Charming, California 2008.
Jax and I went for a ride to the nearby convenience store. I saw Jax looking at a children's book, but he puts it back on the shelf. I grab a bag of chips, Jax grabs a pack of condoms and we make our way to the front of the store.
"Hey, Louise." We say. She gestures towards the condoms and tells Jax that he can buy them by the case and that it would be a lot cheaper.
"No, we have to keep him humble somehow." I laugh and nudge him in the ribs.
Jax smirks. "Can I get a pack of smokes too, darlin'."
"Make it two babe." And while Jax looks away I gesture towards the box of books that are near Louise, she slips it into our bag. Jax saw the book in the bag but was distracted by a fire coming from the direction of our nearby warehouse.
"What the hell is that?" Louise and I said.
"Oh shit!"Jax and I run outside and I whip out my phone to call the guys about the warehouse. The next morning, Jax, Bobby, Tig, Clay and I, members of SAMCRO arrive at the warehouse, after driving past the "Welcome to Charming" sign.
The police are already there, so Clay, the club's acting President, goes to talk to Sheriff Vic Trammel about the fire. "What the hell happened?"
"Propane tanks caught fire. Ammo was in there, the place just blew." Vic starts.
"Shit" Clay said.
Vic carries on "Ya but the fire dick says it was arson. Saw a lot of bootprints." Bobby asks if they were cowboy boots. "Yeah I think so."
"Shit eating Mayans man." Tig scoffs. Jax asks where the hell Rodrigo was. Vic says there was no sign of our watchman.
Clay asks what the exposure is.
"Officially? Me and the fire department. But the fire captain can be convinced to rethink his report." Vic replies.
"Unofficially?" Jax asks
"Unofficially? The blast was seen in two counties" Vic says
"So this location is dead then?" I pipe up from where I've been looking at the wreckage. Vic hums in agreement.
"Jesus Christ. The M4s?" Clay demands.
"Gone. As are most of the Glocks." Vic says. Clay purses his lips and kicks a piece of wreckage from the warehouse.
"Get the firemen on board," Jax gives Vic some money "Don't want this shit to hit ATFs radar. Lets get out of here." Jax and I start to walk back over to our bikes.
Vic says that we've got to see something else. "Do we really?" Clay sneers. Vic just nods. We walk into the wreckage and Vic opens up the metal trap door for the basement and we see two charred corpses. Vic says he found them before the FD came through and Clay tells Vic to get rid of the bodies after the smoke clears.
"What am I supposed to tell our boys up in Oak town? I'm supposed to deliver five cases to Laroy and his crew before tomorrow morning." Vic says
"Call the gangster hotline. Set a meeting." Clay says and we all start to leave. As we're walking Clay takes his gun from the back of his jeans and hands it back to Jax. "Two in the back of the head. Quick and painless."
"It ain't easy being King." Jax shakes his head.
"Yeah you remember that" Clay says to Jax before continuing to walk away.
We pull up back at Teller-Morrow Automotive Repair, our job and clubhouse. Jax can't stop looking at a car with a deer stuck in the windshield. As we walk over to the car, Chibs, our resident Scotsman and Kip, a veteran that lost half of his balls in a war, are unloading it off of the tow truck.
"Some days you're the beamer and some days you're the goddamn deer." Jax says while shaking is head and starting to unhook the car.
"Some guppy creamed it up at the streams." Chibs laughs
"He run into it? Or hit a tree while it was giving him head?" Jax jokes.
Since I already have a guess that Kip won't know how to get the deer out of the windshield, I head around the tow truck and open the compartment with the mini chainsaw in it. I barely hear him ask Jax "How the hell am I going get it out of there?"
I smirk with the chainsaw in my hand and pass it to Jax when he gets close enough. Then I turn to Kip and say "Oh don't you worry baby boy, we've got you covered."
Jax goes to give the chainsaw to Kip and he shakes his head backing way saying "Oh come on Jesus man."
"Just pretend it's carve your own steak night at Sizzler." Jax says and backs away.
"I don't eat meat man."
"Figure it out grunt." Jax lights up his smoke and walks towards Chibs and I.
Chibs wraps an arm around each of our shoulders and starts to lead us away. "Wha the hell happened out there?"
"The Mayans torched the warehouse." I start
"Yeah and stole the Niners M4s."Jax finishes
"Holy shit" Chibs mutters and Jax tells him that Clay went to sit down with Laroy to try and buy some time. "The Niners already payed for that hardware." Chibs reminds. Jax's phone rings so Chibs and I step away and start to watch Kip try to start the chainsaw. He finally gets it after a bit of trying and then starts to cut into it from the inside of the car, he stretches his head away from it looking like he's going to be sick.
"Fuck he's pathetic" I murmur to Chibs who nods in agreement and start to take off my jacket to hand over to him, then I start to walk towards the car to put both Kip and the deer out of their misery. "Give me that." I say and take the chainsaw from him and push him back out of my way. I rev up the chainsaw and cut into the animal with no problem, I can hear Kip vomit from behind me and I just shake my head and keep cutting. I make eye contact with Jax and roll my eyes at him. "Dude you suck. Man up it's just a little blood."
After I finish cutting up the deer I give Kip the chainsaw and tell him to clean it up and put it back where it came from and for him to get rid of the animal.
When Jax got back from storage, the guys were all called into Church, in the Chapel in the clubhouse. Since I'm not technically a member I'm not allowed into Church. It's a "Boy only thing sweetheart" I remember being told that when I was younger and thinking it was a load of shit.
Gemma came and picked me up so she and I could go to check on Wendy, Jax's pregnant junkie ex-wife. When we pull up to Jax's house, where Wendy's been staying, the outside is covered in old newspapers and other stuff that shows that Wendy hasn't been out in a while. We don't bother knocking and just walk right inside calling out Wendy's name. I head back towards the bedroom to check and Gemma goes into the kitchen. I hear her say "You stupid junkie bitch!" So I head back towards the kitchen. When I get into the kitchen I see Wendy collapsed on the floor unconscious with blood and melted ice cream mixing on the floor.
"Lets get her in the car. I'll call Jax on the way." I say and Gemma and I put Wendy into the backseat. "Damnit Jax isn't answering. After we drop Wendy off we'll have to pop by the clubhouse and see if he's there." I tell her
When we get back to the clubhouse, we speed in while honking the horn. The guys are just coming out of the clubhouse. "We tried calling you" Gemma tells Jax. He asks what happened. We tell him to follow us to the hospital.
When we get there we fill the guys in on what we found at Wendy's house, matches and a bunch of empty thumb bags, Hairy Dog. The guys figure that it's the Nords dealing again.
Then we see Tara, Jax's ex from high school is back in town, which is surprising since she took off before finishing school and hadn't been back since, she is leaving Wendy's room. She asks us when the last time we saw Wendy was. We tell her that its been a couple of weeks.
"Well her hands and feet were full of track marks. Toxicology reports aren't back yet but it's most likely crank." Tara informs us, well mostly Jax but we were all close enough to hear.
"What about the baby?" Jax questioned her.
"We had to do an emergency C-section. He's ten weeks premature." Tara says.
"Holy shit" Jax says. Tara tries to coax Jax to sit and say that she'll walk him through it. But Jax shakes him head, "Just tell me."
"He's got a congenital heart defect. And gastrochisis, It's a tear in his abdomen. The gastro is from the early birth and the drugs but the CHD is probably,"
Gemma cuts Tara off "The family flaw"
Tara continues, "Yes it's genetic. Either one would be serious but not life threatening but however the two of them together." She doesn't continue just shakes her head.
She inhales deeply , trying to catch her thoughts for the next thing that comes out of her mouth. "Dr. Namid gives him a twenty percent chance and i'm afraid that's being optimistic."
"Oh my god" Gemma and I murmur and look towards Jax.
I take his hand for support, "She never wanted to talk to me. I didn't know." He shakes his head.
"Her OB said that she missed her last three appointments. No one knew. Dr. Namid wants to fix his belly first, then if he stabilizes, we'll try to fix the heart. I'm sorry Jax. I can take you to see him now." Tara says.
Tara opens a door and Jax calls out her name and walks towards her and they have a whispered conversation. I hear him tell her that the baby's name in Abel. Jax starts to storm away with Tara and Gemma calling's name out. He tells Gemma to go with Tara, that he has something to do.
Clay tells the guys and I to watch his back. "I got him Gem, don't worry." I tell her and kiss her cheek before Bobby, Chibs and I follow Jax out of the hospital and then to a sleazy bar that we know the crank dealer hangs out at.
Jax walks towards the pool table after scanning the bar for the dealer. He takes a pool cue from someone else and smashes the dealer in the face with it. The dealer hits the ground and Jax starts to punch him repeatedly until he falls onto his back on the ground. "You sell crank to my pregnant ex-wife?" He says pissed while holding the broken pool cue in his hand. After he finishes that sentence Jax slams the broken pool cue down into the dealers balls and then kicks him repeatedly.
Bobby and I who've been holding guns at his friends tell them "Easy boys." Chibs tries to pull Jax away from the dealer, telling him that he's made his point.
After Jax, Chibs and I start to leave, Bobby who's still holding his gun up tells them, "Enjoy your lunch. Shishka-balls are on me."
Once we get outside and onto our bikes, Bobby asks Jax if he's okay. He replies, "Yeah, going to go find Ope." Bobby gets onto his bike and him, Chibs and I part ways from Jax.
When we get back to the clubhouse, we all go inside and the guys go into Church. Once they get out I ask, "What the fuck is that nasty smell?" The guys and I all start looking around for anything out of the ordinary. Once Clay gets close to the pool table he points to a big box resting under it.
"It's that box." He says. Bobby pulls the box out and opens it up. He reaches in and pulls out the head of the deer from earlier that day.
Kip runs over, "That's mine!"
"Are you out of your goddamn mind?" Bobby spits out.
"No, man I just thought of it as like a surprise. We could mount it in the club, you know like on the wall." Kip smiles while struggling to hold the head up.
"It's got to be stuffed and treated you idiot." Jax remarks.
"Yeah I know I just… stuffed with what?"
"You know Kip you're really something else. Who even says that's yours? I told you to get rid of that. You couldn't even stand cutting it out of the cars windshield. Or did you forget that I took over because you were too busy puking like a little bitch."
There are a bunch of mumbles and laughs from the guys.
As the guys start to leave and find a croweater for the evening, I go to the bar and sit with Piney, telling the prospect to make me a pornstar (blue curacao, raspberry sourpuss and 7up). Once the prospect turns around to make it, I feel someone slide onto the barstool beside me and put a hand on my upper thigh, I look over to see Tig sitting there.
"I know someone that's better equipped to make you a pornstar baby." He practically purrs.
I lean close enough to Tig to taste his last beer and say, "Oh baby you wish you could make me sound like a pornstar."
"I know I can, why don't we head back to my room and I can make you remember."
"You know I would love to Tigger, but I've got to work in the morning." I lean up to his ear to whisper the next part, "And besides the last time you tried to make me sound like a pornstar, it went the other way." I kiss him on the cheek and walk back to my room and get ready for bed.