Tara woke up the next morning in her husband arms. She turned around to face Jax and found him staring at her.

"What?" She smiled.

"Your beautiful you know that?"

God damn her husband was perfect.

"How did I get so lucky?"

"No darlin, I'm the lucky one."

"I love you." She kissed him once more.

Tara got up and walked into Abel's room.

"Mommy!" He yelled.

"Shh! Thomas is still sleeping." She whispered.

Abel covered his mouth with his hands. "Woops!" He giggled.

Tara picked him up and kissed him all over, he squirmed in her arms. "How about you go hangout with daddy while I make breakfast?" She said while putting him down.

"Okay!" Abel ran straight into Tara and Jax's bedroom.

Tara went into the kitchen and started a pot of coffee.

She thought of the night before and decided to call Blair.

Blair woke up with a pounding headache. She dug through her stuff, found advil and took two.

Her phone started to ring.

"Hello?" Blair answered.

"Hey! It's me."

"Oh hey Tara!"

"Are you okay?"

Blair recalled the night before. She shook her head and sat down on the bed.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I talked things over with my dad and we are all good now."

Tara let out a sigh of relief. "Good, I'm glad."

"Yeah."

"I was just wondering if you wanted to do something later, maybe go shopping? Grab a bite to eat?"

Blair smiled to herself. "Yeah, that would be really fun."

"Oh yay! Awesome. I was going to drop the boys off at the clubhouse later, Gemma wanted to spend some time with them. Do you want to meet me there around one?"

"Yeah perfect."

"See you later."

Blair hung up the phone and smiled.

Gemma sat at the kitchen table staring outside while drinking her coffee.

"Good mornin baby." Clay wrapped his arms around her.

She turned around to face him and kissed him on the lips.

"Good morning."

She stared at him. "Oh Clay..." She gently touched the bruises and cuts on his face.

"It's nothing, I'm okay." He gave his wife a reassuring smile.

She raised a doubting eyebrow and went back to drinking her coffee.

"You talk to Blair last night?" Gemma looked up from her coffee.

"Yeah..."

"She pissed?"

"Yeah. She had a right to be though."

"Yeah, good thing it wasn't me. If I didn't have time to calm down I probably would've ripped Ope's head off."

Clay laughed. "Yeah... Probably."

Gemma playfully smacked Clay. "Hey! I'm a pretty calm person..."

Clay raised his eyebrows and smiled.

"What?" Gemma asked innocently. She thought for a few seconds. "Well most of the time.."

Clay laughed. "Whatever you say my love." He kissed her.

Jax lied on his bed with Abel sitting next to him.

"Vroom vroom." Abel moved his toy motorcycle. "Daddy my motorcycle is fast just like yours."

Jax smiled at his son. "Yeah buddy, that's a real nice motorcycle."

Abel giggled.

"How about we go see if breakfast is ready?"

"Yeah!"

Abel ran into the kitchen as Jax followed behind.

"Can you go get Thomas out of bed?" Tara asked her husband.

He nodded his head yes.

Jax walked into Thomas's room and picked up his son.

"Daddy." Thomas smiled.

"Hey buddy." Jax kissed the top of his head.

Jax walked back into the kitchen with Thomas in his arms.

"I'm going to go hop in the shower. Can you feed them?" Tara asked.

"Yeah."

Jax fed his sons breakfast.

He watched as his boys ate and he remembered eating breakfast as a kid, his dad was never around. Jax never knew that he was loved by his father. John was always busy, busy with the club, busy with work, always busy and never had time for his kids. Jax didn't want that for his boys.

"Boys, I love you so much, don't you ever forget that."

"We love you too daddy. We won't." Abel said.

"You promise?"

"Yeah." Abel smiled.

Opie rubbed his eyes. He lied on his bed at the clubhouse. He got up and took a look in the mirror, recalling last nights events.

"Damn..."

He investigated the bruises on his face and the cut below his eye, most likely from Clay's rings.

Opie smiled to himself. He didn't care about the bruises, or the cut, it was all worth it because he got to get to know Blair.

Blair, he smiled even brighter. She was the most beautiful girl he'd ever talked to. Not to mention her amazing personality... He quickly snapped out of it. He knew that it just wouldn't work. Gemma, Clay, and even Jax wouldn't allow that to happen. They wouldn't allow Blair to become someone's old lady.

"Son?" Piney said from behind the door.

"Come on in dad."

Piney walked in, looking exhausted.

"I came to see how you were doing?"

"I'm fine, just a little sore."

"That son of a bitch."

"Dad... It was an accident."

"Oh bull shit it was an accident. Clay is a manipulative ass hole who will destroy anyone or anything standing in the way of him."

"It's his daughter, he wants to protect her. I know exactly how it is, and if you had a daughter you would know too. It's just instinct."

"Oh yeah, then where are your kids now?"

Opie clenched his fists. His father pissed him off so much, but he was wise... Opie had to give him props for that.

"They are with mom."

Piney stared at Opie.

He second guessed his answer. "Right?"

"Yeah your right, but this is the shit I'm taking about Ope. You didn't even know that one hundred percent. Your kids need you, they lost one parent and they don't need to loose the other."

Opie closed his eyes at the thought of Donna... The love of his life. He hated thinking about it, going back to that place. His wife was killed because of the club, a club he was still a part of. It was as simple as that.

"I'll pick them up tonight." Opie said, knowing that probably wouldn't happen.

"Alright son."

Piney walked out of the room and left Opie alone with his haunting memories.

Gemma sat in the office sorting through some old documents, she decided to file away a few more papers before Tara and the boys got there.

"Hey mom." Gemma turned around and saw Jax.

"Oh hey baby." She kissed him.

"What are you doin?"

"Oh nothing, just going through some old papers and filing some shit before the boys get here."

"Oh sounds like fun." Jax smiled sarcastically.

Gemma rolled her eyes. "Ya little shit." She smiled.

Jax laughed.

"What are you guys up to today?"

"Ah nothin much. We just have to meet with the niners today."

"Be careful baby. Please?"

"Always." He gave her a smile.

"I love you Jackson."

"I love you too mom." He hugged her tightly.

"Grandma!" Abel came running through the door.

"Hey baby." She kissed her grandson.

"Yeah grandma." Jax winked at his mother. She smiled and rolled her eyes.

"Hi Gemma." Tara walked in, handing Thomas to Gemma.

"Hey sweetheart." Gemma kissed Tara and Thomas.

"I'm meeting Blair here, we are going shopping and then we are going to get something to eat."

"Sounds like fun." Gemma smiled. She was excited that her daughters were bonding.

Chibs walked in the office. "Jackie boy! Ready to head out?"

"Yeah."

"Chibs!" Abel ran over and gave him a big hug.

"What's up little man?"

"I'm playing with grandma today!"

"Have fun! Word on the street is that grandma makes great cookies." Chibs winked at Gemma.

Abel smiled.

Gemma and Tara walked outside.

Gemma went over to Clay and kissed him passionately. "Stay safe baby."

Clay nodded.

"And keep Jax safe."

"I will." Clay smiled, he received this speech every time they made runs. "I love you."

"And I love you." Gemma said as she kissed her husband one more time.

Tara kissed Jax. "Be safe."

Jax smiled. "Of course."

"I love you so much Jackson Teller."

"I love you even more Tara." Jax kissed his wife.

Tara walked over and stood next to Gemma and her boys.

Gemma put her arm around Tara and Tara leaned her head against Gemma's shoulder.

"It never gets easy baby." Gemma kissed Tara's head.

"I know."

They watched as the guys rode out of the TM lot.

About ten minutes after the guys left Blair pulled into the lot.

"Aunt Blair!"

Abel ran over to his aunt and jumped into her arms.

"Hey cutie, how are you?"

"Good." He smiled and kissed her on the cheek.

"Hey Blair." Tara hugged her sister in law.

"Hi Tara." Blair hugged her back.

"Hey mom."

"Hi sweetheart." Gemma kissed her daughter on the cheek.

"Where's dad, Jax and the guys?"

"You just missed them, they just headed out to meet with the niners."

"Should I even ask?" Blair looked at Tara.

"No." Tara smiled. "Ready to head out?"

"Yeah!"

"Alright you girls have fun. I'm going to take the boys to my house."

"Okay. See you later Gemma."

"Bye mom."

Blair and Tara arrived at the mall and walked inside.

"Retail therapy."

Tara laughed. "Oh yeah. You really need this, you've had a crazy few days."

"Your tellin me!" Blair looked at Tara and they both started cracking up.

"So... What's the niners?" Blair casually asked as they looked at shoes.

"Oh... They're just another crew, some more frenemies. Almost all crews that the sons associate with are frenemies."

Blair laughed, not wanting to push the subject any further.

"What's with Opie?"

"What about Opie?" Tara gave Blair a questioning look.

"He's just so... so different from the rest of the guys. There's just something about him."

"Well... A few years ago Clay thought Ope betrayed the club, and you know what happens when you betray the club right?"

"No..."

"They kill you."

Blair jumped back a little, surprised by that. "Oh..."

"Yeah. Anyway, one night Ope let Donna, his wife, drive his truck to go help Gemma clean up and Opie drove Donna's car home to put the kids to bed. Clay had Tig follow Opie's truck and the plan was to do a drive by, Tig didn't see who was driving and he killed her on accident. It crushed Opie, he hasn't been the same since. He rarely sees his kids and he's just so distant now."

Blair blinked her eyes, realized that she'd been staring the whole time.

"Shit..."

"Yeah."

"Poor Opie..."

"Yeah, he's had a rough couple of years."

"I can't even imagine."

Blair wanted to wrap her arms around Opie and tell him that everything would be okay.

Clay looked down at his watch. The niners were late. If he'd learned one thing from being in this business it was that being late was a very bad sign...

"Jax they said two o'clock right?"

"Yeah, I don't know where the hell they are."

Just as Jax finished the sentence the niners arrived in their fancy cars.

"Shit..." Bobby muttered.

The sons watched as the niners pulled out their guns.

"What the hell are you guys doing?" Clay yelled.

"Your trying to rip us off with this gun deal."

"What are you talking about?" Clay said.

"Shut the fuck up! You know exactly what we are talkin about!"

"Clay..." Jax looked at him.

Clay motioned for the sons to get their guns out.

Clay was the first to fire.

The sons took cover behind their motorcycles, shooting back at the niners every rare chance they got.

"Shit! I'm out of ammo! Toss me another gun!" Jax yelled.

Clay stared at his stepson and then looked at the truck full of guns. The truck was just a few feet away. Clay tossed Jax his gun and made a run for the truck.

"Clay what the hell are you doing!" Jax shouted.

Clay kept running toward the truck. He felt a bullet rip through him and he fell to the ground.

"Shit!" Tig watched Clay go down. "Jax!"

Jax turned around and saw his stepfather lying on the ground.

"Tig cover me!"

Jax ran over to Clay and put him in the back of the truck.

Jax didn't even think twice before he sped off to the hospital.