Rio sat in the waiting room of the hospital waiting for Tara to appear and tell her what was going on. The doctor had volunteered to drive her up and for that she was grateful. Everyone else seemed more concerned with covering their own asses rather than worrying about Chibs.

As she waited she thought about all the possible people who could be trying to hurt them. Why would they try to blow up SAMCRO? She thought back to the night of the assault with the skin heads. It had to be them. They were trying to hurt the club...they did hurt the club.

Tara walked up, and Rio quickly stood to meet her.

"He's in stable but critical condition. He has some bleeding in his brain, but they think it will stop on its own.

"And if it doesn't?" Rio was panicked now.

"They would have to go in and ease the pressure."

"Like cut his head open?"

"Hopefully it won't come to that. You can come back and see him if you want." Rio nodded and followed behind.

"Do you know when he will wake up?"

"They have him sedated and they will keep him that way until they feel like he is in the clear."

Gemma came around the corner as Tara was about to open the door to the room.

"Mind if I go in with you baby?" She asked quietly.

"Of course not."

The three women walked through the door and immediately Rio's breath caught in her throat. He was laying there with his head wrapped in bandages. He looked pale and weak.

"Oh my god." Rio walked towards the bed and grabbed his hand. It felt cold to the touch and she started rubbing it to try to warm him up.

"Rio I really think he is going to be okay. I know you are worried, but it won't help him if you are just here stressing the whole time."

Rio looked up at Tara and nodded in agreement.

"Can I ask you two something?" Tara said with hesitation in her voice. She didn't wait for a response as she continued. "The people that hurt you, do you think they had anything to do with this?"

Gemma and Rio looked at each other before Gemma spoke up.

"Don't know. Why?"

"I can't help but thinking if maybe you would have come forward with this that maybe this wouldn't have happened to Chibs."

Gemma immediately got defensive, but Rio thought Tara was right.

"This is not on us." Gemma snapped.

Rio began to cry and looked up at both the women. "It is on us."

"Rio this is not your fault." Gemma tried to console her, but Rio didn't want to hear it, so she got up and stormed out of the room. The guilt of Carlos had always weighed on her, and now she almost got Chibs killed.

Rio wondered down the hall and into the chapel to think. She stared at the figure of Jesus on the cross in the front of the room.

"If you are real then why do you let people hurt? Why do you take so much from us?"

Rio laid her head in the palms of her hands staring at the ground. She didn't know how long she had been there when Gemma sat down next to her.

"I'm sorry."

Rio looked up at her confused. "What are you sorry for?"

"I'm sorry that you came home to this. I'm sorry that you are going through all of this."

"That isn't on you. I chose to come back. I chose this life."

"Yeah so did I."

The two sat in silence for a moment before Rio let out a heavy sigh.

"Do you believe in god?"

Gemma looked at her and gave her a sad smile.

"I don't know, but I've been finding myself in here a lot more often than before."

Rio nodded and shut her eyes trying to stop the tears that were rolling down her face. She really needed to toughen up otherwise the guys were going to start getting suspicious.

"Come on…lets go grab some coffee."

"I want to be here when he wakes up."

"You will be it's just coffee. It won't take long."

Rio smiled and stood up with Gemma.

"We are gonna get through this baby." She said wrapping her arm around Rio's shoulders and leading her out of the chapel.

As they walked through the doors they were confronted by David Hale.

"How's Chibs?"

Rio averted her eyes, so Gemma answered.

"He's critical."

"Sorry to hear that…"

Rio could feel Davids eyes on her and it made her uncomfortable.

"I'm going to need your help with something." He said to Rio urging her to look up at him.

"What do you want?" Gemma asked before Rio could answer.

David looked around and ushered both women back inside the chapel. Rio was getting nervous now.

"I talked to Unser. He told me what happened to you two that night." Rio finally shot her head up and looked at Hale.

"That son of a bitch." Rio looked at Gemma for answers.

"That old…" Hale quickly put his hand up to stop her.

"He had to tell me. I need something. I need anything to help me figure this shit out Gemma."

Rio stared up at him. There was a fire in his eyes. He wasn't trying to interrogate them, he genuinely needed their help.

"You want to hurt these guys." Gemma said giving him a curious look.

"Just because I'm a cop doesn't mean I don't care about the people I grew up with." As he spoke, he placed a hand on Rio's arm.

"Blonde girl good rack. That's all I saw."

"Okay I can work with that. Rio did you see anything."

Rio shook her head and looked back at the floor. "No, I just saw a van and then everything went black."

David nodded and gave her a sad smile.

"Gemma, do you mind if I talk to Rio alone?"

Gemma began to shake her head as she looked at Rio.

"It's okay Gem. I can handle it."

With that Gemma walked outside and left the two alone.

"I'm sorry this happened to you."

"I don't need your pity David."

"Always a hard ass. Why can't you just let people be nice to you?"

Rio felt herself smile as she shook her head.

"It's a curse really. Listen I gotta get back to Chibs. Is there anything else you need deputy?"

"No… is it true that you two are together?" He spoke without thinking. It really wasn't any of his business.

"Yeah. I think so. It's still new, but I want to be there when he wakes up."

David nodded and opened the door for her and as she walked out, he grabbed her by her arm.

"River, if you need anything call me."

"My hero." She smiled at him and kissed him on his cheek. "Thank you, Davey. Thank you for always being so good to me." With that she walked down the hall to meet Gemma.

David watched as she walked away, thinking about what he would do if he found the men that had hurt her. He was wishing things had been different for the two of them. He wished that Rio saw how much he cared about her, how much he had always cared about her.

Rio walked into the clubhouse to change her clothes and take a shower before Gemma took her back to the hospital. She wanted to at least be presentable when Chibs woke up and saw her.

Opie was sitting at the bar when she walked through the door.

"How's Chibs?" He asked.

"He's still critical. Nothing new since this morning. I just came to change so I could get back up there."

Opie nodded and followed Rio into the dorm. Rio knew one of Opies famous talks were coming and she wasn't sure she was prepared for it.

He closed the door behind them and she let out a sigh and turned towards him.

"Get it over with."

"What you said… after the bomb went off. When Chibs was laying there. What was that about?"

"I don't know what you are talking about."

"You said the people you love get hurt."

Rio felt her stomach turn. She really didn't want to tell her brother about Carlos yet. They were still trying to regain the bond they once had. If he somehow found out that she had dated a rival club member he might feel like it was the ultimate betrayal.

"Chibs just isn't the first guy who I've been with who's been hurt. It brought back some memories. Makes me think that I bring all this shit with me wherever I go."

Opie nodded deciding to leave it at that, but he knew his sister was holding something back.

"I know how you are feeling. When Donna died… River I still can't look at myself in the mirror."

"Ope…" Rio began to protest but he cut her off.

"I know you don't want to hear that but it's the truth. Donna chose me, and I chose this life. In the end this is the lifestyle that got her killed. I don't want the same life for you. I know you care about him, but if you stay with him there are no guarantees. Club shit could blow back on you. He could be killed, and you'd be left crying for him for god knows how long."

Rio could feel her eyes beginning to tear as her brother spoke. There was so much truth to what he was saying. She had already experienced it firsthand. When she got involved with Carlos, she had been young and dumb, now she was older, and she should know better. Chibs was different though. He was older and more mature. He didn't act on impulse like Carlos had. Rio prayed that their relationship would reach a different end.

"Listen Rio, I don't want to see you hurt. I just really want you to think about what happened. I really want you to think about what's best for you."

Rio nodded and grabbed her brothers' hand.

"Ope, this life was chosen for the both of us. I ran from my family for long enough. I lost so much, I'm not going to lose you and Piney. My place is here. It always has been."

Opie nodded and went to walk out of the door but stopped as he opened it. He never looked back at his sister, but she could hear the seriousness in his voice.

"If anything happens to you, I will kill him."

Tara walked with Rio and Gemma as they approached the room.

"He's showing a lot more activity. He should be wake up soon." Rio was so excited to see his eyes open. It hadn't been very long, but she missed his eyes and the way they looked at her.

They walked through the door and her smile was quickly pulled from her face as she saw another woman sitting at his bed side.

"Who the hell are you?"

The woman quickly stood and looked between Gemma and Rio.

"Gemma."

"Fiona."

Rio stared at her godmother completely confused about what was going on.

Tara interrupted the awkward stares, stepping into the middle of them.

"I'm sorry but you'll have to wait outside ICU is for immediate family only."

"She is family." Gemma spoke up and Fiona looked directly at Rio like she was aiming her words.

"I'm his wife."

Rio looked at Gemma then back at Fiona.

"The hell you are." She was waiting for someone to help her but none of the other women said anything. "Get the hell out of here."

"I can't do that love. He already woke. He knows I'm here. He wouldn't want his favorite croweater to treat his wife this way."

As quickly as Fiona had finished her sentence Rio was lunging for her. She wrapped both hands around the woman's throat and pushed her into the machines. Anger and rage coursed through her body. How dare this woman come into their life when all of this was going on.

"Stay away from us! You fucking bitch!" She slammed the woman's head into the wall before she felt herself being pulled off her by the hospital security guards.

"Filip certainly found himself a crazy one yeah?" Fiona spoke rubbing her neck and looking at Gemma as they pulled Rio out of the room.

Gemma looked over at her with disgust. "She's not some croweater. They are together."

"That may be, but I'm still his wife."

"And where have you been all these years? You're poisonous."

"I'd like you to leave my husbands room now."

Gemma glared at her and marched out of the room.

Rio eyes barley opened as she heard a pounding on the door.

"Wake the hell up." Gemma yelled.

"I'm coming, Jesus!"

As Rio opened the door Gemma barged in and looked around the room at the empty whiskey bottle on the floor.

"Your pity party is over the guys got locked up."

"Ope?"

"He's fine. He wasn't there… They are in danger. We need to figure out how to get them out. They are killing us on bail. There is no way we will make it even if we put up our house and Tara's."

"What about Oswald?"

Gemma stopped and looked at her.

"He won't want to help."

Rio rolled her eyes at her as her head pounded from her hangover.

"Yeah but if anyone could convince him it would be you."

Two days later

Rio felt disconnected. She hadn't been up to see Chibs since the day she attacked Fiona, since the day she attacked his wife. It made her sick to think about that woman up there with him, but she couldn't bring herself to go back there. His wife had come back into his life and though Rio thought they had a strong bond, she knew that nothing could make him give up his first love.

The guys had been released and now Rio was standing in the kitchen at Gemma's getting dishes together for dinner. She didn't want to be with everyone now it all felt like too much to handle. Opie had been interested in a porn star, much to Tara and Gemma's dismay. Rio knew it would probably be a short fling, so she tried not to worry about it. She had enough shit going on in her head.

Tara stormed in and started yelling at Gemma, but Rio just watched saying nothing. Gemma had done something to Tara's boss and now she was under review.

She looked the two arguing and saw her niece and nephew make their way in followed by a skinny blonde.

"Oh, great are we serving blowjobs for dessert?"

"Tara." Rio spoke up looking at the nervous faces of the kids. They didn't need anymore problems.

She watched as the girl turned around and stormed out of the house.

"Can we all just fucking breath for a minute?" Rio asked cracking a beer and looking around the room at all the other ladies. "Let's just feed these bastards so we can all go home."

As all the men filed inside Rio could tell something was off. They began yelling back and forth at each other. Rio felt her anxiety pulling at her chest and she quickly grabbed Kenny and Ellie to take them to another room.

"Excuse me?" She heard Davids voice and walked back into the dining room. "I thought I should let you all know in person. We just found the body of Luann Delaney, beaten to death… I'm sorry for your loss."

David looked at Rio and she stared back at him. He had to be joking. Who would try to hurt Luann? He husband was spending life in prison. She was barely even involved in the club.

The guys began yelling and lunging at each other. Rio couldn't hear what they were saying. She just stared at them blankly until Gemma slammed her platter down and it shattered. The room fell silent as everyone looked around.

It was too much. Rio rushed out of the house and ran towards the road. Her stomach betrayed her as she vomited in the middle of the road. She wanted so badly to get away from it all. She didn't want to think about Chibs. She didn't want to think about her brother or anything that had to do with the club.

"River?" David walked up next to her as she was bent over gagging and spitting. Her tears were falling, and her chest was screaming at her.

"Hey it's gonna be okay."

Rio stood up and shook her head. "Nothing is ever okay here David. You know that, and I am right in the fucking middle of it."

David pulled her into a hug as she sobbed into his shoulder.

"Is there anywhere I can take you?"

Rio felt her stomach knot. She knew she shouldn't say it, but she had never made the best decisions.

"Take me home with you."