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Charming Is Not so Charming

Chapter Fourteen: Not so Clear

Juliet pulled up at the garage and came to a screeching stop. She got out and immediately went into the clubhouse and seen the guys coming out of the chapel.

"That ATF bitch came to talk to me." She informed them.

"Goddamn it!" Clay yelled kicking a chair at one of the tables sending it flying across the room. "Son of a bitch!"

"I told her to hold her breath because I wasn't telling her shit."

"She got to Luann and Cherry too." Jax told her. "She got Luann for drug procession and Cherry for Grand Theft and Arson. They talked to Tara at the hospital too."

"What the…" Juliet said but Tig cut her off by hugging her.

"It's gonna be ok, kid." Tig told her.

Jax and Opie left after messing up her hair as they passed by.

"Assholes." She muttered fixing her hair.

She spent the night at the clubhouse, Clay not wanting her to go home in case the ATF agents brought her in on some kind of bullshit charge.

Happy and the Tacoma charter came in and Happy told him he thought about going nomad and Clay told him he had a sit at the table for SAMCRO. Happy was to take Cherry and Cameron Hayes across the Canadian border and get them out of the country. Jax had went to talk to Luann at the jail last night to get her to inform Otto about the RICO case the feds were trying to get against SAMCRO and ended up breaking Cherry out of jail.

Juliet walked to Jax's room and knocked on the door. Once she heard permission, she walked in and closed the door.

"Hi, baby sis." He said knowing it was her.

He was laying on his bed, smoking a joint.

"Hey." She said walking over to the bed and sitting down next to him.

He passed her the joint and she took a few hits and passed it back. She noticed boxes and seen something that caught her eye. She reached over and picked up the burnt pages. She realized it was her dad's manuscript.

"What happened with this?"

Jax raised up and noticed what she was talking about. He just shrugged.

"I've still got a copy." She told him. "It's in a hideaway drawer in the nightstand at my house."

"Did you read it?"

"Not all of it." She told him. "Been kinda busy, ya know. Helping your sorry asses."

He smiled and handed her the joint back and she declined.

"I'm good." She said. "After all this shit is over with the ATF, I'm gonna finish it. Seems like Dad had other plans for the club."

"Yeah." Jax said with a sigh. "Major plans."

She nodded and got up.

"I'm going to go get a beer. You coming?"

"In a minute." He told her with a smile.

She nodded and headed out. She went back to the bar and Clay hung up his cell. He informed everyone that Luann was cleared of her charges but Otto had shattered Stahl's face. The guys cheered and a smile crept on Juliet's face. She had wanted to do that to the bitch the other day and was glad that she got what she deserved, even if Juliet wasn't the one to do it.

"We're clear of the ATF ladies and germs." Clay said going behind the bar.

Juliet walked up to Juice and wrapped her arms around his neck. He was sitting at the bar on his laptop.

"Hey, babe." He said giving her a kiss as he went back to doing whatever it was he was doing on his laptop.

Gemma got up with a paper in her hand and told Clay about the renovations of Jax's house for Abel.

"$2300 buck? For painting?" Clay asked not pleased. "Shit I could have the prospect do it for free. They are killing me. I just paid $4000 for goddamn furniture for that one."

Juliet smiled at him and shrugged her shoulders.

"Hell she's here more than she is at the damn house."

"The baby is coming home any day." Gemma said getting his attention back on the subject at hand.

Juliet took a swig of Juice's beer and he looked up at the tv that was monitoring the cameras outside around the clubhouse.

"Clay, cops." Juice said getting up quickly and closing his laptop.

He took Juliet's hand just as the cops busted through the door.

"Down!" They yelled throwing Juice and Juliet down on the ground.

"Hey!" Juice said clearing upset. "Fucking take it easy."

Juliet looked at him and mouthed 'I'm fine'. Juice was pissed but what could he do? They wrestled everyone down and hand cuffed Bobby. The cop told him he was under arrest for the murder of Benan Hufner.

"Who?" Bobby asked.

"You have the right to remain silent…" The cop said reading him his rights as they took him to the door.

"I'll call Rosen, Bobby." Clay told him and grunted when a cop kicked him in his side.

"Hey!" Jax yelled.

"Hey, bitch." Gemma said upset and spit at the cop.

June Stahl came over and kicked Gemma. Juliet was fixing to get up and Juice grabbed her hand and shook his head.

"Manners, darling. Manners." June told her.

The cops soon left and the guys went into the chapel. Juliet knew it was about the murder that they took Bobby into custody for. She heard Jax and Tig yelling and scuffling.

Juliet looked towards the chapel and wondered what that was about until she heard Piney say something about Opie and knew immediately it was because Opie wasn't there. Juliet got out her cell and tried to call Opie's phone but got no answer.

"Shit." Juliet said hanging up her cell.

This was bad, really bad.

Juliet headed to the hospital and stopped in front of the window and seen Tara talking to Wendy. This is just what Juliet needed right now. She was the last person Juliet wanted to see right now. She watched as the two women talking and wondered how Tara could do it. Wendy was back in town, what did that mean for Tara and Jax?

Juliet wanted to bust in the door and tell Wendy to get her junkie ass out of town. She wanted to tell her to leave Abel and Jax alone but knew that wasn't her place, it was Jax's. Whether he wanted to be with Tara or with Wendy was his choice and his alone.

She headed down the hall and out the side door to her car. She climbed into the driver's seat and headed to her house. She didn't want to be around anyone right now. Between Opie missing, Bobby getting picked up and now Wendy back in town…she just needed time to process it all.

She walked into her house and sighed. She went down the hall to her room and went to the nightstand and opened the drawer and popped opened the cubby hole where she hid he dad's manuscript. She went over to the accent chair and sat down. She was going to read what he dad wanted for this club and she figured it wasn't what it is now.

A few hours later, she was almost finished when her cell rang and she seen it was her mom.

"Hey, Mom."

"Hey, baby." Her mom said on the other end. "Mary came by the garage and said she had to pick up Ope's kids from some federal facility."

"What?" Juliet asked closing the book and sitting straight up in the chair. "What the hell does that mean?"

"I don't know, sweetheart." Her mom sighed. "But it isn't good."

"Shit." Juliet cursed.

"I just left the hospital." Gemma said. "Someone's back in town."

"Wendy, yeah I know." Juliet said pissed.

"She's going to be staying at Jax's." Gemma informed her.

"Yeah, I figured." Juliet said. "Don't try anything funny, Mom."

"What makes you think I would do anything like that?"

Juliet rolled her eyes.

"Oh, I don't know." Juliet said sarcastically. "Maybe because I've known you since 1983."

She heard her mom let out a laugh and it made Juliet smile.

"Ok, sweetheart. Abel comes home tomorrow and I need you to come over to Jax's to help me set up."

"Ok…I'll see you tomorrow."

"Juice coming to stay the night with you?"

"Maybe."

She knew her mom was smiling on the other end.

"Bye, Mom."

"Love you."

"I love you too." Juliet said clicking the end button to end the call.

She knew that her mom was planning something; it was just in her nature. She just hoped that whatever plan Gemma had for that didn't work. She felt pain for her best friend, her relationship with Jax was just getting back to where it was before she left town and now it was abruptly coming to a stop.

She had gotten into bed and heard her door open and close.

"Jules!"

She smiled, realizing it was Juice. A few moments later, he came down the hall and slipped out of his cut and boots. He sighed as he sat down on the edge of her bed.

"You ok?" Juliet asked wrapping arms around him from behind.

"I'm fine."

"I know about Opie." She told him.

He turned to look at her.

"He's not a rat, Juice." She said. "He'd die for this club. This club is his family."

Juice just nodded. He couldn't tell her about the wire money transfers that he found out about. It was club business, not for her to know.