"So are you going to tell me why the hospital has banned your brother from visiting?"
Juice glanced up at Piney, wondering how he knew about the hospitals ban on his brother visiting.
"How do you know about that?"
Piney eased himself into the uncomfortable seat that was at the side of Juice's bed.
"I overheard Tara talking to Gemma. She said that the hospital have requested that Reaper does not visit you anymore, that each time he does it is detrimental to your health. So tell me what is going on...and no bullshit either from you."
Piney raised and pointed a finger at Juice as he asked his question and Juice could see from the look in the old mans eyes that lying to him would not be a good idea. He really did not want people to know why he and his brother did not get on but he could also see that he was not going to get out of telling Piney either. He took a deep breathe before telling Piney why he and his brother did not get on.
"Reaper and I don't get on well with each other, despite what people think Reaper is not the nice trustful individual that everyone thinks..."
"Oh I know that already kid."
Juice looked at Piney, a little shocked at hearing what the older man said.
"I thought you liked him, that everyone in the club did."
"No Juice, I don't like your brother, I merely pretend to. There is something about him that is not right, he is crafty and two faced, I can see it in his eyes when he talks to people. There is a coldness to them. Most of the others have been taken in by him, well except Happy and I don't think that Bobby or Tig trust him either."
Juice sat on his bed feeling a bit happier knowing that not all of his brothers had believed Reaper while he had been in Charming. He was curious to know what exactly Reaper had been saying and doing in Charming that had caused some of his brothers to be mistrustful of him.
"What has he done that makes you think that?"
Piney scratched his head, screwing up his face for a moment before he told Juice about the attacks on woman around Charming that had started up not long after Reaper had hit town, most of the woman had been unable to tell the police anything because their attacker had hit them from behind and they therefore had not seen his face. He however had made a mistake when he had got rough with one of the sweetbutts a few nights back, the way he had been with her and the things that he done to her, even though she was what she was, had not sat right with Piney. As he told him what had happened he could see the distressed look that came into Juice's eyes.
"What is it?" he asked, a clearly disturbed Juice.
"He's done it before, in fact he is the reason I left New York and came here."
"I thought you came here because of work, that is what you told people."
Juice took a deep breathe before continuing, "I know but...Reaper attacked a girl I was going out with back in Queens...he never liked me having anything that he could not have."
"Why?"
"When we in our teens, I think I was about 17 and he was 13 or 14, we were on our way home from school and he wanted some chocolate from the store but we had no money and I told him we had to get home, I carried on walking thinking he was behind me but when I got to the end of the block and went to cross the road, I realised he wasn't there."
Juice stopped for a moment, he still felt guilty about what happened to his brother and he was worried that others would blame him but he knew he had to tell someone.
"When I got home, mom asked where he was and I told her that he had gone off in one of his sulks after I told him he couldn't have something and did not think anything more about it until the police turned up. Emilio had been arrested...when I had said no to him...he had waited until I had walked further down the road and then gone into the store to steal what he wanted, the guy who ran the store caught him and he pushed the guy when he tried to pull him back into the shop to call the cops...The old man fell and hit his head on the counter...Emillio was sent to Juvie for assault and theft, he spent 7 months there."
"And he blames you for that Juice, it was not your fault he got caught."
"No that's not what he blames me for, while he was in Juvie...he ah...he was assaulted by an older boy blames me for what was done to him by the older boy and that is why we don't get on."