Chapter 72

"Yes, but I still don't see any danger in that fact," Woody explained.

"Alright, I guess," Jordan sighed. "Just as long as the two of them are careful like you promised.

Even though Riley had been sleeping through the night for several weeks now, Woody still checked in on him as he got ready to leave the house to meet Mac before the sun was up. He arrived at the cemetery to find that Mac had brought coffee in those Styrofoam cups along with the donuts. Because the coffee he had brought in the thermoses would stay hot longer, they drank what she had brought first.

The two of them chatted and caught up on the news in their lives while they waited. When Woody was running out of things to tell her, he laughingly told the story about Clara Rose predicting that he and Jordan would have a daughter soon!

Mac grinned at him and after congratulating him, told of her own run in with a physic, then added how what he'd seen had come true and that she'd had a couple of visions of her own.

Woody shook his head telling her how whacky Clara was, but that she had given useful information to the police on several occasions. That was when he told Mac about the 'clematis was not what it seems' reference.

"Oh gosh, I loved the show Twin Peeks! That is where that line comes from…'the owls are not what they seem'!" Mac told him with a giggle.

"I think Clara mentioned Twin Peeks as well," Woody sighed.

"Really?! I think I'd like to meet this whacky lady!"

"Commander Rabb and Admiral Chegwidden both did while they were in town. I believe she even kissed the Commander. Didn't they mention that when they got back to Falls Church?"

"They did not," Mac grumped. I will get on them about that when I get home," she sighed.

With a smile, Woody smiled, "Do you have the time? I couldn't find my watch in the dark and didn't want to turn on the light and wake Jordan to find it."

Without looking away from him, she replied, "10:31."

"How in the world do you know that without looking?!"

"I don't know, it's just something I've always been able to do. Why do you ask?"

"I was trying to figure out when he might show up. Wasn't his mother shot about this time of day?"

Mac mentally went over the report and then answered, "Yes, it was 10:43am."

"I was just thinking that if he was wanting to remember her at the time of her death…"

"Woody, someone's coming," Mac interrupted told him.

Turning to look in the direction she had indicated, he did see a tall man approaching with a bouquet of flowers in his hands. Woody recognized them from the ones the Petunia had ham purchase for Magnolia's birthday and put on her grave. He was just about to remind Mac of that when she gasped.

"My GOD!" she exclaimed.

"What?!"

"Look at his face Woody!" she demanded.

"My god!" he paused a moment and then the two of them said in unison, "It's Palmer!"

To be continued…