oh my god i love writing this story, i will admit it's like 80% pure fluff at his point, but it's hilarious. Chapter 3 (the last chapter) should be up monday.
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Matia turned out to be more than just Nero's little sister; she was also his lawyer. Which meant she was often at the Elk Lodge making the place appear as legit as possible. It also meant he could check on her often. Tara's comment at the hospital had scared the crap out of him. If this was some kind of high risk pregnancy and something just happened to go wrong his mother would most likely be blamed for it.
Lucky for Jax and Gemma the expecting parents were both very overprotective of their future offspring. Matia took excellent care of herself, and Fiasco, well Fiasco nearly broke Greg the Pegs hand for lighting a cigarette in front of his now 7 month pregnant wife.
Probably the best thing to come out of this was that Gemma had finally been scared straight; to a degree. She hadn't come near Nero or the Elk Lodge since the incident 2 months ago. He still couldn't get her to stop coming by the clubhouse like she was still the queen of SAMCRO however.
"Matia, you're glowing." Jax walked into the main entrance and greeted the woman scanning something on an Ipad. Matia stood to greet the frequent visitors and accepted a kiss on the hand from Chibs. All of SAMCRO was more than polite to the woman whose child would decide Gemma's fate.
"Thank you Jax. Hi boys." She smiled at the 3 men receiving only a nod of greeting from Happy. While she felt funny having a whole MC fret over her baby she knew her husband well. They were right to worry.
"How's my mother's future feeling today?" He sat on the edge of her desk.
"Hungry and kicking." Matia smiled holding her side.
"Kicking…can I umm, feel?" Jax asked staring at her stomach. "Sorry I just, I was in prison when my wife was pregnant, never got to feel it."
Matia paused for a moment. She had found that these men were much like her husband; tough and cold when it came to business and following orders but incredibly sweet and loving when the layers were peeled back.
"Come here." She grabbed his hand and placed it on her side over her son's kicking foot.
"Oh my god, that's amazing." Jax starred down at his hand on her stomach as if the kick would be strong enough to see.
"All right, shove off, I wanna feel too!" Chibs playfully nudged Jax aside after a minute and put his own hand on Matia's stomach. He smiled wide. "Haven't felt that in nearly 20 years. Like a God damn miracle it is."
Matia smiled and looked over at Happy, of all the men of SAMCRO he reminded her most of her husband, and Nero and Fiasco had noticed. Nero went on a rampage just last week about not needing 2 psychopaths looking after his whores and she always noticed the way Happy and Fiasco would stare each other down, holding some kind of silent competition with no end each time they were in the same room together.
"You want to feel too?" She asked him. He starred at her for a moment, his eyes flicking the room in his never ending guard dog stance before smiling and stepping forward. He let her guide his hand to the spot, barely touching her he was so gentle. Like he was afraid he could press too hard and hurt her or the baby.
"Wow. Does that hurt you?" He asked pressing the tiniest bit harder to feel the true strength of the baby.
"Only at 3 am when he gets his foot stuck in my ribs." All 4 adults heard Spanish coming from the hallway and Matia stepped away out of reach of Happy.
Nero and Fiasco came around the corner, Fiasco immediately glaring at the men and stepping to his wife. "Are they bothering you?" He asked his hands going protectively to her sides to block her from the men.
"No just chatting." She gave him a peck on the lips and he whispered something in her ear in Spanish before rubbing a hand over her stomach and walking to the door. He stopped and turned around, obviously not willing to leave till the others were safely with Nero and away from his wife.
"Nero." Jax reached his hand over to shake Nero's and the men started back down the hall to the office.
"Sorry to call you here on such short notice Jax, but I'm having a problem with one of your girls."
"Yeah, let me guess." Jax rolled his eyes.
"IMA" all 4 men said in unison as Nero opened the office door for them.
It was a good while later that a knock sounded on the office door and Fiasco popped his head in, speaking quickly in Spanish. Jax rolled his eyes. He REALLY needed to learn Spanish. Nero seemed happy with whatever it was Fiasco told him and Jax wondered if it had been a kill or a beat down.
"If we're done here I have some things to take care of." Nero grabbed a folder out of his desk drawer and stood up.
"Yeah, I think we're done here. I'm sorry about Ima, but I ain't below saying I told you so."
"I just can't believe she said it to his face." Nero shook his head at the latest stunt Ima had pulled with a client as he led the men back through the Lodge.
"Matia, clear out the Collins file, he won't be coming back." Nero popped his head into the make shift break room and threw the file on the table. "Is that an egg roll?" He stepped into the kitchen and pointed to the apparent lunch of his pregnant sister.
"No?" She answered setting it down on a plate behind her and shoving it next to her towards Lupe. "Egg rolls are a perfectly normal lunch!"
"You had 3 for breakfast. Did you buy her more egg rolls?" Nero pointed at Lupe.
"No, yes, but okay, I mean you can't say no to a pregnant woman! That's like a rule!" Lupe defended himself while Matia smiled at Jax who was waiting in the doorway and grabbed the plate trying to move out of the break room past her brother.
"Matia I swear to God if my nephew comes out with slanted eyes you're gonna have some serious explaining to do." Nero turned and caught her exit attempt.
"Yes Nero, because the food you eat determines your baby's race. That's exactly how this whole thing works." Matia retorted circling her stomach with a pointed finger as Chibs could be heard chuckling from the hallway.
Fiasco showed up from the opposite end of the hall and took the plate away holding it above her head. "No more, you can't have these."
"There MSG free!" She defended trying to get the plate back.
"There too high in sodium." Jax couldn't believe he was listening to this. Fiasco monitored his wife's sodium intake and he had been oblivious to his first wife shooting up while she was pregnant.
"The baby loves eggs rolls. I'll have a low sodium dinner. I'll have fruit. Oh! And pickles." She put her hand on her husband's chest once again failing in an attempt to get her plate back.
Fiasco handed the plate to Lupe and started ranting in Spanish about what Jax could only assume was his wife's crazy pregnancy cravings.
Lupe continued to hold the plate out of Matia's reach until Fiasco left the kitchen and then gave it back to her. "You're out of pickles, you want dill or spicy?" He asked her.
"Spicy, no wait, bread and butter." She snagged the egg roll sans plate and crept past Jax still in the door.
"Wait, bread and butter instead of pickles or bread and butter flavored pickles?" Lupe chased after his partners wife in a panic to figure out what she wanted.
Nero grabbed the file and eyed Jax. "You got 2 kids, is that normal? I wasn't with Luscious' mother when she was pregnant."
"Same here man, with both." Jax shrugged his shoulders and turned to his brothers getting ready to head out.
"Fiona ate a jar of pickles a day the last month she was pregnant." Chibs clapped Nero on the back as they all headed back out the door.
Jax sat on his bike and watched Matia and Fiasco across the parking lot. Lupe was sitting in his car on his phone probably waiting for his partner. Fiasco was running one hand along Matia's stomach and the other down the side of her face. The 2 were talking quietly in Spanish. Finally Matia turned to go back inside while not to subtly wiping tears from under her eyes.
"Hey!" He got off his bike and met Fiasco on the way back to Lupe's car. "Everything alright?" He nodded toward the building as way of explanation.
"She worries more now." He said simply and walked past Jax to the car.
"Everything good pres?" Happy walked up behind Jax and clapped him on the back.
"Yeah. Everything's fine. Shit Hap, never realized how much Tara went through without me." He admitted, shaking his head.
"She had Gemma." Happy reminded him.
Jax thought of exactly what that must have been like for his hormonal wife while he was in lock up. "Shit bro. We need to stop at a jewelry store or something on the way back."
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