So YouTube won't let me add anything on my laptop. I'll have to use the computers at my school to do it, and any songs I decide to use will be put in the playlist then. I'm real sorry about the inconvenience. Also, some Gaelic in here.
Chapter 2- When You Were Young
The next morning Morrigan was woken up by the Irish rebel song "A Nation Once Again" by the Wolfetones playing on the radio and several IRA members singing along to it.
"Sonofabitch," Morrigan muttered.
She got dressed and went down the stairs, pointing her gun at the laughing men.
"Holy shit!" one of them yelled.
"Woke tú dom suas, cas anois sé as," said Morrigan.
"Holy shit it's Morrigan," said one of them.
Morrigan suddenly recognized them all as her four guy friends growing up.
Kevin O'Malley, Liam O'Keefe, Chris McFadden, and Brian O'Leary.
The five of them had been raising hell forever, along with a goth chick from Belfast named Kim Hayes and her cousin Kelly McKeevy the biker chick. Last time Morrigan had seen Kelly, her friend had been hanging out in a bar with the Sons of Anarchy Belfast Charter.
The last time Morrigan had seen Kim, she had killed herself after her boyfriend's death by a car bomb when the girls had been shopping in the market square.
Thinking about Kim was enough for Morrigan to reach for a bottle of beer hanging around on the bar.
"Damn!" said Brian. "You eat breakfast yet?"
"No," said Morrigan. "I need a fucking a drink."
"Now that's a true Irishwoman!" said Kevin.
She gulped it down, feeling the fire on her throat and not minding a bit. When she had had enough she set it back down on the bar before heading out.
"You're going out?" said Chris.
"Getting the lay of the land," said Morrigan. "Where's Jimmy?"
"Still passed out upstairs," said Liam. "Can't believe you drank him under the table!"
"Hear hear," the four men said as they lifted Morrigan up and chanted in Irish Gaelic.
"I gotta go!" said Morrigan.
They put her down and Liam made kissing noises. Kevin slapped him and Morrigan trained her gun on him before she left, however she left it in the bar for them to put away.
She walked around, feeling the sun on her face. It felt different. Maybe it was because she was in California.
Charming was the smallest town Morrigan had ever seen, almost the size of her own hometown Dungloe.
She was wearing a black and white miniskirt, a brown blouse with a butterfly cutout, designer shoes, and carried a designer purse all by Dolce & Gabbana. She spotted the cigar shop, Impeccable Smokes, and the row of bikes parked in front of it.
"Who," said Tig. "Is that?"
"Who?" said Clay.
They looked and saw the brunette.
"Keep it in your pants until we get back," said Clay.
"No problem," said Tig.
He kept staring. She was wearing clothes that could get her robbed and was quite pale, so it was safe to assume she wasn't local. Dark brown eyes with hair to match, and she was staring at them.
He then realized she was staring at Chibs.
Only a minor setback. Tig would still get his woman.
Clay then came out of the cigar shop and when one of the guys caught a box of cigars he had brought out Morrigan knew it was Filip.
The memories flooded back instantly and she wished they hadn't.
First, Kim had died when she and her other friends had been sixteen. Filip had been the only one to listen to her, and things had gone further after Morrigan had walked in on her brother and Fiona going at it like rabbits. Other events that had followed she wished she could forget.
"Tig, leave that poor woman alone," said Opie.
Chibs looked at the woman watching them. She looked very familiar.
That was when he saw it.
The gold bracelet with red roses on her wrist.
It was Morrigan O'Phelan.
"Chibs? You know that woman?" said Jax.
"It's complicated Jackie-boy," said Chibs.
"Go after her," said Jax.
Clay wasn't too happy about that but Chibs had already parked his bike and was walking towards Morrigan as the others left.
"Morrigan?" said Chibs.
"Filip," Morrigan whispered.
It was definitely her. She was wearing different clothes than when he had last seen her, but the way she said his name told him that was the same young woman underneath the sophistication.
"Why didn't you meet me at the ferry that night?" said Chibs.
"I was shot, Filip," said Morrigan. "Someone shot me twice and I still don't know who it is."
He saw the hurt in her eyes, as much as she tried hiding it.
"Wanna get on the bike?" said Chibs.
"Yeah," said Morrigan.
They took the long way to the clubhouse, and Morrigan stole one of Chibs' cigars and lit it as the two went upstairs.
"You lucky sonofabitch!" Tig yelled.
The twosome went into Chibs' room and sat on the bed. Morrigan lifted her shirt part of the way up and Chibs saw two tiny scars on her back which could only have been made by bullets. She then put her shirt back down.
"How bad?" said Chibs.
"One went through both my lungs and the other smashed several discs in my back," said Morrigan. "I couldn't even feel my legs afterwards and for me to go into surgery to have it fixed would've been suicide and waiting would've made my condition permanent."
"You obviously went with the first option," said Chibs.
"Yeah," said Morrigan.
She decided it best not to mention that Jimmy O had been dead set against it, knowing the surgery would kill her. She had then told him she would rather be dead than be paralyzed, and he had stared her in the face for the longest time wondering if she was throwing it away because of what had happened that night – and he had been half right, because she had hoped for her death in that operating room and it didn't happen.
She had spent that whole summer going through painful rehab and crying herself to sleep because Filip was gone, and when she didn't see him in London upon her return to Oxford she allowed her brother to completely bring her into the cause.
Morrigan looked at the cross Filip was wearing around his neck. She had given it to him before he had left to serve as a spy in the British Armed Forces. She wondered why he still wore it when they hadn't seen each other in so long. Chibs then took her hand in his and looked at the bracelet he had given her. He had given it to her before those five months of going undercover for the IRA, and they had exchanged letters until his court marshal and subsequent return to Ireland. He noticed she still had that sapphire band he had given her as well, but her claddagh ring was backwards.
"Chaill mé tú Filip," Morrigan whispered. "Mé riamh Cheap Ba mhaith liom tú a fheiceáil arís."
"Gach rud é alright anois, bhí mé leat" said Chibs.
He held her in his arms and she buried her face in the crook of his shoulder.
She hadn't seen him since she was nineteen and now all she wanted was to stay in his arms forever.
However, that wasn't going to happen because Jax knocked on the door and asked Chibs to come out. He gave Morrigan a look.
"What?" said Morrigan.
"Your claddagh ring is backwards Rigan," said Chibs.
He took her hand in his, removed the ring, and slipped it back on so it was pointing towards her heart.
They shared a passionate kiss before Chibs left the room.
After talking about what had happened to Otto, Jax brought up Morrigan.
"I gotta know who she is," said Jax.
"As I explained before, very complicated, but she's not out to get anyone," said Chibs.
"What do you mean?" said Jax.
"She's Jimmy O's younger sister," said Chibs.
"Holy shit," said Jax. "I don't like that guy. What he did to you was wrong and I got no idea why Clay even works with him… even if he did find out you were banging his sister it was still wrong."
The men laughed nervously.
"Jimmy never knew anythin' was goin' on until the night he slashed me," said Chibs. "She helped me escape… we were gonna go to London, and Morrigan was gonna get Kerrianne before we left. She said someone shot her."
"Was it Jimmy?" said Jax.
"She foiled his attempt to kill me, but she was shot in the back and didn't see who it was," said Chibs.
Jax nodded.
"You two lost eleven years because of that piece of scum, go make up for lost time," said Jax.
Chibs left and Jax grinned as he lit a cigarette and smoked it.
They were only able to spend a little time together, and Chibs didn't exactly want to jump her bones in the clubhouse where everyone could hear.
When the Church meeting was about to start, Morrigan decided to go sit outside.
"I wanna go sit on that picnic table and feel the sun on my face," said Morrigan.
She gave Chibs a kiss before she went outside.
They all put in their votes concerning retaliation.
"Yay," said Clay.
"Yay," said Tig.
"No," said Chibs.
"Yay," said Opie.
"Nay," said Piney.
"Yay," said Juice.
"Nay," said Bobby.
"Nay," said Jax.
Four-four meant they had to wait on retaliation.
Morrigan felt something in the air.
It was something bad.
She just wasn't sure what was wrong yet.
All the Sons left Church and most of them came outside. Chibs walked over to Morrigan and kissed her.
"Damn," said Juice.
"For once I agree with you," said Tig.
"Is he here?" said Chibs.
"Yes," said Morrigan. "However, I managed to drink him under the table last night and locked him in his room before I left, so I wasn't followed."
"There's something you're not telling me Rigan," said Chibs.
"I'll tell you tonight," said Morrigan.
"Aye," said Chibs.
There was a van being towed in, so Chibs went to drive it into the garage. Morrigan had gotten up and decided to walk over to the car. As she was walking over, she could hear him turn the key.
It didn't start and was making a horrible whining noise.
She saw the realization dawn in Filip's eyes, and was sure her own eyes held a similar look of horror.
"Shit!" Chibs yelled. "Rigan! Run!"
He ran, and so did she.
The subsequent explosion threw them both on the ground. Morrigan landed on her stomach and got the wind knocked out of her.
When she was able to get up, she saw that Filip hadn't been so lucky and she ran over, falling to her knees next to him.
"Filip!" said Morrigan. "Ní hea! Is tú mo ghrá!"
Was she going to lose him again, and for good?
Translations:
You woke me up, now turn it off.
I missed you Filip. I never thought I would see you again.
Everything is alright now, I got you.
No! I love you!
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