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After about the tenth letter he read, he sat there wondering what he was suppose to do. In the letters he read it was mostly his dad telling his mom how much he loved her. How he was so proud she was his old lady and that she had given him two beautiful sons. He talked about his plans for the club so his mom wouldn't have to worry about Jax getting hurt especially after Thomas died. JT knew Gemma would not be able to handle losing two sons. He then went on to talk about how he was getting the club out of the gun business and creating legit businesses. Then the last one he wrote about how if anything unexpectedly happened to him to go see Piney. Something about how he left something with Piney to give to her once she asked him for it. He wondered if Piney still had it. He decided to take the letters and go visit him at the cabin.
"Tara, I'll be back shortly. I have to go check on something."
"Okay babe, I'll be here."
He kissed her goodbye and rode off on his Dyna.
When he knocked on the door and Piney opened it, the first thing Piney said was, "so you heard."
"Heard what?" Jax asked curiously.
"Never mind. What can I help you with Jax?" Piney said realizing maybe Jax wasn't here about what happened between him and Clay.
"I found some letters in the old storage unit. I wanted to ask you about them."
"Letters?"
"Yeah, um.. they were in a box labeled "JT". They are letters written to my mom."
"Why would you think I would know about them and not your mom?"
"Well they were all unopened and in one of the letters it said that dad left something with you to give to mom when she asked you for it. Has she?"
"Oh shit. I forgot all about that." Piney turned to his trunk. "Let me see if it's still here."
Jax watched as he dug through all of his military things in his trunk until he seen Piney pull out another big envelope.
"Is that it?"
"Yeah. So you want to take it to your mom?"
"Not yet." Jax said explaining to Piney what the other letters said. Then they both agreed it would be best if Jax looked at the letter first.
Jax opened it up and as he read his eyes kept getting wider and wider.
"What's wrong?" Piney asked.
"Piney, do you remember anything about the time when Thomas died?"
"Yeah, that was a very sad time."
"What about with mom and Clay?"
"What do you mean?"
"It says here that JT knew that "Clay had taken advantage of mom's grief. He wanted mom to know she didn't need to feel guilty it wasn't her fault. Clay had played her."
"Shit."
"Yeah, it goes on to say that he confronted Clay and Clay basically threatened him. Dad thought there was possibly two times that Clay attempted to kill him."
"Mother Fuck." Piney exclaimed.
"Do you think mom knew any of this?"
"No way in hell. Your mom loved your old man like nothing I've ever seen before."
"I don't understand then. How did she end up married to Clay?"
Piney took a long hard look at Jax and knew he needed to tell Jax his suspicions.
As Piney talked Jax began to pace. Getting angrier and angrier he was ready to kill at that moment.
Piney could see he was starting to lose it.
"We have to play this smart Jax."
"I know. I just want to wrap my hands around his neck and squeeze though."
"I know and I understand. But he is our president and even though he is probably the reason your dad is dead we can't play it like that. Your dad would want us to think about the club."
"Yeah. So what do we do Piney? I'm going to have a hard time looking at this piece of shit."
"We need to get Chibs and Bobby and tell them." Piney said as he told them about coming over the day before.
"Do you think this will be enough to get them to see that this is the truth? I mean we don't have any real evidence."
"I believe it will but if it doesn't then we will somehow find the evidence."
Jax looked at Piney and nodded his head.
"Thanks Piney. I don't know what I would have done if you weren't here. I mean what if I had never come across those letters and Clay would be still getting away with murder and having my mom with him? What do I do about that?"
"I think you need to wait Jax until we find out more."
"Shit."
"I know. But she doesn't know yet so it won't hurt her right now. When we can tell her we will."
"I really wish Opie was here." Jax said.
"Two more days son. In the mean time I will have a talk with Chibs and Bobby."
"Thanks old man."
On the way back to his house he wondered if he should tell Tara. He never wanted to keep anything from her but he hated to see her hurt for Gemma and not be able to tell her. He decided for now he would stay quiet. When he walked in the door he decided to just tell Tara not to say anything about the letters to his mom yet. He would say it just wasn't the right time.
When he told her this he could see the question in her eyes but he turned away so she wouldn't see that he wasn't telling her everything. He hated the way this made him feel.