Living with the Club

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Juice and Veronica walk into the club house and half passed nine for a family breakfast.
Everyone is already there and chowing down.
Veronica immediatly saw Abel and smiled.
"Hey, Lyla's got something she wants to say!" Opie calls out.
"We're getting married," She flashes the ring and a chorus of cheers fills the room.
Juice smiles and gives Veronica a wink before congratulating Opie.
She smiled small for they had their own news, but it wasn't their time to share.
"Congrats, girl!" Veronica said to Lyla.
"Thanks! Will you be my bridesmaid?" She smiles, hugging Roni.
"Of course! I'm so happy for you!"
They all cheered to them and Veronica started nibbling at a muffin.
Juice comes up behind her, wrapping his arms around her.
"Hi, baby."
"Hey, you."
He pecks her neck, loving the idea of them getting married.

Mid-afternoon rolls around and the clubs lawyer comes.
Veronica leans again Juice's chair as she talks.
"These equations were forwarded to me by Lenny Jankwiczes' laywer.
Don't know what it means and don't want to. 20=0, true. 38.358888 - 122.288818 = 2 million. True or false?"
The laywer hands Clay the file.
"Thanks. Give us a minute, will ya?"
Clay hands Juice the folder.
Juice starts typing the numbers into his laptop.
"Take a few. They're big numbers."
Clay closes the door.
"20 = 0. Lenny couldn't get us a location," Piney says.
"The other's in longitude and latitude," Juice says.
"2 million means we can buy Jimmy," Clay says.
"2 million..shit," Chibs says.
"Why don't we just show up and take Jimmy, we have enough hardware," Tigs chimes in.
"It's not gonna be the safe house. It's gonna be a place for the exchange. Trust me, Putlova's bringing an army," Bobby says.
"Yeah, looks like an access road outside Rio Vista. 40 minutes," Juice says.
"Ope, tell Lowen the equations true."
Ope jumps out of his chair and walks out.
"Where are we gonna get 2 million? What are we robbing banks now?" Kozik says.
Jax's comes in carrying a box, chucky behind him.
"What's going on?" Clay asks.
"Tell him," Jax's says.
"After Tara got kidnapped, I was tried to tell you guys about this. When I was running the counterfeit operation for Lin, I was suppose to throw away all the misprints an dirty runs but I didnt!"
Roni may have been slightly offended when he said Tara was kidnapped. What about her? She'd been through the mill, too. Perhaps, it was because Jax was VP. Juice wasn't much more than a full patch, but he was oh so valuable.
"Three boxes full of 20s, 50s, and hundreds. Over five mil in fake currency."
Jax hands out a pile of bad bills and everyone cheers, examining them.
"I'm gonna lend you my hand so you can jerked yourself off," Tigs jokes, pulling chucky onto his lap.
Juice steps out to make a call about a print cutter and Veronica follows him, getting a glass of water.
Juice goes back into the meeting, but Veronica chooses to hang back.
Ricky comes out.
"Beer me," he says.
Veronica gives him a look that says im not your wetch, but gets him a Corona anyway.
"Thanks."

Veronica stands by Juice's bike as the guys come out of the clubhouse.
She watches Jax go to Tara and has her put on a bullet proof vest.
"Why does she get to go?" Veronica asks as Juice slips his arms around her way.
He looks back at Tara then at his girl.
"Because you'll be safe."
She gives him a sassy look.
"You won't be able to protect me when your inside," She says without thinking.
"What is that suppose to mean. You think I want to go back in where I'll have no guarantee of your safety."
"I didn't mean anything by it."
"Yes, you did."
She sighs heavily.
"Just kiss me, okay."
He gives her a frustrated look, but moves his hand to her face and kisses her gently.
"I love you," he says, getting on his bike.
"I love you," she replied, stepping away and watching as the bikes zoomed out of the parking lot.
"Fuck it. Tara, I'm going with you."
"Jax said..."
"I don't care."
They both got in and Tara drove off.
Tara drove onto the dirt roads and they waited for the guys.
She looked worry as they waited.
"Don't worry so much," Veronica says.
"Jax and Juice are going to be pissed."
"Don't worry so much, Tara."

Tara and Veronica leaned against the Chevy for twenty minutes before they heard the familiar roar of the bikes.
The bikes passed the Chevy and parked in front of it while the van parked beside the Chevy.
They boys walked to the van.
Juice eyes locked on her and she knew he was fuming, but said nothing as he helped deal with Jimmy.
They tossed him into the back of Tara's car.
"You weren't suppose to be here," Juice's voice is tight and his lips I'm a firm line.
"We don't have time for this, Juice," she blows off his concern and anger. "Let's go!" Clay calls.
Two prospects, Tara, and Veronica pile into the Chevy.
They drive off in a hurry.
Veronica prays that the clubs plan works.
They are back to the club house in a half hour.
Veronica walks in and lays down in Juice's bed in his dorm.
She knows that Juice doesn't have much longer until he goes back in and she had to go start a fight, making him pissed before he leaves. Was she doing this out of rebellion of what will soon be his absense?

Juice storms in, "really?"
"Don't start, please," She said, fighting the urge to break down at the thought of him being away for a long time.
He sighs heavily, seeing how shaken she is.
He crawls into bed with her.
"You didn't even wear a vest," he whispered, making her face him.
Veronica stared into his eyes.
Neither of them wanted to be fighting, so they stopped.
Juice puts his hand on the back of her neck and gives her a rough, hurried kiss.
"I love you," he tells her between every kiss that he gave her in a span of about a minute.
She smiles against his teeth, "I love you."

Veronica got into the school bus with Bobby, Ope, Piney, and Kozik.
They had their plan but Veronica was worried.
They drive a short distance and pull to the side of the road where Uncer and agent Stahl are.
"What the hell is going on here," Stahl asks, nervously.
Veronica points a shotgun at her.
Chibs escorts Jimmy toward school bus, forcing him to back into it.
"You dumb, bitch. You'll pay for this," the ATF agent says.
Veronica laughs sadly because she knows by the end of this run the ATF agent will be dead.
"Take care of our girls, huh, Phillip?" Jimmy says and Veronica turns away from them, keeping his gun steady on ATF bitch.
She gasps as if she is surprised that Chibs would kill Jimmy.
Ope grabs Stahl's arm and pushes her into the drivers side before he gets in the seat behind her.
Veronica watches him lift the automatic weapon and point it at her head.
She sees him hit the trigger, three bullets crash through the windshield, blood splattering everywhere. Her stomach is surprising normal, not at all uneasy. Roni wished she wasn't so used to this life.
"Hey, let's go" Kozik calls and Ope gets out of the car.
Veronica approaches Uncer.
"Right side, I got bridge work done on the left."
She doesn't reply and throws a punch.
He jolts toward his car and holds his face.
"You okay?" She asks.
"Yeah. Go on" he mutters.
"Nice hit," Kozik mumbles as they climb onto the bus.
The bus starts going again.