A/N: Updated 8/21/20

Chapter 11

Previously:

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.

Opie sat up straight on the swing. "Are you sure?" He asked.

"Pretty sure. I mean, at first, I figured that it was just stress...but then I decided to take a pregnancy and it was positive. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow morning for a blood test." I told him. He nodded and looked like he was trying to understand. "Are you okay?" I asked him.

"Yes...No... I don't know. I mean, I'm not exactly ready to be a dad...especially with everything that we have going on with Jax. But that doesn't mean that I wouldn't do right." He said and I nodded. "Not to mention that if I was going to have kids with anyone...I would definitely want it to be you." Opie said to me.

I leaned over and kissed him. "You're the best, you know that?" I said.

"I know. Just know, that no matter the outcome...no matter what you decide I'm here for you." He said.

"Thank you."

The next morning, I got up and headed to the doctor's office up in Oakland. I didn't want to use one in Charming, in case I was pregnant, and I decided not to keep it. When I walked in, they handed me a clipboard with paperwork to fill out. Once I had the paperwork filled out, they showed me to the back and into a room. A few minutes later, a nurse came in and drew some blood. She told me that the doctor would be in shortly with the results.

A little while later the doctor came in. "Hi, you must be Elizabeth, I'm Dr. Hames."

"Eliza, please."

Dr. Hames nodded. "Well your bloodwork looks good. You're not pregnant Eliza."

"I'm not?" I asked.

"No, my guess would be that you have probably been under a lot of stress."

"Thank you so much." When I was finished at the doctor's office, I walked out and got into my car. Once I was in my car, I let out a sigh of relief. I decided to call Opie as I made my back to Charming.

"Hey. You headed back?" He said.

"Yeah. I just left the doctor's office. Wanna know what she said?"

"Tell me."

"I'm not pregnant." I said.

"Really?"

"Yep. No worries baby. She said that the test probably gave me a positive reading due to stress."

"I'm glad...not about the stress but that you're not pregnant." Opie said.

"Me too. I'll see you soon." I said and hung up.

Jax POV

I had just got to the clubhouse after leaving the hospital and I notice that Eliza's car isn't in the parking lot. I climb off of my bike and start walking over to the garage. Mom steps out of the office when she sees me. "Hey Ma, where's Eliza?" I said.

"Ope said that she had a doctor's appointment. Talk to him." She said.

I went in search of Opie and found him in his dorm room. He was laying on his bed with the door open. "Hey man." I said.

He sat up and looked at me. "Hey. How's Abel doing?" He said.

"Better. I was gonna see if you and Eliza or even just Eliza wanted to go sit with him tonight so that I could go home, shower and get some decent sleep?" I said.

"I don't mind...so sure." He said.

I nodded. "Ma said that E had a doctor's appointment." I said.

"Yeah. She's on her way back now. Everything went fine she said."

"That's good." I said to him. Something seemed off, so I decided to close the door. "Dude, what's up?"

"Eliza thought that she was pregnant." He told me.

Opie POV

"What!" Jax said.

"Yeah she told me last night." I said, telling him about the conversation that Eliza and I had the night before about where we stood on kids. I explained to Jax that Eliza and I felt that now wasn't a good time for the two of us to have a kid with Abel in the hospital. He understood. I also told him that Eliza had called me when she left the doctor and told me that she wasn't pregnant.

A short while later, Jax and I walked out to the barroom. When we walked into the barroom, Eliza was sitting at the bar talking to Tig. I walked over to her and put my arm around her shoulders. She looked up at me and smiled. "Hey, can I talk to you?" I asked her.

"Sure thing. I was about to head over to the office. Ma wanted to go sit with Abel for a while." She said. I nodded and followed her out to the TM office. Once Gemma had left, she looked over at me. "What's up? Everything okay?"

"Yeah, Jax just wanted to know if we could go sit with Abel tonight. He wants to go home, shower and sleep in his own bed. Can't say that I blame him." I said.

"Me neither. Tell him we can. I don't mind going by myself if you don't wanna go." She said.

"I'd rather spend the time with you...even if it means sitting at the hospital all night." I told her.

"Sounds good. We can pick up some food from the diner and then head over there and relieve mom." She said.

"Sounds good. I'll see you later." I said, leaning over to kiss her.

Gemma POV

I had been sitting at the hospital with Abel for a while when I saw a familiar face walk by. I got up from the chair that I was sitting in and stepped out into the hallway. "He doesn't need you confusing him, ya know?" I said.

She slowly turned around and walked back towards me. "I have no clue what you're talking about." She said.

"I'm talking about the fact that you just show back up here without no warning and just happen to end up as Wendy's doctor." I said.

"Gemma, you've lost it. Now if you will excuse me...I have patients." She said.

That was one girl who never learned to not get on my bad side. That Tara Knowles was bad news and I needed to keep her away from Jax. There was only one person that I knew that hated her as much as I did...Eliza. I needed to get Eliza to help me. I wasn't sure how I was going to do it, but I needed to at least try.

Eliza POV

When I closed up the garage that night, I headed over to the diner to pick up some food for me and Ope. He had called to tell me that he would meet me at the hospital because he had some club business to take care of. When I got to the hospital, Ma was sitting in a rocking chair staring at Abel in his 'toaster' (as Jax liked to call it). I walked in and sat my stuff down on the first table that I came to. "How's he doing?" I asked Ma.

She looked up at me. "He seems to be doing pretty good. How're you?" She said.

I let out a sigh. "What do you know?" I said as I sat down in the chair next to Ma.

"Just that you had a doctor's appointment this morning. Opie wouldn't tell me anything else."

I nodded. "I thought that I was pregnant. Turns out its just stress." I told her.

"How does Opie feel about it?"

I thought for a second. I realized that I never asked Opie how he felt when I told him that I wasn't pregnant. "I - I don't know."

Ma stood up and grabbed her purse. She stopped in the doorway. "Maybe you should find out." Ma said, kissing me on the cheek, before walking out of the room.

I sat in Abel's room reading a book to him for a while before Opie came in. "Hey." He said. I turned and saw him standing in the doorway. I stood up and walked over to him. I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him into a deep hug. When I pulled back, he stared at me. "What was that for?" He asked.

"I realized a little while ago that I never asked you how you felt when I told you that I wasn't pregnant." I said.

"Oh." He said. He stood there looking deep in thought for a moment. "I guess at first I felt relieved but then once the realization set in... I was kind of disappointed." I nodded.

"That's understandable. But at the same time, we had talked about it and decided that now wasn't a good time because of Abel...so I guess that I assumed that we would be on the same page." I said.

"We are...Don't get me wrong. I agree, with everything going on with Jax and Abel now is not a good time to be having a kid." Opie said.

"So... we're good?" I said, smiling at him.

He smiled back. "Yeah, we're good."

Jax POV

When I finally made it home, I texted Eliza to check on Abel. She texted back letting me know that everything was fine. Once I knew that he was okay, I knew that it was okay to relax for one night. I had ordered a pizza and was sitting on the couch with it and a beer when there was a knock at the front door. I got up and went to answer it. When I opened it, I was surprised at who I saw standing there. "Hey Tara. What are you doing here?"

"I got your address off Abel's chart. I hope that this is okay?" She said.

I nodded and smiled. "Yeah. It's fine."

"Eliza's not, here is she?" She asked.

"No, She and Ope are sitting with Abel tonight. I needed a break from the hospital."

"Okay, cause she has never liked me." Tara said.

"Tara, what're you doing here?"

"If I told you that I regretted leaving all those years ago, what would you say?"

"Not really sure. I mean, yeah, I have thought about what would've happened had you stayed...but Eliza has wondered the same thing. When it's only been a few weeks that she's been home and she and Ope have been together."

Tara nodded. "Will you think about it?" Tara asked.

Did she want to get back together? Was that what she was saying? "Yeah I'll think about it." I said. And with that she left.