Chapter 2: A Good Night Turned Ugly

After Donna and Cassie bought Abel a present and picked up the kids, they headed over to Jax's, and met Opie there. As soon as they walked into the house, Tig yelled "Wow! Little Miss Bennett is here!"

She gave him a hug. "How are you, Tig?"

"I'm good and I'm even better now that you're here."

"Uh-huh." she said, letting go.

Seconds later, she was engulfed into another hug. "It's good to see you, Young Lady."

"Hi Piney." she said, then let go of him. "It's good to see you too." then all of a sudden, Cassie was picked up and got spun around in circles. "Juice!"

He stopped in mid turn. "What? I'm just happy to see my best friend." he put her down. "When did you get in?"

"Earlier."

"Oh okay." he nodded. "Do you want a beer?"

"Sure." she said, then Juice went into the kitchen. Cassie went to face everyone and made her rounds, hugging and telling them hello. After that she walked over to the guy with the 'Prospect' cut. "You must be Half Sack."

"That's me." he nodded.

"I'm Cassie... Donna's cousin." she paused. "I've heard somewhat about you."

"Good things I hope."

Cassie chuckled and said "Yep." then she sat down on the couch.

A minute later, Juice walked up to Cassie and said "Here you go."

"Thanks, Buddy." she said, then took a sip as the door opened.

Jax walked in with Abel in his arms, with Gemma and Wendy following behind him. Everyone crowded around them, but Cassie stayed posted in her seat. Minutes later, Cassie locked eyes with Jax. He let Gemma hold Abel, then he sat down next to Cassie, and said "What are you doing here?"

"What? Is Jax Teller not happy to see me?"

"I didn't mean it like that... I'm just surprised."

"Well, Mary called me and told me some of the stuff going on- them being in Stockton." Jax nodded. "And now... here I am."

"I'm really glad you're here."

"Oh really?" he nodded. "And why is that?"

He got closer to her and whispered "We have some unfinished business." he smirked.

Cassie chuckled. "Keep it in your pants, Jackson... I didn't come here to sleep with you."

"Maybe I can change your mind."

"Jax!" he looked over and saw a pissed off Wendy.

Cassie chuckled again as she took a sip of her beer. "You better go or warden number two will have your head on a silver platter."

Jax stood up and scoffed. "Yeah, right." then he walked over to see what Wendy wanted.

A little bit later, as Cassie was talking to Gemma, Luann, and Donna when Tara walked in the house. "Oh great." Gemma said, rolling her eyes.

"What's she doing here?"

"Cass... it's because of Jax." Gemma said, with a 'duh' look on her face.

"Oh." she nodded. "That's just... awesome."

After Tara grabbed a beer, she sat on the arm of the recliner, where Jax was sitting. Suddenly Tara bent down and gave Jax a kiss. Jax broke away, then Tara followed Jax down the hallway, into one of the rooms.

"Can you believe it?" said Luann. "There's three women here in the same house... in love with Jax."

"Who?"

Gemma scoffed. "You... Cassie, Tara, and Wendy."

"Who said that I love Jax?" she asked. "I've never said that."

"Who are you kidding?" Donna laughed. "It's written all over your face."

Cassie shook her head. "All you 'Old Ladys' are crazy."

Five minutes later, Tara came storming out and she left. Jax told Juice to make sure she got home okay, when Donna and Cassie walked up to him and Opie.

"We gotta head out." Donna said, giving Opie a hug, then nodded towards the kids over by Piney. "They've had a long day."

"Yeah." Cassie nodded. "Me too."

"Well, thanks for coming." Jax smiled.

"I'm glad Abel's home." Donna smiled back, then Jax gave her a hug.

"Come on, kids." Opie said, walking out the door. Donna told everyone 'bye' then went outside with Opie.

"I guess... I'll see you later, Jackson."

He made a pouty face. "You're leaving too?"

"I have to get back to my job, by the morning or I'm fired."

Jax gave her a hug. "It was good seeing you... even if it was for a few hours."

She nodded, then let go. "Bye, Jax." she turned around. "Bye Everyone!"

"Bye!" they said and waved.

"Gimmie a call sometime." Jax told her, then she smiled at him, and walked outside.

As Cassie walked over to Donna's car, Tig walked outside and waved to Cassie, got on his bike, and took off. "What's going on?" she asked.

"Ope's gonna take the kids home and I'm coming back to help Gemma clean up." Donna paused. "Do you want to go with me or Opie?"

Cassie started to think about it and her deciding factor was that she'd see Jax again. "Okay." she nodded. "I'll go with you." she looked towards the backseat of Donna's car. "See you kids later... goodnight."

"Goodnight Cassie." both of them said at the same time.

After Donna gave Opie a kiss, her and Cassie got into the truck and drove in the opposite direction of the car.

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"Okay... maybe I do have some kind of 'thing' for Jax." Cassie shook her head. "I don't know."

"I think." Donna started. "Even though he has Tara and Wendy fighting over him... I know that he has a soft spot for you." she paused. "He might even love you."

"Whoa, whoa... you're getting way ahead of yourself."

Donna stopped at a red light and looked at Cassie. "I know he loves you... just ask him. I just feel as if you two belong together and one day, you might be."

"Okay." she nodded, then bent down to the floorboard to get into her purse. "Wait... I have something for you."

Seconds after that, Cassie heard a car screech behind them and bullets rang out. She heard the car screech next to her, followed by "Shit!... shit!" she recognized the voice and her eyes widened as the car peeled away from them.

Cassie waited a minute before she poked her head up, she felt pain in her left arm. The noise from the horn was loud to her, giving her a headache, then when she looked over at Donna, she screamed her head off.