That's your family

The Strain

Having Gemma babysit JJ was amazing it felt like Juice and I just started dating again. I drove to the hospital in a good mood and I stayed in that good mood, or at least until I saw the news about the dead Russian bodies. Russian were at Opie's wedding, the one that Juice could only half attend. I didn't worry about Juice this much when he was a prospect and all he did was clean toilets. Work went by slowly, my hangover was not helping anything. Mom swung by on my lunch break so I could see JJ. She took Tara the boys too and I enjoyed slowly feeding JJ some solid foods. When my lunch break was almost over I decided to go to Tara's office, where I assumed Gemma would be. I knocked on the closed door and Gemma opened it for me. I waved to Tara, who was breast feeding, and Put JJ down on the back seat of the stroller. I kissed his head and kissed mom bye and headed off.

Seeing JJ brightened my day up a bit. I couldn't help but smile in the lab. We got a new tech. He is tall and skinny. The look of being lost was painted on his face for the whole day. I got a text from Gemma right before I got out of work, "Anita has JJ. You need to come to the clubhouse". Something bad happened, not an emergency, she would of told me to leave work if that was the case. I got to the club house and saw the damage. When I herd the bikes rolled in I kissed Juice and held his hand. This club is family to him. Someone destroyed his home. There was a humbling feeling in the room as we looked around to what needed to be cleaned. Then Tara told everyone, "I have good news" she pulled a ring out of her pocket and slid it on her ring figure, "We're engaged!". Then the feeling in the room went back to how it normally is. I ran up to Tara jumping, "I have a sister!" I then ran to Jax and gave him a hug kiss on the cheek. I finally jumped up to Juice and kissed him. This was one of the few times in life that I was genuinely happy for my brother. Soon after everyone celebrated I got my baby back and spent the rest of the night watching a movie with JJ and Juice.

Juice left early and I had to drop JJ off with Anita before going to work. I got a text message from Chibs that made my heart stop. Juice got arrested. I couldn't focus on work and poked the backed of my thought so I would vomit in the lab and be rushed out. After leaving the lab I ran right to my car and headed straight to the club house. I pulled out a joint seeing as I quit ciggies when Juice knocked me up. Chibs had told me that cops just ran up to them, searched them and then arrested Juice for possession, despite him having a card. He tried to calm me down but it just felt wrong to me. It felt like the police wanted to make an example out of him, or stretch their muscles to the club. I can't imagine juice having any more than an eighth on him. He should of gotten a ticket not arrested. At least the joint calmed me down a little bit.

Before Juice got back everything hit the fan. I herd that the boys are running coke and I saw Clay put his hands on Gemma. I couldn't take the thought of losing them again. I freaked out and left when I saw the boys pull in. I picked up JJ from Anita and drove I kept on driving till I found a place to stop for dinner. I grabbed myself a sandwich and would feed JJ small amount of different foods to see what he liked. My cell kept on ringing. A call from Gemma, A call from Tara, A call from Jax, and a call from Juice. It wasn't until I got a call from Kozik did I answer. I herd his voice from the other end "Baby girl, where are you?" I took a deep breath in. I knew what I would face if I actually left. I had to go back to my prison, "I decided to take JJ out for a bit to eat" he replied to me, "ok, well Juice got cut so what see you in 15?" I knew he wasn't going to be happy with my answer but I told him, "It might be closer to two hours". It was silent on the other end until he told me, "your old man wont be happy but I will tell him" before he hung up. I got home two hours later and Juice was just sitting on the couch waiting for me. I could smell cleaning supplies in the air. Juice was nervous too he cleans when he freaks out.

I walked past him with out a word and went into JJ's room to put him down for the night. Entering the living room I walked past Juice again and went straight to the fridge for a beer. When I closed the door Juice was on the other side. "Tomorrow we are leaving for a bike show. won't be back for a few days" I rolled my eyes and muttered, "sure, do what you want". Juice caught onto the attitude, "Yeah well it is pretty clear that 'do what you want' is your life motto. Just where the fuck were you?" I ran my fingers through my hair, "Look Juice I just...I just needed some fresh air." There was a feeling in the air. Like both people knew everything but no one was going to admit to it. Juice's voice got louder when he exclaimed, "Yeah and I would of liked some fresh air when I was arrested today! Thought I would at least get out to see my old lady but noooooo!" I accidentally yelled back, "Shut Up Juice, your going to wake the fucking baby" that's when I could hear JJ yelling. No more words were exchanged as I walked into JJ's room and Juice walked into ours. I finally got JJ calm and went to sleep. Of course with no surprise I woke up to an empty bed.

I decided to go out with JJ and go grocery shopping on my day off. Everyone had already left to Arizona and the town felt calm. I herd a bike and looked around to see a particular looking stranger. He was tall and pall with dark eyes and long dark hair and facial hair. He was lighting a cigarette and I went back to doing my shopping. As much as I focused on groceries I couldn't help but think of the mysterious man. After I was done shopping I ran into the man again. I took JJ out of the shopping cart and strapped him into the back seat when the cart started to drift backwards, almost getting hit by a car until the man stopped it. I pulled the hands from my mouth and thanked him. He pulled out his hand to shake mine and introduced himself, "I'm Lincoln Porter, but you can call me link" I shook his hand and smiled, "well thank you link. I'm Tammy" he smiled back at me before pointing to the car, which had all the windows down so JJ was in clear view. He questioned, "and your date is?" I couldn't help but giggle at his joke, "That is my son JJ. His father is out of town so..." He waved to my son, "well hello JJ. I'm sorry if this seems pushy but I noticed that you didn't say husband" I blushed at the forwardness of the question, "No I am not married, I am just dating the baby daddy as much as I hate how that sound" He winked his right eye at me, "Well Miss Teller hopefully I will run into you again. It looked like I need to rush off". After I finished putting the bags in the car I got a call from Gemma.

Great even more drama. Piney passed out and is now in the hospital. It took me about an hour of going home, unloading the groceries and taking care of JJ before I got to meet up with Piney in the hospital. He kept on telling me that he was fine and that it was just his oxygen levels acting funky but I still spent the rest of the day in the room with him. After all with Juice gone and me not having work it wasn't like I was needed anywhere else. Besides Piney made me feel like I was twelve again. I could just talk to him. Piney was like a father figure that wasn't actually my father.