Three Months Later…
Jax walked into the Winston house what he saw shocked him. Jenna sat in Hale's lap as the whole family sat around the kitchen table playing a game of bullshit. "Two sevens." Jenna said
"Bullshit!" Jax and Opie said in unison.
"No really two sevens I swear girl scouts honor."
"You lie…" Jax prodded her.
"I do not…"
"And you were never a girl scout." Opie added.
"Forget you all I quit…" Trey flipped over her cards "Liar lair pants on fire." he chanted.
"Well Dave and I have reservations at the new steak house in Eureka anyway so I'm out…" she turned. "Let me change real fast and we can go." she kissed David companionably on the lips then transferred into her chair.
"I need your help fixing Bobby's dinosaur of a fatboy…" Jax directed at Opie.
"Ok but I promised the kids I'd make homemade pizzas first but you're more than welcome to stay."
He nodded. "Be right back gotta use the restroom." he disappeared down the hall after Jennasis Opie knew.
Jenna was looking for her mascara when she heard the knob turn she looked up into the mirror to see Jax slipping in.
"You are either really brave or terribly stupid." she hissed at him. he smirked at her.
"I can't believe you kiss monkey boy and you are not leaving the house in that top not as long you're on his arm." The black garment left her front covered but her back and sides exposed. The sequined black straps formed a diamond the only thing to decorate her bare back. Her crows wings taunting him.
"I wear what I want when I want Teller…and its not his fault he resembles a
monkey be nice." he walked forward the fingertips of his right hand skated down her back. She shied away from his touch. "Stop it!" she warned. Fighting a smile.
"Oh my god you actually like him." he smiled disbelievingly at her.
"I've always liked Dave he's a good guy just a tad misguided but its not like I want to marry him or something." she turned her chair around. "I need you to move your kinda in my way handsome."
"Not till I get a proper hello…and goodbye…" he grabbed her left hand off the wheel it was resting on pulling her closer to him. Raising her hand to his lips he kissed the center of her palm.
"We don't have time for what you consider to be proper greetings and farewells."
"Just a kiss then." taking her chin in between his thumb and forefinger he tilted her face up toward his. He dropped a soft kiss on her mouth. "Hi." she breathed out eyes still closed. "Hi." he replied brushing her bangs out of her eyes. His hands knotted into her hair which was soft and stick straight today. This kiss was hard demanding and territorial. Her nails bit into his sides where her hands rested on his waist. It was a battle of wills a competition. Who was going to break for air first. It wasn't her. She smirked at her small victory.
"Cocky Bitch." she opened her eyes his forehead resting against hers. His eyes analyzing her face.
"You messed up my hair…"
"Baby you alive in there?" Hale hollered through the door.
"Yeah sweetheart gimme just a minute longer."
"Sweetheart?" Jax mouthed silently. Jenna rolled her eyes nodding her head back at the closet behind her. "No way !" Jax mouthed again.
"Go! " Jenna mouthed in reply. Jax moved rather silently in to her closet. She bit back a laugh as Jax slid the closet door closed. She smoothed out her hair checked her lip gloss the opened the door on a smiling Dave.
"Ready?"
"As I'll ever be…" Jenna teased smiling. "lets roll…" Dave didn't catch the purposeful irony in Jenna's statement but Jax did and bit his lip not to laugh. Hale must be really dull he thought.
Opie laughed. "How long did you have to hide in my sisters closet like a teenage boy nearly caught by her daddy?"
"Not long…and its not funny quit laughing."
"How come you stopped singing Jenny?" Hale asked.
She stabbed at a tomato in her dinner salad with her fork.
"I sing Dave…"
"I didn't mean in the shower Jen." she shrugged. "cripples don't get record deals…"
"That's unfair though you're good Babe."
"Life's unfair Dave…"
"So, Why did you start singing?"
She gifted him with a genuine smile. "I sang Jesus loves me so loud Mama had no choice but to put me in choir and it caught Dad's attention the one and only time I've seen him attend church was to watch me perform silent night in the church play when I was twelve…sides I kinda like being the center of attention." she giggled.
Kissing him goodnight wasn't necessarily good but it wasn't bad either… she felt as though she where betraying Jax by even being momentarily content with Dave. It was going to make the conversation she had to have with him tomorrow that much more difficult.
Jenna drummed her nails on the oak meeting table the SOA reaper craved into it seemingly taunting her.
"You had me call this meeting what's up Jen?" Opie asked
"Its been three months and Hale wants some action so unless any of you have plans to get me outta this I'll have to sleep with him… and no we're not putting this to a vote…"
"No." Jax said plainly as though it brooked no arguments.
"Unless you want me to bail on my work before its done you get no choice my body my choice…"
"Not… my… choice…" he said slowly.
"You don't wanna go there with me now Jax."
"No answer me I'm the one person whose opinion should count…."
"So, you'll walk away if you don't get your way? Well it wouldn't be the first time…"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Exactly what you think it means…you lost any right to me my choices or my body long ago."
"Then what the hell are we doing Jenna!"
"Hell if I know!"
She went to roll away. "Leave its what your good at Jenna!" he was leaned up over the table in her face. "Your gonna wanna get out of her face Teller." Opie warned. With tears stinging her she slapped Jax. "I left for you. You condescending asshole. You were the coward who didn't have the balls to come after me!" she rolled off unbelievably angry.
Fifteen minutes later…
"You're really just gonna sit there?" Opie asked.
"I'm right man and you know it."
"Whether you are right or wrong doesn't matter you idiot… what did not going after her get you last time huh?"
"But-"
"But nothing. It got you nothing that and misery that's all it got you… so go after my sister before my good mood runs out and I pop you for getting in her face like that."
He walked out the club she sat facing the metal wall of the shop throwing up. He ran over holding her hair as her lunch hit the concrete.
"Jenna?" once her heaving stopped. "Don't be mad at me." tears dripped down her face. "I don't have any choice Jax I have to do this… the thought of sleeping with him makes me physically ill."
"So, I have to stand by and let you do this…say nothing?" his hand moved from her hair to rub her back.
She nodded. "Either way we stand to lose a lot Jax."
"This shouldn't be happening…"
She laughed. "You know SAMCRO isn't satisfied until it destroys all who love it."
"What scares me is you may be right." he leaned down to kiss the top of her head breathing in her coconut shampoo trying to calm down. His heart told him she was his in all the ways that mattered his head told him he was bound to lose her again.
AN: Tell me what you thought please! Thanks! Meg