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When Tara had challenged Reaper a few minutes before about being in Juice's room, he had told her who he was. At first she didn't seem as though she had believed him but as soon as he had smiled, she seemed to. After she had left, he had settled down in the chair and pulled out a book. It was scruffy and tattered but it had been a favourite of his since he was a small child and Juice use to read it to him at night before he went to sleep. Getting more comfortable in the chair, he looked at Juice, opened the book and started to read it out loud.
Unbeknown to Reaper, Tara was outside the door watching him as he had sat in the chair and opened the book. She smiled to herself as she heard him speak to Juice, "remember when you use to read this to me to get me asleep when we were kids Jaun Carlos, well now I'm going to read it to you. Hopefully it will bring you back to us." He opened the book, that looked old and well loved and started to read. As she walked away, her phone rang, she pulled it out of her pocket and answered it.
"Hi Jax, you staying at the Clubhouse tonight or coming home."
"Staying at the Clubhouse with the others, how's Juice doing?"
"He's fine, he's got a visitor at the moment."
"Who?"
"One of the New York SONS, says his name is Reaper. When I first saw him in there I challenged him, told him it was 'family only'. I didn't expect him to turn round and say he was family."
Tara saw one of the nurses coming down the hallway and knew she had to speak to the woman about something.
"I've got to go Jax, speak to you later sweetie."
"Later."
The following morning Reaper was still in the chair next to Juice's bed, he had read the whole book to Juice and then had spent the rest of the night talking to him. At first he had felt a bit of a twit doing that but one of his sisters was a nurse and she had told him that some coma patients could hear what was said to them.
"Well you said you didn't want to see me Jaun Carlos and that you had nothing to say to me. Well tough, I've got things to say to you and as you are in no fit shape to stop me, I'm going to say those things."
Reaper had then spent an hour or two talking to Juice telling him about his life back in New York and all the things that Juice had missed when he had moved here to Charming to escape the shit he had been going through. Gradually though he had run out of words and had fallen asleep and this was how Piney found him the next morning when he had come to visit Juice again, Reaper had just woken up when Piney had entered the room.
"Who are you?" Piney had asked him, surprised to find anyone else here.
"Hi I'm Reaper, came with the New York Charter for Bobby's funeral."
"So what are you doing here in Juice's hospital room? You an old friend of his from New York?"
"No." Reaper said, smiling. "I'm Emilio Manuel Ortiz and I'm his brother."
A/N Sorry for the shortness of this chapter but I wanted to add this to the end of the last chapter but didn't. Please review and let me know what you think of this story or just this chapter.