My eyes flew open and I about jumped out of my skin when I felt something soft press against my shoulder blade.

"Fin," a hand grabbed my shoulder before my feet hit the ground,"Finley," his voice finally recognized in my brain and I looked behind me. "Jesus, what was that?" Chibs was laying behind me.

"I forgot you were here," I confessed and laid back down in the bed.

"I thought I was a little more memorable than that," he started stroking my hair that was fanned out across my pillow.

"Usually people leave in the middle of the night it's only polite, now I have to kick you out," I smirked at him and wiggled over so my head was on his bare chest and he wrapped his arms around me.

"Oh so it's like that then?" I didn't have to look at him to know he was smiling.

"Aye, you got your rain check, what more do you want from me?" I knew it was a dangerous question, it shouldn't be, I wasn't sure if I wanted to know the answer.

"I haven't figured out what I'm going to do with you yet," I felt him press a kiss to the top of my head. "Today is going to be a busy day for the club, I need you to stay close around here,"

I nodded my head and pressed a kiss to the middle of his chest where a tattoo of some kind of bill was.

"Promise me," he ordered, pulling his upper body away from me and causing me to look up at him.

"Promise," I rolled my eyes at him.

In the distance something metal fell and it sounded like the front door slammed.

"We've got to do something about how jumpy you are, you're safe with me Darling," he stood up and pulled the jeans we had thrown last night in the corner back on his body. After he buttoned his pants he turned back to me and I noticed a tattoo over his heart I hadn't seen last night.

"What are they going to do now that Jimmy is gone?" I asked Chibs sitting up pulling the sheet with me to cover myself.

"Who?" he asked slipping on his shirt.

"Kerianne and Fiona,"

He stopped getting dressed and looked at me, " I'm not sure," he answered truthfully. "Why?"

"Do you still love her?" I didn't know why I was asking, I knew the thing between us was exactly what had happened last night, sex it would never be anything more. Guys like him didn't want a relationship and I wasn't sure if I did either. I was happy single I always had been;

"Aye, I love her as the mother of my child, but not as a wife anymore, our marriage was over way before Jimmy came into the picture,"

"She played a big part in raising me," I informed him, "I used to help Kerianne with her homework and watch her when she was little," he began getting dressed again, finding his cut on the floor and putting it on.

"Aye," he said sitting on the edge of the bed and putting his boots on, "Gemma is making breakfast for everyone this morning," he didn't say anything else just stood up and left.


"Morning Doll, how did you sleep?" Gemma greeted me at the end of the hall.

"Okay," I smiled at her, "Come fix a plate, make some friends," the whole bar area was full of people, and I wasn't sure exactly what to do so I started over to the food, trying to avoid eye contact with Chibs; I could feel his eyes on me. Once I got some food on my plate I wasn't sure where I was going to sit so I started back towards my room.

"FINLEY!" I looked up to see Jax standing by a table watching me, "Come sit with us," he motioned me towards a table with a dark haired woman holding Abel. "Finley, this is Tara," he introduced me to woman I now knew was his old lady, the Dr. "Tara this is Finley, we owe her Abel's life," Jax informed Tara causing me to blush.

"You really don't, anyone would of done it,"I assured him sitting down on the other side of Jax.

"No they wouldn't have," Jax tried to tell me causing Tara to sit up straighter and look over at him.

"So Jax tells me you're a surgeon?" Tara quickly asked like she was trying to change the subject.

"I was only a surgeon assistant," I corrected her, "but I guess I'm not anymore,"

"You know I'm close with the administrator of the hospital, if you would be interested I could see if they had a position open,"

"That would be great," I smiled at the woman, "But I'm not sure if I'll be here long enough to get a job," I tried to tell her.

"Talk to the hospital, she'll be here," Jax nodded at Tara before I could object Opie came up behind us and made an announcement.

"Everybody! Lyla has something to tell you!" Opie's booming voice bounced off the walls of the club house.

"We're getting married!" Lyla held up her hand and everyone started cheering, crowding around them. I also stood up not knowing what else to do, I was happy for them, finding someone you wanted to be with in this kind of lifestyle was something special.

Everyone held up whatever they were drinking around the couple.

"Let's here it! To Lyla!"

"Also to Finley, who saved Abel," Jax interrupted their cheer.

"To Lyla and Finley!" The group spoke before we could protest, hitting their glasses together and shooting back whatever they were drinking.


"Hey," A knock sounded on my door while I was sorting through my clothes, I looked up to see Tara standing in the doorway.

"Hi," I smiled at her and she came into the room.

"You settling in?" She asked sitting beside me on the bed.

"Aye, you could say that,"

"I was serious about that job, if you want it I can talk to her,"

"Thanks, let me get back to you, I'm not sure how long I'm going to be in town," she nodded her head at me.

"Jax told me about what happened with Jimmy," she picked up Padraic's patch on the bed beside her.

"Anyone would of done it," I tried to tell her again.

"Do you know how Abel got taken?" she asked.

"Cameron Hayes took em'," That was the reason the IRA had him killed.

"I had Abel with me, Cameron came to get him and killed the prospect that was with us, and I was so scared that he was going to kill me I let him take Abel," she huffed like the weight of the world was coming off her shoulders.

"It's normal to be scared, you just had watched someone be killed," I tried to assure her.

"You weren't scared, Jimmy could of killed you right away,"

"I was scared," I assured her, "You don't have anything to feel guilty for,"

"Thank you," she gave me a small smile, "You got Abel back," she stood up to leave when Jax came around the corner.

"I need both of you," he didn't wait for us to reply before walking back down the hall. We followed him down the hall leading to the main area, all of the guys were standing around the room watching us.

"Girls, we need your help," Jax handed both of us a bullet proof vest and we looked at each other confused.

"We can't tell you what for, but we promise you will both be safe," Jax helped Tara put the vest on and I kept holding mine.

"Tara go with Jax he'll fill you in, Finley your with Chibs," both of the guys started out the the parking lot and we followed.

"You okay?" I asked her.

"Yeah," she didn't seem too sure.

"You're brave, I can tell," I smirked at her. The guys were standing in a circle hugging each other like they were saying their final goodbyes. "What's going on?" I asked her hoping she'd know more than I would.

"I'm not sure," she answered back shrugging her shoulders., "Find me later?" she asked.

"Aye," I agreed.

"Fin," Chibs got my attention and called me to follow him towards his bike.

"Where are we going?" I asked and he didn't say anything just grabbed my vest from me and put it over my head. "Is it Jimmy?" I asked him feeling my knees go weak, was he coming for me?

'Trust me," he handed me a helmet and got on his bike putting his hand out for me.

I watched Tara pull away in a black car and knew if she could do it I would be able too. Grabbing his hand I got on the bike behind him and we followed all the guys in a line of bikes. I held onto Chibs, the fresh air hitting my face, the buzz of the motorcycle was taking away any fear I had, if we just kept riding I tried to convince myself we'd be safe. Eventually Chibs took a different turn than most of the bikes and a few others followed.

"Where are we going?" I asked him but the wind stole my question. We rode for a little longer before Chibs pulled into a turn off on the highway beside a school bus.

"What are we doing? Where is Tara?" I asked him, I noticed for the first time that he had a vest on too with two large knifes in a holster and a gun in the back of his jeans.

"Come on," he grabbed my hand locking our fingers, pulling me onto the bus.

"Chibs, tell me what is going on!" I tried to stop but he kept pulling me down the isle of the bus.

"She has him," Opie came on the bus shutting his cell phone, along with a blonde and an older man with a oxygen tank who sat behind the wheel.

I sat down in the seat we were beside and looked out the window as we started onto the road, leaving the bikes behind.

"Chibs?"I didn't say anything but his name.

"You need to see this, you can't live behind locked doors forever," he didn't say anything else just leaned out to look out the front window. He was freaking me out, all of the guys were, the more quiet they were the more nervous I got. All of them had been wrong about me I wasn't brave. I had been scared ever since we had landed in Ca; everything was new to me. I was used to having a large group of people around me telling me what to do in situations like this. Ones I always seemed to find myself in. I reached over and grabbed Chibs's hand on the seat beside me and he looked over at me, smiled and squeezed my hand, but locked our fingers like he had when he had dragged me on the bus.

We rode like that for twenty minutes in silence just holding hands. Chibs watching out the front and I was watching out the window beside us, having no clue what I was watching for.

A cop car passed us and all the guys seemed to sit up straighter watching it drive past; but we didn't stop we just kept going until we got to Wayne's car and a black unmarked car. The older man pulled the bus over beside the vehicles and opened the doors. I looked out the window and my stomach dropped at who was in the back of the cops car.

"Chibs," I pulled his hand. Jimmy was sitting in the back seat watching me stare at him.

"Come on baby, it's okay," he stood up pulling me with him off the bus. Chibs let go of my hand when we got off and started over towards Jimmy, pulling him out of the car and pushing him against the bus beside me. Jimmy didn't look at me anymore as Chibs put his hood down.

"Take good care of our girls Filip," It wasn't until then I realized what was happening, this was the end of Jimmy O and Chibs wanted me to see it, so I knew I was safe at night, safe at the club house and with him.

"Oh,yeah," Chibs said before he pulled out his knifes and cut Jimmy like the scars he had given him years ago, once Jimmy hunched in pain Chibs stabbed both knifes in his chest wiggling them until Jimmy fell to the ground, not breathing. I couldn't do anything but stare at the body on the ground, I was safe, everything Jimmy had done to the people I loved was over, we were all free of Jimmy O.

I didn't even blink until a machine gun went off in the unmarked car. Opie was in the back seat holding a gun up to a woman in a ATF jacket. Blood was all over the inside of the windshield.

"Lets go!" One of the club members said.

"Get on the bus," I nodded and followed his orders, I got back in the seat we were sitting in and watched Chibs out the window use Jimmy's blood to do the IRA sign on the car. He was going to blame all this on the IRA, the death of the cop and Jimmy. The blonde from earlier walked up to Wayne and punched him in the face, but I noticed he made sure he was okay before he got back on the bus. Chibs sat down beside me, but this time he was closer to me, and without thinking about it I leaned over and rested my head on his chest; it was the first time I felt at peace since I had gotten on the plane.


"I'll come back for you in a couple hours," Chibs informed me when he pulled into a drive way behind the car I had seen Tara in earlier.

"Do what you've got to do,I'll be fine," I turned to walk away but he grabbed my hand.

"You can't tell Tara what happened today," I nodded my head and tried to walk away, "I don't want you to think that because Jimmy is gone you can leave, I don't want you too, not yet,"

"You heard Brogan, I can't leave until whoever takes over for Jimmy says I can," I informed him, even though I knew he had heard him say it.

"But I don't want you to want to leave either,"

"Pick me up in a couple of hours?" I asked him not knowing what else to say.

"Aye," He agreed before starting his bike and I walked up to the house. Chibs had told me about what had really happened today, how the guys were gone to jail and Gemma was on house arrest, how Tara was pregnant and alone and I knew I needed to go find her.

Before I could knock on the door Tara opened it and I heard Chibs pull away behind me.

"You okay?" I asked her already knowing the answer. She didn't say anything just pulled me into a hug and I tightly wrapped my hands around her.


"They are going to kill him, they think he's a rat," she was telling me about what happened when she had gone with the club.

"He will be okay, he's strong, nothing is going to happen to him," I tried to assure her but did I really know these guys good enough to say that truthfully.

A knock went off on the door and we both looked at each other before going over to the door. Tara let out a breath when she saw it was a couple of the prospects and opened the door.

"Any word on them?" Tara asked and the both shook their heads.

"Jax wanted us to drop these off for you," he handed both of us a letter. After the guys left we both sat down at her table to read over our notes.

Finley,

If you're reading this than you already know Jimmy is gone. You are safe, but that doesn't mean I want you to leave Charming. I can see in your eyes when you watch Clay that there are a few mystery's you need solved. We might not be blood but you are my sister, you proved that the minute you passed Abel in the parking lot when we made the exchange, not just anyone would do that, give up themselves for someone else, but you didn't think twice about it. Keep Tara safe, I can already tell you two are going to be close, and take her up on the job, I think could use someone like you. I hope to see you in 14 months.

Sincerely
your brother Jackson Teller

"He's safe!" Tara yelled when she finished reading her letter, "The guys know he's not a rat," her smile was so big I thought the skin beside her lips would crack and tears started running down her face.

"Tara, can you find out about that job?" I asked her. Jax was right, there were a few mysteries I need answers too.


AN: Let me know what you think!