A/N: Updated 8/21/20

Chapter 10

Eliza POV

The next morning, Opie was gone when I got up. There was a note on the nightstand saying that he got a call that Clay needed him at the clubhouse. It also said that he loved me and that he would see me later. I got up and took a shower and got dressed for the day. I decided on a blue jean skirt and a white t-shirt that had a reaper on the back and the name Teller across the top. Clay had bought the shirt for me when I was in high school (about the same time that Jax and Opie prospected for the Club). I ended up wearing my black flip-flops and decided to take my riding boots with me just in case. I grabbed my purse, phone and keys and locked up the house. I stopped at the Diner to pick up a coffee and then headed to TM.

I pulled into TM and saw that none of the bikes were there except for Piney's, which wasn't usual if they were handling club business like Opie said. I walked over to the office and unlocked it, setting my purse down on the couch. I turned the computer on so that it could be warming up while I started a pot of coffee and I sat down at the desk. Things had been relatively calm with Club business lately (or at least that's what Opie led me to believe.) I was sitting at the desk getting the Repo list together for the day when I heard a bike pull in. I looked out the window to see that it was Jax. I watched him walk across the parking lot and into the office. He sat down on the couch. "Hey." I said.

He let out a sigh. "Hey, you seen Mom?" He asked me.

"Not today. Last I saw of her was last night at the hospital when she left. How come your not with the rest of the club?"

"What are you talking about?"

"I woke up this morning and Ope was gone. Left a note saying that Clay called needing him for some Club business."

Opie POV

After I hung up the phone with Clay, I quickly got dressed and headed to the Clubhouse. Clay said that he needed my help but if Eliza asked it was Club business. I was curious as to what Clay would need my help with. When I pulled into the lot at TM, Clay, Tig, Chibs, Bobby, and Juice were waiting for me. I parked in my usual spot and cut my engine. "Clay, what's going on?" I asked him.

"Gemma's missing." He said. "I don't want Jax or Eliza to know until there's something to worry about. I know that she was upset about Wendy being a junkie, Tara being back in Charming...I just - I gotta find her. Help me." This was the first time that I could think of that Clay had actually asked for my help. I wasn't sure how to process this.

"Okay...What's first?"

"Bobby, Juice and Chibs are going to head up to Oregon to see if she went to her Dad's place. You, Tig and I are going to check everywhere that she might go from here to Oakland. Got it?"

"Got it!" We all said.

Eliza POV

"Are you telling me that Clay didn't call you about Club business this morning?" I asked my brother.

"That's exactly what I'm saying." Jax said.

"Then what the hell is going on?"

"I have no clue E... but I'm going to find out." Jax said. "And I'm gonna start by calling Mom." Jax pulled his phone out of his pocket and made a phone call. A minute later he closed his phone and looked up at me.

"What?" I asked him.

"It's going straight to voicemail."

I let out a sigh. "Jax...this isn't good. The last time she got like this..."

"I know, E. The last time she got like this was when Dad went to Belfast after Thomas died."

"You check the house. I'll check the cemetery." I told Jax. I called Piney to come watch the office and headed to my car. I drove over to the cemetery. As I was walking through, I began thinking about everyone that I had lost. We lost various club members over the years, then there was Dad, and Tommy and not to mention the club members that were in Jail or Prison. Changes needed to be made...but it wasn't going to happen as long as Clay was running the club. Changes weren't going to happen until Jax and Opie were running the club. When I got to Dad and Tommy's graves, there was Mom. "Mom." I said.

She turned around and saw me but turned back and looked at the headstone. "Go home Eliza." Mom said.

"Mom, what are you doing here?" I asked. When she didn't say anything I continued, "Mom, Jax and I have been calling you all day."

"I just want to be alone."

I didn't know what else I could say to her, so I walked back to my car. I pulled my phone out of my back pocket and called Jax. "I found her." I told him.

Jax POV

"I found her." Eliza said when I answered my phone.

"Where?" I asked.

"The cemetery, Jax. It's bad. How fast can you get here?"

"On my way." I quickly hung up the phone. I hopped on my bike and drove over to the cemetery as fast as I could. When I pulled up at the cemetery, Eliza was sitting on the hood of her car. I parked my bike next to her car and killed the engine. "Where is she?"

"Where do you think?" Eliza said.

I nodded and headed off in the direction of where Mom would be. I found her sitting on a bench in front of Tommy's headstone. I slowly approached her, not knowing what kind of state she was in. "Mom?" I said. She didn't move. I walked closer and sat down beside her. "Mom, what's going on?"

"I lost it. I just lost it. When that bitch Tara suggested that I go talk to Wendy, I lost it. I don't remember what happened but somehow I ended up here." Mom said.

"Mom, I think that you scared Eliza." I said. Mom let out a sigh. "She's just trying to help. Eliza remembers more than you think she does. She remembers how things were when Dad died...and how you were when Tommy died." I noticed a tear roll down her cheek. "Mom, we all need you...just in our own ways."

"I guess you're right." Mom said. "Where is she?"

"She's waiting over by her car." I told her and pointed. Mom nodded and we walked over that way.

"Elizabeth, I'm sorry if I scared you." Mom said to Eliza...wasn't very often that Mom called us by our first names and not our nicknames.

Eliza nodded. "Mom, you should know...last night when we got home from the hospital, Ope asked me to get his crow." Eliza said.

Wow...This was big. The next thing I know Ope will be asking her to marry him. I needed to talk to him and see where his head was at with all of this.

Opie POV

We still hadn't found Gemma and we were all exhausted, so we decided to head over to the clubhouse to rest a bit. When we got there, I noticed that TM was closed. I decided to call Eliza and make sure that everything was okay. "Hello?" She answered, calmly.

"Hey, where are you?" I asked.

"Jax and I needed up having to track Mom down. We tried to call her to check on her and there wasn't an answer anywhere that we called. We noticed that she was acting just like she did when Tommy died. Ended up finding her at Tommy's grave. I'm headed back to TM now." She said.

"Ok see you soon." I said and hung up. I turned to Clay. "Jax and Eliza found Gem." I said.

"Where?" Clay asked.

"At the Cemetery. They're on the way here now." I told him. No sooner than I finished my sentence, all three pulled into the parking lot. I watched as Eliza parked her car in front of the TM office, Gemma parked beside her and then Jax parked in his usual spot. I watched at Clay led all of us over to where the girls were getting out of their cars.

"Do you have any idea how worried I was?" Clay asked.

"Let me guess...you split up the club to look for me but you left out the two people that remembered where I would go if I got depressed and needed someplace to hide out." Gemma said.

Eliza looked at me. "Was this your club business this morning? Looking for my mother?" She asked me.

I nodded. "Yes." She shook her head and walked into the office. I quickly followed her. "Babe, can I explain?"

She pointed to the couch. I sat down. "Clay called and said that he hadn't seen Gemma since she left the hospital when Tara suggested that she go talk to Wendy. I told him that I didn't think that it was a good idea to involve you and Jax because you guys were worried about Abel and didn't need the added stress." I told her.

"And when you couldn't find her?" She asked me.

"Clay thought that we needed to come back here and rest a bit and regroup." I told her, trying to read her face. I was really hoping that this wasn't going to put me in the doghouse. We'd just moved past the stuff with Kozik…

"Your being completely honest with me?" She asked.

Eliza POV

"Your being completely honest with me?" I asked Opie.

"100%." He said. He reached for my hand. "Believe me?" He asked me. I nodded, not knowing what to say. "Good, because I talked to Hap. He can do your crow this week before he heads back to Tacoma. If you still want it?"

I glared at him because the stupidity of his question. "Ope, of course I still want it." I said. I smiled at him. "I've wanted that crow since the day that you and Jax patched in." I told him.

He leaned over and kissed me. "Good, cause I definitely want you to have it." He said. I smiled at him.

There was a knock at the door and we both looked up. It was Clay. "Can I have a minute?" Clay asked me.

"Yeah sure." I looked at Opie. "I'll see you later." I told him and he left. Clay sat down on the couch. "What's up?" I asked Clay as I turned back to the desk to get back to work.

"I wanted to say thanks for finding your Mom." Clay said.

I turned and faced him. "Clay, you should have called me or Jax as soon as you realized that Mom was missing. She has hiding spots that she thinks that nobody knows about but...me and Jax do. She thinks that we don't remember but I do. I remember more than you or she think that I do. I'm saying this only once so listen closely...do not underestimate me." I said to Clay. When Clay left the office, I went back to getting my work done.

Jax POV

That evening, when I left the clubhouse, I went over to the hospital to see Abel. Tara was in his room checking on him. "Hey." I said when I walked in.

"Hey, how's your mom? I didn't mean to upset her last night." Tara said.

"Yeah, well...you did. Eliza and I spent majority of the day looking for her." I told Tara.

"She was missing?" Tara asked me.

I nodded. "Yeah. You have to understand that my Mom and Wendy have a really rocky history. It isn't pretty. And for you to ask my Mom to go talk to Wendy...it wasn't fair." I said.

"Your right it wasn't." I said.

Eliza POV

I walked into the house after closing up TM, to find Opie sitting on the back porch with a beer and a joint. I walked out and sat beside him on the swing. "Hey." I said.

"Hey. You ok?" He said.

"Umm, I think that we might have a problem."

"What is it?" He asked me, raising an eyebrow.

"I think I'm pregnant..." I said.