A/N: WOW, I am blown away by the response on what I should name the newest future member of the club. Thank you for all the reviews.
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"Couldn't we at least have had breakfast before we stopped by to see Tara and her parents?" Opie complained to her uncle as they came up the walk at Uncle John's.
"Will you quit complaining, all you think about is your stomach. I already told ya I'd get you something to eat as soon as we met with the John and the family." Uncle Piney snapped, before he settled eyes on her standing at the door.
"Come on in Opie, Aunt Gemma made pancakes because Jax wouldn't get out of bed otherwise." She chirped happily, motioning for him to come in before she smiled over at her uncle before dashing into the house, as Aunt Gemma barked about letting out all the warm air.
"Was it grouchy Uncle Piney at the door?" Uncle John asked her, straight-faced as he came out of the bathroom pulling on his leather jacket.
"yep, he seemed awfully cranky" she whispered as her Uncle walked into the room with Opie hot on his heels.
"Oh is that so?" Uncle John asked, quirking a brow at her uncle before shooting her a small smile.
"I know you aren't over their conspiring against me are you little Tara?" Her Uncle asked gruffly before he picked her up and tickling her, all the while she squealed for Uncle John or Opie to save her.
"What is all this racket, It's seven in the Fuc-freaking morning." Aunt Gemma snapped as she came out of the kitchen with Tommy right behind her.
"Don't hurt Tara, Uncle Piney!" the littlest Teller shouted at his uncle all the while wiggling his little finger before motioning for him to put her down.
Her uncle's fingers stopped in their pursuit to get every last tickle out of her before he put her down while looking between the adults before bursting into a laugh.
"Thank you Tommy, Uncle Piney wasn't very nice." She thanked her little friend before sticking her tongue out at both her uncles before sticking her nose up in the air.
"I saved you like a real prince." Tommy gushed grabbing at her hand as he dragged her back toward the kitchen.
"Is Kat up for visitors yet?" Gemma asked her daddy, as soon as her polished boot hit the maternity floor.
"Should be, the doctors are in talking to her right now. So it'll be a bit but you and the gang can go to the cafeteria and grab some food if you want." Hugh said before catching the eye of a nurse who was calling him over to the nurses' station and excuses himself.
"Let's go find your mama's room. I'm sure Kat is bouncing off the walls cooped up in these four walls." Aunt Gemma sighed, before turning left at the nurses station and heading down the hall, turning back once to see if the young boys of SAMCRO were following.
Managing only one warning to Jax they made it to her mom's room without incident.
She stood outside of the oak door with one hand clasped in her Aunt's and the other clasped firmly around Tommy's as he watched on with envy as Jax and Opie wrestled in the middle of the hallway, nearly missing a passing candy-striper.
"Jackson Nathaniel Teller and Henry Johnathan Winston stop roughhousing right this instant or I swear you won't be getting your bikes till you're thirty." Aunt Gemma said deathly calm, even the reaper himself wouldn't disobey, after she smiled at the young girl who scrambled out of the way.
"Yes, ma'" "Yes, Gemma, We are really sorry" Both boys apologized before coming to stand right beside her and Tommy.
"Would he really not get his bike till he's thirty, Daddy said I would get my bike after Jax got his." Tommy asked his mother nervously, swallowing a lump of spit in his throat at the idea of waiting that long.
"No baby, you're a good boy, you would get your bike the minute you turned sixteen." Gemma cooed at him before turning back to the door as it opened and out stepped the nervous doctor from yesterday.
She heard Jax grumble something about being the baby so he never gets in trouble but she couldn't be sure because she was leaving him in the hallway as soon as the door opened and she could squeeze past the 'stupid, incompetent gash' of a doctor, whatever that meant, Aunt Gemma strictly told her never to mention those words to her mother.
"Is that my big girl?" Her mother asked from her seat in the bed, looking awfully pale.
"Yeah mama, I'm big sister now." She told her proudly, coming around for her mother to kiss her forehead.
"Yes you are sweetie. Have you met your brother yet?" Her mother asked, brushing a strand of hair out of her face.
"Yeah, I saw him yesterday. He looked really, really small, but daddy said he wasn't as small as Tommy was, and that he'll grow up to be big and strong." She told her mother who snuck a look over at her Aunt before focusing back on her.
"Tara, sweetie you shouldn't say things like that. It's true your brother isn't as small as Tommy was but it's not a nice thing to say. Can you apologize to your Aunt and say you're sorry?" Her mother asked rhetorically before nodding her head in the direction of her Aunt Gemma who stood near the door, cradling Tommy in her arms.
"I'm sorry Aunt Gemma, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings." She said sincerely, eyes as big as saucers.
"Those eyes are gonna give your mama a run for her money. It's all right sugar, I know you didn't mean anything by it, after all Tommy is gonna grow up and be big and strong, ain't that right. " She assured her, before pressing a kiss to Tommy's flaxen curls.
"Speaking of growing big and strong, when does the newest future member of SAMCRO get to bust out of this joint?" Her Aunt smirked over at her mother.
"Oh God, not you too I already told Hugh and all the guys over my dead body will that boy drive a motorcycle, let alone wear a strip of leather; Especially with what he had me go through the last seven and a half months." Her mother said adamantly giving her aunt a look that kept her from mentioning anything about SAMCRO and her baby boy.
"Knock, knock. The good lookin' people have arrived." Uncle John said poking his head in the room before waltzing in like he owned the place.
"Well I know that, but John why are you here?" Her mother teased her Uncle, who slumped into the chair, and pouting.
"She's got ya there brotha'" Uncle Piney chuckled as he went to pat her mother on the cheek, and a small squeeze to the hand.
"Oh so I see you found the place all on your own, thanks for leaving me to deal with the annoyed nursing staff." Hugh said as a way of greeting as he entered into the crowded room and closing the door.
Don't mention it man, we know you like to take care of things." Piney said before smirking over at her daddy who gave him the bad finger.
"So when do we get to meet the little man?" Uncle John asked for all those wondering.
Her mother and father shared a look, before turning back to the adults and rowdy children, "The doctor says that as long as he is progresses at the rate he is you should all be able ot meet him within the next week. " Her mother beamed happily at relaying the news.
"He is so cute even if he is tiny." She piped up, telling her aunt and uncles and the three boys all about her brother for the tenth time in as many hours.
"How can he be cute, he doesn't even have hair?" Jax asked curiously "or muscles?" Opie added as he ran a hand through his messy hair.
"What you think you came out with all that hair?" Uncle Piney asked rhetorically before barking out a laugh.
"Well what is his name?" Tommy asked gently, from his spot in his mother's arms.
"Rhett." "Joshua" "Charlie" "Matthew" "Daniel" everyone but the three boys shouted out.
Tommy and Jax shared a look with Opie that she couldn't help but laugh at, especially at Opie's big shoulder shrug.
"I'm not naming our child Joshua, I HATE that name." Kat screeched, leveling her father with a menacing glare, like the one she uses' when she gets really mad when the bath water turns cold.
"Well I don't want to name him after a scoundrel." Her father said just as loudly.
"I'm telling you both Daniel Knowles sound like a really great name." Aunt Gemma put in her two-cents.
"I'm still say Matthew sounds like a good name for a future biker." Uncle John added in as soon as his wife stopped speaking.
Her father tore his gaze away from her mother to glare the King and Queen of SAMCRO, "If it isn't your baby, you don't get to name it." He said with finality.
"What if you named him Charlie Matthew Knowles?" she spoke up from her seat on Uncle John's lap.
The room was quiet as all adults looked from one to another before her mother and father grinned at each other. "Did we just figure out a name for our boy?" Her mother asked weepy, as she grabbed a hold of her father's hands.
"Yeah I think we did." Hugh said softly before peppering her on the lips.
"Charlie Matthew Knowles. It sounds good." Her Uncle Piney said, nodding his head in approval.
"Well Charlie is a much better name then Joshua; it sounds like a pussy's name." Jax says his peace to the disapproval of her father and to the delight of her mother.
"See Hugh, even a ten year old knows your name choices suck." Kat pointed out grinning from ear to ear as her father whined to her that he gets to name the next one.
The next week was chaotic, she ended up staying at Aunt Gemma's house because her dad was either always at the hospital visiting her mom and brother or he was at work. Aunt Gemma made up her own little room in the craft room. It was like a seven day sleepover with her best friends.
School went on as usual; she ended up getting an A on her "What makes a Good Mother vs. Bad Mother" assignment. She got the highest mark, so Mr. Blake gave her a jar of skittles and two whole days without any assignments, of course she did them anyways because her mama told her to but still she was very proud of herself.
As Friday came around again she waved goodbye to Mr. Blake before her and Donna skipped down to the edge of school to walk home with the boys, except what she found skipping up to the flag pole made her clench her fists and leap into action.
"Get away from him!" She screamed as she ran into the bully looming over her friend as he sat on the flowerbed wall, right underneath the swaying red, white and blue symbol of freedom.
The force of her body nudged him off balance enough to get him away from her friend but not enough for him to back away entirely.
"No Tara, don't do it he isn't worth it." Donna yelled at her as she hit the big oaf over and over, landing punches on his right side.
"Go find Jax or Opie! And get Tommy out of here!" She yelled back never breaking her streak of hitting the pimple-faced Jacob Hale's right arm. That is until he recovered enough to pull her away from him by the bulk of her backpack, causing her to fall and land straight on her back, with only her books and binders as padding against the concrete.
"You stupid little snot brain, you never know when to mind your own business." Jacob bellowed at her standing above her. She kicked out her feet at him, landing a hit with her shoe on his ankle causing him to wince before there was a blur of blue and red and then Jacob Hale fell out of sight and Donna came into view giving her a hand up.
She heard more then saw Jax pummeling the biggest Hale in the face before they gained attention and the teachers swarmed them.
"Get off me! He was bullying my brother and Tara!" Jax yelled, kicking out as Mr. Blake grabbed ahold of him under his arms and dragged him away from an already bruising eighth grader.
"Enough, Mr. Teller. Mr. Winston- don't even think about it." Mr. Blake snapped as he saw Opie inch closer to a held back Jacob, who was starting to resemble a bruised Georgian peach.
"I am so proud of you Jackson, standing up for your brother and Tara like that." Aunt Gemma said as soon as the office doors clicked behind them.
"He was so great mama, that bully will never come after me again." Tommy told her, smiling over at his brother who had a cut lip and slightly swollen cheek.
"That's right baby because Jax showed him not to mess with the Teller brothers." Gemma nodded, unlocking the car and setting her youngest son in his booster seat.
"And Tara too, she hit him real good, she was like a warrior princess." Tommy babbled as the rest of the gang bundled into the car and buckled in.
"I'm sure she did." Aunt Gemma agreed, looking over at her and smiling softly before checking ot see if Tommy was secure before shutting the door and getting into the driver's seat.
"How 'bout some ice cream for those Teller and Fitz tempers?" Aunt Gemma asked as she backed out of the school lot.
"It's Knowles, Aunt Gemma." She reminded her aunt from the very back row seated next to Opie.
"Honey, you might be a Knowles but your temper is all Fitz, you got that from Kat." She told her laughing softly at the memories of a young Kat Fitz and her wild temper.
"Was my mom really that mean Aunt Gemma?" She asked curiously, cradling her hand, because it felt like pins and needles.
"Only when someone was stupid enough to encroach on her territory." Aunt Gemma supplied before turning on the radio and driving leisurely through Charming.
"Oh good Gemma you got here just in- What happened to you young lady?" Her mother switched focus, landing on her un-kept hair and hand being gently cradled.
"I tried to protect Tommy." She said happily grinning up at her mother.
"Tried to-?" Her mother looked back over at her aunt who was standing next to a cut up Jackson Teller.
"Tara and then Jax stepped in when a bully, the same spawn who was bullying Tara earlier in the year, was making threats and scaring Tommy. Don't worry Kat nothing is broken, and she isn't suspended from school. I made sure of that after all it was outside of school hours, even if the brawl took place on the grounds." Her Aunt assured her mother, who took one last look at her and then at Jax and Tommy before shaking her head and letting out an infectious laugh that had her aunt leaning against the door in happy tears.
"Oh you were right; she is going be exactly like me." Kat said wistfully before there was a gentle knock on the door.
"Ready to hold him?" the nurse on rotation stuck her head through the door as soon as the Teller brood moved farther into the room.
"Yes, I've been waiting a long time." Kat nodded her head vigorously at the nurse as she wheeled in the clear box, and nestled inside was her tiny bundle of a boy.
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