Title: A Taste of Charming Life
Disclaimer: I do not own Sons of Anarchy. I do not own the lyrics (which, by the way, is So Far Away by Staind). I do not own the character of Regina Hale-Morrow. Go ahead and sue me, I just counted and all you would get is one dollar and one cent. I told you, I'm a broke unemployed college student.
A/N: This first actual chapter is based off of a character from the lovely-detailed mind of BlueEyedAuthor. I've switched a few details around, but I hope you like what I've done with your character =)
A/N: There is quite a bit of swearing in this chapter. See mom? I told you that 'cussing like a sailor' would come in handy! If this offends you, I'm sorry…..on Second thought, if this offends you, how in the hell have you made it through two seasons of SoA?
This is my life, it's not what it was before, All these feelings I've shared,
And these are my dreams that I'd never lived before,
Somebody shake me, Cause I, I must be sleeping
As the experienced hands of her lover, roughened by years of automotive work, traced over her crow, Regina's mind flew over the events of the past few years and just how quickly things had changed. For so long, her life had felt like a lie. 'Clay is my father? I mean, where in the hell did that come from? Why am I just learning this shit now?' And the irony of the whole situation was that if her Aunt Julia wasn't a raging bitch of an alcoholic, she never would have found out. She could have dealt with that – had her best friend, who coincidently is her stepbrother, never lied to her. Jax had known for years upon years and never mentioned a word about it Regina.
Like her mother though, Regina had persevered and made it through that mess. Her life was borderline-normal, well, at least as normal as life could be when involved with the MC way of life. She was dating a newly patched son with a serious history of violence, something that surely would've had her stepfathers panties in a bunch. Maybe it was that he was something new in her life, maybe it was his Scottish accent or the scars across his face, maybe it was just the fact that Regina knew Chibs should've been off-limits – She just couldn't put her finger on what it was that drew her towards the rugged Scotsman. Then her acceptance to Stanford's pre-med program had to come along and ruin everything. Regina knew it was what she had been working for her entire life, but something in her gut was telling her that she belonged in Charming. Gemma had told her a million times that she was always welcome and that she would come home during the summer, but it didn't make that feeling in the pit of Regina's stomach go away.
All the struggle we thought was in vain,
All the mistakes, one life contained,
They all finally start to go away
As it turns out, she should've listened to her gut. While she was away, life in Charming had been gotten ten times more complicated. It seemed like what little common sense people had left, had just flown out the window. Donna, one of the few women who knew what it was like to be pulled towards both the legal and illegal side of things, had gotten caught in the crossfire and lost her life because of it. Opie, the poor man, had been torn up after her death, something that Regina completely understand. She did whatever she could for the distraught family, being able to related to the kids in that she herself had lost her mother at a young age. As if the loss of one of her best friends wasn't enough, Jax and Clay were at each others throats. She knew it had to do with Donna's death, but Regina knew that whatever it was, was causing a giant rift between her family. The rift lead to everyone she cared about going to county lockup, where they nearly lost one of their own when Juice was the victim of a stabbing by the hands of the 'Goddamned white hate assholes', as Gemma had put it. That wasn't their actual names, Clay had corrected, and told Regina she needed to watch out for LOAN.
Chibs had begged Regina to start staying at the clubhouse, so she would be safe and he could keep an eye on her. She told him that she wasn't afraid of the white hate, and he had let her in on a little secret. Jimmy O, the man who was now married to Chibs' ex-wife, was stateside and causing all sorts of problems. She didn't know everything, though, and didn't think she ever would. 'Club business, my ass. If it affects my family, it affects me. I deserve to know.'
I think I'm doing ok,
And this is the smile that I've never shown before
The fingers that had been tracing over her tattoo had long since stopped, and Regina turned – her crystal blue eyes meeting a pair of stunning browns that were filled with concern.
"What are ye thinkin' about?"
She knew how much Chibs hated it when she worried about the club, about him, about life – so Regina said the first thing she thought off, a huge smile on her face.
"I'm thinking about all of the things we could be doing instead of thinking."
Now that we're here, it's so far away,
And I feel like I can face the day
I can forgive and I'm not ashamed to be the person that I am today.
