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They had made it back to Samcro clubhouse and Jax just sat on his bike for a moment and looked around. He almost felt shocked himself at how disinterested he was now to the croweaters that were making their way over to him. He looked over at Opie and nodded his head and rode out of the lot. Opie looked on with a smile. He then looked over at the croweaters and saw the many that had sad and surprised looks on their faces and realized that there were going to be a lot of unhappy sluts walking around the clubhouse. He just hoped Jax stuck to it. He knew that was the only chance that Jax had if he ever wanted to be with Tara.

"Wow, you are home earlier then I expected." Donna said reaching up for a kiss.

"There wasn't anything really going on." he replied.

"I figure you would be having church and then a couple of beers before you came home."
"Naw, Jax left as soon as we got in."

"What?" Donna turned around surprised.

"Seems as if Jax figured out that he was in love with our very own Dr. Tara Knowles." he said chuckling.

"Your kidding, right?"

"No babe." then he went on to tell him what happened at the charter they went to.

"Oh my. So what happens now?"

"I don't know. But the one thing I do know is this is going to be a very interesting journey. I just really hope it all goes well."

"Me too babe. I realize Tara has been through it but Jax has been too. To have your parents killed by a brother that was trying to take over the club by trying to use the wife and when she didn't give in he killed them both. Why does so much tragedy occur?"

"I know. I think I am better off that my mom just left because she couldn't handle the club scene. I'm just glad dad was there for me growing up."

"Yeah, thank God for Piney." she said bringing her old man into a hug.

"How are you today?" Stacy asked Tara as they rode home to their place.

"I'm okay and you?"

"Okay."

Then they both started laughing. "I can't believe that the two of us are just going through the motions of life. What is wrong with us?" Tara asked.

"What are we suppose to do?" Stacy asked.

"I was talking to a couple of nurses today and they said that there are a few of them that go over to this little club on the outskirts of town. How about we go home get dressed and make a night of it. We don't have to work tomorrow so we can go drown our problems away." Tara said.

"You know that sounds perfect. Let's do it."

"Wow, you look great." Stacy said to Tara and then they walked out the door.

"There they are let's go." Tara said nudging Stacy. They walked over to the nurses and all sat down at a table and ordered drinks.

"I'm so glad you guys decided to come." Marci, the head nurse at , said.

"Me too. It's been awhile since we had a night like this" Stacy said smiling.

They all had a great time, drinking and dancing. It was fun and they left in good spirits. Not realizing there was someone there that was keeping a very close eye on Tara.

Walking in to their place they were giggling and Stacy plopped on the couch. "Oh I had so much fun."
"Me too. That was just what we needed." Tara said.

They started talking about some of the guys they danced with and Stacy got a winsome look on her face.

"Hey none of that." Tara said seeing the look.

"I can't help it. I can't get his face out of my head and when I see it in my head my heart beats for him. I don't know how to get him out." she said.

"I don't know either." Tara said.

"Hey did you see that guy that couldn't take his eyes off of you all night?"

"No, what guy?" Tara asked.

"He was sitting over in the corner booth. Didn't really look like your type though. I mean he was cute but in an older guy kind of way."

"Whatever." she said not thinking anything about it.

The next morning they were both groaning over the hangovers. Neither wanted to get out of bed. Then the doorbell rung.

"You get it." Tara managed to say loud enough for Stacy to hear.

"No, you get it." Stacy said back.

Tara finally managed to get out of bed and put her robe on. She figured since it was her idea to go out last night she would be the one to suffer.

She opened the door to a very bright smiling Donna.

"Oh what happened to you?" Donna said seeing the rough looking Tara.

Tara just turned around and headed for the kitchen. She needed coffee and she needed it now.

"Um.. I hope I'm not bothering you two but I brought donuts." she said lifting the bag up and smiling once again.

"Oh you life saver. We definitely need that to soak up some of the alcohol we ingested last night." Tara said as she pulled out the bottle of ibuprofen and after taking two herself she handed two to Donna.

"Can you go give these to Stacy and tell her to get out of bed. Coffee will be ready when she does."

"Sure." Donna said as she made her way to Stacy's room.

"Get up Stace. Tara said coffee will be ready and here are two aspirins with a glass of juice."

"Oh Donna, I feel like someone is hammering my head."

"I understand you two had a good night."

"Yeah, it was." she said.

"Well I have some news and you don't want to miss it. Hurry up and get out to the kitchen." Donna said as she left the room.

"Wonder what that's all about." Stacy muttered to herself as she forced herself to get up and put her robe on.

The three of them sat around the table after Tara made them all a cup of coffee. Donna pulled out the donuts and gave each of them one on their plates.

"So what's going on Donna?" Stacy asked.

Donna's face lit up. "you are never going to believe what happened while the guys were on their run for the club?"

Both Tara and Stacy looked at her waiting for this big news.