Changing Ground
Lenny couldn't remember ever feeling this mad, she thought after her time with Jax she had known true anger but apparently she was capable of so much more. What she thought was anger was actually only the tip on the iceberg, this worried Lenny as she knew what thoughts had ran through her head whilst she was in Charming back when she was lamb being led to the slaughter by Jax's charms and affections.
The members of the SOA club stood united as they let Jax lead the club in this little mission, they had found their girl and all of them noted how different she looked; Bobby in particular was very aware of how skinny his niece had become. Lenny was never a curvy girl but she had a bust that attracted the wrong kind of attention and an ass to finish the package but she looked slightly gaunt now, tired in every sense of the word. Her long dark hair was scraped up and piled on top of her head making her jaw line stronger and allowing a perfect view to her collar bone that seemed more prominent than their last meeting. Bobby noticed she still had the spark in her eyes as he watched her cast them across the club members who had made the little trip from Charming and he didn't miss the way the spark grew into a fire as she skirted over Gemma before settling on Jax. The age old tale of "hall hath no fury like a women scorned" seemed to spring to mind as Bobby mused that this trip may not work out the way they wanted, he worried maybe Jax had once underestimated Lenny-Ray Sawyer.
Lenny took a deep breath, planting her hands on her hips as she steadied herself, she would not appear weak . As always, she would go down fighting. Suddenly just looking at Jax made her feelings of uncertainty and doubt rise to the surface ready to drown her but she quickly blinked away and found herself focusing on Gemma. A new feeling of resentment came rushing to the surface and a million questions were answered in that heartbeat. It wasn't just Jax who had hurt her so badly, he had been acting on Gemma's instruction and no doubt this little expedition was her planning. Lenny realised she wasn't just protecting Erin from her Daddy but the whole Teller clan and the drama that crept along after them in the shadows and blacked out tinted windows.
"Well if it ain't Robin Hood and his band of merry men," it was a low blow and she knew it but Lenny figured it was worth it to see the mixed reactions, it went without saying Bobby and Tig had a to stifle their laughter but it was Jax she focused on with a steely glare as though who ever blinked or looked away admitted fault and defeat. Lenny missed the way Gemma hollow out her cheeks, the matriarch of the SOA's was never happy to hear of a criticism of her club but one directed at her boy she took as a personal knife to the back.
"Come home, Lenny-Ray," it was the pleading in Opies voice that made Lenny feel like the most villainous maiden in the land. It was the words she had so desperately wanted to hear for months and they tore down every wall she had to build just to get through. She had needed and wanted it to be Jax pleading with her to come home not his noble steed though.
As the door opened Lenny found she was almost trapped in slow motion as she watched Karl and Sally walk out
with Erin wrapped up in her stroller. She saw how each face changed with realisation, she saw Bobby's eyes light up and his smile crease his cheeks; she saw Gemma eyes widen and a sly smile plaster her face like a Cheshire Cat but she would never be able to erase the look of sheer disbelief on Jax's face. The mixture of shock, joy, hurt and betrayal was a look Lenny felt in every fibre of her being and she for the first time she felt scared of Jax . Not scared of what he made her feel but scared of what he could do to her. The Lamb may have escaped the Lions den but now the Pack had come claim what was theirs, just like she knew they always would.