Get it together

It had been 2 weeks since Kendal had awoke from her comma and not so coincidentally 3 weeks since her world fell apart…she was in a comma for 6 days and in those few days the small town of Charming and the people she loved had devolved from organized crime into a chaotic ticker tape parade.

The first week was mostly doctors, test, and interviews with the police about the events of the day she was attacked. That week also was a muddled mess of Kendal reaching out to members of SAMCRO and trying to get information.

When the police came to interview her they mentioned that her house had been damaged and they thought it was the SAMCRO that did it. Kendal proceeded to laugh and say that the Sheriff's obsession with SAMCRO had made him turn blind to all the other boogeymen in the world. She finished with the fact that she was in a coma and had a touch of the post-partum but she even knew that made zero since in every angle they could put it in; their efforts to take advantage of her while she was in a weak and vulnerable state were transparent, asinine, and cruel.

When Gemma came she let her know the extent of the damage—both her house and Beverly's had been torched and barely anything was left. Gemma also let her know that the guys were riding out parole violations because there was no evidence from any of the charges they had tried to pin on them; they would be out in a few weeks the lawyers were in the process of filing appeals on the violations.

However, Gemma begged Kay to reach out to her contacts to get them protection, all of SAMCRO's contacts had ignored their pleas and offers. She also slipped and said she was not sure if Clay was even working to help them, that the Cartel had turned the whole club into a "fucking wreck."

Kay did not need much convincing, she started to call and text people as soon as Gemma mentioned that they were currently unprotected. Gemma also let her know why Kozik was not in jail and had not been to visit her—he had died during an exchange; and finally Piney had gone MIA.

Kendal started to feel numb to it all until Gemma told her where Opie's kids were. "Say that again?" she found her voice to be a bit scratchy.

"Lyla took the kids to southern California where she is working…?" Gemma repeated confused why this is what stirred her.

"Well you need to get your ass down there and get them! My kids are not going to stay with her…she…she…she is not in OUR family!" Kendal had found the spark in her that had been dim for far too long.

"Kay, where are you going to take them you don't have a house, and they want you here for at least another week…" Gemma protested.

"Well then they will stay with you or Tara until Chase & I can leave here and get us a new home!" Kendal's eyes turned from the ice gray to a firely blue "I am saving your son, and your fucking club you will get my kids." Gemma did not fight her she just called Bobby and had him take the van to get them.

Kendal's light bulb was not back on and she felt she had a lot to do all of a sudden. The next week was all about getting her life back together from a hospital bed until she and baby Chase were discharged. Then it was finding a place to be, for the moment she was staying in Opie's house. She had some of the girls and prospects help her clean it up because much to her chagrin she was ordered to take it easy. It was in the 2nd week when everything was coming back together…mostly.

Ope, Tig, Chibs, & Jax were still in jail Kendal had bribed or 'negotiated' with 3 different representatives to continue to keep SOA safe, and to her knowledge they had kept up with their side of the bargain.

Today was a big day though…it was not an official visitation day, but she had finally found the right person to grease at the county lock up. After she dropped the kids off at school she was going to be able to go see Opie. Her heart and stomach both fluttered and was heavy at the thought.

She knew what had to happen, she knew what she needed to say and do, but all of her logic had always left her when she was face to face with him. Her heart always felt exposed under his gaze…that is presumably how she got in this mess in the first place.

The kids came from their rooms ready to go to school as she was finishing up their lunches and packing the baby bag for the long day ahead. All of the work she had done to build their confidence and make their life "normal" had gone out the window since Bobby came after her.

Kendal was still trying to repair everything but it was a long, long road ahead. When she dropped Kenny off at school he did not want to let her go, until she promised she would be back and said he could go to the office and call her at lunch. Ellie on the other hand was fine with leaving the car she just had not spoken to Kendal much…but that was getting better, though her attitude still needed some work.

The last thing she did was, what Kendal hoped would be the hardest thing of the day, somehow she doubted it. She stopped at Melissa's house and took baby Chase out of her car seat. This would be the first time since she woke up that she would be apart from Chase for more than an hour…all of the things she was sorting through and all the pain she was swallowing seemed worth it every time she looked at her baby. Chase was the most perfect thing that Kendal thought she would ever see.

She arrived at the jail a little after 10 a.m. and was escorted to an abandon office. She did not know exactly what she was going to say or what the day might bring…Kendal had a purpose though, she had a plan, and if she could hold it together she would have a future with the kids, and if everything went terribly wrong, possibly without Opie.

Jax was the first person in the door, followed by Tig, Opie, and Chibs, each took a second to absorb what they were looking at.

"Kendal?!" Jax said rushing forward to hug her "Oh my gosh you look great!"

"Kay?" Tig physically moved Jax and held Kendal in his arms and squeezed her so hard she yipped. "Never do that again…How is Dee?"

"She is good…we got out of the hospital about a week or so ago…she is wonderful I have a few more weeks and I should be back in tip top non bruised shape" Kendal said swallowing the lump in her throat looking into Tig's eyes. She was avoiding looking at him, she knew what would happen when she did so she went for Chibs next "Chibs! How did you get mixed up in this clusterfuck?"

"Long story, love…" he said letting her go and taking a step back to clear the pathway for Opie, who had been standing there stoic as ever, staring at her like she was a mirage.

Kendal finally turned to him "Hey Ope…" she said giving him a small smile.

He crossed the space between them in 2 strides taking her into his arms and kissing her conveying every prayer he had to save her in that one kiss. She was leveled, her brain mush, and her plan may have went out the window. He stopped kissing her and rested his forehead on hers, staring at her with tears in his eyes "Baby, I love you so much…"

"I know," she cooed at him taking his face in her hands placing butterfly kisses on his cheeks "I know you do baby…" she cleared her throat wiped away her own tears and turned to the room trying to put space between her and Opie, but that he would not do, he held her to him smelling her hair and kissing the top of her head.

"How are you holding up?" she asked the room.

"Good, we had a few days of chaos but then somebody had brown start looking out for us…" Jax said "You?"

"Possibly…" she said smirking "I had my lawyer look into the case and all of you except for Ope will be out with in the week…" she elbowed Opie hard in the ribs "Punching a cop makes things a little harder to sweep away."

"I'm sorry baby, but I will be out soon and then we can go back to…" he turned to face her but she put her fingers on his lips.

"Shh…later. We have bigger things to talk about than you abandoning me and you newborn daughter to come to jail." Everyone stayed quiet for that tense moment "Now then, Jax you need to tell me what the fuck is going on because what you are saying is not fucking adding up."

"I want to tell you but I can't tell you right now," Jax said with a cautious tone.

"I am not buying that bullshit." Kendal said curtly "You are doing shit for the cartel but they don't have your back in here, word on the street is that SOA are in with the feds, and all of this is falling down on your sweet small town that I live in, more over in the sweet small town my kids are in, you are going to need to clear this up for me, quickly. Tara is in the hospital for some bullshit with her hand and getting kidnapped, Piney is missing, Kozik got blown the fuck up, Clay went on some fucking rampage and beat the shit out of Gemma and moved into the clubhouse." She looked at all of their faces with each detail and studied their reactions.

"Babe…" Opie said trying to calm or control her but that was not happening today.

"Don't you babe me…" She said pushing him away but he pulled her back to him "Jax?"

"Kay I know things are fucked up right now but I am fixing them," Jax said.

"Ain't no one got time for that bullshit…You need to fix this shit A. S. A. mother fucking P Jax, you guys will be protected until the end of the week when you're out. Ope will have a different security arrangement after you leave, until he gets out." Kendal said giving each of them deeply disapproving looks "Can you keep your asses out of trouble for that fucking long?" they all nodded looking ashamed even if it was feigned.

"Thank you…" Jax spoke first "we will pay you back…"

"Don't worry about it," Kendal sighed, "Now if you don't mind I need a word with Opie alone."

"Don't have to ask me twice," Chibs said giving her a quick hug as he went out the door.

"Kendal I am glad you are doing better…" Jax said giving her a hug.

"Yeah, yeah charmer, Tara said she was going to bring the boys to see you this weekend." Kendal answered giving him a peck on the cheek and whispering in his ear "Jax really you need to fix this…"

He gave her a million dollar smile kissed her cheek and said "take it easy on him…he's been a wreck."

Tig looked at her with emotion filled eyes and gave her a big hug again and held her for a long moment "You be careful, you have a baby girl to think of…"

"I know…" she kissed his cheek and looked at him "You stay safe, I'll see you in a week." A final hug and he was gone and she was alone with Opie.

She closed the door and took a deep breath and slowly let it out, when she turned Opie was directly in front of her, he closed the minimal distance between them and was kissing her again. As it did every time he kissed her, Kendal's will power left and she just stayed there drinking it in. He broke apart and asked in a raspy hungry voice "How long do we have?"

"No, Ope we need to talk…" She said breathlessly.

"I know…and I know your mad," he said looking at her with those vulnerable eyes she always had a problem saying no to, and as they did the first time she saw him a chill all the way through her "I am just so…" he was struggling with the words but it didn't matter she was putty in his hands by this point "you're okay! You're here with me…and I just want to make you mine again." Then he was kissing her again and she kissed him back for all that he was worth.

She was not sure if this was the last time this would happen, so she let all the intensity wash over her and make her dizzy with passion. Kendal drank in his desire and pleasure at her presence, it felt so good. Her will power, her plan, and her good sense were out the door and she was climbing Opie, treasuring his hands on her.

His hands were on her ass holding her to him, her legs were wrapped around him and her soft moans were making him grind against her so she could feel every inch of his excitement for her. He backed her against a wall and used it for leverage so he could unbutton her blouse and seize her breast with his ravenous mouth.

Somewhere in her Kendal found the power to push him away mumble something about time and push him into an office chair, she slid off her panties, as he slid down his prison scrubs. Kendal straddled him and was lowering herself down on him, singing soft moans of praise. "Fuck…" she chirped as she began to gyrate and bounce on him slowly.

His hands grabbed her hips so hard she knew there would be bruises the next day but she did not care she loved the feeling of him possessing her and she rocked faster and harder calling his name and he growled his pleasure into her neck and shoulder. She arched her back in the anticipation of her orgasm but Opie was not ready for this to end, he held her to him as he stood and placed her on the edge of the desk, he took a hold of one leg putting it high on his shoulder and pushed her down with his other hand and had it rest on her breast squeezing it as he drove himself into her fast and hard watching as she spasmed in pleasure.

"I love watching you come…" he managed to say, as he violently pushed her over the edge. After watching her come down and feeling all the after tremors as she tensed her muscles he came hearing her coo his name.

"I love you so fucking much," he said gasping for air as he laid on top of her sweat dripping from him to her.

"I love you too…" she sighed out blissful…until she remembered what was to come next. It was hard to imagine her telling him she was leaving while he was still inside of her. "Ope baby," she cooed rubbing his back hoping he would linger on top of her longer so she could remember how it felt if he refused her plan.

He lifted his head and looked at her leaving every other part of them touching. "You only call me baby when you give me bad news…." He said kissing whatever flesh of hers he could before looking back at her "Tell me, whatever it is, it is yours, I promised god and whoever else listened that if you were okay I would do anything you asked…I promised I would let you turn me into a better man…"

"Better man?" Kendal looked at him confused "Baby you are the best man I know…you may be short on brain power sometimes but you are an amazing man…"

Opie sucked in air and stood up and slowly pulled out of her ignoring the muffled protest Kendal gave, "this is going to be really bad…" he said pulling up his pants and handing her his undershirt feeling a bit of de ja vu as he did. He watched as she cleaned up her thighs and saw the bruises starting to form where is hands were, and he wished that he could go home with her and kiss every bruise on her body until she cried for him to come inside her again.

He grabbed her panties and held them out to her "thank you," she said careful not to touch him when she took them from her as she put them back on she just said "you know I can't stay in Charming now."

"I know." He said as he had already thought about what her coming here meant, his love was not one for dilly dallying, she was cunning and she had her own purpose that he hoped would still had a place for him. "Are you going to move to Lodi or somewhere closer to the Bar so you can rebuild?" that was a farce but Opie could hope.

"No," she paused and looked at him, Opie was helpless and at her mercy, she knew he would not fight her leaving, it was the next part she feared would end them. "I have a place picked out in San Diego for me and the kids…" she said the last word lightly afraid of what would happen next.

Ope just looked at her dumbfounded for a bit "Kids?" he said…his voice catching in his throat. "You're going to take the kids with you?"

She stood back up firm ready to fight and said firmly "Yes, I am taking our kids, all of them, they need a place to feel safe, where club shit can't get to them…" she paused looking at the tears welling in the corner of his eyes "….where my shit can't get to them either, they need somewhere safe and I can give them that Ope, really I can, I have talked to all my clients and we have a new understanding and deal and no one will…" she was interrupted by Opie's kiss.

It was chaste but all consuming it warmed her from her toes all the way up "I thought you were going to leave us…" he said slowly "but you…you and that wonderful heart of your just want to take my kids and save them from me and all this bullshit…." He stopped looked at her again caressing her hair and asked "is there any room for me in San Deigo?"

"wherever I am there is always room for you…you big idiot…" she was crying too now. "I am leaving Charming I am not leaving you…" she kissed him slowly and it was painful to separate from him. "I will be gone when you get out, I will leave a way for you to find me, but I am not telling people where I am going…" she sniffed "no use in leaving if trouble knows where to find you…"she giggled as he held her close.

"You, Tara, and Tig will be the only ones who can find me…but don't unless you are really ready to leave all of this bullshit behind Ope…" she kissed him again enjoying the feel of it wondering when it would happen again, she let him take the lead of their soft goodbye kisses and temporarily ebbing passion.

"I will come and find you…" he said resting his forehead on hers "I will leave all of this behind once everything is done."

"And despite all my senses I will be there for you if you need anything…don't you go dying on me just because I am moving away, I expect to see you soon…" she gave him one last kiss and forced herself to walk out of the room. Tears falling freely as she did.