JJ-Jefferu: Goodness me, this is chapter twenty-five, the chapter I thought wasn't going to happen but lookie here. It's all complete!
I had so much fun writing the upper part of this chapter. Why, you ask? Simple I am crazy like that. I hope the fact that it, like a few of the last chapters of Rewind, not being long doesn't put you off. My goal in the next installment of Changing the Settings: Fast Forward are longer chapters.
Also I would really like to thank:
TrappedinaPhoto for proofing this entire story: She is my bestest friend.
Tyl3rrrrr for inspiring me to finish the last chapters of this story.
Angel N Darkness for being amazing and making me want to update this.
go4itgirl, ShiloCoulter, Demonicseer, DragonBby, HermioneandMarcus, & zoelynbrowie for being my constant reviewers, just having you six always reviewing my chapters made me glad I wrote this.
And to everyone who alerted or jumped into this story after a good few chapters were posted or even favorite this story I thank you as well. Just seeing the email notifications for any of those encouraged me to continue with this story.
I am going to go ahead and post this so I don't have to worry about forgetting to post it. I wanted to post it today because the story is thirteen months old and today just seemed like a good day to post it.
Now here's the usual.
~+Disclaimer: I do not own SOA, it belongs to Kurt Sutter and shown on FX. I however own the plotline and the characters that you are not familiar with. +~
Also thanks to TrappedinaPhoto for proofing it.
Please Enjoy the last installment of Rewind.
::Rewind:: Chapter 25: In Memory.
Ariel groaned as she took her books from the desk, in Happy's dorm room, and moved them to the bed. She also moved her laptop and notebooks next to the textbooks. She had decided to stay out of everyone's way and keep off Angelika's radar. So she was hiding out in Happy's dorm room doing her college work. But apparently somebody had other ideas, she was disturbed by knocking on the door.
"Go away," Ariel shouted at whoever it was.
"No," Alana's voice says through the door, before she opens it. "We need to talk."
"About," Ariel asks, not looking up from her textbook.
"A lot of things, Air," Alana says in a serious tone causing Ariel to look up from her math textbook.
"You have to be more specific 'Lana."
"About you being inked, the plans of moving from our apartment, and the fact I hear from a great source that you might be getting married for starters." Alana says.
Ariel sighs and closes her textbook before moving it and the other stuff to various places near the bed: the laptop on the night stand, the textbooks with their respectable notebooks to the floor in a nice pile. She leans back onto the pillows getting comfortable before patting the bed beside her for her cousin to sit on.
"Getting inked was a whim it just happened; before I found out I was pregnant. It I had known I was pregnant when Happy inked me then I would have never let him do it. It's dangerous to the baby, though Angie thinks that I should be ok since the baby wasn't developed much when I was inked." Ariel tells the younger teen before placing her hands over her slight bulge of a stomach.
"But why didn't you tell me, or anyone for that matter?" Alana asks.
"Hap and I decided we were going to wait til some of the shit storm went away before letting anyone else know. Then you saw the untimely change of events that took place like a dominion effect: Chibs getting blown up and taking the force of it to protect me, LuAnn's death and then CaraCara getting set on fire, Jax going Nomad then Ma telling him about her rape and us telling how it tied into us, and now the stand-off between the Sons and the Mayans. We had to come clean about it sooner than later because so much shit had begun to happen." Ariel explains.
"Ok, I can understand that now the next issue. Moving from the apartment?" Ariel laughed.
"Do you serious think that Happy, the baby, and I can live peacefully in an apartment that's only accommodated for two? Besides I need at least one extra room in the place. What if something is going down with the club and Happy ain't around and someone needs to crash to keep an eye on me?" Ariel said. "Besides that apartment holds too many bad memories and I still have a time coping with the fact I was attacked in there not once but twice and then Happy killed two men in there. I can still see the blood on the carpet."
"I'm sorry," Alana said moving closer to Ariel and hugging her. "Ok now the last one: getting hitched?" Ariel laughed at the way Alana referred to it.
"That one I am just as clueless to as you. I know Happy said he intends it to my brother but it hasn't come up as of yet. Though I have a strange irking it will be before they go to jail." Ariel says.
"Ok, now that all my demands have been met. I am taking you out for some grub and we shall start house hunting. Gemma already gave me a listing of houses near hers or Jax's place. She figured you would want to be close to one of them." Alana tells her pregnant cousin and hops from the bed.
"So ma gave you the list and not me?" Ariel says amused.
"Well I thought it could be something the two of us could do together and asked Gemma if she could help narrow it down." Alana said smiling.
"Alright but we need an escort. Happy and Juice would skin our hides if we left the compound without supervision." Ariel says looking for her duffle bag so she could change clothes.
"Well then I'll go find someone while you get dressed." Alana said and walked out of the room.
Ariel's duffle bag was lying on the floor next to the bathroom door. Rolling her eyes she picked it up and headed into to bathroom to change out of her sweat pants and into a dress. It didn't take her too long to change from her sweats and one of Happy's shirts into her dress. It was light blue and stopped a little under her knees. As she was walking back into the room, to put her shoes on, a knock sounded at the door.
"I'm decent," she yelled to whoever was on the other side of the door. She wasn't sure if it was Alana or somebody else. "Ye can come in," she yelled after a few minutes of silence. The door opened and Ariel smiled at the man entering her room. "Hello Quinn, what can I help ya with?"
"Your cousin I believe, she's the youngest out of the ladies out there, asked if someone would accompany you two on a few errands. And as I am leaving here soon I thought it would be nice to get out of the clubhouse and see the choice locations of the soon to be Happy family." Quinn tells the brunette.
"Well then what are we waiting for? Let's go," Ariel said grabbing her bag and a light jacket and pushing Quinn from the room.
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Ariel was lying on her back staring up at the ceiling of Happy's old dorm room. She had been corrected in assuming that Angelika was going to pull rank on her and force her to rest. Especially after her and Alana had went out, without informing Angelika, to not only eat something other than what the ladies in the clubhouse cooked but also to look at possible houses for the future family. Angelika was a bit upset with Ariel because the teen is going to be a first time mom and is looking for a house to raise her child, without the father, Angelika knew all about the guys impending prison sentence since she was seeing Tig and all. There were many safety issues that Angelika threw in Ariel's face as soon as she told the short doctor what she had been doing.
But Ariel's mind couldn't help but to wonder. Tara, Half-Sack, and Gemma had gone out for groceries and they weren't back yet. It had been over two hours. Before she could worry more about it the door to the room burst open and Alana stood there, with Angelika behind her, both of which eye's were full of unshed tears. Immediately Ariel sat up and headed towards the two.
"What's wrong?" Ariel asks and pulls her cousin into her arms.
"They- they-they," was all Alana could say, she started crying too much for more coherent thoughts.
"Angie what happened?" Ariel asks frantic thinking something bad had happened to the guys.
"The guys are fine, aside from Jax, so don't think like that. And Jax is not physically harmed." Angelika says in a semi calm voice, answering Ariel's unspoken questions.
"Just fuckin' tell me!" Ariel shouts. She was growing impatient with these mind games.
"Gemma's on the lamb and that Irish fellow took Abel,"
JJ-Jefferu: DUN! DUN! DUN! There you have the last chapter to Rewind. I want to know if you guys would like some teaser of Fast Forward or if you just want to wait until chapter one of it gets posted. I make no promises of it coming out anytime soon. I want to have at least five chapters written before I start to post it.
So please review and give me your thoughts on if you want a teaser or you want to suffer and wait until I post the sequel?
I really hoped y'all like how I ended this part of the story. I won't make promises when I will have the next installment up, I have one and a half of a chapter written for part two, but like I said above I am waiting til I have at least five chapters written before posting, so in the mean time that nice question above is mighty helpful to me if you guys answer it.
Now I'm off to eat some breakfast, watch a bit of TV, then get ready to slave away from 9:45am to 6pm at my own personal hell, that people call a job.