A/N: So everyone should give my sister a super big thanks! My internet has been down so I took this over to her house before work and she typed it up for me. She emailed it and I was able to put in the authors note and upload. It's hard to upload a whole chapter from my phone! Anyways, if you want to say 'thanks' my sisters name is AnarchyisLove. She writes happy stories. *NOOOT ME!*
While everyone did their errands, Chibs stayed at the clubhouse with Juice. Everyone who wasn't running club errands, decided to go home. Juice was helping clean up the blood in the front room when he spoke up.
"What do you think is going to happen to me?"
Chibs just let out a sigh of frustration. "I don't know Juicy. Why didn't you tell anyone what Gemma had you do?"
"I got scared. I knew of the history between Jax and Tara. I know I shouldn't have done it, but Gemma is kind of the mother to everyone in the club."
"That's just it, Juice." Chibs interrupted him. "She's a mother she's not a member. You do know the difference between the two, don't you?"
"Yeah, of course. I'm not stupid." Juice defended.
"Well, this doesn't help your case on that now does it?"
-.-.-.-
Tig's errands were running the bodies to Skeeters for cremation. He brought along Bobby to help him.
"What happened?" Skeeter asked, once Tig and Bobby entered with Clay's body.
"Dunno. They were both dead in their house. Gemma had been in some trouble, but no one knows what happened." Tig explained.
Skeeter accepted the explanation without question. If there were two things that he'd learned in his time dealing with SAMCRO is that death is expected, and don't ask questions.
The guys took a little longer bringing Gemma's body in. She had meant so much to the club, and done so much, that it was still a shock that she had betrayed them. Especially her son. When Tig thought about the deals Gemma had made, his guilt lessened to almost non existence.
"I'll call you and let you know when the bodies will be ready." Skeeter said.
"Yeah, no hurries." Tig said, walking out without looking back.
-.-.-.-
Jax had finally come back with the food and walking into Opie's living room, he saw Tara sitting on the couch with Happy close by.
"Hey. Sorry I wasn't here when you woke up." Jax said.
"It's alright." Tara said, lethargically. " Happy had been pretty good company."
Jax didn't say anything, just cocked his eyebrows in surprise at Happy. This wasn't a side of Happy that many people saw. Happy just shrugged his shoulders and took his food.
They all ate in silence. Tara wasn't able to stomach much, but she did get some food in her and felt better for it. She took a pain pill that was in the container on the coffee table and waited for the men to get done eating. As soon as Happy was done, he excused himself and went back outside.
"How are you feeling, Tara?" Jax asked her, concern laced in his voice.
"Sore, but I'll be alright. I just have so much on my mind. I'm worried a little about my living arrangements. I want to call the bank tomorrow and ask about my house. I put the down payment down and everything, I was just waiting to move in. I'd hate if it got foreclosed on because I wasn't able to pay for it." Tara rambled.
"Hey, hey, calm down. Don't worry. I think you should stay with me anyway. You'll need a lot of care and attention. Plus, until Kohn is dead, I won't let you be alone."
"Thanks Jax. But I still want my house."
Jax just smiled. He'd do whatever it took to make sure that Tara got whatever house she wanted.
"Should we talk about us?" Jax asked her.
"That's kind of a heavy subject for me right now. It's really late and I just took my pain pill."
Before Jax could respond, Donna and Opie came through the door.
"I'm alright, brotha. It was a through and through. No damage done. It'll be tender, but it'll heal." Opie said, before Jax could even question how he was doing.
"I'm going to get him to bed. They gave him a high dose pain pill and he's getting heavy." Donna exclaimed. "You guys can crash in the spare room. Piney is keeping the kids tonight."
"Thanks Donna. Good night."
Jax turned to Tara and lifted her off the couch. He knew she had to have been pretty out of it because she didn't fight him at all.
"I love you, Tara." Jax said, covering her up.
"I love you too, Jax."
Jax got into bed with Tara and laid on his back, staring at the ceiling.
"We won't put it off anymore. First thing tomorrow we'll call the bank and then we'll sit down just the two of us. We'll figure out what happens next. I just want you to know that I'm all in." Jax professed.
Tara reached her arm over and put her hand on Jax's heart.
"Me too." she said into the dark.
-.-.-
Dawn came much too early. Tara woke up alone in the bed she had shared with Jax the night before. Tara looked at the clock on the night stand and realized that it was much later than she expected it to be. She tried to get out of bed too fast, and in her haste she fell back onto the bed. She cried out in pain as her rib compressed together.
Jax was immediately at her side, as he came back into the room.
"What happened?" he asked her worriedly.
"I didn't realize how dizzy I would be when I woke up. I saw how late it was and I wanted to get up to get some things done."
Jax scoffed. "Get some things done? You only just got out of the hospital last night. And even then you shouldn't have. You'll be doing nothing but laying around and making me wait on you hand and foot."
"Sorry, I just wanted to get some information today is all. I practically slept the whole day away."
"It's alright darlin'. I already called the bank for ya. They didn't know what happened, but the house hasn't been foreclosed on. It would have gone into foreclosure if there wasn't a payment made in the next 10 days. I wen't ahead and paid your mortgage in full for the last two months."
"Jax! You didn't have to do that. I'll call the bank and authorize a transfer over to you." Tara said.
"We'll worry about that later. Right now we need to get you some food!"
Tara noted Jax's good mood and wondered what it was caused by. There was so much bad shit that was happening right now, how could anyone be in such a good mood?
Tara walked into the kitchen, at quite a slow pace. When she got there, the sight made her stop. Sitting at the breakfast table was Opie, Donna, Piney, the kids, Happy, and two place settings for her and Jax. What surprised her even more was the fact that everyone seemed to be in a good mood.
Maybe Happy was right, maybe things really would settle down. But could they settle down that fast? Or was everyone associated with the club good at shouldering their shit when they were in their home lives? Tara wasn't sure, but she assumed it was the latter. She plastered a smile on her face, just like everyone else, but her insides were telling her that life wasn't going to be that easy.
