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Setting: Second Son Appisode

Rating: T

"Are you sure you're up for this?" Gemma said glancing at Tara in the passenger seat. She was driving Tara and Thomas to Stockton so Jax could meet his new baby boy.

"I'm fine Gemma, besides, I promised Jax." Tara smiled turning to look at the sleeping baby in the back seat. She'd only given birth 4 days earlier, but she had promised Jax that as soon as she could, she would bring Thomas to meet his Daddy. She wouldn't wait a day longer than necessary. So that was what she was doing.

"Jax will understand honey."

"I know." Tara shrugged. "But I want to. And I promised. Not a day longer than necessary." When he'd gone away, Jax had been most upset about the fact that he would inevitably miss out on so much of his children's lives. Tara had promised him, nearly every week, as her belly got bigger and bigger that she would bring Thomas as soon as she was physically able. And now, she was, and she would come through for him.

When they arrived at Stockton and went through all the check points, Tara's heart started to race. She was surprisingly nervous. Not of Jax's reaction, she knew he already loved Thomas. It was more of a nervous excitement. They'd waited so long for this day, the day they could hold their child together and as Tara handed Thomas to Jax for the first time she was overcome with love for her boys. It was a heartbreakingly beautiful sight to watch Jax hold their son.

"He's beautiful." He whispered looking down at the baby between them. "I love you. So much."

Tara looked from Thomas up to Jax's face to find him already gazing at her. "I love you too." She smiled as she rubbed her hand up and down the length of his arm.

"Thank you. I will never be able to thank you enough, if I live forever, it still won't be enough."

"Thank me for what?" Tara asked as she watched the tears pool in Jax's eyes.

"For staying, for Thomas, for Abel, for everything you're doing now, for just being you. But mostly, for loving me." He whispered as he took one hand off Thomas to cup her cheek gently and brush away the tear that had fallen from her eye.

"Ditto." Tara gasped as she valiantly fought to hold back the sobs that threatened to wrack her body. After a few moments of silence, the couple just staring at the beautiful boy they'd created, Jax's voice broke the quiet.

"How are you? Are you ok? I don't know the details. How was it, the birth?" Jax asked and the worry on his face would have been evident to anyone looking.

"I'm fine baby. Still a little sore and tender, tired, but ok. The birth was long, but your Mom was actually really great. She stayed by my side for the whole 11 hours, and she held my hand. She told me how much she knew you loved me, and that she'd make sure you were there for the next one." As Tara spoke Jax couldn't help but smile at the images she was describing, but his heart ached too. It should have been him holding her hand, telling her he loved her, and that she was strong. That she could do it and it wouldn't be much longer. All the things the father is supposed to say to support the mother. All the things he wished he'd had the opportunity to say.

"I may have cursed you a couple of times." Tara smiled guiltily and Jax couldn't help but laugh. He'd bet that she called him every dirty name she could think of, names that could have made Happy and Tig blush.

"Just a couple?" He asked with a wink and revelled in the blush that snuck up on the apples of her cheeks.

"It was amazing though Jax. The moment I heard him cry, I was gone, I belonged completely to him." Tara whispered, her voice cracking slightly.

"I'll bet babe. I really wish I'd been there." Jax replied leaning his forehead against hers.

"I know. But like you said, you'll be there for the next one."

Jax tried not to let the hope show on his face, or ring in his voice when he spoke. "Promise?"

"Absolutely." Tara smiled as she finally averted her gaze from his and the couple gave their baby boy their full attention. All too soon visiting time was up, and Tara was forced to take Thomas from a more than reluctant Jax.

"It's not enough time. Never enough time." Jax whispered with one last kiss to Thomas's forehead and then one particularly hard kiss to Tara's lips. He kept his eyes on them as he was lead away and back to his cell, determined to keep them in his sight until the last possible moment. It wasn't until Jax disappeared through the double doors that Tara finally broke down. Holding Thomas against her chest she cried the tears she'd been holding in. It seemed like Gemma had materialised out of nothing to take Thomas from her, quickly placing him in his carrier and pulling Tara into her arms.

"It's going to be ok baby; it's all going to be ok." Gemma whispered as she held Tara.

Well guys, that was the first chapter on the Second Son app.

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