Baby please don't cry

Chapter 1: Angst ending

A\N: My first Bull Jason/Izzy story in 2024. This one doesn't have a Happily Ever After ending between them. This is a sad, dramatic one (two?) shot story. This will have swearing and mentions and memories of a miscarriage. I will be taking a hiatus from publishing new stories as I will be editing all my published stories. Even though I will not be publishing anything new until I've edited all my published stories, I'll still be writing new stuff, just not publishing it yet.

Enjoy, Angels.

Jason Bull, looks at the woman sitting at the conference table, trying to reign in his anger that is showing on his face. He feels Danny and Marissa putting their hands on his shoulders.

"Can you please repeat that?" He asks, his voice hard. The woman swallows, her eyes filling with tears.

"I want my daughter back, Dr Bull." The woman says. The Trial Consultant scoffs as he stands up abruptly, Danny and Marissa's hands drop from his shoulders. He takes a deep breath as an image of an ultrasound photo flashes to the forefront of his mind and the image of him holding a crying woman with dark hair in his arms, with two rings on her finger.

He lost a child before he had a chance to meet them. Now this woman, who left her newborn in a dark alley, wants her child back?! No way.

He walks to the door and puts his hand on the handle before he looks over his shoulder. "We're not going to help you get your daughter back, Miss Lowe, because quite  frankly you don't deserve her back, not after what you did to her." He snaps before he leaves the conference room. He can hear Benny calling his name but he doesn't look back as he walks to the elevator. He can't be in the same building as that woman. He has to get out of here and he knows exactly where to go to calm down. 

Benny Colon watches as his ex-brother-in-law walks away from the conference room. He follows his friend as he walks to the elevator. "Bull!" He calls, hoping that his friend and boss will listen and turn around, but he doesn't and carries on walking away. After the elevator doors have closed on his boss, the lawyer walks back to the conference room where Danny, Marissa, Cable and Chunk are waiting for him outside.

"He okay?" Chunk asks as he frowns. Benny shakes his head at his co-workers. They all know how Bull is around child-cases after he and his wife lost their baby who ultimately broke up their loving marriage. "No, he's not and this woman asking him to help get the first thing he lost has just put his defences up higher than his usual wall." Benny says to the four of them.

"So what can we do? Bull needs us." Cable speaks up. Benny nods as a sigh escapes his lips. "I know he needs us but he'll never talk to us about it," the lawyer trails off as an idea hits him. "but I know who he will talk to." With that, Benny pulls out of his phone and scrolls through his contacts until he comes across the one he needs. He presses the number and puts the phone to his ear, hearing it ring twice before a voice in his ear. 

"Sis, we have a problem." He says.

Isabella Colon picks up her phone when she hears it ringing beside her. She puts her pen down and her eyebrows furrow when she sees her younger brother's name on her screen. She's not spoken to Benny properly since her and her ex-husband divorced so if he's calling her in the middle of the day, either him or Jason, her ex-husband, aren't okay. She accepts the call but her brother is speaking before she can greet him.

"Sis, we have a problem." Benny says.

"What's going on, Benny?" She asks, her brother's tone is full of concern.

"It's Bull." Benny tells her. Izzy closes her eyes as they drift toward the photo of the two of them she has on her desk, it's a photo of them locked in an embrace.