16.

Tara was kind of shocked to hear him. She had thought him to be a nice man. But now she sees how egotistical he is. She stood up.

"Where are you going?"

"I'm leaving you ass. You think I upgraded myself for going out with you? Well you are wrong. Jax may be a lot of things but when I was with him he made me feel as if I was the most important person in the world."

"So why did you break it off with him?" he sneered.

"Because we both made mistakes. But now I'm correcting one of mine. Goodbye Mark." she said as she stormed out of the restaurant.

She knew Donna would still be up so she didn't go home just yet. She went to a place that Jax use to take her for private time. She needed to think. She didn't even realize how long she was there. She shed many tears and went over and over in her head about everything. She ended up falling asleep. When she woke up in the morning she panicked. She hurried home.

"Hey you. Must have been one doozy of a date." Donna said trying to sound excited for her.

Tara wasn't ready to talk about it yet so she let Donna believe what she wanted to.

The next week was kind of rough for Tara. She would run into Mark a few times throughout the hospital. She knew he talked to people about Jax because when she went by they would start whispering. She tried not to let it bother her. She went about her day as if nothing was wrong.

The following weekend she decided she was going to see Jax. But she wanted to go alone, without Thomas. Her and Jax needed to talk.

"You are going?" Donna asked happily.

"Yeah, I think Jax and I need to talk."

"Good. I think it's a good decision."

"Yeah, we need to drop Thomas off at Gemmas."

"Okay, well when you are ready."

Gemma had been surprised when Tara called her to watch Thomas. But she was glad to do it. She met them in the driveway.

"Hey you two. Make sure you give them our love." Gemma said as she took Thomas from Tara.

"We will." Donna said.

"Thank you Gemma." Tara said.

"No need for thanks Tara. I love spending time with my grandson. You just remember to give him hell okay?"

"I will." Tara said smiling.

Tara was sitting at the table by herself as Donna went to one that Opie would be coming to. She looked up when she heard the noise of the door. She seen the smile that came on Jax's face. It made her heart race. He quickly came over and when he went to hug her he realized she didn't have Thomas.

"Where's Thomas?" he asked.

"I have your mom watching him. I thought it was best it was just you and I this time."
Jax got a little nervous then. He didn't know what to expect. He realized then that he was using Thomas as a buffer.. It made him nervous but it also excited him that it was just the two of them.

"Why did you do it?" she immediately asked him.

He started to explain it to her but she stopped him.

"No, I want to hear why you would do that. Was it to hurt me? Was it to break up with me? Did you want it to be easy for me to break up with you?" she asked with tears starting to gather in her eyes.

"No, no, it wasn't any of those things. It was because I love you. I didn't want you to be in any danger while I was locked up and I would rather see you angry at me and alive then for you to get hurt physically."

"You love me?" she asked softly.

"I do love you Tara. I know I didn't really face the fact before but I do. With every beat of my heart."

"So you are still in here. What happened that you decided to forget about putting me in danger?"

"I can't live without you Tara. I realized that. Please give me another chance to make things right darling." he said with tears in his eyes.

She stared at him for a long time before she finally spoke.

"I can't promise how it will be Jax. But I love you too. I want us to work. But I won't have your sluts throwing themselves in my face. I won't have you around them anymore. Do you understand?"

"I do baby. I do. I swear to you Tara. It's only you I want."

She finally nodded to him. "Okay, we will try. Slowly." she said.

"Can I please kiss you Tara. I have only wanted to taste your lips so badly."

She leaned forward and he pulled her into his lap and kissed her like it was the kiss to give him life, and it did.

"I love you so much Tara. Thank you for giving me a chance and most of all thank you for my beautiful son."

"I love you too Jax." They held hands the rest of the visit. He wanted to do so much more. Finally it was time for her to go.

"Baby, I promise you I will prove to you how much you mean to me. How much I love you." Jax said softly in her ear.

"I love you Jax." she whispered back before she left.

Jax walked back to his cell with an extra spring in his step. He had something to look forward to. But first he needed to sit down and write a letter. There was something he needed to take care of. He was going to prove to Tara she was the only one.

When Opie came back to the cell he seen Jax in a great mood. He really hated to tell him what Donna told him.

"What has you so chipper?" he asked his friend.

"Tara and I are going to work things out."

"She said that? What changed her mind?"

"Well at first I didn't want to ask her because I was just so happy about it but I knew I needed to know. As we were talking later she told me that she went out on a date."

"A date?"

"Yeah, but thank God for egotistical jerks. It pissed her off and she realized she would only love me."

"So nothing happened on this date?"

"No. She left him at the restaurant and then went to the place her and I would go. She ended up falling asleep there and once she woke up she knew her decision."

Ope let out a long breath. "Whew." he said.

"What?"

"Donna told me about the date and told me she didn't come home that night so we assumed she spent the night with him. I'm glad to know we were wrong."

"Were you going to tell me?"

"Yeah, I was, I just didn't know how at first and then you told me instead."

Jax just smiled at his brother. "I love you Ope."