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Taming Ava & Fixing Jax - A Modern Fairytale
Chapter 27 Double Set up Double Trouble
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The next morning Jax was better but he was still in ICU. The newest antibiotic had helped lower his fever but he still had some distance to go before infection would no longer be an issue.
Kevin from TB's law firm had a private meeting with Jax. He used his iPhone to take video of Jax looking sick and frail. It would be used in later court proceedings.
Jax slept most of the time as his body fought off the infection and healed itself. Once again Ava and Gemma sat at Jax's side with Opie, Clay and Tig rotating in through the day.
TB got back too late to visit Jax that night, but he'd spoken to him briefly by phone. Jax believed in TB and he believed he was his best hope to get out of prison. Marrying Ava even without the money would be worth it if it got him out. Then the time would come to go after those that set him up. He was less concerned about the ATF. He wanted to know who got Lowen to throw the case. He had ideas about who that might be. He hoped he was wrong.
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TB's money was buying a lot of investigative firepower. He wanted Jax out of prison ASAP and he was using large amounts of money to get it done quickly. A single investigator was looking into Ellie Lowen. She was an appeal issue. Another investigator was looking into the ADA that prosecuted Jax.
The actual meat of the investigation was into the two ATF agents that set Jax up. Two sets of investigators totaling thirty were looking into Josh Kohn and June Stahl. Some were working on uncovering every misdeed they had ever been involved in working backwards from setting up Jax Teller.
A smaller hardcore team of ten were intent on a special mission: getting Josh Kohn or June Stahl to admit setting up Jax on video. The approach was tailored to each agent. For Josh Kohn, it was all about his ego. He was approached by Mark a retired Navy SEAL who became Kohn's best buddy. He told him all kinds of SEAL stories. None of which was true. After a few weeks, he told him of a couple of classified missions. That earned him Kohn's trust.
While Jax was sleeping in ICU for the second night, Mark and Kohn were eating dinner and drinking in a booth at an Italian restaurant. Mark told Kohn about some black ops stuff. Kohn wasn't completely drunk, but his judgement was impaired. He shared some minor stories of ATF misdeeds by other agents and a couple by him wanting to impress his cool friend. Mark wasn't impressed.
Kohn tried again to impress Mark. He wanted his cool friend to think that he was a badass. He told him about setting up an outlaw piece of shit biker named Jax Teller. He laid it all out. Mark was impressed.
The video and audio were shot in a public place so Josh Kohn would not be able to argue that he'd had an expectation of privacy and get the recordings thrown out. They had him. This was more than enough to destroy the ATF, Josh Kohn and the case against Jax Teller.
A half hour away another team was working June Stahl also with full video and audio. A blonde bombshell named Paula was sent in. She was a real model with an eye-popping lingerie portfolio. She was also a first-rate investigator with a clever quick mind.
She began hanging out at a bar that June frequented. June moved in or her pretty quickly but Paula played her. While Jax was in his ICU hospital bed and Kohn was trying to impress Mark, June and Paula were getting cozy over drinks and bar snacks in a private booth. June was telling her about being an ATF agent. Paula asked her about the Sons explaining that two of them had raped her sister. She said she would do anything to put those bastards in jail.
June had some plan to use Paula as a confidential informant sending her into SAMCRO's clubhouse. Paula was very hesitant and didn't trust that June would follow through on her promise to help get the bastards that raped her sister.
After a few more drinks, June told her that she was determined to get SAMCRO and the Sons. She wanted to assure Paula that she had it in for the MC as much as Paula. She bragged to her about setting up Jax Teller and putting his badass in prison. She promised that if Paula could find out who raped her sister, she would make sure the guys went to prison even if she had to set them up like Jax Teller.
Later that night, the group of investigators came together to review that night's work. The story each told about setting up Jax was remarkably similar. It would be hard for them to claim the stories were made up when the two stories matched.
They had exactly what they had been hired to find—conclusive proof that Jax Teller was set up. This was going to be devastating to the ATF.
The next morning, TB received an early morning call. They sent him the video. He watched with a mix of admiration for the men and women who carried out this bold plan and joy that they had what they needed to get Jax his freedom.
Now, it would require some careful thought to come up with the best plan to get Jax out of prison as quickly as possible. He was sure that if Jax thought it was a hit on him, then it was a hit. He was worried that this information was so explosive, it could lead to another attempt on Jax's life. Someone might think killing Jax would stop the investigation into all that had gone on to get Jax falsely convicted.
He was thinking about taking a very bold step to get Jax out of prison before another attempt could be made on his life.
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Author's Note: I know sometimes writers create characters that aren't likable and the writer doesn't realize that and readers helpfully point that out. I know Ava is awful. She's not likable. She isn't supposed to be because there needs to be room for her character to grow and change. Also some of the things that Jax does to her are going to be pretty awful and you have to believe that she deserves what he does to her. I know some of the things he's going to do to her and it's going to be very mean. He isn't perfect and he goes overboard on being mean and they have to find a way to work and grow into better people for each other. There might also be a murder mystery.
And Jax will be getting out of prison within a chapter or two. Look for the pic of a shirtless Jax and you will know that he is out of prison. And he will probably remain shirtless for the rest of the covers unless I get bored.