Chapter 7

A little later, we are headed to the clubhouse and as soon as we walk in, Gemma walks over and hugs me. "Hey baby." she says. "Hey Gemma." I say as I hug her back. "You like your surprise?" she asks. "I love it. I have to go tomorrow to get my name changed now." I tell her laughing. "We can get our lawyer to handle that for you." she tells me. "Gemma…" I start. "We got it baby." she tells me and I feel Jax pull me closer. "Hey Mom, can you go check on Wendy. She's supposed to be sending me the doctor bills but I haven't been getting them and she's not answering her phone." he tells Gemma. "Because she knows it's you." Gemma says. Kissing my cheek she says "Come on sweetheart. We can get some lunch while we're out." she tells me. I kiss Jax and he says "Be careful babe." I nod and say "You too baby." and he smiles as he kisses me again.

Pulling up to Jax's house, Gemma and I knock on the door. When there's no answer, we head around the house and when we get around to the kitchen window, I look inside. "Gemma oh my God." I say shocked. I bust in the window on the kitchen door while Gemma calls the ambulance. I run to the woman lying on the floor bleeding. I check for a pulse and listen to her heart. Seeing her mouth foaming I say "She's OD'ing." A couple of minutes later, the ambulance gets there. "Take my keys and go get Jax. Head to St Thomas." she tells me and I nod. She kisses my cheek and says "It's going to be okay." I nod again and head to the garage.

I pull onto the lot laying on the horn. As soon as I stop, Jax sees me and sees the panic in my eyes. "What's wrong?" he asks as he checks me for injuries. "Your mom is on the way to the hospital with your ex. She was on the floor bleeding and she was OD'ing." I tell him. "Shit." he says. He looks at Clay and they head to the bikes. He pulls me to his bike and we head to St Thomas.

Walking in, we see Gemma standing there. Walking up to her, Jax's fingers laced with mine, he asks "You heard anything?" She shakes her head no when a pretty brunette doctor comes out. "When was the last time you heard from her?" she asks Jax. "Couple of weeks. She wouldn't answer my calls." he says. "We found track marks between her fingers and toes. Tox report hasn't come back yet but my best guess is crank." she says. "The kid?" he asks. She tells us that he was born ten weeks early with a hole in his stomach and the family flaw. Jax runs his hand down his face and pulls me closer and I see a sad look in the doctor's eyes. "Jax, Dr Namid wants to operate now. Fix his stomach and then when he stabilizes from that fix his heart. Jax goes to walk away and I call out his name. "Stay with mom and the kid." he says. I run up to him and kiss his quickly. "Be careful." I say. He nods before kissing me one more time and heading out with Chibs and Bobby behind him.

Walking back over to Gemma I see her glaring at the doctor. "What wrong?" I ask Gemma. "The doctor. That's Jax's ex. The one that wanted him to leave the club." she tells me. "Holy shit." I say. I see her look at Gemma and walk over. "Gemma, can I talk to you?" Tara asks. "Whatever you need to say you can say in front of her." Gemma says. "I can really only say this to family." Tara says, looking at me. "I am family. I'm Abel's stepmother." I tell her. "Stepmother?" Tara asks shocked. "Yeah. That's usually what you're called when you marry someone with kids." I say and her face goes white but she quickly composes herself. "Well, he's going into surgery. Once we fix his stomach, Dr Namid wants to go ahead with fixing his heart. He doesn't want to wait." Tara says. "That's good right?" Gemma asks and they go back and forth about her being a good doctor and Gemma not having an issue with her assisting on the surgery. After Tara walks away, I look at Gemma and she says "I'm proud of you baby. Defend what's yours." she tells me. "You think she's going to go after Jax?" I ask. "Most likely but don't you worry baby. That man love you." she tells me and I shake my head. "I don't know if we're there yet." I tell her. "You love him?" she asks. "He makes it really hard not to." I tell her. "That's not an answer." she tells me smirking. "Yeah." I tell her and she says "Well, he loves you too."

A little later, we are sitting in the room with Abel, watching him sleep. "He's so little." I say. "He is. You ready for this Momma?" she asks and I look at her. "If this is what him and Jax need from me the yes." I tell her. About that time, Jax walks in and asks "How's he doing?" I look at him and he kisses me softly before putting his arms around me and I say "Dr Namid did both surgeries and his vitals are stable so now all we can do is wait." I tell him. "You'd be proud of your Old Lady here." Gemma says. "Really? Why?" he asks. "Well the good doctor was wanting to talk to me about our boy here and when she said she could only talk to family, you're wife here said that she was his stepmother and when the good doctor looked at her shocked she said that's what you usually get called when you marry a man with kids." He smiles at me and kisses me hard before saying "You are definitely my Old Lady." as we turn back to look at his son lying in the incubator.