Heavy

Chapter 5

              The first day Isobel sleep all the time, just waking up to take a shower and go downstairs. It was the moment when Jubal comes up with something to eat. He was wearing a mask and she do the same while opening.

"Hey, you don't have to."

"Hey, you need someone to take care of you. And I'm sure you don't have the force to cook. Am I right ? " he jokes.

" Yeah true. I sleep all day, I'm up for about twenty minutes and I'm already tired." she confesses. 

" Eat that, and go back to sleep. You need to rest, you have also something to eat tomorrow at lunch. And I will be back after work." 

"Jubal..." 

"It makes me happy and reassures me to watch over you. The Owen story makes me realise that... that..." 

"Jubal it's not your fault, I shouldn't have make that press conference, I was lucky that you were there. I'm sorry but..."

"Yeah yeah you should be back on your bed. Goodnight Izzy, call me if you need anything, I mean anything." 

Isobel smiles at him before laying again on her bed. The next morning, she decided to start her research, she takes her computer in the bed with a tea. She connects to her FBI account, she has really nothing to start, but maybe she will found a picture of that girl in a missing report. So Isobel typed Rose on her keyboard, and the advanced search already offered her several names before she even finished her entry. One name, one only family name caught her eye: Valentine. Rose Valentine. Isobel was shock, it's can't be.... It's just a coincidence. She unrolled the file, and the photo of a pretty little girl appeared, a fine face with light skin, beautiful laughing and sparkling eyes, a small fine nose, all framed by long black hair falling in cascades, Isobel would dwell on this later, wanting to convince herself that it was just a coincidence. The SAC went straight to the "parents" category and looked at the father's name: Jubal Valentine. The brunette gasped. The girl was Jubal's daughter. So that explained her familiar look when Isobel saw her as a ghost. She read the file, how she disappeared, how, the means engaged the little track and how the investigation fell into oblivion. That Jubal was crazy, bitching at them, finding leads...

"How they can't have had a suspect..."

There was a knock on her door, Isobel look at the clock, it must be Jubal, right on time to ask him the true. 

" Hey ! Hope I didn't wake you up ! I take French food that okay ? "

"Yeah"

"How are you feeling ? Bit better ?" Jubal asks without realizing that Isobel was examining him. 

She would never have guessed that he was hiding such a big secret. It must have been terrible for him, especially knowing that he leads the best team in the FBI.

"It's a bit better, but I'm still tired really quickly, but I have someone who take care of me, he brings me food, vitamins, juice he made..."

" Oh that a good man, maybe I should be jealous" Jubal jokes " Can I come in and eat with you ? If we sat in a big distance with the windows open..." 

"I'm not sure.... "

"Outside, in your garden... You need company"

"Okay fine, you win."

"You can resist me, I'm the best" Jubal said. 

They sat outside and eat in a comfort silence. Isobel can't stop thinking about Rose, her face, her scream and what she said during the night... The SAC try to imagine what Jubal endured when she's been missing.

"Can I ask you something ?" Isobel start.

" Of course"

" Tell me about Rose."

Jubal freeze immediately upon hearing his daughter's name. How could she know? After a few seconds, he inhaled again trying to drive the tears from his eyes, and the lump forming in the back of his throat.

" Wh-where did you hear that name ?"