After the groceries incident both Nigel and Jordan tried to avoid each other whenever they could, which wasn't very easy. Even more than before it seemed they were always working together.
"Hey Nige, you got anything for me?" she said trying not to look him directly in the eye.
"Hello there," he said in turn trying to sound indifferent. "Uh yeah the bullet definitely matches. Looks like we got our guy, you wanna let the PD know?"
"Yeah about that…you mind doing that for me? I'm swamped…you know paperwork…" she managed to sort smile hoping that she sounded somewhat believable but Nigel already knew.
"So you two are still fighting?"
The direct question caught her off guard, "who me? Yeah…no…honestly I don't know. It's just really bad right now, you know?"
"Actually I don't know. You haven't really talked to me in a while now, you know. I'm still your friend and I'm here for you."
"Thanks Nige I do know that, well what do you say we grab a bite to eat then after work?"
He felt relieved, she wasn't running from him, "sounds great," he said with one of his big smiles, "let me give the bullet information to the PD and we'll be on our way I was done anyways so we can swing by there on the way if that's ok."
Gulp…yea actually it's ok, never too late to face your demons huh?" he gave her a look but decided to leave it at that knowing full well whom she was referring to.
Down at the PD…
Woody had immersed himself in paperwork; it was an easy way for him to shut out life. He couldn't block out his thoughts however and while it seemed he was doing paperwork, he was actually deep in thought. God I hate what she is doing to me! Where does she get off! He didn't seem to realize that Nigel was standing by his desk with the results, "Detective?" Woody startled, "here are the results, they match."
He quickly recovered, "thanks Nigel", and sounded more angry than grateful. He knew that the morgue crew wanted nothing to do with him anymore, something that wasn't too hard on his part either. They all reminded him too much of Jordan in one way or another. Nigel was still standing by his desk, "did you need anything else?" He took the hint and got ready to leave, "uh no detective that'll be all, gotta run anyways."
"Oh yea where you off to in such a hurry?" he wasn't sure why he was making small talk all of a sudden.
"Oh nowhere special just meeting Jordan for dinner, well see you around then," he turned around to leave when Woody stopped him. "Oh you guys are all going out to dinner?" he asked hesitant if he really wanted to hear the answer.
"All? Uh no it'll be just Jordan and myself, it's so much more intimate you know." That was all it took for Woody to feel even worse than he was already feeling just moments before. He didn't even return Nigel's goodbye and after a couple of seconds of staring into thin air he went back to work, this time actually working on the papers in front of him.
At some random restaurant downtown…
They had decided to eat at a place neither of them had been before. He had told her it would be good to try new things and she had agreed hesitantly. The place they ended up in was supposed to be the hottest new restaurant in town. When they were waiting to get in Nigel tried to set the mood for the night, or at least one of them. "So Jordan, this will be fun eh? Wait…sorry maybe I need to explain, see fun is when people like ourselves for instance…" Before he could finish she punched him in the arm, softly. "Nige I have you know fun is my middle name." He smiled, "ah since when dear?"
"Well, right now I suppose. Ok let's go in they're calling our number." They were seated and not long after that their waitress showed up to take their order. The waitress was a petite brunette with big green eyes. "Hi! My name Rachel and I'll be your waitress for tonight," she said with the biggest smile either of them had seen. "Are you guys ready to order?"
They nodded in agreement and gave her their orders. "Good pick guys! Well I'll be back with your drinks, in the meantime you guys should check out the dance floor, they're playing all the great love songs tonight. You know that's the them for tonight love."
After she left the two of them just sat there for a moment, they were trying to digest Rachel upbeat attitude and the whole love-theme as well, which was in itself a welcome surprise. Nigel suddenly felt confident and was even contemplating a possible move tonight. The setting on the other hand happily surprised Jordan but afraid of being rejected so she decided early on to play it cool for now. Afraid of losing the moment Nigel spoke first, "so funny about the whole theme thing huh? Yea…love songs, I do enjoy a good love song every now and then."
Jordan seemed surprised by this, "you do?"
"Yea why not? I can appreciate all kinds of good music, even love songs."
"Oh Nige I didn't mean it to sound bad, I mean you just don't strike me as the type that would you know be into love songs."
"Oh well that's too bad then, because I'm hearing one of my favorites just now. If you hadn't hurt my feelings just now I might have even asked you to dance," he had a sheepish smile on his face.
She smiled back and extended her hand, "well I suppose then that I will have to ask you to dance then."
Nigel willingly accepted and they set off to the dance floor. Nigel proved to be an excellent dancer; she almost couldn't keep up with him. "Gee Nige where did you learn to dance like this?"
"Luv…just something I picked up along the way."
"Wow I would have never guessed you would be such an amazing dancer."
"Baby stick around there are a million and one things you don't know about me, stick around," he said right before he dipped her. They held steady for a moment before he pulled her back up. She felt breathless and slowly moved even closer to him than before until you couldn't tell where one body started and the other finished. She moved her face just inches away from his face and let her lips briefly touch his. "Oh I think I will Nige", she said before she finally kissed him gently but with passion.
A/N: Well there you have it that is all lol. I hope you liked it, I tried real hard to write this NJ fic and even though I'm still JW, I am happy with this story so I hope that shows.