Chapter 15: Lines & Circles

Two days later and Tig had been shot with a buck shot and was being cared for by Venus Van Dam, and there was a new Sheriff town. Jax noted that the Sheriff had seemed quite fond of Chibs voice, and suggested that maybe the two of them get a little closer. Jax pulled Kali aside and told her that it was for the good of the club, and that it would all be over soon.

"Just make sure he comes home at some point please?" Kali asked, motioning towards Chibs as she spoke, she didn't care that he was near old enough to be her father. "Venus, take care of Tig please?"

"He will," Jax grabbed her head and pulled it towards him kissing her forehead. "He's just keeping the sheriff off our backs,"

"Don't worry sweet heart," Venus smiled at her, before sitting with Tig.

"I know," Kali sighed, as they walked outside, and they came face to face with the new Sheriff. "I don't have to like it," she muttered under her breath.

"What can we do for you?" Jax questioned, looking at her and then at the Sons.

"A word with Chibs," Althea said, looking to Chibs who was behind him. "Althea Jarry," she extended her hand to Kali as she hadn't seen her around them before.

"Kali Teller," Kali smiled, before shaking her hand and heading towards her bike.

Jax nodded to her and then motioned for Chibs to follow him a moment, telling him to do whatever was necessary to win her over. Chibs nodded and walked back to Althea, turning once to offer Kali a smile that said sorry.

"She stays out of all of this, she's got a kid," Chibs said, that was all he said about Kali before he got down to business with what Jax had wanted him to talk to her about.

"Then why is she in all of this?" Althea questioned, looking at Chibs as she listened to what he had to say about Diosa and Chinese.

"She grew up in it, that's all I can say. I'm no rat, if you want to know more talk to her yourself," Chibs told her before kissing her and getting on his bike and going to meet up with the others.

"Ride safe," Althea said watching as he rode off and she went back to her car.

Chibs met up with the other Sons and nodded to Jax indicating that he understood the situation that they were in. Kali looked at Chibs and then motioned towards the Chinese before them. Lin questioned what she was doing there.

"What's she doing here?" Lin questioned, Kali pulled her jacket sleeve up showing the reaper before pulling it back down again.

"She's with us," Jax answered, before motioning for Kali to go wait at the bikes.

"Uh uh," Lin shook his head and made her kneel down beside her brother. Kali knelt beside Chibs and Jax and did what he said.

"She has nothing to do with this, leave her out of it," Jax said again watching as Lin slapped his sister across the face.

"Jax, it's fine," Kali smiled at him, she knew he'd get back at him later.

"Put these two in the car, leave the girl here," Lin told his men, they hadn't seen that she'd parked her bike around the corner out of sight which was what had surprised them.

Lins men shot the tires out on Jax and Chibs bikes and pulled the two men into van. Jax nodded to Chibs and both men started laughing as they drove off. As soon as they were all out of sight Kali raced around the back and got on her bike. Kali followed behind and called Tig telling him that it was time to move.

"You keep them busy yeah? I gotta get back to Red Woody, tell Jax," Kali stated, before riding back to the porn studio.

'Will do princess,' Tig answered, while motioning to the rest of the group that it was time to move.

"Thanks Tig," Kali hung up as she drove the hour back to Charming and to Red Woody. When she arrived back at Red Woody, she saw that Gemma was holding a screaming Abel. "Mom give him to me," she was ignoring the little bit of blood that had trickled down her cheek.

"He wants to go home," Gemma told her, handing Abel to his aunt.

"Hey little man, you wanna come outside with me for a little while?" Kali asked, holding on to him and looking at her own son who was sitting playing with Happy again. "Hey Hap, how's my little guy?"

"Behaving, I'll keep him busy till you get back," Happy answered, she nodded and took Abel outside.

"You wanna go for a little ride?" she asked Abel kissing the top of his head as he calmed down. "Hold on," Kali sat on her bike with him firmly in front of her.

"Okay," Abel held onto his aunts arm as she rode slowly around in circles around the parking lot, they did this for maybe a two minutes.

Abel giggled while he was in his aunts company, he just wanted his daddy. Kali smiled looking down at him as she reversed her bike back into where it went. Kali lifted him off the bike and kept hold of him as she walked back into the venue and sat on one of the couches. The girls who had been sitting there moved as soon as she sat down.

"Abel, sweetie, you, Thomas and your daddy are gonna come live with me and Jack, would you like that?" Kali asked, still holding on to him as she spoke. Abel looked up at her and nodded and then looked over at Jackson who was still with Happy.

"Hey Jack, go over to your mommy," Happy told him, putting the blocks down that he had been playing with, with him.

"Mommy!" Jackson grinned racing over to her and jumping on the lounge beside her and Abel. "Hi Abel," Jackson wrapped his arms around his younger cousin.

"Hi Jack," Abel was quite when he said his name he was waiting for his daddy to come back.

After a couple of hours Jax and the others were back, Abel may have wanted his father but he had fallen asleep in Kali's arms. The three boys had, Brooke had given Thomas to her shortly after she had sat down. Both Chibs and Jax sat down with her, Jax taking Abel and Chibs picking up Jackson.

"A little bit stuck there little sister?" Jax questioned with a laugh, Kali punched his arm as she sat up still holding onto Thomas.

"Slightly, told Abel that you guys were gonna live with me," Kali told him, and then motioned to Lyla who was standing at the bar. "Lyla's thinking about it too, I have the room and you know it,"

"Now why would you go and say a thing like that?" Jax questioned, Kali shrugged she just wanted them all together.

"Because Jax, it needs to happen, these boys need somewhere safe to grow up," Kali sighed, glancing down at Thomas as she spoke. "You know I'm right, I have the security cameras and all that,"

"I know, and that's because your ex's doing," Jax told her, kissing his little boys on the head.

"Jax, it's just as safe as anywhere," Kali shook her head at him, she was getting over being holed up in a porn studio, it wasn't exactly the environment the boys should be in either.

"Give the kids to Brooke and Lyla and come with us," Jax motioned for Lyla and Brooke to take the sleeping children from them before he stood up and walked over to the stand-in church. The other sons moved to follow them but Jax held up his hand and shook his head. "You two need to talk, sort whatever is going on between you out,"

Kali glared at Jax and then offered a smile to Chibs as Jax closed the door and stood in front of it preventing anyone else from entering. Chibs grabbed Kali by the hand and pulled her close to him. Kali relaxed in his arms and turned to face him.

"What is going on between us?" Kali asked looking up at the older man as she spoke and ran a hand through her hair.

"Whatever you want to be going on. I'm not pushing anything and I know that you're not liking where things are headed with Jarry," Chibs told her still holding her hand as he spoke and moved his free hand to her face. "Darlin, you have nothing to worry about,"

"Tell my brain that would you?" Kali muttered looking at him and taking his hand in hers again. "I know it's just weird being in this position...I know what Jax is doing," Kali stayed looking at him focusing on his eyes as he spoke. "You know I didn't think I'd feel like this,"

"It's only temporary," Chibs told her pausing before he spoke again. "Take Jack out of town for a few days, take him to see his dad," Chibs pulled her to him briefly resting his head on hers before kissing the side of her head.

"I can't just up and leave, it doesn't work like that," Kali sighed, she wanted to leave but at the same time she didn't. "Have you told Jax that you think I should go?"

"Aye, he agreed," Chibs nodded motioning for her to sit with him.

"If I go, promise me that you'll make sure he doesn't go any further off the deep end?" she looked at him as she sat at the table with him.

"Love you darlin, and that's never going to change,"

The next morning Chibs found Jax sitting on the roof of TM they sat talking for a while about the events of the previous night which entailed Bobby's eyeball turning up in a box along with a video of it happening. Chibs and Jax talked about everything that had happened over the past few weeks about why it had all happened. Jax was starting to have second thoughts as he didn't want anyone else getting hurt. Kali had left soon after her and Chibs had talked the previous day.

"Kali got out alright yeah?" Jax questioned, looking to Chibs once the older man sat beside him.

"Yeah, your sisters safe, called me late last night," Chibs answered, putting an arm around him. "I'll call her when its good for her to come back,"

"Good, you didn't tell her about Bobby did you?" Jax questioned, turning around to face him as he walked away.

"No, not yet," Chibs told him before going back inside and heading to talk with the rest of the club inside.

"Where's Kali?" Happy questioned, noticing that the younger one wasn't there with them.

"Kali's gone out of town a few days," Jax answered he'd heard the question as he walked into the room. "Took Jack to see his dad,"

The sons all nodded understanding that he wished his own sons had gone with his sister. She may have been one of them, but he was protecting her the best he could by sending her out of town. While they sat and talked about what to do about the previous nights events Brooke received a phone call from Abel's school telling them that Abel needed to be picked up from school. Wendy called Kali to talk to her about Abel.

"Hey Kali, I know you just left but there's a little bit of trouble with Abel, can you give me a call when you get time?" Wendy left a message on her phone when she didn't answer.

"Could you get a hold of her?" Gemma questioned, she knew that her daughter wouldn't answer the phone if she called her.

"Voice mail," Wendy answered, before she turned her attention back to Abel. "Baby do you want anything?" Abel asked for some milk so Nero got some while Wendy went to check on Thomas.

Back in Indian Hills, Jax was confronting Jury over being a rat. He believed that his 'uncle' was the one who had ratted the club out to the Chinese. Chibs and the other stood back, watching to see what Jax would do. Jury told him that his father couldn't live with what the club was becoming. Jax hated listening to what he had to say, Jury claimed that John knew what he was doing the day that he died. Jax shot Jury, in an almost execution style and the older man bled out dying in front of them all.

"Guys, we gotta go! Now!" Jax yelled, they had just gotten a call from his mother regarding the house and Abel. "Chibs!" Jax yelled again as the older man got in a fight with the Indian Hills VP.

With that they were all on their bikes on the way back to Charming. When they arrived back at Gemma's they walked in and saw Wendy and Brooke sitting at the table with Thomas, and Nero sitting with Gemma and Abel. Abel was quietly drawing while listening to his grandmother talking.

"Hey Wendy, just got your message. Can I talk to Abel?" Kali asked, she wanted to hear what her little nephew had to say about what happened.

'Hey, yeah I'll put him on,' Wendy answered and reluctantly gave her phone to Abel. 'Abel its your Aunt Kali,'

"Hey little man, how are you?" Kali questioned once she heard Abel's little voice.

'Hi, I'm okay,' Abel answered looking at his grandmother and jumping off his chair.

"Do you wanna tell me what happened?" Kali was sitting cross-legged of her ex's tour bus watching as he played with their son.

'I heard gramma talking,' Abel mumbled, looking around his grandmother her name mentioned. 'Can I visit you?'

"Soon buddy, wanna tell me what gramma said?" Kali asked, raising an eyebrow as she spoke. "Abel, I know gramma can be scary but I want you to trust me okay?"

'Okay,' Kali waited to hear what Abel said but instead heard her mothers voice causing her to hang up the phone.

Gemma sighed, she knew that her daughter hated the thought of her and that her brother was her best-friend and the one thing that kept her sane. She didn't understand why she had left Charming so abruptly. Kali looked to Jackson and Sam and smiled, happy that they were playing together. As Kali was sitting on the floor, she had another call from Jax.

"Hey Kal, gonna need you home soon," Jax said before she had even gotten a chance to say hello to him.

'Jax, I'm six hours away,' Kali sighed, looking at Jackson and then at Sam and noticing that the rest of the band was staring at her.

"I know kiddo, just get home when you can yeah?" Jax replied looking to Chibs as he spoke they were sitting in Red Woody, getting ready to take 'the pastor' to August Marks in exchange for Bobby.

'Soon, they leave in like three days and then I'll be home,' Kali told him, as she stood up to move outside of the bus. 'You need me for anything else, you call me, or I'll hurt you myself Jackson,' Kali said the last part of her statement quietly as she hadn't quite made it from the bus yet. 'Hey Jax, I talked to Abel just before the kids sad. I told him I'd be home soon you make sure he's okay yeah?'

"Love you kiddo," Jax nodded, he was a little happy that his sister wasn't there but at the same time he needed her there to talk to her.

The next afternoon Jax called her again, he couldn't bring him self to tell her why. "Chibs needs to talk to you," Jax handed the phone to him and then walked away.

"Hey Darlin," Chibs said looking to Jax and then turning away from him. "We got some bad news about Bobby,"

'Hey you, what happened?' Kali questioned, stopping in the doorway of the bus as she listened to the older man speak.

"Marks men took him, roughed him up and then shot him in front of your brother," Chibs spoke quickly, most people wouldn't have been able to understand him and just look at him confused.

'What?! When?' Kali sunk down against the wall of the bus and put her head in her hands.

"Calm down darlin', today," Chibs and Jax were now watching as August Marks was arrested.

'Fuck! No I'm coming back first chance I can,' Kali exclaimed, causing Sam and the others to look at her Sam covering Jackson's ears the moment the words came out.

"Stay there, its safer," Chibs told her before he handed the phone back to Jax. "She's pissed,"

'Jackson Nathaniel Teller! Why the fuck didn't you tell me yourself?' Kali questioned, raising her voice at him and not caring that she was being stared at. 'What else aren't you telling me?'

"When you get home," Jax answered before hanging up and not saying good bye to her. Jax hung up from Kali and him and Chibs got on their bikes and rode past Moses one of Marks men, Jax staring at him as he did so.

Kali sat on the floor of bus her head in her hands as she tried to process what Chibs had just said to her about Bobby. Bobby and the other Sons had been her mentors when she was a kid, and Bobby dying was icing on the cake.

"Kali, are you alright?" Sam questioned, he wanted to make sure that she was okay and was surprised when Jackson jumped up and ran over to her.

"Mommy?" Jackson wrapped his arms around his mother tightly.

"Come 'ere baby," Kali pulled Jackson into her lap and hugged him tightly not letting her phone go at the same time. "Uncle Bobby was hurt real bad,"

"Is he okay?" Jackson questioned, looking at his mother as she spoke.

"No sweetheart he's not. I told Uncle Chibs we'd be home in the next couple of days," Kali told him kissing the side of his head.

"I love you mommy," Jackson whispered kissing his mother on the cheek.

Kali and Jackson stayed sitting on the floor while Sam and the others watched helplessly, they didn't know how to help their friend who was desperately trying to distance herself from them. She'd been distancing herself since before the last time they had seen her, and the last time they had seen her she had ended things with him.

*flashback*

While Jax, Clay, Juice, Bobby and Happy were in Stockton for fourteen months. Chibs and Kali sat talking in the garage at TM, she was distracting him from working on one of the bikes. Everyone was doing their own thing, Opie was with Tig picking up a broken down car. Gemma was in the office doing the books, while Tara was at home with the three children.

"Darlin' would you move off the bike?" Chibs questioned, looking up at her as she sat on it she was purposely distracting him and he knew it.

"Maybe," she laughed, swinging one of her legs over to the otherside and then the other so that her ass was in his face.

"Come on now," Chibs rolled his eyes before he took in everything about her, she wasn't the child he'd first met all those years ago. "Some of us have work to do darlin," he absent-mindedly picked up a hammer - when he didn't need it.

"I know, but I forgot how boring this gets," Kali laughed jumping off the bike and grabbing one of the socket wrenches and handing it to him. "Also a hammer?" she raised her eyebrow at him causing him to look at his hand.

"Well fuck," Chibs handed her the hammer and took the wrench from her. "Make yourself useful now that you're on that side," he laughed as he set to work pulling apart the side he was on.

Kali pulled her hair back into a ponytail and went and grabbed the oil drain pan as she knew that if they didn't either one or both of them would end up flat on their ass. She shoved the pan under the bike and unscrewed the filter cap there was already leakage so they had to replace the whole thing. Each of them watching the others every move as they worked on the bike together, laying every part on the ground.

"Darlin', remember how it goes back together?" Chibs was testing her to see if she could remember how to rebuild a bike.

"Yeah, I remember...well it's been a long time," Kali answered with a laugh, as she spun around on her heels to face him. Chibs let out a laugh and smiled at her before the two of them finished fixing the bike.

Chibs took everything in as he watched her moving around the bike, she hadn't forgotten it was second nature. Was he actually falling for her? Sure they had been harmlessly flirting lately, she had a partner but in that moment neither of them seemed to care, they weren't cheating.

*end flashback*