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Charming Is Not so Charming

Chapter Eighteen: Welcoming Back Two Sons & Gemma in an Accident

After handling club business, everyone but Jax came back to the clubhouse. She soon heard a Harley pull up and went to the door and seen Opie.

"Ope!" She yelled as she ran across the lot over to him.

She jumped into his arms and he picked her up and spun her around. He chuckled as he sat her down back on her feet.

"I've missed my giant teddy bear." She said kissing his cheek as he bent down. "A part of me has been lost."

He gave her a weak smile. "I've missed you too, Jules."

Their moment together was lost when Piney and Jax pulled up and the guys came out of the clubhouse to greet him.

"Mom take Abel for his checkup?"

"Yeah, she called earlier and said everything is looking good…just needs to pick up a little weight but other than that he's pretty healthy." She told her brother.

"Good."

Piney was waiting by his bike and Juliet took the cue to head back to the garage. She gave Piney a kiss on the cheek before walking back towards the office. They were slow today and she dreaded having to sit and do nothing.

She wished she could have taken the part-time salon job but with everything happening with Donna, the club wanted her to stay close. So she was stuck in the small garage office, doing nothing.

Juice came into the office and Juliet noticed Tig, Chibs, Jax and Opie leaving in the van.

"Where are they going?"

He opened his mouth but closed it.

"Right, club business." She said letting out an aggravated sigh. "I don't know why I even ask."

"Bobby's getting out later. We're going to throw him a little party."

"So, I take it I'm going to have to go to the store and stock up?"

"Yeah, sorry." He said apologizing and pulling her up from her seat at the desk. "Take Half Sack with you."

"Of course."

Half Sack walked up and knocked on the open door.

"I'm ready when you are."

"Yeah, ok." She said and then looked back at Juice. "I'll be back later."

Half Sack headed over to his bike to get ready to follow Juliet to the store.

"Hey…" Juice said grabbing her arm. "You've been out of it since this morning. Did I do something?"

Juliet smiled as she looked up at him. She loved how concerned he was that he had done something to upset her.

"No." She reassured him. "I'm uh, just frustrated. Sitting in the office all day kind of gets to you. I hate it when I have nothing to do. Mom took it upon herself to play mom to Abel so I'm stuck here."

He nodded buying her story and she gave him a short kiss and headed out the door. She went to her car and seen him watching from the office door. She hated lying to him but she couldn't exactly tell him what was bothering her. No one needed to know…for now.

Her and Half Sack spent a lot of time and money picking up food and booze for Bobby's party. Later that night, the party was in full swing and she was standing with Juice as he talked to Chibs and Half Sack. She had his arm around her shoulder protectively as to show anyone that didn't know that she belonged to him. Juliet looked as Piney walked away from his son.

"Hey." She said getting Juice's attention. "I'm going to go talk to Opie."

"Ok." He told her as he dropped his arm from her shoulder.

She rolled her eyes as he went back to his conversation with the guys and he let out a laugh. She walked over to Opie and sat down across from him.

"If you're coming over here to bitch at me too…" Opie said with a sigh as he looked up at her. "You're wasting your time, Jules."

"I didn't come over here to bitch at you , Ope." She said putting her hand on top of his. "I just wanted to tell you again that I'm glad you're back and that I missed you."

He gave her a small smile and a small nod.

"So, how are you and…?" He asked jerking his head over towards Juice.

"He's a nice guy. He treats me good." She told him with a smile. "Don't worry I can take care of myself. Last thing I need are you and Jax beating him damn near to death."

"Oh, I'm not worried about you." He said shaking his head. "I'm more worried for him."

She giggled and hit him in the arm. "Ass."

Ope wasn't worried about little Juliet, hell she was one of the strongest women he'd ever known. A close second behind the queen, Gemma. He was more worried about the club's intelligence officer, his fellow brother. Juice was known not to be the brightest crayon in their clubhouse.

He let out a hefty laugh and it made Juliet happy. Opie needed some laughter and happiness in his dark world right now.

"If you ever need me, know that I'm here for you. Anytime."

"I know." He said looking down at the beer in his other hand.

A silver Mercedes pulled up in the lot and four guys got out. Opie got up and the others made their way over to her.

"Stay here." Juice told her as he passed by.

They all went over to Clay and Tig, who was already standing in front of the Mercedes.

"Garage is closed." She heard Clay tell the men.

Gemma walked over to her daughter and linked arms with her.

"What the hell is this?" Juliet asked watching the scene in the middle of the parking lot, growing more concern by the second.

"I don't know." Gemma said never taking her eyes off the men.

She immediately noticed the guy in the well dressed suit and her face paled. She had seen him before. She had seen him in Hawaii…talking to her husband. The well dressed man in the suit told them Clay he heard the he was a Camacho cigar fan as he held out a wooden box. Clay looked at it and back at the man. He then told Clay that it would be best if he stop selling guns to the Niners and Mauans. Juice, Tig, and Happy chuckled at the man. Clay walked around the man, studying him.

"You're a criminal and you're done selling guns to color." The guy told him.

Juliet tensed up as she seen Tig pull his gun out and cocked it.

The man's hensemen took steps forward to protect the man in the suit.

"Are you going to shoot me, Mr. Trager?" The suit dressed man asked. "With all these witnesses?"

Tig gave the man a hard glare.

"I don't know what Darby told you and I don't know what your angle is. Let me be clear, nobody threatens SAMCRO. Nobody tells us what we can and can't do. Black, brown or white. So why don't you just climb back into your little German clown car…and drive back to Nazi town." Clay told him.

The guy laughed.

"Cause next time you piss all over my shoes…it will kill you." Clay warned him.

Tig smiled at the man.

"And I don't give a shit how many witnesses there are."

The man told him his cigar shop opens in a few weeks and he placed the cigar box that was still in his hands, down at Clay's feet. They turned around and headed back over to their Mercedes. The driver ran into me and Gemma.

"Sorry, ma'am." He said to us.

His eyes landed on Juliet and stared at her long and he smirked. Juliet felt chills run down her spine. That guy gave her the creeps. They watches as the car backed up and Tig and Happy walked in front of it. Gemma walked up to Clay and Juliet walked up to Juice.

"I want to know everything." Clay told Juice handing him a business card.

"You got it." Juice told him.

Minutes later another car pulled up but this time it was an ATF car and everyone cheered as Bobby got out of the backseat. Jules went up to him first and hugged him quickly before the guys surrounded them. He gave her a quick hug and Juice helped him into his cut and patting him on the back. Bobby cheered excitedly as he hugged the other members.

A few hours later, everyone was in the clubhouse and Juliet was sitting at the bar next to Juice as they laughed and joked with Chibs and Half Sack. She looked over at the pool table and seen Bobby's face deep into one of the crow eaters.

"Ok, that's my sign to get the hell out of here." She told them as she stood up.

This party was now getting a little too out of hand for her taste. She made her way to Juice's room and starting packing up her bag that she had brought earlier in the day.

"Where you going?" Juice asked coming in and closing the door behind him to drown out the music.

"Home." She told him as she slung her bag onto her slender shoulder. "Go have fun with the rest of the guys. Just don't sleep with any crow eaters. Not even a hand job."

"Ok." He chuckled grabbing her waist and pulling her to him. "I'll be over in a while."

"Ok." She said leaning up to kiss his lips. "I mean it, no crow eaters."

"Ok, mom."

She gave him a look and that huge smile that she loved appeared on Juice's face.

She headed back out to the front and said bye to a few people and finally made her way out of the clubhouse and across the lot to her car.

A few hours later, she felt an arm wrap around her waist.

"Waiting for me?" He whispered into her ear.

"Of course." She said turning her head so she could face him. "Why else would I be naked?"

"I love it when you're in your birthday suit." He said kissing her neck.

Hours later, Juliet hadn't gotten an ounce of sleep the whole night. Once Juice got ready and left, she picked up her cell phone and dialed a number.

"Hello, darling. I was wondering when you would call."

"I want you to leave me alone, Carter."

"I want you back, Lettie. I love you."

"You don't love anyone but yourself." She told him as she went to her front door and locked it. "You proved that once you kept sleeping with your temps."

"You shot me and fled back to the mainland." He reminded her.

"Why didn't you report it?" She asked.

She had thought she had had left him for dead. She thought she had killed the man.

"I don't want you locked up. I just want you back here with me."

"You're a sadistic bastard, you know that?" She asked. "Carter, you have problems and you really need to get help."

She could tell from his rapid breathing that she had hit a nerve. She didn't know exactly where he was and she walked down the hallway to get her pistol from her nightstand.

"I have some friends that just came into Charming. There are going to be watching you, Let." He told her calming down.

She went back to the living room and peeked out the window. Juliet wasn't afraid of too many people but Carter Malone was one of them.

"And if you don't do what I ask of you, Let. If you decide not to leave Charming and the Puerto Rican, your life is going to get real hard, darling." He said eerily calm. "I promise you that. Your family will pay the price. I will hurt everyone you love one by one and I think your mother will be first, followed by your boy…"

She hung up the phone and she gasped for air. She had a sinister feeling that he meant his promise to her and that something bad had already happened to her mother. Juliet didn't know why she had even called him. She grabbed her cell phone, keys, and purse making sure to put the glock into her purse and headed out the door. She looked around before getting into her car.

She pulled up at Charming PD and seen Hale getting out of his off road SUV. He looked confused as she pulled up in front of his police vehicle.

"Hey, I need to talk to you."

"Ok." He said surprised. "What's going on?"

"This is between me and you." She said taking off her sunglasses to look at him.

"Ok."

She stared him down.

"Ok, Juliet." He said frustrated.

"This cannot get back to Jax and the club." She told him.

He looked concern as he shifted his feet, putting his hands into his pockets.

"I um, have this guy who keeps calling me."

"Ex? In Hawaii?"

"Yeah." She said with a sigh. "I shot him."

"What?" Hale asked shaking his head in disbelief. "What is it with Tellers and shooting people?"

"I had every right. He's a sick piece of shit." She said justifying herself. "That's not the point. I'm afraid he might have some guys that are following me."

"Do you know who?"

"I think it might be the guy that is opening up a cigar shop…"

"Ethan Zobelle?" He asked cutting her off.

"I've seen him before…there in Hawaii…he was an acquaintance of my hu…ex." She said correcting herself quickly. The last thing she wanted at the moment was to let Hale know what she was married.

"Was your ex involved in any criminal organizations?"

"I don't know for sure but I had my suspicions." She told him. "He was pretty obvious about where he stood with the whole white thing."

"Jesus, Juliet." He said with a sigh. "You leave one criminal family and land in another."

She shot him a glare but ignored him. This wasn't the time to argue about SAMCRO.

"Ok, if your ex was into the whole white power bullshit, what makes you think that Zobelle is too?" He asked. "He's just an owner of a chain of cigar shops."

She shook her head in disbelief. She was telling him about having seen this guy before and knowing that he may be part of another organization and he was doubting her.

"Fine, Hale but when shit starts happening in Charming. Something that you've been so hell bent to keep from happening by trying to get my family out…don't say I didn't warn you." She said pointing her small finger up in his face. She turned on her heel and went to her car. She got into her car and left the parking lot when her cell rang.

"Yeah?"

"Juliet, its Unser…your mother's been in a car accident. She's at St Thomas right now."

"OK, Unser…I'm on my way." She said hanging up as she made a U-turn.

She got over to St. Thomas as quick as she could and seen Clay and Tig already there waiting in the waiting room.

"Either of you could have called to tell me Gemma was here?" She asked them pissed off. "This is ridiculous."

"We just found out ourselves." Clay told her.

She plopped down beside Clay with a huff.

"She'll be ok, sweetheart." Tig said patting her shoulder.

She heard shouting and seen Chibs, Half Sack and Juice pushing a gurney that had a very sick looking Bobby on it. She couldn't help but let a small giggle escape her lips by the sight of Bobby. He always would go overboard with the MC parties and the next day look like the walking dead.

"How's the homecoming queen?" Tig asked.

"He's a little green." Juice told him.

Bobby popped up with a moan. "How's Gemma?"

"Better than you." Clay told him.

"Good, good." He said laying back down.

The guys started hitting and punching him.

"Stop it." Juliet said getting up from her seat beside Clay. "Or he's going to upchuck all over this waiting room."

"Love you, Juliet." Bobby said eyes still closing. "Thanks."

"Love you too, Uncle Bobby." She told him rubbing his unruly curly mop. "Looking out for my favorite Elvis impersonator."

He grunted and her phone rang and she seen it was Hale. She excused herself as she walked down the hall and into the chapel where she could talk.

"What do you want?" She asked.

"Look, I wanted to apologize for earlier." He said on the other end. "You seem like you were geneually upset."

"If I wasn't, I wouldn't have come to you."

"Look, I'm going to do some digging on your ex but I need some information from you."

"His name is Carter Malone." She told him. "Born and raised in Oahu. His family had a very successful law firm there. That's pretty much all I know."

"You were with this guy and that's all you know?" He asked in disbelief.

"Are you going to help me or are you going to criticize?" She asked getting fed up with him and his ridicule.

The chapel doors opened and Tara poked her head in.

"I'll talk to you later, I've got to go." She said closing her phone and hanging up on Hale. She turned around and looked at her friend.

"You wanna come join the others?" She asked. "I've got an update on Gemma."

She nodded and followed her and Jax to the others. She said Gemma was fine and that she would be here a little while longer so they could run some more tests.

The guys left to take care of some club business and Juliet headed outside and met up with Hale.

"What have you found out?"

"Nothing." He said taking off his aviator sunglasses and looking down at her. "He's clean. No arrested, not so much as a parking ticket."

"Maybe you thought you had seen Zobelle before."

Juliet shook her head.

"If your ex is harassing you, you can file a…"

"A what?" Juliet asked clearing frustrated. "A restaining order?! You've got to be kidding, right?!"

"Juliet, calm down." He said putting his hand on her shoulder.

"No!" She yelled. "You're underestimating him, Hale."

"What do you suggest I do, Jules?" He asked not knowing what she wanted from him.

"I want you to keep Stahl's mouth shut."

"What does Agent Stahl have to do with this?" He asked.

"Why do you think that I came to you in the first place?" Juliet asked pacing. "She knows all about my life in Hawaii. She knows about Carter."

"What are you not telling me, Jules?" He asked stopping her. "I need to know everything."

"Carter isn't my ex, Hale. He's my husband." She told him. "After we got married less than a year ago, he became a different person. I was watched everywhere I went and he started physically abusing me when I snuck away from my "watchmen". Right before I came here, I had enough. He hit me and I pulled a gun on him. He told me that if I pulled a gun on him, I better pull the trigger so that's what I did. I shot him and left him there to bleed to death."

Hale just looked at her and listened.

"He called me. He knows I'm here. He threatened that if I didn't come back to him that he would hurt my family starting with Gemma."

"Are you saying that she wasn't in an accident?"

"That's exactly what I'm saying." She told him. "I think Gemma is lying about what happened to her."

Hale shook his head trying to put together all of the information and figure out a plan.

"If Carter comes to Charming, David. You'll have a lot more to worry about than SAMCRO. It will get ugly."

"I'll keep what Stahl knows out of Jax's hands." He told her. "If Carter calls you again or if you find out anything and I mean anything else out, I need you to tell me."

Juliet nodded and he gave her a quick hug before he got into his SUV. Juliet sighed and went back into the hospital. She was turning the corner to head back to the waiting room where Clay and Anita was when someone grabbed her. She let out a yelp as she was throw into the wall and a hand went over her mouth and his arm on her neck. It was Ethan Zobelle's right hand man.

"Your husband, Carter wanted me to deliver a message." The man said. "You have 72 hours to make up your mind or it won't only be your mother that has been in an accident."

He released her and disappeared and she coughed trying to get air. She was right, Ethan Zobelle and Carter Malone were working together.