Disclaimer - The characters of this fanfiction, as well as the 'Sons of Anarchy' world belong to Kurt Sutter, with the exception of Boo Morrow, who is an original character created by me. I make no profit from this work.
A request.
How the story would have played out, had Tig refused to take guardianship of Boo.
Reject – Tig leaves Boo with Clay
"Those papers, they're official and they make you her legal guardian, all they need now is your signature. Providing you want to sign of course."
Tig didn't say anything; he just continued to stare at the papers in front of him.
Clay was offering him the chance to be Boo's guardian? After all that had happened two weeks previously? And despite knowing how bad he'd been with Dawn and Fawn?
Dawn and Fawn… he'd fucked up so badly with them. He had been and was a horrible father to them both and he'd probably fucked them up for life. Did he really want to do the same to Boo? Boo was so innocent, so sweet and untainted, even by their friendship. Did he really want to screw her up?
No. No, he didn't. He couldn't and wouldn't. He couldn't ruin Boo.
"No." Tig said, pushing the papers away from him. "I don't want to sign."
"What? Clay asked, shocked. "I thought this is what you wanted? You love that girl Tig, like she was your own."
"I know I do." Tig nodded. "But I can't fuck her up Clay, and I will, just like I did with Dawn and Fawn. I'll ruin her… She's a good girl, she'd clever and naive and innocent. Give her to me and that'll soon change. Who knows what she'll become."
Clay nodded his head at that, took the papers and tore them in half.
"Fine. If that's what you want, that's how it'll be."
Tig nodded his head at that. He wanted to be there for Boo but he couldn't be her father. He'd only turn her into himself.
"At the very least, just keep an eye on her for me." Clay said as he pinned the torn papers. "You can still be her friend Tig, without fucking her up. And she needs that, she needs you."
"Yeah." Tig nodded, his voice hollow. "Don't ever tell her about this Clay. She can't know."
How the story would have continued, had Tig rejected Clay's offer to take guardianship of Boo.
Boo continues to live with Clay, completely in the dark about what passed between Tig and Clay. Clay gives her her job back and she soon settles back into the same relationship she had with Tig before Clay beat him up.
She and Clay don't even speak anymore, not at home or at work, not anywhere. They completely ignore one another. Neither is really bothered by this and both reject Gemma's attempts to get them to reconcile.
Boo spends increasing amounts of time at Tig's, crashing on his couch, and at the clubhouse once Chibs has moved out. All in an effort to avoid Clay. Tig begins to realize she doesn't let herself get too influenced by him and regrets not taking her on.
When Boo goes to college, Tig offers up his spare room to her, saying she can live there while she studies. Boo takes him up on the offer and Tig turns his spare room from the entertainment room it was to a bedroom for Boo.
Boo has only been living with Tig for a week when he drunkenly lets it slip that Clay offered to make him her legal guardian and that he refused.
Boo is really hurt by this revelation. She hates that Tig just left her to live with Clay, knowing how much she hated him, knowing how much living with him was bringing her down.
She feels like she doesn't even knows Tig anymore, she thought he was her friend and that he wanted to protect her. Now she doubts that. She tells Tig all of this and then she walks out.
She goes to the clubhouse and joins the party that's there. She gets fucked, drinks and smokes pot. Chibs knows this can't end well and so before she does anything stupid he takes her back to his and puts her to bed with a bucket and a glass of water. He sleeps on the couch.
Boo wakes up in Chibs' bed – fully clothed – and is of course, freaked out. She talks to Chibs and realizes they didn't sleep together. She apologies for her actions the night before but he assures her that it's understandable, the way she acted.
Chibs tells her she can stay with him until she figures shit out. Boo agrees and after much deliberation – Chibs wants her to take the bed, she refuses and wants to take the couch – they decide to take turns sleeping in the bed.
Things settle for a while, Boo still refuses to talk to Tig but gets a nice routine going with Chibs. Whoever is home first makes dinner, they take turns doing chores etc. Chibs finds he rather enjoys coming home to Boo, he likes seeing her curled up on the couch studying or in the kitchen attempting to cook.
One night, when it is Boo's turn in the bedroom, Chibs walks past on his way to the bathroom and gets a peak of her, all curled up in his bed. He thinks she looks adorable. When she shifts in her sleep and the blankets move, he sees she wearing just a tank top and a pair of panties. He upgrades adorable to sexy and when he's in the bathroom, he has to jerk off because the sight of her in his bed has left him with a hard on.
A few weeks pass and Chibs finds he is thinking about Boo more and more. He finds that he is disappointed when she talks to Tig again, forgives him and decides to move back in. He doesn't want her to leave.
On Boo's last night at Chibs' apartment, the Scotsman is in a foul mood and drinks himself stupid. Boo gets annoyed with him and just goes to bed but when she wakes up in the night, he's standing in the door watching her, his eyes glassy, a sad look about his face.
At first Boo is freaked out but is too shocked to speak or move. She just stares right back at Chibs, who doesn't even try to look away. What happens next happens to fast neither Boo nor Chibs can make sense of it. He steps forward as the same time she jumps out of bed and they crash together in the middle, kissing one another, pulling at one another's clothes.
They make love and wake up naked, with their bodies' tangled around one another. Chibs wakes first and although he was drunk the night before, he doesn't regret a thing. He wakes up Boo by kissing her and they make love again. Chibs tells Boo he will miss her when she's gone.
Boo offers to stay. She admits she's really enjoyed living with Chibs and doesn't really want to leave. They agree that Boo should stay for a little while longer, so they can test their relationship and how things go between them.
Tig is disappointed Boo won't return to his but when he sees how happy she is with Chibs, he decides not to say a thing. He's just glad that they are friends again more than anything else.
A few weeks into their relationship, on Christmas morning, Boo tells Chibs that she loves him. Chibs returns the sentiment at once. They both realize then that Boo isn't ever going to move out.
Boo does well at college but often finds that Chibs is quite a distraction from her work, which leads to a few blazing rows but other than that, they are happy.
By the time Boo graduates, she's already heavily pregnant with her and Chibs' first child.
A few weeks later, the couple welcome a baby boy. They settled into family life well, with Chibs continuing to work for the club and Teller-Morrow and Boo writing novels in her spare time.
Chibs isn't caught up in the explosion at Teller-Morrow because he's too busy chasing after his 2 year old son, who has run off with his keys. Juice is however, but thankfully he survives.
Abel is never kidnapped because Tara leaves him with Boo when she and Gemma go out, so the guys never end up in Ireland. Chibs manages to divorce Fiona without her permission because they've been living apart for so long.
When Jimmy is taken out by the club at the request of the IRA after he fled stateside, Chibs gets back into contact with Kerrianne. She comes over to visit often and adores her baby brother.
Chibs and Boo eventually marry but when the club makes a deal with the cartel, they become distant with one another. Boo hates the deal and believes their son is at risk and although Chibs agrees, there's nothing he can do about it. He has to go along with the club vote.
When Boo discovers she's expecting another baby Chibs knows he has to do something to protect his wife and children. Life has been chaotic and almost unlivable since the cartel deal and he puts in for a transfer to a different charter in California as he doesn't want to move to far from his SAMCRO family.
His transfer request is successful and he and his family move to Lancaster to the charter there, where Chibs soon takes up the position of VP. Boo eventually gives birth to a daughter.
And that's how I would have written the story if Tig had rejected Clay's offer to be Boo's guardian. What did you think?
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