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It was time to go out and Tara took off the shawl. She walked out and passed first Jax and then Opie standing there as she made her way to where she was suppose to be. Jax couldn't take his eyes off of her. But he still didn't see it. Then Opie looked down and his eyes got big. He turned to Jax and raised his eyebrows and smirked. Jax didn't know why but he just smiled. Then when he heard his mother gasp he looked over at Gemma and wondered what was wrong. He could see tears in her eyes and she was staring at Tara's back. He looked up at Tara in question. She slowly turned her body so he could see. He started chuckling. He shrugged his shoulders and smiled at his mom. Then the wedding march came on. He put his serious face on but he couldn't stop looking at Tara. She looked so beautiful to him and he knew the tattoo wasn't the last thing he needed to do.

Once the wedding was performed and they went to the cake eating and the dancing he turned to Tara. He grabbed her hand and danced with her. She was surprised because he usually didn't like to dance.

He held her closely and she loved it. When he got the chance he went over to his mother.

"Mom, I have something to ask you."

"Yes, baby I want you to give it to her."

"You know what I'm asking?" he said surprised.

"Jackson Teller do you know how long I have waited for you to wake up and realize your soul mate was Tara? "

"I know I can't believe it took me this long."

"Yeah, well you are just like your father JT. Stubborn as a mule, thought he was going to keep himself single. Although he didn't last as long as you did." she said chuckling.

"So it's okay if I want to use the engagement ring dad gave to you?"

"Yeah baby. He would've wanted it. He would have loved her too you know."

"Yeah, I know."

"I'll get it for you first thing in the morning."

"Actually can I stop by and get it tonight? I have a plan for in the morning."

"Okay. That's fine."

"Thanks." he said kissing her and leaving to find his old lady.

Before he could find her Clay intercepted him. They had to do some business. It needed to be handled tonight.

"Okay, let me just let her know."
"No, we can't let anyone be aware that we won't be here for a short while."

Jax didn't like it but he knew it had to be.

"Fine. Let's do this." he said as he went to his bike following Clay, Bobby and Tig.

Gemma seen it all happen and she knew that Tara would be worried. So she decided to be there for her. Ope and Donna had just left so she knew Tara would be over here soon.

"Hey Gemma."

"Hey baby. You tired?"

"Yeah, I wasn't even the one that got married and I feel whipped." she said laughing.

"Yeah, well I bet it was lack of sleep." she said teasing Tara.

Tara blushed.

"So I wonder where Jax went?" Tara said looking around for him.

"He went to work." Gemma said knowing that Tara would understand.

"Oh, okay. Well do we stay here or leave? What do we do?"

"We stay here and act as if we are having the time of our lives." Gemma said smiling.

"Okay, well I think I'm going to need some champagne then. You want some?" she asked Gemma.

"Yeah, I could use a glass."

Tara went off to get a couple of glasses of champagne.

Tara didn't like Jax being in danger but she knew that this was his life. She knew it when she fell in love and she knew it when she pursued him. This was the life she chose to live. She felt like Donna did. She had to enjoy the moments that they had and make wonderful memories that she knew would one day have to sustain her. She took a big gulp of the first glass of champagne and before she went back to Gemma she grabbed another for her.

She got back to Gemma and handed her the glass.

"You okay baby?" Gemma asked her.

"Yeah, I am. Did you see Jax's face when he realized that everyone could see his crow today?"

"I did. Hell I was surprised."

"Are you okay with it?"

"With you getting Jax's crow?"

"Yeah."

"Oh baby, you don't know how happy I am right now. I always knew, I just didn't think my son would ever get his head out of his ass and see what was right in front of him."

"Well it was blinded by all that porn pussy." Tara said.

"Yeah, well he knows now."

"I guess I need to find Julie with Thomas somewhere."

"I think they are over at the kiddie table." Gemma said pointing.

"He looks like he's having a good time." as she seen him giggling and eating cake that was covering him from head to toe.

They had done their business and Jax was furious. He couldn't believe that Clay had set them up with drug running. As far as he was concerned the Sons didn't work with anything that had to do with drugs.

"You bastard. You brought us out here under the pretense of guns and now we find out it was drugs. We need to bring this to the table. I won't be a part of this."

"Then we bring it to the table." Clay said.

"Why would you do this?"

"It's a lot of money Jax."

"It's not enough to do this." Jax said walking away. He got on his bike and rode off.

Jax didn't know that Bobby was right behind him. When he did he stopped.

"Are you going to tell me that you think this is okay?" Jax yelled.

"No, I'm not. I didn't know anything about this either. You are right we need to take this to the table."

Jax nodded his head and put his helmet back on. Then the two of them rode toward the clubhouse.

"This is going to create a lot of trouble for you brother." Tig said next to his oldest friend.

"How do you feel about it?" Clay asked.

"I'm not sure yet. I just hope you have one powerful plan to get it through a vote."

Together he and Clay rode towards the clubhouse too.