Melting Down

Chapter 25

Savannah 5 months pregnant and really starting to show was now taking the meds Tara had given her and no longer spent her mornings on the bathroom floor was up and out of bed before Chibs again and had his coffee made. He finally got up and went for a cup. As he sat at the kitchen table he seen a drawing on it. He picked it up and looked at it. 'Mother of Christ, the woman was going to add bedrooms on to their house, how many wee ones was she planning on having, he'd need to talk to her about this'.

He got up and went looking for her, he found her out back hanging the spare bedroom sheets out on the line. He shook his head. "Lass, should you really be doing this in your condition"?

"Your great grandmother did, your grandmother did, your mother did, and you came about, so yeah I think I can and your wee one will also come about, my condition is only that I am carrying your wee one who eats way more than you do, cleaning house while you sleep in for the day, that's my condition."

'Well, good morning to me' he thought, 'move along with the subject you came out here for' "Lass, are you planning on adding onto the house" "Maybe something we both need to talk about first, how many wee ones you planning on by the looks of the drawing"

She turned to him, "Yes, we are building on, you are never home to talk to and since I take care of our home it's what I shall do, and I don't know how many wee ones that eat like pigs I shall carry for your pleasure". "Now, go get your shower and go solve the world problems, I got little ones here to solve like what color to paint our new bedroom when it's finally built"

He bent down and kissed her tummy, "Little one, you still have 4 more months of not getting a break from her tongue, I'll save you a day out without her once in a while after your released, but for your da, I'm leaving you to your punishment" Kissed her tummy while her hands were on her hips watching him. He then kissed her and without another word, showered and left her be. And thought to himself 'Sweet Jesus he loved her'.

His sleeping in on mornings that he was home was now faded into the wind as he heard the trucks backing in and spreading concrete, the hammering and the sawing that came to him before the break of day. He'd sleep at the clubhouse but without her in his arms each night he couldn't imagine. He did however love hearing her shoot off her mouth to the workers and not him, at least he had a break from that.

He had received some very bad news from Jax today, him, Jax and Opie were on their way to his house to deliver the news to her. He knew a melt down was coming and he worried with her being this far along. He had Jax call Tara to be there as well. It was a day she feared the most.

She was sitting on the back deck having a glass of lemonade when she seen them all pull up, 'now what'. 'What news can they all be bringing back here today, or maybe they were starving and wanted her to feed them' She then seen Tara's car pull up behind them with her and Gemma getting out. "No" "This is not happening" she knew. She seen the looks on their faces, "No"

She turned and walked towards the woods. Chibs knew she knew, he ran to her. Jax and Opie behind him. She fell to the ground as Chibs caught up to her to take her down slowly.

"No Chibs, No"! "Do not tell me"! "Do Not Tell Me"!

He stroked her hair as she laid there and Jax and Opie beside them.

"Savannah" Jax took her face in his hands. "My Anna" "It's your dad" as tears fell down his cheek.

"No" "No" "No" she cried as Chibs rocked her. Opie had laid a hand on her tummy and Jax laid one over his.

They sat while she cried. When she was coming back to them Chibs picked her up and carried her into the house and to their bedroom. Gemma and Tara came in and dismissed the men. It was time for the women to grieve with her. Gemma took her in her arms and rocked her on the bed and Tara gave her something to help calm her that wouldn't hurt the baby and would help her sleep.

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Chibs laid with her that night, the next morning he gave her what he could of his death without giving her the part he knew would kill her.

Gemma helped again, plan her fathers funeral and she got through the motions. She was saddened again, she did have the house to work on to help ease her mind some. Chibs had hung closer to home with her and always had a club member there when he wasn't. She knew her life would be like this, a prospect or club member at her home more times than not, she didn't mind, they loved her and she loved them. She still prayed each morning and each night that her Scot would always come home to her and the club would one day be happy. She prayed. She had lost her mom, her dad, and a best friend, what more can she lose.

With in two months, her now 7 months along, the new additions were now complete. Now she had club members and prospects with their women there off and on, painting, moving new furniture in, she was designing a beautiful nursery for the baby in the room next to theirs. She had added a patio with patio doors outside their bedroom and a bath of their own off their bedroom. Chibs watched it happen and loved her ideas and designs. She put a rocker out on their patio with table and chairs, they could rock the babe right outside their bedroom each morning.

He wondered the cost, but never said anything, he made money with the club and left it each time on the table, he knew she added it to her account which he knew was heavy but he like her father knew that you one day never knew and needed to have it somewhere. She always took care of the finances and he never mentioned it. And neither did she. He also knew she was aware the money as her fathers was, was illegal money and he didn't want to have that conversation with her.