--Two--

About fifteen minutes later, Jax finally stopped the bike, by a tree, near the lake. Roxanne looked around and giggled.

"I remember this place… lot's of things happened under this tree." she said as she sat down.

"Yup." he chuckled, sitting down next to her. "So… what made you decided to come back?"

"Lots of things… but the main reason wasn't for me."

"Then for who?"

Roxanne pulled out a picture from her back pocket, and gave it to Jax. He was staring at the picture intently with his eyes wide.

"That's Kaitlin Rose Teller… your daughter." His head snapped his head up to look at her with his eyes wider than ever. "Look, Gemma told me about your son, I didn't come back to cause any trouble…I came back because I felt you had the right to know about your daughter."

He looked back at the picture and memorized every detail of the picture, then said "How come you never told me?"

"Because Jax… you broke my heart, sleeping with my best friend. Besides, I didn't know I was pregnant till a month after I left."

"Where is she?"

"With Gemma."

"Okay… so did you come to just visit or are you staying?"

"I'm staying… I want Kaitlin to get to know you."

"I don't know what to say… I never thought I'd ever see you again and now I have a daughter? This is crazy."

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you. You can hate me if you want to." she looked down at the water.

"Stop, Rox… I could never hate you. It's my fault for you taking off after all." he lifted her chin with his fingers and looked into her eyes. "I am so sorry, I hurt you."

"Jax, it's in the past… I got over it."

"Can you forgive me?"

"On one condition… you be a part of your daughters life."

He nodded and said "I will."

"Okay then… go ahead and keep the picture."

"Thanks… so what's going on with you?" he said putting the picture in his wallet.

"Nothing much." Jax saw something on her arm, he grabbed her arm to see it closer.

"Where did you get this bruise?"

"It's nothing, Jax." she looked away.

"Tell me, Rox."

She looked back at him and said "It was the ex. He was also one of the reasons I had to leave."

"He hurt you?" she nodded. "Did he hurt Kaitlin?"

"I don't know… I mean, I never saw any marks on her and she's never told me anything."

"If I ever see him… he is dead."

"Jax… you don't need to go to that extreme."

"He hurt you."

"It's fine." Jax shook his head and looked away. "So… how have you been?"

"Good, just doing club business… and seeing Abel in the hospital. Do you want to go see him?"

"Sure."

Jax stood on his feet then tried to help Roxanne up, but she almost fell over. His face was inches from hers. As he leaned in to kiss her, she looked away.

"We should go." she said softly.

He nodded and said "Yeah, come on."

They got on his motorcycle, then rode to the hospital. When they got there, Jax laced his fingers with hers leading her into the NICU where Abel was.

"Oh my gosh, Jax… he's tiny." she said walking up to the incubator.

"Yeah, he's a fighter… he's getting stronger every day. He just needs to stay in the toaster a little bit longer."

"Toaster? Jax? Seriously?" she playfully smacked him in the arm, he grabbed her hand and pulled her closer to him. His lips were inches from hers, but she didn't look away this time.

As they were about to kiss, the door swung open. A person walked in and said "Excuse me, Jax… this is for family only."

Roxanne looked at who it was and kind of giggled. Jax shook his head, looked at Roxanne, and said "I didn't tell you that Tara is working here."

"Wonderful." Roxanne said sarcastically as Tara was looking at her shocked that she was even back.

"Look, Tara… it's fine. I want Roxanne in here."

"Oh… so when did you get back?" Roxanne could tell from the bitterness in her voice that she was not happy that Roxanne came back.

"Today."

"Why?"

"Um… that's really none of your business."

Jax grabbed Roxanne's hand and said "Let's go, Rox." Roxanne smirked at Tara and left with Jax, leaving Tara pissed off.

As Jax stopped at a red light, he said "I need to stop by the shop… do you want to see the guys?"

"Yeah." then ten minutes later, Jax pulled into the shop and parked his bike. They got off of it and walked up to the building.

"Where's Clay?" Jax asked the guy that was standing around.

"He was in a meeting… he tried calling you."

"I was busy."

"So… who's this?" the guy asked Jax.

"Oh… this is Roxanne, she used to live here a while back. Rox, this is Juice."

"Nice to meet you, Juice."

"Like wise." he smirked at her. But his smirk immediately went away when he saw Jax glaring at him, making Juice laugh. "Come on."

They walked inside over to the meeting room. Juice walked in first, then Jax did.

"Where have you been?" asked Clay.

"I was out… I have a surprise for you."

"Really? Gemma was talking about a surprise too."

Jax pulled Roxanne in the room and said "Look who's here."

She waved, then when she saw Clay, she said "Hello, Godfather."

His jaw dropped, then he said "Is that you, Roxanne?"

She nodded, then Clay jumped from his seat and gave her a big bear hug. "I missed you, girl."

"I missed you too."

After they broke from the hug, Clay said "You remember." he was pointing to the guys one by one. "Chibs, Tig, Bobby, Piney… and that's Half-Sack."

She waved as Tig got up and gave her a hug and said "Wow… it's been a long time, baby girl."

"Yeah… I know, but I felt like I needed to come back." she smiled at the guys.

As she was talking to the guys, Clay pulled Jax to the side.

"If you are planning on hurting my goddaughter again… you can just forget about it."

"Clay, I am not going to hurt her this time… I was young and dumb back then. This time will be different."

"For your sake, you better hope so… I saw a bruise on her arm."

"Yeah… her ex has been hurting her. If I see him, I am going to kill him."

Clay nodded in agreement and said " Gemma's planning a 'welcome home party' for Roxy… keep her away from the house as long as you can."

"Till when?"

"Like seven." Jax nodded then walked over to Roxanne who was joking around with the guys. Ten minutes later, the guys went back to their meeting.

Roxanne and Jax were drinking a beer at the bar. He pushed her hair out of her face with a smile.

"You look tired." he said.

"Yeah… a little bit." she said taking a sip.

"Let's go take a nap." he put up his hands. "I'll keep my hands to myself… unless you don't want me to."

She laughed and said "Okay." he grabbed her hand, leading her to his room in the clubhouse. She sat down on his bed, while Jax shut and locked his door.

"I usually stay here to get away from Wendy." she looked at him funny. "Oh… she's Abel's mom."

"So… I see Tara is still here." she said laying back on the bed.

He sat down next to her and said "Yeah, well after you left, she tried to change me to leave the club and asked me to go to Chicago with her. I wouldn't… so she left without me." He laid back next to Roxanne. "She came back three weeks ago."

"I bet she is shitting kittens, that I am back." she laughed.

"Yeah… wait till she finds out about our daughter." she looked at Jax and smiled. "But, I don't care what she thinks."

"I can't believe she tried to change you. The club is a part of your life… just like it's a part of mine… she's stupid, Jax. You know, I would never in a million years try to change you into something you are not."

"I know… so does Kaitlin know about me?"

"Yes, she does."

"Oh… okay."

Roxanne giggled and said "You know… on the way here, I think I turned around about a dozen times."

"Why?"

"I was nervous and scared to see you again, telling you that you had a daughter… and I thought you would have hated me."

Jax rolled over on his side to face Roxanne and said "Like I told you before… I could never hate you."

She nodded and said "Okay."

"Ready to take a nap?"

She rolled on her side facing Jax and said "Yep." she closed her eyes.

While Roxanne was falling asleep, Jax was laying there, looking at her, thinking to himself about how could he have hurt her and let her go. All he knew was that this time, he wasn't going to make the same mistake. He closed his eyes and fell asleep in no time.