Blue Angel

Sunday Dinner

They say there is a first time for everything and this was certainly a first for her at least. The closest Scarlet had come to a family dinner was eating leftover take out with her mother passed out in the bathroom with the needle still in her arm. The concept of family took on a whole new meaning with her new Charming life. She felt like she was standing on a wobbling fence overlooking both sides. One being a sad lonely life where Scarlet had to be the adult since the age of 8, only god knows how she made it alive as a toddler on her own. Then the other side being one of unity, where family came first but was also held up on a pile of secrets only each time one was taken out and opened it seemed to pull the family closer together. Take Scarlet's mother for example. With her brief visit, the secret of just how horrible her life had really been became clear to so many. It made something in Gemma snap, which annoyed Scarlet because she wasn't used to the matriarch being kind. Joanna apparently woke up and went straight to the bar. Scarlet didn't know the details but she was told Gemma took care of it.

"I don't know if I can do a whole sit down dinner with your mom babe." Scarlet walked up behind Jax in the restroom, kissing the middle of his back, earning a chuckle from him. His hands reached around giving her ass a light tap, looking at her from the reflection in the mirror.

"You can...you just don't want to. Besides everyone will be there. It will be good for us all to have some time off from club shit." Turning around his hand was placed on her hip and he lightly kissed her cheek, giving her stomach a gentle rub.

"I know it will be. I think I am just nervous because, well, this is new to me." She turned the water on, wetting her toothbrush to start getting ready.

Jax was quite aware that this new found sense of family was very unfamiliar to Scarlet and he wanted nothing more than for her to feel wanted and loved. The sit down dinner Gemma had planned after Scarlet's mother's departure he thought to be a great idea and a way to show his ol' lady just what family truly meant. Even in the life of disorder, loss, fear and hate there was still some good in their existence and the people that surrounded them, whether through the family they were given or the family they had chosen. Jax, for the first time in his adult life, wanted to give Scarlet the world, everything she was worthy of and more.

The woman completed him. When he was ready to crumble and give up under the weight of his responsibilities she was there to pick him up and force him to realize just who he was and what he needed to do. He didn't have that with Wendy; his marriage to her was only to end the loneliness he felt despite the constant stream of female company that occupied his bed. The two didn't know what it meant to be in love; Jax's real love was the club while Wendy was having a love affair with the needle in her vein. Then there was Tara; his high school sweetheart, the fairytale that every teenager believes in but as much as he loved the young doctor, there was always a hesitation between them. Tara hated the MC, the part of him that made him whole and intact just as her love of medicine did for her. She wanted him but she did not want was the root of his last name and his legacy. She never learned to love the club just as she loved the man. He knew deep in his dark, troublesome soul that, had she not perished accidentally, their relationship would have eventually fizzled away. Through the failed relationships in the past, Jax had apprehension and the willingness to give up on the theory of love and the idea of two people spending their lives together. To grow old, watch the children they brought into the world become adults and move on with their own lives. After losing Tara to her own fate he had resorted to the realization that night after night with a different whore in his bed was what his life was meant to be outside of the duties of club president. That was until Scarlet Delaney was placed smack dab in front of him just waiting for him to love her.

"Nothin' wrong with being nervous, babe. But remember, it's /your/ family too." With a flicker of his eye in a wink he sidestepped passed Scarlet as she leaned over the sink to brush her teeth. His eyes averted to the bump that was pressed against the porcelain making a smile tug his lips upwards in a smile. Even with all the doubts he still had with creating another life to attempt to bring up and mold into a decent human being, the thought of becoming a dad again still made him happy. There were few things in the biker's life that brought happiness anymore but when he thought of Scarlet, Abel and the baby she was carrying he knew all the bad shit he did was worth it to have the good he had in his life.