Chapter 4: A white wedding dress with a small dots of red
Author's note: Well chapter 4 is here. Tried to get all the info in, things I missed will be revealed in other chapters. The lines means a change in the point of view. It goes from Riley to Eliot and so on...
For all you Chibs lovers out there... enjoy and if you don't mind I would like to know your take on the story.
It's the day of the wedding when Alex and Riley are working in the kitchen of the clubhouse. Couple of days passed since Riley heard the story about her true past. She talked to Juice a lot since then and Piney told some story's about her dad. It also had been a couple nights since the night with Chibs. He doesn't talk to her anymore, he treats her like she's just a barmaid. No more flirting, no more eying. She never would have guested she would miss it so much.
"Why didn't you tell him the truth?" Alex takes the wedding cake out of the oven "You said you remembered. It's been days now and everybody is starting to notice something is going on".
Riley looks at the knife in her hand and the carrots on the chopping board "I didn't want to have the talk" she turns her head and looks at Alex "you know the talk".
Alex rolls her eyes "Jesus Riley, just because you didn't want to have the talk you lied about it?"
"Ssh stop talking so loud, the guys are just there" Riley looks at the bar but the guys are still talking to each other. They are getting dressed for the wedding. Like they have no shame they change their clothes in the middle of the bar. Cro-eaters swirling around them. One is specially into Chibs, swarming around him like a bee to a huge honey Popsicle. His hands are on her hips. Riley walks to the door opening and looks at Chibs who is getting turned on by the girl.
"Jesus Christ" Riley smacks the door but it swings back like a saloon door.
"Yeah your perfectly fine, nothing happened" Alex looks at Riley and then to the guys who are all looking into the kitchen. She shrugs when Eliot is facing her with a questionably face.
"I said nothing 'cause I could hear him saying 'Look luv, I liked the night but yer no old lady so, thanks for the fuck but that's it".
"Are you trying to do his accent?" Alex looks at her with an arched eyebrow.
"Ah shut up" she grabs the marzipan and starts rolling it out and presses some figures in it.
Alex turns her head laughing "I still think it is better to tell him the truth and well if he shuts you down, you know".
He knows the take with the Russians will go down tonight. Opie wanted this to happen on his wedding night. The idiot, doesn't he know-... well he did know. He was married to Donna until clay ordered the hit on Opie and Tig shot Donna by accident. His eyes keeps moving to the kitchen. If the white pussy in front of him could just scram. He grabs her hips and puts her aside. He sees Riley slamming the door but it opens again. He wants to walk up to her and hold her and talk to her. But she made it damn clear she doesn't want him. She lied about the night. He looked at her face in the morning, full of guilt and when he said something she ran out. When she came back she said nothing happened so he pretended he didn't remember a thing. Make it easier for her.
"Could ya just shake yer ass in front of someone else?" he moves her aside and walks to the pool table. Eliot gets up and walks after him.
"What's going on Chibs, your distracted and well normally you like it when they shake their hips in front of you" Eliot puts his hand on Chibs his shoulder. He wants to smack it of but he knows Eliot means well.
"Nothin' Eliot, nothin'. I'll keep my head in the game" he grabs his jacket from the pool table. He really needs to get his head back in the game. He keeps thinking about the night when he sure as hell can't afford thinking back. He almost got himself killed last night. The door opens and Anita walks in with Nic, Thomas and Abel. Nic runs immediately to him and he doesn't know what to do. Nic keeps pulling his jacket so he decided to pick him up. Nic start telling about all the things he did with Abel. Well he tries to, it's more gibberish what he says but he likes it. He likes the little guy. When he looks up he sees Riley looking at him and Nic. He puts him down on the ground and Nic runs towards Juice who is starting to hug him and gives him something to drink. Riley signs she needs to talk to him. He just nods. She walks towards the rooms and he just follows sighing loudly.
"I need to talk to you" she closes the door.
"Well start, I'm here" he closes his arms across his chest.
"I haven't been honest to you about that night" she sits down on the bed and looks at him. Her eyes piercing through his soul.
"I know" he mumbles, she looks at him shocked.
"You remember?" she shakes her head in disbelieve "you made me feel guilty for lying but all the time you knew" she gets up and anger on her face.
"Ah come on luv, ya felt guilty way before ya started to lie. I could see it on yer face in the morning" he turns around and stares at the poster on the wall.
"Jesus Chibs, I didn't remember it when I woke up. When I was with Alex everything came back".
"Then why did ya lie after that?" he turns towards her, he doesn't know what to expect but he sure as hell ain't gonna stay to hear her making up a new lie. He walks towards the door when he hears Riley sigh behind him.
"Because I'm not an old lady, I'm no cro-eater, I'm just a barmaid" she hangs her arms next to her in defeat. He takes two steps and grabs her arms and pulls her towards him. A scared look on her face.
"Yer not just a barmaid, yer a daughter of a son" his face close to hers. Flashbacks of her soft lips touching his pops into his head.
"I was afraid you would blow me off for not being part of-" he interrupts her "yer always part of this club luv. If I didn't want to do anything then I sure as hell wouldn't fuck ya. I did it 'cause I wanted to". He bends down to kiss her. She doesn't resist, he lets her arms go and her hands go towards his face, his hands on her back. She puts her arms around his neck and they start kissing wildly.
There's a knock on the door, Chibs growls a little as he has to stops and looks angry at the door.
"what ya want?" he looks at Riley "never lie to me again sweetheart, especially about a night as good as that one".
The door opens a little and Phil's head pops through the opening "Clay says we need to go... oh, hi Riley".
Riley smiles, he can see she doesn't feel all that comfortable. He grabs her chin softly and turns her head "This ain't over luv. I got to go but make sure you got a babysitter for the night". He walks away thinking that might not be the smartest thing to say to a girl like Riley.
"I told him" Riley grabs the wedding cake out of the van and puts it on a trolley "I told him and he kissed me".
Alex looking up from decorating the wedding table "he did? He wasn't mad?".
"Of course he was mad but when I told him the truth he just started kissing me" she walks with the cake towards the wedding table. The guest could be here any moment.
"Don't want any cake on this dress, it cost me a fortune" Riley pushes the cake gently on the table.
"Jesus Riley, I didn't notice your dress but damn, you look hot" Alex starts to laugh "pretty sure Chibs won't be fighting with you tonight".
Riley looks at her red dress, it's got a high cut on her left leg which was a little to high for Riley's taste but she put it on anyway. It also has a low neckline so she had to borrow a necklace from Alex. Both lady's looking gorgeous. Alex in her white backless dress and black boots and Riley in her Red dress and white boots. She could hear the motorcycles coming closer.
"Party time" Alex stroking the soft silk of her dress, she takes a sip from the diet coke bottle "He said I would need a babysitter for tonight 'cause he wasn't done".
Alex spits out all the coke and starts coughing, Riley patting her back "sorry didn't know when that would be a good time to say". The motor sound died, she could hear laughter and Alex gets back up and looks at Riley with tears in her eyes "Jesus never say something like that when someone is drinking".
Riley starts to laugh "sorry Alex". She sees Tig and Jax walking towards them. Behind them Chibs and Eliot are talking and laughing. When Tig sees the ladies he stops, Chibs and Eliot bump against him.
"What the hell Tig, move yer ass" Chibs looks pissed at Tig.
"I think I died and just went to heaven" he nods towards Alex and Riley. Who are feeling a little to much aware of their dresses.
Eliot looks up and sees Alex standing there "Wow" he walks towards her and picks her up and kisses her. Alex reacts surprised "what did I do to deserve this?". He smiles "you got born. Isn't it not done on a wedding if you look hotter then the bride?". Alex starts to laugh and kisses his forehead. He puts her down and looks at Riley, she takes a step back "I get it Eliot, I don't need to be picked up". Alex smiles and looks at Chibs.
"Looks like he is frozen to the ground" Riley looks up and sees Chibs staring at her.
"What should I do?" she mumbles towards Alex and Eliot. She feels flattered he looks at her with that smoldering predatory gaze. It seems that he is gathering himself and walks towards Riley..
"Holy shit woman, are ya trying to give me a heart attack?" he looks up and down her dress, his eyes hanging at her breasts. "Hmm. I love it" he looks her in the eyes. She can't do nothing more then just smile and blush.
"Come on Riley, we need to sit down she will be here quickly" Alex turns around and Eliot moans when he sees the back of her dress "Jesus Alex, you're giving me a stiff one". She laughs and bumps his shoulder when she walks away. Eliot following her.
"I'll be in the back, so you need to go first" she puts a step aside to let him pass. He keeps looking at her.
"Hell no, yer sitting with me luv" he puts his arm around her and feels she also has a low back cut he mumbles "yer gonna get me killed".
Alex took her place upfront and by the look on her face she was surprised Riley sat next to her. She told her before the wedding she would be at the back.
Alex looks at Riley with a smile on her face "I thought you didn't want to sit in front". Riley points her head towards Chibs "he wanted me to sit with him". When she looks at him he is wearing his sunglasses but she can see his head moving a little. He is scanning the surroundings. When she looks at Eliot she sees him doing the same. What the hell are they up to?
The music starts to play and Riley got distracted when they all got up and watch Piney walk Layla to the alter. Opie looks happy when he sees her. When Piney walks away he looks at Riley and gives her a nod. The wedding continues and Layla spoke some beautiful words and promised to be Opie's old lady. Opie had some beautiful words to.
"And what else?" Jax taps Opie's back and he starts to smile. Chibs grabs Riley's hand to get attention, she looks at him. He mouths "And treat you as good as my leather". The whole club joins in and they say out loud "And Ride you as much as my Harley". Everybody starts laughing and applauding. Riley laughs and shakes her head. Chibs has a grin on his face. She feels a tap on her back and when she turns she sees Eliot grinning at her "the wedding is over there" he points to the stage. Alex starts laughing and slaps his hands down "leave her alone". Riley hugs Alex out of the blue, she hears the surprise in Alex her voice "What?".
"I'm just glad I met you" she gets up and applauds with the rest of the attendees.
Riley and Alex are on the dance floor dancing on jail house rock by Elvis. They are joined by Gemma, Tara and Layla. They are having a lot of fun. Alex takes a peak once in a while into the crowd and every time she looks at Eliot, he smiles his beautiful loving smile. She waves him over but he just shakes his head. He gets a slap from Chibs who is pushing him towards the dance floor. Alex grabs his hand and pulls him onto the stage.
"You know I can't dance" he just stands there. "I know, but I can dance. Even Juice and Riley are dancing". Eliot looks at the two laughing and dancing. Juice can't dance either but he just tries. Well if Juice can do it, so can he. He grabs Alex and swirls her around on the tunes of Jail house rock. He hasn't seen Alex so happy since a long time.
"Maybe we should get married to?" he looks at her and wants to kiss her when she jerks her head away from him "we should do what?".
He flips her on her back and moves in to kiss her. "Marry me Alex". He gets back up and she looks at him with surprise in her eyes "Jesus Eliot".
"It doesn't have to be today, tomorrow. We can do it over a year or so. I just wanna know if you would be my wife?". She looks at him blankly "I.. I.. Hell yeah!". Eliot's heart skipped a beat. When she didn't reacted fast enough he imaged her saying no and leaving him on the dance floor.
"But I'm the one telling everybody, we will do it when I'm ready to tell" Alex looks at him, he can see she means it. He just nods. He will do everything for her. The songs changes to a slow song and they dance for a while. He hears Chibs calling to him. He looks up and he sees he is signing him to come. Chibs also calls out to Juice, who was dancing with Riley. He walks towards her and kisses her. Eliot could hear Chibs say they have to do something and they will be back soon. Does Riley even know that she is falling in love with an outlaw again. Does Alex know what he really does. He snaps out of his thought strain when Chibs is standing in front of him "I don't like it either brother but we need yer help". He walks away and he sees Alex looking at him. He likes to be in a MC but he doesn't like the violence. Last week he told Chibs he wanted to do it without guns. He let him go at it and he admitted that the way Eliot used was way better. But he also knew Chibs would never back him up when this came to the table. He kisses Alex and walks away. When he looks over his shoulder he sees Riley and Alex standing next to each other watching them walk away.
It's 5 in the morning when Riley wakes up with Nic standing next to her bed. Chibs tried to go home with her but she said she couldn't find a babysitter so she had a schoolgirl at home babysitting. He didn't get mad but she noticed the anger in his eyes. Maybe he should learn that not everything is up to him. She turns to Nic who is jumping up and down next to her bed.
"What's up Nic? Couldn't sleep anymore, buddy?" she gets up and swings her legs over the edge of the bed.
Nic crawls up the bed with her and puts his head on her pillow "Daddy's here".
Riley jerks her head towards him "what did you say baby?". He looks at her with a serious face "Daddy here, mommy". She looks at him and strokes his face "what do you mean with Daddy?".
"It means, his dad is downstairs waiting for you and his son. I've made some coffee" she hears the deep southern voice coming from the kitchen. She grabs her cellphone and text Alex and Chibs that she needs help. She gets Nic of her bed and walks downstairs "what are you doing here? How the hell did you find me?". She stands in the doorway with Nic on her arm. "I'm here for my son sweetheart. And not everybody around here is a friend".
There in the kitchen stands Brick Quinn. The man she had been running for since a year and a half. The blond haired Brick walks towards her and Nic. Riley puts his arms around Nic to protect him.
"He looks a lot like you honey" he wants to stroke his cheek when Riley pulls him away.
"What are you doing here Brick?" she puts Nic on the floor "Go to the living room baby, mommy will be there". Nic walks away to the living room but Riley notices the tense in the young boys body. He knows something is wrong.
"I want my son and my wife. You just left without saying goodbye" he turns to the counter and pours a cup of coffee for himself "want one to babe?".
"I'm not your babe, I'm not your honey and I'm definitely not your wife" she tries to walk to the counter quietly to get her gun. She got it from Eliot when she lived in Boston with him, Nate and the gang.
"Looking for this Riley?" he shoves the gun next to his cup of coffee "I've been looking for a long time before I found you. Boston being the last time. I almost found you but then you split. And now you wanna use a gun against me. On your own husband" he turns around and looks at her. This is the man she fears the most. She ran away from him and he is pissed. She hopes Alex or Chibs got her text 'cause she knows this shit will hit the van within a couple of minutes.
"Where's Eliot? He ain't here to protect you honey? All alone with my son I see" he wants to walk to the living room but Riley is blocking his way.
"Move aside Riley, you know I will hurt you". She puts a step in front of him "I know and I don't care. You're not going to get close to my son. When we lived in Baytown you didn't care, why the hell do you care now?". He puts his coffee aside and slaps her in her face. A bruise forming on her cheek "You never, never give me that tone bitch" he slaps her again and pushes her against the refrigerator. His hands around her neck "I want my son, you fucked me, it's my semen in your wet pussy who made this beautiful boy. My DNA...". Her hand clenching his hand around her throat. She moves her feet upwards and with one swift motion she kicks him in the nuts. "Jesus Christ" his hand leave her throat and goes directly to his balls, he falls on his knees. She kicks him in the head and he falls down, his head hitting the chair in the kitchen. She runs to the living room to grab Nic and runs out of the house to her car. She almost throws him in the car, no belt or anything. She gets in and starts the car. She sees through the kitchenwindow Brick is getting up from the floor "RILEY...RILEY... I WILL GET YOU AND I WILL GET MY SON" he turns his gaze from the hallway to her. He makes a gun motion with his hand. She puts her car in reverse and with shrieking tires she drives of the drive way. She sees his car in front of her house, Jesus she got to comfortable here. She puts the car in drive and races to the clubhouse.
With the feeling of the devil on her tail she drives up the parking lot. Almost creating a domino effect on the remaining bikes.
When he opens his eyes he has to blink a couple of times to see where he was. He recognizes the posters on the wall. He's in his old room in the clubhouse. When he turns on his side he sees the blond next to him. Oh crap he remembers it all again. He didn't want this blond, he wanted Riley. But she didn't want him. Or at least that's how he felt it.
She looked hot in her red backless dress. Her hair in a knot showing the beautiful tattoo on her back. She looked like a goddess. But when the night ended she shot him down with a lie again. She said she didn't have a babysitter but some schoolgirl to watch Nic. When he followed her home, he saw a different car in front of her house. He felt cheated. He started to like her. Hell, he started to love her. When he got back to the clubhouse there were some cro-eaters there and well he just grabbed one. The first one he could find. He slept with her, but every time he closed his eyes he saw Riley. When the blond was sucking his dick he just imagined Riley being the one. He didn't do anything to her. He just put his dick in her and that was it. He didn't wanted it to mean anything when he did it but he.. well what was he. Jealous? He didn't know what that meant, jealousy. But he sure as hell didn't like the feeling.
His thoughts get pushed away when he hears a noise in the clubhouse and with one swift motion he got out of bed. He grabs his gun and walks towards the door. Softly he opens the door and hears Riley's soft voice talking to someone. He looks over his shoulder to the blond in his bed. Shit, what is she doing here?
He opens the door and quickly leaves the room, when he's close to the clubhouse he hears Alex and she is panicking. He stands there to listen to them talk.
"Jesus Riley, what the hell was he doing there?" panic in her voice.
"I don't know. He woke up Nic to tell daddy was home and to wake me up. He was upstairs Alex, he could have killed me in my sleep" he doesn't hear panic in her voice but something close to anger and disgust "I never should have said no to Chibs. If he was there maybe this wouldn't have happened".
"What did he want?" Eliot is there to and he sounds concerned.
"He wanted his son and wife back" Riley sighs "Jesus, how did he find me?" he hears anger and concern getting mixed in her voice, he wants to go to her, hold her, tell everything will be fine but the wife part gets the best of him. Did she just say that guy wants his wife back? She didn't say anything about that when she came working here.
"I thought you two got divorced" surprisingly it is Juice who asks the question Chibs really wants an answer on.
"So did I, my lawyer in Baytown said he arranged everything. He called me three months after I left, that Brick had signed the papers and that I was free. The papers are with your dad in Boston" well that's a relieve.
"Well maybe he didn't get the message clear" he could hear Juice walking away.
"How did he find you here?" Alex asks quietly, Chibs could think of a lot of possibilities. Maybe brick did the same thing they always do, pay people to look.
"He said not everybody here is a friend. So I think someone ratted me out. But you know what this means Eliot..." he definitely didn't like the sound of that. He steps around the corner into the clubhouse. Ignoring the questionable faces from Alex and Eliot and fully aware he was only wearing a sweatpants.
"It means we need to protect yer son and you" he walks towards Riley and just holds her and he whispers "I'm so sorry I wasn't there luv". When he looks at Nic he sees Juice sitting next to him. He smiles and Chibs just nods. "Ya need protection luv and ya sure as hell need to leave yer home".
Alex nods in agreement "He's right Riley. He knows where you and Nic are living so you have to leave. You can stay at my place if you want to".
Riley nods and her gaze changes from her and now to a far distant "In the papers Clay gave me were the deeds to my old home. Maybe I could live there" she lets go of Chibs. He looks at her and can't but wonder what she is thinking. A hand on his shoulder spooks him, when he turns around he sees Eliot "Can I have a talk with you?". "Yeah sure" he follows him to the church where Juice is the one who closes the door.
"I've got the papers she gave you" Eliot grabs the papers from the save "You know that once she read them and makes everything official we loose everything".
Juice looks at them with an arched eyebrow "What are you guys talking about?".
"Riley's dad is a SAMCRO, one of the first 9. He owned the land where the clubhouse is on. Hell, he owned everything" Eliot puts the papers on the table. Chibs is eying them to see if they are all there.
"When we give the papers back to Riley, she owns the clubhouse, the land, a house. She owns everything. Daniel made sure of that" Eliot sighs, that's not what worries him Chibs knows there are also papers in there for the bar.
"She's a nice girl, she's loyal to her mom and dad. I'm pretty sure she wont screw us over" Juice wants to grab the papers but Eliot slides them back.
"It's not that what worries ya, is it Mr Hitter. Yer afraid she will own the bar and yer old lady will loose it all" Chibs sits down in his chair and looks at Eliot who is fighting an inner battle "I'm sure she will never let yer old lady down. She likes Alex and if we don't give the papers back, I'm afraid it will start a shitload of crap". He puts his hands in his hair, there were a lot of things he didn't want to know. This was one of them. He didn't want to know she owns everything, with this knowledge he could do some serious damage, SAMCRO could do some serious damage to her and Nic.
"We have to give them back, let her read it and then talk to her. I'm sure she will listen" Juice grabs the papers and wants to walk out when Eliot is blocking his way "I can't let you do that" a look of pain and betrayal on his face "I'm so sorry Carlos, I just can't".
Chibs gets up and gets the papers out of Juice his hands. He grabs the paper about the bar out of the stack of papers and pressed it roughly against Eliot's chest "Here ya go, Brother. Hope ya can sleep at night" he pushes him aside and opens the door to let Juice and himself pass. He grabs Juice his shoulder "Juicy boy, I need yer help. I need some cleaning up in my room. Could ya handle that before Riley finds out".
"Got it" he walks away and when he passes Nic he strokes his hair and walks towards the clubrooms. Well that's one thing handled.
Eliot sits down in his chair in church. He hears Chibs and Riley talk in a far distance. He isn't proud of himself but he had to protect Alex. He would do everything for her. He would give his live for her. But is this the right thing to do. Take something from Riley, the girl he had known for a very long while. Lying to her and to Alex just to make sure Alex could keep the bar. Maybe Juice was right, maybe if he would talk to her and explain everything she would make sure Alex could keep the bar. But what if she didn't and Alex looses it. Then what? Then what happened to them? He puts the paper in front of him on the table. He didn't really read the paper, he just saw deeds to the bar and he freaked. He used to be so calm, so sharp, cool and collected Riley used to call it. But now a days... When it came to Alex, he would kill for her. That made him very dangerous but also very vulnerable. He knew Brick also knows about Alex. Hadn't he asked Riley where he was? What if Riley would tell him everything in a weak moment and he would do something to Alex. Dear God, he couldn't even think of losing her. He would go crazy. His mom used to tell him he loved to much. He didn't just love a girl, he gave his whole life to make sure his girlfriend had a life as a princess. But he treated Alex like a queen. Even Parker and Nate used to tell him he should take it slow but he couldn't. Not when it concerned Alex. He fell hard for her when he first saw her, she didn't care for him after she left Dean. He knew Dean was a good guy but they just couldn't life together anymore. He heard her cry at night and that made him love her just more and more. But he loved Riley to, not like he did Alex. He loved her like a sister. They were together in Boston for a long while. Together day and night. Nic, Riley and he. He saw Nic grow up and now she is here again. He learned her to fight, he learned her how to cook. He really did see Riley as his little sister. He didn't know what would hurt more, betraying his girlfriend or his sister, but he made a decision.
He just couldn't do it anymore. He got up and walked towards Chibs and Riley. He looked at Alex who was sitting with Nic on her lap. He was a sleep and Alex was looking at the TV. What did Riley say, not everybody around here liked her. That means someone here ratted her out. He was determined to find out who it was. Could he trust Chibs? He knew he loved her, even if he didn't say it. He saw his look at the wedding. Chibs fell like he did. Chibs fell hard.
Could he trust Juice. It looked like He and Riley were inseparable, they were together a lot, they just talked but it made Chibs very jealous.
Yes he could trust them.
"Chibs" he said softly. Chibs turned his head with wonder on his face. He played it well.
"I think this fell out of the pile of papers" he hands over the paper of the bar. He looks at Alex who has fallen a sleep with Nic on her chest.
Chibs gently grabs the paper "Thanks brother". Eliot turns around and walks towards Alex. He takes his place next to her. Softly he pushes her against his shoulder. She changes her position and her head leans against his shoulder and Nic turns around and puts his head on Eliot his lap.
He looks at Riley, who stands there with tears in her eyes looking at the papers. He sees she puts one paper aside. The only thing he could hope for is that she makes the right decision and does it in the best interest of his wife to be.