This is the sequel to Return to Charming. We rejoin Juice and Bethany to see how their life ends up with new threats and new babies. Read that one first please.
Juice raced into the home, he shared with his girlfriend. She was sitting on the couch with the sleeping two year old in her arms. He looked at her. She smiled. He had worry written across his face which caused her smile to fade rather quickly.
"What is it Juice?" she asked.
"We're going on lockdown," he said.
"For what now?"
"Aryan threat,"
"Darby?"
"No someone new,"
She shifted to get out from under her son. Trae woke up as she left the room and began to cry for her. She sighed. Juice scooped up his son and held him. It didn't do much because he wanted his mother.
"He isn't feeling good," she said.
Juice nodded and handed him off to her. She was four months pregnant with their first child together. He quickly helped her get everything together. They headed out to the vehicles. She put Trae in his car seat and quickly buckled it. They headed to the clubhouse. Juice was sure he was right behind her the entire way. Trae cried the whole way there. She got out of the car after parking it next to Gemma and Tara. She pulled her son from the back. Juice walked over from parking his bike to help her carry things inside. Piney was sitting at the bar just inside the door. Bethany knew she was going to have to into Old Lady mode the moment they walked into the clubhouse. She knew what a lockdown entailed and it wasn't the first one she had dealt with in the last few years. She remembered the last lockdown when Trae was only 11 months old. Abel was eight months younger than Trae. Bethany didn't regret for a minute coming back to Charming, even though she knew Tara still had her doubts. Donna still had doubts about the club but she was there doing what needed to be done. Ellie and Kenny were running around with other kids that belonged to people in the club.
"I need to go lay him down. He won't stay without someone though," Bethany said.
"I got him, at least until they call church," Juice said.
"Baby they need you out there,"
"Give me five minutes with him,"
"All right, Trae go with daddy,"
She put her son in his arms and watched them walk down the hall. She turned to the kitchen where Gemma was busy going over the inventory and trying to decide what they could easily make a lot of to feed everyone. She was getting a list together to send someone to the store.
"What can I do to help, Gemma?" Bethany asked.
"Hey baby, I didn't know you were here," Gemma said.
"We just got here,"
"Where's Trae?"
"Juice is trying to get him to take a nap,"
Gemma nodded. She turned back to what she was doing. Bethany started in going through the cupboards with her.
"All right, I'm gonna get inventory of this fridge, you do those and then we can sit down with Donna and Tara to decide on what to make. I don't know how long we are going to be here but we can make it work," Gemma said.
Bethany nodded. She went through the cupboards fairly quickly. Then she walked out to grab Donna and Tara. The four of them sat down to come up with some kind of plan to deal with meals. They decided that they would go with cereal, pop tarts, and muffins for breakfasts along with fruit, milk and juice. They were going to do simple lunches of sandwiches and cans of ravioli and things for the kids. The big meals of the day would be dinner where they decided on lasagna, chicken and rice, hamburgers and hot dogs, chili with cornbread, and beef and noodles with mashed potatoes. If they were there longer than that they would have to sit down and do it again. She sighed. She noticed that Juice was back out in the main room of the clubhouse. He pulled her to his chest when he saw her. She smiled and kissed him.
"Where's our boy?" she asked.
"Watching a movie with Ellie," he said.
She nodded. The guys headed in for church. She kissed Juice one more time before he headed into the room. Donna appeared next to her.
"How's it going with you two?" she asked.
"It's great. I couldn't ask for anyone better, I mean we had our issues in the past but since I've been back and we worked it out, things are amazing," Bethany said.
Donna nodded. Bethany looked over at her.
"You ok?" Bethany asked.
Donna shrugged. Bethany pulled her over to a table.
"What's wrong?" Bethany asked.
"That girl over there," Donna said.
"What about her?"
"She keeps hitting on Op,"
"So put her in her place,"
"He says nothing is going on but I don't know if I trust that anymore,"
"Donna, Opie's not dumb enough to do something like that at home where he has you,"
"You think so?"
"I know my brother,"
"Things haven't been going that well for us lately,"
"Just trust me."
Bethany got up from her seat. She was determined to set her sister in laws mind at ease. She walked over to the girl that Donna had pointed out to her.
"Hey," she said.
The girl looked up at her.
"Hi," she said, shyly.
"Haven't seen you around here before, you new?" Bethany asked.
"I'm Jessica, I'm from LuAnn's."
"Ah, that makes sense."
"Why is that?"
"I don't go over there. It just explains why I've never seen you before."
"You're Opie's sister, right?"
"Yeah, and Juice's old lady."
"They both talk about you a lot."
"All good things I hope."
"Yeah, of course. Opie was fixing my car last week and they were talking about one of the girls from a while back. Your name got brought up,"
"OH I know what time you are talking about. The girl who got the broken nose for trying to push up on Juice?"
"Yeah, I know the guys who have old ladies are off limits around here. I've tried to avoid parties here,"
"How come?"
"My son. I don't normally have a baby sitter and it's hard enough to get someone to watch him so I can film."
"So all Opie has done for you is fix your car?"
"Yeah, what else did you think?"
"Rumor had it that you were hitting on him,"
"No way, he asked if I wanted to try to get a play date for my son with his son but he wasn't sure his wife would be up for it. We moved here when I got hired at LuAnn's and don't really know anyone,"
Bethany nodded.
"How old is your son?" she asked.
"James is six," Jessica replied.
"Kenny is six too. I'll talk to Donna,"
Jessica nodded. The little boy standing next to her looked nervous about even being there.
"I'll be back," Bethany said.
She nodded again. Bethany walked away and went back to her sister in law.
"Well," Donna asked.
"Apparently, Opie has been trying to get Kenny and her son together for a playdate. She just moved here with her son and they don't know anyone," Bethany said.
"You believe it?"
"Yes,"
Donna nodded. Kenny ran by her with two of his friends.
"Kenneth," Donna said.
He stopped and turned toward her.
"Stop running," she said.
"Kenny, my little man," Bethany smiled.
"What?" he asked, looking at her.
"Bring your little monster friends over here, I got someone I want you to meet,"
"All right,"
He followed her over with his two friends. She walked them over to Jessica and James.
"Kenny Winston, this is James," she said.
"Hi," Kenny replied.
"Hi," James sounded nervous.
"Want to play with us?"
"Sure,"
The four boys took off. Bethany looked at Jessica.
"Thank you," she said.
"No problem," Bethany smiled. "If you will excuse me, I have to go check on my little one."
"Sure,"
Bethany walked away from her right as the guys were coming out of church. Juice nodded her direction and went straight to his little computer corner. He had work to do, obviously. She stopped and listened to Clay's speech about how they were all family and they were going to keep them all safe. She rolled her eyes and edged her way down the hall to check on her son. Ellie was lying on the bed with him and they were watching a movie. Trae's thumb was in his mouth. She smiled and went back to the main room of the clubhouse. She walked over to the computer area that had been set up for Juice.
"You doing ok babe?" she asked.
"Yeah, I'm good," he replied.
"You need anything?"
"Nah baby, I'm all right. How's our babies?"
"Trae is still with Ellie in our room and this one is doing just fine with all the chaos of the day,"
"Good."
She smiled at him. He looked back down at the computer. Jax walked over and put his arm around her shoulders. She glanced over at him.
"Hey," she said.
"Distracting my IT guy?" he joked.
"That's my job, isn't it?"
"Not if you want out of here before Christmas or I guess in your case before you give birth,"
"That's not even remotely funny Jackson Teller,"
He laughed. She shoved him playfully. Juice just rolled his eyes. Piney looked up from his seat at the bar. Opie came walking over to her.
"You talked to Donna I take it?" he asked.
"What would make you ask that?" she asked.
"She's over talking to Jessica."
"Opie, you better not make me out to be a fuckin liar,"
"What are you talking about? I'm not doing anything with that girl,"
"You better not be."
Bethany walked away from her brother. The people who had been sent out for groceries had just gotten back and she had to help put everything away. She made sure to stash a box of pop tarts for her room. They were an easy snack for her son. She was really hoping this baby was a girl. She wanted a girl really badly but she knew she would be happy no matter what they got. A pair of arms wrapped around her.
"We're heading out," he said, into her neck.
She pulled away just enough to be able to turn around in his arms. He kissed her.
"You be careful," she said.
"I will babe," he replied.
She kissed him hard before he turned to leave the kitchen. They all headed out. She started on dinner for everyone. She had help but it was up to her on how to make it. She chose giant batches of cheesy chicken and rice for them all. She got them in the oven and then headed out of the kitchen.