Chapter 9

Un(Revealed)

"Any progress in the investigation?" Ales asked the detective. He had come to their house after Alex called him to inform that he had talked to his daughter. He was sitting in the rolling chair in front of the couch where Jo and Alex were sitting, taking notes on his notepad and it was taking everything in Jo for her not to snap at him because of the looks he was giving her.

"I am afraid not Mr. Karev. We are doing everything we can but we I am afraid we are reaching a dead end." He answered him.

"What do you mean by that?" Jo asked the detective feeling a wave of horror rush through her body and reaching for Alex' hand "You can be done with everything… it's too soon"

"The fingerprints we found on the plate were only your daughter's. There isn't any strange fingerprints in the objects we took from here, just yours and Camilla's mostly, we found partial fingerprints in some of them but they were so small and fading that we were unable to even test them." He said looking at both Alex and Jo with apologetic eyes.

"But you are not giving up, are you?" Alex ask fearing the detective's answer, "You cannot call it off" he said.

"I will not give up. Not until we find your daughter and we will find her" he assured them with a small smile. "We have been talking to the daycare workers. Speaking of which we have the testimony of the new girl that started working there yesterday, Mia Roberts, do you know her?"

"No." Jo said widening her eyes in surprise, "I mean… I don't think we do, do we?" she said turning her head to look at Alex for his confirmation.

"I met her yesterday. She is doing an internship at Camilla's class." Alex answered them.

"How come I didn't see her?" she asked raising her eyebrows in confusion "Was she there when-"

"According to Miss Roberts, you two did meet yesterday too," the detective told her with an accusing smile tugging at the corner of his lips "but we will go there in a minute. When did you received a call from your daughter?" he asked them leaving Jo with a confuse look on her face from his previous statement.

"A little after four…" he responded the detective, narrowing his eyes in confusion as Jo. They watched as the detecting continued to write in is notepad "Have you looked at the daycare's security tapes yet?" He asked after a little pause

"We had a little problem with the tapes from the daycare" Brilliant! That is just great. Alex thought, rubbing his face with his hands. Jo seemed to be stopped in time, looking in the detective's direction but not looking at him nor paying any attention to what he and Alex were saying to each other. She seemed lost in her thoughts. Alex squeezed her hand to bring her back to reality and it worked, she looked at him and gave him a tiny smile "But we will have the hospital ones by Monday morning." The detective said.

"Why? Why do you need those for?" Jo asked and Morgan gave her a 'because I know you are lying' look, which made Jo roll her eyes at him

"Just a standard procedure. We need to verify everything." He said and went back to write down on his little notepad "Where were you when the called was received?" he asked them. Alex looked at Jo before answering the detective's question.

"I was here at home…" he started "Alone."

"Okay. What about you Ms Wilson?"

"It's Karev too. Why do you insist on calling me by my single name!?"She asked him back "Never mind, forget I asked. I don't know where I was exactly at that time. I was just wandering around for most of the day." She said and the detective wrote it "Do you think it will be possible to trace the call?" she spoke up making the detective take his eyes from his hand and bring them to hers.

"It will be if, the call wasn't made with a prepaid cellphone. Most likely it will turn out that it was made by one." he said accusing Jo with his eyes once again.

"For God's sake!" Jo snapped at him "Why don't you just say what you want to say? The silent communication that you are giving me with your eyes is getting a little bit ridiculous." She said and crossed her arms over her chest.

"Okay let's restart then. Where were you when your daughter called you husband? Where were you 'wandering around'?"

Jo started to explain to detective where she had been through her day meticulously, at least she thought. She told him every detail she could remember adding stuff she hadn't told Alex about, they were both listening to her until she said something that took Alex by surprise.

"You told me Izzie was blonde" he said it more like a question

"No I didn't, I told you I found her I never said what color her hair was" She answered him.

"Yes you did Jo. You told me you gave the paper to a blonde woman who turned out to be my ex-wife!"

"I said I gave the paper to the blonde woman that used to be your wife, because I remembered you saying she was blonde but-"

"So is Isobel Stevens blonde or brunette?" the detective asked them but the question was for Jo since Alex hadn't seen her in years so he had no idea how she looked like.

"She used to be blonde, but her hair is as dark as mine now." She answered the detective.

"What did you do after you met her?"

"We talked about Camilla mostly and then she told me she had to go, gave me her card and left."

"Where is the card?" he asked her.

"It's in my purse." She said getting up to take her purse from the kitchen island and returned to the living room with it. She started to look for it, after a while her brows started frowning, and she throw all items that were in her purse on top of the center table. "It was right here, I swear!"

"No card then…" he wrote down on his notepad.

"When will you stop doubting everything I say?!" she yelled at him again.

"When you start be cooperative and tell the truth!" he told her. Alex eyes shift from Jo to detective Morgan and then he turned back to Jo. He was feeling confused and left out because of the confrontation that was going between his wife and the detective. What does he mean by saying the truth? What is he talking about? Before he could say that out loud Jo started to speak.

"What do you mean? I have been telling you the truth for the last twenty-four hours."

"When did you meet Mia Roberts?" The detective asked her

"I NEVER DID!" She yelled at him throwing her hand in the air. Alex considered stopping the detective from asking any more questions but something within in told him to wait and find out what the detective meant by telling Jo to tell the truth.

"We both know that is not true." He said rolling the chair closer to the center table that was separating them "We just want to understand why she says she met you, okay?" he said with a calmer voice. Jo put her elbows on her tights and placed her head inside of her hands "I know you have a reasonable motive for not telling me before…" they heard a sniff and a second later Jo was crying and sobbing, her shoulders were moving up and down and all her body was shaking. Alex tried to put his arms around her but Jo pulled away from his attempt.

"I just feel so guilty…" she said through a sob without looking up still hiding her face from them

"Why? It wasn't your fault." Alex said

"No, you don't understand. I… I lied." She said and finally took her hands from her face and looked at them, when she met Alex eyes she started to cry again, "I am so sorry Alex…" Alex shook his head unbelievingly, having the worst-case scenario going through his mind, it all came back, all the thoughts he had had earlier about his wife were coming back and this time he wasn't feeling guilty for having them it was only making him angry that Jo had lied to him about something related to their daughter missing.

"Okay, let's started again. From the beginning." Detective Morgan said "What happened after your shift ended at the hospital?"

"I… I left" she inhaled deeply and let go trying to calm herself "I left the hospital and went to the daycare."

"What are you saying?" Alex asked "Where is my daughter Jo?"

"No, no, no I did-"

"What have you done?" Alex asked, his voice trembling and his heart beat so hard that he thought it would break his ribs and come out of his chest "What have you done Jo" he asked again and his voice came out as a whisper.

"Okay, okay. I went there to pick her up but she was sleeping. I was going to bring her to the hospital and we were going to wait for you until your shift ended, but that girl, Mia, told me she was sleeping." She said looking at Alex "She told me she had been there for only an hour so she didn't know who Camilla was. I showed her my ID and… and she verified if I was allowed to pick her up because she didn't know me."

"Just tell me you have her Jo... Tell me that you took her somewhere and that she is safe… You meant what you said earlier, didn't you? When you told me you drove to the mysterious place where you are keeping her." He asked her putting his head on his hands, waiting for the answer he knew she was going to give him.

"Let me continue, please. After she did it we went to her classroom and she wasn't there, I thought you had picked her up and I was about to leave when I remembered that she normally takes her nap around three. So we went to where they put the kids to sleep and… and she was there lying in a bed peacefully asleep, I didn't want to wake her up to wait until you were done, so I told that girl that I'd be back later. I didn't even remembered asking her name…" she said in tears.

"Did you or did you not go back there?" the detective asked her

"I should have taken her to the hospital with me but I left her there. I went back to the hospital where I got stuck at I swear. I swear I didn't take her Alex, you have to believe me" she said trying to reach his hand which he pulled away making Jo's insides ache. "Alex…?"

"Well, you have been swearing a lot of things that aren't true lately." He said and got up leaving a crying Jo on the living room.