Rags To Leather

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

It's been twenty four hours since Jax came out of surgery and I still haven't slept. I wanted to make sure I was awake when he wakes up. Sitting there looking at him, holding his left hand, I kiss his knuckles and talk to him. "I love you Jackson. You gotta wake up baby. Me and Abel need you. I promise everything will be okay baby. Just wake up." I say and I hear him groan. I stand up, still holding his hand and see his eyes open up. He looks at me and I smile softly at him. "Hey handsome." I say softly. "Hey Darlin." he says and I lean up and kiss his lips softly. I give him a drink of water and he asks "You okay?" I shake my head smiling. "You were the one shot and you're asking if I'm okay." I say. "Gotta make sure my Old Lady is safe." he says. I kiss him again and say "I am. Thanks to you." He takes a breath and asks "What did the doctor's say?" I look up at him and say "Bullet lodged in your spleen. They removed the spleen and the bullet but they said you're going to be fine." I tell him. "Good." he says. He looks down at our hands and sees the promise ring on my finger. Looking up at me he says "You're wearing it?" I hold his hand up and show him his ring and he just smiles. He pulls me to him and says "You know I'm gonna marry you right?" I smile and say "I'm counting on it." I kiss him softly and he starts to deepen the kiss when Clay and Gemma walk in. "Just wakes up from surgery and already can't keep their hands off each other." Clay says. I look at him and say "Uncle Clay, I need a favor." I tell him. "What's that sweetheart?" he asks. "I need you to give me away." I say and Gemma's eyes go wide. She walks over and hugs me and then Jax and Clay says "I would love to sweetheart. But right now, we have some business to tend to." he tells me and I nod. I look at Jax and he looks at me confused. I lean down and kiss him softly and whisper "You tell your mom when you want to marry me while I head to the cabin to see a bitch about a bullet." He smirks at me and then looks at Clay and before he can say it Clay says "I got her." Jax nods and we head out the door. "Letti?" Jax calls out. I turn to look at him and he says "I love you." I smile and say "I love you too Teller." before walking out the door.

We pull up to the cabin and as soon as we walk in the door, I see Tara sitting in a chair, tied to it and there's a gag in her mouth. "You up for this kid?" Tig asks. "They don't call me little Otto for nothing." I say. I walk over to where Tara is and she glares at me. "Glare at me all you want sweetheart. I still got him. He's awake and going to be fine. You know you're a shitty shot. But what in the hell were you thinking, walking into that clubhouse thinking you could shoot me and we would let you live. But you didn't shoot me did you? You shot my fiance." I tell her and her eyes go wide just like everyone else's. "That's right. Jax and I are getting married and you won't be able to stop it. I'll be helping him raise our son. I be the one he lays down with every night and I'll be the one that gives him more kids. It will be my womb that carries his babies. I'm the one he will say I love you to every night. Not you. It will never be you." I tell her. I see Happy walk over beside me and see him roll out his bag of tricks. "Thanks Hap." He smirks and says "Anytime." before joining the others behind me. I pick up a grapefruit spoon. "Hap?" I ask. "Yeah." He says. "This the one mom got you?" I ask. "Yep." he says. You used it yet?" I ask. "Nope. You can be the first." he says. I look at him and feign shock. "Really? Awe. Thank you Hap. This is why I love you." I tell him before turning back to Tara. "Can you hold her head still?" I ask Tig and he does as I ask. I walk over to her and dig the spoon into her eye and cut her eye out. "Damn. That looks like it hurts. Does it?" I ask her and she's still screaming around the gag. Juice steps forward and says "Jax's Kbar." I look at him and say "Thanks." I look at the knife and then to her. "You know where he got this?" I ask and she just looks at me with the only eye she has left. "This was JT's knife. He had it with him when he was in Nom and it was given to Jax when JT died. Jax never goes anywhere without it. It's like an extension of him. But, you see, since he's in the hospital, because of you, it gets to be an extension of me. I loved JT. Him and Clay were both like fathers to me after my dad got locked up. So this makes me feel good that I get to use his knife to do what I...as the VP's Old Lady...need to do." I tell her. I walk over to her and since her hands are restrained, I cut all of her fingers off of one hand before going to the other and listening to her scream. "Now I know what Daddy was talking about the screams making you feel powerful." I tell them. I turn back to her and take the same knife and slit her throat. I turn around as she bleeds out and Clay takes the knife from me. "We'll get this cleaned up. You head back to your Old Man." I smile and say "Yes Uncle Clay." I look at the guys and say "Thank you." They all nod and they all go to cleaning up.

I walk into his hospital room and he's sitting there watching tv. Gemma sees me and says "We set a date. Tomorrow, we start planning this thing." she tells me and I just nod. I walk over to Jax and sit on the side of the bed. "You good?" he asks. "Yeah baby. I'm good." I tell him. I lean forward and he kisses me softly. "I love you Letti Delaney." he says. "I love you Jackson Teller." I look at him and feel him rubbing the ring on my finger and he's smiling. "What's that smile for?" I ask. "I can't believe we're getting married." he says. "I know. I can't wait." I tell him. "Well, you won't have to. The day I get out of here, mom will have everything set up at her house and we're doing it in her garden." he tells me. "Seriously?" I ask. "Yeah." he says. I kiss him deeply before laying on the bed with him and snuggling into his good side as we doze off together knowing tomorrow is a new day.