What Will Be (Chibs and Juice)

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They made it back to Charming, Juice spent the ride trying to detach from Chibs so he wouldn't fall apart in front of everyone. He didn't want to be weak, he couldn't be. He followed Chibs into town, to the garage, to his probable demise.

They parked their bikes and Chibs placed his hand on Juices shoulder knowing it helped him calm down. "We're gonna figure this out. Let Daddy handle it lad." Chibs spoke softly to him, just the statement helped him feel a little safer.
He made a noise that was meant to sound agreeable but came out as a whine instead. Chibs squeezed his shoulder as he came into the office.
Gemma smiled when she saw them, happy her boys came back in one piece, from where she didn't know. She eyed them if she knew something, something that made her smile at least.

"Jackie boy! We're back." Chibs called from the bar. Tig, Jax and Bobby greeted them, pulling them into a hug and then getting to business.
"We gotta go to chapel. Not having church, but you know Clay has questions. We gotta get to the bottom of this dilemma. Juice none of us think you did anything wrong, but Clay of course has a stick in his ass about it. So we gotta treat it like a problem."He reached his arm out to take Juice from Chibs side. Chibs knocked his arm away.
"There'll be no fuckin with Juice until there's a reason. He gets the trial we'd give the others. Let's not forget we don't know if he's sinned against us, we have our sinners amongst us having been spared as well. Ye won be takin him anywhere without me."
Jax put his hands up in surrender, motioning towards the chapel doors.

It was just Jax, Clay, Chibs and Juice sitting at the table. Juice was fidgeting and Chibs was desperately trying not to sooth him in an overly affectionate way. He was glad he'd insisted on being with him though, the tension in the room would have brought a panic attack for sure had he been alone.

"I'm sure you know by now why you're here Juice." Clay spoke with a false sweetness to his voice.
Juice nodded.

"Why would the police have intel if you didn't provide it?"

"I-I haven't talked to them. I mean yeah they've been giving me a hard time, but you already knew that. I never told them anything. I swear."

"So who told them about the cartel deal?"
Juice looked at clay funny. "What cartel deal? I um didn't know about that. Are we joining the cartel? Like that's for sure?"

Chibs gritted his teeth. Juice hadn't been here when they voted on that. He used a proxy for his vote. He was on a solo run, getting supplies from Tara at the hospital to bring back to the club house. All he'd been told was the club was in drugs. There was no way this fell on the lad.

"He won here when we voted on tha. I proxyed his vote, member? Bobby updated him when e got back tha night at the party, all he been tol was tha the club was in drugs now."

Clay sighed and then nodded annoyed but remembering that fact. "So where did they get the information?"

"Hell if I know, but it wan Juicy. It'd do ye good ta remember shit once in a while. Pres." Chibs spoke with an obvious disdain. Everyone but Clay knew he was in borrowed time. Jax had a tight smirk plastered on his face at the comment.

"Les go lad." He patted Juice on the shoulder and stood.

Juice nodded and stood slowly, he followed Chibs out of the room.

Tig ran up to them wanting to know what happened, his blue eyes large with excitement.
"Well what the fuck happened?"

"He's innocent. But there is a narc in the midst. Whether here or on the cartel side, someone snitched something."

Despite knowing someone gave up info, they all sighed with relief finding that it wasn't Juice. He was the sweetest one of them, no one but Clay thought he'd actually have the guts to turn on them.

"We're going to chat with Gemma, then I'll give ye an update. I'll send the lad to the shop soon."
Tig nodded in agreement.

Opie and some other guys were in the shop, a few cars were on the lifts and they had a few in line. Apparently it had been busy while they were gone, they were obviously behind.

"Hey! Y'all wanna suit up and get your lazy asses over here!?" Opie teased smiling at them as they walked back into Gemma's office.