Phoebe swallowed a huge lump in her throat as she stood in front of the incubator that her baby nephew was currently in and would be for the foreseeable future. The baby was so tiny and sick, then with a stupid junkie for a mother who almost killed little Abel had been dealt a really crappy hand even before he had been born. Phoebe couldn't believe it when Jax had called to say that Wendy was pregnant, the two of them were a terrible couple and adding a child to a mix was a very bad idea. And Phoebe didn't think that just because she hated Wendy upon the moment she set eyes on her, Phoebe thought it because it was the truth. But Phoebe could never imagine in her wildest dreams that things would end up this way. Last time Phoebe had checked Wendy was clean, but apparently things had changed. Standing there looking at the 10 week early baby, Phoebe couldn't believe that her former sister in law could have been so stupid and risked the life of her unborn child just so she could get high for a couple of hours. Phoebe could remember when she found out she was pregnant, after finding out she was expecting Phoebe did everything she humanly could to ensure she had a healthy baby. Gave up alcohol, ate more fruit and vegetables, read almost every damn baby book on the planet.
"Bee?"
Looking up from the incubator Phoebe saw Jax standing next to her with a small smile on his face and Phoebe couldn't even muster up one in return. Phoebe had no idea how her brother was being so calm and level headed throughout this whole, Phoebe wasn't and Abel wasn't her son, he was only her nephew! Phoebe knew that if it was Grace in Abel's position she would be a wreck and all over the place. "He's so tiny Jax."
"I know Bee." Jax murmured in agreement.
"I don't want you to worry about any of Abel's medical bills, I'm going to take care of all of that so that we can just focus on his surgeries and him getting better." Phoebe said she felt like she needed to do something other than come home and stand by an incubator watching her nephew having to be assisted with his breathing on a machine.
"Phoebe I cannot let you do that–" Jax began.
"But I want to Jax, although a part of me is still having a hard time believing that Jackson Teller is now a dad." Phoebe replied with a small chuckle gently nudging Jax in the ribs and he responded by wrapping an arm round her shoulder and pulling her in. Goofing around with Jax was one of the things Phoebe missed when she was gone as her and her brother had always had a very good relationship. As teenagers they got along pretty well, there was only the occasional argument due to the fact that Phoebe spent most of her adolescence arguing with their mom and how much of an impact SAMCRO had in their lives and Phoebe's unwillingness to be a part of that life. Yet that never had to much of an effect on Phoebe and Jax's relationship, whilst Phoebe disapproved of his lifestyle it didn't stop the fact that Jax was her big brother and the person she trusted the most in the word. He was the first person Phoebe called when she found out she was pregnant.
"That's rich coming from you Phoebe and speaking of you becoming a mom, where's your kid? Mom's been hogging the little one so much that I've barely got anytime to see my little niece…" Jax asked and Phoebe couldn't help but laugh as the fact that the both of them were now parents was kind of a bit of a joke seeing as they didn't exactly grow up in the most convention manner. The two of them grew up in the middle of SAMCRO and yet the two of them couldn't be any different. The lawyer and the outlaw biker.
"Well she's still with her, mom sent me over here to see the baby and she said that a hospital was no place for Grace to be so she took her. I didn't even have a chance to disagree with her as mom took the care seat out of my car before I could even say Jack Robinson. Claims she wants spend sometime with her granddaughter, I'm afraid by telling mom about Grace that I'll never get my baby back…" Phoebe whimsically noted.
"Probably right about that, I wouldn't expect mom to hand you back Baby Bee anytime soon." Jax replied in agreement and Phoebe couldn't help but smile at the nickname her brother had for her daughter.
"I thought mom was going to kill me in the clubhouse when I announced that I had a baby and didn't tell her about it." Phoebe stated as she placed her hand on the incubator close to where Abel was laying.
"If she wasn't so mad with Wendy, then mom would have probably killed you Bee." Jax grimly noted and Phoebe stopped herself from bad mouthing Wendy as no doubt her mother had done more than enough for the both of them. Not that Phoebe didn't have some choice words of her own but it was most likely the last thing Jax needed.
"Mom is going to give me the third degree about it all, she want to know everything about me getting pregnant and not telling anyone except for you. And I know she's going to drill me about who Grace's father is as I'm pretty sure mom thinks there's more than what meets the eye about what I've told her. Which is kind of true I guess…" Phoebe wearily said.
"Well you could just tell all of us who he is Pheebs, I don't see what the big need for all the secrecy is." Jax stated and Phoebe sighed before taking her brother by the wrist and dragging out the room and into the hospital hallway, which luckily for her was pretty empty at the moment.
"I tell you who he is Jax and you'd kill him simply because he was sleeping with me and then there's the whole getting me knocked up. I explained to you about 18 months ago why I couldn't tell you who the father was and you seemed okay with that. Like I said before it was complicated and he didn't even know I was pregnant and now it's even more complicated and I still don't know what to do. When I fell pregnant I was in LA and Grace's dad was there for a week and then he was gone and I thought I'd never see him again and I accepted the fact that I'd be a single parent but now I back in this town and so is he…" Phoebe quietly said as there was no way she could tell her family that Kip or rather Half-Sack as they knew him as was the father of her daughter. There was an unspoken rule in the club that Phoebe was off limits and despite the fact Kip was a prospect it still supplied to him. Regardless of the fact that he wasn't in the club when he got Phoebe pregnant, not that he even knew or anyone knew. They were clueless to that along with the fact that Phoebe and Kip had been together on/off rather sporadically over the last ten years. He was the boy that Gemma referred to as the boy as she had no idea about his actual identity.
"I think he'd want to know Bee."
"Mom's already started on my living arrangement, she asked where me and Baby Bee where going to stay and I said a hotel. However Grandma doesn't thinks that good enough, she's made up her mind that Grace and I are coming back home despite her being fully aware of my feelings towards Clay." Phoebe said in a disgusted tone of voice.
"Bee, are you still hung up on that? I told you that neither Clay or the club were involved in what happened." Jax stated.
"Jax I was in come for four days…" Phoebe retorted bringing up the events of three years ago when Phoebe came home for Jax's wedding. She must have been there for six days when she was jumped and attacked, almost beaten to death after having several ribs broken along with her right leg, a black eye, an orbital eye fracture and more bruises then Phoebe could count. She would have possibly died if she hadn't been found by David Hale; the deputy chief in time. However the damage was that bad that Phoebe had ended up in a coma for four days. The person who had attacked Phoebe had never been caught but everyone knew she had been attacked due to her association with SAMCRO. Phoebe knew they had enemies but she made a point to stay clear of the club and all it's dirty business. She was in the hospital for three weeks before she was allowed to leave and when Phoebe did, she made her feeling about the club pretty clear. As soon as she was fit to travel Phoebe left charming and returned back to LA until now.
"You don't think I know that Bee? I remember getting the phone call from Ma, telling me that you'd been attacked. I sat by your bedside with mom as she struggled to hold it together as she thought you'd never wake up. You don't have to remind me about what happened to you."
"Clay knows something about what happened Jax, you and everyone else may be in denial about it but I'm not. He knows who beat me into a coma Jax–"
"–If he did then why was he trying to hunt down the person who attacked you Bee? If Clay knew then why would be waste all his time looking for someone who didn't exist?" Jax demanded.
"I don't know Jackson, you tell me. After you are SAMCRO…" Phoebe spat and the two of them just glared at each other before they both gave up, they argued about this subject for years and they never got anywhere with it. Phoebe was adamant that Clay knew who had attacked her and Jax was convinced otherwise. It was one of those things where eventually they had to agree to disagree as they were getting nowhere with it. "Jax, I'm sorry… It's just coming back here after everything that happened is a lot for me and it's kind of fucking with my head. I don't know what I'm going to do anymore Jax, I don't have a clue about anything it seems."
"Baby sis, you know I hate it when you worry so please don't worry for me, you know everything will work out. It always does and whatever you decide you know I'll be there for you one hundred percent." Jax assured Phoebe by leaning forward and pressing a kiss on her forehead. "You should go try find mom and that baby of yours, see if you can't relax for a while. I'll stay here with the kid for a while…"
"You sure Jax?" Phoebe questioned.
"Yeah I'm sure, don't worry Bee you'll have plenty of time to hang out with him later as the kid isn't going anywhere…" Jax stated and Phoebe gave her brother a smile before making her way out of the hospital, she figured the club would be as good as a place to look for her mother but as she made her way out Phoebe wasn't paying attention to where she was going and ended up walking right into someone.
"Sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going." Phoebe began immediately apologizing until she noticed the cop's uniform and looking properly at the person she ran into, Phoebe realized she knew this cop. Very well.
"My god… Bee Teller, I heard you were back in town I just didn't believe it." David Hale began and Phoebe couldn't help but smile, word traveled very fast here in Charming so she wasn't surprised that people already knew she was back.
"Hey David." Phoebe said with a smile as she hugged David or Deputy Chief Hale as he was known to the masses, generally Phoebe wasn't one to associate with cops because of the whole SAMCRO thing. But David had saved her life and they had been friends since they were kids, he was of the people in Phoebe's who had convinced that the life of SAMCRO and being someone's old lady was not for her. That she deserved more than the life she had, that she could walk away from Charming and the Sons of Anarchy and have her own life. Phoebe knew that if it wasn't for David Hale and Jax, telling her to do what she thought was the right thing she knew she wouldn't have let Charming to go to college and become a lawyer.
"What are you doing here?"
"Just visiting the new baby, Jax called me and told me about what went down with Wendy and the drugs, forcing the baby to be delivered ten weeks early so I came home…" Phoebe explained.
"It must be hard coming back after what happened." David noted and Phoebe slowly nodded as it was hard, the last time she was in Charming she had almost died. "I promised you Bee that we'd get the people who did this to you. Your case is still important to me and we still have a year left before the statue of limitations runs out. But you should be proud of everything you've achieved since then. I hear you're a mom as well now."
"I am, I have this beautiful baby girl named Grace who is just great, I'll have to bring her down the station sometime soon so you can meet her."
"I'd like that." David replied with a smile before pausing momentarily. "It's good to have you back Phoebe Teller, Charming's missed you…"
