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A/N Sorry guys I know I said at the end of the last chapter that it would be Bobby's Funeral well this chapter is the day before. Im doing Bobby's funeral in 2 parts I think. I know it has been a long time since I updated but life has been Hectic.
Bobby's funeral was scheduled for the following day. It had been 2 weeks since the earthquake that had brought Charming to its knees. There had been so much that needed to be done not least of all trying to get Charming back on its feet. The town was slowly returning to normality although Gemma wondered if the club ever would. Bobby had been such a large part of the club, not just as treasurer and long time member but as the consciounce of the club. He had always seemed the steadiest of the SONS despite the number of ex wifes and girlfriends that man had had. They had all wanted to come 'probaly' thought Gemma 'the bitches were wondering what they could get out of Bobby's estate following his death.' Well they were going to be sadly disappointed!
They had Charters coming to the funeral from all over the United States, some from as far away as New York. Who were due to arrive later that day, Gemma had made all the arrangements necessary not just for the funeral but places for the visitors to stay. Every Charming SON except for Piney, who was still recovering from his heart attack and Juice who was still in the hospital was playing host to the visitors. The prez's for the New York, Devils Tribe, Las Vegas and Tacoma Charters were staying at Clay and Gemma's house along with their 'old lady's'. Their VP's were staying with Jax and in the homes of other officers of the clubs and the remaining SONS were staying at the Clubhouse or various properties owned by the SONS. There was even a few staying at CaraCara, she doubted that they would be getting much sleep.
At the hospital Tara had just checked on Juice, he had been placed into a medical coma following the quake because of the extent of his injuries. The hospital felt that he would heal quicker this way, he was lucky to be alive. During the quake a piece of metal had caused a tear in his heart, causing his pedicardium to fill up with blood, Tara had had to do emergency surgery and drain the blood from the pedicardium before she and Chibs had been able to move Juice out of the wrecked building that had been the Teller-Morrow Garage. When they had finally got him to the hospital and he had then had the necessary surgery to repair the damage that had been done further investigation had shown that the other injuries he had included a fractured skull, several broken ribs,broken right leg and left arm aswell.
Tara had just finished checking all the readings on the machinery that Juice was hooked up to when the door opened and Piney shuffled in, he had been a frequent visitor since the quake and had been here pratically everyday since his discharge. They had thought that they were going to lose Piney at one point when he had had a massive heart attack following a cruel joke played on him by one of the nurses. Tara thought. 'if I ever get my hands on that bitch, I'll kill her', Tara was fond of Piney. She smiled as Piney took what was becoming known as his customary seat next to Juice's bed.
"How's the patient today Doc?"
"No change, I'm afraid Piney."
They both turned to look at the silent comatose Juice, lying as silent as a corpse on the bed just as he had done so for the past two weeks. Neither of them in the time that they had known him had ever seen him this silent, even when asleep at the club he seemed to be a nervous bundle of energy forever twitching in his sleep but not now. He was just still, it seemed alien to both of them. Although as a Doctor, Tara should be use to seeing patients like this but normally they were not friends of hers. Looking at the clock on the wall Tara saw that she had to be on her rounds.
"I've got to go Piney...I've got other patients to see to. I'll be back to check on Juice in a few hours."
"I'll be here." Piney smiled sadly back at her.
Tara knew he would be!
At the clubhouse, the second of the Charters were arriving, the town of Charming had never seen this many SONS from so many Charters since John Tellers funeral almost 2 decades before. The TM lot reverberated with every new motorcycle that arrived. The SONS from Nevada had arrived earlier that day and they got up along with their Charming brothers to greet their newly arrived brothers from Tacoma.
Clay at the fore front of the group spread his arms in welcome and embraced the Tacoma prez.
"Welcome Brother, I wish it could be under better circumstances but welcome all the same."
"Thankyou Clay, I couldn't believe it when I heard that Bobby was dead."
The Tacoma prez had known Bobby for as long as he had been in the club and they had both shared a love of Elvis Presley, he and his 'old lady' had on more than occassion seen Bobby perform on stage. Bobby death was not just felt in the MC world of the SONS but amongst those who were Elvis impersonators. He had already seen one of Bobby's long time 'Elvis' friends when he and his boys had ridden into Charming, it seemed a good number of the 'Elvis Impersonator' community had come to Charming to say good bye to Bobby as well.
A/N I'll try and have the 2nd part of this chapter up tomorrow, this will be the one dealing with Bobby's funeral.