Sandbox belongs to Kurt Sutter & SM I'm just having fun with their creations

"I finished it." Tara says placing the manuscript on the table next to Jax. He glances at her out the corner of his eye.

"You keep saying that you want to change things but you do the same thing that you've always done. You can't have it both ways." she says sitting down.

"Is there anything you love more than anything that you would do anything to protect it, no mater what the cost or what it did to you?" he asks her staring her in the eye.

She just looks at him, unsure how to answer.

"Really nothing. Well, that's how I feel about this club. Ever since I could walk all I wanted was a Harley and a kutte. Change is not going to happen overnight or without blood." he stands up and puts his kutte on, "It will happen though."

He grabs the rest of his stuff and leaves her staring after him.


She stirs when she feels him tracing the bullet shells on her lower back. She smiles when he kisses the back of her neck.

"I'm awake." she says softly.

"I know." he says and she can feel him smile against her skin.

She turns over and looks at him. Slowly, she raises a hand and starts tracing his face. "You okay?" she asks softly.

"Yeah...for the first time in a long time, I'm good." he says running a hand down her body, stopping to rest on her hip. She instinctively curls her leg around his hip, bringing their naked bodies closer. He lowers his head and softly starts kissing her. He moves so that he is lying between her legs when his phone starts going off just as they hear Kenny yelling that someone is at the door.

He growls as he drops his head on her shoulder. She laughs softly.

"I'm gonna kill whoever that is." he growls out moving off of her to grab his phone. She gets out of the bed and grabs one of his shirts off the nearby chair and slips it on as he answers his phone. "What?" he growls as she slips out of the room.

"Bella...someone is at the door, should I open it?" Kenny calls out when he sees her.

"I got it kiddo. Go see if your sister is awake and I'll make us some breakfast." she says ruffling his hair. She looks out the peephole and laughs softly when she sees who it is.

"Hi." Embry says when she opens the door.

"Enjoy the bed last night?" she asks turning to have him follow her.

"Yeah...you enjoy losing it last night?" he says softly to her.

"Damn wolf senses." she mutters entering the kitchen and opening the fridge.

"Baby sis, I don't need a good nose to tell that you are wearing his shirt with nothing underneath it or the fact that the house smells like sex." he laughs at her as she places bread and eggs on the counter.

Rolling her eyes, "Why are you here?" she asks not turning as she gets out everything to make french toast.

"Gemma wants to do a dinner tonight, with everyone." he says watching her start to cook and tries not to drool.

"Okay, why didn't she just text me?" she says looking at him over her shoulder.

He shrugs as Opie comes into the kitchen in his jeans and pulling a shirt on.

"That was Bobby, wants to see me and the rest of the guys at the clubhouse. ASAP." he says coming up behind her and wrapping his arms around her waist.

"You have time to eat?" she asks leaning back against him.

"No...wish I did though." he says honestly. "You okay?" he whispers to her, dropping his hand down to rest on her thigh.

"Yeah, sore but a good sore." she whispers back to him, nipping at his under jaw.

Embry sees this and knows that he is going to be letting the pack see that their sister has finally found her mate.

"Okay, see you later." he says reluctantly moving away from her.

"The kids and I will meet you at Gemma's." she tells him turning around to face him.

"Huh?" he asks.

"Gemma wants to do a dinner tonight. I'm here to let Bella and you know plus I was dropping a few days worth of clothes off for Bella since all she had was what she wore yesterday.

"Too bad, I like you in my clothes." he says dropping a kiss on her mouth before going to say goodbye to his kids.

"What?" she asks looking at Embry.

"Nothing, you look at each other the same way imprints look at each other." he says with a smile.

She smiles at that, blushing slightly when Opie comes back into the room, the kids not that far behind him to give her another kiss before he heads out.

"Bella?" Kenny asks sitting down next to Embry.

"Yeah, sweetie?"

"Are you and my dad boyfriend and girlfriend now?" Kenny asks looking at Ellie who was staring at Bella hopeful.

"Is it okay if we are?" she asks looking at the two kids she has grown to love.

They both nod and she smiles. "Yeah, we are."

Exchanging smiles and high fives, the two of them head back into the living room and wait for her to finish cooking.

They are sitting down to eat and trying to figure out what they are going to do for the day when her phone starts ringing.

It's Luann, who is upset and needing her down at the Caracara.

Embry offers to take the kids to Neeta after she calls her to make sure she can handle two extra kids.

Once they leave, she grabs some clothes from the bags that Bry brought her, takes a quick shower and heads out herself.


"What did you tell Stahl?" Jax demands standing in front of Hale.

"Nothing."

"Bullshit!"

"Stahl is here looking into a supplier. Not digging into SAMCRO." Hale says fixing the things on his desk.

"I know that we are not going to be on the same side but you have to know that Zobelle and that ATF bitch don't belong in Charming."

Hale takes a deep breath, "You were right about Zobelle never making mistakes. He's protected."

He scoffs, "Fucking figures. ATF can't touch the League."

"FBI's looking into white hate."

"So that's why that bitch needs us." he mutters.

"Now why would Stahl need SAMCRO. Seeing how you're just mechanics."

"Look at the big picture." he says leaving as his phone starts going off with text messages.


"Oh... I did not need to see that." He says walking into the clubhouse to find Half-Sac with his pants down, his dick on display.

"Showing off the new ball." Bobby says moving away from the bar to sit down.

"Congrats." he says to Sac and follows Bobby to sit down.

"What's up with you." Happy asks looking at him. "You seem...less grumpy..You got laid." he exclaims pointing at the smirk on his face.

He looks down, the smirk turning into a smile.

"Shit..you and...Bella." Half-Sac asks.

"Now you know why I really didn't want to leave me house this morning. She was making breakfast in just my shirt when I left."

"Good for you, brother. You're good together." Bobby says.

"Clay's gonna kill you...after Gemma if you fuck it up. You know that right?" Tig tells him.

He nods.

"So, what's up?" Half-Sac asks looking at Bobby.

"We need to figure out this thing between Clay and Jax." Bobby says. "Shit's been brewing for months, since Donna and it exploded at county."

"You think their beef has something to do with Donna?" he asked sitting up straighter.

"Nay...it's been going long before that." Tig tells them.

"What do you think they're fighting about?" Sax asks.

"Jax pushing for change." he says even though a small part of him agrees that things need to change.

"That kind of shit is good for us, keeps us current. What's between them is worse..and if it keeps going, it's going to hurt us worse than Zobelle or ATF. We need to get at the truth."

"I can talk to Jax." he says.

"You sure he'll tell you anything. The two of you have been bumping heads and with you banging his cousin..." Happy says.

"If he doesn't talk to me, you know he'll talk to Bella." he tells them.

"That'll work. Tigger, you need to talk with Clay. We need to find out what's going on. We'll bring it..."

Noticing Jax coming in, he gives him a nod causing Bobby to stop talking.

"Hey, what's up?" Jax says looking at all of them.

"Just downloading these two numbskulls." Bobby says.

"And his swollen nut." Tig says.

Jax just laughs, "Welcome back, Full-Sac." he jokes.

Sac just rolls his eyes.

"Chinese called. Want a sit down. I gotta head to Caracara. Clay around?" he asks looking around the clubhouse.


She has to pull over when her phone starts ringing. It's Lyla and she is freaking out.


Jax gets to the warehouse to find Bella and Luanne trying to calm down one of the girls.

"What happened?" he asks coming over to them.

"I got her." Luann says softly.

She nods her head at him, and he follows her inside. "Someone broke in. They stole one of the HD cameras and Luann's laptop."

"Fuck..okay. We can replace the camera." he starts.

"The problem, the laptop had some rough cuts on it."

He growls, "What happened to the guard dog that I bought?" he asks not sure he's going to like the answer.

"Over there. Once was enough." she says, wrapping he arms around her waist.

He finds the dog, gutted. 'Dead Bitch' is written on one of the dressing room doors above the dog. He looks and notices a bloody hand print is also on one of the office doors as well.

"Who's room?" he asks as Luann join him and Bella.

"Lyla. She's barely holding on, she finally decided to go clean. For Piper."

"Dammit." she mutters. She turns and looks at the office door that had been marked as well.

"Don't think no one noticed that the room you use to talk with the girls was marked as well." Luann said wrapping an arm around Bella's waist.

"What?" he snarled.

"Bella has been coming after school, to work with a few of the girls that are trying to get their GED."

Grabbing his phone, he leaves his cousin alone for a moment.


"Hey brother, what's going on?" Opie asks answering when Clay and Tig come out of the restaurant with Chuck.

"Need you at Caracara, brother." Jax tells him. "Someone broke in and stole a camera and laptop."

"Alright."

"The asshole also gutted the guard dog. Wrote dead bitch on one of the girls dressing rooms and left a bloody hand print on the office that Bella uses when she's here."

"I'll be there in a few." he growls turning to look at Clay.

"What's up?" Clay asks.

"Jax needs my help with something." he says not telling him what Jax had told him.

"I'm gonna need you guys. You stay available." Clay says as he turns to the van. "Take Chucky." Tig says pushing him towars the van.

Chuck quickly goes over to the van.

With a glare at Tig and Clay, he helps Chuck get into the van.


When Bobby gets there, he instantly heads to his office to check and make sure all the books are still there. When Opie gets there Bella instantly heads over to him, he wraps his arms around her and just holds her watching Jax talk with Bobby.

"That dog was four grand. That shit is wrong on so many levels." Jax says nodding to the now covered dog.

"The camera was worth at least ten grand." Luann says watching Opie comfort Bella.

"Camera's insured. Those rough cuts are worth so much more." Bobby says.

"Has to be Georgie since the cuts were taken?" Jax asks turning to see what Bobby and Luann are looking at, to see his best friend kissing his baby cousin.

"About time that boy got his head out of his ass to see how much that girl cares about him." Luann said feeling like a proud momma.

Opie kisses her one more time, before leaving her to help Lyla and joins the others.

"She okay?" Jax asks.

"Pissed and scared. She's gonna stay here for a bit before heading over to get the kids from Neeta. We know who did this shit?"

"Has to be Caruso." Bobby says.

"Let's go." he says and turns to leave.

"Alright, Jax what time does Gemma want everyone there?" Luann asks.

"Around eight."

Luann nods and heads over to Lyla and Bella.

"Why don't you come to dinner tonight?" Bella says softly to Lyla. "It will let Piper spend some time with Ellie and Kenny, also you'll be surrounded by the club."

"You can come with me. Be my date." Luann says kneeling in front of her.

Lyla nods.

"I'll pick Piper up on my way. Save you a trip. Now you have a scene to do, you up to it?" she asks softly standing next to Luann.

Lyla wipes the tears from her eyes and nods.


"Gemma, seriously wants to have a dinner, now?" Bobby says as they head outside.

"Sounds like a good idea."

"So...you and Bella?" Jax asks trying not to sound annoyed that he didn't see it.

"Yeah...gonna be a problem for you?" Opie asks turning to look at him.

"Nay, she'll kick your ass if you fuck up. I'll just help her hide the body. It's all good man, the two of you work." he says leaving the warehouse.

"Shit...I forgot." Opie mutters when they see Chucky waiting by the van. "A gift from the Chinese. Tig figures he can do the Caracara books." Chucky waves showing his chopped hands.

"They chopped them off." Jax says seeing that Chuck only has two fingers.

Chuck just nods.

"That mean you can't?" Bobby asks jerking his hand.

"Yes, masturbation is impossible."

"That's gotta royally suck." Jax mutters as he gets into the van.

"I wanted to thank you. Lin has been out of his mind." Chuck says getting in.

"Why?" Bobby asks sitting down next to him.

"He's been losing his turf to the Mexicans. They've taken over everything south of Water Street. It's why he needs the firepower."

"Alright, when we're done with Georgie will check in with Laroy." Jax says as Opie starts the van.


"Hey, how's he doing?" she asks when she bumps into Tara at the hospital. She had decided to check in on Chibs before she grabbed the kids.

"Let's see." Tara says as the enter the room.

Gemma is standing there glaring at a very pretty woman.

"Dr. Knowles, Bella. Fiona Larkin." Gemma says introducing them.

Ignoring them, she sits down on the bed next to Chibs. She remembers the name but not sure why.

"Nice to meet you but I'm sorry, ICU is for immediate family only." Tara tells Fiona.

"She is family." Gemma begins to explain.

"Get out." she says standing staring at Fiona, understanding finally clicking in.

"Bella?" Tara says looking at her in concern.

"She's his wife, the one that fucked him over more than once. Get out." she says glaring at the woman.

Gemma just smiles as Fiona glares at the young woman standing next to her husband.


Once the security guy leaves chasing after Chuck. He, Jax and Bobby stroll right in and head right for Georgie. Georgie tries to pull his gun but he knocks him to the ground and places his boot right on his throat.

"How's that feel?" he snarls thinking about the bloody hand-print on the door of the office that his girlfriend uses to help the girls. The gutted dog and 'dead bitch' written to scare all the girls. The door opens and Bobby quickly holds his gun on Georgie's security guy.

"Give us the camera before my boy crushes your boss' throat." Jax snarls.

"Give it to 'em." Georgie rasps out.

Slowly the man leaves with Bobby right behind him.

Seeing the two laptops on the desk, Jax heads over to them. "This one is ours." he says unplugging the laptop. Smirking he picks up Georgie's laptop.

"That one's mine!" Georgie tries to yell as Jax drops it into the fish-tank.

"That's for the dog. You psycho piece of shit." Jax snarls as he removes his foot, still standing over Georgie.

"You idiots really think you can crash in here and take stuff from me?! You got no idea who you are messing with..." Georgie yells.

He grabs Georgie by the throat, snarling, "No. You fucked up when you threatened my girl."

"Which one? The whore or the teacher?" Georgie rasps.

"Stay away from Bella. You touch or think about her and I will kill you." he says slamming him down so his head makes a loud crack when he hits the floor.

The three of them walk out, not seeing the murderous glare on Georgie's face.


She follows Tara and Gemma out of Chibs' room. Fiona stalking away in front of them.

"I didn't know Chibs was married." Tara says looking at her and Gemma.

"They just never got divorced." Gemma says. "How did you know about her sweetie?" she asks pulling her close.

"Had a little talk a while back about family and he told me that he had a wife that ripped his heart out more than once."

"Wow." Tara said staring after the woman.

"That woman is one of three that scare me. How's Chibs doing with his insurance?" Gemma asks changing the subject.

"Once he's out of critical, they're going transfer him to county."

"That can't happen. Not with that Irish bitch around." Gemma tells her.

"I can't do anything." she motions to an older woman at the nurses station, "See that woman? She's Margaret Murphy, chief administrator. She has been watching my ass since she got here. I do anything and she'll be all over it."

Tara leaves them standing there.

"I'll meet you at the house." she says and heads to the stairs when she sees Margaret head for the elevator.


Jax and Opie drop by Laroy's club, but in back they're surprised to walk into a group of Mayans who quickly disarm them and have guns against their heads.


She sits on a blanket at the park, watching Kenny, Ellie and Piper run around.

"Getting rid of some energy?" Embry asks sitting down next to her.

"Yeah." she says softly.

"Should I see if some more of the guys can come down?" he asks, worried.

"No..I think I'm going to distance myself from the Caracara for a little bit. Going to work with the girls at the clubhouse. A little safer." she says smiling at the kids.

"The blond, that's Lyla's kid?" he asks not sure if he got the name right.

"Yeah, she and Luann are going to work right until they have to leave for the dinner. I offered to have him with me so he could have some fun with Kenny and Ellie and give her plenty of time to calm down."

"You know, you are going to be a great mom." he says honestly.

"You think?" she whispers.

He just smiles and throws his arm over her shoulders, "You are already one."

She laughs, smiling watching 'her' kids.


"We probably should have called first." Bobby snarks. They are sitting in one of the booths with Mayan guns trained on them. Jax and Opie nod as all their phones start going off on the table.

"Clay. Wondering where the hell we are." Opie says. "Heard about county."

Jax scoffs.

"We always use to be able to talk about this shit." he tries again.

"Not lately." Jax says glaring at the guy with his gun on him.

"It got anything to do with this beef you and Clay got going on? If I knew what was going on..."

"Change, brother and keeping things contained." Jax says.

"What?" he asks slightly confused. Bobby looks confused as well.

"You keep getting deeper in with Clay. If it wasn't for Bells...I would think that I'm losing all my friends." Jax tells him honestly.

What he was going to say is cut off when Alvarez enters the backroom.

"Laroy don't live here anymore, ese." Alvarez tells them.

"We can see that. Interesting Russian hardware." he says mentioning the guns.

Alvarez just smirks at them.

"Hate to cut this short but my ma is expecting us for dinner." Jax says.

"Send Clay a message. That bullshit truce is done. Mayans are no friends of the Sons." Alvarez motion to a few of his crew. "Get them out of here..and take their kutts."

"That ain't happening." Jax growls out.

Alvarez comes over and places the barrel of his gun to his temple.

"Do it. It's the only this is coming off my back." Jax growls at him, refusing to back down.

Alvarez says the next time any Son walks into Mayan territory, they aren't walking out and leaves.


She's having Ellie help cut vegetables and fruit to snack on as Gemma takes the roast out of the oven.

"Thought you were bringing the salad." she says to Tara when she storms in.

Tara ignores her and heads right to Gemma.

"You know what this is?" she says holding out a sheet of paper.

"Paper." Ellie says proud of herself.

"Go find your brother and Piper." she says steering her out of the kitchen. She catches Bry's eye and he quickly gets her out of the room.

Breathing deeply, "This is a hostile work environment claim. Filed by Margaret Murphy against me and my proxy." Tara says glaring at Gemma.

Gemma scoffs, "Pussy."

"You threatened her." Tara says trying to not raise her voice.

"No, I just had a passionate conversation with her in the elevator." Gemma tells her.

"This is my job!" Tara yells. "Do you know how long and hard I have worked to get where I am?!"

"Tara. Calm down." she says stepping between the two of them.

"This..." holding up the claim, "Could cost me my livelihood! My life is my life. Stay out of it." Tara growls at Gemma and stalks off.

"Aunt Gem..." she says turning to look at her. "I know your heart was in the right place but Tara's not you."

"I know, sweetie. I'll give her a few days and try to smooth things over."


"Here we go." Jax mutters as he, Opie and Bobby pull into the driveway.

"There you guys are." she says coming out of the house as they get close to the door. Opie pulls her to him, she instantly curls into his side. "Tara is in a mood." she says glancing at Jax.

"Dammit." Jax says entering the house. Bobby right behind him.

"Things handled?" she asks looking up at him.

"Yeah." he says dropping his head and kissing her softly.

"Come on, before I forget that we are suppose to be having a dinner." she says with a smile on her face and start to pull him inside.

"Wait...I know we haven't figured everything out but..."

"Harry..." she smiles softly at him, "You are my boyfriend and I'm your girlfriend. We'll figure out everything else as we go along."

He smiles and nods, dropping one more kiss on her mouth before following her inside.

Embry holds out a beer to him, he follows her, his hands on her shoulders as Gemma starts placing food on the table.

"You okay?" Jax asks Tara, coming to stand next to her as they watch his ma place food on the table.

"I don't know. Can we talk about it at home?" Tara asks.

Jax nods and places a kiss on her head.

"Alright everyone, let's sit down." Gemma calls all of them to the table. They are in the process of sitting down when Clay and the others walk in, pissed.

"Where the hell were you three?! I got two guys in the hospital and you decide to forget how to use a phone?!" Clay yells.

Bella and Embry quickly get the kids stand and sends them out of the room.

"We were in our own shit." Bobby tells them trying to calm everyone down.

"We almost got killed trying to get our guns back." Tig snarls.

"Not here, man." Bobby starts. "Club business."

That seems to set things off and the boys go after each other.

"Ummm, sorry to interrupt." Hale says making his presence known.

"What are you doing here, Hale?" she says not liking the look on his face.

"I figure this would be better coming from me. We found Luann Delaney's car off county eighteen. She and her passenger were beaten badly. Luann is on her way to St. Thomas, unconscious. Her passenger a Lyla.."

"Oh god..." she whimpers sitting down. Opie comes over and rests his hands on her shoulders.

"She didn't make it. I'm sorry." Hale says before leaving the same way he came in.

"Is this your fault?" Clay asks looking at Jax.

"It's not their fault." she whimpers out.

None of them seem to hear her and once again go after each other.

Gemma picks up the serving platter and drops it onto the table where it shatters, getting everyone's attention.

They stop shouting at each other and everybody stands quiet.