Hello, guys. I'm baaaack! I'm still dealing with some personal stuff, however it's not weighing on my mind as heavy. Thank you all for being patient. Anyways, here is a brand new chapter. I'll begin to update regularly again.

Fallon: End of an Era

Chapter Six

"Hey, Dru, do you care if I put you down as a contact?" Gemma asked her.

"Contact for what?" Dru was confused.

"Just in case we need you to pick Abel up from school," she replied.

Dru stopped texting to look at Gemma. The Queen was smirking. The younger woman narrowed her eyes. "What the hell do you have planned?"

"Well, I know that you and Jax might as well be a couple. I have witnessed more than a few kisses between the two of you."

Dru shook her head. "It doesn't mean that you should be putting me down as a contact on Abel's school papers."

"It's just for emergencies, Dru," Gemma assured her.

"I don't want Abel to think I'm taking Tara's place," Dru sighed.

"And you're not," Gemma clarified. "Besides, it's my fault you feel that way."

"We are going to talk about that one day, Gemma."

"About what, the fact that I was the one who killed Tara?"

Dru tossed her phone on the desk. "I don't think Diosa is the best place to have this conversation. There are eyes and ears everywhere."

"Not in this office," Gemma said.

"Well, I think it should at least be on neutral ground where there's no danger of anyone hearing," Dru told her.

"Fair enough," Gemma shrugged.

About that time, Abel came in with a box full of his toys. He quickly asked Grandma if it was okay if he played in there. "As long as you're quiet about it, sweetheart," Gemma told him.

Dru picked her phone back up when she noticed the light blinking at the top of it. Success! But it was short lived when Gemma and her noticed a sound coming from the kitchen. It sounded like a struggle and heard a girl yelling. They quickly went to investigate. Dru was the first to take in the scene. There was a young girl; Dru assumed she was an escort that was arguing with an older man that was going through her purse.

"What the hell is this?" Gemma questioned.

"Who is this, your whore Queen?" the man asked sarcastically.

"Stop it!" the girl shouted.

"This dick a John?" Dru retorted.

"I'm her father. Mind your own business! All of you!" the man shouted them.

"He's taking my money again," the girl told her.

"No, you're paying me back, you lying little slut! Where's your goddamn wallet?"

"Get out of here!" Gemma yelled as she grabbed for the purse.

Gemma and the man fought over the purse playing tug o' war with it. Gemma quickly got the upper hand by hitting him across the face, but the man swiftly retaliated by doing the same. Gemma's head snapped back. About the time that Dru was about to step in, Nero did it for her. But before Nero could get any licks in, Gemma told her to break them up.

"Nero, stop!" Dru bellowed as she grabbed his arms to haul him off of the man. "That's enough!"

Nero finally let go. Dru was disgusted to see the girl run to her daddy and ask if he was alright. She even began profusely apologizing to him. 'Are you fucking kidding me?' she thought to herself. About that time, she saw movement in the shape of a little boy in the doorway of the kitchen. "Oh, shit," she muttered.

It was Abel.

"Gemma, get him out of here," Dru told her.

When Jax received the phone call from his mom alerting him to what had happened at Diosa, he was hasty to get there. Gemma told him that for now Dru was handling everything nicely. 'So, that's where she disappeared to,' he thought. When him and the rest of his crew walked into Diosa they did not expect to find the Sheriff's Department inside. Jax quickly picked Dru out of the crowd as she did the same.

"Who the hell called the Sheriffs?" Jax questioned her after she walked up.

"Sandy did. Her dad told her to," Dru answered.

All Jax could manage to do was shake his head. Dru trailed him as he made his way to his mother. "Are you okay?" he asked.

"Yeah. I'm sorry," Gemma said.

"Where's the animal that hit you?" Chibs questioned her.

"In the kitchen."

"Did he see it?" Jax inquired referring to Abel.

"Not really," Gemma replied.

Jax sat beside of Abel and asked if he was okay. The boy nodded his head.

Someone went to knocking on the table to get their attention. They looked up to find the new Sheriff waving them to follow her. They did so and tracked her into the office. Nero sat there in a chair. Dru had already known that they were in the process of interrogating Nero.

"Shut the door, please. Sheriff Althea Jarry," she introduced herself as she held her hand out.

"Jax Teller," he reciprocated taking her hand to shake.

She took Chibs' hand too as he introduced himself too. "I didn't realize this was a family business," Althea said.

"Well, we're business partners. We run another place out of Stockton as well," Nero told her.

"I know."

"This is a rare occurrence for us," Jax told her. "We run a legit, quiet business here."

"I get it," Althea nodded. "All your paperwork's in order. Your permits are up to date. However, Mr. Hoss, your employee's father, is pressing assault charges."

"Well, we're gonna be pressing charges as well then. He came in here and he smacked Gemma," Nero announced.

"Mr. Hoss says he came by to pick up the money his daughter owed him. They were having a family discussion. Gemma interfered. He told her to back off. Then Mr. Padilla here went to town on him," Althea explained.

"Come on, that doesn't even make sense," Jax said.

"I'll tell you what, I'll have a chat with the dad; let him know how complicated these things can become."

Jax was surprised. "Yeah, we'd appreciate that."

"You know what I would appreciate? I would appreciate you helping me find Juan Carlos Ortiz. He's the only member of your charter that we haven't interviewed about the murders."

"Juice split when I was inside," Jax told her.

"Yeah. He didn't really say much about where he was going," Chibs added.

"That's unfortunate because if I can't track him down, the D.A. wants to put out an APB."

"I'll see what I can find out," Jax said.

"What about the Chinese? Would they have any reason to want to hurt your club?" Althea asked.

"Not that I know of," Jax shook his head. "I'm a very big fan of their food," he sarcastically retorted. Chibs and Dru began chuckling.

"Are we done here? Can I go?" Nero requested.

"Yeah, just stay reachable," Althea told him. "I'm sure we can all work together to keep Charming safe and profitable for everyone. Understood?"

"Yes, ma'am." He was studying her trying to figure her out. He began smirking. He had her pegged now.

As she was walking out, she stopped just as she was about to go past the door. "We should connect later, Scottie," the Sheriff said to Chibs.

"There is a new Sheriff in town," Jax announced playfully. "And I think she's looking for a profitable relationship."

"And a good ole Glaswegian humpin'," Chibs said.

"You guys are disgusting!" Dru exclaimed.

"I'll let you guys handle all the humping," Nero told them. "Barosky called. While all this shit was going down, there was trouble at the docks."

"What trouble?" Jax asked.

"I don't know," Nero shrugged. "But I'm gonna go down there and find out."

About that time the guy who had hit Gemma and his daughter walked by. Jax clearly had his eyes on him.

"Look after your mom," Nero requested of him.

"Yeah," Jax nodded. They hugged and Nero walked away.

"An APB on Juice is very bad," Dru said.

"I'm sure that boy is far, far away," Chibs assured them.

"And you know that for sure how?" Dru asked.

"What reason would he have to stick around?"

"There could be any number of reasons, Chibs," she shrugged. "But he also knows that we would kill him if he were still in Charming."

"Well, it's not as if he hasn't had a death wish before."

"True that," Dru sighed. "I'll find him." She knew exactly where to start.

Dru walked in to Gemma's house. She heard a baby crying somewhere in the back of it. 'Is there no one here to look after Thomas?' she thought. As she was making her way to the beginning of the hallway, she found Gemma sitting and smoking a cigarette at the breakfast nook in the kitchen.

"You do know that Thomas is crying, right?" Dru asked.

"Wendy has him," Gemma told her.

"Well, that's good to know," Dru scoffed. "I don't see how you can trust her with another baby after what she did to Abel."

"That was a long time ago, Dru. Leave it alone," Gemma warned. "She came back to help after Tara died. She didn't have to do that."

Dru rolled her eyes. "She's doing it cause she's still in love with Jax."

"Maybe so," Gemma shrugged. "But she's helping."

"Whatever. Wendy is not the topic that I want to talk about," she said as she took a seat across from the Queen.

"So, why are you here?" Gemma asked.

"Because you're gonna tell me where I can find Juice." Gemma tensed just enough for Dru to notice. "And don't you dare lie to me, Gemma. I know you know where he is. If I could bet on it, you're the one who's hiding him."

"I don't know what you're talking about," the older woman said.

Dru snickered. "Tell me. After all, I'm the one keeping your dirty little secret."

Dru knew she had backed Gemma into a corner, but she had to get a handle on Juice before everything became a devastating mess.

Dru once again had to return to the porn warehouse. She walked in to find a number of half-naked girls running around. Her stomach went to tossing and turning from the sight. From the corner of her eye, she seen Lyla directing a girl on girl scene, and Dru was for sure she threw up in her mouth a little bit.

She went back and knocked on the door to the office. Through the blinds she could see the entire crew was inside. She shut the door behind her once she stepped inside.

"Did you find him?" Jax asked her.

"I got intel on where he's been hiding. Whenever I got there, he was gone. There was no trace of him," Dru replied.

"That's probably because I ran into him," Chibs cut in.

"What?" Dru exclaimed.

"I got a prank call from my parole officer. I was to go meet him at this diner. It was full of cops. Whenever I walked in, it was Unser sitting there. Unser then told me that he had a friend make that phone call to make sure I came down," Chibs explained. "Then Juice just came out of nowhere. He had a gun and let me know it."

"Obviously he didn't use it," Dru retorted.

"What did he want?" Jax questioned.

"He wanted to know if there was a way back into the MC," Chibs said.

"Unbelievable," Jax muttered.

"So, I told him to turn the gun on himself."

"How'd he get to Unser?" Dru asked.

"He said he turned up at the trailer in the middle of the night; took him at gunpoint."

"What does Unser know?" Jax inquired.

"He knows we want him dead, but he doesn't know why."

"Alright. We should alert the other charters. He might reach out," Jax declared. "Take an envelope to our friendly Sheriff."

"I'll convince her that Juice is a dead end," Chibs assured him. "What do you think, 2K?"

"Yeah," Jax nodded. "Get her off the Chinese trail."

"Aye, absolutely."

"I've got a name on the missing body from Jury," Bobby cut in. "I gave it to the bounty hunter that's with my ex to see what he turns up."

"Good," Jax commented and there a knock at the door.

"Give me the name later, Bobby. I'll see what I can find. I have better ways of searching for people."

"Will do," Bobby nodded.

It was Lyla. "There's some guys out back to see you."

"What color?" Tig asked.

"Black and blacker," she replied.

Dru turned her eyes on Jax, and he was looking straight at her. Dru knew he had done something, which is why she had taken herself out of the equation for a little bit. It was getting to the point that she had no answers on how to stop this train wreck from happening. Jax was almost completely off the rails. He had put something in motion that couldn't be taken back, and Dru could only hold on for the bumpy ride. Maybe they could both come out unscathed at the end of this journey.

"Let's go," Tig said.

"I'll be right there."

Dru stayed behind with Jax. "You ever thought about jerking on the brakes a little bit to slow this down?"

"Everything is going as planned, Dru. Everything's working out the way that it needs to," Jax answered.

"For now," Dru scoffed. "But you don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow or next week. You're playing a very deadly game of cat and mouse, Jackson."

"I'm getting my revenge. No one messes with what's mine. Tara was the mother of my children and because of the Chinese, I'm having to answer questions for Abel because he's wondering where his mommy went. And Thomas…that was Thomas' mother. She'll never be able to see him grow. She'll never teach him things," Jax explained. "That's why I'm doing this, Dru. For the boys."

"And you think they'll appreciate that? It doesn't change anything!" Dru exclaimed. "The only thing it changes is how you look at yourself in the mirror every day. You already struggle to do that, if you even do it anymore."

"Dru, I can't just stop this—"

"I'm done talking about it," she interrupted. "I'll be outside with everyone else."

"Drusilla, you have really made yourself indispensable to the Sons, haven't you?" August Marks said as she was coming up to the meet.

She shrugged. "Well, I have certain talents that can be useful to them."

"Yes, you do. I'm glad you brought that up because I would like to use your services one day whenever I become needy of them. I have enough networking in the western United States that I can usually do things on my own. There's only been a few times where that network failed me. And I know that you would be the missing link."

Dru nodded. "Whenever you need me, August."

She noticed the attendance of August Marks and a few of the One-Niners. 'What the hell has Jax set in motion?' she thought. She would know soon enough because he came to join the meeting.