When the morning sun had risen over Charming, there had been four men in the small apartment. Now, as the sun beat down outside at it's highest point, although there were still four men inside the apartment, two of them were on plastic tarps on the floor, their bodies cold and stiff. One of the two remaining men in the apartment, Kellan O'Rourke was bent over the corpses, shirt off and meat cleaver in hand.

"Are you going to help me?" O'Rourke asked stopping to wipe his brow and glaring up at the other living man in the apartment. Although he'd seen the older men shoot two other IRA associates, men that O'Rourke revered, in cold blood he felt that he was needed enough that he could be spiteful. Jimmy O'Phelan was sitting in the other room drinking a glass of red wine and wearing a suit that was so clean it looked like it belonged on a mannequin instead of a living human. Furthermore, he hadn't even bothered to remove Galen and Malone's bodies from the kitchen himself. Instead, he'd calmly finished his breakfast before leaving, likely to visit Jackson Teller's junkie ex wife for activities that O'Rourke preferred not to picture. The moment he'd returned to the apartment he'd glanced over at O'Rourke's work before walking into the kitchen and pouring himself a a glass of wine.

A loud snort came as the response from the other room followed by "I won't do your job for you."

O'Rourke gritted his teeth trying to hide how pissed off he was. Although it was true that he was the youngest person both living and deceased in the apartment he didn't appreciate having to clean up a mess that was caused by the older man's temper. "I'm not the one who killed a senior IRA official because he didn't like how I cooked the eggs!"

Although O'Rourke had only commented from what he thought he saw happen, his accusation hit exactly the wrong note with Jimmy. Although it was mostly the truth that Galen's death had came about as a result of an ill placed comment, something about the tone of the younger man's seemed disrespectful and irritating to him.

O'Rourke jumped and instinctively held the cleaver in front of his face as he heard the wine glass shatter loudly against a kitchen wall. However, Jimmy remained in the other room. After several tense minutes of wondering if his life was still in danger, O'Rourke decided it was time to pose the most important question. "What do you want me to do with our dead associates?"

For a moment Jimmy was again quiet, and O'Rourke assumed he had either hit another button or wasn't deemed worthy of a true response. Finally, Jimmy spoke "just find a way to keep them from being discovered," after another pause he added "except for Galen O'Shay's head. I want you to personally deliver it to the doorstep of the Sons of Anarchy's favorite brothel."

"Why?" O'Rourke asked eventhough he expected another angry response.

Instead Jimmy was calm and clear in his next words. "It's a housewarming present for my wife."

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Although it had been less than twenty-four hours since SAMCRO had lost it's VP, the atmosphere had already become incredibly tense. In the past year alone, SAMCRO had lost multiple members. However, the men had either, like Opie, been taken by Mister Mayhem himself or ,like Clay, been ousted from the club for bitter betrayals. Almost all of the men of the club had fathered a child at some point, but there was a difference between simply impregnating a woman and actually caring for the offspring and the only two men who felt they could fully understand Chibs' choice were self proclaimed family man Quinn and Tig who had only months earlier watched his own daughter burn to death and even they were too unsure to speak out against Jax. Jax himself should have been someone that also understood the choice, but instead he took it as if it had been a direct and personal betrayal against him.

Now, sitting at the head of the table above the ice cream shop, Jax addressed the rest of the club. "Chibs is a coward. He chose to abandon his brothers when the club was in most need of it's members," for a moment he paused to look around the table and take in the reactions of the gathered men as if waiting for someone to chime in with a dissenting opinion. When he was satisfied that his words had hit their mark he decided to continue. "So far, Jimmy O'Phelan and Galen O'Shay have laid low. Chibs claimed Jimmy O'Phelan won't be interested in the club anymore, but for all we know O'Phelan could have put those exact words into his mouth to fool us."

At the last sentence Tig immediately cut into his words "C'mon, you can't seriously believe that Chibs is working with him. They'd sooner kill eachother than work together against SAMCRO."

Taking Tig's lead, Happy chimed in "it would be a massacre." Although he looked almost too pleased at being able to say the word massacre, his words were completely serious.

Jax glared at each man in turn before responding "Chibs's loyalties have always been with the Irish and they always will be. It was only a matter of time before what happened last night occurred. If Nero wants to allow him to continue to stay at Diosa, I'm not sure if I can stop him. However, when the Sons find out something about what Galen or Jimmy are up to, he will not find out what we know. The last thing we need is someone feeding information back to the IRA."