Chapter 3
The next morning, everybody was there, talking, making paperwork's… Isobel enter shyly, looking at her shoes, she can't watch anyone, not like this… She feels so humiliate… The room went silent. Jubal raised his head and was shock also… Her face… a mix of blue, purple black...one side was darker than the other. Her left hand was bandaged in a meager makeshift cloth.
— Good morning everyone, she said with a little voice and go straight to her office. Avoiding all eyes contacts.
Jubal looks at Maggie, Oa and the two others shook. They have no word.
— We… we saw the same thing…
— Yeah, she's been beat up. Scola said
— I'm going to see her. Maggie can you go take the first aid kit please. I think she didn't really care about a wound.
Isobel was looking at her windows, lost on her thoughts. She didn't hear Jubal come in. She wants to cry so much because of last night, it was so brutal.
— Hey, Isobel what happen?
— It's okay, don't worry. I just fell.
— Isobel, sweetheart. I know you don't have that by fallen in the stairs. You're pretty face… someone hit you.
He gently took her right hand, make her turn to him. And with one finger lifted her chin looking into her beautiful eyes that seemed black by the play of light. She's so beautiful.
— Who did this to you? Let me help you, please Sweetheart.
— It was just an accident. Please Jubal drops this…
Her voice broke, she wants to tell him everything but at the same time she's too afraid. And hearing him call her like that while the other insulted her…
— It's an accident like the bruises on your back? I saw them the other day in the locker room. Maggie said.
She was there, her eyes full of concern. The marks on Isobel were more terrible from closer. Isobel went silence and sit on her chair. Maggie takes what she needs to clean and heal the cuts on Isobel' face. Jubal took care of properly bandaging the injured hand as gently as possible.
— Thanks you both.
— Isobel, you still don't want to tell us who did this to you? We are going to punish the person.
— I'm…I'm scared Maggie…
And she just broke on violent sobs, Jubal rubbed her back. Maggie was lost, Isobel is a strong woman, powerful one, and someone scares her.
— Jubal… can you… can you take care of the JOC today? I… I don't want go in front of everyone like this. What kind of chief I am.
— A really good one. You are powerful, smart, with a big heart, Maggie said.
A beautiful smile cross Isobel face.
— thank you.
— We cover you, okay.
— And we are here if you need. I have a spare room if you needs.
— Thanks you both again.
Jubal tries to reassure everybody on the JOC, but they are smart and know a bad thing happen to Isobel. Jubal keeps Isobel in the loop about the case, like that she don't have to come on the JOC; she have put some make-up to cover the bruises.
At night, Jubal can't stay at his home knowing that Isobel suffers. He really wants to help her, speaks with her, and maybe she will be more comfortable to talk to him like they will not be at the office. A lot of scenarios go on his head during the road, what happen? Who did this…? What he's going to tell her…? He was on the corridor of her building when he heard her screaming, begging someone to stop. Jubal sends a message to Maggie, and broke the door his weapon on his hand.
— Get away from her! FBI.
— Oh looks who is.
Isobel was on the floor, surrounding by library debris bleeding. Her lips were cuts, she holds her ribs.
— FBI! Hands where I can see them! Maggie screams gun up.
Oa was there too.
— Maggie you got him? Jubal asks
— Yeah.
Jubal runs to Isobel and help up get up. She broke on his arms, all her sadness, her pain… Oa takes Ethan to his car a little hardest. And ambulance arrives, and the paramedics run to Isobel.
— He will never hit you again, I promise.
— He… He was threatening the team. Saying that he will destroy everybody if I tell someone what he did to me… And even if he… he… rap…he … me I was scare to destroy everyone life.
Isobel explains between two sobs. Jubal turned pale when he heard that the man had done the unthinkable to her. He did that to her… He's going to pay.
— It's okay, for now you relax, the paramedics will take you to the hospital. We going to fix all, and protect you. He will go to prison.
— I don't want to… to loose… my job…
— We need to go at the hospital, a lung collapse. She needs surgery right now!
— Go! Go now! She must not die! She's a FBI agent!
— We know who she is.
— Maggie goes with her. I will join Oa.
— Jubal…
— Go and keep me post! That an order Maggie not a request.
Maggie didn't say anything and just got into the ambulance. Isobel reached out to her agent, she's scare, and feel so alone. Maggie was crying, but grabs a hand and squeezes it.
— I'm here, you're safe. I'm not leaving you, never. You are a role model for me Isobel.
— I…I'm… sca…
Isobel struggled to find her breath. The paramedics try to ventilate her but it didn't help.
— I need to sedate her, like that I will able to intubate her to help her lungs.
