Chapter 15

A.N.: Hello, first I would like to apologize for last chapter's first part being a bit confusing. For those who didn't understand it, it was a throwback to show that Camilla had been in contact and knew her kidnapper before she was taken away. And secondly I would like to say a big THANK YOU to all of you who have been giving me support through this story. Enjoy the chapter and don't forget to review. Thank you xoxo

"Jo?" Stephanie called out after Jo started getting up to leave the room "Jo, I'm so sorry..." Jo just ignored her and left "Alex, I tried. I really did," she said looking at Alex who was standing at the end of the bed; he just nodded and turned to leave too.

"Mr. Karev, may we have a word?" Alex heard the detective call his name and turned around.

"Yes, sure" he said.

"Excuse me Miss Edwards. Get well soon." The detective told Stephanie before they both left the room.

"What is it that you want to tell me?" Alex asked the detective irritated.

"Can we go somewhere more private?" Alex nodded to his question and they went to the boardroom. They found Owen Hunt there and asked him to give them some time in the room to talk which he did.

"Sit wherever you want" Alex said sitting down and Morgan sat in the chair in front of where Alex sat.

"How have you been?" He started

"As great as I have ever been and will ever be" Alex answered sarcastically, "Just cut all the crap and get straight to the point of this conversation."

"Fair enough." Morgan said in a low voice "Okay. Right now I want you to pretend that I'm not a detective, just think as me as a friend."

"Sure. Go ahead..." Alex said and sighed.

"I don't know if Izzie has told you already or not-"

"She has." He just answered without letting the detective finish what he was going to say.

"Well, what are we going to do about it?" he asked thinking that Alex and him were both at the same page "She has less than five months left and she'll start to get more and more exhausted soon..."

"What are you saying? What's wrong with Abby?" Alex asked worried opening his eyes wide in fearing for the worst.

"Nothing." Morgan assured him "Nothing is wrong with Abigail, she is fine."

"Then what are you talking about?"

"I guess Izzie didn't really tell you..." he whispered

"Tell me what?"

"Izzie, she has been diagnosed with... um... bowel cancer" the detective stated and Alex closed his eyes not believing this was happening again.

"She didn't tell me anything about that... She only told me the truth about Abby..."

"That's something else I want to talk to you about..."

"No, that's not going to happen. You are not going to raise her if Izzie is not around" Alex affirmed, "My name is on Abigail's birth certificate. She even has my last name. How could you not tell us this at the very first time we met?" Alex asked in disbelief "You have known I'm her father since day one."

"I know... I figured you wouldn't want to do that..."

"Why didn't you tell us?" Alex asked him

"I didn't want to believe it. I thought you being her father had a chance of not being true, but I mean how many Alexander Karevs could be out there?"

"So you have been lying for all this time? What else have you lied about?" he dared him "Do you happen to know where my Camilla is? Cause if you do I swear to God..."

"No, no, no, Mr. Karev." Morgan said shaking his head "I wouldn't do that to anyone. That's illegal... and I would be risking my job and freedom" he assured Alex.

"You better not be lying... I'll find out if you are and it won't be pretty."

"So have you and your wife been?" he asked to start a new subject and Alex rolled his eyes "I mean, how has your relationship been?" he clarified.

"Why do you care?"

"Do you trust her one hundred percent?"

"I have answered that question before!" Alex burst out slamming his right fist on the table. "Why do you keep insisting on it?"

"Alex? Can I call you Alex?" Morgan asked him calmly.

"No. You can keep on calling me Mr. Karev."

"Okay then, Mr. Karev... You know she has done this before, it wouldn't be the first time."

"Who has done what before?" Alex asked confused

"Your wife. She has ran away with a child bef-" the detective started and got interrupted by Alex

"You don't know anything about my wife!" he spat out madly "You managed to pull that information out but not the reason behind it?" he said it but his statement came out more like a question "If you guys had done your job, Jo wouldn't have to do what she did."

"You are missing the point, Mr. Karev. The point is she has done it before... Why wouldn't she do it again?"

"Because nobody is MOLESTING her and my daughter on a daily basis!" Alex shouted at the detective "She has no reason to... That's my..." he said more calmly.

"That's your what?" Morgan asked after a few seconds of silence from Alex's part.

"That's my daughter..." he said with his voice breaking "She wouldn't take her away from me... Not Jo..."

"But there's something about her that is bugging you, right? You want to believe her but she keeps disclosing new information about the day your daughter went missing, am I right?" He asked and when Alex didn't answer he sigh "What did she disclosed this time?"

"I... I have to go." Alex said getting up and then left without looking back.

Alex was about to leave the hospital when he thought of going to the room Stephanie was staying at. When he got to Stephanie's room once again and found her asleep but he didn't care and woke her up anyway.

"Hey Alex..." Stephanie said with sleepiness immersing on her voice.

"Are you sure that's what she said? Because you know, you could have misheard it... Maybe she said something else and you just got it wrong," he said with tears forming in his eyes.

"Alex I'm so sorry... I wish that's what had happen but it didn't" Stephanie said reaching for his hand which Alex didn't deny "She said it more than once... more than... I don't know, she repeated it endlessly."

"This isn't the first time she has referred her kidnapper as Jo..." he said and sat at the chair next to Stephanie's bed "It's not the first time..." he cried.

"Alex... I don't know what to say..." she said with a sorrowful voice "But I don't believe, I know for sure Jo didn't do it and you should too."

"I just don't know what and who to believe anymore..." he said and brought his hands to his face to clean his tears from his eyes and cheeks. Stephanie was about to say something but a nurse came into to the room and interrupted them. Alex took that as a way to leave, said goodbye to Stephanie, and went home.

When he got into his garage, he realized he hadn't talk to Jo since she had left Stephanie's room. He got out of the car and entered the house from the door that lead to his kitchen. The house was completely dark place and Alex didn't bother to switch the lights on. He walked to the bottom of the stairs and called out for Jo, once and twice and again, however he had no answer from her part. He grabbed his phone to call her thinking she had gone somewhere else other than home, when he heard her phone ring from upstairs he followed the sound. When he entered their bedroom, his eyes flew to the bags that were standing in the middle of it first and then to the figure that was lying in bed, on top of the blankets with street clothes on sleeping, he thought.

"Jo?" Alex called her name while shaking her softly trying not to let fear overcome his actions, "Jo... Wake up"

"Alex?" she said waking up "Oh... Crap..."

"What are you doing?" he asked when Jo got up of the bed and started grabbing her bags "Where are you going?" he asked grabbing her arm making her turnaround from the bedroom' door.

"I have to go, Alex... I'm sorry"

"No... What are you saying? You're not going anywhere." He hugged her and made her let go of the bags "You can't! What are you doing?"

"Alex, I just can't keep doing this anymore... I see the looks everybody gives me..."

"Forget everybody... Look at me" he said losing their embrace and holding her face in his hands "You've got me. Screw them"

"No, Alex..." she said crying and shaking her head "I had you..."

"Jo..."

"After today I realized that you think just like them... You think I did it..."

"No, Jo. I don't"

"You do Alex... I saw how you..." she stop and cleared her throat "I saw how you looked at me after what Stephanie said."

"Jo, that information was a shock to all of us. I didn't mean to." He said and kissed her lips "You can't leave... Don't leave, please" he kissed her again "I can't lose you too, Jo. Please..."

"What if I did it, Alex? What if actually took her and blocked it out in my head?" she asked sobbing "People sometimes block out things that are traumatic to them... that would make everything make sense. What if I took her and forgot about it, Alex?"

"You didn't do it, Jo" he said and kissed her temple hugging her "You didn't... Just don't leave..."

"Okay..." she whispered.