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Jax Is Really Alive

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Chapter 50 Recap Jax, Opie and JC go to SAMCRO's clubhouse party. Ima is immediately drawn to Jax. He goes off with her hoping that she might know something. There's a first time for everything. A couple of guys show Ima a gun to get rid of her and tell Jax to come with them if he wants his son back. He climbs into the van and just as the door closes, he remembers seeing these two men when Nero was kidnapped.

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Chapter 51 Falling into Place

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Jax would have still climbed into the van with the men even if he'd recognized them earlier. For all his faults, Jax was a brave guy who never hesitated to put himself in danger to protect or rescue someone he loved.

"Don't think that your buddies or anyone else will rescue you," the shorter of the two men said to him. "We use signal blockers to block GPS signals. You're on your own."

"I'll try not to be scared," Jax said with thinly veiled sarcasm. "Why did you take Nero right in front of me? You could have waited until we were gone."

"Maybe we wanted you to know we took Nero," the man said.

"You and your little alien group aren't nearly as clever as you think you are," the other man said.

Jax was memorizing the route they were taking, so he could return to the location. North for about two miles and then east for three blocks.

"Now, you aren't going to try to escape because we'd hate to have to hurt your boy."

Jax's jaw clenched but he held on to his temper. Anything to get Thomas back, he repeated over and over. He would love nothing more than to bring Thomas to Tara tonight.

The building was a large warehouse on the outskirts of Charming. It was dark lit by a single overhead light in a small office. There were a couple of office chairs out in the warehouse area and aisle after aisle of empty shelving.

"Sit down."

Once Jax was sitting in the chair, his arms were zip tied to the chairs arms. The light in the office was shut off. Jax could hear someone walk into the warehouse. The light was turned back on.

"Surprise!" Miles said, a goofy smile on his face.

"Miles, you're back," Jax said feigning surprise.

"I knew you'd be surprised," he said with delight in his voice.

"How the hell did you get out of the grave?"

"Aranora started digging me out as soon as the prospects finished burying me. Lucky me! I didn't wake up buried alive."

"I never thought you ripped us off. I should have figured out it was Juice," Jax was deliberately flattering Miles. It might give him an advantage.

"Best thing that ever happened to me. I love this whole alien life."

"So does that mean that you aren't going to come after Juice?"

"I don't care about Juice. I'm grateful, but don't tell him that. Tell him I'm coming after him. I like the idea of him being afraid of me."

"I'll pass that on to him. Do you have Thomas?"

"Yeah, we have him. He's fine. What happened with Abel? Did you get him back?"

"Yeah, we did. It was close, but he's going to make it."

"I'm glad," Miles said. "We never hurt the kid. When he died, we decided to give him back to you to see if you could save him."

"We appreciate that. What can I help you with to get Thomas back?"

Miles enjoyed going from the lowest man in the MC to having Jax Teller owing him. He had power over Jax and he loved it.

"We were thinking of what we wanted and we've finally come up with money. We want lots of money so we can get out of this town and start our lives over."

"How much?"

"Twenty million dollars."

Jax shook his head.

"You think that's a ransom I can pay?"

"That's a ransom that if you can't pay, we'll start nailing pieces of your son, the future king of Paralorn, to the "Welcome to Charming" sign."

Jax sensed there was someone else in the warehouse watching them from one of the aisles of empty shelves.

"If you hurt him . . ."

"Yeah, I know," Miles sneered. "You'll hunt me down and kill me."

"I'm going to need some time to figure out what to do about the money."

"You can have four days. I'll give you a burner phone and I'll be in touch."

"I want to see him."

Miles pulled out a phone and showed him Thomas sleeping in his crib. It was a small bedroom done in white with light blue bedding.

"I want to see him in person."

"Not going to happen. Anyway it's time for the visit from our special surprise guest. You think you were surprised to see me, just wait."

A man emerged from the shadows. Suddenly, it all made sense. Jax didn't know how he hadn't seen this sooner. Wayne Unser was back from the dead.

"Surprised to see me too?" Unser asked.

"More than seeing Miles," Jax said.

Unser looked healthier than when Jax pumped a bullet into him and cancer was close to killing him. He sat next to Miles in an office chair.

"What part does Gemma play in all this?"

"You know she's back?"

"Yeah, saw some traffic cam footage of her."

"Aranora grabbed both of us. That was her big job for the Slivens—rounding up the hybrids when they died to see if they were going to return to life."

"We found Aranora at Skeeter's. She'd been tortured to death."

Unser raised an eyebrow and looked at Miles.

"Why should you get to have all the fun?" Miles said sullenly.

"Aranora has been spying on the Paralorns. She and some others had this plan to kidnap the boys, force Ryland to give them the bio weapon and a rocket so they could send it back to Rackle and their Sliven ancestors. They were going to wipe out the Paralorns once and for all."

Aranora may have known of the existence of the bio weapon, but the bio part of the weapon was designed to kill Slivens. It would have been useless against the Paralorns. That was the problems with spies—the information can be dangerously incomplete.

"A few of us had a better idea. Slaughter the other group and get money for the boys," Unser continued. "You would have loved it Jax. It was being in an MC without having to ride bikes. It was a lot like when SAMCRO wiped out most of Putlova's crew. We poisoned some of them and mowed the rest down with automatic weapons except Aranora. Miles wanted to kill her personal."

Miles smiled happily. Jax wondered if this sadistic side that he was seeing in Miles had always been present or if the alien death and returning to life process had brought it out in him.

"What about Gemma?" Jax reminded Unser.

"Aranora, with some help from some now dead Slivens, grabbed both of us from the coroner's office before we could be autopsied. Gemma returned to life before I did and she ran off. She didn't know what had happened to her. Aranora had to hunt her down. We've got her."

"Do you have Brooke?"

"We took her to help with the boys."

"Did you guys torture and kill Wendy too?"

Unser looked at Miles who shook his head answering Unser's unspoken question.

"No. I didn't know she was dead."

"Why did you take Nero?"

A grin spread across Unser's face.

"I told Gemma that I loved her not long before you killed me. I clarified and said I was in love with her. Do you want to know what she said to me?"

"No."

"Nothing. Just stared at me. Fucking cow bitch. That evening, after spending most of my day looking after her grand kids, I see her and Nero in bed and she's reading a story to Abel. It hurt like hell. She didn't give a damn.

"I helped cover up Piney's death. I wanted to just call it in and get Clay picked up. To get me to agree to point the killing away from Clay, she backed me against a wall in the cabin and kissed me. I could feel the revulsion inside her.

"I thought when she and Clay split, she'd turn to me. No, she had to turn to Nero. It was time to make her pay. I used the kidnapped boys as leverage to make her do anything I wanted her to do. Can you imagine some of the twisted degrading sexual shit I made her do and I'm talking beyond making her have sex with me?"

Jax didn't want to picture Gemma and Unser having sex. He was like a little toad of a man. Jax knew how Gemma felt about Unser, although they had never talked about it. Gemma could have convinced Unser to leave, so he wouldn't have had to kill him, but Gemma couldn't even summon up a little piece of decency to say something nice to Unser in the last moments of his life.

"So is she your prisoner?"

"I guess you could put it that way. Having the boys gave me the power to get her to do some things that are even beyond Tig level kink. After awhile, I needed to move things to a whole new level, so we got Nero. I made Nero watch as I did all kinds of things to Gemma. When the fun was over, I forced her to watch me torture him. I'd have sex with her and then hurt Nero. How did Hale like by little "Welcome to Charming" sign present?"

"That's why you did that?"

"Nero was dead. We had to do something with the body. It must have been a nightmare for Hale," Unser smiled.

"What happened to you?"

"Nothing. A second chance at life changed the way I see things. I wanted your mother to pay for every second of heartbreak she caused me. She's all broken now. Too many horrible things that I've forced her to do. It's been the most pleasurable time of my life forcing your mother to have sex with me, forcing her to degrade and debase herself and watching her suffer as I tortured her great love Nero. Fun times for me, but I've had enough now. It's time to get our money and check out of Charming."

"What are you going to do about Gemma?"

"Leave her behind like trash when we leave Charming. I'll give you Brooke when you pay the ransom for Thomas."

There was too much information for Jax to feel anything. When there was some time to think, he would feel the impact of Unser's words. For now, he was numb.

"It may take some time to put the money together."

"Fine with me. More sick twisted sex with your mother. You know there have been a couple of times she vomited right in the middle of things. Did you ever go to TJ (Tijuana) for one of their donkey shows? Your mom could have had a big career." Unser smirked at him.

Jax could have broken free of the zip ties with his alien strength, but he didn't want them to know how much stronger he was now. There wasn't any point in going after Unser physically. He could take it out on Thomas. He just needed to keep his temper for the sake of his son.

"Let me and Miles get out of here before they take you back to the MC. Make sure the guys give you a phone. We'll call you in three days to see how you're doing about putting together our money."

Unser reached into his pocket and took out a thumb drive. He walked over to Jax and dropped it into his top shirt pocket.

"Just some recordings of your mother's most recent activities. Thomas may even put in an appearance."

"If you have harmed him . . ."

"Yeah, I know. You're gonna kill me."

Unser and Miles left.

The shorter man cut Jax free of his zip ties. They got in the van and returned to Jax to the street just outside of SAMCRO's new clubhouse.

The shorter man handed Jax a disposable flip phone.

"Get our money together."

"How much are you getting?"

"We're all getting even splits."

"How much is that a piece?"

"Four million dollars."

"Not a bad haul. You cut out Miles and Unser, you could get a lot more."

The men exchanged looks while Jax climbed out of the van. He found the side door unlocked and returned to the party.

He began to look for JC and Opie. There wasn't any point in staying. He got the information he'd needed and gotten some information he wished he could forget.

Just as he began to cross the over to where Opie was standing by the kids play area, bullets began to rain down.

Next Up: Blood bath Some SOA characters will not make it out of this chapter alive. Only three or four more chapters.