(Garrett)

"Hey Garrett, did you ever get a hold of Woody?" Jordan asked as soon as I walked off the elevator. I think I kept the panic from showing, had we blown it already?

"Get a hold of him, what do you mean?" I asked

"You know, you called me wanting to know if I knew were he hangs out. I didn't mean to hang up on you, but I was trying to line up a tricky shot, and you almost made me miss." She said perfectly innocent.

"Oh yes, I found him, got what I needed. Um if you'll excuse me I have some paperwork to take care of." I saw Lily looking at us, I could tell she was still pissed, I know she's going to follow me, it's only a matter of is Jordan going to follow or not.

"I see nothing has changed, you know Garrett, I was hoping that if I smacked some verbal sense…" that was as far as Lily got, she followed me in to my office, and Jordan had gone off to do her own thing.

"Lily, shut up, I need your help and you can't tell anyone here, or it will get back to Jordan." She sat down in the chair and waited for me to continue. "I was all set to go find Woody last night when I got a call from a Dr Harold Davis, he was looking for Woody, Woody has Jordan and I listed as his next of kin…"

"Oh god is Woody hurt, what happened?" she burst out.

"No, he is not hurt, Lily I need your help Woody is going to need our support and he does not want Jordan to know. He has cancer… a brain tumor; I was just with him at his doctor's office and then talking to his captain. Woody was very adamant that Jordan not know, I need to know why, I can't figure out why, he needs all the support he can get, and we all know when Jordan takes on a cause she invests her whole being in to it." I need to know why he's acting this way before we can help him, support him.

"You just said it, Garrett, we both know that Woody loves Jordan deeply, in his eyes he sees that if he does not let her get to close then if he dies she will not suffer, you said yourself, she invests her whole being in to a cause, well Woody's thinking that she does not take up his 'cause' then she will not suffer, but I know she loves him to, she can try to hide it, but its there, she showed it just now by asking if you had found Woody, her heart is saying one thing, but her brain is doing another. Unfortunately this is about Woody, we have to honor his wishes, and not tell Jordan, and I've seen how good Nigel and Bug are at keeping things from Jordan so we can't tell them either, so it's just us for now."

"So you're saying that Woody is pushing Jordan away because he believes that if you love something or someone enough to let them go… you should?"

"Yes Garrett that about sums up what I believe Woody is doing." She said I could see the sadness in her eyes.

"Damn you, you poor noble fool." I whispered, I know I should not speak bad, I do understand, but he has suffered so much, I can see in his eyes that he has had a rough life, I know that Jordan would be there for him if he would just let her in, and I know he would be good for her, if she would let him in.