I'm not sure if this is a detail that would be assumed without saying, but since I'm a stickler for making sure EVERYTHING is explained, let it be known that sometime after he decided to leave SAMCRO, Chibs went back to his house and packed himself a bag with a bunch of clean clothes and his toiletries as he is now living almost exclusively at Diosa with his wife and daughter.


It would have been all too easy for Nero to kick his guests out of Diosa now that they were no longer affiliated with the club, but for some reason that Chibs might never understand, not only had the other man allowed him and his family to stay in the brothel, he'd even seemed almost more hospitable than he had the first morning and Chibs almost found himself waiting for the other shoe to drop.

"Hey hombre, you've got a visitor," Nero peered around the doorway into the room.

At first Chibs felt like this was indeed the other shoe dropping. He wasn't expecting any visitors and although he didn't think O'Phelan would have learned this quickly of his departure from SAMCRO or that he had his family alive at Diosa, he wondered if the other man was down the hall. This worried him as there were no exits in the room and his wife and daughter were sitting nearby and there was no need to put them in the same room with Jimmy.

Automatically he stood up, putting his body in between the door and his wife on the couch. Fiona, who was reading the paper immediately looked up from her reading, but didn't bother to tell her husband to sit back down and went back to reading. She had her doubts that any threat was at the end of the hall, but she could tell that what Chibs was doing made him feel in control at least briefly and there was no reason to take it away from him.

Nero however didn't look so convinced that it was a normal reaction to the situation and after taking one look at the other man he added "I'll tell the doc you don't want any visitors."

This left Chibs even more confused "Did you say Tara's here?"

"Yeah, she seems a little urgent to see you." Nero responded.

"What does she want?" Fiona asked, again looking up from the paper before setting it aside completely.

"She won't say," Nero admitted, "she just said she really needs to talk to Chibs."

Chibs was unsure if he wanted to talk with the doctor. He liked Tara, and even almost considered her like a little sister, but she was still Jax's old lady and he wondered if the president of SAMCRO had decided to use her as a way to try to win him back into the club. Finally, after a few seconds of thinking he responded to Nero "Tell her I have no reason to talk to her."

"Okay Esse," Nero started to turn to leave when much to his and Chibs surprise, Fiona stopped him.

"Let me talk to her."

Surprised by her offer, Nero turned to glance at Chibs as if asking for his permission to let Fiona talk to Tara.

Instead of outright answering, Chibs just nodded before sitting back down allowing Fiona to stand up.

Nero immediately stepped aside to allow Fiona to walk past him into the hallway. "If you think that's best I'm not going to stop you."

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Fiona found Tara sitting at the bar sipping a cup of coffee while various prostitutes milled about the room. Seemingly surprised to see her, the other woman got up from her seat "I need to talk with Chibs."

Immediately, Fiona gestured for her to sit back down "anything you can tell my husband, you can tell me."

When Tara remained quiet she added "If you're here to try to convince him to return to SAMCRO you're out of luck sweetheart. My husband stands by his convictions."

"Do you think I'm just Jax's messenger?!" Tara spat.

"Why do you want to talk to my husband?"

Finally realizing that she wasn't going to get out of the conversation at hand, Tara again got up from her seat. "I don't want to talk in here."

"Fine, then we'll talk outside." Soon the two women were standing in the same place that Fiona had talked with Gemma the previous weekend. The dust was still marked with footprints, cigarette butts and the remnants of Gemma's sly immaturity. Almost instinctively, Fiona pulled a cigarette box out of her pocket and took one out before offering the box to the other woman.

Tara politely declined before beginning to speak. "I need Chibs' help."

"Filip has enough on his plate already with O'Phelan. He doesn't have the time or resources to help you." Hoping Tara would take the hint, Fiona walked several feet away before continuing to smoke her cigarette.

However, Tara wasn't ready to give up on what she wanted and prepared her next attempt at getting the other woman's attention. "Would you want your daughter to grow up to be an old lady?"

Stopping, Fiona turned back towards Tara, "Kerrianne will be free to choose what kind of life she wants to live."

"My sons will be forced to patch into SAMCRO as soon as they can ride a motorcycle. If I can get them out of Charming they have a chance to have a normal life like your daughter will."

Fiona's maternal instinct had been reached, but she tried to keep her poker face, choosing to let out a bitter indifferent sounding laugh before speaking. "You want to keep your sons away from monsters, yet you come directly to the man with possibly the most violent past of all the club members."

"You and I both know that's not all that Chibs is. He did something that Jax has proven multiple times he'd never do. He chose his family over the club...I don't believe I'm putting my blind trust and my sons' safety in the hands of a violent psychopath, I believe I'm trusting a man who did what he had to to keep his family safe." after a pause she added "if you refuse to help me I'll still find a way to get my sons out of Charming, but don't tell me that you wouldn't do the exact same thing to keep your family alive."