Although Gemma Teller had managed to dig herself a deep hole that she would never crawl out of, there were still details of the attack on Tara that she refused to explain. Although the two people Jarry was already holding were far from first class citizens it was looking more and more like one or both of them could be the best chance to get justice for Tara Knowles.

When Jarry returned to the jail, the biker Filip Telford only looked slightly less worse for wear than he had previously. Although he was now sitting up in his cell devoid of the vomit stained wife beater he'd worn previously, he still looked extremely pale and refused to even open his eyes at the sound of her footsteps. Even if Jarry wanted to ask him questions, she'd likely get little more than one word answers out of him.

However, yet again the wife looked promising, or at least like someone who was just frustrated and frazzled enough to cooperate. This time, the sheriff decided that taking her back to an interview room was far from the best strategy. Instead, she led the other woman outside before unhooking her handcuffs.

"What are you doing?" Fiona asked, eyeing the sheriff. Although she assumed the law enforcement in Charming were more civilized than the bribed cops back in Belfast, there was still a nagging part of her that wondered if she'd been bought out behind the police station only to be shot in the head.

"What do you want with me?" she asked warily.

"We're just going to be two women sharing a smoke." Jarry responded almost fake cheerful before pulling a cigarette pack out of her uniform pocket. Immediately she noticed that there was only a single cigarette in the pack. "I hope you're not too worried about the spread of germs."

For a moment Fiona glared at her, "stop trying to befriend me sweetheart and ask me exactly what you bought me out here to ask."

Jarry paused before speaking to light her cigarette. "Right, I'm still open to sharing though. I want to know exactly how you found Tara."

Unsure where to begin, Fiona found herself desperately wanting a "calming" puff from the offered cigarette before beginning and took the sheriff up on her offer before handing it back and choosing her words carefully. "There was so much blood I could have sworn she was already dead when we found her."

"Why were you at the house of the man who kicked your husband out of SAMCRO?"

Fiona turned to look at the sheriff inquisitively before taking the cigarette again. "Filip wasn't kicked out of the sons. He chose to leave."

"Did Gemma Teller know this?"

"She accused me of manipulating my own husband after she found out what he did," Fiona growled in response.

Returning back to the questions about Tara's scene specifically, Jarry took back the cigarette from the other woman. "Were Abel and Thomas Teller at the scene too?"

"Under the bed in the bedroom. They didn't see anything." Fiona responded, hoping it was enough to keep the two young children from being put through hell again. It was enough that they'd been in the house at all during the attack, and the fact that they'd likely correctly identified their mother's attackers as their own father and grandmother made the whole situation even worse. There must have been something in her eyes that betrayed what she was trying to hide because Jarry picked up on it like a shark going for blood.

"Did they hear anything?"

"They heard everything. Too young to realize that she was being raped and practically murdered, but even children know when something bad is going on." As she spoke, her mind went back to the times when her own daughter had been forced to watch her being brutalized by Jimmy O'Phelan.

This time Jarry either didn't notice or chose not to pry, after all, they'd came from two different ways of viewing the world. Instead, in typical cop fashion the sheriff zoned in on the part about how the young boys had heard everything. "Exactly how aware were they of what was going on? Did they understand who was hurting Tara?"

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There were some people that seemed to exude an air of danger around them like a venomous snake prepared to strike at any moment. Normally, this was a distinction Margaret Murphy reserved for the members of SAMCRO, but the man that walked into St. Thomas just had that look about him. However, even criminals had families and she was almost ready to ignore him until he made a beeline for one of her nurses with that creepy predatory grin on his face.

It wasn't that Nurse Lily Hannon was small or weak, in fact at nearly six feet tall and weighing likely around one-hundred and fifty pounds, it was likely that if she so wanted to she could easily take down the offending man. However, thanks to much of Charming's chaos leading to the hospital, Nurse Lily had worked double shifts on little sleep and was also missing her daughter's first play and Margaret felt partially responsible for not being able to let her take off.

"I think you have rounds right now." Margaret stated, sliding up behind Nurse Lily as the man approached.

For a moment the nurse looked confused. She'd finished her rounds only a half hour earlier and it was not yet time for any patients to receive their medications again, but then her face lit up in realization of what Margaret was doing. "I'm sorry. I should have remembered that. Thank you for reminding me."

The offending man approached the desk looking more than a little disappointed at who he had to deal with. "I'm here to see Gemma Teller."

The Irish accent was obvious and it didn't take Margaret long to realize that he had to be one of the IRA members that SAMCRO had recently began a war with. Whatever his motive for the visit was, it likely didn't bode well for the heavily incapacitated Gemma Teller. However, Margaret had quickly figured out something else out about Gemma. The biker queen had likely been involved in the assault on Tara Knowles and for that, she'd lost any mercy Margaret might have felt for her.


In case you hadn't figured out, yeah the Irish guy is Jimmy (he never quite forgave Gemma for trying to kill him so this isn't a happy visit)...also if you pick up on that the whole crossed storylines between the Oakland detective and the nurse (the same one Gemma hates) is very intentional. I thought it would be cute to add a normal Charming couple among all this madness, plus I had a couple of face claims I wanted to use in fic (even if I provided literally no description for Detective Hannon).

Also to note, not including the epilogue I have planned, there is only one chapter left in this fic so be excited for that.