I won't waste your time with an authors note. This is a long chapter. Hopefully makes up for the last ones. Please read and review. It means a lot and keeps me going.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Confrontations and Revelations.

Jax smiled when he saw Lacey come out of the office, walking into the garage where he was working on a car that had been brought in yesterday. He was completely smitten with her. He never thought he'd feel this way after Tara, especially with the girl he'd grown up with and once considered a sister. Before he didn't know what he'd do without their friendship, now he didn't know what he'd do without her everything. He knew things moved fast between them within the seven months that quickly went by but it all felt right. The nineteen year old had him wrapped around her finger.

He smiled greeting her a quick kiss, "Hey beautiful."

"Hey," she smiled back. "You got time for a quick quickie in the bathroom?"

She had a playful gleam in her eyes as she wiggled her eyebrows in a suggestive manor. Jax laughed knowing she was joking. "I've always got time that
She laughed also. "Maybe another time. The owner of this hunk of junk," she motioned to the car he was working on, "is demanding for an exact time you'll be finished with it."

"Is he getting handsy?" he asked.

She shook her head, "His vocabulary is very colorful and I'm afraid his pointer is gonna go bang on me." She demonstrated how the guy had been pointing while he was swearing and cursing at her. "I'm surprised he even let me come back here."

Jax frowned. "I'll deal with him."

"Be my guest."

They walked back into the office where the man stood still fuming. His frown narrowed when he saw Jax infront of Lacey. "Couldn't handle one customer so you run and get your little boyfriend."

Lacey glared at him as she walked around Jax, back behind the desk. "My little boyfriend is also the guy who's working on your piece of shit car, so if I were you I'd fuck up."

"I could always find another mechanic." The man frowned between the two.

"Good luck with that. Teller-Morrow is the only automotive shop in Charming. Otherwise it's a thirty to forty minute drive to Lodi."

"Next time I'll make sure I'll break down there."

"Your car should be done by four o'clock. I suggest you fuck off and come back then."

"Whatever," the man mumbled before turning on his heel and walked out the door.

"Fucking tool." Lacey mumbled sitting back in her chair.

"You and me at your place tonight?" Jax asked her sitting on the edge of the desk. Lacey had found a small three bedroom house not far from work and Gemma and Clay's house.

"Only if you want to wait until one in the morning. I'm working with Johnny tonight."

"Isn't it your night off?" he asked.

"That's tomorrow."

"I don't want you working with Johnny. It's bad enough with Kyle around. I'm surprised they haven't tried anything yet."

"It's because you, Chibs, Tig, Piney or Gemma are with me when they're around. Working the bar is putting extra money into my pocket."

"I'll pay you to have toni-"

"Jackson!" he was cut off by Clay's deep gruff voice. He didn't sound happy. Jax sighed and gave her a quick kiss before walking over to his step-father and president.

"What's going on?"

"Big Otto just got pinched." Clay told him.

Jax looked at him shocked. "For what?"

"No one's saying shit. Unser's not even sure."

"You think it's ATF?"

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms also known as ATF was a federal group that had been after the Sons of Anarchy for sometime. If they had enough evidence on one of the guys they arrested them as soon as the information came in. They even tried to get the guys they caught to turn against the others. It never got further than a simple gun running and trafficking charge. Jax had even been arrested for it when he was nineteen. He wasn't even given a full sentence for it because his lawyer managed to cut a deal.

"Could be with the way they're keeping quiet."

"What do you wanna do?" Jax asked him.

Clay pulled out a cigar and lit it before he started walking away. "Get the guys together, tell them church is in ten minutes."

Lacey looked up from the paperwork she was filling out when Jax walked back into the office frowning. She could tell something bad must've happened. "What's happening? Clay didn't seem to happy."

"I'll tell you later. I've gotta get the guys together."

He was always open with her about the small things that happened in the club. She'd grown up with the club. She knew more about what happened than most people. There were things he couldn't tell her. She never pressured him to tell her those things. Sometimes she didn't even want to know what they were knowing the danger behind them. Every time they went on a run he always smiled when he saw the relief cross her face when they arrived home, injured or not.

All the SAMCRO patched members were sitting around the large wooden table with the Sons of Anarchy reaper carved into the middle of it. Most of them looked confused to why they were there.

"Where's Otto?" Tig spoke up

"He got arrested." Clay told the table.

Chibs let out a frustrated groan. "For what?"

"Unser won't tell me anything which means he has no clue to what's going on or it's something more serious than a few gun charges. We need to keep a low profile in case ATF comes knocking on our door." Clay explained.

"That'll be a bit hard with the One-Niners now wanting to buy guns from us." Bobby said.

"That's why I'm going to set up a meeting with them," he looked at Jax, "And I want you to come with me."

Jax looked surprised. "Me?"

"I think it's about time you stepped up a bit more, start filling your fathers boots."

"Okay." Jax said a bit unsure. He'd never been to meetings like this. It wasn't that he didn't want to. He lived for the club. It was his family, his future, his legacy. He was slightly nervous about stepping up. His fathers shoes were huge ones to fill and he wanted to do it the right way when it was time to.

"You'll be fine, kid." Piney said giving the twenty-one year old a reassuring pat on the back.

"I'm gonna try find out more about Otto's arrest. I'll let you guys know when I've set up the meeting with the One-Niners." Clay slammed the gavel ending their church meeting.

Jax stood up from his chair and followed everyone out of church when he heard Lacey yelling from the kitchen. He went to see what was happening. He opened the door seeing Johnny crouching over cupping his dick and balls as Lacey continued to yell at him. "ARE YOU REALLY THAT STUPID? DIDN'T YOU LEARN ANYTHING THE FIRST TIME I KICKED YOU IN YOUR SMALL BALLS? DON'T EVER FUCKING TOUCH ME AGAIN, ASSHOLE!"

Jax laughed shaking his head as Chibs came up next to him to see what was happening. Lacey pushed past them without saying anything. Chibs laughed at the fat fuck still cringing and holding his most prized possessions.

"It seems this muppet will never learn." Chibs shook his head, talking like Johnny wasn't even there or couldn't hear him. Johnny glared at him. When Lacey kicked a guy in the nut-sack she wasn't gentle about it. Even some of the guys had found out the hard way.

"It'd be a good idea if he did learn. Otherwise it won't be just my old lady he has to deal with." Jax glared at Johnny who looked scared all of a sudden. He knew Jax had a temper, especially when it came to Lacey.

"Did you just call Lacey your Old Lady?" Chibs asked.

Jax nodded. After seven months of tip-toeing around the idea of calling her his old lady he finally did and out loud in front of the man who looked at her like another daughter. Him and Lacey didn't have the perfect relationship. They argued more than a normal couple did. When he was away, she was all he thought about and couldn't wait to get home to. He'd do anything for her, to keep her happy, to keep her safe. He only wanted her. He loved her.

"Let me know how it fuckin' goes when you tell her." Chibs told him before walking away.