Blood and Water

Chapter 21: Bullet with Butterfly Wings

Bullet with Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins

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Jax called Gemma to get Tara. They needed help getting the bullet out of Bobby's shoulder. Chibs couldn't do it by himself and the guys didn't know what to do. All he could do was keep the pressure on the hole, try and stop the bleeding, and wait for Tara.

They pulled into the hangar where they were meeting Gaalan. Connor and Hugh weren't back with the guns yet. The club piled out of the truck. Jax came around as Chibs was getting out of the back.

"How's it look?" he asked his VP.

Chibs stepped out of the truck. "I stopped the bleedin'," he sighed, "but it's bad."

"Alright, Tara will be here soon." Jax turned to Quinn. "Stay with Bobby."

"You got it," he nodded, getting back in the truck.

Someone yelled, "He's ready for you!"

Jax, Chibs, Tig, and Clay all started walking to an office in the back of the hangar. Chibs could feel his phone going off in his pocket, but couldn't answer it.

"Gentlemen," Gaalan said, standing at the front of the room

Clay said, "Thank you, Gaalan." He walked over and embraced Gaalan. Chibs was annoyed, but he controlled himself; As if he was the one who broke you out, he thought as he walked to the other side of Jax. 

"The gratitude is mine, friend. We have a lot of work to do, you and I." Clay nodded and walked back to the guys. "Good job, Jackson." He extended his hand towards Jax, but instead of taking it,  Jax pulled out his gun and pulled the trigger.

The bullet hit Gaalan in the face, right below his eye. A second later, Tig shot Gaalan's guy by the door and a second after that, Chibs shot the other guy by the wall. The three men fell to the ground. Clay didn't know what was going on. 

"Jesus Christ," he said.

Jax looked at Clay. "We had a vote. Decided this had to happen." A car horn honked outside. They looked out the office window to see who it was. Chibs knelt on the couch, looking through the blinds into the warehouse.

They walked out of the office as Juice said, "Tara and Gemma."

"Let them in," Jax ordered. He told Clay, "Shut the door."

Tig took a step closer to Jax. "How is this gonna play with Nero, Gemma, and Tara?"

"Same way."

Chibs phone started going off again as they walked to the front of the hangar. Even though he knew who was calling him nonstop, he still checked it. The name 'Mina' stood out from the blue screen.

Jax turned around. He saw Chibs looking at his phone and said, "Get an ETA on Connor?"

He snapped out of his daze. "Aye." Opening his phone, he declined her call to call Connor. Chibs decided he'd talk to her later; there was too much going on.

"He's not f*cking answering!" Mina yelled. "You said one of them got shot? What if it was him?" She paced back and forth in the office.

Jessica tried to calm her down. "You don't know it was him. You don't even know if they were there."

Mina snapped, "Who else would be there?" She ran her fingers through her hair. "Oh my, God, what if he got shot? What if he's...?" She stopped speaking, her eyes filling with tears. "Jess, what if he's dead?"

"He's not," she said, pulling Mina into a hug. She started sobbing into Jessica's shoulder. "Mina, I'm sure he's fine. He's probably just busy." 

Mina kept crying, but she didn't know what she was crying about. Was she crying about the thought of him getting shot? Was she crying about the thought of him being dead? Was she crying about an officer being run over while trying to do his job? Was she crying about the fact that Chibs may have been involved?