THIS TAKES PLACE AFTER JORDAN, GARRET, WOODY AND VERONICA ESCAPE FROM THE PLACE WHERE JORDAN AND VERONICA WERE BEING HELD CAPTIVE

ok this is gonna start off a litle confusing but just a heads up...I skipped the escape...EVERYBODY IS BACK SAFE AND SOUND...but fret not the drama is not a shortage.

"Why do we keep doing this to eachother Woody!" Jordan yelled across her office, red-faced at the man infront of her.

"We Jordan?" Woody asked back, putting emphasis on the word 'we'. "We! You were the one who kept rejecting me! Four years of my life I wasted on trying to get you! Four years I spent trying to get you to admit what we both knew you felt! But no! You're so afraid of getting hurt that instead you hurt me! I'm not doing this anymore Jordan! I can't. You've broken me to many times! No more," The last two words were a whisper. Faint but audiable. He was breaking her. Piece by piece her tore out chunks of her heart and stomped on them.

'Not like I don't deserve it," Jordan thought to herself. For once in her life, she couldn't think of anything to say back to him. Normally, she would have just started yelling, her mouth moving and saying words that she didn't give her brain time to register. But not now. If she wanted to stay in his life, even just to see him, she needed to shut her mouth now before she did any more damage. So she did.

"You're right," she said in a whisper.

"What?" Woody asked, believing his ears were decieving him.

"You're right. All the problems we have are because of me. I don't blame you for wanting me out of your life. In fact, I think it's best that you go," The last words weren't what she really wanted. What she wanted was for him to tell her that she was wrong, that none of their problems were her fault. To wrap his strong arms around her and hold her close. But she was afraid that if he stayed and talked to her, that the tears that were threatening to come spilling out were finally going to make their way to the surface. And the only thing worse then losing Woody would be showing him that he was her weakness, that he got to her.

"What?" Woody asked.

"I think it's best if you leave," Jordan said again, masking the fear in her voice with forwardness.

Woody didn't say anything but shook his head in disapointment, then stalked out of the room, not bothering to look back at Jordan. And for the first time, she actually let go of her emotions. Hot tears spilled over her eyes and ran down her cheeks. She braced her back against the wall to stop her body from raking with sobs. She tilted her head backwards, trying her best to stop the sobs, but the attepmt was futile. She slid down the wall until she was sitting, pulling her knees up to her chest and wrapping her arms around them protectivly, now sobbing into her knees. There was no point in trying to stop crying now, she might as well get it out of her system and be done with it. She was so absorbed in her emotions that she didn't hear the door open. Woody poked his head inside back, feeling bad about how he had left things and looked around the room. Innitially he didn't see her.

"Jordan?" he asked, still looking around the room and finally spotting her on the floor. His heart broke at the sight of her. He closed the door behind him as he walked into the office and walked over to her, crouching beside her fraile body.

"Jordan? Jordan what's wrong?" It wasn't the same tone he usually took with her. It was the tone of someone who cared, the old Woody, someone who wanted more than anything to take away her pain.

"Jordan? Please. Just tell me whats wrong," It wasn't a demand, it was a plea. His voice cracked as he talked to her despite his best efforts.

"I'm sorry Woody. I'm so sorry. All of this is my fault. If I hand't been so stupid, so stubborn, then maybe we could have had a chance. And I don't blame you for pushing me away. I really don't," Jordan said through her tears.

Woody was speechless. But his brain seemed to register the fact that Jordan needed him for the first time. She needed him to be her rock, to be the one thing that she could depend on. And he wasn't going to turn her down.

"Jordan this isn't your fault. We're both at fault for our relationship. Or lack-there-of." Wody said, moving to sit beside her. "I can promise you this, we are both to stubborn for our own good. Neither one of us are willing to admit when we're wrong. But the fact that you've taken this huge step in admiting your faults, means a lot to me. And to tell you the truth, I was just mad at your timing. I was happy that you told me what I wanted to hear, but I was afraid that you were gonna hurt me. And I'm more sorry then you will ever know about puching you away, but I done now. I wanna be in your life. That is if you'll have me. And I'm not gonna blame you if you dont. I've been a total ass to you and I deserve any kind of revenge you seek on me," Woody said, hardly stopping to take a breath.

Jordan finally looked up from her lap and stared into Woodys blue eyes which were warm and enviting again, like they were before he had been shot. Jordan knew what she wanted to say, that she loved him and she wanted nothing more than to be in his life, but the words seemed to get lost somewhere between her brain and her mouth. So she nodded. Woody smiled. He placed his arm around her shoulders, allowing Jordan to rest her head on his shoulder.

"I promise, you and I are gonna make it through this. No matter how hard it is. You have my word," Woody said, sincerly meaning that he wanted his relationship with Jordan to work.

Jordan looked up from his shoulder and into his eyes. He waited for her to do something. She hesitated, then made up her mind. She placed her hand on the side of his face, her fingers resting gently o his cheek then moved her face in, meeting her lips with his. It started off gentle, then became more passionate. When she pulled apart, she said, " I want this to work too,"

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