Thank you to my beta McIlwain for her passion and believing in this story as much as I do. It has taken a long time to get here and without her these would still be useless words on a piece of paper.

Thank you kiara8921 for sending the Fresno Charter to Charming to help SAMCRO when the mother charter needs help.

This is rated MATURE for a reason; language and sex.

I own John FW Teller

All other characters are owned by Kurt Sutter

It is a cold, dark, miserable, rainy night in Charming. The water is standing deep in the parking lot of the new Women's Center - they have been working overtime trying to get things ready for the grand opening in a month. Everyone except for Tara and Abel are calling it a night, but Tara is determined to finish the upstairs office she has been working on. Some of the girls offer to stay and help, not wanting to leave Tara there all alone. She tells them jokingly, "I have Abel; he's all the help I need." The girls just laugh, knowing it is a lie. Tara insists she will be okay reluctantly, so they decide to go ahead and head on out, but make her promise not to get up on the ladder. Tara promises so they went on home. Things are starting to get quiet in the building and the brewing thunderstorm is starting to unnerve her. So Tara turns the radio on and the volume up to drown out the storm's crashing thunder.

Abel is with Tara helping her paint at least he thinks he is. As they head to the back to get more paint he sees a juice box on a table in the kitchen and decides that he wants one. Tara figures that if it will keep him busy for little bit what could it hurt, maybe she can finally get something done.

She is still a little pissed at Jax for dropping Abel off earlier today before she even arrived at the center. He had promised he would take care of Abel all day then drop him off before his appointment with Lowen tonight. He had promised her he would so she could finally get something done. Of course that was before the alarm system at the gun store wouldn't shut up. Naturally HE was the only one who could go over there with Juice to fix it. My ass, he knows electronics about as much as he knows how to operate on a heart, Tara muses. She suspects Jax was at his wits end with Abel because he was throwing a Jax Teller fit, and Jax just can't handle Abel when he does. Yeah, Tara thinks, he can dish it out but he can't handle it, he definitely doesn't want to hear how he is just like that. No, never him.

Tara decides she will just do like Jax and give him juice and cookies to keep him busy and quiet. Tara decides, if he can do it I can too. Now, if Abel doesn't say anything to Jax it will be fine. She is always fussing at Jax not to do that, and here she is resorting to his parenting skills. It doesn't matter, Tara thinks, when he's pregnant and tired we'll see what parenting skills he has. Abel's coloring book is on the table so she gets out his 'washable' crayons. She learned the hard way with the regular crayons trying to get it off of the walls and now he has the washable ones. He seems to be content with his juice, cookie and coloring book, so she slides out to get some work done while he is pacified.

Jax told her, "I used to draw all over the walls when I was little." Of course he did. He started telling her, "One day Gemma had to go run to the store and she left me with JT. JT fell asleep and I decided to draw all over my bedroom, the dining room and the newly painted living room walls." I would have loved to have seen Gemma's face when she got home, Tara thought. Poor John.

After Tara finally finds the paint color she has been hunting for the past hour she heads back to the front. As she passes the kitchen she looks in on Abel. He's lying on the floor coloring and singing a song that he learned at Prince Charming Preschool. Tara still gets a chuckle out of that. Jax fought the club tooth and nail on not naming it that but it was a club vote and he was out numbered so badly he was the only 'nah' vote. Tara was the one who had brought the name up as a joke; needless to say, he's still upset with her for that.

Abel's learned so much since he started going to preschool every day. It is something new and he is so proud of himself he has to come home and share it with the family. It was a month ago that they taught the kids how to call 911 which Tara, being a doctor, thought was genius. Jax and Tara decided that this would be a good time to teach him how use the speed dial to call them as well. Abel said that he wanted his mommy to be number one which meant that Jax would be number two. Jax was not surprised that Abel picked her because he absolutely adores his mother-she is the most important person in his life right now. They had such a strong bond by the time Jax got out of prison, Abel wasn't the little baby reaching for him anymore; he was a little boy who loved his mommy.

When Jax got out Thomas was an age that Jax was familiar with, he was almost the age that Abel was when Jax went in. Jax had been having a hard time bonding with Thomas up until a couple of months ago. Even though Jax was out, he wasn't home enough for Thomas to get used to him on a regular basis. It would hurt Jax that Thomas would go to Chibs or Opie before him, and that his favorite person was Phil. But now that things have settled down and he is home more, Thomas and Jax are finally bonding. Thomas is starting to become a Daddy's boy but when he is hurt it is still Mommy that he wants, and Jax knows it is not because of her doctor status.

After painting about an hour Tara takes a much needed break: her back's killing her from bending over and trying to paint around her growing belly. She decides to go downstairs to check on Abel. He has been so quiet she almost forgot he was here, almost. She made her way down the half spiral stairs that Jax had designed. When she thinks about it, Jax pretty much had the entire place designed before he even mentioned wanting to build it for her. She still is amazed by him after all these years. He still has a heart of gold when it comes to those he loves. She waddles on back to the kitchen to check on Abel. It is awfully quiet so she slowly peeks around the door jamb and finds him asleep on the floor - his head on the coloring book, his juice box in one hand and a crayon in the other. Tara just smiles. God she loves him like this, quiet. She gets herself something to drink and some crackers to snack on and sits down in her chair. It already has a big fluffy pillow for her back and a box she has been using for a foot stool. While sitting listening to the rain hitting the windows Tara falls asleep. She wakes up with a start. She looks around confused it must have been a dream because Abel hasn't moved. She is having bad dreams again, more like nightmares of Cameron killing Sac and taking Abel. Tara figures it must be her pregnancy hormones causing these old awful memories. She had these when she was pregnant with Thomas, too, but it was still fresh in her memory then.

The storm has quieted down some so she decides to go back upstairs to touch up a few things, then clean up and head home. Tara slowly makes her way up the stairs having to take a second to catch her breath. She is tired now and wonders what is she going to do: I am only 28 weeks along now; how am I going to make it through to the end when I am so exhausted now? Tara turns to go towards the office she has been painting when someone grabs her from behind with such force it spins her around. She grabs ahold of the railing real quick, to balance herself so she doesn't fall down the stairs she has just came up. And here she is, face-to-face staring into the dark soulless eyes of the last person that she wants to ever see again. "Gemma... what are you doing here?" Tara's scared. She sees the hate seething from Gemma's steely eyes and it causes chills to run down her spine.

"I came to see you," Gemma spits out. "We have some things we need to talk about."

"Okay."

"You see, you need to be reminded of your place and understand a few things."

Tara is wondering what place she is talking about but decides that right now it would be in her best interest to her keep her mouth shut.

"I am the Queen of SAMCRO - not you, never you. It will always be MY club. I was the one who built this club. John thought he was the one but it was all MY doing; I was the driving force behind it. When John started losing his way he became weak and something had to be done, the club was starting to fall apart. Then he was going to leave and go back to Ireland to that Irish gash. I had to do something so I picked Clay to turn my charm towards. I knew he had a thing for me so I used it to reel him in. I told him that John was going to destroy this club and put it in his head that John needed to be taken out. Of course you know that; you read ALL the letters, not just the ones I gave Jax."

"I had been able to control Clay and the club until those letters came into play. I told Clay we would lose the club if Jax saw those letters. I was the one who told Clay he needed to get them back, or I would leave him because he was nothing without the club. We worked together on arranging the hit on you. Jax and the boys weren't supposed to be with you, it wasn't supposed to be that way. That is what I was mad about and why Clay and I fought that night he beat me. He knew they were with you and didn't call off the hit. He was so obsessed with killing you and getting the letters he wouldn't listen to me. I told him not to kill Piney, told him that he didn't have them, but he had a grudge against him-he was always fighting Clay on decisions with the club. Piney was real vocal about the cartel deal and Clay; was afraid that he would influence Jax into backing out."

"Clay finally had Jax in the palm of his hand and he wasn't going to let anything ruin that. Clay wasn't going to let Jax get out he was just setting him up to believe that he would. Clay was going to make him stay in the club for me so I could still run my club through Jax when he was president. But you came along spewing shit in his ear and throwing your pussy at him, twisting him all up. I thought for sure Jax would send you away when he found out you had kept those letters from him-that's why I gave them to him. Keeping you around wasn't something I'd planned on, that's why I kept the ones about me out. You still know the truth about those letters even though I destroyed them. You still know, so it's time to take care of the loose end and get my club back."

Tara's startled by Gemma's revelation. "What are you going to do Gemma?"

"Something I should have done the very first day Jax brought you home." Gemma is slowly backing Tara down the stairs as she talks and then suddenly she gives Tara a big push.

Tara quickly grabs onto the railing and starts yelling. "GEMMA STOP... STOP... YOU'RE GOING TO HURT THE BABY!"

"I don't want another fucking spawn from your body. I thought I had taken care of that at the hospital that day but I'll make sure to end it this time." With a hard shove Gemma heaves Tara backwards while yelling, "DIE YOU FUCKING WHORE, DIE!"

Tara gives a blood-curdling scream as she is tumbling head first down the stairs. Gemma snickers as she heads down the stairs, looking at Tara's crumbled body at the foot of the staircase. She steps over the body of her former nemesis. She heads to the door holding her head up high. I'm the Queen again, Gemma grins smugly as she stepped out into the darkness of the stormy night.

Abel wakes up thinking he heard his mommy and grandma talking and then he hears his mommy scream. He runs towards the stairs and he finds her lying at the bottom of the stairs and bleeding. Abel shakes her, trying to wake her up, but she just lies there. He is starting to get scared because his mommy is bleeding from her head and there's blood starting to run down her legs. He runs as fast as his little legs can to the back to find his mommy's phone to call 911 like he learned in school. Then he calls the only person he knows who can really help... his daddy.

Jax is in Lowen's office she's staying there late for their meeting, closing the deal with Happy, Tig, Bobby, Juice and Phil buying Diosa International from SAMCRO. SAMCRO decided that it would be better for their public image if they got out of the escort business so SAMCRO is selling it to some of the brothers. Nero lost his half of the club after his little gang attacked the club over a gun deal. Jax and Chibs decide for the sake of their families that it would be best for their family image if they didn't have anything to do with the business, especially Chibs who has a young teenage daughter. Of course that made Tara extremely happy Jax knew that she hated it when they were running Cara Cara it caused a lot of tension in their relationship. He couldn't blame her because running it had turned into a big headache. He was always being called away in the middle of the night and any time he was alone with Tara they always were being interrupted by some kind of porn business which was usually Ima's game but he wasn't about to admit defeat with Clay.

Jax's phone rings thinking it is Tara. He starts, "Hey, babe," but stops when he finds out it isn't Tara, but Abel trying to tell his daddy about how "Grandma Gemma hurt his mommy and mommy won't wake up and is bleeding". At first Jax is frozen with fear-it takes him a moment to respond. "Abel did your grandma hurt you?"

"No," Abel informs him. "I called 911, daddy," he speaks with pride in his voice.

Jax asks him, "Are you still at the Women's Center?" Abel dutifully answers yes.

Jax tries hard to keep the shakiness out of his voice. "You did a real good job buddy. Uncle Chibs and Rat are at the garage and will be right over."

Jax immediately calls Chibs. "I need you and Rat to get over to the Women's Center. Tara's hurt and Abel is with her.

"What has happened?"

"Gemma paid Tara a little visit on her way out of town." Jax has to take a deep breath before continuing. "Abel said she's unconscious and bleeding. Chibs, make sure you let them know she's 7 months pregnant."

Chibs tells him, "Shit, we're on our way."

Chibs and Rat take off running across the lot to the Women's Center. Chibs tells Rat, "Take Abel to the play area and keep him busy. He doesn't need to see this." Chibs is horrified when he sees Tara lying there at the bottom of the stairs. There isn't anything that he can do but sit with her, holding her hand, while trying to get her to wake up. He just keeps calling "Tara, Tara luv, wake up! Come on, dear, I know you can do it."

Tara starts mumbling. "Abel."

"He's fine but I need to know how you are, lass. Does anything hurt?"

Tara begins to grimace in pain. "My stomach is cramping hard, it's the baby I think he's coming Chibs, Gemma did this to me, she pushed me down the stairs." Then Tara starts losing conscious again.

Chibs calls Fiona. "Hey luv, I need for you meet me here at the Women's Center. Tara's had an accident and it's pretty bad. I'm waiting for the ambulance now plus Abel is here. Can you call Kerrianne and have her and Lyla pick up Abel and take him back to the house. Thomas is with Netta and I'll have her get some things up for them and bring him to the house. I'm sure the wee ones will be staying the night- there's is no way Tara's going to be coming home, and from the looks of it she'll be having this baby before long, so tell her to hurry 'cuz Abel's here with Rat."

"Okay I will call her and I am on my way," Fiona hurriedly replies.

Chibs calls Happy, "Hap, you need to get him here quick; it is bad brother, real bad."

"Okay. We're already on our way and we should be there soon."

About that time the ambulance arrives and Chibs lets out a deep breath that he had been holding since Jax called. Chibs is so relieved they're here. He feels some of the weight ease off his shoulders. If only Jax would get here quick it's getting worse by the minute there is just so much blood. The paramedics are asking Chibs all kind of questions and he tells them. "She's 7 months pregnant and this is how I found her a few minutes ago. She was conscious for just a minute or two and then she was out again."

The ambulance has only been there a few minutes by the time Jax gets there. He jumps off his bike and starts running through the doors calling, "Tara, Tara." Then what he sees stops him dead in his tracks- his beautiful wife crumpled up on the floor covered in blood. He gets on his knees, holding her hand and calling, "Tara baby please, wake up ... come on babe... you have to wake up... Tara... please... WAKEUP."

Tara starts mumbling, "Jax." It's the only thing they can understand then she slips back under. It isn't much but Jax feels a little better.

Jax tells Chibs, "Drive Tara's car to the hospital so I'll have something to carry the boys in if I need it."

"Fi is going to wait here with Abel until Lyla and Kerrianne can pick him up, and Lyla will drop Kerrianne, Kenny, Piper, Ellie and Abel at my house. I already talked to Neeta and she's taking Thomas there too. Neeta's taking some of their things with her and she is going to stay with them also. I don't think you will be home tonight from the look of things. I've also called the prospects in to stay at my house until we can get some Nomads there. They need to be protected by a patch 'cuz I'm not having another prospect killed. We need to take precautions in case Gemma's still lurking around. Then Fi will be on her way to the hospital."

Chibs turns to Happy as he walks in. "We need some Nomads here now, we can't be too cautious where the lads are concerned. They need protection right now, we know Gemma is around so now is when she is going to try to hit, while everyone is busy."

"Got it. I'll send Big Bill and Quinn over there now it won't hurt to be overprotected if there is such a thing. I'm heading to the hospital to stay with Jax; I don't think he realizes it but he's in danger too," Happy responds.

The medics hurriedly put Tara on the stretcher and head to St Thomas. Jax climbs in the back with her- there's no way he's letting her out of his sight again tonight. The EMTs are having a hard time stabilizing her so they don't waste any time leaving. Jax is starting to get more anxious- every minute is of the utmost importance, Tara's losing too much blood and she's still unconscious. He's talking to her trying to get her to answer him.

By the time the ambulance leaves for St Thomas all of the brothers have arrived and are escorting the ambulance carrying their King and Queen and unborn Prince.