Drive [h.f-t. & j.l.] (COMPLETED)

Chapter 24 - Currents

currents - dashboard confessional
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josephine's pov

I hop on the back of Jax's bike, clinging to his waist as streetlights whip past in a streaking blur. I could tell how tense he was feeling and I couldn't blame him. I was feeling the same way.

"Fuck! That was our one chance to take them out! You just had to grow a conscience, didn't you?" Jax shouts, his fingers gripping the handles of his bike so hard his knuckles were turning white.

"I wasn't going to let you kill people, Jax! You were going too far!" I shout back and he scoffs, shaking his head as he takes a turn, accelerating.

"Not far enough if you ask me." He says, barely audible. Behind us, the sound of sirens fade. "Guess he did it. Hero led them away." Jax adds and I was about to relax a little bit, but then two cop cars come fling off the side streets right in front of us! Jax narrowly weaves between them. 

"Jesus! They really don't like that we fought back!" I exclaim, tightening my grip on Jax to keep myself from falling off.

"You think?" Jax guns it, engine roaring. He takes a turns so fast, my knee is inches away from the pavement. "I know how you love the high ground, Josephine. But I did this for the crew. For all of us! Including you!" He shouts and I can't help but feel like this was not really the time to discuss this.

"I know you tried to do the right thing. Jax, you can't save anyone if you destroy yourself in the process! What you wanted t do... there's no coming back from that! That would scar you forever!" I counter and Jax shakes his head.

"You keep talking like there's some line I was crossing, but there's not. Not in the real world. We had one way out, and I took it."

"When did your dad tell you the truth?" I ask and Jax hesitates for a moment as he races down the street.

"After the Grapevine. After I proved myself... it was the first time my pops ever trusted me. The first time he asked for my help." He explains and I let the words sink in, thinking them over for a second.

"But that means-" I start and Jax suddenly pulls into a side street, between the shadows. A few moments later the cop cars drive past, seemingly not having spotted us.

"Yes. It means the Brotherhood could have arrested us all at any moment. If we tried to tip off Internal Affairs, I'd be sitting in a jail cell right now. Whether or not they believed us, we have our own crimes to answer for." Jax says, turning his body so he could look at me off and I pull my eyebrows together.

"Why not just leave?" I ask and Jax makes a sound that almost sounds like a laugh.

"Leave? Abandon my father's crew? My grandfather's? I thought about it. But they threatened you. You still have a college to go to. You had a shot at a happy life... and they said they'd kill you." Jax says and I press my lips together at his words, the intent behind them, how much he seems to care.

"We won't let them get away with this." I say instead.

"It's not that simple. We can't outrun them, we cant turn them in-"

"Then there's only one option left."

"My pop learned the Brotherhood was running the investigation but didn't know their identities. He bought some information from a few contact in the force... and he got one name." Jax starts to explain.

"My dad." I say, matter-of-factly and Jax nods.

"Do you get it now? That's why my pop had Hero win you over." He says and I frown at him.