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…Chapter 11…
Tara, Roxanne, and Gemma walked up to the building with Nate. "I'll go to the front desk and tell them we're here." Tara said, walking inside.
"Me too." Roxanne nodded. "I'll leave you two alone."
"Okay, Baby." Gemma smiled, as Roxanne went inside.
"What are you doing?" Tara whispered.
"Giving Mom and Grandpa time alone. What?"
"Never mind." she shook her head. Suddenly, a male doctor walked up to them, and Tara put on a smile. "Hi, I called earlier about Nate Madock."
"Yes." he nodded. "Let's get him settled in." he opened the door for Tara and Roxanne, then both of them walked out first.
"No, please. Please, just take me… take me home." Nate pleaded to Gemma. "Please."
"I can't." she shook her head.
"It'll be okay, Grandpa." Roxanne said, feeling so bad for him.
"I wanna go home."
"I know, Dad." Gemma's eyes started welling up.
The doctor took Nate's hand out of Gemma's. "This way, Nate."
"No, no, no. I… I wanna go home. I, no I have…"
The doctor helped him up from the bench. "Come on."
Roxanne had a few tears falling down her cheeks. "Take care, Grandpa."
"I have to go home." Nate demanded.
"There's a lot of people waiting to meet you." the doctor kept inching him closer to the entrance.
"I'm sorry, Dad." Gemma stood up.
"I have to go home, now." Nate kept repeating, then with Tara's help, the doctor brought Nate inside.
Gemma sat down on the bench and started sobbing. "I'm sorry." she whispered.
"Mama." Roxanne sat down next to her and held her while she cried. A few minutes later, Gemma calmed down a little and Roxanne let go. "Mom, I believe he'll be just fine. They'll give him everything he needs."
Gemma nodded, wiping her face. "Go check and see if he's completely settled in. I need a smoke."
"Okay." Roxanne gave her a kiss on the cheek and walked inside.
...
After twenty minutes of waiting, all the guys pulled into the parking lot, and saw Tara and Roxanne standing around, then Jax got off his bike and went up to them first. "What happened?"
"She just." Tara waved her hand. "Took off."
"Mom stiffed us both." Roxanne added, then locked eyes with Juice, which made her heart skip a beat.
"What do you mean she took off?" Clay demanded, as the guys shut off their bikes.
"We went inside to check in Nate." Tara started. "When we came back, Gemma and the car was gone."
Clay walked up to them. "Did she say anything?"
"No." Roxanne shook her head. "She was crying, a little, when I left her on the bench, but Grandpa was begging Mom to take him home."
"Jesus." Jax groaned. "She went home. She went to see her family."
"Abel." Clay said, then got on his bike.
"Shit." Roxanne saw Juice nodding at her, then she jumped behind him on his bike, as Tara got on the back of Jax's bike. After Juice gave Roxanne his helmet and she wrapped her arms around his waist, all of them rode off, back to Charming, with Piney driving the van behind them.
...
As they pulled into the lot at T - M, they saw Gemma collapse onto the ground. "Mom!" Jax yelled, jumping off his bike.
"Shit!" Roxanne followed quickly behind him, throwing Juice's helmet where ever.
"Breathe." Jax got to her first. "Mom, breathe, breathe." as Gemma was struggling, Roxanne and Clay were by her side. "Tara!" Jax called out, then she knelt down, to see what was happening. "Call an ambulance!" he yelled to nobody in particular.
"I got it." Tig said, taking out his cell phone and started dialing.
"You'll be okay, Mama." Roxanne slowly stood up, moving out of the way. "Just please breathe." suddenly, she felt a pair of arms wrap around her from behind and realized that it was Juice. She let him hold her while she was crying.
"Gemma will be okay." he whispered in her ear, rubbing her back, then she turned around and rested her head on his chest. A few seconds later, Roxanne let go, and ran over to the Cutlass. "Roxy?" he went up to her. "What are you doing?"
Roxanne shut the car door, with all of her stuff in her hands. "Just in case… it can't look like I was with my mom the whole time, so I have to hide all my shit. You know, get rid of the evidence."
"Yeah." he nodded.
"I'll be right back." then Roxanne went inside the clubhouse.
Juice went in, not too long after she did and leaned up against the door frame, watching her stuff something in her suitcase. He just shook his head, having a pretty good idea of what it is that she stuffed in there. "Hey." he cleared his throat, as she quickly stood up. "You doing okay?"
"Actually." she quickly put four Vicodins in her back pocket. "I'm not… all the shit that has happened in the past couple of days, my nephew is still missing, and now this?"
Juice raised his eyebrow, getting closer to her. "What shit are you talking about?"
"Oh, nothing." she waved her hand and grabbed her purse.
"You know you can talk to me, right?"
"Juice, not now, please? All that matters right now is my mom and if she'll be okay."
"Alright." he gave Roxanne a hug.
"Can you just stay with me?" she backed up to look at him. "I don't wanna fight and argue, just be here for me."
Juice sighed. "Of course I will." suddenly, they heard the echo of sirens and he let go and grabbed her hand. "Come on."
As they walked out of the clubhouse, the EMT's were putting Gemma on a stretcher, then after they put her in the ambulance, the EMT's drove off, with most of the guys behind them.
Roxanne turned to Juice. "We have to go see if she's okay at the hospital."
"I know." they walked to his bike and he gave her his helmet that she threw, then she put it on. "Ready?"
"Yeah." she climbed on the back and wrapped her arms around him, then he rode off to St. Thomas.
...
By the time Roxanne and Juice got there, Jax was waiting at the entrance door, and before Roxanne could how Gemma was doing, Jax grabbed her and shoved her into the wall on the side of the building.
"Jax…"
"What?" he glared at Juice.
"Nothing." he slightly shook his head, and as much as Juice wanted to save Roxanne from her brother, he just couldn't, but he stood by just in case, if it came down to it.
Jax turned his attention back to his sister. "What the hell were you thinking, huh? Helping Mom and Tara kill Nate's caretaker?"
"Wait." Juice's eyes widened. "What?"
"Get your damn hands off me!" Roxanne pushed Jax away from her. "I don't know if you remember that conversation, down in the basement. Tara said that the crazy bitch attacked all three of us. When the opportunity presented itself, after Tara distracted her, I punched the shit out of her, and that's when Mom did what she had to do. Would you rather I sit back and let her kill our mother?"
"No." Jax heavily sighed. "Look, I'm not pissed about you protecting yourselves when you had to. I'm pissed because I don't want you to end up like me. You know what I've done and what I had to do for the club. You got a good thing going at USC." she looked down as Juice looked away. "I don't want you to go back to school and making it a habit. I know you did what you had to do, but a job like that is for Happy or Tig." he shook his head. "Not my little sister."
Roxanne took a breath. "Okay, I get what you're saying and trust me, it's not going to be a habit, but I will protect and defend myself and my family if necessary."
"Alright." Jax gave her a hug. "I love you."
"Love you too, Bro." she let go. "How's Mom?"
"The doctor said that she's got bad arrhythmia. They fixed it and gave her some meds, but now she's resting and will be out for the rest of the night."
Roxanne let out a breath of relief. "I'm so glad she's okay. Can I go see her?"
"I saw her for a few minutes, but there's cops surrounding her room. Only Clay is allowed in her room."
"So, why are you still here if you can't see Mom?"
"Waiting for Tara."
"Oh, right." Roxanne nodded.
Jax looked over at Juice. "Take my sister to the clubhouse." then he turned his attention back to Roxanne. "Sorry for slamming you into the wall."
"It's fine." she gave him a hug. "I guess I'll see you in the am."
"Sounds good." he let go. "Later, Juice."
"Later." Juice waved, then as him and Roxanne went over to his bike, Jax went back into the building. "So." he started as he got on. "That was the shit that you were talking about?"
Roxanne shook her head. "Not you too… you heard me explain it all to Jax, and I don't want to talk about it anymore."
Juice grabbed her hand. "Okay, relax. We don't have to talk about anything you don't want to. Just calm down." he pulled her closer to him. "Let's just go back to the clubhouse and get some sleep."
Roxanne looked at him and pouted her bottom lip. "Can we get something to eat first?"
"Sure." he chuckled. "Where would you like to go?"
"Let me think." she tapped her finger on her chin. "Sonic sounds good."
"Alright." he started his bike. "Hop on." after Roxanne got on and wrapped her arms around his waist, he rode off.
...
"Wow." Roxanne sat down on Juice's bed with the bag of food and separated hers and his. "This whole week has been crazy bananas."
"I could imagine." he shut the door and put the drinks on the night stand.
"Here's yours." she pointed.
"Thanks." he sat down next to her and they started eating. "You know." he took a bite of his burger. "I kinda missed you while you were gone."
"Yeah, I kinda missed you too." she stood up.
"Where are you going?"
"To the bathroom." she said, before walking in, and shut the door behind her. "I seriously need some drugs." she reached into her back pocket and pulled out three Vicodins, then swallowed them with water. "Much better." after that, she walked out and sat down on the bed.
Juice raised his eyebrow. "You okay?"
"Yep, I'm just fine." she smiled. "Hey, do you have something I can sleep in? I don't feel like going to my room to get something to wear."
"Yeah." Juice got up and went through his drawers. "Here." he tossed them on the bed. "Basketball shorts and a bitch beater."
"Thanks."
"Go ahead and change, I'll be right back." then Juice walked out of the room. Roxanne took off her jeans and her shirt, then put on the shorts and the beater. She tossed her clothes off to the side, and sat down on the bed to finish eating her food. Juice walked in a few minutes later, with two bottles in his hands. "I got us some water." he said, shutting the door and locking it.
"Cool." she nodded. "Thanks."
Juice sat down next to her and took a few more bites of his burger. "Sonic was a great choice."
"I know, right? I haven't had any in a while." after a few more bites, Roxanne wrapped up what was left and put it in the bag. "That was delicious and now I'm done."
"Me too." Juice did the same thing and cleared off his bed. "Ready to sleep?"
"Uh-huh." she nodded, then crawled underneath the covers and got comfortable while Juice took off his cut, shoes, and jeans. "Did you really miss me?"
"Yeah, I did." he said, getting in the bed next to her. "Why do think I kept calling you?"
"Sorry, I was being such a bitch."
"It's fine." he lightly patted her leg, then laid on his side facing her. "Good night…" he started, but got cut off by Roxanne's lips on his. He was kissing her back and as he rolled on top of her, their clothes that they were wearing were coming off, and was tossed in random places on the floor.
A/N: Forgive me, people if I have been neglecting my SOA stories. Shame on me! So, I've made this chapter a little bit longer for your viewing pleasure. Lately, I've been working on my Avengers and Thor stories, because I freaking LOVE Loki. Plus I've been working on writing my book/novel. So, yeah. Apologies.