A/N: Although Kali calls Clay dad in places he's not her biological father. She was 11 when John Teller died.

Chapter 19: It's The Things You Do

The following morning Kali was back at the hospital with Jackson, Abel and Thomas in tow she was meeting with Emily and JJ this time to discuss with Jax what had happened. Chibs had told her that he was a phone call away, but the club had business to attend to first. Kali arrived early at the hospital, she want to talk with Jax before Emily and JJ arrived.

"Hey T.O, can you keep an eye on the boys? Want to have a quiet word with Jax," Kali stuck her head around the door, as Jackson, Abel and Thomas started pulling on her. "Abel, Thomas, you can see your pop in a few okay?" both boys nodded and went over to the chairs to sit down, Abel having grabbed Jackson's hand dragging him over with them.

"Sure thing," T.O nodded and walked over to the boys sitting on the chairs with them, while Kali walked in closing the door behind her.

"You need to tell me everything Jackson," Kali took his hand as she spoke looking him in the eyes.

"What? No hello?" Jax laughed, but quickly stopped when it started to hurt.

"Hello, now can you tell me everything? Before Emily and JJ get here," Kali said again, still holding to her brothers hand and poking him gently in the side.

"Nothing felt right when you weren't home, you know that right?"Jax questioned, his sister had been his best-friend for as long as he could remember. "The Mayhem vote...it was because of Uncle Jury," Jax took a deep breath as he spoke, she had gotten a fair idea of what had happened but wanted to hear it from him herself.

"Jackson, what did you do?" Kali asked, looking at her brother and then towards the door.

"Execution...thought he was the rat," Jax told her straight out, again her brother had been set up.

"Fuck, Jax! Damn it, why? I think I know what's going on, you'll have to give me a few to work it out though," Kali sighed leaning over and kissing the side of her brothers head. "I know I can get you out of the charge with August, but Jury," Kali paused thinking it over before she spoke again, sending a quick message to Chibs telling him they needed to intimidate whoever did it. "I'll talk it out with Chibs and the other presidents," Even though she had overheard what happened the morning that they were told to make the decision.

Jax looked at Kali and closed his eyes before long they heard the door opening. Kali smiled as she saw that it was Emily and JJ, both ladies smiled at her walking in and closing the door behind them. Kali glanced outside the window saw that the three boys were still sitting with T.O, Jackson had resorted to sitting on his lap.

"Miss Teller, Mister Teller," Emily was quite formal as she looked at the two siblings before she spoke again. "Kali, we're here to discuss the case against Jax,"

"Emily," JJ looked at her friend and then at Jax and Kali who were both staring at them waiting for them to continue. "Excuse Emily, she likes to get straight to business," she paused before she spoke again. "How are you doing?" JJ pointed her question at Jax.

"Good as I can get I guess," Jax answered, not sure how else to answer the question as he didn't know how he was feeling.

"Mister Teller, we discovered that you were set up by one Tyler Yost, we reviewed a second set of security footage which was turned in after the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Departments investigation was completed," Emily took a deep breath pausing before she continued. "This was at your sisters request, she said something didn't feel right about the entire thing,"

"It's not something that we generally do, but since your club helped us to discover who was behind the murders that were happening. And Penelope's insistence we decided to look into it," JJ explained, Jax looked at Kali and then at Emily and JJ before he decided to talk.

"This was your doing?" Jax looked at his sister and then at Emily and JJ after she had nodded.

"Mister Yost fired the shot that killed August Marks, not you," Emily told them, that was something that the two ladies hadn't told her. "Although Jax shot Marks, the shot that killed him came from behind,"

"You were also set up by one of the ex-County Sheriff's who is currently being questioned by Agents Rossi and Morgan," JJ told her, Kali looked at Jax and then at Emily and JJ. "You didn't know?"

Kali shook her head, she didn't know and that was the truth. She only knew what she had been able to find out on her own and overheard. Jax looked at her, motioning for her sit the bed up higher, all this laying on his back was getting to him. Kali sat the bed up higher so that Jax wasn't flat on his back.

"How could I know?" Kali questioned, the only one she had truthfully known about was August Marks.

"It's part of our questioning, you know that," Emily answered, Jax ran a hand over his head and looked at her.

"When?" Jax questioned, he wanted to know when and who the sheriff was that was being questioned.

"This morning, turned himself in," Emily told them, thinking about whether to tell them who it was. "Have either of you had contact with an Officer Charles Barosky from the Stockton PD?"

"Years ago..." Kali paused, Jax looked at her and shook his head she was a teenager the last time she had met him.

Emily and JJ talked a little more with both Jax and Kali before having Kali leave the room so that they could talk to Jax alone. Jax looked between Emily and JJ wondering what they could possibly have to say to him that his sister didn't need to hear. Kali walked over and sat beside T.O with Thomas promptly crawling into his aunts lap. Abel and Jackson happily played on the floor.

"Mr Teller, we have done everything that we could to get the charges against you lowered," JJ told him, as Emily took a call from David.

"What does that even mean?" Jax questioned, he knew that it could only be good or bad news.

"House arrest, twenty-four months," JJ answered, that was something that they hadn't told Kali as yet. "Your sister doesn't know about this,"

"Why doesn't she know?" Jax raised an eyebrow taking a deep breath and seeing that Chibs had arrived and was standing at the door to the room.

While Emily and JJ talked with Jax, Kali had been talking with T.O she wanted to know everything that had happened when she was out of town. Chibs nodded at T.O and Kali motioning for them to take it outside and he'd look after the kids. Kali smiled at him and took Thomas with her, he'd fallen asleep in her arms.

"T.O what can you tell me about what went down?" Kali questioned, looking at the older man as she spoke. She needed everything that she could get from him.

"Kali, they saw him kill Jury, and there were witnesses for Marks," T.O told her, Kali raised an eyebrow at him.

"Jax killed Uncle Jury because he thought he was the rat, and August? He was set up both times," Kali said as calmly as she could without raising her voice. "I have a friend, she's a fed...she looked into it closely, it's why they're here,"

"You're the reason the feds are here?" T.O questioned, she nodded and shrugged rocking Thomas in her arms.

"Yeah, look I knew something fishy was going on...asked them to look in to it and they found everything out afterwards," Kali paused taking a deep breath before she continued to speak. "I joined the Sons when I was eighteen, my dad made the decision when I was a kid that I'd be the only girl ever allowed in in church, put it in the by-law," Kali looked at him, it was why the club trusted what she said. "If you think I've deceived you in anyway you talk to me,"

"I've known you since you joined, most of the MC's have watched you and your brother grow up," T.O told her, as he took a moment to think about what she had said about what happened with Jax. "You really do, do what you can to protect the club and your brother don't you?"

"It's all I've known," T.O looked at Kali thinking over what she was saying and deciding that she really was doing what she could.

After a month and a half Jax had joined Kali at her house, it was a house full of children as Lyla had moved in with her as well. She needed the help, she couldn't handle being a single mother after Opie had died while in prison. Between the two women they were looking after six children, with Kali still doing SAMCRO business at the same time, and Wendy occasionally helping with the school runs.

"Aunt Kali..." Ellie was standing in the door of her bedroom she wanted to talk to Kali. Her and Kenny were staying the weekend while Lyla went out of town with her son Piper.

"Give me two seconds, okay?" Kali called back as she knelt in front of Jax. "You sure?" she questioned, he'd just told her that he'd be alright on his own but she wasn't having it.

"I'll be fine kiddo," Jax held his phone in his hand. "You promised Ellie you'd go with her, now go," he laughed before he tried to readjust his legs but failing. "First help?" he looked at her innocently with a lopsided grin.

"The day they say you can do this yourself we'll both be cheering," she laughed as she helped him out and onto the bed, he was temporarily in a wheelchair with nerve damage from the accident.

"Trust me, I know," Jax replied as she moved his legs so that he was least semi-comfortable. "How long do you think you'll be gone?"

"Couple of hours, Happy's coming by later. Wants to see how you're going," Kali told him before she left the room and walked towards where the boys were playing. "Hey boys, I'm going out with Ellie for a little while you behave for Jax okay?"

"Yes mom," Jackson jumped up from his spot on the floor and raced over to her wrapping his arms around her body. "We'll be good," Abel and Thomas, Thomas stumbling and crawling as they raced into their father while Jackson went back to playing with Kenny.

Abel and Thomas climbed into the bed with their father and curled up beside him, both of them wanting him to read a story to him. Jax laughed when Abel handed him a book that he'd read to his sister when they were kids. The book the boys had chosen? 'Cat in a Hat'. Jax started to read to them and it wasn't long before both boys were in fits of giggles listening to their dad read to them.

When Kali and Ellie returned, Ellie went to the bedroom and shut the door. Happy was sitting in the living room with Jackson watching cartoons, Jackson looked up when his mother walked into the room grinning when he saw her before going back to watching cartoons. Happy smiled at her and motioned towards the bedroom. Kali walked into the bedroom and shooed Thomas and Abel out to the living room so they could get ready for bed. Once the boys were all out she shut the door and sat down.

"Jax, mom had a part in dad's death..." Kali hadn't told Jax about what she'd found out doing more digging into their mom's files after she found the certificates.

"How do you know?" Jax questioned, raising his eyebrow at her as they sat on his bed.

"Did some digging, found the all the certificates that mom hid from us," Kali answered, she had them stored under her bed in a locked box.

"What else?" Jax questioned his head resting on her shoulder as he spoke, Chibs had put the boys to bed and Happy was in the kitchen they were both waiting for Kali to finish with Jax.

"Talked to Nero, he told me that mom told him about what she did," Kali paused she knew her brother hated when their mother was brought into anything. "That mom really was sorry that she gave Clay the okay to kill dad,"

"Does Chibs know?" Jax was referring to the recently evolved 6 month relationship between his sister and the now President of SAMCRO.

"Yeah, Jax I couldn't keep it to myself...there was no way in hell that was happening," Kali told him, as she looked to him and then the doorway. "Everything that Emily and JJ did for you, that wasn't at my request, that was at the request of Penelope. She wanted to make sure your kids grew up knowing they were loved,"

"What are you talking about kiddo?" Jax was confused, what did they do that he didn't know about.

As they were talking Chibs and Happy were in the kitchen talking and making food at the same time. Figuring they may as well make themselves useful, after a few minutes Chibs decided to go and check on Jax and Kali to make sure that they weren't murdering one another.

"Jackie boy, your sisters friend pulled some strings with everything that's been happening these past few years and the help we've given the feds," Chibs stood in the doorway, he'd heard Jax's last question and figured he'd be able to answer it for her. "Feds told Patterson that SAMCRO was off limits,"

"They did what?" Jax was in disbelief as he listened to them explain what had happened just months earlier.

"Feds told Patterson that we were off limits, its how you managed to only get house arrest for your last arrest," Kali said it again, she knew that he had already been told about the set up between Barosky and Yost.

"They trust your sister," Chibs said, looking to the two of them as he spoke. "She loves you brother,"

"Do you love her?" Jax questioned, from where he was laying on the bed.

"You know the answer to that one," Chibs answered, with a smile aimed at the younger of the two. "Jackie boy,"

"Jax, what do you think?" Kali questioned before she disappeared down the hallway and to the kitchen.

Jax looked at Chibs and then glanced down the hallway where his sister was now out of sight before he had a chance to look back at Chibs the older man was leaving the room also. Jax sighed, and threw his head back against the pillow leaning on the head board. Listening he heard both Kali and Chibs laughing in one of the other rooms.

"Finally got hold of Packer, gonna head down to San Bernadino for a couple of days to talk to him," Kali told him, she knew that he'd understand and more than likely would send Happy with her.

"Take Happy, I don't want you going that far alone," Chibs told her, before pulling her close to him. "Darlin, do what you have to do,"

"Wendy and Lyla are going to look after the boys," Kali paused briefly as he rested her head on his shoulder. "I know you don't want me going alone, but there are so many times that I have," Kali sighed glancing up at him as they sat down at the kitchen table.

"Darlin, I worry about you...always have you know that and it's different now," Chibs said kissing the side of her head as he spoke before taking her face in his hands and kissing her.

"At least I'm not the only one worrying in this relationship," Kali laughed into the kiss, as she put her hands on either side of his face in response. "I'll be fine, I'll only be gone a few days,"

"I know, at least take Hap half way," Chibs told her, kissing her back again they could go on like that. "You know the man likes to protect you,"

"And what if you need him while I'm gone? What then?" Kali questioned, she was stubborn and he knew it. Chibs sighed, almost to the point where she thought he would take back what he had said.

"That's what Tig and Quinn are for," Chibs laughed, he knew that the two men were always up for anything if Happy wasn't available.

"You know Happy's more sadistic than the two of them combined," Kali stuck her tongue out at him as they sat at the table. "I leave the day after tomorrow,"