"What's got you in such a good mood?" Jax was doing sit ups in the cell when Juice arrived back from visitation with a stupid grin on his face.
"Got your sister to move in with me." Still grinning like a fool.
"Uh hate to break it to you bro but it ain't gunna work. It's a bit small in here."
Juice chuckled. "Nah she's moving into mine."
"I figured. What brought that on?" Jax sat up on his cot and rubbed his face down with his towel.
Roxy said Juice could tell her dad and brother so he figured now was better than ever. Plus then Jax could help him break the news to Clay.
"Well, uh, looks like we're having a baby too. She's like a month behind Tara."
Jax stood up then and Juice panicked for a moment thinking he might hit him but Jax, instead, gave him a man hug.
"Congrats bro!"
"Thanks Jax. Shit timing but yeah. Couldn't be happier really. All that shit with trying to push your sister away was stupid. She's all I want."
Jax barked out a laugh. "Shit she's got you whipped doesn't she?"
"S'pose so. But she's worth it." He hopped up to sit on his bunk. "You gotta help me tell Clay though. Roxy left that task to me."
"Just be glad it's not Gemma you're telling."
They both laughed imagining how crazy Gemma was going to be. Difference is she'd be crazy in an excited way, Clay on the other hand? Who knows...
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That afternoon Roxy went straight to her Mum's to tell her the good news. She let Juice tell Jax and Clay, Clay being someone she didn't envy him telling. But it would be good for them to know ASAP and she didn't want to waste a visit on her dad. As bad as that sounds. Plus he'd prefer it if she didn't. His visits were taken up with club business from Opie or Chibs seeing as Gemma was on house arrest.
Roxy opened the back door of her Mum's house and was greeted with the smell of coffee and cigarettes. Clearly Gemma was handling the house arrest well.
"Hey Ma." Roxy bent over and kissed her Mum's cheek. Gemma was sitting at the dining table with a smoke and coffee, ash tray full of finished cigarettes.
"Bout time you came to visit me. I'm wasting away here and no one cares."
Gemma's mood had been horrific since the house arrest. Roxy tried to remind her it was better than the alternative but that just got her more sass from her mum. It was driving Gemma mad to be locked in her own home, unable to carry out her "queenly" duties. She always had to have her nose into everything at the club.
"Yeah well I come bearing exciting news so maybe you'll stop wasting away."
Gemma perked up at this. "So what's the goss then? Ope knocked Lyla up yet?"
Roxy chuckled. God her mum loved to gossip. "No he hasn't. But Juice knocked me up." Roxy laughed.
"Shut up!" Gemma stubbed her cigarette out. "No he didn't." She was smiling now.
"Yeah in Ireland I think."
"So your little reunion went well then. Who knew the little spaz had it in him." She got up to give Roxy a hug.
"Be nice Ma. He's not a spaz." She rolled her eyes.
"Clearly. So he excited about it?"
"He is now." Roxy grinned.
"What do you mean now?"
"You know what he's like. He panicked a bit at first but he asked me to move in with him today."
"Gunna be a bit cramped in that cell with Jax." Gemma laughed.
"Funny. And he's part owner in this new weed dispensary that's opening. As a backup income for us all."
Gemma raised her eyebrows. "Busy boy isn't he? Good for him." She levelled Roxy with a gaze now. "Does your dad know?"
"Juice is telling him and Jax today. How do you reckon he'll take it?"
Gemma sighed. "Probably good. Think he'll be happy you guys are moving in together and you'll be with him all the time rather than alone at your apartment. And that Juice will be responsible for you. You know what he's like."
Roxy chuckled humourlessly. "Yeah figured." She'd hoped he'd be happy to be a real grandad but who knows. She's probably right he'd focus more on his responsibility being cared for than the actual excitement for her.
"Suppose I got lots to get ready."
"That you do baby. Can't wait till I'm off house arrest and I can take you shopping." Gemma's face lit up with glee and Roxy groaned. Luckily Gemma had another 5 months of this before she could terrorise Roxy.
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The next two weeks went by in a blur of packing and moving. Roxy had also started back at work once again. Of course some of her coworkers weren't the happiest with her. In the almost year she had been back in Charming she'd had more time off than she had worked. So naturally they got annoyed with her constantly shifting case loads. As a result she was doing more paperwork and short term consults than cases these days. But Roxy wasn't too fussed at the moment. She had too much else to focus on.
It was Saturday and Roxy was at the afternoon visitation. Juice and the guys had been in Stockton for pretty much two months now and Roxy was 11 weeks along. Next week she was going for her 12 week scan and she was so excited. Kozik was the lucky one to be tasked with taking her, Juice was happy that she wasn't going alone but he just wished he was there.
"I just wish I could be there with you babe." Juice was pretty upset, he was stroking the palm of her hand with his thumb.
"I know Juicy." She smiled. "But I'll come by straight after with the pictures." She curled her fingers up and squeezed his hand.
"It's not the same. But I appreciate it." He gave her a limp smile.
"Also got my cardiologist appointment on Monday too. So many appointments I'm gunna lose track."
Juice looked concerned. "Why? What's wrong with your heart? Is everything ok?" He knew she had the heart problem like her mum but he thought it was under control. No one told him she was sick.
"Everything's fine babe. Just had to change a few of my Meds so they were OK for the baby. So now I gotta get monitored all the time. I'm fine really." She figured she should change the subject to keep him at ease. "Clay still blanking you?"
Juice chuckled. Since he'd told Clay there had been radio silence in that relationship. Clay wasn't impressed that knocked her up without being married. Not for any moral reason Roxy was sure. She knew how her dad's mind worked. He was just worried that without any official 'Old Lady' commitment or a marriage certificate, if anything happened between them Roxy would be back on Clay's doorstep. This time with a baby in tow.
"Yeah but he's coming around slowly. He acknowledges me in the yard at least. I can't stop looking over my shoulder for shivs from him I think."
Roxy giggled. "Well that's a plus. But hey I gotta get going. I'll be back Tuesday afternoon with the photos. I love you babe."
"God I love you so fucking much. Can't wait to see you again already."
"You're such a cheese ball." Roxy gave him as long a kiss as she could before the guards would come break them up. Still managed to slip him some tongue and he groaned.
"Y'know I have to go back to a cell with your brother, right?" Juice looked at her with lust in his eyes. It usually wouldn't have been as easy to get him going but limited contact with females would kinda do that to you.
"And?" Roxy had a cheeky smirk on her face.
"And I don't think I can come back from you visit all worked up. He's gunna kill me for thinkin about his sister like that."
Roxy just responded by leaning in again and whispering in his ear. "Just think about me in your bed tonight. Because I'll be thinking about you." She gave him another quick kiss and winked before letting him walk back to the room.
Juice groaned as he turned around, trying to conceal his slight boner like a high schooler.
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All had gone well with the scan and Juice was over the moon to see the pictures. A few more weeks had gone by and Roxy was balancing the demands of her job with the demands of her club and incarcerated baby daddy.
Right now she and Kozik were shopping for Miles' patch in party, Kozik's application for transfer had also finally passed thanks to the fact that Tig was in Stockton.
They'd been mucking around in the grocery store as they collected food, getting a few of the usual stares that accompanied a Son being out and about in Charming. But Roxy hadn't thought they'd been that bad when she saw the new Sheriff approaching her car with one of his deputies.
Kozik noticed and moved so he was slightly in front of Roxy.
"Ah Mr. Kozik pleasure to meet you. Just been introducing myself to the various, few, members of the Sons I have seen around Charming."
"Yeah? And?" Kozik crossed his arms in front of his chest.
"Just letting you know I'm watching."
"Good for you." Kozik turned to Roxy as she put the last bag in the car.
"C'mon Rox. Let's go."
When they got back to the clubhouse Kozik called the new Prospects, Ratboy and VLin, out to come and unload the car and Roxy followed him in to the bar.
"What was his problem?" Roxy asked as she hopped on to a bar stool.
Kozik handed her a Coke as he opened a beer. "God knows babe, but I think we'll be hearing a lot more of him now. If he approaches you again just ignore him and tell me yeah?"
"Yeah of course."
Seeing as Chibs had stepped up responsibility within the club to help Opie while the guys were inside he had asked Kozik to take on some of the 'Roxy watch duties'. Juice had asked Chibs to look after her and he didn't quite trust Miles or the Prospects yet. As it was Phil had his Prospect term extended. He should have been patched in with Miles but some of the guys wanted him to wait a bit longer.
Roxy felt sorry for him when the vote came back because he was really devoted to the club and although he was a bit young and immature he kinda reminded her of Half-Sack in a way, though Phil wasn't as confident.
The clubhouse slowly filled up for Miles' patch party, luckily some of the Tacoma guys were in town delivering Kozik's belongings now that he was in Charming permanently. Otherwise tonight's party would have been super quiet.
Seeing as Gemma was still under house arrest and Tara was suffering pretty bad with pregnancy nausea it landed on Roxy to supervise tonight's party. A chore she really could have done without. When she was bitching to Juice about it at visitation this morning he told her to suck it up and enjoy the freedom. He just didn't get how boring it was when you couldn't drink, she was tired and to top it all off she wasn't there to enjoy the party she was there to host. So she was currently watching Chibs and his favourite sweet butt canoodling in the corner, Kozik was getting a lapdance by one of the Cara Cara girls and Ope and Lyla had been attached at the lips for the last two hours. Roxy had to turn away and face the bar to sip her Coke and wishing that Juice was here. She almost thought she had imagined his arms wrap around her waist but when she felt the lips on her neck she knew someone else was behind her. She pulled away and turned around to be face to face with Bowie who subsequently crashed his lips on hers. Eventually she managed to push him off. "Dude I'm an Old Lady, back off."
"What? I don't see no Crow." He moved in again. But she stood strong.
"Yeah because I'm pregnant, leave me alone." She didn't know if it was her admission of being pregnant or Kozik's manhandling that made him leave her alone but either way she got what she wanted.
"Thanks Kozik."
"Any time doll." He winked and made his way back to the stripper leaving Roxy alone at the bar again.
This was going to be a long night.
