Heavy

Chapter 11

        Jubal in shock, went with Isobel in the ambulance. He can't proccess the fact that his daugter is still alive. All this years believing that she was dead. And now knowing that all this time she was being tortured... that he had completely abandoned it, and rebuilt his life... To think of the fact that when he was happy, having new children that he had spent the holidays happy, it was only pain, suffering and terror for her. That made him feel extremely bad and guilty. How could he come back to her after that? And he had to apologize to Isobel who had been right. And risked her life to prove it to him and save Rose.

"How Isobel?" Maggie asks him when they arrive to the hospital.

"The docs are with her, they said that she will be okay after some rest. She was lucky."

"That good, it's a bit more complicate for Rose. They took her to surgery. She has an internal bleeding. They don't know if she will survive, they don't understand how she managed to made all these years in this state. It looks like she's got lacerations on her tongue, and... I won't list it; it'll be in her file..." Oa said

Maggie put a hand on Jubal's back, showing her support. He texted Sam to tell her about Rose. Why he didn't know, but the need to share this information won him over, and she knew all about Jubal's first daughter. He then asked Elise to obtain permission for him to reopen the tomb, and have the body he believed to be his daughter analyzed again. How could they be wrong about DNA?!

"I will never be able to forgive myself..." he breathed, sitting down on a chair.

"You couldn't have known Jubal. She's back, that's the most important thing. She's going to have you to come back to her senses, to overcome her trauma."

"I can't Maggie. I can't do this." he declared as he left the hospital.

He wandered around the adjacent park trying to get his thoughts in order. Sam calls him, they talk a bit, she tries to comfort him but she feels bad also for the kid. Isobel wake up, and groan a bit. Maggie was by her side in a second.

"Hey, it's okay, you're safe. You're in the hospital." Maggie said.

"Rose?" Isobel ask the heart aches from having failed.

"She's in surgery, internal bleeding and others stuffs"

At the same time, the medics came down the hall with Rose's stretcher.

"Put her here" Isobel asked.

Maggie went down the hall to explain the situation, and Rose was put in the same room as Isobel. Jubal returned when Maggie had gone to the cafeteria. He wanted to see Isobel, to make sure she was okay. But the sight of his daughter scowled at him. Breaking this desire to see Isobel, the anger rising again, like milk on fire. He wasn't thinking clearly. He was about to turn back, but the SAC had seen him.

"Jubal. Stay."

He looked at her, taking a few small steps closer, glancing sideways in the direction of his daughter's unconscious form.

"Why did you do it?" began Jubal.

"How so? Do what?"

"Why didn't you leave Rose where she was? Why did you have to snoop?!"

"Wait, are you blaming me for exposing the truth?! For saving your daughter?" Isobel exclaimed, not coming back.

"I didn't ask you anything! For me she was dead and it was very good like that! But you ruined everything again!"

"Excuse me?"

"It was much better when Dana was in charge! We wouldn't have had all these problems with Vargas because she wouldn't have vendettas like you! Maggie wouldn't have been on the verge of death with the gas! Shit Rina wouldn't be dead! You did her death well! Rose is dead! You're pissing off Isobel!"

Jubal left the room angrily, letting an Isobel shock and in tears. Maggie came back, she has heard everything. She looked at Rose briefly before stroking Isobel's hair tenderly.

"Shhhhh.. It's okay Isobel, he's an idiot. You did well, Rose is alive and regaining her freedom, and a new life. And for my part, I don't blame you. It was our choice not to wait."

Maggie tried to comfort her, but the damage was done... Isobel cried until she fell asleep again. The next day at the JOC the agents were whispering among themselves, Maggie had told them about the situation, at least Oa, Scola, Tiffany and Elise, making them listen to the recording of the argument picked up by a nurse. Jubal entered the room, a new file in his hands.

"Hello, while Isobel is recovering, I'll make the connection with the director. We have an investigation."

"We have one more thing to settle before..." Oa began.

"What?" Jubal asked.

"That." declared the former soldier by sending his fist in the face of Jubal.

"It's about what you told Isobel."

"You have no right to speak to her in other names like that." added Tiffany.

"We appreciate Isobel, and her way of working" adds Scola.