Andy sat silently rocking Abel to sleep after she gave him his full bottle.
These were her favorite moments of the day, just watching him drift off to sleep and looking at his adorable little face. She still had her milkshake and she reached over to the table to grab it to take a sip.
She was annoyed today, between her father, the texts from her fellow rookies in Toronto, now Hale pissing her off she just felt like she wanted to break something. Being with Abel helped melt all that tension away.
"It seems that finding out classified information about feds for your daddy is going to be a full time job, but I don't think he's going to like me working with Hale very much." She said whispering to him as he drifted to sleep.
"I don't know what to do about that, what do you think?" She asked smiling at him as he lay peacefully asleep.
She carefully lifted him up and placed him back in his little crib. Before grabbing her bag and drink and leaving the room, saying goodbye to Miles she walked back to her car and headed back home.
The annoyance came back the second she got home. The second she walked in she heard her Canada phone beep, looking at a bunch of texts that had come in. Tracy told her to have fun and she'd see her soon. Similar messages from Dov and Chris. Gail never replied to her and Nick told her to give him a call to catch up and that he missed her. She rolled her eyes, quickly typing a too busy to call, will see you next week. She threw the phone back in her bag and dumped it along with all her shopping bags on the living room table.
She looked around the kitchen feeling the need to fight her tension, Gemma style. She opened the fridge looking around and pulling out a big pack of chicken and 2 packs of corn. Thinking you never know who might come home with Jax if they're having a late night. She then grabbed a bag of potatoes, a pack of chocolate chips, and a bag of pasta then got to work chopping stuff to make dinner.
An hour and a half later she had made way too much fried chicken. A lot of mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, macaroni salad, and a lot of chocolate chip cookies. She felt so much better, she hadn't really cooked in a long time. Food in between shifts back in Toronto was really a lot of take-out or instant dinners. Things that could be made within 5 minutes. She loved having the time to cook for real again.
She put everything in dishes and put it all on the kitchen table before running into the bedroom to grab a shower.
"You sure Drea's not going to care?" Juice asked as he followed Jax, Tig and Chibs into Jax's house.
"She's not. Trust me, she loves us." Tig answered for Jax as they walked in. Jax instantly seeing the shopping bags and her purse on the front table. Thinking it wasn't like her to dump her stuff like that. He picked it up instantly.
"Grab some beers." He told them heading towards their bedroom hearing the shower. He had to intercept her because he did not want her walking out here in a robe or her short pj's.
"Damn, you get treatment like this all the time?" Juice asked seeing all the food in the kitchen. Making Jax stop where he was going to wonder what Juice was talking about.
"Macaroni, fried chicken.. she made so much," Tig trailed off as he picked up all the covers and looking in all the dishes.
"I'm in love, seriously. I love her. I'm sorry." Juice told Jax as Jax just glared and shook his head at him.
"Shut up and go eat." Jax told him walking into their bedroom.
He dropped the bags on the floor and hung her purse up behind the door, just as Andy was coming out of the bathroom in his SAMCRO t-shirt and a pair of those stretchy work out pants she brought from Canada.
"Hey" she said while towel drying her hair. "I wasn't sure when or if you were coming home tonight, there's lots of food." She told him as she continued drying.
"We saw." Jax smirked at her as he walked up to her wrapping his arms over her shoulders and leaning down to kiss her halting her attempts to dry her hair.
"We?"
"Juice, Tig and Chibs are here. Pretty sure eating all the foot you made. They now think I get dinner like that every night and will probably be by at this time daily." He said sarcastically. Andy laughed while putting on some lip gloss.
"I made a lot. So that's good they came with you, or you would be eating that same dinner every night for the next week. I made extra, in case you guys came to hang out before have to go on your run."
Jax was just amazed at how in tune she was, knowing exactly what he might do before he even did it.
"You thought right." He smirked before asking, "where's my socks?"
"Shut up. Lets go eat before there's no food left for us." She said opening the door and walking into the kitchen to see all the guys with a plate full of food.
"I love you." Juice said with a mouth full of food making her laugh. She kissed all the guys on the cheek and grabbed 2 more plates.
"You gonna tell us where you got your information today?" Jax asked 30 minutes later as they all sat around the living room watching some game on tv. Andy snuggled into Jax's side, his arm draped around her. Juice in the arm chair, and Tig and Chib relaxing out on the sofa.
Andy moved her eyes around the room, not really wanting to but she knew Jax was not going to let it go.
"Did it help?" She asked looking at Juice. Knowing he was the computer guy who handled that stuff for them.
Juice nodded his head, "a lot." He answered. Knowing he couldn't tell her a thing because Jax warned him not to give her any information that the Feds could trace back to her since she was still a cop.
"Drea." Jax said again looking at her.
"I went shopping." She smiled to them all. Making Jax's eyes narrow at her avoidance because he knew this part already. "Then I went to get a milkshake and was going back to the car to leave for the hospital and Hale was parked behind me." She said innocently looking up in Jax's eyes which turned down, his whole face becoming stern and angry.
"Really?" He asked trying not to grab his gun and run out the door.
"We had chit-chat, wanted to know if I was visiting, if I saw him at TM earlier. Then I asked him who the guy was that was with him."
"And he just told you?" Tig laughed at how stupid Hale was. "Smart guy that one." He added while laughing.
"That's it? That's why you came home and chopped up like 2 chickens" Jax asked not really buying it was as innocent as she claims based on how much she cooked. He knew when she got angry she wanted to work her aggression out and cooking helps her do that.
"He may have tried to make you look bad saying you were a criminal and that you had a wife, then he kinda asked me out on a date." She said quickly with her eyes wide as Jax flexed his jaw saying nothing but just swallowing. Juice, Chibs, Tig, and Andy all stared at him waiting for him to do something.
"He's dead." He said calmly.
"Brother..." Chibs. Knowing Jax was going to go off the hinges.
"He's dead, Chibs." Jax yelled getting up off the sofa. Jax grabbed his black reaper crew hat, putting it backwards on his head.
Andy got up quickly. "No, you can't. There's too many Federal agents around you guys right now, you can't run off crazy killing the deputy chief because he asked me on a date, Jax. It's dumb. He didn't even know we're back together and I told him I was taken." Andy told him sternly.
Jax just looked at her shaking his head, he was beyond pissed but he knew she was right.
"Brother, we have a lot more bigger things to deal with right now than Hale hitting on Drea. She also could handle him." Chibs said.
"She can also use him up and spit him out, getting information for us from him. Tig pointed out.
Jax took a deep breath but was still flexing his jaw and looked visibly angry.
"Jax, it's a high school crush. Girls stare at you all the time and have crushes on you. If I went around killing them all I'd be in a jail for being a mass serial killer."
"I don't get caught." Jax pointed out seriously. As Juice nodded his head in agreement at that.
"Jax." Andy said scolding him and staring at Juice to not encourage him.
"Fine, fine." He said throwing his hands in the air and sitting back down on the sofa in a huff. "He and I will have a little chat though the next time I see him." He said seriously at all of them.
"We'd expect it, brother." Chibs said taking a swig of his beer. Seeing that Jax was diffusing, Andy remembered the cookies and got the big batch she made and brought them out. She put it on the table.
"I made cookies." She said to them seeing Juice's eyes go wide.
"I so love you." Juice said. Making Jax stare him down and the others laugh.
