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The Way You Saved Me. CHAPTER ONE.

SOA

Wendy was pacing their living room, her patience were gone, If he wasn't gunna come home at all then she would go out. The marriage was a joke, he knew, she knew, hell half of charming knew it was a ticking time bomb.

She revved her car and took off in search of some fun.

"Fuck you Jax, I don't need or want your shit anymore ?" she hollered as she sped past TM, throwing her shitty gold wedding band as she went.

Pulling up at the hairy dog Wendy felt alive and more at home then she had in weeks. No good could really come of this but tonight she didn't care, her demise could be tonight but she would go out with a bang if that's the case.

"hey trouble, your old man know you're here ?" he smiled as he slid over a shot of her fave whiskey.

"Naa, shit you aint gunna rat on me are ya Ernie?" she winked as she leant over and took the shot.

"hell no, I don't need that kind of shit fight, you're a big girl sort out your own life. They are out the back, have been asking after ya."

Wendy grabbed the offered beer and headed to see her old mates.

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"hey Jax, have you seen opie?" Donna walked up to him as we moved away from the kaos of the fighting ring. It was beginning to become the usual rowdy Friday night. Crow eaters as far as the eye could see, his drunken brothers were either around the ring watching the prospect beat the patch members or off inside not so discreetly getting some pussy.

"No, are you alright darling ?" he wrapped his arms around Donnas shoulders. Although she wasn't blood, Donna was his sister and he could feel her mood was sad and maybe a little desperate

"not really, we had a fight earlier. I need to say I m sorry" she said putting her head down, ashamed of the truth she had just released. Jax gave her a smirk, he felt for her. They had been fighting a lot lately and opie would just bottle it up and run away from the confrontation, Dinna preferred to hash it all out, just like his old lady.

"wait here, I think I know where he might be. I will check his mood for ya" he kissed her cheek and headed for the roof top. As he walked out the man hole, he saw opie slumped against an air duct, swishing his beer around in the bottle and rolling the joint along his thumb. Opie didn't even bother acknowledging Jax had found him, He just waited for the conversation to start.

"hey brother, your missing the prospect kicking Tigs arse in the ring" Jax passed Opie a beer as he sat next to him.

"yeah, I should go check it out" he said half arsed, making no attempt to get up or eye contact for that matter. Jax sighed, whatever had been said between those two must have been big. Jax, not willing to give up, tried a different tactic.

"your old lady is looking pretty upset, was wondering around the crow eaters looking for ya dumb arse" he chuckled trying to lighten the mood.

" well. Im not ready to talk to her yet, and you wont be when I tell you why I am pissed." Finally opie looked up at jax, who was now standing, Opie jumped up, necked his beer and lit a cigarette.

Jax watched on waiting for his best friend to continue.

" donna knows where Tara is, they have been writing each other. She told Tara you married Wendy but she wont tell me where my sister is " He hissed, he was mad and maybe he wanted Jax mad too.

Jax stood in shock, running his fingers through his hair, lucky there was only moon light up on the roof or opie may have caught the murderous stare that flashed across his best friends face.

"Jesus Christ, how long ?' jax sighed.

"I don't know brother, probably ever since she left" Opie turned his rage on Jax."If you didn't fuck that porn slut, I would know if my baby sister was ok !" he pushed Jax. Opie had finally cracked. All his anguish, hatred and rage was firing out of his whole body. He had to put his hands in his pockers to stop him from lashing out physically.

" Ope, we have been over this I HAD TO ! she wasn't gunna leave for college if I didn't. Tara was too good just to be an old lady. Christ you pushed Donna to go to school !" Jax screamed, he was tired of the same fight they had been having over the last 8 years.

"that was different, we talked about it and came up with a plan, you blind sided Tara by fucking her enemy!" he bellowed, threw his empty beer bottle across the lot and headed down through the crow eaters, out to his bike and sped off in a cloud of drunken regret and anger.

Donna was frozen watching her husband high tail it outta the lot, tears were streaming down her face, she knew she had fucked up royally. The worst part was yet to come, she had to ring Tara and tell her that her secrets would slowly be discovered. That thought scared her the most, Opie would always forgive her, but her sister in law, well that was a different story. Jax rushed to Donna's side.

"you have a lot of explaining to do, but for now I am going to watch out for my brother" he kissed her forehead and took off after Opie.

Donna sighed, grabbed a bottle of jacks and headed for their dorm room.

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"Alright Mrs Teller, time for you to go home" Ernie was dragging a drugged out Wendy from the back bar to her car. This wasn't the first time and he knew she would do it again. Not even the threats from her husband or rehab could cure this junkie. "Wendy, you are in your car. Don't come back here, get out of charming for a bit. Go get yourself better." He kissed her forehead and locked the doors. As he walked back across the dimely lit carpark, he caught a glimpse of a Harley. He waved at the prospect who would be taking Wendy home tonight. As annoyed at Jax as Ernie was he got it. Jax didn't love her but he still watched over her. Every time she would get wasted a prospect or his mother would swoop in and sort her out. He just hoped that wendy tried to get better before the Tellers were done watching her sorry arse.

Rat walked over and unlocked the car, he rang half sac to come collect him from the house and to help get a shit faced wendy inside.

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Jax had followed Opie at break neck speeds all through charming, now they were on the high way heading out to the swimming hole, as kids the four of them would spend all day in the summer here. Smoking joints and drinking beer then a grumpy piney or Gemma would come and pick them up before unser found them. Now it was a place where Jax could go to reflect and remember the past and his one true love. Guiding his bike down the over grown path in the dark was proving to be be annoying. He wished opie would just get off the bike and fucking walk. Opie came to a holt and got off his bike. He grabbed the bottle of Jack from under his cut and sat under the tree. Jax grabbed out his cigarettes lighting two and passing one to opie. They at in silnce drinking and smoking.

"Im sorry I pushed your sister away ope" jax whispered as he passed him the bottle. Opie sihed and took a big swig. 'I know you are arsehole. It doesn't make it any easier that my wife knew where she was and didn't tell us !" he growled.

Jax drew a breath " us?" he asked almost regretfully

"Yes, US ! aren't you mad ?" he hollered which on a quiet and cool night like tonight echoed through the valley, donna could probably hear him.

"Yes and No. yes for you, don should have told you where your sister has been hiding out and No for me. I would have dragged her arse back here or screwed her up even more. Go home and talk with Donna, let her explain it with out losing your shit." With that jax took the bottle and got back on his bike. He was also going home to his wife, but he wasn't going to be nice and make up.