Two Days Later

Chibs sat in the waiting room at St. Thomas with Gemma and Jax, while Tara was in the operating room with Summer. The doctors had discovered an unexpected tare in her uterus, one they never saw when they were operating on her stomach the day she came in. They hoped to go in and repair it and hopefully that would one day increase Summer's chances of being able to produce children in the future. He knew though, that Tara was not 100% optimistic that this surgery would do any good, but she said she would do whatever she could to help increase Summer's chances. It broke his heart that this one chance at having a child was taken away from her so quickly. He thought back to when she told him the news.

FLASHBACK

"Hey beautiful," Chibs said quietly as he let himself into Summer's hospital room, "How are you feeling?" Summer sat up in her bed and gave him her best attempt at a smile. She looked tired and her eyes were red and her cheeks were wet. "Baby, what's wrong?" he asked as he sat down cautiously beside her on the bed. Summer reached out and placed her small hand in his significantly larger hand and looked sadly into his eyes. "Tara just told me that they found a tare in my uterus," Summer replied quietly as she looked down at their hands, "I have about a 95% chance of never being able to have children because Tyson got knife happy."

Chibs pulled Summer into his arms and kissed her forehead gently, his heart breaking at the news. He had hoped that maybe one day he could give her a child like she so badly wanted and now that dream had seemed to turn to dust quickly. "Sum, I'm so sorry," Chibs replied, "I know that's hard news for you to swallow." In that moment, Chibs wished that Summer hadn't lost Opie's baby. He would have preferred that than for Summer to have nothing at all. "I'm so sad and heartbroken," Summer whispered, trying to choke back the sobs that evidently were trying to escape, "Besides you, a baby was the one thing that I wanted most in this world and now that has been taken away."

"Is there anything they can do?" Chibs asked her as he massaged her palm with his thumb. "There is a surgery Tara said they could try," Summer replied, "But she isn't hopeful that it will work. She said it might increases the chances a little, but we won't know anything until I start trying to conceive." "Well, what did you tell her?" Chibs asked, looking closely at her, already knowing what she was going to say. "I told her that I wanted her to exhaust every option," Summer replied, "If there is something she can do to try and fix the problem, I want her to do it." He smiled at her and held her tight. He wanted her to try what she could in order to increase the possibility of being able to conceive, but at the same time he didn't her to get her hopes up so high that she crashed if and when the news came that no matter what she tries, she just wouldn't be able to have children.

Summer looked up at Chibs for a moment and then she placed her hand on his cheek. "Don't worry Chibs," she said quietly with a small smile, "I know what the odds are, but I just want to know that I and the doctors did everything we could." Together a week and they were already reading each other's minds. "Ok," Chibs replied, smiling down at her, "I just want you to know that there is still that possibility and I don't want you to go through more heartbreak." "I know," she whispered, "Thank you for having my back."

For the last couple days Chibs had been very careful with her because she was so jumpy and she got anxious very easily. "Can I kiss you?" he replied, his voice husky with desire. Summer swallowed and then nodded her head in response. He put a hand on her cheek and slowly leaned down and pressed his lips against her gently. For Chibs it was like heaven to kiss her sweet lips. Summer reached up and wrapped her arms around his neck and opened her mouth, allowing him full access. Their tongues slid against each other and she whimpered quietly as his warm hands slowly travelled down her back. She held on tight and the kiss continued for a couple moments before she had to pull away.

Summer sat on the bed beside Chibs and took a couple deep breaths, her face red and her eye glossy. He ran a hand through her hair and looked into her eyes. "You ok love?" he asked quietly. She nodded her head quickly, but he knew she was trying hard to fight the anxiety attack that was fast approaching. He gently rubbed her back and shoulders and let her be in silence. He watched as the tears silently fell over her cheeks as she took deep breaths and clenched her fists to make her hands stop shaking. Chibs reached over to the bedside table and grabbed the pill that was sitting in a cup and handed it to her. She took it without a word and put it her mouth and swallowed it down without water. Summer then put her head in her hands and closed her eyes.

"I'm ok," she whispered as she slowly rocked back and forth beside Chibs, "I'm ok." After several moments of deep breaths, some more rocking and quiet coaxing from herself that she was going to be ok, she looked up at Chibs with a small smile. "Sorry," she said quietly. "Don't be sorry love," Chibs replied with his own smile, "In time this will get easier." She nodded her head and then she leaned against him with her back against his chest and he wrapped his arms around her. "I love you," she said quietly...

BACK TO PRESENT

Chibs sat up straight when he felt Gemma's hand on his shoulder. "You ok baby?" Gemma asked him with a small smile. "Of course Gem," Chibs replied, "Just off in my own little world. Trying to keep my mind occupied until Tara comes out." "Summer is going to be ok," Gemma replied, rubbing Chibs' shoulder, "She is a tough girl, all the crazy shit she has been through in her short life. She is definitely a Sons' daughter." Chibs nodded his head. Summer was definitely one of the strongest women he has ever met and it blew his mind how she went from being a sweet, cute little girl, to the sexy, strong willed woman that crashed into his life unexpectedly.

"Hey guys," Tara said quietly, now standing in front of them in her green scrubs and gown. She had been so quiet, none of them had heard her approach. Jax and Chibs quickly stood up as Tara pulled her green gown off. "She did very well," Tara said with a smile to reassure them, "But like I said before, we won't know if it helped until later on down the road. She should be coming out of her sedation within the next half hour or so and I will let you know when you can go in a see her. But she is doing very good right now." "Thanks Tara for taking such good care of my little girl," Gemma said thankfully before she kissed Tara on the cheek. "I would do anything for her Gem," Tara replied with a small smile, "She's my best friend."

Chibs was next in line for a hug and he smiled at her as she wrapped her arms around his waist. "You've got yourself a tough woman," Tara said quietly, "And she is absolutely in love with you." "How do you know that?" he asked curiously, his heart filling with more and more love for Summer. "She told me as we were prepping her for surgery," Tara replied, "She said that no matter what happened, it didn't make much of a difference to her, just as long as you were there by her side." "I'm not going anywhere," he replied, "I don't know where this woman came from." "She was in front of you the whole time," Tara stated with a grin as she pulled away from the hug, "She just blossomed into something you weren't expecting." "You've got that right love," Chibs replied with a small laugh. "I have to get back there and check up on our girl," Tara said after a moment, "But I will let you know when she is ready for visitors." She kissed him quickly on the cheek and then smiled at all three of them and disappeared into the back.

Chibs turned and looked in Jax's direction after Tara had disappeared when his cell phone screeched through the hall. "Yeah," Jax said quietly. Chibs walked towards him and by the time he got to Jax, Jax had already hung up the phone. Jax's eyes were filled with a fire that Chibs hadn't seen since the day they found Summer at Buddy's. "What's up Jackie Boy?" Chibs asked quietly. "Clay got a call from Lee Nelson directly," Jax said, "He must have gotten his hands on a burner. Clay wants us at the clubhouse now." Chibs nodded his head in agreement as he looked down the hall towards Summer's room. "Gemma, will you stay here and be with Summer when she gets back to her room?" Jax called out to her, "Clay just called, he's calling an emergency meeting. Needs both Chibs and I there." "Of course sweetheart," Gemma replied as she approached them, "Is everything alright?" "I hope so," Jax replied, before kissing her on the cheek, "Clay was kind of vague." "Ok, you go," Gemma replied, smiling at them both, "Be careful."

Chibs nodded his head and then followed Jax down the hall knowing full well that Jax knew more than he was letting on to his mother. "Jackie boy, please fill me in," Chibs grumbled as he caught up with Jax. "Shit's gonna get bad before it gets better," Jax mumbled as he pushed the down button on the elevator, "We can't say anything to anyone until we know for sure what's going on? I don't want to cause unnecessary worry to my mother or to Tara, Summer or Donna. Clay will fill us in when we get to the clubhouse." Chibs knew, just by the tone in Jax's voice, that he was worried and even possibly scared of Clay had told him.

20 minutes later Jax and Chibs pulled their bikes into the parking lot of Teller-Morrow and quickly made their way towards the clubhouse. Opie was sitting outside on the picnic table smoking a cigarette and pounding back a bottle of beer. Tensions were high, that much was obvious to Jax. Opie put the empty beer bottle down on the table, , threw his cigarette on the ground and stepped on it and nodded in Jax and Chibs' direction. Jax put his hand on Opie's shoulder and directed him into the clubhouse with Chibs following behind. No words were needed, Opie was clearly going crazy with rage.

They all walked into the chapel and sat down at their respective spots. Once the chairs were filled Clay smacked the gavel down on the table. "We have certainly got a bigger pile of shit to deal with than we expected," Clay began, "I received a call from Lee Nelson, Otto's contact. He is the one that worked for Tyson Jacobs before he went to prison for murdering Tyson's wife. It's not looking good for us." "What's going on prez?" Happy asked, looking at Clay curiously. "Lee Nelson spoke to a contact of his on the outside yesterday afternoon," Clay replied, looking at all the guys that were involved in Summer's rescue, "Buddy's brother, Johnny is now working along-side Tyson now that Buddy is missing. My guess is they don't know that Buddy is not coming home any time soon, but I have been made aware that they are looking for whoever was involved in rescuing Summer. There are bounties on all of your heads boys. The first one to find you will kill you. Unfortunately for us though, they don't know which of us were the rescuers, so they will kill any of us at this point."

Jax's head dropped into his hands. "Jesus Christ," he groaned audibly, "They kidnap my sister and now they want to kill us." "We did kill Johnny's brother," Happy pointed out. Jax rolled his eyes in response and then sat up straight in his chair. "So what do we do?" Opie asked. "Lee Nelson has offered us protection," Clay replied, "He said he would do his best to keep the Sons of Anarchy and their families safe, if we can arrange to have a gun shipment available once a month for them, for the next year. I told him I would bring it to the table, but I don't see this being a problem." "Let's vote," Jax mumbled, "Yay." They went around the table and in the end everyone was in favor of providing Lee's contact with guns in exchange for protection.

"Now what?" Tig asked, resting his hands on the table. "Now we lay low," Clay replied, "We hunt down Tyson Jacobs and we do to him what he wants to do to us. And then we get rid of everyone closely connected to Tyson. We will not give them the satisfaction of succeeding in their plan to destroy us and our families."