Alright, this chapter picks up right after chapter 12 and I hope everyone understands the meaning behind the name once they finish this chapter. I also sincerely hope I don't lose any followers for actions in this chapter. Bare with me people, I promise everything will come to a head in the near future. Also, vote in the poll please :) and reviews are always loved. Thanks so much everyone.

Kansas, no more

Tig scrubbed a hand over his face once more as he leaned back in the hospital seat once more; he'd been here, along with the rest of SAMCRO, for nearly an hour now and no one had told any of them a damn thing yet. They had taken Jax and Reme back immediately because both of them had been brought in by ambulances and were considered 'severe' based on the magnitude of their injuries; although, Tig was fairly certain Reme was perfectly fine save being scared to death and a few scrapes, cuts, and bruises on her body from where she'd skidded on the pavement. Jax on the other hand, had a pretty nasty gash on his leg where he'd hit the pavement and a gunshot wound on his right shoulder, but Tig couldn't get the look on Reme's face out of his mind. Hap and him had both heard the gunshot the minute it sounded and were out the door in record time, Tig before Hap, and the two of them had actually witnessed the little accident. Though, Tig's eyes hadn't moved from Reme the entire time and he was already moving across the parking lot before she even flew over top of Jax and off his bike. That was the first time that thought of her not being there had slammed into his mind with the force of a freight train and all he could keep seeing was her fragile little form smashing into the cement of the road with enough force that he heard it clear as day from nearly twenty feet away from her.

He had actually know she was going to fly off the bike before she even did because he'd seen the way Jax's hand instantly moved to his wound and when the bike fishtailed, the younger male hit the brakes and Tig had tried to tell her to hang on but before the words had even passed his lips she was in the air. Tig let out a breath as he braced his elbows on his knees and held his head in his hands in similar fashion as he had been doing for the entire hour he'd been sitting here waiting for any word on either of them. Chibs was beside him, and Juice on the other side of the old scot and both men looked just as worried as the rest of the club for both Reme and Jax, but Tig had heard Chibs specifically informing a nurse that he was Reme's adoptive father and he could tell that both Chibs and Juice were a lot more concerned for the little blonde than the rest of the club. Kozik was pacing back and forth across the entire waiting room, which had cleared out almost instantly when they walked in, and running his hands over the top of his head like he had some kind of fucking right to be worried about Reme the way he was. Kozik hadn't put his life on the line for her, taken a bullet for her, or went against the club to protect her like he had.

Tig looked up when the door that lead to the emergency room patient rooms opened and Reme came out with a nurse following right behind her with a clipboard in hand. He was out of his seat a lot quicker than he'd wanted to be and was heading towards her until he saw that she had a line of bandages down her left side starting at her neck and extending down to knee. Her shorts and shirt were stained with dried blood and he could still see that look in her eyes that told him she was terrified. Tig wasn't so stupid as to believe she hadn't noticed the fact that Jax had been shot not even two inches from where her head had been pressed against his shoulder and he knew those Mayans weren't aiming for Jax and had the Vice President not turned when he did and headed for the road, the bullet would have hit her dead in the temple. Suddenly, Tig wasn't as worried about her now that he could see that aside from her fear and the cut and scrapes she was perfectly alive and breathing, but that could change in the blink of an eye. If he'd learned anything from today it was that Reme wasn't as safe with him as he'd fooled himself into thinking. Hell, he wasn't safe for her to be around.

"Little one…" Chibs said quietly as he stepped past Tig, who hadn't moved from his spot in the middle of the waiting room yet, and stepped up beside Reme.

"I'm going to need you to sign these release forms, Ms. Polanski." The nurse said from behind her as she extended her hand with the clipboard towards Reme. The little blonde stared for a moment before lifting the pen from the top of the clipboard and quickly scribbling her name across the designated area's a second before she looked past Chibs at Tig and the tears she'd been holding started to tumble down her cheeks in fat droplets. Chibs frowned for a second as he looked over his shoulder at Tig, obviously waiting for the other male to comfort her in some way because it was more than obvious that she wanted him to comfort her and when Tig turned and headed for his chair once more with as much as another look at Reme, Chibs stepped forward and pulled the little blonde against his chest.

"Shhh, I know…it's been a rough day…Come on…Come sit down." Chibs said gently as he walked her towards one of the numerous open seats in the waiting room. Once they reached the chairs, Chibs pulled her down into his lap like he had the night in his room when she started crying before resting his chin on the top of her head as she curled into his chest. Juice pushed up from his chair with an annoyed exhale of air as Tig took his seat once more and headed towards Reme and Chibs at the same time that Kozik moved towards the little blonde and her 'father'.

"You got something you wanna say to me?" Tig snapped as he looked up at Juice and immediately the younger male stopped his advance towards Reme and turned to look at Tig before shaking his head. He had a lot he wanted to say to Tig, but none of it was going to make Reme feel better, heal Jax's wound, or fix the problems they all knew were coming after today's events, so instead Juice took up his movements towards Reme.

"He may not…but I sure as hell do." Kozik said as he turned and looked at Tig, who looked up when he heard the blonde's words before pushing out of his chair and stepping towards Kozik.

"And what's that?" Tig sneered.

"You couldn't even ask her how she is?...I mean, it's your fault we're here after all. It was your bright idea to leave her outside of the Dog alone after everything instead of just taking her somewhere she'd be safe…Your fault Jax got shot. It's all your fault, Tig." Kozik snapped and Tig's eyes narrowed as he took another step towards the blonde male.

"My fault?" Tig asked as he cut his eyes around the room for a second before shaking his head as they finally landed on Reme, who had picked her head up from Chibs' chest at this point and was looking over at him and Kozik with those wide damp sapphire eyes of hers. "I didn't fucking bring these problems to us…we were doing fine with the Mayans until she showed up…" the look in her eyes when he said the words a loud almost had him moving towards her and pulling her into his arms but he knew what he needed to do to protect her; he'd needed to do it the second she showed up here but he'd been so captivated by her that he couldn't bring himself to do it and then he'd fooled himself into believe he could protected her. Today had been a serious reality check in his mind, he couldn't protect her like he'd thought he could, but he knew a way to protect her from everything she needed to be protected him, including him and his brothers. So, instead of going to her and comforting her like she wanted him to, Tig narrowed his eyes and pointed a finger towards he before shaking his head. "I didn't ask for problems with the Nordics, Mayans, fucking Russian Mafia…Oh, I forgot to tell you all that part…Yeah, apparently, she's running from the fucking Russia mafia, more precisely Viktor Putlova…" Tig turned back over his shoulder towards his brother as he moved to the side so everyone could see Reme clear as day. "She's got a line of dead bodies shadowing her and she's only gonna make more here, hell, she's already gotten me and Jax shot..." he turned towards her now and shook his head some, "Whose it gonna be next? Chibs, Juice, Kozik?...Maybe time time it'll be a dead body and not an injured body..." he sneered and Chibs moved Reme from his lap and onto the chair beside him as he pushed to his feet and stepped towards Tig.

"You're seriously outta fucking line, brother." Chibs said and Tig laughed before shaking his head and pointing at Chibs.

"I'm outta line? No, I'm finally back in line and your 'little one' is gonna be the death of you if you don't get back in line…You're so blinded by your need to make up for not being there for your own daughter that you're putting some little girl you don't even fucking know in front of your club, brother." Tig said the last word in as much of a Scottish brogue as he could muster in his anger.

"Enough!" Clay's voice boomed as he pushed up from his seat and stepped between the three men before cutting his eyes towards Reme; Clay had seen that same look on that little girl's face before, she was about to run and if someone didn't stop this bickering to stop her she was going to end up dead on the side of the road somewhere.

"You know I'm right Clay, that little girl aint nothing but trouble and it's all she's brought since she showed up here…" Tig snapped and Kozik snorted behind him before looking past Tig, Clay, and Chibs at Reme.

"I'm sorry that you have to listen to this asshole…but what he's saying aint true…" he didn't wait for anyone to say anything before he turned and headed for the door; he wasn't going to stand here and listen to Tig's bullshit and lies. Not when he could see the look on Reme's face the entire time, she believed every damn word he was saying and he hadn't missed the look on her face. The one that told him she was done, and that she was leaving.

"I think we all just need to calm down, everyone is tired and it's been a rough day." Audrey said as she pushed up from her chair after a good five minute battle. Her hand moved over her stomach as she shook her head a little; she was Jax's old lady and she wasn't even mad at the little blonde girl because in her eyes the events of today only fell on one person's shoulder's and that person was Tig. He'd been the one that took Reme with him to scope out a place he knew might have been crawling with people who wanted her head on a silver platter, but he was so damn possessive he'd put her in more danger than anyone else would have.

"Audrey's right." Gemma said as she pushed up from her chair and reached for Audrie's arm as the redhead cringed in pain before laughing a little.

"Damn Braxton Hick…" Audrey mumbled under her breath as she exhaled through pursed lips and dropped her hand a little lower on her womb. "Nurse, can you tell me anything on Jackson Teller? I'm his..." what was she supposed to say here? She couldn't say 'I'm his old lady' and that mean anything to the hospital staff and announcing that she was his 'baby momma' wasn't going to do a damn thing and hospital policy prevented her from getting information as a girlfriend.

"I'm his mother." Gemma interrupted from beside Audrey and the redhead looked up at the older lady and smiled her thanks. "When can we see him?" Gemma asked and a second later her eyes widened when she looked down at floor and then back up at Audrey, who was sheet white and wide eyed.

"Did you pee yourself?" Juice asked as he leaned forward in his seat beside Reme and looked at Audrey, which got a glare from almost every one of the remaining SAMCRO members.

"Oh god…Gemma…" Audrey said as she waved her hand at the same time she started to shake her head 'no' before looking up at Gemma and then down at the puddle of liquid at her feet. She was only eight months pregnant; she couldn't have the baby a month early. No, this couldn't he happening. She couldn't have the baby with Jax shot and not able to be there with her for the birth of their son. "Gemma!" Audrie called once more as she looked between everyone in the main room before her eyes landed on Opie and she started to cry and her brother pushed up onto his feet and cleared the distance between her and where he'd been sitting at in two large steps.

"Audrey, listen to me…I was there when both Kenny and Ellie were born…Breathe." He said mimicking the way Donna had been told to breathe in all her birthing videos for his sister as he took hold of her elbow and looked up at the nurse. "Can you do your job and get her a wheel chair?..." he barked as he started to move Audrey towards the doors Reme had come out of previously. "And when you're done with that and have her in a room...Tell Jackson Teller that my sister is having his son right now." He added as the nurse reappeared with a wheel chair and nodded her head.

"Opie…I can't have the baby yet." Audrey pleaded as she gripped his hand with a death grip and titled her head back to look up at him.

"You're going to have to, little sister…We can't just cork it for a month." He tried to lighten her mood as he moved towards the back with her since she'd taken a death grip on his hand and hadn't released it yet.

"Don't leave me, Opie." Audrey said and Opie nodded his head as he moved through the doors with her.

"So, am I to assume you're going to be in the delivery room with her?" the nurse asked as she wheeled Audrey through the hallway to the back hallway towards the elevator; they had to get her onto the maternity ward as soon as possible.

"I guess so." Ope answered with a slight grimace at how tight Audrey was squeezing his hand.

"See what the hell you did now!?" Tig snapped as he pointed a hand towards Audrey and Opie's retreating form and Reme looked up at him once more. Everything he was saying to her made perfect sense in her mind, his words were thoughts she'd been having since showing up in Charming and Tig was bringing them to life right now. Reme couldn't help the second round of tears the filled her eyes and bubbled over and down her cheeks at his words. She had to get out of here and fast before something worse happened.

"I shoulda let that Mexican have you…" Tig sneered at last as he scanned his eyes over her form once more and turned away from her and headed for the other side of the waiting room towards her. When he was close enough, Tig bent down and braced his hands on the arm rests of her chair as he leaned into her face. All emotion was clear from his face, and for the first time in a long time, Reme was absolutely terrified of Tig. He leaned down by her ear that was furthest from Juice before he spoke, "Leave…I got what I wanted from you…You're not worth the trouble you cause…now leave…get up, take you little Russian ass as far from Charming as humanly possible, and if I see you back in this town again…the Russians, Mayans, and Nordics will be the last damn thing you'll be worry about…" his steel blue hues narrowed on her tear dampened sapphire ones for an entire second before he pushed away from the chair and headed across the room to his own chair and took a seat. He knew that if nothing else he'd said sunk into her head, him directly telling her to go would get her feet moving and as hard as it was for him to lie to her the way he was, he knew it was for the best. This was the most compassionate thing he'd ever done for another person, and he knew she'd never know it.

Reme didn't even wait for him to lower himself into his chair before she was up out of her's and heading across the waiting room for the door. She pulled away from Chibs when he caught her by the waist before his eyes cut to Tig and he stepped towards the Sargent-At-Arms as Reme continued for the door.

"What the hell did you say to her?" Chibs asked as his eyes moved towards Reme when she pushed the door open and the second she felt the cool night's breeze on her face she took off in a full on sprint away from the hospital. She didn't live far from St. Thomas and she knew in ten minutes she could be in her apartment packing her bags and then she would do exactly what Tig told her to do, put as much distance between herself and this ironically named town as humanly possible.

"Get outta my face." Tig sneered as he sat back in his chair and fought the urge to go after the little blonde he'd just sent running for the hills. Chibs looked down at him before shaking his head and looking over his shoulder at Juice and nodded his head 'yes' when the younger male pushed up from his chair and moved towards the door like he was going to go after Reme.

"Take her back to her apartment…" Chibs said as he looked back at Tig. Juice nodded his head before moving to the door and out it without as much as a glance towards Tig; whatever the man had said to Reme had really scared her and upset her at the same time. Tig looked up at him with a smirk before shrugging his shoulders. Chibs raked a hand through his hair before he moved back across the small waiting room and dropped down into the chair Reme had been in.

"Reme!" Juice called as he quickened his pace to catch up to her before snagging one of her wrist and pulling her towards him a little. "You can't just run around the streets at night, come on let me take you home." He said as he kicked his head towards his bike and pulled his key out of his cut pocket. "I'll leave ya alone I swear…just let me make sure you get home safe." He said as he moved his hand from her wrist and onto the small of her back as he ushered her towards his bike; Reme wasn't exactly responding to him but she wasn't fighting so he figured she just understood that it wasn't safe for her on the streets at night, even if this was small town Charming.

"Tig's an asshole…ya can't listen to a thing he said in there…He's just trying to find someone to blame his mistake on." Juice said as he buckled his spare helmet on her head and then moved to put his own helmet on his head. He swung a leg over his bike and pushed the key into the ignition before offering a hand to Reme to help her on the back of his bike but she ignored the hand as she tossed her leg over the bike and dropped her light weight down on the back of his bike. Her hands were barely around his waist when he kicked the bike to life and Juice knew something Tig had said had really gotten to her; he just wished he knew what it was so he could tell her how wrong Tig had been.

Five minutes later, Juice pulled into Reme's apartment and parked in the first spot in the lot before looking over his shoulder at her. She had barely hung on the entire ride to her apartment, and she was already pulling her helmet from her head and offering it to him before he even pulled into the parking spot. The second he was in the spot, Reme tossed her leg over the bike and headed for her apartment without so much as a look at Juice; it was easier for her to leave people she cared about when she didn't make long goodbyes, or goodbyes at all and in her time here in Charming she'd learned to love Juice in the same manner that she loved her brother, Alek.

"Call me if you need anything…" Juice called but Reme was already turning around the side of the building and she didn't even stop to acknowledge his words at all. Something about leaving her like this didn't quite feel right to him, but he planned on coming back to her apartment as soon as he knew everything was good with Audrey, the baby, and Jax. He'd sleep in the parking lot if he had to just to make sure she was safe for the night and in the morning he planned on figuring out exactly what Tig had said to her that bothered her so much. When Reme finally disappeared from sight, Juice backed the bike out of the parking spot and headed back for the hospital once more.

Reme's eyes were on the ground as she stepped down the two little cement stairs that led to her tiny patio but when she heard a little sigh she looked up and her eyes widened for a second before she realized it was Kozik sitting on her patio with a cigarette in his mouth. Reme let out a breath as she looked down at him and he tilted his head back to look up at her with a frown. She bit into her bottom lip before looking back over her shoulder and then crouching down in front of him, her hand came forward and she pulled the cigarette from his lips and brought it to her own before taking a long drag and exhaling the smoke with a cough.

"I didn't know you smoked." He said and Reme smirked for all of a second before looking down at the cigarette in her hand. Her sapphire eyes focused on the burning ember on the end and for a long second she just stared at the burning end of the cigarette before she looked up at him and offered him the cigarette back.

"I don't…" she whispered and Kozik pushed up a little straighter on her patio as he took the cigarette from her and put it out on the cement before tossing the butt into the little ashtray he'd grabbed from her patio table. He brought one of his hands up and brushed the back of his knuckles along her cheekbone and when she turned her face into the little caress Kozik nodded his head as if he had decided something to himself. Reme looked up at him for a second before dropping her eyes from his face and pushing up onto her feet once more as she pulled her keys from her pocket and moved towards the door. "Why are you here?" she asked finally as she unlocked the door and pushed it open.

Kozik pushed up onto his feet and shrugged a shoulder at her question before one of his hands came out and caught her hip; he pulled her against his body and dropped his head and caught her lips with his. His other hand moved up her back and onto the back of her neck before he squeezed gently as he ran his tongue along the seam of her lips before pushing it into her mouth and pulling her even closer. Reme's hands moved from her side and up onto his shoulders as she pushed up onto her tiptoes to deepen the kiss, her own tongue rolling over his for a long moment before he pulled back and drug in a deep breath.

"I'm going back to Tacoma…I already called Lee and told him I'd be back…" he said as he looked down at her. Kozik dropped his hand from her neck and let it slide down her back until it rested against her hip along with his other hand and he took a step back from her so that he could see her better. "I'm not sure what this thing between us is…but I know I'm not the only one that feels it…and I also know the things Tig said tonight really hurt you…I'd never do that…" he stopped long enough to scan the little common area of her complex before his light blue eyes fell back onto her much darker blue eyes as he took a deep breath. "Come to Tacoma with me…No one will know where you are, I'll protect you…keep you safe from everything you're running from, and from Tig…"

Reme looked up at him for a long second as she took a breath and swallowed the lump growing in her throat; the second he'd mentioned going back to Tacoma her heart had started to pound and she couldn't explain the dullness that formed in the center of her chest. He was leaving; he was going back to Tacoma and he'd come here to tell her goodbye once and for all. She hated goodbyes, despised them really, and it took her an entire minute to realize that he hadn't come here to tell her goodbye after all. Kozik had come here to ask her to go with him back to Tacoma and she felt like for the first time in her entire life their might have really been a God after all. She nodded her head once at first before adding two more little nods to the answer, "Okay…but I don't want anyone here to know where I am…I want them to think I left or…" she didn't finish the sentence because Kozik was already nodding his head that he understood what she was saying and what she was getting at completely.