Jax was pissed off beyond belief. I could tell by the way his nose was flaring. He was almost frothing at the mouth and there was nothing I could do to stop his anger because I was just as angry. If not angrier.
On one hand I was glad it was just Gemma that took them, on the other hand I was furious that Gemma, for one thought I would just leave and for two that she would take my children anywhere without my knowledge.
Jax had been trying to get ahold of his mother for about an hour before he threw his phone against the wall. He was handed another prepaid immediately after and began calling once more. I wanted to scream cry and throw things every time she didn't pick up the damn phone. Even rat had been trying to call. Of course, that had been after he took an upper cut from Tig, a punch to the gut from Bobby, a black eye from Happy and a broke nose from Chibs before Jax had taken over and quite literally knocked him the hell out.
After that everybody got on their phones and called Gemma back to back. "Why the fuck isn't she answering!" Jax roared and slammed his fist on the table we were sitting at, making me jump about a foot high.
Sighing around my nail bud that I keep on biting at, I look toward Jax "She knew this would happen. She knew that the minute we found out we would call her. We have to think ahead of her." Standing up I begin to pace. I can feel the guys watching me their eyes moving back and forth with my movements. "What's a safe place she would take them? A place I don't know about? Someplace no one would suspect?"
There's a dead silence for several minutes till "I know someplace!" Thomas shouts and crosses the room to me. "There's only one place she feels safe a and secure" he looks to his brother "Grandpa's house" turning so he was looking at both of us he says "she took me there before. Said it was the only place that made her feel safe and no one knew the address to. Except..."
"Her two boys" Jax finished and Thomas nodded. Jax stood up suddenly and looked to me "let's go" we walked out of the club house with everybody on our tail.
It was when I went to the car that Jax grabbed my elbow and maneuvered me toward his bike "it'll be faster on the bike"
"But the kids? How are we gonna drive them back?"
"You can drive my moms car"
That stopped me in my tracks "No way, Jackson. She clearly thinks I'm capable of taking them away from you without a word. Why the hell would I ever be in a car with her for that long? She doesn't trust me. After all these years, she really thinks I would just take the kids away from you? Away from this family?" Tears sprang to my eyes as I said it. How could she ever think that? She was like a mother to me. Someone I confided in, someone I turned to for advice and help, how could she ever think badly of me? I would never take them away. Hell I didn't want to, if Jax wasn't pushing it, we would stay here and endure anything that came at us.
Jax cups my cheek and runs his thumb along my face but clays the one that speaks "She can ride back with me. I know she hurt you, darlin and I won't make excuses for her. We'll explain the situation but she can ride back with me so you can take the kids in the car. Jax is right, the bikes will be faster to get there"
With a nod we begin to move but only after Jax lays a gentle kiss to my lips. Even through all this he's my support system, my rock and that one kiss tells me he'll bring our kids home no matter what he has to do to get them.
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The ride to his grandfathers house went by so quickly I could have blinked and been there, which I suppose was a good thing. I wanted my kids back and if speeding down the highway was a sure way of getting me there, then so be it.
I hopped off the bike before Jax even stopped it. He was right behind me though, anxiousness and fear driving us forward.
"Her car isn't here" I spoke up as I looked around.
"Maybe she parked it around back" Thomas mentions as he jogs forward with some keys in hand. I take a peak into the windows there isn't any movement and any kind of indication that my kids have been here. My conclusion is confirmed when Thomas comes out of the front door shaking his head "She isn't here. The kids either" Jax rushes in anyway and I can hear his growl of frustration when he confirms for himself what his brother already said.
Coming back to where I'm standing outside he joins my side and takes my hand. "Where the he'll could she be?" He whispers and I shrug feeling defeated and angry. Wrapping my arms around him I lay my head on his shoulder and kiss the side of his neck as her wraps his arms around me "At least we know their with her. Their not scared & their not hurt" he whispers as she rubs my back, soothingly. My eyes fall shut as I listen to his words and just nod. He's right, of course he is, I just didn't care. I wanted my children back.
We stay like that for a few minutes. Clay made a few of the guys do a perimeter run and the rest of them made phone calls. I hear fast foot steps and look up to see juice running up to us.
"She's pulling up right now" he rushes out as he reaches us but now me and Jax are in motion, rushing to the car pulling into the drive way. "Their not with her, Jax" I observe as I look threw the windshield and my heart starts to race.
Jax reaches her side before I can blink and tosses her door open before she can reach for the handle. "Jesus, Jackson I wa-"
"Save it, Gemma, Where the hell are my kids" he roars the minute she steps out of the car.
"Their safe, baby, mind explaining to me what she's doing here though?" Gemma points to me and I can't hold my tongue any longer.
"WHAT HELL DO YOU MEAN WHY AM I HERE? YOU TOOK MY CHILDREN, HAVE THEM GOD KNOWS WHERE AND EXPECT ME TO JUST SIT AT HOME?"
Gemma cocks her eyebrow and throws her hands on her hips as clay rounds the corner "We know what you think, Gem, we came to tell ya it's not like that, Tara was just-"
"Trying to take my grand babies away from
This family"
"Jesus Christ, Ma just tell me where my kids are and we'll talk about this later back at home. When my kids are where their supposed to be. With their mother and father. Where are they ma? Seriously before I loose my shit and do something I don't think I'll regret" Jax stressed as he pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Was that a threat?" She asked him as she crossed her arms.
I could tell them moment Jax lost his are dwindled patients. His eyes shifted from a light blue to a deep dark blue as he looked as his mother with pure annoyance and...a little hatred maybe? "WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY?" His voice boomed making everyone flinch including Gemma.
"Their at the park with your grandfather" she conceded. I watched as Clay came over and put a hand on Jax's shoulder "Go get your kids. We'll stay here"
Jax turns to me and gives me a stif nod that has me turning on my heel but before I can make it to the other side of the car Gemma grabs my wrist. "It'll be over my dead body if you ever think you'll take my grand babies away from this family" She sneers.
"And it'll be over mine if you ever think you'll have that kind of influence over what I do with MY children. I will do WHATEVER I need to do to keep MY kids safe and happy. Without your approval or permission" Ripping my arm from her grasp I shoot her one last look then got into the car.
Jax makes a show of pulling me to him and kissing me letting me know and letting Gemma know he's stands with me. When he pulls away he leans his forehead against mine. "What's best for our family will always be left to what ever decision WE make for it. Nobody will ever come between that. I will do what ever is best for you and our kids I need you to trust me on that"
Running a hand threw his hair I nod "I do, baby, never doubt that. Now let's go get our kids please. I want to take them home" he takes my hand kiss the back of it before holding it in his lap as he pulls out and heads to the park.
I had to toss my argument with Gemma to the side. It honestly hurt to think, that the person I considered a mother to me, would ever think I would just abandon the family I created or take my kids away from their father. It hurt, but I wouldn't tolerate her behavior and if taking my kids away from Charming was the decision Jax and I made to keep our kids safe, then there wasn't a person on this planet that would keep me from doing that. Especially the SOA matriarch.
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Jax's POV
The park wasn't far from my grandfathers house and the minute I parked the car Tara flung herself out of it. I searched the park quickly but my eyes landed on my children instantly. Kallie Abel and Kenny where taking their turn on a slide, wind swept hair and bright smiles. I felt my body relax and a smile finally raise on my face, my anger towards my mother dissipated slightly. I was pissed about the way she treated Tara. I had no idea she would pull some shit like this.
"Their fine" I take Taras hand as we walk toward them. She simply nods as she watches them play but I pull her to a stop and stand in front of her and frame her beautiful face "I know your hurt by my mom, Tara-"
"Jax please I don't want to talk about this"
"To bad cause we are. I'm sorry. I don't know what made her think that of you. I really don't but like I said before nothing changes regardless of what my mother thinks. We will make the choices for the family we created no one else."
Tara nods and lays her head on my shoulder as I wrap my arms around her "It just hurts Jax. I haven't done anything for her to think that of me. We've come to far for her to even think I was capable of the things she was accusing me of"
Sighing, I rub her back and kiss the back of her head. "I know, baby, I know" I was going to have a long discussion with my mother when we got back home.
"Momma!" "Daddy!" "Aunt Tara uncle Jax! You came!"
We come apart as our kids and nephew spot us. Abel runs straight to his mother and Tara scoops him up as Kallie reaches me and I do the same. Kenny stays put until Tara reaches to embrace him and he barrels into her.
"Daddy where were you? Grandma kept saying we wouldn't see you guys for a little while" Kallie asks me and my blood begins to boil once more. What the hell was my mother thinking?! Over her head I see my grandfather sitting on the bench, he's turned to us and he waved before turning back to the news paper he was reading. I'd have to talk to him about somethings as well but first...
"Grandma was wrong baby." That was the only explanation she needed and apparently she had no objections to it either as she nodded her little head. "Let's go home" I tell Tara and she nods reaching for Kenny's hand as she walks back to the car.
I run a hand threw my little girls Gorgeous locks and kiss her forehead as she smiles "Can we get ice cream daddy?" Laughing I nod and walk a little slower than Tara to the car. "Sure princess" I put her down and take her hand in mine as we continue toward the car.
And then everything seems to go into slow motion. I look over to Tara, her hair blowing in the wind smile on her beautiful face as she buckles in Abel. Kenny jumping in on the other side.
The van driving beside her slows down, the doors opening and masked men grabbing her from behind. She screams as they toss her inside and I can feel my legs running to catch up to her, her voice carries itself to me and I hear the terror as she screams my name. I can hear the kids yelling. Abel crying, Kallie screaming for her mother, Kenny looking on in awe. Im yelling now to, telling the kids to stay put and then I'm running full speed trying to catch up to the van, to the men that's taken my wife. The last thing I see before I drop to my knees is the love of my life banging on the back window.
I have the urge to keep running, to find that van and kill every last one of them but I can't. My children just watched their mother get taken right before their eyes and they needed me.
"Jackson, what the hell just happened" Wiping the tears that I didn't realize were falling I get up and turn to my grandfather.
"My Wife was just kidnapped" I tell him simply as I look behind him towards my kids. I don't know weather it's from shock or complete utter despair that I feel so...calm. My focus right now has to be my kids, and then I can rip the town apart looking for my Tara, my wife, the love of my life and the mother of my 2 very scared children.
Kallies shaking and Abel's crying for his mother and Kenny has gone completely still and silent. Sighing, I run a hand down my face and walk towards them.
"Daddy?" Kallie looks up at me eyes red and watery and her voice small and scared. And it's in that moment that I know things are about to get real bloody but first, I had to get my kids the hell out of dodge.
A/N:
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