Tacoma's Princess, Charming's Hell-bringer

Caregiver

Harley woke up in the morning and she could hear voices in the kitchen of Maureen's. "Where are you taking him?"

"A good catholic family."

"He's already got a family, his mother is in the other room."

"She's not his mother, and she'll have a kid of her own and not take care of him."

"Have you seen the way she is? Even on her death bed she's still trying to protect him."

"She needs to get away from it too, I'm going to have her taken too."

"Where? She's young don't-"

"Don't get attached, Mo. This can't be about your love for his grandfather and have you seen the condition she's in? It'll be a miracle if her baby survives, let alone if she does."

Harley tensed, Maureen. Mo. Maureen was friends with JT. Harley had seen a picture of Maureen from JT and thought she was his wife until JT had shown her a picture of Gemma when they had been younger.

The Priest was trying to take Abel from her.

Over her fucking dead body.

Harley didn't listen to them anymore, and instead she forced herself up off the couch and she limped towards where Abel was but he was gone. Harley was about to walk out but she heard footsteps coming her way, so she cursed under her breath and ducked into the closet.

After a minute, she heard some commotion. " She's gone!"

"You probably scared her, I told you she wouldn't let you take him."

"She won't make it far in the condition she's in."

"You should've thought about that before threatening to take her baby. She's probably taken off to call the Sons and tell them."

"Maureen this isn't a joke, what if Jimmy finds her?"

Harley tensed but didn't move. She would rather deal with this Jimmy than deal with them anymore. She liked Maureen but obviously the Priest had too much of a pull on her and she could no longer be trusted.

"You shouldn't have threatened to take her kid, he has a family, he doesn't need a new one, now look what you've done. Someone innocent might end up dead because of you."

There was a pause, and Harley almost fell over, but caught herself on the wall. "I underestimated her. If you find her, call."

Harley listened and when she heard the door open and shut she let out a small sigh of relief. "You can come out of the closet now." Harley tensed but then the door opened, and Harley was ready for a fight but instead Maureen offered her hand to Harley. "We have to make a plan to get you back to the states without Father Ashby finding out."

"I can't leave without Abel."

"We'll get him back."

Harley took a moment, but reached up and grabbing Maureen's hand.

She would just have to trust her for now.

***

Rosie sighed as she put medicine on Tig's wound. "You are definitely going to be fine. There's no bone or muscle damage, you got lucky."

"Thanks, Doc. Sorry I pulled you from your work."

Rosie let out a small sigh, she wasn't worried about the hospital, they could deal without her and she had vacation time she was using anyways.

That and with Harley gone, Margaret had offered to let her take her vacation early to "figure stuff out". Which she didn't expect to take her up on her offer, and yet here she was. Rosie was taking off work which was completely unlike her.