I have to get out of Boston." She murmered.
"We have to get out of Boston. I'm not letting you go again." He told her.
"I'm not taking you down with me." She looked back up at him shaking her head.
"I'm choosing to go down with you Jordan. It's the only way to make sure you get back up." He smiled at her. "We're a team. You and me, remember?."
She nodded at him.
A team. They watched each others back. They held each other tighter. They were all the other had in this world.