A few day since finding out Ben was in town went by and Heather was regretting going to work. Monday's usually sucked, but she knew he'd be there. Jax had told her that a prospect would be just outside, and he'd have some of the guys rotate with him so it doesn't look too suspicious. Heather walked into the bathroom, getting up before everyone else, and took a quick shower. After the shower, she wrapped up in a blue towel and walked back into the room and to her closet to decide on what to wear to work. Knowing Ben would be there, she decided to wear her black dress pants with a green button up, trying to be as covered as possible. She quietly got dressed, trying not to wake Jax.
After pulling up her pants, she went back into the bathroom to do her hair and make up before slipping the shirt on. She decided to just pull her hair up and let the curls fall where they may, not bothering with the hair dryer. She than applied a bit of tan eye shadow, going for a natural look, and some eyeliner and mascara. After applying the gloss to her lips, she walked back to the room to see her biker sitting up with a cigarette in his mouth.
"Morning, baby. Did I wake you?" She asked, giving him a kiss before grabbing her shirt.
Jax smiled, "Nah, I usually get up this early to make Abel food."
Heather looked down, buttoning her shirt. "I got that today. If you wanna sleep, go ahead. I usually cook for the other three anyway."
Jax nodded and put out his cigarette. "I'm already up, but I'm going to shower."
She nodded, gave him a kiss, and than walked with her shoes in hand to the kitchen for Harry's favorite, strawberry waffles.
Heather leaned into the fridge to get the ingredients and than shut the door. She mixed the batter as the waffle iron was heating up and than made the waffles. She was just finishing up as she heard Jax knocking on the doors to wake everyone up for the day. He walked in and gave her a kiss, grabbing a plate and a cup for coffee. The kids filed in one at a time all wearing jeans for the day. The girls were in tanks while the boys decided to wear samcro shirts. Heather smiled at Abel as he was trying to be like Harry. Jax watched as everyone sat down to eat, thinking this is how it should have been. Him and Heather, kids, mornings like this one, it made him really wanna hurt Tara.
"You alright, daddy?"
Jax looked at his daughter and smiled, "Yeah, if you see a biker in the lot today while your outside at any given time, it's us darlin'. I'm keeping an eye on everyone when I can till everything is settled."
Lizzy, Ellie, and Harry nodded while Heather kept Abel busy from the conversation.
Heather arrived first to the station and so sat down, locking her purse up before reaching for the stack of files needing to be entered into the computer.
"Morning, Heather."
She gulped and said "Morning" as the dark haired man took his seat on the other side of the room. She sighed when she saw Stephanie coming through the door and sitting next to her at the dispatcher's desk.
"You alright?" the brunette asked, noticing Heather looking really releaved to have her there. Heather just tilted her head a bit, causing Stephanie to look in the direction and noticing the new guy. Stephanie nodded, "That why there's a biker outside?"
Heather just nodded, keeping her eyes on the screen as not to alert the other party in the room. The hours seem to tick by slowly until a ding sounded, causing Heather to look up and into the eyes of Juice. She smiled, "And what do we owe this pleasure, Juice."
Stephanie giggled, looking up from her laptop. Juice smiled and sat in the chair the stayed between the two girls. "Just came to say hey. Lunch is in about 10 for you isn't?"
Both girls nodded and he continued. "Jax wanted to know if you wanted to eat at the shop with him. He invited Stephanie as well."
Heather looked at Stephanie, who nodded. Turning back to Juice, "Sure, just let me finish this and we'll follow."
Juice nodded, turning around like he was bored waiting on the girls. He noticed the guy on the other side of the room and lightly touched Heather's arm. She looked at him and he jerked his head a bit and stretched, silently asking her if that was the guy. Heather nodded and than saved the information before securing the computer for her to leave.
"Ready?" she asked, looking at Juice.
"Yeah, y'all ready?" he asked, looking at both girls. Stephanie closed her laptop and than put it into it's case. "Yep, all ready. I'm starved."
Juice followed the girls out and than motioned for them to lead the way so he could follow them in case someone came out to follow the girls.
Heather sighed, "You know he's gonna be subtle while he helps out at the station, right? When one of the guys try to figure out an old lady, they are weird at first."
Stephanie chuckled. "He told me that he was one of the guys that would be watching and so he'd probably pretend not to really know me, or care for that matter."
The girls laughed as they pulled into TM and parked in Heather's usual spot. They got out as Juice parked his bike and than waited as he walked over to them, kissing Stephanie.
Heather rolled her eyes and left them there, going off to find Jax. She went to the office and knocked on the door. "Come in."
Heather opened the door and saw Gemma sitting at the desk. Gemma looked up and smiled, "He had to take the tow. Said to tell you to wait in the club house and he'd be back in 5."
"Thank you, Gemma."
"You're welcome, baby girl."
Both girls laughed at the older woman knowing both her son and Heather so well, Gemma walking with Heather into the clubhouse. They walked in and sat down with Stephanie and Juice, who were already eating a sandwich. One of the girls brought over a sandwich for Heather, who took it with a thank you and began eating.
Jax and Chibs were out in the middle of fucking no where, picking up some car that decided to die on some poor girl. They found the car and the girl sitting on the hood. They parked in front of it and than Chibs got out to help Jax with backing it up so they could hook up the car to the tow. The girl watched quietly, gazing at the two men. "Everyone out here look like you two?"
Chibs turned to look at her, "What'dya mean, lassie?"
"You're Scottish. Out here in the boonies?"
The guys looked at each other and chuckled.
"Need a change, I guess. You gonna set between us, lass. That alright with'ya?"
She nodded and than he opened the door, letting her scoot in next to Jax.
"I'm Chis..." She stated, trying to be friendly.
"I'm Chibs, and this here is Jax." Chibs stated, gesturing to the blonde in the driver seat.
"Nice to meet ya, darlin'." Jax stated, starting the tow and heading back to the shop.
The ride wasn't all that boring. The girl, Chris, was very interested in Chibs it seemed which made Jax smile a bit. It had been awhile since a girl, that wasn't croweater, seemed to look passed his scars. They pulled into the the TM lot and Jax smiled, seeing Heather's car already there. The pulled the truck up to the stall to let the men get the car off the crane. Jax climbed out, said bye to Chris, and went in search of his old lady. He smiled as he saw Heather and his mom with the others, laughing. He walked up behind her and kissed her head. "Hey, darlin'."
She smiled and looked up at him, "Hey baby."
One of the bikers got up and let Jax have the chair next to Heather, going to grab him a beer. Jax sat and took Heather's hand, asking about her morning. Heather and Stephanie gave information on how it went with the new guy while Juice told him some of the things that happened after he showed up. Jax listened silently, hoping to get this resolved.
Tig and Happy were on Tara/Ben duty as Jax didn't really trust the prospects to keep an eye on them. Sitting outside Heather's job or the school was one thing, making sure the bitch didn't leave was quite another all together. Lunch was over much to quickly for Heather, who didn't want to go back to work. She wanted to stay as close to Jax as possible until Ben was out of the way. Tara, she could take care of, she was easy. Ben, well...she was still scared of him. She knew it, Jax knew it. Juice was on afternoon duty since both girls were comfortable with him and he could go in and out as he pleased.
As they walked into the station, the girls noticed that the new guy was already there. They both looked at each other as they sat their things down and got to work. Juice came in and knocked on Trammel's door, asking to talk. Juice nodded to the girls as he shut the door, turning to look at Trammel.
"What can I do for you, Mr. Ortiz?"
"Jax wanted to know if you listened to what was given to you?" Juice asked, just getting to the point.
The cop nodded, "Yes, were you needing help with this? Who's Ben?"
"I'm not sure about how much help. I'm here because Jax asked me too and his old lady is comfortable with me. Now, Ben is Ben Jones. If you look through Unser's shit, you may find him. Heather pressed raped charges on him years ago, but he skipped town."
Trammel nodded, "Alright. On the tape, he said something about dying his hair."
Juice nodded, "We'll need Stephanie and Heather for this part. Don't be mad at them, Heather figured it out."
Trammel nodded and than pressed the intercom, asking the girls to come into the room. The door open and Heather walked in with Stephanie behind her. They looked at Juice and than to Trammel.
"Sit girls, please. Now Mr. Ortiz, what about Mr. Jones?"
This girls looked at Juice, hoping they weren't in trouble. Juice smiled and than looked back to the cop.
"He dyed his hair brown. Heather showed us a picture Friday after I dropped off the tape to you."
"Juice..."
"It's alright, Miss Winston. What picture, if you don't mind me asking?"
The girls looked at each other and than to Juice, who nodded for her to go ahead, before looking back at their boss.
"Chibs followed Tara to her hotel, said he recognized Ben. Stephanie had her laptop and she opened the picture of the new guy. He's Ben."
Trammel got up and looked out his blinds to see the new guy figeting at his desk, talking on his phone. Looking back at the three in his office, Trammel asked, "So, what do we do? I want to help. Least I could do for the trouble I've caused some of the people in the club."
Heather and Stephanie looked at Juice, confused. Juice looked at Trammel, trying to ignore the girls.
"Jax needs info on him. What he gave you, everything you can. You know how we work, and I'm not sure the guy will live through this. We also need DNA so Jax can find out about Thomas."
Heather's jaw dropped as she heard what Juice told the cop. Samcro being cooperative with the cops and vice versa was new to her. Stephanie just sat quietly, trying to comprehend what was going on.
"Tell Jax I will have Heather bring it home. As for DNA, you could always get Heather to hit him."
Everyone chuckled at that.
"Or, get Jax here to do it. We told him how he keeps looking at me." Heather explained.
They all laughed and than the girls were dismissed to finished their work for the afternoon.
Lizzy walked out of the school house to see Matthew sitting by himself. She walked up to him and sat next to him. "Listen, I know we didn't start out with a good start. But, your mom and my mom are totally different. I know not many talk to you because I beat you pretty badly; however, if you want to hang out with us today, I'm sure Gemma wouldn't care."
Matthew looked at her like she was lying. "Why would you wanna hang out with me? I called you and your mom all kinds of things."
"I know, but so were everyone else till I hit you. I know how it feels to be picked on for something you have no control over. I didn't pick my parents anymore than you did. They picked each other."
"Lizzy..." The kids looked over to see Gemma with the others and gesturing for her granddaughter. She turned back to Matthew, "You coming?"
He smiled, "Yeah, ok. Mom won't be home will 5, can you get me home before than?"
Lizzy smiled, "Yes, we usually go to the shop and than Gemma takes us home about 4:30."
Lizzy than walked toward her grandmother, with Matthew following.
Jax was sitting on the picnic table, smoking, when his mom's car pulled up and the kids got out. He noticed a new kid getting out and put out his cigarette. He walked up to his mom, silently asking about Matthew Carroll. Gemma shrugged and walked into the office to finish up some paperwork.
"Hey, kids." Jax stated, giving his babies a hug and a high five for his god children.
"It's ok that I invited him, yeah?" Lizzy asked her dad.
"Yeah, Juice isn't here though. Said you could get his laptop from his room. It's on his bed. You have to stay out here though. I want to see you, Liz."
"Ok, daddy. Come on, Matt."
Jax watched as the boy ran after Lizzy before going into see his mom. He leaned against the doorway and took out a cigarette. "What's with Carroll?"
He watched as Gemma put her glasses on the desk and look up at him. "I'm not sure. Lizzy was talking to him when I got there to pick them up. I heard that the kids are being hard on him since your daughter beat the shit out of him. I think they made peace, baby."
Jax nodded and than walked back out to finish up on the car he picked up earlier and keeping an eye on his daughter and the boy she brought to play with her.
Alright, here ya go. Review if you want!-brianna