Hey guys. This is a heads up for now, this chapter is a filler chapter just to pass the time jump.

January 2010

After the long stint Happy had pulled in Stockton, Julia was glad to have him home, even if it was just for a few hours. It wasn't as if he had served a longer sentence this time around but just knowing he was on the outside and safe, she was happy he was okay.

Her health seemed to be getting better and the last round of chemo was doing her wonders. After many months of battling early stage breast cancer which had been detected not long after her fiftieth birthday, the docs had found the sickness early so it was treatable. Julia was able to work around her everyday routine before she was feeling herself again.

She had kept in regular contact with her ex daughter in law who she would still call mija and would always drop by to help her out.

It wasn't until Mia had moved to be closer to her when Happy was doing his time did she find out that she was an expecting mother to be. Julia was over the moon for her but she couldn't help the sadness that lurked behind her eyes when Mia had told her and hadn't mentioned who the father was.

Still though, she treated Mia with no less love than before and she even treated the baby as her grandchild. When Mia dropped by her house one day when she was six months pregnant full of hormones and emotionally exhausted, she confessed to Julia who the father was along with spilling why it took her so long to say anything. She had explained how she ended up pregnant in which set Julia on a need to kill her son.

She hadn't raised her son to be such a cruel and volatile man which she just knew he inherited from his father. Happy's father Anton used to treat her like how Mia described Happy treating her and she couldn't help the regret she felt in that moment.

The day Mia confessed to her who the father was, Julia couldn't help but want to protect her daughter in law from the man her son was. As much as Julia loved her only son, she would do her damn best to keep her daughter in law away from him.

Whenever he dropped by with her medical supplies she thanked him like the appreciative mother she was and always swallowed the lump in her throat whenever she thought of Mia and her granddaughter. She couldn't help but see the betrayal in what she was silently doing to him but at the end of the day it was Happy who lost knowing deep down that her son lived a dangerous life.

It didn't help when he informed her that he was gonna be dropping by a lot more then because they had a few runs coming heading south and she found lying growing harder every single time he visited.

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Lee and the whole club welcomed their new addition to the family the moment Mia told them about being pregnant and of course she kept her baby daddy a secret. It was no ones business but her own when it came down to it.

Both her parents along with the guys kept nagging her about it but her lips were completely sealed.

The first time Mia took her daughter to Tacoma, everyone had their fix of baby loving to which Mia loved. Kids honestly brought the best out of all the guys she thought of and called uncles. After laying down roots in Bakersfield not so far from Julia's, Mia had always come back home to visit her family and she always loved spending time with them.

Whenever she did visit, one member would always just have to bring the Happy subject up which left a cold saw on the edge of her lips. She hated him with a passion now but the one thing she wouldn't ever take back her time with him was the baby that she always laid to rest at night and woke up to in the early hours of the mornings. Nothing could pass her happiness when her daughter graced her life every single day.

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Whenever she drove home from Tacoma she would always stop in Charming to see her best friend Tara who surprisingly had a baby the same time as she did. They had a few play dates over the years and caught up on each other's lives, how Tara took to her pregnancy and how Mia took to hers. They knew the struggles of pregnancy hormones and fitting into clothes they just couldn't anymore to how they raised their children.

Tara always nagged about Mia moving to Charming but it always turned her down saying she loved her job where she was and that her mother in law needed her being sick and all and in the end Tara seemed to realize she was fighting a loosing battle.

Mia wasn't surprised that Gemma always gave her the cold shoulder whenever she stopped by which Mia met with the same idea of giving it right back to the queen.

In all honesty, Mia hated Gemma. There was never a brighter day that she didn't. Gemma hated how she could corrupt Tara so easily making sure the young girl who held her sons heart always knew she where she stood in the old lady life and how she forced Tara to try and love the club but at the same time, Gemma both loved and hated that when the three were teenagers.

Deep down Gemma always knew her son was far too invested in his and Tara's relationship which had her hating Mia and Tara. She hated both teenage Mia and Tara because they hurt her son. Actually, they broke him completely causing her to put walls up around her son in the fierce and protective way she only knew how. It was as if the two were both positive and negative protons that just wouldn't connect and the feeling was obviously mutual.

Gemma never mentioned to anyone that she visited to which Mia was slightly thankful for, not that she'd admit it to her face.

Mia also knew Happy had patched SAMCRO and was still the club enforcer and she couldn't help but know in her heart, deep down that he loved doing what he did. It didn't make her hate him any less though because she loved him with everything that she was, again, not that she'd admit that to anyone much less the man in question herself.

End of 2011

Tara knew the life she lived was one she had to grow to love. If her heart wasn't in it then she couldn't survive being the old lady her old man needed her to be. When Tara confided in her best friend about the tragedy with her hand then a hint about the letters Maureen Ashby had packed in Jax's bags Mia couldn't help but force Tara to stay with Jax knowing she was wanting out then and here.

Tara stuck by her old man after that which worked great until trouble started arising with Gemma. First the need to possess her son and grandsons lives became her daily mission after Jax took over the gavel. Then the need to be glued to their side overcame the elder woman along with dictating what Jax did and how Tara parented her sons.

With Tara pushing Gemma back, she took to alcohol and weed as a means of filling what she was loosing and Tara could tell she was loosing sight of herself. Jax had talked her into giving Gemma a chance and when a solution came to mind, it was gone just as fast.

Tara had put her trust into Gemma when she asked if she wanted to watch the boys for the weekend ending in a tragic road side accident.

Mia had always given such great advice when Tara was in need of it which kept Tara at her husbands side. They managed to work things out with the club, she still wasn't happy with Gemma but occasionally let her play grandma when she felt it was necessary, although she held Gemma at arms length knowing she could change in an instant.

AN. This isn't a great chapter and although I'm a 19 year old, I would never do this to my kids and this was one of the only ways I could see Julia not telling her son about his daughter. The reasons will soon explain itself in upcoming chapters. I'm sorry if you think that is a poor excuse because I know deep down, Happy's mother wouldn't take to any of that bullshit. She would force her sons baby mama to tell her son the truth the moment she found out herself.

The little insight of Mia hating Gemma explains a little and we see Mia trying to support Tara with her battles of wanting out of the life.