This is my fanfiction story. All rights belong to Kurt Sutter and FX. I am just borrowing the Sons of Anarchy characters. Reba is my OC as is Kaylee. I also give rights to the CW and the creators of iZombie for their known characters. This is a work of Fiction. Story rated m for rape situations and abuse. May include lemons in later chapters. Please Read and Review. This is my first story and I would appreciate any critique you have.

So I'm somewhere that I don't have a lot of service and I live near Houston so that is why this chapter is probably extremely late. I apologize for that.

Chapter 24: You're Home

Another two weeks passed by, and I wasn't hiding out in my room anymore. I was hanging out with Happy, Chibs and Ravi. Happy and I were quickly becoming great friends. We decided we wanted to start pranking people. It would keep my mind off everything during the day. During the night is when it was the worst. I would be lying in bed, thinking about something and the thoughts would creep into my head. This is when my depression got the best of me. A few times I acted on it and cut myself, but I would always talk it through with Happy the next day. I knew it wasn't healthy, but I couldn't stop myself. Sometimes it just got the better of me. I was terrified to explain it to Tig, but I knew I needed as much help as I could get to stop hurting myself. I knew I could have a support system if I just reached out and asked for help. It was going to be a lengthy process and I knew it was going to hurt. Sometimes I wouldn't be able to be consoled in my 'dark times', but my family and friends would be there when the storm finally cleared the following day. I knew it would mostly be Tig I would hurt at night because he would be in the room with me, but I knew he wouldn't need it. Another week passed by much the same, except something different happened. Jax received the call that Clay, Uncle Bobby, Opie, and Tig would for sure be back in two weeks. Their month-long trip turned out to be two months, but it was good to hear that they had a set date to be back. Those two weeks passed by quickly and slowly all at once. It felt like I had way too much cleaning to do, since I hadn't been to the house in about 2 months, and it also felt like I had too much free time on my hands which led to me being encased in my thoughts which wasn't a good place for me to be.

At the end of the two weeks, we all hung around Jax to get the call that they were about 15 minutes away from TM. When he finally received the call, we all ran outside to wait. As we were waiting, I let my mind drift to Tig. This was the second time since we've been together that he had to go on one of this trips with Clay. The first time was only three weeks and we thought that was bad. This one has been two months and since then I had been falling deeper and deeper into my depression. I hadn't hurt myself too much more, but enough where I would probably have a few scars on my body from it. I couldn't believe we had already been together for about 11 months. I mean, it wasn't a big deal since we were adults, but sometimes people, namely Clay and Unser, still couldn't believe we have been together for almost a year.

I was pulled out of my thoughts when I heard motorcycles revving and I felt nervous. I spotted Tig almost immediately. As soon as Clay, Tig, Opie, and Uncle Bobby had their motorcycles parked they hopped off and walked towards their brothers and they hugged and told each other they were happy they were safe. I stood off to the side in my own little world. I was bloody terrified of what Tig would think when he found out about the cutting. I felt Tig staring at me and I put a smile on my face. I would think about that later when we were alone, but right now I just wanted to be near him.

I took off running towards him and he prepared to catch me. When I collided into him, he quickly caught his balance to keep us from falling to the ground. The force of me running into him, and him catching me spent us around in a circle. When we were standing still again, I grabbed his face with my hands and kissed him as passionately as I could. He returned the kiss just as passionately and said, "I love you so much baby. I am so sorry I wasn't here, and I am so sorry I was gone for so long."

I looked at Tig with adoration and said, "No, baby, don't. There is nothing for you to be sorry for. You're here now and that's what matters the most. I love you more than all the stars in the sky. I missed you so damn much."

Tig kissed me again and said, "Baby, I am right here with you. I'm not going anywhere else for a while, and I missed you so much more. Damn this is just going to get harder the longer we're together."

I grinned a genuine grin and said, "You know it baby, but I wouldn't have it any other way as long as we're together."

"Almost a year? Right?" Tig replied.

I kissed him again and said, "Yeah, it has been, but we do not need to celebrate it. We know, and that's all that matters in the long run. I am just so happy that finally you're home."

Tig answered me lovingly, "I am too baby." Tig paused and got a sad look on his face and said, "I'm sorry about your mum baby. I know you loved her. I'm sorry I insisted Chibs be the one to come back, I just felt like you would need your brother more than me at that moment."

I nodded at Tig and said, "Don't worry about it Tig. I'm glad Clay let one of you come back. He should have let all three of you come back here. That's on him. Not you. I'm not mad at you. I promise." I kissed him again and said, "Baby, we will talk later I promise, but right now, I need to go check on Uncle Bobby to see how he's holding up."

Tig said, "No, I know baby. Go check on him. I'll see you later. I love you."

I said, "I love you more.", as I walked off towards Uncle Bobby. When I reached Uncle Bobby I hugged him and said, "I'm sorry Uncle Bobby. I know you loved mum."

Uncle Bobby gave me a sad smile and said, "Thanks little McEntire. I did love her. I will feel much better after we deal with Major."

I replied, "I know Uncle Bobby and we will deal with him. It may take a while, but we definitely will." With that being saying Uncle Bobby excused himself to go home and sleep.