It was finally Wednesday night. the night of her farewell party.

Andy was both happy and dreading it. Being in a room full of people who just wanted to change her mind and tell her not to go did not sound like fun. However she was so happy to say bye to the people who has been in her life for so long and it was getting closer to Friday when she could go home to Abel and Jax.

He was still dealing with the drive by and now he was worrying about her dealing with her father tonight along with all her other "admirers" he called it. She could tell he was trying not to be too angry jealous, but it was Jax. He didn't want her around any ex-es without him near.

Yesterday, she had finished packing and doing well... everything. Because she wanted her last days to be stress free as possible.

The donation truck came and collected everything she was donating. The shipping company came and picked up all the boxes that she was sending to California. Leaving behind just the bags they were taking on the plane and all the things Andy was leaving in the apartment for the next owners.

The apartment was going to be sold and it was down to two couples were negotiating back and forth. Andy hoped she'd be able to sign off on one of them by today or tomorrow.

Today, she had such a fun day with Juice and Halfsack, she took them to the theme park. Going on all the roller coasters, eating junk food and playing games. They of course won a lot of prizes at the shooting ones. Andy kept one for Abel and gave the rest away to little kids in the park. The guys had the greatest time.

She originally had planned to spend tomorrow with her father, but that was off the table now. So she would find somewhere else for her and the guys to go tomorrow before they flew back Friday.

She put on a short cocktail dress she pulled out from one of the suitcases and was ready to go. She walked outside to the living room to see Juice in his Jays baseball hat and nicely dressed along with Halfsack both not looking like normal SONS members but regular average people going out to a bar.

Andy looked at them in confusion. Not expecting them to be dressed for a night out or to be going with her to room full of cops, it was too risky.

"Jax gave us orders, we don't let you leave our sight." Juice informed her.

"I'm going to be in a room full of cops, my dad, my friends, my chief. I'll be perfectly safe. You 2 on the other hand if anyone recognizes you?" Andy said worriedly. If Sam or anyone from Guns and Gangs saw them, they could all be screwed.

"We will sit in the back, blend in. Nobody will see our ink or know it's us." Juice informed her as she still did not think this was a good idea.

"Jax will kill us if we don't go with you so you have no choice and we thought of standing guard outside the bar but figured that would be more suspicious than just being guys hanging drinking beer inside." Halfsack told her as she thought about it and thought his was right. The 2 of them standing around outside watching the place would be a lot more suspect than them inside.

Andy sighed looking at them, there was no point even trying to reason with them. Especially since they were given orders from Jax.

What Jax says goes.

They will do as they were told. Andy nodded her head relenting to trying to fight them on this.

She grabbed her cell and quickly dialed Jax's number.

"Don't fight me on this." He told her seriously, knowing it was her and what she was calling about.

"If anyone notices them, we're screwed. You get that right? Do we have a plan if that happens?" She asked him seriously.

"They're good at what they do, I can't be there and it's killing me. I won't let you go in there without people who have your back. Your father and friends are being douchebags. Who knows what they'll pull at this party to send you off when they don't want you to go. Your dad, your ex and the partner who wants you? Who knows what they'll say." Jax told her angrily, Andy really connecting the dots that this could be more about Jax feeling helpless in California not being able to be there for her and his needing to have eyes on Sam and Nick.

"I've handled them both." She told him flatly.

"I trust you have, I don't trust them. Juice and Half go with you Andy. That's it." He said laying down his law.

"Fine." She relented. Knowing she was fighting a losing battle.

"Good, go have fun with all your cops." He told her sarcastically.

"Oh joy, I can't wait." She muttered, rolling her eyes at him.

Andy walked into the Penny putting a smile on her face, they had come up with a hasty plan in case anyone did recognize Juice and Halfsack.

Juice was in front of her, arriving 5 minutes before her. Then Halfsack would show up 5 minutes after and join Juice. As she walked in she saw him sitting at a table to her left with his hat on reading a menu.

The plan wasn't much of a plan, but they had no choice. If anyone did recognize them, they'd say they're passing through town and they'd all act like they've never met before. If they were brought into the station for questioning, Andy was to go home and act like normal.

Don't defend them or show up at the station because that would just make people suspicious. She couldn't react at all.

"Andy!" Dov said smiling at her ushering her over. Dov and Chloe actually looked like they supported her and was happy for her, she was happy for that. She made her way over to them and hugged them both. Seeing Tracy, Nick and Gail sitting to a table to the side. Sam, Oliver, and Frank sat together at another and the whole are was filled with other officers from the division. She hadn't seen her dad yet. She decided the easiest way to enjoy herself was deal with the people who didn't care she was leaving first. So she was going to great all the random co-workers.

"Thanks so much for this Dov." She told him sincerely.

"Hey, we couldn't let you go without a proper send off." He said hugging her again. As Andy made her way to a table of her casual co-workers. They asked regular questions about California and how she was going to like it. They made polite conversation and she liked that. She got up to move to the bar to grab another drink when she saw her father walk in and with her mother following behind.

"Shit." Andy said out loud as they entered together. Something she thought she'd never see ever in her life again.

"What is it?" She heard Oliver ask from along side her waiting at the bar for his next drink.

"My mother, I kind of didn't tell her I was leaving." She said shyly.

"You didn't tell her you were moving cross country to a different country?" Oliver asked in surprise.

"I forgot!" She defended raising her palms out as Oliver laughed.

"Well good luck with that." He told her as he saw them heading her way and he got out of dodge and back to their tables at the back. Letting them all know they should watch the show.

"Andy." Her mother said tensly as she and her father made their ways to her. Andy's eyes shifted from one of them to the other. She was wondering just how much her father told her. If it was a lot and everything, the last she wanted was her mother to explode here in front of a bunch of cops. She stared at her father, daring him to let her know how much he's betrayed her.

"Over here." Andy said nodding to a quieter area of the bar.

"Your father tells me you're moving to California and you didn't even tell me?" Andy looked behind their shoulders to see Juice and Half sack staring at them, watching to see if they had to make a move in her direction.

"I'm moving to California. I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to talk to you, it's been a crazy few weeks." She said honestly.

"First I find out that you're gone for 3 weeks on vacation from calling the station and then I find out you've quit from calling the station. Then I call your father to find out what the hell is going on with you and he tells me your going away party is tonight." She said angrily.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you I was going on vacation, I know I was supposed to let you know about me moving. I remembered and then I got busy and I forgot. I had a lot on my plate."

"That's it? When were you going to remember, when you were already gone?"

"Probably tomorrow or tonight when I realized you weren't here." Andy said kind of laughing.

"This isn't funny, why are you even moving to begin with? To be around those trash criminals. They should be in jail for all they've done." Andy whipped her head to stare at her father and realized he told her she was going to Charming. Her mother obviously knew Piney was part of SAMCRO from their marriage. She knew Opie was SAMCRO, but she did not know about Andy's time in Charming or about Jax unless her father told her today.

"Andy..." Her father started to defend himself as Andy's eyes hardened.

"That's enough. I'm going to say this once and only once. You..." she said pointing to her mother. "Have no business, none at all to ever look down and talk down about Uncle Piney. He may not be the most law abiding citizen, but he was a far better parent than you." She said seriously to them. "This is my going away party and I'm going to enjoy it, so if you don't mind I'm going to get a drink. You either sit down, shut up and support me or leave because I'm done with this conversation." She said as she turned and walked away, back to the bar to get her drink.

As she turned back around she saw her father looking dejected and sitting down while her mother sat down as well. They were now bickering amongst themselves, "well that's a flash back from the past." She muttered to herself watching her parents fight. "Perfect fitting to me leaving."

"You ok, miss?" She heard from her left seeing Halfsack there ordering another beer. She knew they both saw the entire thing and Halfsack showing up at the bar next to her was no coincidence.

She smiled at him letting out a breath. "I'm fine, thank you." She said as Halfsack nodded, taking his beer and going back to Juice.

"What was that all about?" Tracy asked as she came up to Andy.

"Forgot to tell my mom I was leaving." Andy said rolling her eyes as Tracy laughed.

"Oh wow." She said as she kept laughing.

"Yeah, she's not going to be supportive." Andy said rolling her eyes again.

"May be it's a sign, forgetting to tell you mom? May be it means that you're rushing into this and doing this too hasty." Tracy said apprehensively worried about how Andy would take what she said.

"No it's not that, I forgot because I remembered she never was a real mother to me. I forgot because being back in California made me see and remember the real people who loved me and did the most of raising me. It wasn't my mom who took me bra shopping or taught me to wear makeup, it wasn't my mom who helped me find a dress for my prom. When my mom showed up back in my life here, I thought she could be my mother again you know? I wanted that family connections. But it never could have worked because she wasn't my mother in my heart. She was a stranger who I didn't know anymore, but I was trying to force her in that role." She said honestly to Tracy.

Tracy just nodded her head not knowing what to say to that.

"And in California you have that?"

"I have that. It's not me trying so hard, trying to take these people and force into these roles, they're people who belong and own those places in my heart." Andy told her.

"Well, I'm going to miss you so much." Tracy said tearing up and knowing this was it. There was no changing her mind. Andy looked at her and hugged her, tearing up herself at letting go of her friend. "I'm going to miss you too."

The rest of the party went by less eventful. Andy chatting with Frank, Noelle. She hugged and talked with Chloe and Dov a lot, telling them goodbye before moving onto her tense goodbyes to Sam and Nick. Both of whom seemed to be more focused on wallowing by drinking than really saying good bye to her. Nick said for her to keep in touch and come back soon, Sam just said for her to have a good life not even being able to fake a smile then went back to his drinking, Andy wondered where Marlo was tonight but then moved onto Gail.

She was talking to a still tense with her Gail when Oliver interrupted to say his goodbyes.

"Well, enjoy sunny California McNally." Gail told her as she gave her an awkward hug.

"Thanks Gail and don't give up on him. He just needs time to decompress." Andy told her after pulling back, them both knowing who that him was. Gail just shrugged her shoulders and went back to the bar.

"Well McNally, this is it." Oliver said as she smiled.

"It's not like I won't visit." She said smiling at him. But Oliver didn't look like he believed that, she wasn't sure if she believed she'd visit herself.

"He's broken and he probably won't ever recover." Oliver told her seriously knowing who that he was. In a way that made Andy know that he was kind of blaming her for the state Sam was going to be left in.

"Then it's up to Marlo to fix him and deal with it. She's the one he's been with this past year, Sam's life is none of by business or my concern." She told him shrugging her shoulders as Oliver just nodded his head. Reminding him that their break up was all on Sam, Sam getting a new relationship was his choice.

"I told him, he'd lose you if he didn't wise up. Guess I was right."

"You know what, I think I wasn't even his to lose." She said thoughtfully thinking that it's always been Jax and if she was still with Sam when Jax showed up in Toronto last month that she would have probably come to the same conclusion. She belonged in Charming and as difficult as Jax's life was, their relationship never felt like work. Her relationship with Sam was always feeling like work, always internally fighting for something and dealing with tension. She was just grasping looking for a connection that wasn't there. She and Jax always had that bond and were at ease even when at odds she felt at peace.

Oliver looked at her in confusion, not really understanding what she was saying, but thinking there could be more to this move than just a sick uncle.

"You fall in love with a surfer dude out there?" He asked Andy as she laughed.

"No, definitely not." She laughed as she saw her father stand up and come over. Oliver saw her eyes look over and he knew his time with Andy was up. He hugged her goodbye and said for her to do a good job in Sacramento, "show them how well we train here." Oliver whispered to her as he went back to a sullen looking Sam.

"Dad.." Andy said hardening already.
"I didn't tell her anything. Other than you going to Charming of course because of Piney." He defended.
"I never said a word about anything else." He pleaded with her to believe him as she looked at him. She looked at him and sighed.

"Dad, I don't want to leave like this. So hug me good bye and tell me you'll take care of yourself." She smiled at him. Watching him tear up, he realized he had lost and handled this all wrong. He thought for sure that not encouraging her by eating dinner with the 2 criminals Jax sent with her may make her see he wasn't going to condone this. Then he thought that between himself, her mom, friends, and Sam they could convince her to stay. To not throw her life away for Jax Teller. He should have known once her stubborn mind was made up that was it. Now all he's done is push her further away from him.

"Good bye Andrea, I love you and take care of yourself. Be safe." He said while hugging her, which Andy knew meant don't get shot in a shootout.

"Bye dad." She said hugging him tightly in return.

She looked over at her mom still sitting there and decided to get this over with.

"I'm exhausted, so I'm heading out now. I wanted to tell you goodbye." Andy said to her as her mom nodded.

"I guess this is it then? I abandoned you, you abandon me, eye for an eye?" Her mother said.

"I'm not abandoning anyone, I'm moving to be closer to my family. I know you don't understand that, I don't expect you to get it. But it's not your choice, it's mine and I don't need your approval. So take care of yourself and I'll keep in touch." Andy told her not really believing herself that she would. Her mother nodded her head and they hugged goodbye. Before Andy walked over to the bar again, telling the bartender goodbye for the last time and giving him a big tip.

She nodded at Halfsack which was signal that she was ready to go. Halfsack got up to head to the apartment first. She turned around and looked around the bar for the last time. Gail was sitting with Nick and Dov. Nick looked like he was staring into space and Dov was telling an animated story. Tracy had left to go home to Leo, Oliver had left to go home to his girls, Sam sat in a corner by himself.

She saw Dov look over at her and she waved. Him then waving back and all of them at the table turning to look and do the same before she turned and walked out of the Penny.

Juice followed 5 minutes later and when all 3 were back home locked in her apartment she sighed with a sense of relief.

"We did it." She smiled before sinking down on the sofa and putting her feet up very emotionally drained. She grabbed her cell phone and instantly wanting to call Jax and let him know all about her night.

She expected him to also get a report from Juice and Halfsack too.