A/N: YAY! People had a good reaction to the last chapter. We got one SMALL problem out of the way (Kind of) and we're moving on to bigger, better things! Thanks for the reviews guys!

After Tara's declaration for Jax, they stood in the hospital room as Jax just held her. Both parties knew there was so much more to say, but both were content in staying just as they were. Eventually, Jax guided Tara down into the chair, and he stood behind the chair with his hands on her shoulders.

"Don't stay at the clubhouse tonight." Tara spoke, breaking the quiet.

"You have to work early tomorrow." Jax mentioned.

"I have to work early every morning I work Jax. It's not going to be that big of a deal. Please, just come stay the night."

Jax bent down and kissed Tara's head, silently agreeing to her request.

The two sat in Abel's room until visiting hours were over. Tara said goodbye to the nurses and told them she'd see them in the morning.

-AHW-

This was only the second night Tara would be staying in her home. She feels a lot better knowing that Jax is going to be there with her again. As Jax was in the shower, Tara sat on the bed and thought about the events of the last week. She was overloaded with emotion. She just really wanted to talk to someone. If she didn't talk to someone about things, than she would inevitably blow up for no reason again. She'd just decided that she needed to call Donna and set up a girl day, when Jax came into the bedroom.

Tara smiled shyly as he came in wearing just a pair of sleep pants. Tara laid down and Jax laid down behind her. He threw his arm around her waist and kissed her cheek.

"So since your starting work on a Wednesday, does that mean you don't get to keep your Monday through Thursday schedule?" Jax asked Tara.

"Actually for this week, I do. Margaret wasn't sure of me even starting right away anyway. I convinced her that I would be fine and she allowed me to come back on Wednesday. I won't start the on call rotation until the end of the month, so that won't be an issue."

Tara could feel Jax's body relax.

"That'll be nice. We can hang out this weekend." Jax told her.

"Yeah, definitely. Maybe have Kozik and Chibs over sometime. I'm hoping to get together with Donna this weekend sometime so we can talk about things."

"I'm sure that can all be arranged for this weekend."

Tara and Jax fell into silence and Tara quickly fell asleep.

-AHW-

Tara's alarm went off too quickly for her liking. She felt as though she had just fell asleep when her alarm was blaring at 4:45am. Tara rolled over to kiss Jax before getting up to shower. Tara was disappointed when she noticed that Jax was no longer on the other side of her bed. A wave a disappointment flooded through her before she could stop it. Tara got up and went into the kitchen to start her coffee pot, and stopped in her tracks at what she saw.

Jax was sitting at the table with food set out for himself and Tara complete with a coffee and a bottle of water. Tara realized how much she had jumped to conclusions. She knew she didn't have time for a mental breakdown this morning, so she walked over to where Jax was sitting reading the paper. She kissed him on the head and went to her seat.

"You didn't have to do this Jax." Tara said, tucking in to her food.

Jax set the paper down and smiled at Tara. "I didn't really do anything. I couldn't sleep so I went for a ride on the bike. I left ya a note on the counter in case I wasn't back before you got up. I figured I'd get breakfast since I knew you had an early morning. Save you some time." Jax explained.

Tara stood up and went over to Jax and he pulled her into his lap. Tara cuddled into Jax chest. They sat like this for a few minutes, before Tara realized how hungry she was. Her stomach made a rather disgusting sound, and Jax and Tara both laughed as she got up and went to her side of the table.

They ate the rest of their breakfast in silence and Tara excused herself to go take a shower. She knew she had given herself too much time, but she wanted to get in early and not be behind the second she walked in the door. She showered slowly, letting the hot water cascade over her body, loosening all of her tense muscles.

After her shower she got out, wrapped herself in a towel, and walked to her bedroom. Jax was back to laying in the bed. He turned his eyes to the door when he heard it open. A wicked smile spread across his face as he saw the state that Tara was in.

"I know that face Jackson. I have to go to work in like fifteen minutes, so that's not going to happen." Tara told him, as she got in the drawers for her clothes.

"Hey, I only need ten minutes tops." Jax replied.

Tara turned to him with a mock sad face plastered on.

"That's really sad, Jax. Had I known that much has changed in the last five years, I might have rethought my decision to go all in." Tara turned her back to Jax, attempting to walk out the door. As soon as her hand hit the handle, she was wrenched backward and thrown onto the bed. Her heart was hammering in her chest, but not out of fear. It was out of excitement and lust that had her heart beating so rapidly.

In the process of being thrown on the bed, Tara hadn't noticed her towel had become undone from around her. She looked up into Jax's eyes, but noticed that he was staring down at her, and not into her eyes. Before she had the chance to look down, she felt Jax's hand on her bare stomach. Instead of cowering away like she expected, she reveled in the way his hand felt against her skin. They were starkly different. She could feel every rough patch on his hands, the callouses from riding his bike all the time. It felt amazing against her soft smooth skin.

Jax's hand traveled up to the swell of her breast and Tara couldn't conceal the moan that escaped from her lips. Jax's head snapped up to hers and they looked in each other's eyes.

Jax slowly bent down and placed a kiss on Tara's lips. Jax hadn't expected Tara's reaction. As soon as their lips met, a heat ripped it's way through Tara's body and she wrapped her legs around Jax and pulled him close to her. Jax paused for a fraction of a second, and then met Tara's pace. They stayed locked in that embrace for five minutes before Jax realized that it couldn't happen.

Jax pulled back from Tara, and Tara took that opportunity to kiss his neck and his chest. Jax let out a small moan before he reluctantly got himself up and off the bed.

"Jax." Tara groaned.

"Hey babe, I'm all for this happening. I'm ready for it, but you can't be late to work." Jax said, adjusting himself.

Tara groaned before getting out of bed and getting dressed. Jax also decided to get dressed himself.

"Aren't you going back to bed?" Tara asked him.

"Nah, I'm nice and wide awake now. I'm going to get some more stuff unpacked here. I can unpack some of your stuff to if you want." Jax offered.

"Thanks babe, that'd be nice. Whatever you want to do, I'll do the rest this weekend when I'm off."

With one more chaste kiss, Tara was off to work.

Jax went outside and sat on the patio furniture and lit a cigarette.

Jax's mind wandered back to the last couple of days. He really wasn't sure if things were going to settle between him and Tara. But he had been honest with himself and he wasn't going to go into a situation where both parties weren't all in. That happened in the situation with Wendy, though that had been him that couldn't go all in with her. She was a weird distraction for him that went too far. He had deluded himself into thinking that he loved her and could marry her. He should have known from the beginning that it wouldn't work out, but he didn't want to be alone. He wanted to be with one woman, but he wasn't with the woman he had envisioned when he thought about monogamy.

He had fucked things up, but he couldn't regret them. He had gotten his little miracle out of it. He wasn't sure when Abel was born how things were going to work out, but now he knew that he wouldn't change it for the world. He had a reason to change things, a reason to become a better person. He also wanted to be a better man for Tara. She deserved it. She's always deserved amazing things, and she'd been dealt pretty shitty hands in life.

As Jax was contemplating things, he heard a motorcycle pull up out front. Jax got up from the chair and walked around the front, only to see Chibs getting off his bike and heading to the front door.

"Hey brotha, what's up?" Jax asked Chibs.

"Not much. Just ran into Tara at the hospital and she said you were awake and going to be unpacking. Figured I could talk to ya while you did that. I don't have anything else to do and Gemma has all but told me I'm going to be useless in the shop today because there isn't much going on." Chibs told him.

"Why were you at the hospital? Everything okay?" Jax asked him.

Chibs started laughing. "Oh yeah Jackie Boy, things are great. Just had to take Sack out and get him some stitches on his face."

"Jesus, what'd the kid do now." Jax asked.

"Well, he may or may not have made some sexual comments about your Ma." Chibs replied, still chuckling.

"Oh shit." Jax said, knowing Sack got those stitches by a fist to the face. "Let me guess, Clay?"

"Naw, even better. Gemma. She went to playfully back hand him, and Tig shoved him from behind. That big ass ring your mom wears sliced open about a two inch gash on the left side of his cheek up into his eyebrow. Gemma felt so bad, but Tiggy just laughed his ass off. Since he's my prospect, I got to dive him to the hospital."

"Everyone in this family is a fucking mess." Jax replied, butting out his cigarette and walking inside.

Back inside, Jax and Chibs worked in relative silence for about an hour. They went out and took one more smoke break before tackling the boxes that were in the spare bedroom. Jax took a box labeled clothes and Chibs took an unlabeled box. Jax went into the bedroom, and Chibs went into the kitchen. He set the box on the kitchen table and opened it. It looked like it just had some books and trinkets in it.

Chibs took the books out and began to place them on the bookshelf that was in the living room. He went back to the box and pulled out a black leather bound book. Chibs wasn't sure what to do with it, so he went to place it in the living room with the rest of the books, Tara could move it wherever she wanted to later. As he was placing the book on the shelf, something fell out of the pages.

Chibs bent over and picked up what had fallen out, which turned out to be a picture. He flipped it over and once he saw what was on the picture, it fell from his fingers back to the floor.

Jax had finished packing away the clothes and went out into the living room to see if Chibs wanted to take a ride for a bit. Jax found Chibs in the living room standing completely still with a horrified look on his face.

"Hey man, you alright." Jax asked him.

"No, brotha, I'm not." Chibs went and picked up the picture and showed it to Jax.

Jax looked down at the picture and let out a rush of air. There staring back at him was a picture of Tara, face completely covered in bruises and a small cut above her eye. The date on it was June, 6 months before she left town. Jax started thinking back to that time. Tara claimed that she had to go out of town for her work, she was gone for two weeks.

"Where'd you get this?" Jax asked Chibs.

Chibs wordlessly handed him the leather bound book. Jax took it over to the dining room table and opened it.

He was stunned by what he saw. There were multiple pictures of Tara in various stages of bruises. On the pages themselves Tara had chronicled exactly what happened, and if she had to go see a doctor.

Jax didn't read into detail, and once he realized what it was, he closed it. He didn't want to read on and think about all the times that he couldn't do anything to keep Tara from harm.

"Is that what I think it is?" Chibs asked Jax.

"Yeah. Tara logged and took pictures of times that Kyle abused her. She's smart in that sense. If she were to ever go to the cops, then she would have the proof that she had been abused. She wouldn't necessarily have the proof that it was Kyle, but it's something."

Jax knew he should be angrier than he was, but he wasn't. He wasn't because he knew that the abuse had happened in the past. He was also proud of Tara for taking that step to protect herself, at least a little bit. But most of all, he wasn't angry because he knew he was going to kill Kyle himself. And now, having seen some of the abuse in those pictures, Jax knew that Kyle was going to be dead by this time next week. There was no other option for him, and there was going to be no one to save him from the mayhem Jax was going to put on him. He would put Kyle through exactly what Tara had been though, and then for good measure, he was going to put a bullet in his head.

Jax must have been wearing his emotions on his sleeve, because before he could even say anything to Chibs, he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"I'm in."

DUN DUN DUN. So I know there wasn't a lot of Tara in this chapter, but I wanted a Jax chapter!

Okay so some heart to hearts coming up, some mayhem, and some smut. YAAS :)

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