Eduardo Salamanca

not real or associated with Tony Dalton. Admin is 21+. MDNI. Lewd DNI. Human version of: theothersalamanca. filter cr: HellfireCheer

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"Big talk. You done?" Literate Canon/Alternative Portrayal of Eduardo 'Lalo' Salamanca based in the series Better Call Saul, open to crossovers, OCs.

Member of #DivineKindred

Penned by #DevilishCro

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Closed writings for @tellertheking

Tig closed the clubhouse door behind him, a nagging feeling in the back of his mind of tonight's church. The man, he'd stood by for years...no decades, it seemed like the former president had been hung out to dry. Living on borrowed time thanks to Gaelen and the Irish, wanted him as some point person to keep the gun business alive. The perfect trade off, Jax gets us away from guns, and Clay continues to earn in Ireland. His blue hues shifted along at his brothers, some sitting along the bar and others chatting about anything but the impending vote. To get their minds off having to put the former president to pasture. Tig knew where his vote had to lie, he just couldn't support Clay after the things he'd done. Mayhem, would be too extreme, a daughter didn't deserve to lose her father. Alexandra was also Tig's ol' lady, the two had been married a while back. The two now shared a son, named Benjamin, who'd been born in the midst of the chaos with the club. "Jax, what are we doin'" Tig asks, placing his hand onto his brother's kutte, "Has it really came to this? I have a heart attack, and now I gotta vote Clay out."

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Jax knew tonight was a big deal. This was the first time they were going into church to vote out someone who has bene with the club since the beginning. But things just don’t line up anymore, and Clay, well he has been a pain in the ass for a while now. Undermining Jax as if he can do the job, when in fact, he can do it better then Clay has ever done and more like his father in a sense. It was more with the deal behind his back that has drove him to do this. Not that he wanted to, but he had to do it. 

The clubhouse was full of patched members from other charters. Waiting to see the verdict of what is going on. Not that Jax wants to make a spectacle out of this because that is not what this is about, it is about a member going behind the presidents back and really making deals, some he doesn’t know about and that alone leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Jax was sitting at the table, watching the clock change until it was time to vote. Not that he was rushing it, but this was a big deal and his trance was broken hearing Tig’s voice. He owed Jax a lot. 

“If you want to be apart of the brotherhood then I would say you have to. If you want to join him, then you can vote against me, but I can’t protect you anymore if you do that.” Jax was being blunt and honest and knew that Tig owed him more then he wanted to admit, and saving the bastards life, and sparing it more then once was enough to get him to vote against Clay and make sure everyone else was on the same page. 

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Tig nodded at Jax's words, he was right. He'd saved his life despite the loyalty that wavered for the soon to be president. All Tig knew for years was standing by Clay's side, being the loyal right hand.

Yet he'd do it, vote against the man who'd he'd spent decades beside. Clay had become a problem for the club, declining health had him seeing more green than a brotherhood.

Dividing the members sitting inside the chapel today. "I'll do it, Jax. If I don't have this club then I've got nothing else." Tig stated.

"And I owe you, sparing my life when I should have been in the ground. Hell I almost put myself there after that heart attack."

"Don't worry about Alexandra, she understands brother. I talked to her, and she'll hang up the badge. Do the law school thing." Tig spoke of his ol' lady.

"Doesn't need to go inside for doing her father's deeds, it was more Clay's badge than his daughters."

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Jax didn’t want to throw that card at him, but he had to. He needed Tig to see that Clay didn’t care about anyone but himself and that needed to change. That needed to be changed when it came to the club and if they were going to move forward. This was a brotherhood and Jax helped Tig because he was a brother and he deserved that but Jax needs the loyalty from him as well. Clay was the issue and they all had realized that after things have happened and Clay doing nothing about it, that is how Jax realized he was behind everything that was happening.

Nodding once hearing Tig’s words and knew he meant it. He had nothing, none of them had nothing when it came to not being in the club, he was just glad he was just glad Tig finally realized Clay didn’t want anything good for anyone if they didn’t benefit him.

“Then you stand by that and this club will have your back. Right now, they are just not sure they can trust you. They know how close Clay and you are, and the things you have done for him. I don’t hold that against you, but you need to show all of them that you aren’t that man and that Clay was the reason you did all of that. The patch is yours as long as you stay true to that.”

Jax flashed a grin at him and hoped he stayed with it. “So we vote and people will trust you once you vote Clay out.”

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Tig knew it too, everyone around that table saw him as Clay's right hand he couldn't shake that image, not in his brother's eyes. Didn't matter how much Jax believed he'd realized Clay only did care about Clay.

The truth was Tig didn't even feel that close to Clay in the end, the man didn't need him anymore it seemed. Just shut him out, like he did everyone else. Not to mention he was married to a Morrow himself, Clay's daughter Alexandra. Maybe they thought his ol' lady would pull him back into her father's orbit. But even she saw, Clay's time with the club was coming to an end.

His hands were goin' but that wasn't it, he'd gotten greedy and saw earning big more than he saw a club. Clay wanted a future for his family just went about it the wrong way, broke the club's rules. And Gemma was just a nail in the coffin for him, there wasn't any way he'd stand by Clay's side. Tig tried to resign that night, but his heart stopped him suffered a heart attack right at the door of Clay's room. Fate. Maybe. Tig pushed the thoughts from his mind as he heard Jax's words, "Don't worry, my vote will be a Yea, Jax. Clay doesn't deserve to wear this kutte anymore." He stated. "There's something you should know, after my heart attack he came and visited me in the hospital. Tried to pull me to his side, tellin' me of some opportunity he was lining up." Tig said with a sigh, "But I turned him down, flat." "This vote ain't goin' in his favor. I can't stand by him anymore, SAMCRO's where I belong. But tell me this, Jax, what did you tell Alexandra?" "She know anythin' about this? I know club shit ain't their business, but you can't tell me, she hasn't seen her dad, picked something up."

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Jax hated that Tig had always been more loyal to Clay. Especially what they did to Opie and was going to get him, instead they got his wife. Tig had a hand in that and it took Jax so long to see past all of that and really feel like Tig was there for all the right reasons, and now that Clay was being pushed out, Tig had to show who he was really with and that had to be them or he was gone as well. Jax wasn’t playing those games anymore. They have enough of that and can’t do it again.

Clay had drove them deep into the ground. Jax was working on getting them out of there and having other clubs trust them because Clay didn’t give a shit about anyone but himself and the way people looked at him, knowing he would drive them deeper. Tig, Jax wanted him to see the that and seeing he was finally clearing his head of the toxic energy that was Clay made it better.

So just running through things that Clay had done, he just had to see where Tig’s head was as he has been out for a while after a heart attack and Jax was worried about his health but his vote counted just as much as everyone else’s at this point. “Good boy. Thank you. Just we all know what he has done, and there are things we don’t talk about which I am sure you guys know he has done, but he denies it. So, vote accordingly and know if he stays someone is in trouble.”

Arching his eyebrows at the fact that Clay tried moves just as he was getting pushed out and everyone wasn’t too concerned with it. He was just hoping things didn’t backlash but they were going to try to make it happen. “Well, he won’t be making anymore, because he won’t have anyone. Don’t worry about it Tiggy, you did well, and thank you for not takin’ him up on that offer.” Shaking his head, he didn’t go to anyone.

“I haven’t told her anything, trust me. This is all between us. Gemma doesn’t even know. So this right here, it is all about us.”

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Tig knew he'd made the right decision steppin' away from Clay. He couldn't let the former President take the only thing he knew away.

There wasn't any life outside of SAMCRO no earnin' straight, and he wasn't about to put supporting the family on Alexandra. It wasn't fair to her he owed it to her, and Jax to leave Clay's ways behind.

"You want this flash? I can do what I was going to that night, resign." Tig spoke of the night of his heart attack. His blue hues shifting to the still in place flash on his kutte.

"But if you'd rather I'd keep it, carry it for you you know I'd do that, brother." Tig stated, fidgeting with his wedding ring.

"Haven't told her anything either, man. No one knows outside the club."

Tig nodded at Jax's words, "Me too. I had a feelin- Clay was just trying to get one last jab at you. But I wasn't gonna let him have it."

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Jax just hope Tig doesn’t go back on his word. That is where he was at right now. He just wanted to make sure Clay didn’t stand a chance, and he was out for good with all the things he had done to drag their club down in his time of reigning at president. Not that Jax wanted to do anything bad, but he just didn’t want to have Clay a chance to come back to the club. That is not what this was about.

Tig was always a little flaky because of Clay, but Jax thinks right now, him having the heart attack and not being there for a while, it made him realize just how important all of this was. Maybe that is why Jax wasn’t too worried about him turning his back on the choice and knowing that Clay was done. Shaking his head, he didn’t want Tig to leave, he wanted him there because he was good.

“No I don’t want you to go Tig. I just need you to trust me. That is all. I need you to trust I have better instincts and I look out for all of you. Not just myself like Clay. I won’t make you do anything for my own good, I can do that for myself.”

Jax knew that Tig liked being in the club, and he didn’t want him to leave. “Of course he was, because that is what he does. He knows he is in trouble, so he tries to take everyone down with him. Just we do this then we let everyone know. So as long as you vote the way I think you are then we are good brother. No more secrets and sneaky shit okay?” That was the only thing, Clay may Tig sneaky and Jax doesn’t want that.

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Tig would never go back on his word, not now. He knew Clay was done, and there wasn't anything that the now former president could say. Nothing that Tig hadn't heard while in the hospital.

He twisted at his wedding ring, mulling everything Jax had told him over. Tig had every confidence that Clay's path for the club could be undone.

Alexandra put the badge away and was soon off to law school away from the fallout of her father's being drummed out. "Do you think she should still go?, with everything? Is she safe, brother?" Tig asked, of Jax.

Tig chewed on his lip, before speaking once again, "So you want me to wear this flash? Despite everything it meant before."

He'd do exactly, and vote Clay out. There'd be no nays at the table. "Is he gonna be in there?." Tig asked, not knowing if he had it in him to once again look Clay in the eye.

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Jax knew that Clay would try something, but he didn’t have the people to help him. If they did, they were gone and most men had nothing else but the club, so it would be a brave move on their part. But with Tig on his side, Jax knew he had to make sure everyone else was safe. He had to make sure none of the women got hurt, because Donna, she was already a subject to that and he couldn’t allow anyone else be apart of that.

Nodding his head, he knew that she would be safe. “She will be safe Brother. Trust me. I will do everything in my power to make sure everyone is safe and that includes your wife. I just need you to know no one deserve to feel what Opie felt when he got the news about his wife.” It was all truths, Jax hated to know that Opie felt the pain and there was nothing he could do about it right now.

“I do, you are the best one for the job, I just need to know you’re on the same page as I am, and that you will stay behind me. Not turn on me.” This was the one thing Jax needed to know about Tig, knowing that he will be with the guys and not with Clay. But their first order of business was to get rid of Clay, and Shaking his head, Clay wasn’t going to be in there but he will be at the club house.

“He won’t be in there, but he will be in the clubhouse and get the news once the voting is done. That is how we do this, so everyone votes and then we deliver the news. It will all be on me, not on you guys.”

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"Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me. She's leavin' in a few days, it's best while this shit with Clay plays out." Tig spoke of his wife. Alexandra meant everything to him, just as much as wearin' this Reaper did.

He hated doin' what he did, Donna's death had snapped something in Tig. Never felt the same after, but he was simply followin' Clay. Something he did for decades, but now it was clear the former President had to go.

"I am, one hundred percent behind you. Clay ain't gonna pull me back in, he tried once and knows I won't be havin' it." Tig spoke, in a firm tone. He knew it would take more than words to erase the image of Clay Morrow's right hand. But if that's what it took, than Tig would do it

"With Xan gone, it's me and Ben til she comes back from law school. He'll have the nanny and pre-school during the day, but I'll be the one who picks him up." Tig figured he'd fill Jax in on his added responsibilities while his wife was in law school.

Tig nodded at Jaxs word's before following him into the chapel. Their Charter, and a few other presidents sat around the Reaper table. As Tig took the seat to Jax's right, the familiar seat he had with Clay.

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Nodding his head, Jax understood just where Tig was coming from. Sure, he had done somethings to Opie’s wife, but he has changed and Jax was liking this new Tig and couldn’t hold it against him if he was being honest. “I think that would be best. Make sure she goes to a place he doesn’t know where she will be. That is all I can say, because he seems to know everything and I don’t even know how.”

But all of this had to be done. Clay had done enough and really tuned their whole club upside down and that meant the two of them really needed to stand together, along with the rest of the club and make sure Clay knew he wasn’t going to walk away with this one. He was in deep trouble and that is all he needed to know. But hearing that Tig was fully in, that was all Jax needed to hear. He wanted him at the table with him.

“I need you at that table brother. You’re good, and you are a good guy, just when Clay infected you with shit that didn’t happen, we ain’t having that again. I don’t want you to feel we need to have that, so you’re with us, he won’t do anything to you or your family brother, I can promise you that.”

That is one thing Jax wanted to promise Tig for going against the man that had been with Tig for a while now. “We can deal with that, your kid comes first man. Always will.” Walking back into he chapel with everyone, this was what they were supposed to do. “Okay, so we are all here because Clay has overstepped and made the club look bad. We are voting to remove the reaper from him and banish him from the club. We will go around the table and yay if you agree or nay if you think he should get another chance.”

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Tig knew too of his past, but it was just that the past. And ever since his confession, he'd put the stuff with Donna behind him. The whole club seemed to, after the stuff with Stahl and when it boiled down to it, it was Clay's call. Blood was on both their hands, and Tig knew it too. Maybe that's why he had to do this, help the club vote out the one man who'd gotten so greedy in the end. Clay erased any brotherhood they had, just saw a payday not a club. Now all he'd have is blacked out tattoos, and discarded items with a reaper. "I will, brother. She's gotten into a good school, Clay doesn't know which one, I took her real acceptance letter and made up a fake one. It's the one I showed to Clay when he asked. He's got no clue where his daughter is." Tig spoke, hoping his plan would at least work. And Clay would remain in the dark. "That means a lot, to me, about Ben. He's with Alexandra right now before she departs later today. Such a little guy has no clue about what's going on, he's so innocent. We won't tell Ben about grandpa til he's older." Tig felt a sense of welcome from Jax, that everything from before his heart attack had faded away. That Tig had become a changed man from the one infected with Clay Morrow, the loyal Sgt at arms who'd done anything for him.

But Tig's service was done as the votes went around the table to banish Clay before landing on him. "Yay." Tig spoke firmly, as if the decision he'd made was final.

Tig breathed a sigh of relief, as he leaned back into his chair as the final votes came in. Soon enough they wouldn't be sharing a patch nor a table with Clay Morrow.

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Jax knew Tig was working on making thing right. Clay was toxic and he had a way of getting people to do something they didn’t want to do. That is just what happened with Tig. So that is why Jax couldn’t hold anything against him if he was being honest. He has showed he was there and he was willing to work hard on repairing anything that got broken in that time. So, Jax could see that and that is why he hates bringing up the past. But Clay did it all and Tig was apart of it.

Clay was the one who erased the brotherhood of the club, and turned everyone against one another. He was going to have nothing else but the past on him and he would be reminded of everything he broke and live with that for the rest of his life. That is all Jax wanted for him because lets be honest, he doesn’t feel bad for him. But he knows Clay and knows he won’t stop there, so Jax would do anything to keep Tig’s family safe at this time.

“And we will keep it that way. I can’t trust him, especially so close to this vote. It isn’t ideal, but we will make sure she is safe and make sure your kid is safe too okay? You got my word brother. Nothing will happen to them. I won’t let it happen. Best to keep Ben in the dark about Clay. I just wish my kids didn’t know him, so that is where I have the worst job. But they won’t know him anymore after this, I can’t put them in danger, and I know you won’t for your kid either. We got this.”

A grin on his face knowing Clay is going to shit his pants at this, but has to be done. “Hap, go get the torch ready. We are doing this now.” He nods his head and he leaves the room to do just that. “Everyone, if you have concerns like Tig about family, let me know and we will arrange something to make sure nothing happens. Just, don’t be shy, Clay won’t get past anyone at this point.” He looked around the room before standing up and following everyone out. Looking at Clay, and he glares at him as he was waiting, he was sure he knew just what that meant right now. He was done.

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Tig hummed in agreement. He'd known Clay long enough to the former president wouldn't just lay down and accept his fate.

Clay would pull something, and if he did, Jax would keep his word. He'd be taken out without question. The club's Clay problem would be erased.

Only reason he was above ground now was Galen O'Shay wanting him in Ireland. He'd be far away from Alexandra, and Ben. Tig's son would never know grandpa, and he was okay with that.

"Thank you, man. That means a lot, brother you keepin' my wife and son safe." Tig spoke.

"Alexandra's here, I can't let her see her dad like that. But if you want me there while we black em out, I'll be by your side." He added.

Tig meant that, he would be in that garage bay if Jax wanted. Even if it was his father in law, this needed to happen.

"Come on in, baby." Tig took Alexandra's hand. "Where's Ben?" He asked

"Little guy is with Grandma. My dad's not gonna get his claws into our little boy." Alexandra spoke.

"Jax, you want me to take her? I'll meet you in the bay, after?" Tig asked turning to Jax.

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Jax knew Clay enough to know he would try to do something. He wasn’t one who was going to take it laying down, and maybe that was all that Jax can do. Watching him carefully and make sure he doesn’t go and do something that will jeopardize their club. That is the main concern right now. If he does anything Jax will hold is promise and then their problem will be taken care of. That is the only thing Jax wants is to make sure they all are safe and nothing bad happens. They can’t handle another loss.

“Of course Brother. Why wouldn’t I? I just know how Clay is, and I know what he will do. Especially since you turned on him. He will see that as a betrayal when he has been betraying us the whole time. So don’t worry about it, I am going to make sure he doesn’t get close to anyone in your house. You have my word.”

Jax may be a lot of things, but he doesn’t go back on his word to everyone around him. That is not who he is. He just wants everyone safe, and seems his mother might need some watching as well, as she had left Clay for Nero. “I want you there, or you don’t have to. It is up to you. I know it will be hard to watch, so the choice is yours. No pressure brother. If you want to keep your family away and take them home, then you’re welcome to do that too.”

Jax didn’t want them to see anything they didn’t want to see, and Jax was supportive of anything. He wouldn’t want his mother or kids there either. So he understood the concern. “Take her. Make sure she is far from here and doesn’t see anything. That is all I am asking. She doesn’t need to see that, and same with anyone else who doesn’t want to see.” Nodding once at Tig letting him know it was okay. He knew he cared about his wife and he couldn’t fault him for that.

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Tig had known Clay long enough too, that the disgraced former president wouldn't just lay down and accept it. He'd try something to make Jax look bad at the gavel, anything for that power back.

"We've had a rocky relationship, Jax. But I don't doubt you'd do anything to protect any of us. And I really appreciate you lookin' after my family." Tig spoke

"You know I'd do the same for you, any of the guys. You want me on Gemma for awhile?" He asked.

"I'll take Xan up there, see our son before leaving tmrw for law school. Ben would love that, alot." Tig added.

Tig chewed on Jax's offer mulling it over in his mind if he should subject himself to Clay one last time. Maybe it would give him closure on things, knowing Clay would never wear a kutte again.

"I'm gonna sit out, want to spend this last night with my family. Have that time with Xan, before she leaves." Tig spoke

His lips captured Alexandra's, as he took her hand. "I love you, baby. But you need to hold on to the good memories of your dad, don't need to remember him like this."

Alexandra quietly nodded, before turning to Jax, "Give your sister, a hug?" She spoke.

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Everyone knew Clay well enough to know he wouldn’t take this with grace. He would try so hard to make sure someone pays for him being stripped of everything he said he built, but Jax knows that he took it away from his father and that means he had to make sure nothing else would happen. He was running the club the way his father had wanted and there was nothing else anyone could say about it. That is what Jax was doing. He knew everyone else agreed but Clay.

“Of course I will. You have always protected my family, so I will protect yours. Whatever you need brother I am there. If you can, yeah. I don’t trust Clay to not do something to her to get back at me. My mother had a lot to do with this decision as well, and he doesn’t know that. So, if you can, I will make sure there are eyes on your family and you watch over Gemma, because I trust you more with her then anyone else.”

Nodding his head, Jax knew Tig needed the time and Jax would do everything he could to make sure his family is safe. He doesn’t blame him not wanting to see what was going to happen to Clay. “I don’t blame you, do what is best for you brother. I will let you know when it’s done and that is when we put everything into motion okay?” But he knew it was harder for Alexandra being she never seen this side of Clay, but Jax, that is all he seen.

“Of course, I got this. Go and see your family and then I will send someone over to keep an eye on them.” It was almost time and Jax had business to take care of. Needing Alexandra to go as well before they start everything else, because he didn’t want her to see the bad part of what they do.

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Tig knew even if Clay did then he’d have something up his sleeve to make Jax look bad, so the club would vote him back to the gavel. But none of that would happen, not if Tig or any of the guys could help it. Not after the harm Clay had caused to the club, voting in the drugs and the blindness to anything but money.

“Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me, you putting the protection in place. I’ll watch over your mom, Jax, make sure she’s ok and as for Ben he won’t know any of this when he gets older.” Tig assured Jax. He didn’t want his and Alexandra’s boy to this life or the fact that grandpa was a bad man like Abel did. It was better their son knew nothing of Clay, and he was young enough they could shelter little Benjamin from it all.

“Come on, baby. Let’s go to your mom’s, see our sweet boy.” Tig spoke and took his wife’s hand before leading her from the clubhouse. She needed to hold onto the good memories of her dad, and remember him for who he was, not who he ultimately became. The greedy man who’d forgotten he had a club.

Alexandra nodded in agreement to Tig’s words as the couple excited the clubhouse, his blue hues shifting away from the garage bay where Hap and the guys were setting up. Whatever plan Jax had for the disgraced ex-president, Tig supported it fully, Clay would get what he deserved.

Soon Tig arrived at Gemma’s place, she’d moved out of Alexandra’s family home for now saying she couldn’t stay. Not with the memories the house carried of her soon to be ex husband. Alexandra ran over to their son, who was putting Gemma through her second watch of Frozen. “Hello, Benjamin, mommy’s here.” She spoke kissing his forehead.

Tig grabbed a seat on the couch his mind still raced of the scene he’d left, about Clay. How things were going and if the club’s plan would go off without a hitch. Everything hinged on Clay being brought to justice, not by any law but the club itself. He knew what breaking the rules led to.

His son soon distracted his busy mind as the small toddler walked over to him before Tig scooped him up into his arms. Ben had those Trager blue eyes, and his mommy’s smile bringing Tig a peace he hadn’t known for awhile. He hoped Ben would never know the life outside these walls, or wearin’ a kutte.

They’d just finished dinner, as Alexandra put Ben down to bed figuring Grandma could read his bedtime story tonight. He’d be spending a lot more time here while mommy was off at law school, Tig was going to be his sole parent for awhile. And the thought frightened him for a moment knowing he didn’t want to be the father he was to his girls.

His burner phone rang as he fished it from his Kutte pocket, “Jax, is it done?” He spoke in a low tone so Alexandra couldn’t here. “Xan wants his gold watch, if you’ve got it. It would mean a lot to her. Have something of her dad’s to remember him by.”

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Jax knew they had to stat ahead of Clay. He was not going to go down without a fight, and that meant that he had to really just allow everyone to keep and eye open. Jax knew it was would be towards him but hurting people in the way was not above Clay. He would do anything to hurt Jax, and he knew that, and everyone at the table knew that. So that meant Jax had to keep an eye on everyone and everything and he knew it would mean to be vigilant and hope he goes down and doesn’t start anything.

“Of course brother. That is what we do. I just think Clay will try something when I am not paying attention. Hurt someone to get to me and that means anyone close to me. So thank you for watching over Gemma for me.” Jax meant that as well. Gemma was a huge part of their life and Clay lost her to Nero and that meant he was truly alone. “Ben doesn’t need to know him. I wish Abel and Thomas didn’t know him, so you’re dodging the bullet there if I am being honest.”

Seeing how far Tig has come from what he did to Donna for Clay. To being settled down and having a family, it made Jax realize he was a good man, Clay was just toxic. “Take care and I will see you guys soon.” Nodding once at Tig and then Alexandra and he knew he had to get this done, he had to do something before everyone leaves, because Mister Mayhem was in full affect and they were all ready for this. It was never easy, but it was the only way to do things right.

As soon as he got the okay that Tig and his wife were gone, Jax knew it was game time. He looked at Clay, and he motioned for him to follow him. He knew what was coming and he knew just what was going to happen. Happy was set up as he was the man to do what he had done before. Clay doesn’t get to wear the mister mayhem on his back anymore. He doesn’t get to have any of that. He was no longer apart of them. “Clay Morrow, you are now meeting Mister Mayhem. You are no longer protected by the club, or have association with the club. Hap, if you will.”

Jax stepped back as they tied Clay up by his wrist, and Jax watched as the heat burnt his flesh and things were just going the way they planned. Clay felt all the pain he put everyone through with his time in the president chair. Once he was done, he laid there and the pain was evident and they untied his wrist and Jax walked up and bent down. “When you can, you walk out of here and go somewhere where we can’t find you.” His voice with nothing but hate for the man who almost ruined his fathers vision.

As he walked away his phone rang and Jax picked it up seeing it was Tig. “It is done. He is leaving and we won’t see him again, but we will keep our eyes open. Everything good with Gemma and everyone else there?” He was concerned his mother would be having a hard time in knowing what was going on. “I should be there soon to let her know. Just don’t say anything. I will do it. And I will grab it for her. I will drop it off as well.”

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Tig's burner phone rang from inside his kutte as he picked it up, hearing the words that escaped Jax's lips. Clay Morrow was no longer a Son or president. He had nothing left for him here, and if he was smart, he would move somewhere far away. Maybe take Galens offer and go to Ireland.

Soon, his ears picked up on the rumble of the Harley in the driveway. As his wife padded over to the door, "Come on, in." She spoke, "Ben's in bed, mom just finished bedtime."

"Do you want a coffee Jax?" Tig offered him, knowing it had been a tough night for his wife and Jax.

His blue hues floated over towards the numerous suitcases packed for Alexandra. She will be leaving tomorrow morning for law school. "We're gonna miss you around here, Xan. I love you so much," he spoke, capturing her lips in a kiss.

Tig knew it was the best thing for his wife to leave town for awhile til shit with her father settled down. And Clay hopefully leaving too, to somewhere far away.

"Did you bring the watch, Jax?" She asked pulling away.

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Jax knew Tig was anxious and be wasted no time and letting him know that he was out and there was no more hints if Clay being in the club. It brought nothing but relief with everyone else that was in the club because they have been broken and lacking of trust due to one of their own members have betrayed everything they were about. So Jax did what he had to do.

Jax was done for the day and allowed everyone else to take some time after all of that and Jax wanted to go see his mom and make sure everyone else was okay that was there. He trusted Tig to keep everyone safe but he pulled into the driveway and he turned his bike off and walked into the house and being met with Tig.

“I’m good. Thanks brother. Just working on a few more details and protection needed for everyone who might be on Clay’s list for what he wants to do. We both know he won’t take this laying down. That’s why I need to be on guard more then I want to be. So, bare with me why I work out everything, but she’ll be safe. I have a prospect keeping an eye on her and your family.”

Jax just knew Tig was happy so he wanted to protect that at all cost. Nodding his head. He had the watch for her, and he reached into his pocket and pulled it out and placed it onto the table. “Take care of that. But I know there’s a reason you want it. I made sure that was the first thing I took. The question is, are you okay? And Gemma? She’s okay?” He hasn’t seen his mom since the news and wondered how she was feeling with all of this.

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"You're welcome, Jax." Tig replied, before pouring himself a coffee, it had been a long restless night. In the back of his mind playing out the situation with Clay, hoping it all went to plan. And this vote would stay final, regardless of protests from Clay. A small tear rolled down Alexandra's face, as she heard the watch hit the table. "Thank you," was all she could muster. Tig knew it had been hard on his wife too, after all, Clay was her father. Alexandra formerly a Morrow too.

"I'm okay, brother. Alexandra too. Our little man is tucked into bed for the night with no knowledge of Clay." Tig spoke before continuing on, "Gemma's okay, safe. As long as her ex-husband doesn't come askin' for another chance." Tig knew Jax was doing his best, despite everything. And for that he was appreciative, Alexandra too. Clay Morrow being voted out of the club was a long time coming, it had to be done. Tig just hoped the whole thing with Clay was over. "You stayin' the night too?" Tig asked, his blue hues finding Jax. As Ben fussed over the monitor. "I'll get him," Alexandra spoke before soon returning with their son. "Guess someone wanted to see you, Jax. You want to hold him? " Alexandra asked. Seein' his Son just reminded Tig of how innocent little Benjamin was, knowing nothing of the club. Nor the things that his grandfather did, as far as he'd know Clay doesn't exist. "Gemma's in the living room if you want to talk with her. But I know you're doing your best, Jax. To keep us safe. " Tig spoke

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Taking a drink of the coffee that Tig had poured him and Jax sat back and just didn’t really know how to explain everything else that happened. But he did know, Clay would not be getting himself back into the club. There was no way anyone would allow that. There is no way Jax would live that down if it happened, so he would make sure nothing like that does happen.

Nodding once as Jax knew that that watch meant to her and he wanted to make sure she had something. She deserved that. “You’re welcome. He won’t be needing it, so it is best if you had it.” Jax knew Alexandra was having a hard time, but things like this happens. And Jax was just the bad guy right now for making it happen.

Jax was relieved to know that their son had no idea who Clay way and what happened. Because now he has to explain things to Abel and he doesn’t think he can, when Clay stops coming around. “I am waiting for the questions from Abel. Be glad you don’t have to tell him anything. As for Gemma, nothing will happen to her. We will make sure of that. Nothing will happen to her. He will have to go through a lot of people before he get to her.”

Gemma would be one of the last people Clay will see and ask her for forgiveness. That is something that Jax wasn’t ready for. Jax was ready to fight for his family. Clay would be the last person to break anything they are building now. “I don’t know, I might have to go and just be by myself with everything that had happened you know?”

Seeing the little guy and a grin pulled at Jax’s face and put his arms out to hold the little man. He was perfect and reminded him of when his boys were that age and looking down at his innocent face. That is what he missed them not knowing anything. “Keep him innocent. One of us has to get out of here and be better. And I will see Gemma in a few, let me take in this moment.”

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“I really appreciate it, brother, you gettin’ that for her.” Tig spoke. He knew Alexandra was having a hard time, you could see it in her eyes but on the other hand, she knew. Clay had broken the rules, and there was no escaping the consequences of that. No matter what, and Jax couldn’t look like a push over, letting Clay off scot free.

Tig’s features twisted into a frown, hearing Jax speak of Abel and the questions he’d soon be answering about grandpa. Tig was glad he wouldn’t be doing the same with little Benjamin, as he watched his wife place their son into Jax’s arms. “That’s gotta be tough, man. I couldn’t even imagine but I know you’ll do a good job when the time comes.”

Tig nodded in understanding, he too knew this would be the last place Clay would come begging for forgiveness. Gemma wouldn’t give it to him not after all shit he’d done. No one would, but Tig did know he may search for it in his daughter, and that was why she had to go off to law school. Protect her from the fallout.

A smile tugged at Tig’s features watching Jax with little Benjamin. The little boy was so captivated by his Uncle, Trager blue eyes gazing into Jax’s blue ones. His tiny head rested against the leather of his kutte, the moment itself was perfect. All Tig’s doubts of becoming a father again erased once he laid eyes on Ben.

“I will, brother. I promise. Ben will no nothing of this life, Alexandra and I want a better future for our son than patching into SAMCRO. You know once he’s a bit older, and my wife’s done her studies,” Tig spoke, pausing before going on, “Alexandra and I are gonna try for another baby, give him a sibling. She’s already thinking we’re gonna have a daughter.”

“Then I’m gettiń fixed, brother. No more kids. Xan and I already talked about it. She’s already an amazing mom.”

“Isn’t he just precious? Mom loves to steal snuggles with her grandson.” Alexandra spoke, and took a sip of her tea, “Alexander’s convinced his first word is gonna be dad.”

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“Of course, I know he wanted it, and he doesn’t need it, so she can make good use of it. He tried to tell me no, but I slipped it off his wrist and stuffed it into my pocket before he could try to take it back.” Jax wanted Tig to know he almost didn’t get it because Clay was being stubborn and didn’t want to give him anything else that he had because he had already lost everything else. But he wasn’t going to lay down and let him keep something when his sister wanted something, he was going to get it.

“Plus I know she doesn’t understand a lot of what goes on, and I wanted her to have it. I am protecting her the best I can too Tig, but she may need to know why this happened to him. I just don’t want to tell her yet.” He knew the women knew not a lot about what happened, but Clay being her father, he had to explain why she may not be seeing him again. But he just wished Abel didn’t know as much as he did because he was a smart kid and that meant he knew more then he wanted to admit.

“It is tough, but I know he will ask questions and I need to answer. It won’t be easy because i don’t expect much and I don’t expect Abel to be happy about it, but I am going to try. Running his hand along Benjamin’s back and just miss the innocence they all had when they were younger and Jax was making faces at the young boy to make him laugh. To hear that was everything they needed right now. Just the innocence and fun in a small child.

He was just glad Tig was finally happy and with someone who tied him down and tamed him in a way as well. “You deserve everything good brother. I know we weren’t exactly good for a while, but I am just glad you found someone like her. Just be careful when doing that. I know it seems like a good idea, but just make sure no one knows. Because people are batshit crazy and I don’t want you or her in the mix along with a baby that will come later.” Jax wished he knew that about Tara because she was gone and he couldn’t do anything about it.

“He is precious. Gemma, she won’t let anything happen to him you know that right? Hell she protect Abel and Thomas with everything in her. I didn’t get it at first, but she does make it happen and she won’t let anything happen to them. So, she can have all of that especially now since her husband is basically gone.”

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Tig knew Clay wouldn't give up anything without a fight. It was how he operated, and the watch for Alexandra wasn't much different. Of course, he'd refused to give it to Jax, but he was glad he didn't give up and was relentless in getting it.

And seeing the smile on Alexandra's face was all worth it, as now she'd have something of her father's to hold onto. Tig also knew the shadow hung over them, that Jax would have to tell Alexandra everything. Why her dad wasn't coming around.

Hearing Benjamin's little chuckle at Jax's faces was pure gold. The sweet, innocent little guy knew nothing of this situation, and Tig would keep it that way.

He nodded at Jax's words, "We'll be careful, I know how hard it is having kids mixed up with the club." His two daughters caught the brunt of his early years and still do get some trouble from their dad being in the club.

"I know you are, brother. And I appreciate what you've done for her, and I. Alexandra's my whole world. Sometimes, I think how did I get such a wonderful woman like her, me of all guys."

"She won't hear anything about Clay from me. Especially once she goes off to law school." Tig admitted.

"I know she won't, brother. Gemma loves her family and now that includes Benjamin. I hope he gets some time with his nephews. He loves seeing Abel, and Thomas." Tig admitted. Now that the man who was keeping it all away from Gemma, was gone. She could once again have her grandkids.

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Tig closed the clubhouse door behind him, a nagging feeling in the back of his mind of tonight's church. The man, he'd stood by for years...no decades, it seemed like the former president had been hung out to dry. Living on borrowed time thanks to Gaelen and the Irish, wanted him as some point person to keep the gun business alive. The perfect trade off, Jax gets us away from guns, and Clay continues to earn in Ireland. His blue hues shifted along at his brothers, some sitting along the bar and others chatting about anything but the impending vote. To get their minds off having to put the former president to pasture. Tig knew where his vote had to lie, he just couldn't support Clay after the things he'd done. Mayhem, would be too extreme, a daughter didn't deserve to lose her father. Alexandra was also Tig's ol' lady, the two had been married a while back. The two now shared a son, named Benjamin, who'd been born in the midst of the chaos with the club. "Jax, what are we doin'" Tig asks, placing his hand onto his brother's kutte, "Has it really came to this? I have a heart attack, and now I gotta vote Clay out."

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Jax knew tonight was a big deal. This was the first time they were going into church to vote out someone who has bene with the club since the beginning. But things just don’t line up anymore, and Clay, well he has been a pain in the ass for a while now. Undermining Jax as if he can do the job, when in fact, he can do it better then Clay has ever done and more like his father in a sense. It was more with the deal behind his back that has drove him to do this. Not that he wanted to, but he had to do it. 

The clubhouse was full of patched members from other charters. Waiting to see the verdict of what is going on. Not that Jax wants to make a spectacle out of this because that is not what this is about, it is about a member going behind the presidents back and really making deals, some he doesn’t know about and that alone leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Jax was sitting at the table, watching the clock change until it was time to vote. Not that he was rushing it, but this was a big deal and his trance was broken hearing Tig’s voice. He owed Jax a lot. 

“If you want to be apart of the brotherhood then I would say you have to. If you want to join him, then you can vote against me, but I can’t protect you anymore if you do that.” Jax was being blunt and honest and knew that Tig owed him more then he wanted to admit, and saving the bastards life, and sparing it more then once was enough to get him to vote against Clay and make sure everyone else was on the same page. 

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Tig nodded at Jax's words, he was right. He'd saved his life despite the loyalty that wavered for the soon to be president. All Tig knew for years was standing by Clay's side, being the loyal right hand.

Yet he'd do it, vote against the man who'd he'd spent decades beside. Clay had become a problem for the club, declining health had him seeing more green than a brotherhood.

Dividing the members sitting inside the chapel today. "I'll do it, Jax. If I don't have this club then I've got nothing else." Tig stated.

"And I owe you, sparing my life when I should have been in the ground. Hell I almost put myself there after that heart attack."

"Don't worry about Alexandra, she understands brother. I talked to her, and she'll hang up the badge. Do the law school thing." Tig spoke of his ol' lady.

"Doesn't need to go inside for doing her father's deeds, it was more Clay's badge than his daughters."

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Jax didn’t want to throw that card at him, but he had to. He needed Tig to see that Clay didn’t care about anyone but himself and that needed to change. That needed to be changed when it came to the club and if they were going to move forward. This was a brotherhood and Jax helped Tig because he was a brother and he deserved that but Jax needs the loyalty from him as well. Clay was the issue and they all had realized that after things have happened and Clay doing nothing about it, that is how Jax realized he was behind everything that was happening.

Nodding once hearing Tig’s words and knew he meant it. He had nothing, none of them had nothing when it came to not being in the club, he was just glad he was just glad Tig finally realized Clay didn’t want anything good for anyone if they didn’t benefit him.

“Then you stand by that and this club will have your back. Right now, they are just not sure they can trust you. They know how close Clay and you are, and the things you have done for him. I don’t hold that against you, but you need to show all of them that you aren’t that man and that Clay was the reason you did all of that. The patch is yours as long as you stay true to that.”

Jax flashed a grin at him and hoped he stayed with it. “So we vote and people will trust you once you vote Clay out.”

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Tig knew it too, everyone around that table saw him as Clay's right hand he couldn't shake that image, not in his brother's eyes. Didn't matter how much Jax believed he'd realized Clay only did care about Clay.

The truth was Tig didn't even feel that close to Clay in the end, the man didn't need him anymore it seemed. Just shut him out, like he did everyone else. Not to mention he was married to a Morrow himself, Clay's daughter Alexandra. Maybe they thought his ol' lady would pull him back into her father's orbit. But even she saw, Clay's time with the club was coming to an end.

His hands were goin' but that wasn't it, he'd gotten greedy and saw earning big more than he saw a club. Clay wanted a future for his family just went about it the wrong way, broke the club's rules. And Gemma was just a nail in the coffin for him, there wasn't any way he'd stand by Clay's side. Tig tried to resign that night, but his heart stopped him suffered a heart attack right at the door of Clay's room. Fate. Maybe. Tig pushed the thoughts from his mind as he heard Jax's words, "Don't worry, my vote will be a Yea, Jax. Clay doesn't deserve to wear this kutte anymore." He stated. "There's something you should know, after my heart attack he came and visited me in the hospital. Tried to pull me to his side, tellin' me of some opportunity he was lining up." Tig said with a sigh, "But I turned him down, flat." "This vote ain't goin' in his favor. I can't stand by him anymore, SAMCRO's where I belong. But tell me this, Jax, what did you tell Alexandra?" "She know anythin' about this? I know club shit ain't their business, but you can't tell me, she hasn't seen her dad, picked something up."

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Jax hated that Tig had always been more loyal to Clay. Especially what they did to Opie and was going to get him, instead they got his wife. Tig had a hand in that and it took Jax so long to see past all of that and really feel like Tig was there for all the right reasons, and now that Clay was being pushed out, Tig had to show who he was really with and that had to be them or he was gone as well. Jax wasn’t playing those games anymore. They have enough of that and can’t do it again.

Clay had drove them deep into the ground. Jax was working on getting them out of there and having other clubs trust them because Clay didn’t give a shit about anyone but himself and the way people looked at him, knowing he would drive them deeper. Tig, Jax wanted him to see the that and seeing he was finally clearing his head of the toxic energy that was Clay made it better.

So just running through things that Clay had done, he just had to see where Tig’s head was as he has been out for a while after a heart attack and Jax was worried about his health but his vote counted just as much as everyone else’s at this point. “Good boy. Thank you. Just we all know what he has done, and there are things we don’t talk about which I am sure you guys know he has done, but he denies it. So, vote accordingly and know if he stays someone is in trouble.”

Arching his eyebrows at the fact that Clay tried moves just as he was getting pushed out and everyone wasn’t too concerned with it. He was just hoping things didn’t backlash but they were going to try to make it happen. “Well, he won’t be making anymore, because he won’t have anyone. Don’t worry about it Tiggy, you did well, and thank you for not takin’ him up on that offer.” Shaking his head, he didn’t go to anyone.

“I haven’t told her anything, trust me. This is all between us. Gemma doesn’t even know. So this right here, it is all about us.”

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Tig knew he'd made the right decision steppin' away from Clay. He couldn't let the former President take the only thing he knew away.

There wasn't any life outside of SAMCRO no earnin' straight, and he wasn't about to put supporting the family on Alexandra. It wasn't fair to her he owed it to her, and Jax to leave Clay's ways behind.

"You want this flash? I can do what I was going to that night, resign." Tig spoke of the night of his heart attack. His blue hues shifting to the still in place flash on his kutte.

"But if you'd rather I'd keep it, carry it for you you know I'd do that, brother." Tig stated, fidgeting with his wedding ring.

"Haven't told her anything either, man. No one knows outside the club."

Tig nodded at Jax's words, "Me too. I had a feelin- Clay was just trying to get one last jab at you. But I wasn't gonna let him have it."

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Jax just hope Tig doesn’t go back on his word. That is where he was at right now. He just wanted to make sure Clay didn’t stand a chance, and he was out for good with all the things he had done to drag their club down in his time of reigning at president. Not that Jax wanted to do anything bad, but he just didn’t want to have Clay a chance to come back to the club. That is not what this was about.

Tig was always a little flaky because of Clay, but Jax thinks right now, him having the heart attack and not being there for a while, it made him realize just how important all of this was. Maybe that is why Jax wasn’t too worried about him turning his back on the choice and knowing that Clay was done. Shaking his head, he didn’t want Tig to leave, he wanted him there because he was good.

“No I don’t want you to go Tig. I just need you to trust me. That is all. I need you to trust I have better instincts and I look out for all of you. Not just myself like Clay. I won’t make you do anything for my own good, I can do that for myself.”

Jax knew that Tig liked being in the club, and he didn’t want him to leave. “Of course he was, because that is what he does. He knows he is in trouble, so he tries to take everyone down with him. Just we do this then we let everyone know. So as long as you vote the way I think you are then we are good brother. No more secrets and sneaky shit okay?” That was the only thing, Clay may Tig sneaky and Jax doesn’t want that.

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Tig would never go back on his word, not now. He knew Clay was done, and there wasn't anything that the now former president could say. Nothing that Tig hadn't heard while in the hospital.

He twisted at his wedding ring, mulling everything Jax had told him over. Tig had every confidence that Clay's path for the club could be undone.

Alexandra put the badge away and was soon off to law school away from the fallout of her father's being drummed out. "Do you think she should still go?, with everything? Is she safe, brother?" Tig asked, of Jax.

Tig chewed on his lip, before speaking once again, "So you want me to wear this flash? Despite everything it meant before."

He'd do exactly, and vote Clay out. There'd be no nays at the table. "Is he gonna be in there?." Tig asked, not knowing if he had it in him to once again look Clay in the eye.

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Jax knew that Clay would try something, but he didn’t have the people to help him. If they did, they were gone and most men had nothing else but the club, so it would be a brave move on their part. But with Tig on his side, Jax knew he had to make sure everyone else was safe. He had to make sure none of the women got hurt, because Donna, she was already a subject to that and he couldn’t allow anyone else be apart of that.

Nodding his head, he knew that she would be safe. “She will be safe Brother. Trust me. I will do everything in my power to make sure everyone is safe and that includes your wife. I just need you to know no one deserve to feel what Opie felt when he got the news about his wife.” It was all truths, Jax hated to know that Opie felt the pain and there was nothing he could do about it right now.

“I do, you are the best one for the job, I just need to know you’re on the same page as I am, and that you will stay behind me. Not turn on me.” This was the one thing Jax needed to know about Tig, knowing that he will be with the guys and not with Clay. But their first order of business was to get rid of Clay, and Shaking his head, Clay wasn’t going to be in there but he will be at the club house.

“He won’t be in there, but he will be in the clubhouse and get the news once the voting is done. That is how we do this, so everyone votes and then we deliver the news. It will all be on me, not on you guys.”

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"Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me. She's leavin' in a few days, it's best while this shit with Clay plays out." Tig spoke of his wife. Alexandra meant everything to him, just as much as wearin' this Reaper did.

He hated doin' what he did, Donna's death had snapped something in Tig. Never felt the same after, but he was simply followin' Clay. Something he did for decades, but now it was clear the former President had to go.

"I am, one hundred percent behind you. Clay ain't gonna pull me back in, he tried once and knows I won't be havin' it." Tig spoke, in a firm tone. He knew it would take more than words to erase the image of Clay Morrow's right hand. But if that's what it took, than Tig would do it

"With Xan gone, it's me and Ben til she comes back from law school. He'll have the nanny and pre-school during the day, but I'll be the one who picks him up." Tig figured he'd fill Jax in on his added responsibilities while his wife was in law school.

Tig nodded at Jaxs word's before following him into the chapel. Their Charter, and a few other presidents sat around the Reaper table. As Tig took the seat to Jax's right, the familiar seat he had with Clay.

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Nodding his head, Jax understood just where Tig was coming from. Sure, he had done somethings to Opie’s wife, but he has changed and Jax was liking this new Tig and couldn’t hold it against him if he was being honest. “I think that would be best. Make sure she goes to a place he doesn’t know where she will be. That is all I can say, because he seems to know everything and I don’t even know how.”

But all of this had to be done. Clay had done enough and really tuned their whole club upside down and that meant the two of them really needed to stand together, along with the rest of the club and make sure Clay knew he wasn’t going to walk away with this one. He was in deep trouble and that is all he needed to know. But hearing that Tig was fully in, that was all Jax needed to hear. He wanted him at the table with him.

“I need you at that table brother. You’re good, and you are a good guy, just when Clay infected you with shit that didn’t happen, we ain’t having that again. I don’t want you to feel we need to have that, so you’re with us, he won’t do anything to you or your family brother, I can promise you that.”

That is one thing Jax wanted to promise Tig for going against the man that had been with Tig for a while now. “We can deal with that, your kid comes first man. Always will.” Walking back into he chapel with everyone, this was what they were supposed to do. “Okay, so we are all here because Clay has overstepped and made the club look bad. We are voting to remove the reaper from him and banish him from the club. We will go around the table and yay if you agree or nay if you think he should get another chance.”

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Tig knew too of his past, but it was just that the past. And ever since his confession, he'd put the stuff with Donna behind him. The whole club seemed to, after the stuff with Stahl and when it boiled down to it, it was Clay's call. Blood was on both their hands, and Tig knew it too. Maybe that's why he had to do this, help the club vote out the one man who'd gotten so greedy in the end. Clay erased any brotherhood they had, just saw a payday not a club. Now all he'd have is blacked out tattoos, and discarded items with a reaper. "I will, brother. She's gotten into a good school, Clay doesn't know which one, I took her real acceptance letter and made up a fake one. It's the one I showed to Clay when he asked. He's got no clue where his daughter is." Tig spoke, hoping his plan would at least work. And Clay would remain in the dark. "That means a lot, to me, about Ben. He's with Alexandra right now before she departs later today. Such a little guy has no clue about what's going on, he's so innocent. We won't tell Ben about grandpa til he's older." Tig felt a sense of welcome from Jax, that everything from before his heart attack had faded away. That Tig had become a changed man from the one infected with Clay Morrow, the loyal Sgt at arms who'd done anything for him.

But Tig's service was done as the votes went around the table to banish Clay before landing on him. "Yay." Tig spoke firmly, as if the decision he'd made was final.

Tig breathed a sigh of relief, as he leaned back into his chair as the final votes came in. Soon enough they wouldn't be sharing a patch nor a table with Clay Morrow.

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Jax knew Tig was working on making thing right. Clay was toxic and he had a way of getting people to do something they didn’t want to do. That is just what happened with Tig. So that is why Jax couldn’t hold anything against him if he was being honest. He has showed he was there and he was willing to work hard on repairing anything that got broken in that time. So, Jax could see that and that is why he hates bringing up the past. But Clay did it all and Tig was apart of it.

Clay was the one who erased the brotherhood of the club, and turned everyone against one another. He was going to have nothing else but the past on him and he would be reminded of everything he broke and live with that for the rest of his life. That is all Jax wanted for him because lets be honest, he doesn’t feel bad for him. But he knows Clay and knows he won’t stop there, so Jax would do anything to keep Tig’s family safe at this time.

“And we will keep it that way. I can’t trust him, especially so close to this vote. It isn’t ideal, but we will make sure she is safe and make sure your kid is safe too okay? You got my word brother. Nothing will happen to them. I won’t let it happen. Best to keep Ben in the dark about Clay. I just wish my kids didn’t know him, so that is where I have the worst job. But they won’t know him anymore after this, I can’t put them in danger, and I know you won’t for your kid either. We got this.”

A grin on his face knowing Clay is going to shit his pants at this, but has to be done. “Hap, go get the torch ready. We are doing this now.” He nods his head and he leaves the room to do just that. “Everyone, if you have concerns like Tig about family, let me know and we will arrange something to make sure nothing happens. Just, don’t be shy, Clay won’t get past anyone at this point.” He looked around the room before standing up and following everyone out. Looking at Clay, and he glares at him as he was waiting, he was sure he knew just what that meant right now. He was done.

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Tig hummed in agreement. He'd known Clay long enough to the former president wouldn't just lay down and accept his fate.

Clay would pull something, and if he did, Jax would keep his word. He'd be taken out without question. The club's Clay problem would be erased.

Only reason he was above ground now was Galen O'Shay wanting him in Ireland. He'd be far away from Alexandra, and Ben. Tig's son would never know grandpa, and he was okay with that.

"Thank you, man. That means a lot, brother you keepin' my wife and son safe." Tig spoke.

"Alexandra's here, I can't let her see her dad like that. But if you want me there while we black em out, I'll be by your side." He added.

Tig meant that, he would be in that garage bay if Jax wanted. Even if it was his father in law, this needed to happen.

"Come on in, baby." Tig took Alexandra's hand. "Where's Ben?" He asked

"Little guy is with Grandma. My dad's not gonna get his claws into our little boy." Alexandra spoke.

"Jax, you want me to take her? I'll meet you in the bay, after?" Tig asked turning to Jax.

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Jax knew Clay enough to know he would try to do something. He wasn’t one who was going to take it laying down, and maybe that was all that Jax can do. Watching him carefully and make sure he doesn’t go and do something that will jeopardize their club. That is the main concern right now. If he does anything Jax will hold is promise and then their problem will be taken care of. That is the only thing Jax wants is to make sure they all are safe and nothing bad happens. They can’t handle another loss.

“Of course Brother. Why wouldn’t I? I just know how Clay is, and I know what he will do. Especially since you turned on him. He will see that as a betrayal when he has been betraying us the whole time. So don’t worry about it, I am going to make sure he doesn’t get close to anyone in your house. You have my word.”

Jax may be a lot of things, but he doesn’t go back on his word to everyone around him. That is not who he is. He just wants everyone safe, and seems his mother might need some watching as well, as she had left Clay for Nero. “I want you there, or you don’t have to. It is up to you. I know it will be hard to watch, so the choice is yours. No pressure brother. If you want to keep your family away and take them home, then you’re welcome to do that too.”

Jax didn’t want them to see anything they didn’t want to see, and Jax was supportive of anything. He wouldn’t want his mother or kids there either. So he understood the concern. “Take her. Make sure she is far from here and doesn’t see anything. That is all I am asking. She doesn’t need to see that, and same with anyone else who doesn’t want to see.” Nodding once at Tig letting him know it was okay. He knew he cared about his wife and he couldn’t fault him for that.

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Tig had known Clay long enough too, that the disgraced former president wouldn't just lay down and accept it. He'd try something to make Jax look bad at the gavel, anything for that power back.

"We've had a rocky relationship, Jax. But I don't doubt you'd do anything to protect any of us. And I really appreciate you lookin' after my family." Tig spoke

"You know I'd do the same for you, any of the guys. You want me on Gemma for awhile?" He asked.

"I'll take Xan up there, see our son before leaving tmrw for law school. Ben would love that, alot." Tig added.

Tig chewed on Jax's offer mulling it over in his mind if he should subject himself to Clay one last time. Maybe it would give him closure on things, knowing Clay would never wear a kutte again.

"I'm gonna sit out, want to spend this last night with my family. Have that time with Xan, before she leaves." Tig spoke

His lips captured Alexandra's, as he took her hand. "I love you, baby. But you need to hold on to the good memories of your dad, don't need to remember him like this."

Alexandra quietly nodded, before turning to Jax, "Give your sister, a hug?" She spoke.

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Everyone knew Clay well enough to know he wouldn’t take this with grace. He would try so hard to make sure someone pays for him being stripped of everything he said he built, but Jax knows that he took it away from his father and that means he had to make sure nothing else would happen. He was running the club the way his father had wanted and there was nothing else anyone could say about it. That is what Jax was doing. He knew everyone else agreed but Clay.

“Of course I will. You have always protected my family, so I will protect yours. Whatever you need brother I am there. If you can, yeah. I don’t trust Clay to not do something to her to get back at me. My mother had a lot to do with this decision as well, and he doesn’t know that. So, if you can, I will make sure there are eyes on your family and you watch over Gemma, because I trust you more with her then anyone else.”

Nodding his head, Jax knew Tig needed the time and Jax would do everything he could to make sure his family is safe. He doesn’t blame him not wanting to see what was going to happen to Clay. “I don’t blame you, do what is best for you brother. I will let you know when it’s done and that is when we put everything into motion okay?” But he knew it was harder for Alexandra being she never seen this side of Clay, but Jax, that is all he seen.

“Of course, I got this. Go and see your family and then I will send someone over to keep an eye on them.” It was almost time and Jax had business to take care of. Needing Alexandra to go as well before they start everything else, because he didn’t want her to see the bad part of what they do.

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Tig knew even if Clay did then he’d have something up his sleeve to make Jax look bad, so the club would vote him back to the gavel. But none of that would happen, not if Tig or any of the guys could help it. Not after the harm Clay had caused to the club, voting in the drugs and the blindness to anything but money.

“Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me, you putting the protection in place. I’ll watch over your mom, Jax, make sure she’s ok and as for Ben he won’t know any of this when he gets older.” Tig assured Jax. He didn’t want his and Alexandra’s boy to this life or the fact that grandpa was a bad man like Abel did. It was better their son knew nothing of Clay, and he was young enough they could shelter little Benjamin from it all.

“Come on, baby. Let’s go to your mom’s, see our sweet boy.” Tig spoke and took his wife’s hand before leading her from the clubhouse. She needed to hold onto the good memories of her dad, and remember him for who he was, not who he ultimately became. The greedy man who’d forgotten he had a club.

Alexandra nodded in agreement to Tig’s words as the couple excited the clubhouse, his blue hues shifting away from the garage bay where Hap and the guys were setting up. Whatever plan Jax had for the disgraced ex-president, Tig supported it fully, Clay would get what he deserved.

Soon Tig arrived at Gemma’s place, she’d moved out of Alexandra’s family home for now saying she couldn’t stay. Not with the memories the house carried of her soon to be ex husband. Alexandra ran over to their son, who was putting Gemma through her second watch of Frozen. “Hello, Benjamin, mommy’s here.” She spoke kissing his forehead.

Tig grabbed a seat on the couch his mind still raced of the scene he’d left, about Clay. How things were going and if the club’s plan would go off without a hitch. Everything hinged on Clay being brought to justice, not by any law but the club itself. He knew what breaking the rules led to.

His son soon distracted his busy mind as the small toddler walked over to him before Tig scooped him up into his arms. Ben had those Trager blue eyes, and his mommy’s smile bringing Tig a peace he hadn’t known for awhile. He hoped Ben would never know the life outside these walls, or wearin’ a kutte.

They’d just finished dinner, as Alexandra put Ben down to bed figuring Grandma could read his bedtime story tonight. He’d be spending a lot more time here while mommy was off at law school, Tig was going to be his sole parent for awhile. And the thought frightened him for a moment knowing he didn’t want to be the father he was to his girls.

His burner phone rang as he fished it from his Kutte pocket, “Jax, is it done?” He spoke in a low tone so Alexandra couldn’t here. “Xan wants his gold watch, if you’ve got it. It would mean a lot to her. Have something of her dad’s to remember him by.”

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Jax knew they had to stat ahead of Clay. He was not going to go down without a fight, and that meant that he had to really just allow everyone to keep and eye open. Jax knew it was would be towards him but hurting people in the way was not above Clay. He would do anything to hurt Jax, and he knew that, and everyone at the table knew that. So that meant Jax had to keep an eye on everyone and everything and he knew it would mean to be vigilant and hope he goes down and doesn’t start anything.

“Of course brother. That is what we do. I just think Clay will try something when I am not paying attention. Hurt someone to get to me and that means anyone close to me. So thank you for watching over Gemma for me.” Jax meant that as well. Gemma was a huge part of their life and Clay lost her to Nero and that meant he was truly alone. “Ben doesn’t need to know him. I wish Abel and Thomas didn’t know him, so you’re dodging the bullet there if I am being honest.”

Seeing how far Tig has come from what he did to Donna for Clay. To being settled down and having a family, it made Jax realize he was a good man, Clay was just toxic. “Take care and I will see you guys soon.” Nodding once at Tig and then Alexandra and he knew he had to get this done, he had to do something before everyone leaves, because Mister Mayhem was in full affect and they were all ready for this. It was never easy, but it was the only way to do things right.

As soon as he got the okay that Tig and his wife were gone, Jax knew it was game time. He looked at Clay, and he motioned for him to follow him. He knew what was coming and he knew just what was going to happen. Happy was set up as he was the man to do what he had done before. Clay doesn’t get to wear the mister mayhem on his back anymore. He doesn’t get to have any of that. He was no longer apart of them. “Clay Morrow, you are now meeting Mister Mayhem. You are no longer protected by the club, or have association with the club. Hap, if you will.”

Jax stepped back as they tied Clay up by his wrist, and Jax watched as the heat burnt his flesh and things were just going the way they planned. Clay felt all the pain he put everyone through with his time in the president chair. Once he was done, he laid there and the pain was evident and they untied his wrist and Jax walked up and bent down. “When you can, you walk out of here and go somewhere where we can’t find you.” His voice with nothing but hate for the man who almost ruined his fathers vision.

As he walked away his phone rang and Jax picked it up seeing it was Tig. “It is done. He is leaving and we won’t see him again, but we will keep our eyes open. Everything good with Gemma and everyone else there?” He was concerned his mother would be having a hard time in knowing what was going on. “I should be there soon to let her know. Just don’t say anything. I will do it. And I will grab it for her. I will drop it off as well.”

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Tig's burner phone rang from inside his kutte as he picked it up, hearing the words that escaped Jax's lips. Clay Morrow was no longer a Son or president. He had nothing left for him here, and if he was smart, he would move somewhere far away. Maybe take Galens offer and go to Ireland.

Soon, his ears picked up on the rumble of the Harley in the driveway. As his wife padded over to the door, "Come on, in." She spoke, "Ben's in bed, mom just finished bedtime."

"Do you want a coffee Jax?" Tig offered him, knowing it had been a tough night for his wife and Jax.

His blue hues floated over towards the numerous suitcases packed for Alexandra. She will be leaving tomorrow morning for law school. "We're gonna miss you around here, Xan. I love you so much," he spoke, capturing her lips in a kiss.

Tig knew it was the best thing for his wife to leave town for awhile til shit with her father settled down. And Clay hopefully leaving too, to somewhere far away.

"Did you bring the watch, Jax?" She asked pulling away.

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Jax knew Tig was anxious and be wasted no time and letting him know that he was out and there was no more hints if Clay being in the club. It brought nothing but relief with everyone else that was in the club because they have been broken and lacking of trust due to one of their own members have betrayed everything they were about. So Jax did what he had to do.

Jax was done for the day and allowed everyone else to take some time after all of that and Jax wanted to go see his mom and make sure everyone else was okay that was there. He trusted Tig to keep everyone safe but he pulled into the driveway and he turned his bike off and walked into the house and being met with Tig.

“I’m good. Thanks brother. Just working on a few more details and protection needed for everyone who might be on Clay’s list for what he wants to do. We both know he won’t take this laying down. That’s why I need to be on guard more then I want to be. So, bare with me why I work out everything, but she’ll be safe. I have a prospect keeping an eye on her and your family.”

Jax just knew Tig was happy so he wanted to protect that at all cost. Nodding his head. He had the watch for her, and he reached into his pocket and pulled it out and placed it onto the table. “Take care of that. But I know there’s a reason you want it. I made sure that was the first thing I took. The question is, are you okay? And Gemma? She’s okay?” He hasn’t seen his mom since the news and wondered how she was feeling with all of this.

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"You're welcome, Jax." Tig replied, before pouring himself a coffee, it had been a long restless night. In the back of his mind playing out the situation with Clay, hoping it all went to plan. And this vote would stay final, regardless of protests from Clay. A small tear rolled down Alexandra's face, as she heard the watch hit the table. "Thank you," was all she could muster. Tig knew it had been hard on his wife too, after all, Clay was her father. Alexandra formerly a Morrow too.

"I'm okay, brother. Alexandra too. Our little man is tucked into bed for the night with no knowledge of Clay." Tig spoke before continuing on, "Gemma's okay, safe. As long as her ex-husband doesn't come askin' for another chance." Tig knew Jax was doing his best, despite everything. And for that he was appreciative, Alexandra too. Clay Morrow being voted out of the club was a long time coming, it had to be done. Tig just hoped the whole thing with Clay was over. "You stayin' the night too?" Tig asked, his blue hues finding Jax. As Ben fussed over the monitor. "I'll get him," Alexandra spoke before soon returning with their son. "Guess someone wanted to see you, Jax. You want to hold him? " Alexandra asked. Seein' his Son just reminded Tig of how innocent little Benjamin was, knowing nothing of the club. Nor the things that his grandfather did, as far as he'd know Clay doesn't exist. "Gemma's in the living room if you want to talk with her. But I know you're doing your best, Jax. To keep us safe. " Tig spoke

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Taking a drink of the coffee that Tig had poured him and Jax sat back and just didn’t really know how to explain everything else that happened. But he did know, Clay would not be getting himself back into the club. There was no way anyone would allow that. There is no way Jax would live that down if it happened, so he would make sure nothing like that does happen.

Nodding once as Jax knew that that watch meant to her and he wanted to make sure she had something. She deserved that. “You’re welcome. He won’t be needing it, so it is best if you had it.” Jax knew Alexandra was having a hard time, but things like this happens. And Jax was just the bad guy right now for making it happen.

Jax was relieved to know that their son had no idea who Clay way and what happened. Because now he has to explain things to Abel and he doesn’t think he can, when Clay stops coming around. “I am waiting for the questions from Abel. Be glad you don’t have to tell him anything. As for Gemma, nothing will happen to her. We will make sure of that. Nothing will happen to her. He will have to go through a lot of people before he get to her.”

Gemma would be one of the last people Clay will see and ask her for forgiveness. That is something that Jax wasn’t ready for. Jax was ready to fight for his family. Clay would be the last person to break anything they are building now. “I don’t know, I might have to go and just be by myself with everything that had happened you know?”

Seeing the little guy and a grin pulled at Jax’s face and put his arms out to hold the little man. He was perfect and reminded him of when his boys were that age and looking down at his innocent face. That is what he missed them not knowing anything. “Keep him innocent. One of us has to get out of here and be better. And I will see Gemma in a few, let me take in this moment.”

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“I really appreciate it, brother, you gettin’ that for her.” Tig spoke. He knew Alexandra was having a hard time, you could see it in her eyes but on the other hand, she knew. Clay had broken the rules, and there was no escaping the consequences of that. No matter what, and Jax couldn’t look like a push over, letting Clay off scot free.

Tig’s features twisted into a frown, hearing Jax speak of Abel and the questions he’d soon be answering about grandpa. Tig was glad he wouldn’t be doing the same with little Benjamin, as he watched his wife place their son into Jax’s arms. “That’s gotta be tough, man. I couldn’t even imagine but I know you’ll do a good job when the time comes.”

Tig nodded in understanding, he too knew this would be the last place Clay would come begging for forgiveness. Gemma wouldn’t give it to him not after all shit he’d done. No one would, but Tig did know he may search for it in his daughter, and that was why she had to go off to law school. Protect her from the fallout.

A smile tugged at Tig’s features watching Jax with little Benjamin. The little boy was so captivated by his Uncle, Trager blue eyes gazing into Jax’s blue ones. His tiny head rested against the leather of his kutte, the moment itself was perfect. All Tig’s doubts of becoming a father again erased once he laid eyes on Ben.

“I will, brother. I promise. Ben will no nothing of this life, Alexandra and I want a better future for our son than patching into SAMCRO. You know once he’s a bit older, and my wife’s done her studies,” Tig spoke, pausing before going on, “Alexandra and I are gonna try for another baby, give him a sibling. She’s already thinking we’re gonna have a daughter.”

“Then I’m gettiń fixed, brother. No more kids. Xan and I already talked about it. She’s already an amazing mom.”

“Isn’t he just precious? Mom loves to steal snuggles with her grandson.” Alexandra spoke, and took a sip of her tea, “Alexander’s convinced his first word is gonna be dad.”

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Tig closed the clubhouse door behind him, a nagging feeling in the back of his mind of tonight's church. The man, he'd stood by for years...no decades, it seemed like the former president had been hung out to dry. Living on borrowed time thanks to Gaelen and the Irish, wanted him as some point person to keep the gun business alive. The perfect trade off, Jax gets us away from guns, and Clay continues to earn in Ireland. His blue hues shifted along at his brothers, some sitting along the bar and others chatting about anything but the impending vote. To get their minds off having to put the former president to pasture. Tig knew where his vote had to lie, he just couldn't support Clay after the things he'd done. Mayhem, would be too extreme, a daughter didn't deserve to lose her father. Alexandra was also Tig's ol' lady, the two had been married a while back. The two now shared a son, named Benjamin, who'd been born in the midst of the chaos with the club. "Jax, what are we doin'" Tig asks, placing his hand onto his brother's kutte, "Has it really came to this? I have a heart attack, and now I gotta vote Clay out."

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Jax knew tonight was a big deal. This was the first time they were going into church to vote out someone who has bene with the club since the beginning. But things just don’t line up anymore, and Clay, well he has been a pain in the ass for a while now. Undermining Jax as if he can do the job, when in fact, he can do it better then Clay has ever done and more like his father in a sense. It was more with the deal behind his back that has drove him to do this. Not that he wanted to, but he had to do it. 

The clubhouse was full of patched members from other charters. Waiting to see the verdict of what is going on. Not that Jax wants to make a spectacle out of this because that is not what this is about, it is about a member going behind the presidents back and really making deals, some he doesn’t know about and that alone leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Jax was sitting at the table, watching the clock change until it was time to vote. Not that he was rushing it, but this was a big deal and his trance was broken hearing Tig’s voice. He owed Jax a lot. 

“If you want to be apart of the brotherhood then I would say you have to. If you want to join him, then you can vote against me, but I can’t protect you anymore if you do that.” Jax was being blunt and honest and knew that Tig owed him more then he wanted to admit, and saving the bastards life, and sparing it more then once was enough to get him to vote against Clay and make sure everyone else was on the same page. 

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Tig nodded at Jax's words, he was right. He'd saved his life despite the loyalty that wavered for the soon to be president. All Tig knew for years was standing by Clay's side, being the loyal right hand.

Yet he'd do it, vote against the man who'd he'd spent decades beside. Clay had become a problem for the club, declining health had him seeing more green than a brotherhood.

Dividing the members sitting inside the chapel today. "I'll do it, Jax. If I don't have this club then I've got nothing else." Tig stated.

"And I owe you, sparing my life when I should have been in the ground. Hell I almost put myself there after that heart attack."

"Don't worry about Alexandra, she understands brother. I talked to her, and she'll hang up the badge. Do the law school thing." Tig spoke of his ol' lady.

"Doesn't need to go inside for doing her father's deeds, it was more Clay's badge than his daughters."

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Jax didn’t want to throw that card at him, but he had to. He needed Tig to see that Clay didn’t care about anyone but himself and that needed to change. That needed to be changed when it came to the club and if they were going to move forward. This was a brotherhood and Jax helped Tig because he was a brother and he deserved that but Jax needs the loyalty from him as well. Clay was the issue and they all had realized that after things have happened and Clay doing nothing about it, that is how Jax realized he was behind everything that was happening.

Nodding once hearing Tig’s words and knew he meant it. He had nothing, none of them had nothing when it came to not being in the club, he was just glad he was just glad Tig finally realized Clay didn’t want anything good for anyone if they didn’t benefit him.

“Then you stand by that and this club will have your back. Right now, they are just not sure they can trust you. They know how close Clay and you are, and the things you have done for him. I don’t hold that against you, but you need to show all of them that you aren’t that man and that Clay was the reason you did all of that. The patch is yours as long as you stay true to that.”

Jax flashed a grin at him and hoped he stayed with it. “So we vote and people will trust you once you vote Clay out.”

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Tig knew it too, everyone around that table saw him as Clay's right hand he couldn't shake that image, not in his brother's eyes. Didn't matter how much Jax believed he'd realized Clay only did care about Clay.

The truth was Tig didn't even feel that close to Clay in the end, the man didn't need him anymore it seemed. Just shut him out, like he did everyone else. Not to mention he was married to a Morrow himself, Clay's daughter Alexandra. Maybe they thought his ol' lady would pull him back into her father's orbit. But even she saw, Clay's time with the club was coming to an end.

His hands were goin' but that wasn't it, he'd gotten greedy and saw earning big more than he saw a club. Clay wanted a future for his family just went about it the wrong way, broke the club's rules. And Gemma was just a nail in the coffin for him, there wasn't any way he'd stand by Clay's side. Tig tried to resign that night, but his heart stopped him suffered a heart attack right at the door of Clay's room. Fate. Maybe. Tig pushed the thoughts from his mind as he heard Jax's words, "Don't worry, my vote will be a Yea, Jax. Clay doesn't deserve to wear this kutte anymore." He stated. "There's something you should know, after my heart attack he came and visited me in the hospital. Tried to pull me to his side, tellin' me of some opportunity he was lining up." Tig said with a sigh, "But I turned him down, flat." "This vote ain't goin' in his favor. I can't stand by him anymore, SAMCRO's where I belong. But tell me this, Jax, what did you tell Alexandra?" "She know anythin' about this? I know club shit ain't their business, but you can't tell me, she hasn't seen her dad, picked something up."

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Jax hated that Tig had always been more loyal to Clay. Especially what they did to Opie and was going to get him, instead they got his wife. Tig had a hand in that and it took Jax so long to see past all of that and really feel like Tig was there for all the right reasons, and now that Clay was being pushed out, Tig had to show who he was really with and that had to be them or he was gone as well. Jax wasn’t playing those games anymore. They have enough of that and can’t do it again.

Clay had drove them deep into the ground. Jax was working on getting them out of there and having other clubs trust them because Clay didn’t give a shit about anyone but himself and the way people looked at him, knowing he would drive them deeper. Tig, Jax wanted him to see the that and seeing he was finally clearing his head of the toxic energy that was Clay made it better.

So just running through things that Clay had done, he just had to see where Tig’s head was as he has been out for a while after a heart attack and Jax was worried about his health but his vote counted just as much as everyone else’s at this point. “Good boy. Thank you. Just we all know what he has done, and there are things we don’t talk about which I am sure you guys know he has done, but he denies it. So, vote accordingly and know if he stays someone is in trouble.”

Arching his eyebrows at the fact that Clay tried moves just as he was getting pushed out and everyone wasn’t too concerned with it. He was just hoping things didn’t backlash but they were going to try to make it happen. “Well, he won’t be making anymore, because he won’t have anyone. Don’t worry about it Tiggy, you did well, and thank you for not takin’ him up on that offer.” Shaking his head, he didn’t go to anyone.

“I haven’t told her anything, trust me. This is all between us. Gemma doesn’t even know. So this right here, it is all about us.”

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Tig knew he'd made the right decision steppin' away from Clay. He couldn't let the former President take the only thing he knew away.

There wasn't any life outside of SAMCRO no earnin' straight, and he wasn't about to put supporting the family on Alexandra. It wasn't fair to her he owed it to her, and Jax to leave Clay's ways behind.

"You want this flash? I can do what I was going to that night, resign." Tig spoke of the night of his heart attack. His blue hues shifting to the still in place flash on his kutte.

"But if you'd rather I'd keep it, carry it for you you know I'd do that, brother." Tig stated, fidgeting with his wedding ring.

"Haven't told her anything either, man. No one knows outside the club."

Tig nodded at Jax's words, "Me too. I had a feelin- Clay was just trying to get one last jab at you. But I wasn't gonna let him have it."

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Jax just hope Tig doesn’t go back on his word. That is where he was at right now. He just wanted to make sure Clay didn’t stand a chance, and he was out for good with all the things he had done to drag their club down in his time of reigning at president. Not that Jax wanted to do anything bad, but he just didn’t want to have Clay a chance to come back to the club. That is not what this was about.

Tig was always a little flaky because of Clay, but Jax thinks right now, him having the heart attack and not being there for a while, it made him realize just how important all of this was. Maybe that is why Jax wasn’t too worried about him turning his back on the choice and knowing that Clay was done. Shaking his head, he didn’t want Tig to leave, he wanted him there because he was good.

“No I don’t want you to go Tig. I just need you to trust me. That is all. I need you to trust I have better instincts and I look out for all of you. Not just myself like Clay. I won’t make you do anything for my own good, I can do that for myself.”

Jax knew that Tig liked being in the club, and he didn’t want him to leave. “Of course he was, because that is what he does. He knows he is in trouble, so he tries to take everyone down with him. Just we do this then we let everyone know. So as long as you vote the way I think you are then we are good brother. No more secrets and sneaky shit okay?” That was the only thing, Clay may Tig sneaky and Jax doesn’t want that.

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Tig would never go back on his word, not now. He knew Clay was done, and there wasn't anything that the now former president could say. Nothing that Tig hadn't heard while in the hospital.

He twisted at his wedding ring, mulling everything Jax had told him over. Tig had every confidence that Clay's path for the club could be undone.

Alexandra put the badge away and was soon off to law school away from the fallout of her father's being drummed out. "Do you think she should still go?, with everything? Is she safe, brother?" Tig asked, of Jax.

Tig chewed on his lip, before speaking once again, "So you want me to wear this flash? Despite everything it meant before."

He'd do exactly, and vote Clay out. There'd be no nays at the table. "Is he gonna be in there?." Tig asked, not knowing if he had it in him to once again look Clay in the eye.

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Jax knew that Clay would try something, but he didn’t have the people to help him. If they did, they were gone and most men had nothing else but the club, so it would be a brave move on their part. But with Tig on his side, Jax knew he had to make sure everyone else was safe. He had to make sure none of the women got hurt, because Donna, she was already a subject to that and he couldn’t allow anyone else be apart of that.

Nodding his head, he knew that she would be safe. “She will be safe Brother. Trust me. I will do everything in my power to make sure everyone is safe and that includes your wife. I just need you to know no one deserve to feel what Opie felt when he got the news about his wife.” It was all truths, Jax hated to know that Opie felt the pain and there was nothing he could do about it right now.

“I do, you are the best one for the job, I just need to know you’re on the same page as I am, and that you will stay behind me. Not turn on me.” This was the one thing Jax needed to know about Tig, knowing that he will be with the guys and not with Clay. But their first order of business was to get rid of Clay, and Shaking his head, Clay wasn’t going to be in there but he will be at the club house.

“He won’t be in there, but he will be in the clubhouse and get the news once the voting is done. That is how we do this, so everyone votes and then we deliver the news. It will all be on me, not on you guys.”

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"Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me. She's leavin' in a few days, it's best while this shit with Clay plays out." Tig spoke of his wife. Alexandra meant everything to him, just as much as wearin' this Reaper did.

He hated doin' what he did, Donna's death had snapped something in Tig. Never felt the same after, but he was simply followin' Clay. Something he did for decades, but now it was clear the former President had to go.

"I am, one hundred percent behind you. Clay ain't gonna pull me back in, he tried once and knows I won't be havin' it." Tig spoke, in a firm tone. He knew it would take more than words to erase the image of Clay Morrow's right hand. But if that's what it took, than Tig would do it

"With Xan gone, it's me and Ben til she comes back from law school. He'll have the nanny and pre-school during the day, but I'll be the one who picks him up." Tig figured he'd fill Jax in on his added responsibilities while his wife was in law school.

Tig nodded at Jaxs word's before following him into the chapel. Their Charter, and a few other presidents sat around the Reaper table. As Tig took the seat to Jax's right, the familiar seat he had with Clay.

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Nodding his head, Jax understood just where Tig was coming from. Sure, he had done somethings to Opie’s wife, but he has changed and Jax was liking this new Tig and couldn’t hold it against him if he was being honest. “I think that would be best. Make sure she goes to a place he doesn’t know where she will be. That is all I can say, because he seems to know everything and I don’t even know how.”

But all of this had to be done. Clay had done enough and really tuned their whole club upside down and that meant the two of them really needed to stand together, along with the rest of the club and make sure Clay knew he wasn’t going to walk away with this one. He was in deep trouble and that is all he needed to know. But hearing that Tig was fully in, that was all Jax needed to hear. He wanted him at the table with him.

“I need you at that table brother. You’re good, and you are a good guy, just when Clay infected you with shit that didn’t happen, we ain’t having that again. I don’t want you to feel we need to have that, so you’re with us, he won’t do anything to you or your family brother, I can promise you that.”

That is one thing Jax wanted to promise Tig for going against the man that had been with Tig for a while now. “We can deal with that, your kid comes first man. Always will.” Walking back into he chapel with everyone, this was what they were supposed to do. “Okay, so we are all here because Clay has overstepped and made the club look bad. We are voting to remove the reaper from him and banish him from the club. We will go around the table and yay if you agree or nay if you think he should get another chance.”

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Tig knew too of his past, but it was just that the past. And ever since his confession, he'd put the stuff with Donna behind him. The whole club seemed to, after the stuff with Stahl and when it boiled down to it, it was Clay's call. Blood was on both their hands, and Tig knew it too. Maybe that's why he had to do this, help the club vote out the one man who'd gotten so greedy in the end. Clay erased any brotherhood they had, just saw a payday not a club. Now all he'd have is blacked out tattoos, and discarded items with a reaper. "I will, brother. She's gotten into a good school, Clay doesn't know which one, I took her real acceptance letter and made up a fake one. It's the one I showed to Clay when he asked. He's got no clue where his daughter is." Tig spoke, hoping his plan would at least work. And Clay would remain in the dark. "That means a lot, to me, about Ben. He's with Alexandra right now before she departs later today. Such a little guy has no clue about what's going on, he's so innocent. We won't tell Ben about grandpa til he's older." Tig felt a sense of welcome from Jax, that everything from before his heart attack had faded away. That Tig had become a changed man from the one infected with Clay Morrow, the loyal Sgt at arms who'd done anything for him.

But Tig's service was done as the votes went around the table to banish Clay before landing on him. "Yay." Tig spoke firmly, as if the decision he'd made was final.

Tig breathed a sigh of relief, as he leaned back into his chair as the final votes came in. Soon enough they wouldn't be sharing a patch nor a table with Clay Morrow.

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Jax knew Tig was working on making thing right. Clay was toxic and he had a way of getting people to do something they didn’t want to do. That is just what happened with Tig. So that is why Jax couldn’t hold anything against him if he was being honest. He has showed he was there and he was willing to work hard on repairing anything that got broken in that time. So, Jax could see that and that is why he hates bringing up the past. But Clay did it all and Tig was apart of it.

Clay was the one who erased the brotherhood of the club, and turned everyone against one another. He was going to have nothing else but the past on him and he would be reminded of everything he broke and live with that for the rest of his life. That is all Jax wanted for him because lets be honest, he doesn’t feel bad for him. But he knows Clay and knows he won’t stop there, so Jax would do anything to keep Tig’s family safe at this time.

“And we will keep it that way. I can’t trust him, especially so close to this vote. It isn’t ideal, but we will make sure she is safe and make sure your kid is safe too okay? You got my word brother. Nothing will happen to them. I won’t let it happen. Best to keep Ben in the dark about Clay. I just wish my kids didn’t know him, so that is where I have the worst job. But they won’t know him anymore after this, I can’t put them in danger, and I know you won’t for your kid either. We got this.”

A grin on his face knowing Clay is going to shit his pants at this, but has to be done. “Hap, go get the torch ready. We are doing this now.” He nods his head and he leaves the room to do just that. “Everyone, if you have concerns like Tig about family, let me know and we will arrange something to make sure nothing happens. Just, don’t be shy, Clay won’t get past anyone at this point.” He looked around the room before standing up and following everyone out. Looking at Clay, and he glares at him as he was waiting, he was sure he knew just what that meant right now. He was done.

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Tig hummed in agreement. He'd known Clay long enough to the former president wouldn't just lay down and accept his fate.

Clay would pull something, and if he did, Jax would keep his word. He'd be taken out without question. The club's Clay problem would be erased.

Only reason he was above ground now was Galen O'Shay wanting him in Ireland. He'd be far away from Alexandra, and Ben. Tig's son would never know grandpa, and he was okay with that.

"Thank you, man. That means a lot, brother you keepin' my wife and son safe." Tig spoke.

"Alexandra's here, I can't let her see her dad like that. But if you want me there while we black em out, I'll be by your side." He added.

Tig meant that, he would be in that garage bay if Jax wanted. Even if it was his father in law, this needed to happen.

"Come on in, baby." Tig took Alexandra's hand. "Where's Ben?" He asked

"Little guy is with Grandma. My dad's not gonna get his claws into our little boy." Alexandra spoke.

"Jax, you want me to take her? I'll meet you in the bay, after?" Tig asked turning to Jax.

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Jax knew Clay enough to know he would try to do something. He wasn’t one who was going to take it laying down, and maybe that was all that Jax can do. Watching him carefully and make sure he doesn’t go and do something that will jeopardize their club. That is the main concern right now. If he does anything Jax will hold is promise and then their problem will be taken care of. That is the only thing Jax wants is to make sure they all are safe and nothing bad happens. They can’t handle another loss.

“Of course Brother. Why wouldn’t I? I just know how Clay is, and I know what he will do. Especially since you turned on him. He will see that as a betrayal when he has been betraying us the whole time. So don’t worry about it, I am going to make sure he doesn’t get close to anyone in your house. You have my word.”

Jax may be a lot of things, but he doesn’t go back on his word to everyone around him. That is not who he is. He just wants everyone safe, and seems his mother might need some watching as well, as she had left Clay for Nero. “I want you there, or you don’t have to. It is up to you. I know it will be hard to watch, so the choice is yours. No pressure brother. If you want to keep your family away and take them home, then you’re welcome to do that too.”

Jax didn’t want them to see anything they didn’t want to see, and Jax was supportive of anything. He wouldn’t want his mother or kids there either. So he understood the concern. “Take her. Make sure she is far from here and doesn’t see anything. That is all I am asking. She doesn’t need to see that, and same with anyone else who doesn’t want to see.” Nodding once at Tig letting him know it was okay. He knew he cared about his wife and he couldn’t fault him for that.

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Tig had known Clay long enough too, that the disgraced former president wouldn't just lay down and accept it. He'd try something to make Jax look bad at the gavel, anything for that power back.

"We've had a rocky relationship, Jax. But I don't doubt you'd do anything to protect any of us. And I really appreciate you lookin' after my family." Tig spoke

"You know I'd do the same for you, any of the guys. You want me on Gemma for awhile?" He asked.

"I'll take Xan up there, see our son before leaving tmrw for law school. Ben would love that, alot." Tig added.

Tig chewed on Jax's offer mulling it over in his mind if he should subject himself to Clay one last time. Maybe it would give him closure on things, knowing Clay would never wear a kutte again.

"I'm gonna sit out, want to spend this last night with my family. Have that time with Xan, before she leaves." Tig spoke

His lips captured Alexandra's, as he took her hand. "I love you, baby. But you need to hold on to the good memories of your dad, don't need to remember him like this."

Alexandra quietly nodded, before turning to Jax, "Give your sister, a hug?" She spoke.

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Everyone knew Clay well enough to know he wouldn’t take this with grace. He would try so hard to make sure someone pays for him being stripped of everything he said he built, but Jax knows that he took it away from his father and that means he had to make sure nothing else would happen. He was running the club the way his father had wanted and there was nothing else anyone could say about it. That is what Jax was doing. He knew everyone else agreed but Clay.

“Of course I will. You have always protected my family, so I will protect yours. Whatever you need brother I am there. If you can, yeah. I don’t trust Clay to not do something to her to get back at me. My mother had a lot to do with this decision as well, and he doesn’t know that. So, if you can, I will make sure there are eyes on your family and you watch over Gemma, because I trust you more with her then anyone else.”

Nodding his head, Jax knew Tig needed the time and Jax would do everything he could to make sure his family is safe. He doesn’t blame him not wanting to see what was going to happen to Clay. “I don’t blame you, do what is best for you brother. I will let you know when it’s done and that is when we put everything into motion okay?” But he knew it was harder for Alexandra being she never seen this side of Clay, but Jax, that is all he seen.

“Of course, I got this. Go and see your family and then I will send someone over to keep an eye on them.” It was almost time and Jax had business to take care of. Needing Alexandra to go as well before they start everything else, because he didn’t want her to see the bad part of what they do.

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Tig knew even if Clay did then he’d have something up his sleeve to make Jax look bad, so the club would vote him back to the gavel. But none of that would happen, not if Tig or any of the guys could help it. Not after the harm Clay had caused to the club, voting in the drugs and the blindness to anything but money.

“Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me, you putting the protection in place. I’ll watch over your mom, Jax, make sure she’s ok and as for Ben he won’t know any of this when he gets older.” Tig assured Jax. He didn’t want his and Alexandra’s boy to this life or the fact that grandpa was a bad man like Abel did. It was better their son knew nothing of Clay, and he was young enough they could shelter little Benjamin from it all.

“Come on, baby. Let’s go to your mom’s, see our sweet boy.” Tig spoke and took his wife’s hand before leading her from the clubhouse. She needed to hold onto the good memories of her dad, and remember him for who he was, not who he ultimately became. The greedy man who’d forgotten he had a club.

Alexandra nodded in agreement to Tig’s words as the couple excited the clubhouse, his blue hues shifting away from the garage bay where Hap and the guys were setting up. Whatever plan Jax had for the disgraced ex-president, Tig supported it fully, Clay would get what he deserved.

Soon Tig arrived at Gemma’s place, she’d moved out of Alexandra’s family home for now saying she couldn’t stay. Not with the memories the house carried of her soon to be ex husband. Alexandra ran over to their son, who was putting Gemma through her second watch of Frozen. “Hello, Benjamin, mommy’s here.” She spoke kissing his forehead.

Tig grabbed a seat on the couch his mind still raced of the scene he’d left, about Clay. How things were going and if the club’s plan would go off without a hitch. Everything hinged on Clay being brought to justice, not by any law but the club itself. He knew what breaking the rules led to.

His son soon distracted his busy mind as the small toddler walked over to him before Tig scooped him up into his arms. Ben had those Trager blue eyes, and his mommy’s smile bringing Tig a peace he hadn’t known for awhile. He hoped Ben would never know the life outside these walls, or wearin’ a kutte.

They’d just finished dinner, as Alexandra put Ben down to bed figuring Grandma could read his bedtime story tonight. He’d be spending a lot more time here while mommy was off at law school, Tig was going to be his sole parent for awhile. And the thought frightened him for a moment knowing he didn’t want to be the father he was to his girls.

His burner phone rang as he fished it from his Kutte pocket, “Jax, is it done?” He spoke in a low tone so Alexandra couldn’t here. “Xan wants his gold watch, if you’ve got it. It would mean a lot to her. Have something of her dad’s to remember him by.”

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Jax knew they had to stat ahead of Clay. He was not going to go down without a fight, and that meant that he had to really just allow everyone to keep and eye open. Jax knew it was would be towards him but hurting people in the way was not above Clay. He would do anything to hurt Jax, and he knew that, and everyone at the table knew that. So that meant Jax had to keep an eye on everyone and everything and he knew it would mean to be vigilant and hope he goes down and doesn’t start anything.

“Of course brother. That is what we do. I just think Clay will try something when I am not paying attention. Hurt someone to get to me and that means anyone close to me. So thank you for watching over Gemma for me.” Jax meant that as well. Gemma was a huge part of their life and Clay lost her to Nero and that meant he was truly alone. “Ben doesn’t need to know him. I wish Abel and Thomas didn’t know him, so you’re dodging the bullet there if I am being honest.”

Seeing how far Tig has come from what he did to Donna for Clay. To being settled down and having a family, it made Jax realize he was a good man, Clay was just toxic. “Take care and I will see you guys soon.” Nodding once at Tig and then Alexandra and he knew he had to get this done, he had to do something before everyone leaves, because Mister Mayhem was in full affect and they were all ready for this. It was never easy, but it was the only way to do things right.

As soon as he got the okay that Tig and his wife were gone, Jax knew it was game time. He looked at Clay, and he motioned for him to follow him. He knew what was coming and he knew just what was going to happen. Happy was set up as he was the man to do what he had done before. Clay doesn’t get to wear the mister mayhem on his back anymore. He doesn’t get to have any of that. He was no longer apart of them. “Clay Morrow, you are now meeting Mister Mayhem. You are no longer protected by the club, or have association with the club. Hap, if you will.”

Jax stepped back as they tied Clay up by his wrist, and Jax watched as the heat burnt his flesh and things were just going the way they planned. Clay felt all the pain he put everyone through with his time in the president chair. Once he was done, he laid there and the pain was evident and they untied his wrist and Jax walked up and bent down. “When you can, you walk out of here and go somewhere where we can’t find you.” His voice with nothing but hate for the man who almost ruined his fathers vision.

As he walked away his phone rang and Jax picked it up seeing it was Tig. “It is done. He is leaving and we won’t see him again, but we will keep our eyes open. Everything good with Gemma and everyone else there?” He was concerned his mother would be having a hard time in knowing what was going on. “I should be there soon to let her know. Just don’t say anything. I will do it. And I will grab it for her. I will drop it off as well.”

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Tig's burner phone rang from inside his kutte as he picked it up, hearing the words that escaped Jax's lips. Clay Morrow was no longer a Son or president. He had nothing left for him here, and if he was smart, he would move somewhere far away. Maybe take Galens offer and go to Ireland.

Soon, his ears picked up on the rumble of the Harley in the driveway. As his wife padded over to the door, "Come on, in." She spoke, "Ben's in bed, mom just finished bedtime."

"Do you want a coffee Jax?" Tig offered him, knowing it had been a tough night for his wife and Jax.

His blue hues floated over towards the numerous suitcases packed for Alexandra. She will be leaving tomorrow morning for law school. "We're gonna miss you around here, Xan. I love you so much," he spoke, capturing her lips in a kiss.

Tig knew it was the best thing for his wife to leave town for awhile til shit with her father settled down. And Clay hopefully leaving too, to somewhere far away.

"Did you bring the watch, Jax?" She asked pulling away.

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Jax knew Tig was anxious and be wasted no time and letting him know that he was out and there was no more hints if Clay being in the club. It brought nothing but relief with everyone else that was in the club because they have been broken and lacking of trust due to one of their own members have betrayed everything they were about. So Jax did what he had to do.

Jax was done for the day and allowed everyone else to take some time after all of that and Jax wanted to go see his mom and make sure everyone else was okay that was there. He trusted Tig to keep everyone safe but he pulled into the driveway and he turned his bike off and walked into the house and being met with Tig.

“I’m good. Thanks brother. Just working on a few more details and protection needed for everyone who might be on Clay’s list for what he wants to do. We both know he won’t take this laying down. That’s why I need to be on guard more then I want to be. So, bare with me why I work out everything, but she’ll be safe. I have a prospect keeping an eye on her and your family.”

Jax just knew Tig was happy so he wanted to protect that at all cost. Nodding his head. He had the watch for her, and he reached into his pocket and pulled it out and placed it onto the table. “Take care of that. But I know there’s a reason you want it. I made sure that was the first thing I took. The question is, are you okay? And Gemma? She’s okay?” He hasn’t seen his mom since the news and wondered how she was feeling with all of this.

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"You're welcome, Jax." Tig replied, before pouring himself a coffee, it had been a long restless night. In the back of his mind playing out the situation with Clay, hoping it all went to plan. And this vote would stay final, regardless of protests from Clay. A small tear rolled down Alexandra's face, as she heard the watch hit the table. "Thank you," was all she could muster. Tig knew it had been hard on his wife too, after all, Clay was her father. Alexandra formerly a Morrow too.

"I'm okay, brother. Alexandra too. Our little man is tucked into bed for the night with no knowledge of Clay." Tig spoke before continuing on, "Gemma's okay, safe. As long as her ex-husband doesn't come askin' for another chance." Tig knew Jax was doing his best, despite everything. And for that he was appreciative, Alexandra too. Clay Morrow being voted out of the club was a long time coming, it had to be done. Tig just hoped the whole thing with Clay was over. "You stayin' the night too?" Tig asked, his blue hues finding Jax. As Ben fussed over the monitor. "I'll get him," Alexandra spoke before soon returning with their son. "Guess someone wanted to see you, Jax. You want to hold him? " Alexandra asked. Seein' his Son just reminded Tig of how innocent little Benjamin was, knowing nothing of the club. Nor the things that his grandfather did, as far as he'd know Clay doesn't exist. "Gemma's in the living room if you want to talk with her. But I know you're doing your best, Jax. To keep us safe. " Tig spoke

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Tig closed the clubhouse door behind him, a nagging feeling in the back of his mind of tonight's church. The man, he'd stood by for years...no decades, it seemed like the former president had been hung out to dry. Living on borrowed time thanks to Gaelen and the Irish, wanted him as some point person to keep the gun business alive. The perfect trade off, Jax gets us away from guns, and Clay continues to earn in Ireland. His blue hues shifted along at his brothers, some sitting along the bar and others chatting about anything but the impending vote. To get their minds off having to put the former president to pasture. Tig knew where his vote had to lie, he just couldn't support Clay after the things he'd done. Mayhem, would be too extreme, a daughter didn't deserve to lose her father. Alexandra was also Tig's ol' lady, the two had been married a while back. The two now shared a son, named Benjamin, who'd been born in the midst of the chaos with the club. "Jax, what are we doin'" Tig asks, placing his hand onto his brother's kutte, "Has it really came to this? I have a heart attack, and now I gotta vote Clay out."

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Jax knew tonight was a big deal. This was the first time they were going into church to vote out someone who has bene with the club since the beginning. But things just don’t line up anymore, and Clay, well he has been a pain in the ass for a while now. Undermining Jax as if he can do the job, when in fact, he can do it better then Clay has ever done and more like his father in a sense. It was more with the deal behind his back that has drove him to do this. Not that he wanted to, but he had to do it. 

The clubhouse was full of patched members from other charters. Waiting to see the verdict of what is going on. Not that Jax wants to make a spectacle out of this because that is not what this is about, it is about a member going behind the presidents back and really making deals, some he doesn’t know about and that alone leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Jax was sitting at the table, watching the clock change until it was time to vote. Not that he was rushing it, but this was a big deal and his trance was broken hearing Tig’s voice. He owed Jax a lot. 

“If you want to be apart of the brotherhood then I would say you have to. If you want to join him, then you can vote against me, but I can’t protect you anymore if you do that.” Jax was being blunt and honest and knew that Tig owed him more then he wanted to admit, and saving the bastards life, and sparing it more then once was enough to get him to vote against Clay and make sure everyone else was on the same page. 

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Tig nodded at Jax's words, he was right. He'd saved his life despite the loyalty that wavered for the soon to be president. All Tig knew for years was standing by Clay's side, being the loyal right hand.

Yet he'd do it, vote against the man who'd he'd spent decades beside. Clay had become a problem for the club, declining health had him seeing more green than a brotherhood.

Dividing the members sitting inside the chapel today. "I'll do it, Jax. If I don't have this club then I've got nothing else." Tig stated.

"And I owe you, sparing my life when I should have been in the ground. Hell I almost put myself there after that heart attack."

"Don't worry about Alexandra, she understands brother. I talked to her, and she'll hang up the badge. Do the law school thing." Tig spoke of his ol' lady.

"Doesn't need to go inside for doing her father's deeds, it was more Clay's badge than his daughters."

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Jax didn’t want to throw that card at him, but he had to. He needed Tig to see that Clay didn’t care about anyone but himself and that needed to change. That needed to be changed when it came to the club and if they were going to move forward. This was a brotherhood and Jax helped Tig because he was a brother and he deserved that but Jax needs the loyalty from him as well. Clay was the issue and they all had realized that after things have happened and Clay doing nothing about it, that is how Jax realized he was behind everything that was happening.

Nodding once hearing Tig’s words and knew he meant it. He had nothing, none of them had nothing when it came to not being in the club, he was just glad he was just glad Tig finally realized Clay didn’t want anything good for anyone if they didn’t benefit him.

“Then you stand by that and this club will have your back. Right now, they are just not sure they can trust you. They know how close Clay and you are, and the things you have done for him. I don’t hold that against you, but you need to show all of them that you aren’t that man and that Clay was the reason you did all of that. The patch is yours as long as you stay true to that.”

Jax flashed a grin at him and hoped he stayed with it. “So we vote and people will trust you once you vote Clay out.”

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Tig knew it too, everyone around that table saw him as Clay's right hand he couldn't shake that image, not in his brother's eyes. Didn't matter how much Jax believed he'd realized Clay only did care about Clay.

The truth was Tig didn't even feel that close to Clay in the end, the man didn't need him anymore it seemed. Just shut him out, like he did everyone else. Not to mention he was married to a Morrow himself, Clay's daughter Alexandra. Maybe they thought his ol' lady would pull him back into her father's orbit. But even she saw, Clay's time with the club was coming to an end.

His hands were goin' but that wasn't it, he'd gotten greedy and saw earning big more than he saw a club. Clay wanted a future for his family just went about it the wrong way, broke the club's rules. And Gemma was just a nail in the coffin for him, there wasn't any way he'd stand by Clay's side. Tig tried to resign that night, but his heart stopped him suffered a heart attack right at the door of Clay's room. Fate. Maybe. Tig pushed the thoughts from his mind as he heard Jax's words, "Don't worry, my vote will be a Yea, Jax. Clay doesn't deserve to wear this kutte anymore." He stated. "There's something you should know, after my heart attack he came and visited me in the hospital. Tried to pull me to his side, tellin' me of some opportunity he was lining up." Tig said with a sigh, "But I turned him down, flat." "This vote ain't goin' in his favor. I can't stand by him anymore, SAMCRO's where I belong. But tell me this, Jax, what did you tell Alexandra?" "She know anythin' about this? I know club shit ain't their business, but you can't tell me, she hasn't seen her dad, picked something up."

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Jax hated that Tig had always been more loyal to Clay. Especially what they did to Opie and was going to get him, instead they got his wife. Tig had a hand in that and it took Jax so long to see past all of that and really feel like Tig was there for all the right reasons, and now that Clay was being pushed out, Tig had to show who he was really with and that had to be them or he was gone as well. Jax wasn’t playing those games anymore. They have enough of that and can’t do it again.

Clay had drove them deep into the ground. Jax was working on getting them out of there and having other clubs trust them because Clay didn’t give a shit about anyone but himself and the way people looked at him, knowing he would drive them deeper. Tig, Jax wanted him to see the that and seeing he was finally clearing his head of the toxic energy that was Clay made it better.

So just running through things that Clay had done, he just had to see where Tig’s head was as he has been out for a while after a heart attack and Jax was worried about his health but his vote counted just as much as everyone else’s at this point. “Good boy. Thank you. Just we all know what he has done, and there are things we don’t talk about which I am sure you guys know he has done, but he denies it. So, vote accordingly and know if he stays someone is in trouble.”

Arching his eyebrows at the fact that Clay tried moves just as he was getting pushed out and everyone wasn’t too concerned with it. He was just hoping things didn’t backlash but they were going to try to make it happen. “Well, he won’t be making anymore, because he won’t have anyone. Don’t worry about it Tiggy, you did well, and thank you for not takin’ him up on that offer.” Shaking his head, he didn’t go to anyone.

“I haven’t told her anything, trust me. This is all between us. Gemma doesn’t even know. So this right here, it is all about us.”

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Tig knew he'd made the right decision steppin' away from Clay. He couldn't let the former President take the only thing he knew away.

There wasn't any life outside of SAMCRO no earnin' straight, and he wasn't about to put supporting the family on Alexandra. It wasn't fair to her he owed it to her, and Jax to leave Clay's ways behind.

"You want this flash? I can do what I was going to that night, resign." Tig spoke of the night of his heart attack. His blue hues shifting to the still in place flash on his kutte.

"But if you'd rather I'd keep it, carry it for you you know I'd do that, brother." Tig stated, fidgeting with his wedding ring.

"Haven't told her anything either, man. No one knows outside the club."

Tig nodded at Jax's words, "Me too. I had a feelin- Clay was just trying to get one last jab at you. But I wasn't gonna let him have it."

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Jax just hope Tig doesn’t go back on his word. That is where he was at right now. He just wanted to make sure Clay didn’t stand a chance, and he was out for good with all the things he had done to drag their club down in his time of reigning at president. Not that Jax wanted to do anything bad, but he just didn’t want to have Clay a chance to come back to the club. That is not what this was about.

Tig was always a little flaky because of Clay, but Jax thinks right now, him having the heart attack and not being there for a while, it made him realize just how important all of this was. Maybe that is why Jax wasn’t too worried about him turning his back on the choice and knowing that Clay was done. Shaking his head, he didn’t want Tig to leave, he wanted him there because he was good.

“No I don’t want you to go Tig. I just need you to trust me. That is all. I need you to trust I have better instincts and I look out for all of you. Not just myself like Clay. I won’t make you do anything for my own good, I can do that for myself.”

Jax knew that Tig liked being in the club, and he didn’t want him to leave. “Of course he was, because that is what he does. He knows he is in trouble, so he tries to take everyone down with him. Just we do this then we let everyone know. So as long as you vote the way I think you are then we are good brother. No more secrets and sneaky shit okay?” That was the only thing, Clay may Tig sneaky and Jax doesn’t want that.

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Tig would never go back on his word, not now. He knew Clay was done, and there wasn't anything that the now former president could say. Nothing that Tig hadn't heard while in the hospital.

He twisted at his wedding ring, mulling everything Jax had told him over. Tig had every confidence that Clay's path for the club could be undone.

Alexandra put the badge away and was soon off to law school away from the fallout of her father's being drummed out. "Do you think she should still go?, with everything? Is she safe, brother?" Tig asked, of Jax.

Tig chewed on his lip, before speaking once again, "So you want me to wear this flash? Despite everything it meant before."

He'd do exactly, and vote Clay out. There'd be no nays at the table. "Is he gonna be in there?." Tig asked, not knowing if he had it in him to once again look Clay in the eye.

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Jax knew that Clay would try something, but he didn’t have the people to help him. If they did, they were gone and most men had nothing else but the club, so it would be a brave move on their part. But with Tig on his side, Jax knew he had to make sure everyone else was safe. He had to make sure none of the women got hurt, because Donna, she was already a subject to that and he couldn’t allow anyone else be apart of that.

Nodding his head, he knew that she would be safe. “She will be safe Brother. Trust me. I will do everything in my power to make sure everyone is safe and that includes your wife. I just need you to know no one deserve to feel what Opie felt when he got the news about his wife.” It was all truths, Jax hated to know that Opie felt the pain and there was nothing he could do about it right now.

“I do, you are the best one for the job, I just need to know you’re on the same page as I am, and that you will stay behind me. Not turn on me.” This was the one thing Jax needed to know about Tig, knowing that he will be with the guys and not with Clay. But their first order of business was to get rid of Clay, and Shaking his head, Clay wasn’t going to be in there but he will be at the club house.

“He won’t be in there, but he will be in the clubhouse and get the news once the voting is done. That is how we do this, so everyone votes and then we deliver the news. It will all be on me, not on you guys.”

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"Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me. She's leavin' in a few days, it's best while this shit with Clay plays out." Tig spoke of his wife. Alexandra meant everything to him, just as much as wearin' this Reaper did.

He hated doin' what he did, Donna's death had snapped something in Tig. Never felt the same after, but he was simply followin' Clay. Something he did for decades, but now it was clear the former President had to go.

"I am, one hundred percent behind you. Clay ain't gonna pull me back in, he tried once and knows I won't be havin' it." Tig spoke, in a firm tone. He knew it would take more than words to erase the image of Clay Morrow's right hand. But if that's what it took, than Tig would do it

"With Xan gone, it's me and Ben til she comes back from law school. He'll have the nanny and pre-school during the day, but I'll be the one who picks him up." Tig figured he'd fill Jax in on his added responsibilities while his wife was in law school.

Tig nodded at Jaxs word's before following him into the chapel. Their Charter, and a few other presidents sat around the Reaper table. As Tig took the seat to Jax's right, the familiar seat he had with Clay.

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Nodding his head, Jax understood just where Tig was coming from. Sure, he had done somethings to Opie’s wife, but he has changed and Jax was liking this new Tig and couldn’t hold it against him if he was being honest. “I think that would be best. Make sure she goes to a place he doesn’t know where she will be. That is all I can say, because he seems to know everything and I don’t even know how.”

But all of this had to be done. Clay had done enough and really tuned their whole club upside down and that meant the two of them really needed to stand together, along with the rest of the club and make sure Clay knew he wasn’t going to walk away with this one. He was in deep trouble and that is all he needed to know. But hearing that Tig was fully in, that was all Jax needed to hear. He wanted him at the table with him.

“I need you at that table brother. You’re good, and you are a good guy, just when Clay infected you with shit that didn’t happen, we ain’t having that again. I don’t want you to feel we need to have that, so you’re with us, he won’t do anything to you or your family brother, I can promise you that.”

That is one thing Jax wanted to promise Tig for going against the man that had been with Tig for a while now. “We can deal with that, your kid comes first man. Always will.” Walking back into he chapel with everyone, this was what they were supposed to do. “Okay, so we are all here because Clay has overstepped and made the club look bad. We are voting to remove the reaper from him and banish him from the club. We will go around the table and yay if you agree or nay if you think he should get another chance.”

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Tig knew too of his past, but it was just that the past. And ever since his confession, he'd put the stuff with Donna behind him. The whole club seemed to, after the stuff with Stahl and when it boiled down to it, it was Clay's call. Blood was on both their hands, and Tig knew it too. Maybe that's why he had to do this, help the club vote out the one man who'd gotten so greedy in the end. Clay erased any brotherhood they had, just saw a payday not a club. Now all he'd have is blacked out tattoos, and discarded items with a reaper. "I will, brother. She's gotten into a good school, Clay doesn't know which one, I took her real acceptance letter and made up a fake one. It's the one I showed to Clay when he asked. He's got no clue where his daughter is." Tig spoke, hoping his plan would at least work. And Clay would remain in the dark. "That means a lot, to me, about Ben. He's with Alexandra right now before she departs later today. Such a little guy has no clue about what's going on, he's so innocent. We won't tell Ben about grandpa til he's older." Tig felt a sense of welcome from Jax, that everything from before his heart attack had faded away. That Tig had become a changed man from the one infected with Clay Morrow, the loyal Sgt at arms who'd done anything for him.

But Tig's service was done as the votes went around the table to banish Clay before landing on him. "Yay." Tig spoke firmly, as if the decision he'd made was final.

Tig breathed a sigh of relief, as he leaned back into his chair as the final votes came in. Soon enough they wouldn't be sharing a patch nor a table with Clay Morrow.

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Jax knew Tig was working on making thing right. Clay was toxic and he had a way of getting people to do something they didn’t want to do. That is just what happened with Tig. So that is why Jax couldn’t hold anything against him if he was being honest. He has showed he was there and he was willing to work hard on repairing anything that got broken in that time. So, Jax could see that and that is why he hates bringing up the past. But Clay did it all and Tig was apart of it.

Clay was the one who erased the brotherhood of the club, and turned everyone against one another. He was going to have nothing else but the past on him and he would be reminded of everything he broke and live with that for the rest of his life. That is all Jax wanted for him because lets be honest, he doesn’t feel bad for him. But he knows Clay and knows he won’t stop there, so Jax would do anything to keep Tig’s family safe at this time.

“And we will keep it that way. I can’t trust him, especially so close to this vote. It isn’t ideal, but we will make sure she is safe and make sure your kid is safe too okay? You got my word brother. Nothing will happen to them. I won’t let it happen. Best to keep Ben in the dark about Clay. I just wish my kids didn’t know him, so that is where I have the worst job. But they won’t know him anymore after this, I can’t put them in danger, and I know you won’t for your kid either. We got this.”

A grin on his face knowing Clay is going to shit his pants at this, but has to be done. “Hap, go get the torch ready. We are doing this now.” He nods his head and he leaves the room to do just that. “Everyone, if you have concerns like Tig about family, let me know and we will arrange something to make sure nothing happens. Just, don’t be shy, Clay won’t get past anyone at this point.” He looked around the room before standing up and following everyone out. Looking at Clay, and he glares at him as he was waiting, he was sure he knew just what that meant right now. He was done.

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Tig hummed in agreement. He'd known Clay long enough to the former president wouldn't just lay down and accept his fate.

Clay would pull something, and if he did, Jax would keep his word. He'd be taken out without question. The club's Clay problem would be erased.

Only reason he was above ground now was Galen O'Shay wanting him in Ireland. He'd be far away from Alexandra, and Ben. Tig's son would never know grandpa, and he was okay with that.

"Thank you, man. That means a lot, brother you keepin' my wife and son safe." Tig spoke.

"Alexandra's here, I can't let her see her dad like that. But if you want me there while we black em out, I'll be by your side." He added.

Tig meant that, he would be in that garage bay if Jax wanted. Even if it was his father in law, this needed to happen.

"Come on in, baby." Tig took Alexandra's hand. "Where's Ben?" He asked

"Little guy is with Grandma. My dad's not gonna get his claws into our little boy." Alexandra spoke.

"Jax, you want me to take her? I'll meet you in the bay, after?" Tig asked turning to Jax.

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Jax knew Clay enough to know he would try to do something. He wasn’t one who was going to take it laying down, and maybe that was all that Jax can do. Watching him carefully and make sure he doesn’t go and do something that will jeopardize their club. That is the main concern right now. If he does anything Jax will hold is promise and then their problem will be taken care of. That is the only thing Jax wants is to make sure they all are safe and nothing bad happens. They can’t handle another loss.

“Of course Brother. Why wouldn’t I? I just know how Clay is, and I know what he will do. Especially since you turned on him. He will see that as a betrayal when he has been betraying us the whole time. So don’t worry about it, I am going to make sure he doesn’t get close to anyone in your house. You have my word.”

Jax may be a lot of things, but he doesn’t go back on his word to everyone around him. That is not who he is. He just wants everyone safe, and seems his mother might need some watching as well, as she had left Clay for Nero. “I want you there, or you don’t have to. It is up to you. I know it will be hard to watch, so the choice is yours. No pressure brother. If you want to keep your family away and take them home, then you’re welcome to do that too.”

Jax didn’t want them to see anything they didn’t want to see, and Jax was supportive of anything. He wouldn’t want his mother or kids there either. So he understood the concern. “Take her. Make sure she is far from here and doesn’t see anything. That is all I am asking. She doesn’t need to see that, and same with anyone else who doesn’t want to see.” Nodding once at Tig letting him know it was okay. He knew he cared about his wife and he couldn’t fault him for that.

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Tig had known Clay long enough too, that the disgraced former president wouldn't just lay down and accept it. He'd try something to make Jax look bad at the gavel, anything for that power back.

"We've had a rocky relationship, Jax. But I don't doubt you'd do anything to protect any of us. And I really appreciate you lookin' after my family." Tig spoke

"You know I'd do the same for you, any of the guys. You want me on Gemma for awhile?" He asked.

"I'll take Xan up there, see our son before leaving tmrw for law school. Ben would love that, alot." Tig added.

Tig chewed on Jax's offer mulling it over in his mind if he should subject himself to Clay one last time. Maybe it would give him closure on things, knowing Clay would never wear a kutte again.

"I'm gonna sit out, want to spend this last night with my family. Have that time with Xan, before she leaves." Tig spoke

His lips captured Alexandra's, as he took her hand. "I love you, baby. But you need to hold on to the good memories of your dad, don't need to remember him like this."

Alexandra quietly nodded, before turning to Jax, "Give your sister, a hug?" She spoke.

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Everyone knew Clay well enough to know he wouldn’t take this with grace. He would try so hard to make sure someone pays for him being stripped of everything he said he built, but Jax knows that he took it away from his father and that means he had to make sure nothing else would happen. He was running the club the way his father had wanted and there was nothing else anyone could say about it. That is what Jax was doing. He knew everyone else agreed but Clay.

“Of course I will. You have always protected my family, so I will protect yours. Whatever you need brother I am there. If you can, yeah. I don’t trust Clay to not do something to her to get back at me. My mother had a lot to do with this decision as well, and he doesn’t know that. So, if you can, I will make sure there are eyes on your family and you watch over Gemma, because I trust you more with her then anyone else.”

Nodding his head, Jax knew Tig needed the time and Jax would do everything he could to make sure his family is safe. He doesn’t blame him not wanting to see what was going to happen to Clay. “I don’t blame you, do what is best for you brother. I will let you know when it’s done and that is when we put everything into motion okay?” But he knew it was harder for Alexandra being she never seen this side of Clay, but Jax, that is all he seen.

“Of course, I got this. Go and see your family and then I will send someone over to keep an eye on them.” It was almost time and Jax had business to take care of. Needing Alexandra to go as well before they start everything else, because he didn’t want her to see the bad part of what they do.

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Tig knew even if Clay did then he’d have something up his sleeve to make Jax look bad, so the club would vote him back to the gavel. But none of that would happen, not if Tig or any of the guys could help it. Not after the harm Clay had caused to the club, voting in the drugs and the blindness to anything but money.

“Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me, you putting the protection in place. I’ll watch over your mom, Jax, make sure she’s ok and as for Ben he won’t know any of this when he gets older.” Tig assured Jax. He didn’t want his and Alexandra’s boy to this life or the fact that grandpa was a bad man like Abel did. It was better their son knew nothing of Clay, and he was young enough they could shelter little Benjamin from it all.

“Come on, baby. Let’s go to your mom’s, see our sweet boy.” Tig spoke and took his wife’s hand before leading her from the clubhouse. She needed to hold onto the good memories of her dad, and remember him for who he was, not who he ultimately became. The greedy man who’d forgotten he had a club.

Alexandra nodded in agreement to Tig’s words as the couple excited the clubhouse, his blue hues shifting away from the garage bay where Hap and the guys were setting up. Whatever plan Jax had for the disgraced ex-president, Tig supported it fully, Clay would get what he deserved.

Soon Tig arrived at Gemma’s place, she’d moved out of Alexandra’s family home for now saying she couldn’t stay. Not with the memories the house carried of her soon to be ex husband. Alexandra ran over to their son, who was putting Gemma through her second watch of Frozen. “Hello, Benjamin, mommy’s here.” She spoke kissing his forehead.

Tig grabbed a seat on the couch his mind still raced of the scene he’d left, about Clay. How things were going and if the club’s plan would go off without a hitch. Everything hinged on Clay being brought to justice, not by any law but the club itself. He knew what breaking the rules led to.

His son soon distracted his busy mind as the small toddler walked over to him before Tig scooped him up into his arms. Ben had those Trager blue eyes, and his mommy’s smile bringing Tig a peace he hadn’t known for awhile. He hoped Ben would never know the life outside these walls, or wearin’ a kutte.

They’d just finished dinner, as Alexandra put Ben down to bed figuring Grandma could read his bedtime story tonight. He’d be spending a lot more time here while mommy was off at law school, Tig was going to be his sole parent for awhile. And the thought frightened him for a moment knowing he didn’t want to be the father he was to his girls.

His burner phone rang as he fished it from his Kutte pocket, “Jax, is it done?” He spoke in a low tone so Alexandra couldn’t here. “Xan wants his gold watch, if you’ve got it. It would mean a lot to her. Have something of her dad’s to remember him by.”

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Jax knew they had to stat ahead of Clay. He was not going to go down without a fight, and that meant that he had to really just allow everyone to keep and eye open. Jax knew it was would be towards him but hurting people in the way was not above Clay. He would do anything to hurt Jax, and he knew that, and everyone at the table knew that. So that meant Jax had to keep an eye on everyone and everything and he knew it would mean to be vigilant and hope he goes down and doesn’t start anything.

“Of course brother. That is what we do. I just think Clay will try something when I am not paying attention. Hurt someone to get to me and that means anyone close to me. So thank you for watching over Gemma for me.” Jax meant that as well. Gemma was a huge part of their life and Clay lost her to Nero and that meant he was truly alone. “Ben doesn’t need to know him. I wish Abel and Thomas didn’t know him, so you’re dodging the bullet there if I am being honest.”

Seeing how far Tig has come from what he did to Donna for Clay. To being settled down and having a family, it made Jax realize he was a good man, Clay was just toxic. “Take care and I will see you guys soon.” Nodding once at Tig and then Alexandra and he knew he had to get this done, he had to do something before everyone leaves, because Mister Mayhem was in full affect and they were all ready for this. It was never easy, but it was the only way to do things right.

As soon as he got the okay that Tig and his wife were gone, Jax knew it was game time. He looked at Clay, and he motioned for him to follow him. He knew what was coming and he knew just what was going to happen. Happy was set up as he was the man to do what he had done before. Clay doesn’t get to wear the mister mayhem on his back anymore. He doesn’t get to have any of that. He was no longer apart of them. “Clay Morrow, you are now meeting Mister Mayhem. You are no longer protected by the club, or have association with the club. Hap, if you will.”

Jax stepped back as they tied Clay up by his wrist, and Jax watched as the heat burnt his flesh and things were just going the way they planned. Clay felt all the pain he put everyone through with his time in the president chair. Once he was done, he laid there and the pain was evident and they untied his wrist and Jax walked up and bent down. “When you can, you walk out of here and go somewhere where we can’t find you.” His voice with nothing but hate for the man who almost ruined his fathers vision.

As he walked away his phone rang and Jax picked it up seeing it was Tig. “It is done. He is leaving and we won’t see him again, but we will keep our eyes open. Everything good with Gemma and everyone else there?” He was concerned his mother would be having a hard time in knowing what was going on. “I should be there soon to let her know. Just don’t say anything. I will do it. And I will grab it for her. I will drop it off as well.”

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Tig's burner phone rang from inside his kutte as he picked it up, hearing the words that escaped Jax's lips. Clay Morrow was no longer a Son or president. He had nothing left for him here, and if he was smart, he would move somewhere far away. Maybe take Galens offer and go to Ireland.

Soon, his ears picked up on the rumble of the Harley in the driveway. As his wife padded over to the door, "Come on, in." She spoke, "Ben's in bed, mom just finished bedtime."

"Do you want a coffee Jax?" Tig offered him, knowing it had been a tough night for his wife and Jax.

His blue hues floated over towards the numerous suitcases packed for Alexandra. She will be leaving tomorrow morning for law school. "We're gonna miss you around here, Xan. I love you so much," he spoke, capturing her lips in a kiss.

Tig knew it was the best thing for his wife to leave town for awhile til shit with her father settled down. And Clay hopefully leaving too, to somewhere far away.

"Did you bring the watch, Jax?" She asked pulling away.

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Tig closed the clubhouse door behind him, a nagging feeling in the back of his mind of tonight's church. The man, he'd stood by for years...no decades, it seemed like the former president had been hung out to dry. Living on borrowed time thanks to Gaelen and the Irish, wanted him as some point person to keep the gun business alive. The perfect trade off, Jax gets us away from guns, and Clay continues to earn in Ireland. His blue hues shifted along at his brothers, some sitting along the bar and others chatting about anything but the impending vote. To get their minds off having to put the former president to pasture. Tig knew where his vote had to lie, he just couldn't support Clay after the things he'd done. Mayhem, would be too extreme, a daughter didn't deserve to lose her father. Alexandra was also Tig's ol' lady, the two had been married a while back. The two now shared a son, named Benjamin, who'd been born in the midst of the chaos with the club. "Jax, what are we doin'" Tig asks, placing his hand onto his brother's kutte, "Has it really came to this? I have a heart attack, and now I gotta vote Clay out."

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Jax knew tonight was a big deal. This was the first time they were going into church to vote out someone who has bene with the club since the beginning. But things just don’t line up anymore, and Clay, well he has been a pain in the ass for a while now. Undermining Jax as if he can do the job, when in fact, he can do it better then Clay has ever done and more like his father in a sense. It was more with the deal behind his back that has drove him to do this. Not that he wanted to, but he had to do it. 

The clubhouse was full of patched members from other charters. Waiting to see the verdict of what is going on. Not that Jax wants to make a spectacle out of this because that is not what this is about, it is about a member going behind the presidents back and really making deals, some he doesn’t know about and that alone leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Jax was sitting at the table, watching the clock change until it was time to vote. Not that he was rushing it, but this was a big deal and his trance was broken hearing Tig’s voice. He owed Jax a lot. 

“If you want to be apart of the brotherhood then I would say you have to. If you want to join him, then you can vote against me, but I can’t protect you anymore if you do that.” Jax was being blunt and honest and knew that Tig owed him more then he wanted to admit, and saving the bastards life, and sparing it more then once was enough to get him to vote against Clay and make sure everyone else was on the same page. 

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Tig nodded at Jax's words, he was right. He'd saved his life despite the loyalty that wavered for the soon to be president. All Tig knew for years was standing by Clay's side, being the loyal right hand.

Yet he'd do it, vote against the man who'd he'd spent decades beside. Clay had become a problem for the club, declining health had him seeing more green than a brotherhood.

Dividing the members sitting inside the chapel today. "I'll do it, Jax. If I don't have this club then I've got nothing else." Tig stated.

"And I owe you, sparing my life when I should have been in the ground. Hell I almost put myself there after that heart attack."

"Don't worry about Alexandra, she understands brother. I talked to her, and she'll hang up the badge. Do the law school thing." Tig spoke of his ol' lady.

"Doesn't need to go inside for doing her father's deeds, it was more Clay's badge than his daughters."

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Jax didn’t want to throw that card at him, but he had to. He needed Tig to see that Clay didn’t care about anyone but himself and that needed to change. That needed to be changed when it came to the club and if they were going to move forward. This was a brotherhood and Jax helped Tig because he was a brother and he deserved that but Jax needs the loyalty from him as well. Clay was the issue and they all had realized that after things have happened and Clay doing nothing about it, that is how Jax realized he was behind everything that was happening.

Nodding once hearing Tig’s words and knew he meant it. He had nothing, none of them had nothing when it came to not being in the club, he was just glad he was just glad Tig finally realized Clay didn’t want anything good for anyone if they didn’t benefit him.

“Then you stand by that and this club will have your back. Right now, they are just not sure they can trust you. They know how close Clay and you are, and the things you have done for him. I don’t hold that against you, but you need to show all of them that you aren’t that man and that Clay was the reason you did all of that. The patch is yours as long as you stay true to that.”

Jax flashed a grin at him and hoped he stayed with it. “So we vote and people will trust you once you vote Clay out.”

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Tig knew it too, everyone around that table saw him as Clay's right hand he couldn't shake that image, not in his brother's eyes. Didn't matter how much Jax believed he'd realized Clay only did care about Clay.

The truth was Tig didn't even feel that close to Clay in the end, the man didn't need him anymore it seemed. Just shut him out, like he did everyone else. Not to mention he was married to a Morrow himself, Clay's daughter Alexandra. Maybe they thought his ol' lady would pull him back into her father's orbit. But even she saw, Clay's time with the club was coming to an end.

His hands were goin' but that wasn't it, he'd gotten greedy and saw earning big more than he saw a club. Clay wanted a future for his family just went about it the wrong way, broke the club's rules. And Gemma was just a nail in the coffin for him, there wasn't any way he'd stand by Clay's side. Tig tried to resign that night, but his heart stopped him suffered a heart attack right at the door of Clay's room. Fate. Maybe. Tig pushed the thoughts from his mind as he heard Jax's words, "Don't worry, my vote will be a Yea, Jax. Clay doesn't deserve to wear this kutte anymore." He stated. "There's something you should know, after my heart attack he came and visited me in the hospital. Tried to pull me to his side, tellin' me of some opportunity he was lining up." Tig said with a sigh, "But I turned him down, flat." "This vote ain't goin' in his favor. I can't stand by him anymore, SAMCRO's where I belong. But tell me this, Jax, what did you tell Alexandra?" "She know anythin' about this? I know club shit ain't their business, but you can't tell me, she hasn't seen her dad, picked something up."

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Jax hated that Tig had always been more loyal to Clay. Especially what they did to Opie and was going to get him, instead they got his wife. Tig had a hand in that and it took Jax so long to see past all of that and really feel like Tig was there for all the right reasons, and now that Clay was being pushed out, Tig had to show who he was really with and that had to be them or he was gone as well. Jax wasn’t playing those games anymore. They have enough of that and can’t do it again.

Clay had drove them deep into the ground. Jax was working on getting them out of there and having other clubs trust them because Clay didn’t give a shit about anyone but himself and the way people looked at him, knowing he would drive them deeper. Tig, Jax wanted him to see the that and seeing he was finally clearing his head of the toxic energy that was Clay made it better.

So just running through things that Clay had done, he just had to see where Tig’s head was as he has been out for a while after a heart attack and Jax was worried about his health but his vote counted just as much as everyone else’s at this point. “Good boy. Thank you. Just we all know what he has done, and there are things we don’t talk about which I am sure you guys know he has done, but he denies it. So, vote accordingly and know if he stays someone is in trouble.”

Arching his eyebrows at the fact that Clay tried moves just as he was getting pushed out and everyone wasn’t too concerned with it. He was just hoping things didn’t backlash but they were going to try to make it happen. “Well, he won’t be making anymore, because he won’t have anyone. Don’t worry about it Tiggy, you did well, and thank you for not takin’ him up on that offer.” Shaking his head, he didn’t go to anyone.

“I haven’t told her anything, trust me. This is all between us. Gemma doesn’t even know. So this right here, it is all about us.”

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Tig knew he'd made the right decision steppin' away from Clay. He couldn't let the former President take the only thing he knew away.

There wasn't any life outside of SAMCRO no earnin' straight, and he wasn't about to put supporting the family on Alexandra. It wasn't fair to her he owed it to her, and Jax to leave Clay's ways behind.

"You want this flash? I can do what I was going to that night, resign." Tig spoke of the night of his heart attack. His blue hues shifting to the still in place flash on his kutte.

"But if you'd rather I'd keep it, carry it for you you know I'd do that, brother." Tig stated, fidgeting with his wedding ring.

"Haven't told her anything either, man. No one knows outside the club."

Tig nodded at Jax's words, "Me too. I had a feelin- Clay was just trying to get one last jab at you. But I wasn't gonna let him have it."

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Jax just hope Tig doesn’t go back on his word. That is where he was at right now. He just wanted to make sure Clay didn’t stand a chance, and he was out for good with all the things he had done to drag their club down in his time of reigning at president. Not that Jax wanted to do anything bad, but he just didn’t want to have Clay a chance to come back to the club. That is not what this was about.

Tig was always a little flaky because of Clay, but Jax thinks right now, him having the heart attack and not being there for a while, it made him realize just how important all of this was. Maybe that is why Jax wasn’t too worried about him turning his back on the choice and knowing that Clay was done. Shaking his head, he didn’t want Tig to leave, he wanted him there because he was good.

“No I don’t want you to go Tig. I just need you to trust me. That is all. I need you to trust I have better instincts and I look out for all of you. Not just myself like Clay. I won’t make you do anything for my own good, I can do that for myself.”

Jax knew that Tig liked being in the club, and he didn’t want him to leave. “Of course he was, because that is what he does. He knows he is in trouble, so he tries to take everyone down with him. Just we do this then we let everyone know. So as long as you vote the way I think you are then we are good brother. No more secrets and sneaky shit okay?” That was the only thing, Clay may Tig sneaky and Jax doesn’t want that.

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Tig would never go back on his word, not now. He knew Clay was done, and there wasn't anything that the now former president could say. Nothing that Tig hadn't heard while in the hospital.

He twisted at his wedding ring, mulling everything Jax had told him over. Tig had every confidence that Clay's path for the club could be undone.

Alexandra put the badge away and was soon off to law school away from the fallout of her father's being drummed out. "Do you think she should still go?, with everything? Is she safe, brother?" Tig asked, of Jax.

Tig chewed on his lip, before speaking once again, "So you want me to wear this flash? Despite everything it meant before."

He'd do exactly, and vote Clay out. There'd be no nays at the table. "Is he gonna be in there?." Tig asked, not knowing if he had it in him to once again look Clay in the eye.

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Jax knew that Clay would try something, but he didn’t have the people to help him. If they did, they were gone and most men had nothing else but the club, so it would be a brave move on their part. But with Tig on his side, Jax knew he had to make sure everyone else was safe. He had to make sure none of the women got hurt, because Donna, she was already a subject to that and he couldn’t allow anyone else be apart of that.

Nodding his head, he knew that she would be safe. “She will be safe Brother. Trust me. I will do everything in my power to make sure everyone is safe and that includes your wife. I just need you to know no one deserve to feel what Opie felt when he got the news about his wife.” It was all truths, Jax hated to know that Opie felt the pain and there was nothing he could do about it right now.

“I do, you are the best one for the job, I just need to know you’re on the same page as I am, and that you will stay behind me. Not turn on me.” This was the one thing Jax needed to know about Tig, knowing that he will be with the guys and not with Clay. But their first order of business was to get rid of Clay, and Shaking his head, Clay wasn’t going to be in there but he will be at the club house.

“He won’t be in there, but he will be in the clubhouse and get the news once the voting is done. That is how we do this, so everyone votes and then we deliver the news. It will all be on me, not on you guys.”

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"Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me. She's leavin' in a few days, it's best while this shit with Clay plays out." Tig spoke of his wife. Alexandra meant everything to him, just as much as wearin' this Reaper did.

He hated doin' what he did, Donna's death had snapped something in Tig. Never felt the same after, but he was simply followin' Clay. Something he did for decades, but now it was clear the former President had to go.

"I am, one hundred percent behind you. Clay ain't gonna pull me back in, he tried once and knows I won't be havin' it." Tig spoke, in a firm tone. He knew it would take more than words to erase the image of Clay Morrow's right hand. But if that's what it took, than Tig would do it

"With Xan gone, it's me and Ben til she comes back from law school. He'll have the nanny and pre-school during the day, but I'll be the one who picks him up." Tig figured he'd fill Jax in on his added responsibilities while his wife was in law school.

Tig nodded at Jaxs word's before following him into the chapel. Their Charter, and a few other presidents sat around the Reaper table. As Tig took the seat to Jax's right, the familiar seat he had with Clay.

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Nodding his head, Jax understood just where Tig was coming from. Sure, he had done somethings to Opie’s wife, but he has changed and Jax was liking this new Tig and couldn’t hold it against him if he was being honest. “I think that would be best. Make sure she goes to a place he doesn’t know where she will be. That is all I can say, because he seems to know everything and I don’t even know how.”

But all of this had to be done. Clay had done enough and really tuned their whole club upside down and that meant the two of them really needed to stand together, along with the rest of the club and make sure Clay knew he wasn’t going to walk away with this one. He was in deep trouble and that is all he needed to know. But hearing that Tig was fully in, that was all Jax needed to hear. He wanted him at the table with him.

“I need you at that table brother. You’re good, and you are a good guy, just when Clay infected you with shit that didn’t happen, we ain’t having that again. I don’t want you to feel we need to have that, so you’re with us, he won’t do anything to you or your family brother, I can promise you that.”

That is one thing Jax wanted to promise Tig for going against the man that had been with Tig for a while now. “We can deal with that, your kid comes first man. Always will.” Walking back into he chapel with everyone, this was what they were supposed to do. “Okay, so we are all here because Clay has overstepped and made the club look bad. We are voting to remove the reaper from him and banish him from the club. We will go around the table and yay if you agree or nay if you think he should get another chance.”

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Tig knew too of his past, but it was just that the past. And ever since his confession, he'd put the stuff with Donna behind him. The whole club seemed to, after the stuff with Stahl and when it boiled down to it, it was Clay's call. Blood was on both their hands, and Tig knew it too. Maybe that's why he had to do this, help the club vote out the one man who'd gotten so greedy in the end. Clay erased any brotherhood they had, just saw a payday not a club. Now all he'd have is blacked out tattoos, and discarded items with a reaper. "I will, brother. She's gotten into a good school, Clay doesn't know which one, I took her real acceptance letter and made up a fake one. It's the one I showed to Clay when he asked. He's got no clue where his daughter is." Tig spoke, hoping his plan would at least work. And Clay would remain in the dark. "That means a lot, to me, about Ben. He's with Alexandra right now before she departs later today. Such a little guy has no clue about what's going on, he's so innocent. We won't tell Ben about grandpa til he's older." Tig felt a sense of welcome from Jax, that everything from before his heart attack had faded away. That Tig had become a changed man from the one infected with Clay Morrow, the loyal Sgt at arms who'd done anything for him.

But Tig's service was done as the votes went around the table to banish Clay before landing on him. "Yay." Tig spoke firmly, as if the decision he'd made was final.

Tig breathed a sigh of relief, as he leaned back into his chair as the final votes came in. Soon enough they wouldn't be sharing a patch nor a table with Clay Morrow.

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Jax knew Tig was working on making thing right. Clay was toxic and he had a way of getting people to do something they didn’t want to do. That is just what happened with Tig. So that is why Jax couldn’t hold anything against him if he was being honest. He has showed he was there and he was willing to work hard on repairing anything that got broken in that time. So, Jax could see that and that is why he hates bringing up the past. But Clay did it all and Tig was apart of it.

Clay was the one who erased the brotherhood of the club, and turned everyone against one another. He was going to have nothing else but the past on him and he would be reminded of everything he broke and live with that for the rest of his life. That is all Jax wanted for him because lets be honest, he doesn’t feel bad for him. But he knows Clay and knows he won’t stop there, so Jax would do anything to keep Tig’s family safe at this time.

“And we will keep it that way. I can’t trust him, especially so close to this vote. It isn’t ideal, but we will make sure she is safe and make sure your kid is safe too okay? You got my word brother. Nothing will happen to them. I won’t let it happen. Best to keep Ben in the dark about Clay. I just wish my kids didn’t know him, so that is where I have the worst job. But they won’t know him anymore after this, I can’t put them in danger, and I know you won’t for your kid either. We got this.”

A grin on his face knowing Clay is going to shit his pants at this, but has to be done. “Hap, go get the torch ready. We are doing this now.” He nods his head and he leaves the room to do just that. “Everyone, if you have concerns like Tig about family, let me know and we will arrange something to make sure nothing happens. Just, don’t be shy, Clay won’t get past anyone at this point.” He looked around the room before standing up and following everyone out. Looking at Clay, and he glares at him as he was waiting, he was sure he knew just what that meant right now. He was done.

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Tig hummed in agreement. He'd known Clay long enough to the former president wouldn't just lay down and accept his fate.

Clay would pull something, and if he did, Jax would keep his word. He'd be taken out without question. The club's Clay problem would be erased.

Only reason he was above ground now was Galen O'Shay wanting him in Ireland. He'd be far away from Alexandra, and Ben. Tig's son would never know grandpa, and he was okay with that.

"Thank you, man. That means a lot, brother you keepin' my wife and son safe." Tig spoke.

"Alexandra's here, I can't let her see her dad like that. But if you want me there while we black em out, I'll be by your side." He added.

Tig meant that, he would be in that garage bay if Jax wanted. Even if it was his father in law, this needed to happen.

"Come on in, baby." Tig took Alexandra's hand. "Where's Ben?" He asked

"Little guy is with Grandma. My dad's not gonna get his claws into our little boy." Alexandra spoke.

"Jax, you want me to take her? I'll meet you in the bay, after?" Tig asked turning to Jax.

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Jax knew Clay enough to know he would try to do something. He wasn’t one who was going to take it laying down, and maybe that was all that Jax can do. Watching him carefully and make sure he doesn’t go and do something that will jeopardize their club. That is the main concern right now. If he does anything Jax will hold is promise and then their problem will be taken care of. That is the only thing Jax wants is to make sure they all are safe and nothing bad happens. They can’t handle another loss.

“Of course Brother. Why wouldn’t I? I just know how Clay is, and I know what he will do. Especially since you turned on him. He will see that as a betrayal when he has been betraying us the whole time. So don’t worry about it, I am going to make sure he doesn’t get close to anyone in your house. You have my word.”

Jax may be a lot of things, but he doesn’t go back on his word to everyone around him. That is not who he is. He just wants everyone safe, and seems his mother might need some watching as well, as she had left Clay for Nero. “I want you there, or you don’t have to. It is up to you. I know it will be hard to watch, so the choice is yours. No pressure brother. If you want to keep your family away and take them home, then you’re welcome to do that too.”

Jax didn’t want them to see anything they didn’t want to see, and Jax was supportive of anything. He wouldn’t want his mother or kids there either. So he understood the concern. “Take her. Make sure she is far from here and doesn’t see anything. That is all I am asking. She doesn’t need to see that, and same with anyone else who doesn’t want to see.” Nodding once at Tig letting him know it was okay. He knew he cared about his wife and he couldn’t fault him for that.

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Tig had known Clay long enough too, that the disgraced former president wouldn't just lay down and accept it. He'd try something to make Jax look bad at the gavel, anything for that power back.

"We've had a rocky relationship, Jax. But I don't doubt you'd do anything to protect any of us. And I really appreciate you lookin' after my family." Tig spoke

"You know I'd do the same for you, any of the guys. You want me on Gemma for awhile?" He asked.

"I'll take Xan up there, see our son before leaving tmrw for law school. Ben would love that, alot." Tig added.

Tig chewed on Jax's offer mulling it over in his mind if he should subject himself to Clay one last time. Maybe it would give him closure on things, knowing Clay would never wear a kutte again.

"I'm gonna sit out, want to spend this last night with my family. Have that time with Xan, before she leaves." Tig spoke

His lips captured Alexandra's, as he took her hand. "I love you, baby. But you need to hold on to the good memories of your dad, don't need to remember him like this."

Alexandra quietly nodded, before turning to Jax, "Give your sister, a hug?" She spoke.

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Everyone knew Clay well enough to know he wouldn’t take this with grace. He would try so hard to make sure someone pays for him being stripped of everything he said he built, but Jax knows that he took it away from his father and that means he had to make sure nothing else would happen. He was running the club the way his father had wanted and there was nothing else anyone could say about it. That is what Jax was doing. He knew everyone else agreed but Clay.

“Of course I will. You have always protected my family, so I will protect yours. Whatever you need brother I am there. If you can, yeah. I don’t trust Clay to not do something to her to get back at me. My mother had a lot to do with this decision as well, and he doesn’t know that. So, if you can, I will make sure there are eyes on your family and you watch over Gemma, because I trust you more with her then anyone else.”

Nodding his head, Jax knew Tig needed the time and Jax would do everything he could to make sure his family is safe. He doesn’t blame him not wanting to see what was going to happen to Clay. “I don’t blame you, do what is best for you brother. I will let you know when it’s done and that is when we put everything into motion okay?” But he knew it was harder for Alexandra being she never seen this side of Clay, but Jax, that is all he seen.

“Of course, I got this. Go and see your family and then I will send someone over to keep an eye on them.” It was almost time and Jax had business to take care of. Needing Alexandra to go as well before they start everything else, because he didn’t want her to see the bad part of what they do.

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Tig knew even if Clay did then he’d have something up his sleeve to make Jax look bad, so the club would vote him back to the gavel. But none of that would happen, not if Tig or any of the guys could help it. Not after the harm Clay had caused to the club, voting in the drugs and the blindness to anything but money.

“Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me, you putting the protection in place. I’ll watch over your mom, Jax, make sure she’s ok and as for Ben he won’t know any of this when he gets older.” Tig assured Jax. He didn’t want his and Alexandra’s boy to this life or the fact that grandpa was a bad man like Abel did. It was better their son knew nothing of Clay, and he was young enough they could shelter little Benjamin from it all.

“Come on, baby. Let’s go to your mom’s, see our sweet boy.” Tig spoke and took his wife’s hand before leading her from the clubhouse. She needed to hold onto the good memories of her dad, and remember him for who he was, not who he ultimately became. The greedy man who’d forgotten he had a club.

Alexandra nodded in agreement to Tig’s words as the couple excited the clubhouse, his blue hues shifting away from the garage bay where Hap and the guys were setting up. Whatever plan Jax had for the disgraced ex-president, Tig supported it fully, Clay would get what he deserved.

Soon Tig arrived at Gemma’s place, she’d moved out of Alexandra’s family home for now saying she couldn’t stay. Not with the memories the house carried of her soon to be ex husband. Alexandra ran over to their son, who was putting Gemma through her second watch of Frozen. “Hello, Benjamin, mommy’s here.” She spoke kissing his forehead.

Tig grabbed a seat on the couch his mind still raced of the scene he’d left, about Clay. How things were going and if the club’s plan would go off without a hitch. Everything hinged on Clay being brought to justice, not by any law but the club itself. He knew what breaking the rules led to.

His son soon distracted his busy mind as the small toddler walked over to him before Tig scooped him up into his arms. Ben had those Trager blue eyes, and his mommy’s smile bringing Tig a peace he hadn’t known for awhile. He hoped Ben would never know the life outside these walls, or wearin’ a kutte.

They’d just finished dinner, as Alexandra put Ben down to bed figuring Grandma could read his bedtime story tonight. He’d be spending a lot more time here while mommy was off at law school, Tig was going to be his sole parent for awhile. And the thought frightened him for a moment knowing he didn’t want to be the father he was to his girls.

His burner phone rang as he fished it from his Kutte pocket, “Jax, is it done?” He spoke in a low tone so Alexandra couldn’t here. “Xan wants his gold watch, if you’ve got it. It would mean a lot to her. Have something of her dad’s to remember him by.”

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Tig closed the clubhouse door behind him, a nagging feeling in the back of his mind of tonight's church. The man, he'd stood by for years...no decades, it seemed like the former president had been hung out to dry. Living on borrowed time thanks to Gaelen and the Irish, wanted him as some point person to keep the gun business alive. The perfect trade off, Jax gets us away from guns, and Clay continues to earn in Ireland. His blue hues shifted along at his brothers, some sitting along the bar and others chatting about anything but the impending vote. To get their minds off having to put the former president to pasture. Tig knew where his vote had to lie, he just couldn't support Clay after the things he'd done. Mayhem, would be too extreme, a daughter didn't deserve to lose her father. Alexandra was also Tig's ol' lady, the two had been married a while back. The two now shared a son, named Benjamin, who'd been born in the midst of the chaos with the club. "Jax, what are we doin'" Tig asks, placing his hand onto his brother's kutte, "Has it really came to this? I have a heart attack, and now I gotta vote Clay out."

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Jax knew tonight was a big deal. This was the first time they were going into church to vote out someone who has bene with the club since the beginning. But things just don’t line up anymore, and Clay, well he has been a pain in the ass for a while now. Undermining Jax as if he can do the job, when in fact, he can do it better then Clay has ever done and more like his father in a sense. It was more with the deal behind his back that has drove him to do this. Not that he wanted to, but he had to do it. 

The clubhouse was full of patched members from other charters. Waiting to see the verdict of what is going on. Not that Jax wants to make a spectacle out of this because that is not what this is about, it is about a member going behind the presidents back and really making deals, some he doesn’t know about and that alone leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Jax was sitting at the table, watching the clock change until it was time to vote. Not that he was rushing it, but this was a big deal and his trance was broken hearing Tig’s voice. He owed Jax a lot. 

“If you want to be apart of the brotherhood then I would say you have to. If you want to join him, then you can vote against me, but I can’t protect you anymore if you do that.” Jax was being blunt and honest and knew that Tig owed him more then he wanted to admit, and saving the bastards life, and sparing it more then once was enough to get him to vote against Clay and make sure everyone else was on the same page. 

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Tig nodded at Jax's words, he was right. He'd saved his life despite the loyalty that wavered for the soon to be president. All Tig knew for years was standing by Clay's side, being the loyal right hand.

Yet he'd do it, vote against the man who'd he'd spent decades beside. Clay had become a problem for the club, declining health had him seeing more green than a brotherhood.

Dividing the members sitting inside the chapel today. "I'll do it, Jax. If I don't have this club then I've got nothing else." Tig stated.

"And I owe you, sparing my life when I should have been in the ground. Hell I almost put myself there after that heart attack."

"Don't worry about Alexandra, she understands brother. I talked to her, and she'll hang up the badge. Do the law school thing." Tig spoke of his ol' lady.

"Doesn't need to go inside for doing her father's deeds, it was more Clay's badge than his daughters."

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Jax didn’t want to throw that card at him, but he had to. He needed Tig to see that Clay didn’t care about anyone but himself and that needed to change. That needed to be changed when it came to the club and if they were going to move forward. This was a brotherhood and Jax helped Tig because he was a brother and he deserved that but Jax needs the loyalty from him as well. Clay was the issue and they all had realized that after things have happened and Clay doing nothing about it, that is how Jax realized he was behind everything that was happening.

Nodding once hearing Tig’s words and knew he meant it. He had nothing, none of them had nothing when it came to not being in the club, he was just glad he was just glad Tig finally realized Clay didn’t want anything good for anyone if they didn’t benefit him.

“Then you stand by that and this club will have your back. Right now, they are just not sure they can trust you. They know how close Clay and you are, and the things you have done for him. I don’t hold that against you, but you need to show all of them that you aren’t that man and that Clay was the reason you did all of that. The patch is yours as long as you stay true to that.”

Jax flashed a grin at him and hoped he stayed with it. “So we vote and people will trust you once you vote Clay out.”

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Tig knew it too, everyone around that table saw him as Clay's right hand he couldn't shake that image, not in his brother's eyes. Didn't matter how much Jax believed he'd realized Clay only did care about Clay.

The truth was Tig didn't even feel that close to Clay in the end, the man didn't need him anymore it seemed. Just shut him out, like he did everyone else. Not to mention he was married to a Morrow himself, Clay's daughter Alexandra. Maybe they thought his ol' lady would pull him back into her father's orbit. But even she saw, Clay's time with the club was coming to an end.

His hands were goin' but that wasn't it, he'd gotten greedy and saw earning big more than he saw a club. Clay wanted a future for his family just went about it the wrong way, broke the club's rules. And Gemma was just a nail in the coffin for him, there wasn't any way he'd stand by Clay's side. Tig tried to resign that night, but his heart stopped him suffered a heart attack right at the door of Clay's room. Fate. Maybe. Tig pushed the thoughts from his mind as he heard Jax's words, "Don't worry, my vote will be a Yea, Jax. Clay doesn't deserve to wear this kutte anymore." He stated. "There's something you should know, after my heart attack he came and visited me in the hospital. Tried to pull me to his side, tellin' me of some opportunity he was lining up." Tig said with a sigh, "But I turned him down, flat." "This vote ain't goin' in his favor. I can't stand by him anymore, SAMCRO's where I belong. But tell me this, Jax, what did you tell Alexandra?" "She know anythin' about this? I know club shit ain't their business, but you can't tell me, she hasn't seen her dad, picked something up."

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Jax hated that Tig had always been more loyal to Clay. Especially what they did to Opie and was going to get him, instead they got his wife. Tig had a hand in that and it took Jax so long to see past all of that and really feel like Tig was there for all the right reasons, and now that Clay was being pushed out, Tig had to show who he was really with and that had to be them or he was gone as well. Jax wasn’t playing those games anymore. They have enough of that and can’t do it again.

Clay had drove them deep into the ground. Jax was working on getting them out of there and having other clubs trust them because Clay didn’t give a shit about anyone but himself and the way people looked at him, knowing he would drive them deeper. Tig, Jax wanted him to see the that and seeing he was finally clearing his head of the toxic energy that was Clay made it better.

So just running through things that Clay had done, he just had to see where Tig’s head was as he has been out for a while after a heart attack and Jax was worried about his health but his vote counted just as much as everyone else’s at this point. “Good boy. Thank you. Just we all know what he has done, and there are things we don’t talk about which I am sure you guys know he has done, but he denies it. So, vote accordingly and know if he stays someone is in trouble.”

Arching his eyebrows at the fact that Clay tried moves just as he was getting pushed out and everyone wasn’t too concerned with it. He was just hoping things didn’t backlash but they were going to try to make it happen. “Well, he won’t be making anymore, because he won’t have anyone. Don’t worry about it Tiggy, you did well, and thank you for not takin’ him up on that offer.” Shaking his head, he didn’t go to anyone.

“I haven’t told her anything, trust me. This is all between us. Gemma doesn’t even know. So this right here, it is all about us.”

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Tig knew he'd made the right decision steppin' away from Clay. He couldn't let the former President take the only thing he knew away.

There wasn't any life outside of SAMCRO no earnin' straight, and he wasn't about to put supporting the family on Alexandra. It wasn't fair to her he owed it to her, and Jax to leave Clay's ways behind.

"You want this flash? I can do what I was going to that night, resign." Tig spoke of the night of his heart attack. His blue hues shifting to the still in place flash on his kutte.

"But if you'd rather I'd keep it, carry it for you you know I'd do that, brother." Tig stated, fidgeting with his wedding ring.

"Haven't told her anything either, man. No one knows outside the club."

Tig nodded at Jax's words, "Me too. I had a feelin- Clay was just trying to get one last jab at you. But I wasn't gonna let him have it."

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Jax just hope Tig doesn’t go back on his word. That is where he was at right now. He just wanted to make sure Clay didn’t stand a chance, and he was out for good with all the things he had done to drag their club down in his time of reigning at president. Not that Jax wanted to do anything bad, but he just didn’t want to have Clay a chance to come back to the club. That is not what this was about.

Tig was always a little flaky because of Clay, but Jax thinks right now, him having the heart attack and not being there for a while, it made him realize just how important all of this was. Maybe that is why Jax wasn’t too worried about him turning his back on the choice and knowing that Clay was done. Shaking his head, he didn’t want Tig to leave, he wanted him there because he was good.

“No I don’t want you to go Tig. I just need you to trust me. That is all. I need you to trust I have better instincts and I look out for all of you. Not just myself like Clay. I won’t make you do anything for my own good, I can do that for myself.”

Jax knew that Tig liked being in the club, and he didn’t want him to leave. “Of course he was, because that is what he does. He knows he is in trouble, so he tries to take everyone down with him. Just we do this then we let everyone know. So as long as you vote the way I think you are then we are good brother. No more secrets and sneaky shit okay?” That was the only thing, Clay may Tig sneaky and Jax doesn’t want that.

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Tig would never go back on his word, not now. He knew Clay was done, and there wasn't anything that the now former president could say. Nothing that Tig hadn't heard while in the hospital.

He twisted at his wedding ring, mulling everything Jax had told him over. Tig had every confidence that Clay's path for the club could be undone.

Alexandra put the badge away and was soon off to law school away from the fallout of her father's being drummed out. "Do you think she should still go?, with everything? Is she safe, brother?" Tig asked, of Jax.

Tig chewed on his lip, before speaking once again, "So you want me to wear this flash? Despite everything it meant before."

He'd do exactly, and vote Clay out. There'd be no nays at the table. "Is he gonna be in there?." Tig asked, not knowing if he had it in him to once again look Clay in the eye.

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Jax knew that Clay would try something, but he didn’t have the people to help him. If they did, they were gone and most men had nothing else but the club, so it would be a brave move on their part. But with Tig on his side, Jax knew he had to make sure everyone else was safe. He had to make sure none of the women got hurt, because Donna, she was already a subject to that and he couldn’t allow anyone else be apart of that.

Nodding his head, he knew that she would be safe. “She will be safe Brother. Trust me. I will do everything in my power to make sure everyone is safe and that includes your wife. I just need you to know no one deserve to feel what Opie felt when he got the news about his wife.” It was all truths, Jax hated to know that Opie felt the pain and there was nothing he could do about it right now.

“I do, you are the best one for the job, I just need to know you’re on the same page as I am, and that you will stay behind me. Not turn on me.” This was the one thing Jax needed to know about Tig, knowing that he will be with the guys and not with Clay. But their first order of business was to get rid of Clay, and Shaking his head, Clay wasn’t going to be in there but he will be at the club house.

“He won’t be in there, but he will be in the clubhouse and get the news once the voting is done. That is how we do this, so everyone votes and then we deliver the news. It will all be on me, not on you guys.”

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"Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me. She's leavin' in a few days, it's best while this shit with Clay plays out." Tig spoke of his wife. Alexandra meant everything to him, just as much as wearin' this Reaper did.

He hated doin' what he did, Donna's death had snapped something in Tig. Never felt the same after, but he was simply followin' Clay. Something he did for decades, but now it was clear the former President had to go.

"I am, one hundred percent behind you. Clay ain't gonna pull me back in, he tried once and knows I won't be havin' it." Tig spoke, in a firm tone. He knew it would take more than words to erase the image of Clay Morrow's right hand. But if that's what it took, than Tig would do it

"With Xan gone, it's me and Ben til she comes back from law school. He'll have the nanny and pre-school during the day, but I'll be the one who picks him up." Tig figured he'd fill Jax in on his added responsibilities while his wife was in law school.

Tig nodded at Jaxs word's before following him into the chapel. Their Charter, and a few other presidents sat around the Reaper table. As Tig took the seat to Jax's right, the familiar seat he had with Clay.

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Nodding his head, Jax understood just where Tig was coming from. Sure, he had done somethings to Opie’s wife, but he has changed and Jax was liking this new Tig and couldn’t hold it against him if he was being honest. “I think that would be best. Make sure she goes to a place he doesn’t know where she will be. That is all I can say, because he seems to know everything and I don’t even know how.”

But all of this had to be done. Clay had done enough and really tuned their whole club upside down and that meant the two of them really needed to stand together, along with the rest of the club and make sure Clay knew he wasn’t going to walk away with this one. He was in deep trouble and that is all he needed to know. But hearing that Tig was fully in, that was all Jax needed to hear. He wanted him at the table with him.

“I need you at that table brother. You’re good, and you are a good guy, just when Clay infected you with shit that didn’t happen, we ain’t having that again. I don’t want you to feel we need to have that, so you’re with us, he won’t do anything to you or your family brother, I can promise you that.”

That is one thing Jax wanted to promise Tig for going against the man that had been with Tig for a while now. “We can deal with that, your kid comes first man. Always will.” Walking back into he chapel with everyone, this was what they were supposed to do. “Okay, so we are all here because Clay has overstepped and made the club look bad. We are voting to remove the reaper from him and banish him from the club. We will go around the table and yay if you agree or nay if you think he should get another chance.”

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Tig knew too of his past, but it was just that the past. And ever since his confession, he'd put the stuff with Donna behind him. The whole club seemed to, after the stuff with Stahl and when it boiled down to it, it was Clay's call. Blood was on both their hands, and Tig knew it too. Maybe that's why he had to do this, help the club vote out the one man who'd gotten so greedy in the end. Clay erased any brotherhood they had, just saw a payday not a club. Now all he'd have is blacked out tattoos, and discarded items with a reaper. "I will, brother. She's gotten into a good school, Clay doesn't know which one, I took her real acceptance letter and made up a fake one. It's the one I showed to Clay when he asked. He's got no clue where his daughter is." Tig spoke, hoping his plan would at least work. And Clay would remain in the dark. "That means a lot, to me, about Ben. He's with Alexandra right now before she departs later today. Such a little guy has no clue about what's going on, he's so innocent. We won't tell Ben about grandpa til he's older." Tig felt a sense of welcome from Jax, that everything from before his heart attack had faded away. That Tig had become a changed man from the one infected with Clay Morrow, the loyal Sgt at arms who'd done anything for him.

But Tig's service was done as the votes went around the table to banish Clay before landing on him. "Yay." Tig spoke firmly, as if the decision he'd made was final.

Tig breathed a sigh of relief, as he leaned back into his chair as the final votes came in. Soon enough they wouldn't be sharing a patch nor a table with Clay Morrow.

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Jax knew Tig was working on making thing right. Clay was toxic and he had a way of getting people to do something they didn’t want to do. That is just what happened with Tig. So that is why Jax couldn’t hold anything against him if he was being honest. He has showed he was there and he was willing to work hard on repairing anything that got broken in that time. So, Jax could see that and that is why he hates bringing up the past. But Clay did it all and Tig was apart of it.

Clay was the one who erased the brotherhood of the club, and turned everyone against one another. He was going to have nothing else but the past on him and he would be reminded of everything he broke and live with that for the rest of his life. That is all Jax wanted for him because lets be honest, he doesn’t feel bad for him. But he knows Clay and knows he won’t stop there, so Jax would do anything to keep Tig’s family safe at this time.

“And we will keep it that way. I can’t trust him, especially so close to this vote. It isn’t ideal, but we will make sure she is safe and make sure your kid is safe too okay? You got my word brother. Nothing will happen to them. I won’t let it happen. Best to keep Ben in the dark about Clay. I just wish my kids didn’t know him, so that is where I have the worst job. But they won’t know him anymore after this, I can’t put them in danger, and I know you won’t for your kid either. We got this.”

A grin on his face knowing Clay is going to shit his pants at this, but has to be done. “Hap, go get the torch ready. We are doing this now.” He nods his head and he leaves the room to do just that. “Everyone, if you have concerns like Tig about family, let me know and we will arrange something to make sure nothing happens. Just, don’t be shy, Clay won’t get past anyone at this point.” He looked around the room before standing up and following everyone out. Looking at Clay, and he glares at him as he was waiting, he was sure he knew just what that meant right now. He was done.

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Tig hummed in agreement. He'd known Clay long enough to the former president wouldn't just lay down and accept his fate.

Clay would pull something, and if he did, Jax would keep his word. He'd be taken out without question. The club's Clay problem would be erased.

Only reason he was above ground now was Galen O'Shay wanting him in Ireland. He'd be far away from Alexandra, and Ben. Tig's son would never know grandpa, and he was okay with that.

"Thank you, man. That means a lot, brother you keepin' my wife and son safe." Tig spoke.

"Alexandra's here, I can't let her see her dad like that. But if you want me there while we black em out, I'll be by your side." He added.

Tig meant that, he would be in that garage bay if Jax wanted. Even if it was his father in law, this needed to happen.

"Come on in, baby." Tig took Alexandra's hand. "Where's Ben?" He asked

"Little guy is with Grandma. My dad's not gonna get his claws into our little boy." Alexandra spoke.

"Jax, you want me to take her? I'll meet you in the bay, after?" Tig asked turning to Jax.

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Jax knew Clay enough to know he would try to do something. He wasn’t one who was going to take it laying down, and maybe that was all that Jax can do. Watching him carefully and make sure he doesn’t go and do something that will jeopardize their club. That is the main concern right now. If he does anything Jax will hold is promise and then their problem will be taken care of. That is the only thing Jax wants is to make sure they all are safe and nothing bad happens. They can’t handle another loss.

“Of course Brother. Why wouldn’t I? I just know how Clay is, and I know what he will do. Especially since you turned on him. He will see that as a betrayal when he has been betraying us the whole time. So don’t worry about it, I am going to make sure he doesn’t get close to anyone in your house. You have my word.”

Jax may be a lot of things, but he doesn’t go back on his word to everyone around him. That is not who he is. He just wants everyone safe, and seems his mother might need some watching as well, as she had left Clay for Nero. “I want you there, or you don’t have to. It is up to you. I know it will be hard to watch, so the choice is yours. No pressure brother. If you want to keep your family away and take them home, then you’re welcome to do that too.”

Jax didn’t want them to see anything they didn’t want to see, and Jax was supportive of anything. He wouldn’t want his mother or kids there either. So he understood the concern. “Take her. Make sure she is far from here and doesn’t see anything. That is all I am asking. She doesn’t need to see that, and same with anyone else who doesn’t want to see.” Nodding once at Tig letting him know it was okay. He knew he cared about his wife and he couldn’t fault him for that.

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Tig had known Clay long enough too, that the disgraced former president wouldn't just lay down and accept it. He'd try something to make Jax look bad at the gavel, anything for that power back.

"We've had a rocky relationship, Jax. But I don't doubt you'd do anything to protect any of us. And I really appreciate you lookin' after my family." Tig spoke

"You know I'd do the same for you, any of the guys. You want me on Gemma for awhile?" He asked.

"I'll take Xan up there, see our son before leaving tmrw for law school. Ben would love that, alot." Tig added.

Tig chewed on Jax's offer mulling it over in his mind if he should subject himself to Clay one last time. Maybe it would give him closure on things, knowing Clay would never wear a kutte again.

"I'm gonna sit out, want to spend this last night with my family. Have that time with Xan, before she leaves." Tig spoke

His lips captured Alexandra's, as he took her hand. "I love you, baby. But you need to hold on to the good memories of your dad, don't need to remember him like this."

Alexandra quietly nodded, before turning to Jax, "Give your sister, a hug?" She spoke.

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Tig's blue hues shifted up to that of his president as he spoke, "Remember when I was a prospect?". He was fresh out of the Marines and Clay Morrow had taken a chance on him.

"Shit...I don't think I was like the ones we had know. But I caught my fair share of shit." Tig chuckled.

"Then I got patched in, and you tasked me with watchin' Alexandra. Shit, she was so little then. Can't believe we're married now."

A smile curved across his features at the mention of his wife. Tig had done a lot to prove to Clay, he'd changed to be a good husband to his daughter.

"Now, look at us..got into trouble again. So how are we gonna handle this boss?" Tig asked knowing full well how Clay was going to. But still wanted to hear it.

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Tig closed the clubhouse door behind him, a nagging feeling in the back of his mind of tonight's church. The man, he'd stood by for years...no decades, it seemed like the former president had been hung out to dry. Living on borrowed time thanks to Gaelen and the Irish, wanted him as some point person to keep the gun business alive. The perfect trade off, Jax gets us away from guns, and Clay continues to earn in Ireland. His blue hues shifted along at his brothers, some sitting along the bar and others chatting about anything but the impending vote. To get their minds off having to put the former president to pasture. Tig knew where his vote had to lie, he just couldn't support Clay after the things he'd done. Mayhem, would be too extreme, a daughter didn't deserve to lose her father. Alexandra was also Tig's ol' lady, the two had been married a while back. The two now shared a son, named Benjamin, who'd been born in the midst of the chaos with the club. "Jax, what are we doin'" Tig asks, placing his hand onto his brother's kutte, "Has it really came to this? I have a heart attack, and now I gotta vote Clay out."

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Jax knew tonight was a big deal. This was the first time they were going into church to vote out someone who has bene with the club since the beginning. But things just don’t line up anymore, and Clay, well he has been a pain in the ass for a while now. Undermining Jax as if he can do the job, when in fact, he can do it better then Clay has ever done and more like his father in a sense. It was more with the deal behind his back that has drove him to do this. Not that he wanted to, but he had to do it. 

The clubhouse was full of patched members from other charters. Waiting to see the verdict of what is going on. Not that Jax wants to make a spectacle out of this because that is not what this is about, it is about a member going behind the presidents back and really making deals, some he doesn’t know about and that alone leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Jax was sitting at the table, watching the clock change until it was time to vote. Not that he was rushing it, but this was a big deal and his trance was broken hearing Tig’s voice. He owed Jax a lot. 

“If you want to be apart of the brotherhood then I would say you have to. If you want to join him, then you can vote against me, but I can’t protect you anymore if you do that.” Jax was being blunt and honest and knew that Tig owed him more then he wanted to admit, and saving the bastards life, and sparing it more then once was enough to get him to vote against Clay and make sure everyone else was on the same page. 

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Tig nodded at Jax's words, he was right. He'd saved his life despite the loyalty that wavered for the soon to be president. All Tig knew for years was standing by Clay's side, being the loyal right hand.

Yet he'd do it, vote against the man who'd he'd spent decades beside. Clay had become a problem for the club, declining health had him seeing more green than a brotherhood.

Dividing the members sitting inside the chapel today. "I'll do it, Jax. If I don't have this club then I've got nothing else." Tig stated.

"And I owe you, sparing my life when I should have been in the ground. Hell I almost put myself there after that heart attack."

"Don't worry about Alexandra, she understands brother. I talked to her, and she'll hang up the badge. Do the law school thing." Tig spoke of his ol' lady.

"Doesn't need to go inside for doing her father's deeds, it was more Clay's badge than his daughters."

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Jax didn’t want to throw that card at him, but he had to. He needed Tig to see that Clay didn’t care about anyone but himself and that needed to change. That needed to be changed when it came to the club and if they were going to move forward. This was a brotherhood and Jax helped Tig because he was a brother and he deserved that but Jax needs the loyalty from him as well. Clay was the issue and they all had realized that after things have happened and Clay doing nothing about it, that is how Jax realized he was behind everything that was happening.

Nodding once hearing Tig’s words and knew he meant it. He had nothing, none of them had nothing when it came to not being in the club, he was just glad he was just glad Tig finally realized Clay didn’t want anything good for anyone if they didn’t benefit him.

“Then you stand by that and this club will have your back. Right now, they are just not sure they can trust you. They know how close Clay and you are, and the things you have done for him. I don’t hold that against you, but you need to show all of them that you aren’t that man and that Clay was the reason you did all of that. The patch is yours as long as you stay true to that.”

Jax flashed a grin at him and hoped he stayed with it. “So we vote and people will trust you once you vote Clay out.”

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Tig knew it too, everyone around that table saw him as Clay's right hand he couldn't shake that image, not in his brother's eyes. Didn't matter how much Jax believed he'd realized Clay only did care about Clay.

The truth was Tig didn't even feel that close to Clay in the end, the man didn't need him anymore it seemed. Just shut him out, like he did everyone else. Not to mention he was married to a Morrow himself, Clay's daughter Alexandra. Maybe they thought his ol' lady would pull him back into her father's orbit. But even she saw, Clay's time with the club was coming to an end.

His hands were goin' but that wasn't it, he'd gotten greedy and saw earning big more than he saw a club. Clay wanted a future for his family just went about it the wrong way, broke the club's rules. And Gemma was just a nail in the coffin for him, there wasn't any way he'd stand by Clay's side. Tig tried to resign that night, but his heart stopped him suffered a heart attack right at the door of Clay's room. Fate. Maybe. Tig pushed the thoughts from his mind as he heard Jax's words, "Don't worry, my vote will be a Yea, Jax. Clay doesn't deserve to wear this kutte anymore." He stated. "There's something you should know, after my heart attack he came and visited me in the hospital. Tried to pull me to his side, tellin' me of some opportunity he was lining up." Tig said with a sigh, "But I turned him down, flat." "This vote ain't goin' in his favor. I can't stand by him anymore, SAMCRO's where I belong. But tell me this, Jax, what did you tell Alexandra?" "She know anythin' about this? I know club shit ain't their business, but you can't tell me, she hasn't seen her dad, picked something up."

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Jax hated that Tig had always been more loyal to Clay. Especially what they did to Opie and was going to get him, instead they got his wife. Tig had a hand in that and it took Jax so long to see past all of that and really feel like Tig was there for all the right reasons, and now that Clay was being pushed out, Tig had to show who he was really with and that had to be them or he was gone as well. Jax wasn’t playing those games anymore. They have enough of that and can’t do it again.

Clay had drove them deep into the ground. Jax was working on getting them out of there and having other clubs trust them because Clay didn’t give a shit about anyone but himself and the way people looked at him, knowing he would drive them deeper. Tig, Jax wanted him to see the that and seeing he was finally clearing his head of the toxic energy that was Clay made it better.

So just running through things that Clay had done, he just had to see where Tig’s head was as he has been out for a while after a heart attack and Jax was worried about his health but his vote counted just as much as everyone else’s at this point. “Good boy. Thank you. Just we all know what he has done, and there are things we don’t talk about which I am sure you guys know he has done, but he denies it. So, vote accordingly and know if he stays someone is in trouble.”

Arching his eyebrows at the fact that Clay tried moves just as he was getting pushed out and everyone wasn’t too concerned with it. He was just hoping things didn’t backlash but they were going to try to make it happen. “Well, he won’t be making anymore, because he won’t have anyone. Don’t worry about it Tiggy, you did well, and thank you for not takin’ him up on that offer.” Shaking his head, he didn’t go to anyone.

“I haven’t told her anything, trust me. This is all between us. Gemma doesn’t even know. So this right here, it is all about us.”

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Tig knew he'd made the right decision steppin' away from Clay. He couldn't let the former President take the only thing he knew away.

There wasn't any life outside of SAMCRO no earnin' straight, and he wasn't about to put supporting the family on Alexandra. It wasn't fair to her he owed it to her, and Jax to leave Clay's ways behind.

"You want this flash? I can do what I was going to that night, resign." Tig spoke of the night of his heart attack. His blue hues shifting to the still in place flash on his kutte.

"But if you'd rather I'd keep it, carry it for you you know I'd do that, brother." Tig stated, fidgeting with his wedding ring.

"Haven't told her anything either, man. No one knows outside the club."

Tig nodded at Jax's words, "Me too. I had a feelin- Clay was just trying to get one last jab at you. But I wasn't gonna let him have it."

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Jax just hope Tig doesn’t go back on his word. That is where he was at right now. He just wanted to make sure Clay didn’t stand a chance, and he was out for good with all the things he had done to drag their club down in his time of reigning at president. Not that Jax wanted to do anything bad, but he just didn’t want to have Clay a chance to come back to the club. That is not what this was about.

Tig was always a little flaky because of Clay, but Jax thinks right now, him having the heart attack and not being there for a while, it made him realize just how important all of this was. Maybe that is why Jax wasn’t too worried about him turning his back on the choice and knowing that Clay was done. Shaking his head, he didn’t want Tig to leave, he wanted him there because he was good.

“No I don’t want you to go Tig. I just need you to trust me. That is all. I need you to trust I have better instincts and I look out for all of you. Not just myself like Clay. I won’t make you do anything for my own good, I can do that for myself.”

Jax knew that Tig liked being in the club, and he didn’t want him to leave. “Of course he was, because that is what he does. He knows he is in trouble, so he tries to take everyone down with him. Just we do this then we let everyone know. So as long as you vote the way I think you are then we are good brother. No more secrets and sneaky shit okay?” That was the only thing, Clay may Tig sneaky and Jax doesn’t want that.

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Tig would never go back on his word, not now. He knew Clay was done, and there wasn't anything that the now former president could say. Nothing that Tig hadn't heard while in the hospital.

He twisted at his wedding ring, mulling everything Jax had told him over. Tig had every confidence that Clay's path for the club could be undone.

Alexandra put the badge away and was soon off to law school away from the fallout of her father's being drummed out. "Do you think she should still go?, with everything? Is she safe, brother?" Tig asked, of Jax.

Tig chewed on his lip, before speaking once again, "So you want me to wear this flash? Despite everything it meant before."

He'd do exactly, and vote Clay out. There'd be no nays at the table. "Is he gonna be in there?." Tig asked, not knowing if he had it in him to once again look Clay in the eye.

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Jax knew that Clay would try something, but he didn’t have the people to help him. If they did, they were gone and most men had nothing else but the club, so it would be a brave move on their part. But with Tig on his side, Jax knew he had to make sure everyone else was safe. He had to make sure none of the women got hurt, because Donna, she was already a subject to that and he couldn’t allow anyone else be apart of that.

Nodding his head, he knew that she would be safe. “She will be safe Brother. Trust me. I will do everything in my power to make sure everyone is safe and that includes your wife. I just need you to know no one deserve to feel what Opie felt when he got the news about his wife.” It was all truths, Jax hated to know that Opie felt the pain and there was nothing he could do about it right now.

“I do, you are the best one for the job, I just need to know you’re on the same page as I am, and that you will stay behind me. Not turn on me.” This was the one thing Jax needed to know about Tig, knowing that he will be with the guys and not with Clay. But their first order of business was to get rid of Clay, and Shaking his head, Clay wasn’t going to be in there but he will be at the club house.

“He won’t be in there, but he will be in the clubhouse and get the news once the voting is done. That is how we do this, so everyone votes and then we deliver the news. It will all be on me, not on you guys.”

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"Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me. She's leavin' in a few days, it's best while this shit with Clay plays out." Tig spoke of his wife. Alexandra meant everything to him, just as much as wearin' this Reaper did.

He hated doin' what he did, Donna's death had snapped something in Tig. Never felt the same after, but he was simply followin' Clay. Something he did for decades, but now it was clear the former President had to go.

"I am, one hundred percent behind you. Clay ain't gonna pull me back in, he tried once and knows I won't be havin' it." Tig spoke, in a firm tone. He knew it would take more than words to erase the image of Clay Morrow's right hand. But if that's what it took, than Tig would do it

"With Xan gone, it's me and Ben til she comes back from law school. He'll have the nanny and pre-school during the day, but I'll be the one who picks him up." Tig figured he'd fill Jax in on his added responsibilities while his wife was in law school.

Tig nodded at Jaxs word's before following him into the chapel. Their Charter, and a few other presidents sat around the Reaper table. As Tig took the seat to Jax's right, the familiar seat he had with Clay.

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Nodding his head, Jax understood just where Tig was coming from. Sure, he had done somethings to Opie’s wife, but he has changed and Jax was liking this new Tig and couldn’t hold it against him if he was being honest. “I think that would be best. Make sure she goes to a place he doesn’t know where she will be. That is all I can say, because he seems to know everything and I don’t even know how.”

But all of this had to be done. Clay had done enough and really tuned their whole club upside down and that meant the two of them really needed to stand together, along with the rest of the club and make sure Clay knew he wasn’t going to walk away with this one. He was in deep trouble and that is all he needed to know. But hearing that Tig was fully in, that was all Jax needed to hear. He wanted him at the table with him.

“I need you at that table brother. You’re good, and you are a good guy, just when Clay infected you with shit that didn’t happen, we ain’t having that again. I don’t want you to feel we need to have that, so you’re with us, he won’t do anything to you or your family brother, I can promise you that.”

That is one thing Jax wanted to promise Tig for going against the man that had been with Tig for a while now. “We can deal with that, your kid comes first man. Always will.” Walking back into he chapel with everyone, this was what they were supposed to do. “Okay, so we are all here because Clay has overstepped and made the club look bad. We are voting to remove the reaper from him and banish him from the club. We will go around the table and yay if you agree or nay if you think he should get another chance.”

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Tig knew too of his past, but it was just that the past. And ever since his confession, he'd put the stuff with Donna behind him. The whole club seemed to, after the stuff with Stahl and when it boiled down to it, it was Clay's call. Blood was on both their hands, and Tig knew it too. Maybe that's why he had to do this, help the club vote out the one man who'd gotten so greedy in the end. Clay erased any brotherhood they had, just saw a payday not a club. Now all he'd have is blacked out tattoos, and discarded items with a reaper. "I will, brother. She's gotten into a good school, Clay doesn't know which one, I took her real acceptance letter and made up a fake one. It's the one I showed to Clay when he asked. He's got no clue where his daughter is." Tig spoke, hoping his plan would at least work. And Clay would remain in the dark. "That means a lot, to me, about Ben. He's with Alexandra right now before she departs later today. Such a little guy has no clue about what's going on, he's so innocent. We won't tell Ben about grandpa til he's older." Tig felt a sense of welcome from Jax, that everything from before his heart attack had faded away. That Tig had become a changed man from the one infected with Clay Morrow, the loyal Sgt at arms who'd done anything for him.

But Tig's service was done as the votes went around the table to banish Clay before landing on him. "Yay." Tig spoke firmly, as if the decision he'd made was final.

Tig breathed a sigh of relief, as he leaned back into his chair as the final votes came in. Soon enough they wouldn't be sharing a patch nor a table with Clay Morrow.

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Jax knew Tig was working on making thing right. Clay was toxic and he had a way of getting people to do something they didn’t want to do. That is just what happened with Tig. So that is why Jax couldn’t hold anything against him if he was being honest. He has showed he was there and he was willing to work hard on repairing anything that got broken in that time. So, Jax could see that and that is why he hates bringing up the past. But Clay did it all and Tig was apart of it.

Clay was the one who erased the brotherhood of the club, and turned everyone against one another. He was going to have nothing else but the past on him and he would be reminded of everything he broke and live with that for the rest of his life. That is all Jax wanted for him because lets be honest, he doesn’t feel bad for him. But he knows Clay and knows he won’t stop there, so Jax would do anything to keep Tig’s family safe at this time.

“And we will keep it that way. I can’t trust him, especially so close to this vote. It isn’t ideal, but we will make sure she is safe and make sure your kid is safe too okay? You got my word brother. Nothing will happen to them. I won’t let it happen. Best to keep Ben in the dark about Clay. I just wish my kids didn’t know him, so that is where I have the worst job. But they won’t know him anymore after this, I can’t put them in danger, and I know you won’t for your kid either. We got this.”

A grin on his face knowing Clay is going to shit his pants at this, but has to be done. “Hap, go get the torch ready. We are doing this now.” He nods his head and he leaves the room to do just that. “Everyone, if you have concerns like Tig about family, let me know and we will arrange something to make sure nothing happens. Just, don’t be shy, Clay won’t get past anyone at this point.” He looked around the room before standing up and following everyone out. Looking at Clay, and he glares at him as he was waiting, he was sure he knew just what that meant right now. He was done.

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Tig hummed in agreement. He'd known Clay long enough to the former president wouldn't just lay down and accept his fate.

Clay would pull something, and if he did, Jax would keep his word. He'd be taken out without question. The club's Clay problem would be erased.

Only reason he was above ground now was Galen O'Shay wanting him in Ireland. He'd be far away from Alexandra, and Ben. Tig's son would never know grandpa, and he was okay with that.

"Thank you, man. That means a lot, brother you keepin' my wife and son safe." Tig spoke.

"Alexandra's here, I can't let her see her dad like that. But if you want me there while we black em out, I'll be by your side." He added.

Tig meant that, he would be in that garage bay if Jax wanted. Even if it was his father in law, this needed to happen.

"Come on in, baby." Tig took Alexandra's hand. "Where's Ben?" He asked

"Little guy is with Grandma. My dad's not gonna get his claws into our little boy." Alexandra spoke.

"Jax, you want me to take her? I'll meet you in the bay, after?" Tig asked turning to Jax.

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After some thought, I will not be shipping Tig on Tumblr. Any SLs he'll either be on his own or ones like I had with Alexandra in it from my fic.

So I ask if no inquiries be made about shipping as you'll be blocked immediately.

[reliablebutcynical]

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𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐀 𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐓𝐓

a descriptive & literate portrayal of a fandomless original character. daughter of Julia Addison Nichols & Jeremiah Harris Scott. biker girl. born on Wednesday, June 30th, 1993 in New York City, NY @ 08:34 pm. cancer sun, sagittarius moon, capricorn rising. went to high school from August 20th, 2007 to June 10th, 2011. majored in music from August 22nd, 2011 to June 5th, 2015. currently living in charming, california. bisexual: ships based on chemistry. single-ship. multi-verse.

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Closed writings for @tellertheking

Tig closed the clubhouse door behind him, a nagging feeling in the back of his mind of tonight's church. The man, he'd stood by for years...no decades, it seemed like the former president had been hung out to dry. Living on borrowed time thanks to Gaelen and the Irish, wanted him as some point person to keep the gun business alive. The perfect trade off, Jax gets us away from guns, and Clay continues to earn in Ireland. His blue hues shifted along at his brothers, some sitting along the bar and others chatting about anything but the impending vote. To get their minds off having to put the former president to pasture. Tig knew where his vote had to lie, he just couldn't support Clay after the things he'd done. Mayhem, would be too extreme, a daughter didn't deserve to lose her father. Alexandra was also Tig's ol' lady, the two had been married a while back. The two now shared a son, named Benjamin, who'd been born in the midst of the chaos with the club. "Jax, what are we doin'" Tig asks, placing his hand onto his brother's kutte, "Has it really came to this? I have a heart attack, and now I gotta vote Clay out."

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Jax knew tonight was a big deal. This was the first time they were going into church to vote out someone who has bene with the club since the beginning. But things just don’t line up anymore, and Clay, well he has been a pain in the ass for a while now. Undermining Jax as if he can do the job, when in fact, he can do it better then Clay has ever done and more like his father in a sense. It was more with the deal behind his back that has drove him to do this. Not that he wanted to, but he had to do it. 

The clubhouse was full of patched members from other charters. Waiting to see the verdict of what is going on. Not that Jax wants to make a spectacle out of this because that is not what this is about, it is about a member going behind the presidents back and really making deals, some he doesn’t know about and that alone leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Jax was sitting at the table, watching the clock change until it was time to vote. Not that he was rushing it, but this was a big deal and his trance was broken hearing Tig’s voice. He owed Jax a lot. 

“If you want to be apart of the brotherhood then I would say you have to. If you want to join him, then you can vote against me, but I can’t protect you anymore if you do that.” Jax was being blunt and honest and knew that Tig owed him more then he wanted to admit, and saving the bastards life, and sparing it more then once was enough to get him to vote against Clay and make sure everyone else was on the same page. 

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Tig nodded at Jax's words, he was right. He'd saved his life despite the loyalty that wavered for the soon to be president. All Tig knew for years was standing by Clay's side, being the loyal right hand.

Yet he'd do it, vote against the man who'd he'd spent decades beside. Clay had become a problem for the club, declining health had him seeing more green than a brotherhood.

Dividing the members sitting inside the chapel today. "I'll do it, Jax. If I don't have this club then I've got nothing else." Tig stated.

"And I owe you, sparing my life when I should have been in the ground. Hell I almost put myself there after that heart attack."

"Don't worry about Alexandra, she understands brother. I talked to her, and she'll hang up the badge. Do the law school thing." Tig spoke of his ol' lady.

"Doesn't need to go inside for doing her father's deeds, it was more Clay's badge than his daughters."

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Jax didn’t want to throw that card at him, but he had to. He needed Tig to see that Clay didn’t care about anyone but himself and that needed to change. That needed to be changed when it came to the club and if they were going to move forward. This was a brotherhood and Jax helped Tig because he was a brother and he deserved that but Jax needs the loyalty from him as well. Clay was the issue and they all had realized that after things have happened and Clay doing nothing about it, that is how Jax realized he was behind everything that was happening.

Nodding once hearing Tig’s words and knew he meant it. He had nothing, none of them had nothing when it came to not being in the club, he was just glad he was just glad Tig finally realized Clay didn’t want anything good for anyone if they didn’t benefit him.

“Then you stand by that and this club will have your back. Right now, they are just not sure they can trust you. They know how close Clay and you are, and the things you have done for him. I don’t hold that against you, but you need to show all of them that you aren’t that man and that Clay was the reason you did all of that. The patch is yours as long as you stay true to that.”

Jax flashed a grin at him and hoped he stayed with it. “So we vote and people will trust you once you vote Clay out.”

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Tig knew it too, everyone around that table saw him as Clay's right hand he couldn't shake that image, not in his brother's eyes. Didn't matter how much Jax believed he'd realized Clay only did care about Clay.

The truth was Tig didn't even feel that close to Clay in the end, the man didn't need him anymore it seemed. Just shut him out, like he did everyone else. Not to mention he was married to a Morrow himself, Clay's daughter Alexandra. Maybe they thought his ol' lady would pull him back into her father's orbit. But even she saw, Clay's time with the club was coming to an end.

His hands were goin' but that wasn't it, he'd gotten greedy and saw earning big more than he saw a club. Clay wanted a future for his family just went about it the wrong way, broke the club's rules. And Gemma was just a nail in the coffin for him, there wasn't any way he'd stand by Clay's side. Tig tried to resign that night, but his heart stopped him suffered a heart attack right at the door of Clay's room. Fate. Maybe. Tig pushed the thoughts from his mind as he heard Jax's words, "Don't worry, my vote will be a Yea, Jax. Clay doesn't deserve to wear this kutte anymore." He stated. "There's something you should know, after my heart attack he came and visited me in the hospital. Tried to pull me to his side, tellin' me of some opportunity he was lining up." Tig said with a sigh, "But I turned him down, flat." "This vote ain't goin' in his favor. I can't stand by him anymore, SAMCRO's where I belong. But tell me this, Jax, what did you tell Alexandra?" "She know anythin' about this? I know club shit ain't their business, but you can't tell me, she hasn't seen her dad, picked something up."

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Jax hated that Tig had always been more loyal to Clay. Especially what they did to Opie and was going to get him, instead they got his wife. Tig had a hand in that and it took Jax so long to see past all of that and really feel like Tig was there for all the right reasons, and now that Clay was being pushed out, Tig had to show who he was really with and that had to be them or he was gone as well. Jax wasn’t playing those games anymore. They have enough of that and can’t do it again.

Clay had drove them deep into the ground. Jax was working on getting them out of there and having other clubs trust them because Clay didn’t give a shit about anyone but himself and the way people looked at him, knowing he would drive them deeper. Tig, Jax wanted him to see the that and seeing he was finally clearing his head of the toxic energy that was Clay made it better.

So just running through things that Clay had done, he just had to see where Tig’s head was as he has been out for a while after a heart attack and Jax was worried about his health but his vote counted just as much as everyone else’s at this point. “Good boy. Thank you. Just we all know what he has done, and there are things we don’t talk about which I am sure you guys know he has done, but he denies it. So, vote accordingly and know if he stays someone is in trouble.”

Arching his eyebrows at the fact that Clay tried moves just as he was getting pushed out and everyone wasn’t too concerned with it. He was just hoping things didn’t backlash but they were going to try to make it happen. “Well, he won’t be making anymore, because he won’t have anyone. Don’t worry about it Tiggy, you did well, and thank you for not takin’ him up on that offer.” Shaking his head, he didn’t go to anyone.

“I haven’t told her anything, trust me. This is all between us. Gemma doesn’t even know. So this right here, it is all about us.”

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Tig knew he'd made the right decision steppin' away from Clay. He couldn't let the former President take the only thing he knew away.

There wasn't any life outside of SAMCRO no earnin' straight, and he wasn't about to put supporting the family on Alexandra. It wasn't fair to her he owed it to her, and Jax to leave Clay's ways behind.

"You want this flash? I can do what I was going to that night, resign." Tig spoke of the night of his heart attack. His blue hues shifting to the still in place flash on his kutte.

"But if you'd rather I'd keep it, carry it for you you know I'd do that, brother." Tig stated, fidgeting with his wedding ring.

"Haven't told her anything either, man. No one knows outside the club."

Tig nodded at Jax's words, "Me too. I had a feelin- Clay was just trying to get one last jab at you. But I wasn't gonna let him have it."

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Jax just hope Tig doesn’t go back on his word. That is where he was at right now. He just wanted to make sure Clay didn’t stand a chance, and he was out for good with all the things he had done to drag their club down in his time of reigning at president. Not that Jax wanted to do anything bad, but he just didn’t want to have Clay a chance to come back to the club. That is not what this was about.

Tig was always a little flaky because of Clay, but Jax thinks right now, him having the heart attack and not being there for a while, it made him realize just how important all of this was. Maybe that is why Jax wasn’t too worried about him turning his back on the choice and knowing that Clay was done. Shaking his head, he didn’t want Tig to leave, he wanted him there because he was good.

“No I don’t want you to go Tig. I just need you to trust me. That is all. I need you to trust I have better instincts and I look out for all of you. Not just myself like Clay. I won’t make you do anything for my own good, I can do that for myself.”

Jax knew that Tig liked being in the club, and he didn’t want him to leave. “Of course he was, because that is what he does. He knows he is in trouble, so he tries to take everyone down with him. Just we do this then we let everyone know. So as long as you vote the way I think you are then we are good brother. No more secrets and sneaky shit okay?” That was the only thing, Clay may Tig sneaky and Jax doesn’t want that.

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Tig would never go back on his word, not now. He knew Clay was done, and there wasn't anything that the now former president could say. Nothing that Tig hadn't heard while in the hospital.

He twisted at his wedding ring, mulling everything Jax had told him over. Tig had every confidence that Clay's path for the club could be undone.

Alexandra put the badge away and was soon off to law school away from the fallout of her father's being drummed out. "Do you think she should still go?, with everything? Is she safe, brother?" Tig asked, of Jax.

Tig chewed on his lip, before speaking once again, "So you want me to wear this flash? Despite everything it meant before."

He'd do exactly, and vote Clay out. There'd be no nays at the table. "Is he gonna be in there?." Tig asked, not knowing if he had it in him to once again look Clay in the eye.

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Jax knew that Clay would try something, but he didn’t have the people to help him. If they did, they were gone and most men had nothing else but the club, so it would be a brave move on their part. But with Tig on his side, Jax knew he had to make sure everyone else was safe. He had to make sure none of the women got hurt, because Donna, she was already a subject to that and he couldn’t allow anyone else be apart of that.

Nodding his head, he knew that she would be safe. “She will be safe Brother. Trust me. I will do everything in my power to make sure everyone is safe and that includes your wife. I just need you to know no one deserve to feel what Opie felt when he got the news about his wife.” It was all truths, Jax hated to know that Opie felt the pain and there was nothing he could do about it right now.

“I do, you are the best one for the job, I just need to know you’re on the same page as I am, and that you will stay behind me. Not turn on me.” This was the one thing Jax needed to know about Tig, knowing that he will be with the guys and not with Clay. But their first order of business was to get rid of Clay, and Shaking his head, Clay wasn’t going to be in there but he will be at the club house.

“He won’t be in there, but he will be in the clubhouse and get the news once the voting is done. That is how we do this, so everyone votes and then we deliver the news. It will all be on me, not on you guys.”

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"Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me. She's leavin' in a few days, it's best while this shit with Clay plays out." Tig spoke of his wife. Alexandra meant everything to him, just as much as wearin' this Reaper did.

He hated doin' what he did, Donna's death had snapped something in Tig. Never felt the same after, but he was simply followin' Clay. Something he did for decades, but now it was clear the former President had to go.

"I am, one hundred percent behind you. Clay ain't gonna pull me back in, he tried once and knows I won't be havin' it." Tig spoke, in a firm tone. He knew it would take more than words to erase the image of Clay Morrow's right hand. But if that's what it took, than Tig would do it

"With Xan gone, it's me and Ben til she comes back from law school. He'll have the nanny and pre-school during the day, but I'll be the one who picks him up." Tig figured he'd fill Jax in on his added responsibilities while his wife was in law school.

Tig nodded at Jaxs word's before following him into the chapel. Their Charter, and a few other presidents sat around the Reaper table. As Tig took the seat to Jax's right, the familiar seat he had with Clay.

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Nodding his head, Jax understood just where Tig was coming from. Sure, he had done somethings to Opie’s wife, but he has changed and Jax was liking this new Tig and couldn’t hold it against him if he was being honest. “I think that would be best. Make sure she goes to a place he doesn’t know where she will be. That is all I can say, because he seems to know everything and I don’t even know how.”

But all of this had to be done. Clay had done enough and really tuned their whole club upside down and that meant the two of them really needed to stand together, along with the rest of the club and make sure Clay knew he wasn’t going to walk away with this one. He was in deep trouble and that is all he needed to know. But hearing that Tig was fully in, that was all Jax needed to hear. He wanted him at the table with him.

“I need you at that table brother. You’re good, and you are a good guy, just when Clay infected you with shit that didn’t happen, we ain’t having that again. I don’t want you to feel we need to have that, so you’re with us, he won’t do anything to you or your family brother, I can promise you that.”

That is one thing Jax wanted to promise Tig for going against the man that had been with Tig for a while now. “We can deal with that, your kid comes first man. Always will.” Walking back into he chapel with everyone, this was what they were supposed to do. “Okay, so we are all here because Clay has overstepped and made the club look bad. We are voting to remove the reaper from him and banish him from the club. We will go around the table and yay if you agree or nay if you think he should get another chance.”

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Tig knew too of his past, but it was just that the past. And ever since his confession, he'd put the stuff with Donna behind him. The whole club seemed to, after the stuff with Stahl and when it boiled down to it, it was Clay's call. Blood was on both their hands, and Tig knew it too. Maybe that's why he had to do this, help the club vote out the one man who'd gotten so greedy in the end. Clay erased any brotherhood they had, just saw a payday not a club. Now all he'd have is blacked out tattoos, and discarded items with a reaper. "I will, brother. She's gotten into a good school, Clay doesn't know which one, I took her real acceptance letter and made up a fake one. It's the one I showed to Clay when he asked. He's got no clue where his daughter is." Tig spoke, hoping his plan would at least work. And Clay would remain in the dark. "That means a lot, to me, about Ben. He's with Alexandra right now before she departs later today. Such a little guy has no clue about what's going on, he's so innocent. We won't tell Ben about grandpa til he's older." Tig felt a sense of welcome from Jax, that everything from before his heart attack had faded away. That Tig had become a changed man from the one infected with Clay Morrow, the loyal Sgt at arms who'd done anything for him.

But Tig's service was done as the votes went around the table to banish Clay before landing on him. "Yay." Tig spoke firmly, as if the decision he'd made was final.

Tig breathed a sigh of relief, as he leaned back into his chair as the final votes came in. Soon enough they wouldn't be sharing a patch nor a table with Clay Morrow.

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Jax could tell that Tig was true to his word right now. Sure, everyone has blood on their hands, and everyone has done something they weren’t too proud of, but when it comes to Clay, he has done more then anyone else, and the fact he got rid of John, and turned the club over to himself, that is something that doesn’t sit well with Jax if he was being honest. That is not one thing he want to think about.

But, this includes exiling Clay and covering up the reaper tattoo, as once he is out, he is no longer apart of it and doesn’t have the honor of wearing the patch on his back. But, he nods his head, knowing Tig was with him and he wouldn’t turn on him, that is not what he was going to do anymore. He could tell he was there for the club and being with the brotherhood then turning his back on it.

“Keep it that way, and we will make sure she is okay, and well taken care of when she is there. If you don’t mind. We will just keep a distance but keep eyes on her. Ben doesn’t need to know about his grandfather. I wish my boys didn’t know him, but they do, so I have to explain why they won’t see him again. Just, make sure it is the right things to do before he meets him. I wouldn’t trust him right away.”

So this is when they guys are going around the table and everyone, giving Jax a nod before saying yay, he got to Tig and hearing those words, he gained at him and nodded once at him. “Well, with the unanimous vote, Clay Morrow is no longer apart of Samcro. He will be stripped of his patch, and meet Mr. Mayhem.”

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Tig hummed in agreement of Jax's words, he'd never renege on his decision. The yea was final, and there wasn't anything Clay Morrow could say that would change his former Sgt at arms' mind.

"Thank you, Jax. That means a lot, you keepin- an eye on my wife. It'll be a relief to have her safe." Tig spoke. He knew it was true that his young son was better off not knowing about his grandpa, nor his misdeeds.

He could see that Jax regretted letting Abel, and Thomas know Clay. Perhaps Tig didn't want that for Ben, but it would be up to his son once he'd hit adult age.

"When are we doin' this?" Tig spoke, "Clay's not just gonna give up, brother. Been by his side long enough to know, he's gonna get into something soon enough."

Tig knew Clay, that he wouldn't just sit back and let Jax exile him from the club. He'd want a way back in, but Tig wouldn't let him

"Alexandra wants to come, say her goodbyes to us. We gotta get Clay, out of here. Don't want her seein' her dad." Tig spoke, knowing he'd try to pull his wife back into his orbit.

The chapel soon cleared out of the numerous members that filled it, it was official and if Clay was smart he'd leave the kutte outside and walk away. All he was now is walking dead man.

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Jax would do anything to keep anyone safe at this point, knowing Clay’s angle they had to really just do this all together and make sure they keep an eye on everything and make sure he has eyes on him the whole time, because with him not being in the club, they can do what they want now, and that meant if he does something else, then they can take care of him. That is the main goal right now since he had done enough damage with everyone involved in the club.

“Of course Tiggy, I will always make sure everyone is safe. I may not be the best, but the women in our lives and the kids, they are always going to be safe. There is no doubt about that at all.” He meant that. He had kids of his own and didn’t want them being exposed to the violence that Jax does when needed to, and they. Haven’t seen Clay in a while and he was keeping it that way.

“Then he gets into something and we can take him down with no repercussions. But once we do this, he will just be an average man, who knows people and that won’t help him. He won’t have anyone after this, he has turned his back on everyone the mattered and everyone knows this. So, don’t worry okay?” He knew Tig was worried because he was pledging his loyalty to Jax and the guys instead of Clay and that said a lot about Tig at this point.

“He will be out of here soon enough.” As Jax hit the gavel on the table, and that meant everything to everyone, they cleared out and Clay was waiting on the verdict, which Jax knew he wasn’t dumb, he knew what was happening and Jax sat there for a moment before standing up and walking to the door and looking around. “Leave your kutte here and walk away Clay, you are no longer in this club, and you come back, it won’t be pretty.”

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"Thank you, Jax. I really appreciate that," Tig spoke, before giving his brother's shoulder a gentle squeeze. It meant a lot to him that the two were able to move past their history after all he was not just a club brother, but Jax's brother-in-law. Which also made Tig family bein' married to Alexandra. "You know it will be soon enough that he does, hands without power grow bored." Tig spoke of his former president. "If we have to cross that bridge brother, know I'll support it." He rose from his seat, and followed Jax out of the chapel once church was dismissed, his blue hues spotting Clay sitting at one of the tables, fresh cigar in hand.

"Well---don't need to tell me what I already know, Jax." Clay rises from the chair. "Only thing in my future is blacked-out tattoos and piling everything with a reaper into a box." he spoke, in a defeated tone as if to Tig Clay was just lying down and accepting his fate. Clay wasted no time placing his kutte on the table, and removing the pins to give to his daughter. "Give these to Alexandra, she'd wanted them if I ever got kicked from the club." he said dropping them onto the table. Tig walked Clay up to the door, before Clay exited the clubhouse for the last time. "Well, that went well, brother?" Tig turned to Jax, "A little too well, you think he's got something up his sleeve?" Another knock at the clubhouse door came in the form of his wife, as Tig greeted her with a kiss. Breaking it, Alexandra smiled, "My dad stopped me out there, gave me some speech about comin' back in his orbit. I can't have this, I'm going to law school." she spoke.

"Only adds to my theory he's up to something or cooked some sort of deal with an certain Irishmen." Tig spoke. He knew Galen O' Shay wasn't just gonna let his twenty year relationship with Clay go just because he doesn't have a kutte.

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Closed writings for @tellertheking

Tig closed the clubhouse door behind him, a nagging feeling in the back of his mind of tonight's church. The man, he'd stood by for years...no decades, it seemed like the former president had been hung out to dry. Living on borrowed time thanks to Gaelen and the Irish, wanted him as some point person to keep the gun business alive. The perfect trade off, Jax gets us away from guns, and Clay continues to earn in Ireland. His blue hues shifted along at his brothers, some sitting along the bar and others chatting about anything but the impending vote. To get their minds off having to put the former president to pasture. Tig knew where his vote had to lie, he just couldn't support Clay after the things he'd done. Mayhem, would be too extreme, a daughter didn't deserve to lose her father. Alexandra was also Tig's ol' lady, the two had been married a while back. The two now shared a son, named Benjamin, who'd been born in the midst of the chaos with the club. "Jax, what are we doin'" Tig asks, placing his hand onto his brother's kutte, "Has it really came to this? I have a heart attack, and now I gotta vote Clay out."

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Jax knew tonight was a big deal. This was the first time they were going into church to vote out someone who has bene with the club since the beginning. But things just don’t line up anymore, and Clay, well he has been a pain in the ass for a while now. Undermining Jax as if he can do the job, when in fact, he can do it better then Clay has ever done and more like his father in a sense. It was more with the deal behind his back that has drove him to do this. Not that he wanted to, but he had to do it. 

The clubhouse was full of patched members from other charters. Waiting to see the verdict of what is going on. Not that Jax wants to make a spectacle out of this because that is not what this is about, it is about a member going behind the presidents back and really making deals, some he doesn’t know about and that alone leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Jax was sitting at the table, watching the clock change until it was time to vote. Not that he was rushing it, but this was a big deal and his trance was broken hearing Tig’s voice. He owed Jax a lot. 

“If you want to be apart of the brotherhood then I would say you have to. If you want to join him, then you can vote against me, but I can’t protect you anymore if you do that.” Jax was being blunt and honest and knew that Tig owed him more then he wanted to admit, and saving the bastards life, and sparing it more then once was enough to get him to vote against Clay and make sure everyone else was on the same page. 

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Tig nodded at Jax's words, he was right. He'd saved his life despite the loyalty that wavered for the soon to be president. All Tig knew for years was standing by Clay's side, being the loyal right hand.

Yet he'd do it, vote against the man who'd he'd spent decades beside. Clay had become a problem for the club, declining health had him seeing more green than a brotherhood.

Dividing the members sitting inside the chapel today. "I'll do it, Jax. If I don't have this club then I've got nothing else." Tig stated.

"And I owe you, sparing my life when I should have been in the ground. Hell I almost put myself there after that heart attack."

"Don't worry about Alexandra, she understands brother. I talked to her, and she'll hang up the badge. Do the law school thing." Tig spoke of his ol' lady.

"Doesn't need to go inside for doing her father's deeds, it was more Clay's badge than his daughters."

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Jax didn’t want to throw that card at him, but he had to. He needed Tig to see that Clay didn’t care about anyone but himself and that needed to change. That needed to be changed when it came to the club and if they were going to move forward. This was a brotherhood and Jax helped Tig because he was a brother and he deserved that but Jax needs the loyalty from him as well. Clay was the issue and they all had realized that after things have happened and Clay doing nothing about it, that is how Jax realized he was behind everything that was happening.

Nodding once hearing Tig’s words and knew he meant it. He had nothing, none of them had nothing when it came to not being in the club, he was just glad he was just glad Tig finally realized Clay didn’t want anything good for anyone if they didn’t benefit him.

“Then you stand by that and this club will have your back. Right now, they are just not sure they can trust you. They know how close Clay and you are, and the things you have done for him. I don’t hold that against you, but you need to show all of them that you aren’t that man and that Clay was the reason you did all of that. The patch is yours as long as you stay true to that.”

Jax flashed a grin at him and hoped he stayed with it. “So we vote and people will trust you once you vote Clay out.”

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Tig knew it too, everyone around that table saw him as Clay's right hand he couldn't shake that image, not in his brother's eyes. Didn't matter how much Jax believed he'd realized Clay only did care about Clay.

The truth was Tig didn't even feel that close to Clay in the end, the man didn't need him anymore it seemed. Just shut him out, like he did everyone else. Not to mention he was married to a Morrow himself, Clay's daughter Alexandra. Maybe they thought his ol' lady would pull him back into her father's orbit. But even she saw, Clay's time with the club was coming to an end.

His hands were goin' but that wasn't it, he'd gotten greedy and saw earning big more than he saw a club. Clay wanted a future for his family just went about it the wrong way, broke the club's rules. And Gemma was just a nail in the coffin for him, there wasn't any way he'd stand by Clay's side. Tig tried to resign that night, but his heart stopped him suffered a heart attack right at the door of Clay's room. Fate. Maybe. Tig pushed the thoughts from his mind as he heard Jax's words, "Don't worry, my vote will be a Yea, Jax. Clay doesn't deserve to wear this kutte anymore." He stated. "There's something you should know, after my heart attack he came and visited me in the hospital. Tried to pull me to his side, tellin' me of some opportunity he was lining up." Tig said with a sigh, "But I turned him down, flat." "This vote ain't goin' in his favor. I can't stand by him anymore, SAMCRO's where I belong. But tell me this, Jax, what did you tell Alexandra?" "She know anythin' about this? I know club shit ain't their business, but you can't tell me, she hasn't seen her dad, picked something up."

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Jax hated that Tig had always been more loyal to Clay. Especially what they did to Opie and was going to get him, instead they got his wife. Tig had a hand in that and it took Jax so long to see past all of that and really feel like Tig was there for all the right reasons, and now that Clay was being pushed out, Tig had to show who he was really with and that had to be them or he was gone as well. Jax wasn’t playing those games anymore. They have enough of that and can’t do it again.

Clay had drove them deep into the ground. Jax was working on getting them out of there and having other clubs trust them because Clay didn’t give a shit about anyone but himself and the way people looked at him, knowing he would drive them deeper. Tig, Jax wanted him to see the that and seeing he was finally clearing his head of the toxic energy that was Clay made it better.

So just running through things that Clay had done, he just had to see where Tig’s head was as he has been out for a while after a heart attack and Jax was worried about his health but his vote counted just as much as everyone else’s at this point. “Good boy. Thank you. Just we all know what he has done, and there are things we don’t talk about which I am sure you guys know he has done, but he denies it. So, vote accordingly and know if he stays someone is in trouble.”

Arching his eyebrows at the fact that Clay tried moves just as he was getting pushed out and everyone wasn’t too concerned with it. He was just hoping things didn’t backlash but they were going to try to make it happen. “Well, he won’t be making anymore, because he won’t have anyone. Don’t worry about it Tiggy, you did well, and thank you for not takin’ him up on that offer.” Shaking his head, he didn’t go to anyone.

“I haven’t told her anything, trust me. This is all between us. Gemma doesn’t even know. So this right here, it is all about us.”

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Tig knew he'd made the right decision steppin' away from Clay. He couldn't let the former President take the only thing he knew away.

There wasn't any life outside of SAMCRO no earnin' straight, and he wasn't about to put supporting the family on Alexandra. It wasn't fair to her he owed it to her, and Jax to leave Clay's ways behind.

"You want this flash? I can do what I was going to that night, resign." Tig spoke of the night of his heart attack. His blue hues shifting to the still in place flash on his kutte.

"But if you'd rather I'd keep it, carry it for you you know I'd do that, brother." Tig stated, fidgeting with his wedding ring.

"Haven't told her anything either, man. No one knows outside the club."

Tig nodded at Jax's words, "Me too. I had a feelin- Clay was just trying to get one last jab at you. But I wasn't gonna let him have it."

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Jax just hope Tig doesn’t go back on his word. That is where he was at right now. He just wanted to make sure Clay didn’t stand a chance, and he was out for good with all the things he had done to drag their club down in his time of reigning at president. Not that Jax wanted to do anything bad, but he just didn’t want to have Clay a chance to come back to the club. That is not what this was about.

Tig was always a little flaky because of Clay, but Jax thinks right now, him having the heart attack and not being there for a while, it made him realize just how important all of this was. Maybe that is why Jax wasn’t too worried about him turning his back on the choice and knowing that Clay was done. Shaking his head, he didn’t want Tig to leave, he wanted him there because he was good.

“No I don’t want you to go Tig. I just need you to trust me. That is all. I need you to trust I have better instincts and I look out for all of you. Not just myself like Clay. I won’t make you do anything for my own good, I can do that for myself.”

Jax knew that Tig liked being in the club, and he didn’t want him to leave. “Of course he was, because that is what he does. He knows he is in trouble, so he tries to take everyone down with him. Just we do this then we let everyone know. So as long as you vote the way I think you are then we are good brother. No more secrets and sneaky shit okay?” That was the only thing, Clay may Tig sneaky and Jax doesn’t want that.

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Tig would never go back on his word, not now. He knew Clay was done, and there wasn't anything that the now former president could say. Nothing that Tig hadn't heard while in the hospital.

He twisted at his wedding ring, mulling everything Jax had told him over. Tig had every confidence that Clay's path for the club could be undone.

Alexandra put the badge away and was soon off to law school away from the fallout of her father's being drummed out. "Do you think she should still go?, with everything? Is she safe, brother?" Tig asked, of Jax.

Tig chewed on his lip, before speaking once again, "So you want me to wear this flash? Despite everything it meant before."

He'd do exactly, and vote Clay out. There'd be no nays at the table. "Is he gonna be in there?." Tig asked, not knowing if he had it in him to once again look Clay in the eye.

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Jax knew that Clay would try something, but he didn’t have the people to help him. If they did, they were gone and most men had nothing else but the club, so it would be a brave move on their part. But with Tig on his side, Jax knew he had to make sure everyone else was safe. He had to make sure none of the women got hurt, because Donna, she was already a subject to that and he couldn’t allow anyone else be apart of that.

Nodding his head, he knew that she would be safe. “She will be safe Brother. Trust me. I will do everything in my power to make sure everyone is safe and that includes your wife. I just need you to know no one deserve to feel what Opie felt when he got the news about his wife.” It was all truths, Jax hated to know that Opie felt the pain and there was nothing he could do about it right now.

“I do, you are the best one for the job, I just need to know you’re on the same page as I am, and that you will stay behind me. Not turn on me.” This was the one thing Jax needed to know about Tig, knowing that he will be with the guys and not with Clay. But their first order of business was to get rid of Clay, and Shaking his head, Clay wasn’t going to be in there but he will be at the club house.

“He won’t be in there, but he will be in the clubhouse and get the news once the voting is done. That is how we do this, so everyone votes and then we deliver the news. It will all be on me, not on you guys.”

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"Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me. She's leavin' in a few days, it's best while this shit with Clay plays out." Tig spoke of his wife. Alexandra meant everything to him, just as much as wearin' this Reaper did.

He hated doin' what he did, Donna's death had snapped something in Tig. Never felt the same after, but he was simply followin' Clay. Something he did for decades, but now it was clear the former President had to go.

"I am, one hundred percent behind you. Clay ain't gonna pull me back in, he tried once and knows I won't be havin' it." Tig spoke, in a firm tone. He knew it would take more than words to erase the image of Clay Morrow's right hand. But if that's what it took, than Tig would do it

"With Xan gone, it's me and Ben til she comes back from law school. He'll have the nanny and pre-school during the day, but I'll be the one who picks him up." Tig figured he'd fill Jax in on his added responsibilities while his wife was in law school.

Tig nodded at Jaxs word's before following him into the chapel. Their Charter, and a few other presidents sat around the Reaper table. As Tig took the seat to Jax's right, the familiar seat he had with Clay.

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Nodding his head, Jax understood just where Tig was coming from. Sure, he had done somethings to Opie’s wife, but he has changed and Jax was liking this new Tig and couldn’t hold it against him if he was being honest. “I think that would be best. Make sure she goes to a place he doesn’t know where she will be. That is all I can say, because he seems to know everything and I don’t even know how.”

But all of this had to be done. Clay had done enough and really tuned their whole club upside down and that meant the two of them really needed to stand together, along with the rest of the club and make sure Clay knew he wasn’t going to walk away with this one. He was in deep trouble and that is all he needed to know. But hearing that Tig was fully in, that was all Jax needed to hear. He wanted him at the table with him.

“I need you at that table brother. You’re good, and you are a good guy, just when Clay infected you with shit that didn’t happen, we ain’t having that again. I don’t want you to feel we need to have that, so you’re with us, he won’t do anything to you or your family brother, I can promise you that.”

That is one thing Jax wanted to promise Tig for going against the man that had been with Tig for a while now. “We can deal with that, your kid comes first man. Always will.” Walking back into he chapel with everyone, this was what they were supposed to do. “Okay, so we are all here because Clay has overstepped and made the club look bad. We are voting to remove the reaper from him and banish him from the club. We will go around the table and yay if you agree or nay if you think he should get another chance.”

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Tig knew too of his past, but it was just that the past. And ever since his confession, he'd put the stuff with Donna behind him. The whole club seemed to, after the stuff with Stahl and when it boiled down to it, it was Clay's call. Blood was on both their hands, and Tig knew it too. Maybe that's why he had to do this, help the club vote out the one man who'd gotten so greedy in the end. Clay erased any brotherhood they had, just saw a payday not a club. Now all he'd have is blacked out tattoos, and discarded items with a reaper. "I will, brother. She's gotten into a good school, Clay doesn't know which one, I took her real acceptance letter and made up a fake one. It's the one I showed to Clay when he asked. He's got no clue where his daughter is." Tig spoke, hoping his plan would at least work. And Clay would remain in the dark. "That means a lot, to me, about Ben. He's with Alexandra right now before she departs later today. Such a little guy has no clue about what's going on, he's so innocent. We won't tell Ben about grandpa til he's older." Tig felt a sense of welcome from Jax, that everything from before his heart attack had faded away. That Tig had become a changed man from the one infected with Clay Morrow, the loyal Sgt at arms who'd done anything for him.

But Tig's service was done as the votes went around the table to banish Clay before landing on him. "Yay." Tig spoke firmly, as if the decision he'd made was final.

Tig breathed a sigh of relief, as he leaned back into his chair as the final votes came in. Soon enough they wouldn't be sharing a patch nor a table with Clay Morrow.

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Jax could tell that Tig was true to his word right now. Sure, everyone has blood on their hands, and everyone has done something they weren’t too proud of, but when it comes to Clay, he has done more then anyone else, and the fact he got rid of John, and turned the club over to himself, that is something that doesn’t sit well with Jax if he was being honest. That is not one thing he want to think about.

But, this includes exiling Clay and covering up the reaper tattoo, as once he is out, he is no longer apart of it and doesn’t have the honor of wearing the patch on his back. But, he nods his head, knowing Tig was with him and he wouldn’t turn on him, that is not what he was going to do anymore. He could tell he was there for the club and being with the brotherhood then turning his back on it.

“Keep it that way, and we will make sure she is okay, and well taken care of when she is there. If you don’t mind. We will just keep a distance but keep eyes on her. Ben doesn’t need to know about his grandfather. I wish my boys didn’t know him, but they do, so I have to explain why they won’t see him again. Just, make sure it is the right things to do before he meets him. I wouldn’t trust him right away.”

So this is when they guys are going around the table and everyone, giving Jax a nod before saying yay, he got to Tig and hearing those words, he gained at him and nodded once at him. “Well, with the unanimous vote, Clay Morrow is no longer apart of Samcro. He will be stripped of his patch, and meet Mr. Mayhem.”

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Tig hummed in agreement of Jax's words, he'd never renege on his decision. The yea was final, and there wasn't anything Clay Morrow could say that would change his former Sgt at arms' mind.

"Thank you, Jax. That means a lot, you keepin- an eye on my wife. It'll be a relief to have her safe." Tig spoke. He knew it was true that his young son was better off not knowing about his grandpa, nor his misdeeds.

He could see that Jax regretted letting Abel, and Thomas know Clay. Perhaps Tig didn't want that for Ben, but it would be up to his son once he'd hit adult age.

"When are we doin' this?" Tig spoke, "Clay's not just gonna give up, brother. Been by his side long enough to know, he's gonna get into something soon enough."

Tig knew Clay, that he wouldn't just sit back and let Jax exile him from the club. He'd want a way back in, but Tig wouldn't let him

"Alexandra wants to come, say her goodbyes to us. We gotta get Clay, out of here. Don't want her seein' her dad." Tig spoke, knowing he'd try to pull his wife back into his orbit.

The chapel soon cleared out of the numerous members that filled it, it was official and if Clay was smart he'd leave the kutte outside and walk away. All he was now is walking dead man.

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Tig closed the clubhouse door behind him, a nagging feeling in the back of his mind of tonight's church. The man, he'd stood by for years...no decades, it seemed like the former president had been hung out to dry. Living on borrowed time thanks to Gaelen and the Irish, wanted him as some point person to keep the gun business alive. The perfect trade off, Jax gets us away from guns, and Clay continues to earn in Ireland. His blue hues shifted along at his brothers, some sitting along the bar and others chatting about anything but the impending vote. To get their minds off having to put the former president to pasture. Tig knew where his vote had to lie, he just couldn't support Clay after the things he'd done. Mayhem, would be too extreme, a daughter didn't deserve to lose her father. Alexandra was also Tig's ol' lady, the two had been married a while back. The two now shared a son, named Benjamin, who'd been born in the midst of the chaos with the club. "Jax, what are we doin'" Tig asks, placing his hand onto his brother's kutte, "Has it really came to this? I have a heart attack, and now I gotta vote Clay out."

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Jax knew tonight was a big deal. This was the first time they were going into church to vote out someone who has bene with the club since the beginning. But things just don’t line up anymore, and Clay, well he has been a pain in the ass for a while now. Undermining Jax as if he can do the job, when in fact, he can do it better then Clay has ever done and more like his father in a sense. It was more with the deal behind his back that has drove him to do this. Not that he wanted to, but he had to do it. 

The clubhouse was full of patched members from other charters. Waiting to see the verdict of what is going on. Not that Jax wants to make a spectacle out of this because that is not what this is about, it is about a member going behind the presidents back and really making deals, some he doesn’t know about and that alone leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Jax was sitting at the table, watching the clock change until it was time to vote. Not that he was rushing it, but this was a big deal and his trance was broken hearing Tig’s voice. He owed Jax a lot. 

“If you want to be apart of the brotherhood then I would say you have to. If you want to join him, then you can vote against me, but I can’t protect you anymore if you do that.” Jax was being blunt and honest and knew that Tig owed him more then he wanted to admit, and saving the bastards life, and sparing it more then once was enough to get him to vote against Clay and make sure everyone else was on the same page. 

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Tig nodded at Jax's words, he was right. He'd saved his life despite the loyalty that wavered for the soon to be president. All Tig knew for years was standing by Clay's side, being the loyal right hand.

Yet he'd do it, vote against the man who'd he'd spent decades beside. Clay had become a problem for the club, declining health had him seeing more green than a brotherhood.

Dividing the members sitting inside the chapel today. "I'll do it, Jax. If I don't have this club then I've got nothing else." Tig stated.

"And I owe you, sparing my life when I should have been in the ground. Hell I almost put myself there after that heart attack."

"Don't worry about Alexandra, she understands brother. I talked to her, and she'll hang up the badge. Do the law school thing." Tig spoke of his ol' lady.

"Doesn't need to go inside for doing her father's deeds, it was more Clay's badge than his daughters."

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Jax didn’t want to throw that card at him, but he had to. He needed Tig to see that Clay didn’t care about anyone but himself and that needed to change. That needed to be changed when it came to the club and if they were going to move forward. This was a brotherhood and Jax helped Tig because he was a brother and he deserved that but Jax needs the loyalty from him as well. Clay was the issue and they all had realized that after things have happened and Clay doing nothing about it, that is how Jax realized he was behind everything that was happening.

Nodding once hearing Tig’s words and knew he meant it. He had nothing, none of them had nothing when it came to not being in the club, he was just glad he was just glad Tig finally realized Clay didn’t want anything good for anyone if they didn’t benefit him.

“Then you stand by that and this club will have your back. Right now, they are just not sure they can trust you. They know how close Clay and you are, and the things you have done for him. I don’t hold that against you, but you need to show all of them that you aren’t that man and that Clay was the reason you did all of that. The patch is yours as long as you stay true to that.”

Jax flashed a grin at him and hoped he stayed with it. “So we vote and people will trust you once you vote Clay out.”

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Tig knew it too, everyone around that table saw him as Clay's right hand he couldn't shake that image, not in his brother's eyes. Didn't matter how much Jax believed he'd realized Clay only did care about Clay.

The truth was Tig didn't even feel that close to Clay in the end, the man didn't need him anymore it seemed. Just shut him out, like he did everyone else. Not to mention he was married to a Morrow himself, Clay's daughter Alexandra. Maybe they thought his ol' lady would pull him back into her father's orbit. But even she saw, Clay's time with the club was coming to an end.

His hands were goin' but that wasn't it, he'd gotten greedy and saw earning big more than he saw a club. Clay wanted a future for his family just went about it the wrong way, broke the club's rules. And Gemma was just a nail in the coffin for him, there wasn't any way he'd stand by Clay's side. Tig tried to resign that night, but his heart stopped him suffered a heart attack right at the door of Clay's room. Fate. Maybe. Tig pushed the thoughts from his mind as he heard Jax's words, "Don't worry, my vote will be a Yea, Jax. Clay doesn't deserve to wear this kutte anymore." He stated. "There's something you should know, after my heart attack he came and visited me in the hospital. Tried to pull me to his side, tellin' me of some opportunity he was lining up." Tig said with a sigh, "But I turned him down, flat." "This vote ain't goin' in his favor. I can't stand by him anymore, SAMCRO's where I belong. But tell me this, Jax, what did you tell Alexandra?" "She know anythin' about this? I know club shit ain't their business, but you can't tell me, she hasn't seen her dad, picked something up."

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Jax hated that Tig had always been more loyal to Clay. Especially what they did to Opie and was going to get him, instead they got his wife. Tig had a hand in that and it took Jax so long to see past all of that and really feel like Tig was there for all the right reasons, and now that Clay was being pushed out, Tig had to show who he was really with and that had to be them or he was gone as well. Jax wasn’t playing those games anymore. They have enough of that and can’t do it again.

Clay had drove them deep into the ground. Jax was working on getting them out of there and having other clubs trust them because Clay didn’t give a shit about anyone but himself and the way people looked at him, knowing he would drive them deeper. Tig, Jax wanted him to see the that and seeing he was finally clearing his head of the toxic energy that was Clay made it better.

So just running through things that Clay had done, he just had to see where Tig’s head was as he has been out for a while after a heart attack and Jax was worried about his health but his vote counted just as much as everyone else’s at this point. “Good boy. Thank you. Just we all know what he has done, and there are things we don’t talk about which I am sure you guys know he has done, but he denies it. So, vote accordingly and know if he stays someone is in trouble.”

Arching his eyebrows at the fact that Clay tried moves just as he was getting pushed out and everyone wasn’t too concerned with it. He was just hoping things didn’t backlash but they were going to try to make it happen. “Well, he won’t be making anymore, because he won’t have anyone. Don’t worry about it Tiggy, you did well, and thank you for not takin’ him up on that offer.” Shaking his head, he didn’t go to anyone.

“I haven’t told her anything, trust me. This is all between us. Gemma doesn’t even know. So this right here, it is all about us.”

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Tig knew he'd made the right decision steppin' away from Clay. He couldn't let the former President take the only thing he knew away.

There wasn't any life outside of SAMCRO no earnin' straight, and he wasn't about to put supporting the family on Alexandra. It wasn't fair to her he owed it to her, and Jax to leave Clay's ways behind.

"You want this flash? I can do what I was going to that night, resign." Tig spoke of the night of his heart attack. His blue hues shifting to the still in place flash on his kutte.

"But if you'd rather I'd keep it, carry it for you you know I'd do that, brother." Tig stated, fidgeting with his wedding ring.

"Haven't told her anything either, man. No one knows outside the club."

Tig nodded at Jax's words, "Me too. I had a feelin- Clay was just trying to get one last jab at you. But I wasn't gonna let him have it."

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Jax just hope Tig doesn’t go back on his word. That is where he was at right now. He just wanted to make sure Clay didn’t stand a chance, and he was out for good with all the things he had done to drag their club down in his time of reigning at president. Not that Jax wanted to do anything bad, but he just didn’t want to have Clay a chance to come back to the club. That is not what this was about.

Tig was always a little flaky because of Clay, but Jax thinks right now, him having the heart attack and not being there for a while, it made him realize just how important all of this was. Maybe that is why Jax wasn’t too worried about him turning his back on the choice and knowing that Clay was done. Shaking his head, he didn’t want Tig to leave, he wanted him there because he was good.

“No I don’t want you to go Tig. I just need you to trust me. That is all. I need you to trust I have better instincts and I look out for all of you. Not just myself like Clay. I won’t make you do anything for my own good, I can do that for myself.”

Jax knew that Tig liked being in the club, and he didn’t want him to leave. “Of course he was, because that is what he does. He knows he is in trouble, so he tries to take everyone down with him. Just we do this then we let everyone know. So as long as you vote the way I think you are then we are good brother. No more secrets and sneaky shit okay?” That was the only thing, Clay may Tig sneaky and Jax doesn’t want that.

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Tig would never go back on his word, not now. He knew Clay was done, and there wasn't anything that the now former president could say. Nothing that Tig hadn't heard while in the hospital.

He twisted at his wedding ring, mulling everything Jax had told him over. Tig had every confidence that Clay's path for the club could be undone.

Alexandra put the badge away and was soon off to law school away from the fallout of her father's being drummed out. "Do you think she should still go?, with everything? Is she safe, brother?" Tig asked, of Jax.

Tig chewed on his lip, before speaking once again, "So you want me to wear this flash? Despite everything it meant before."

He'd do exactly, and vote Clay out. There'd be no nays at the table. "Is he gonna be in there?." Tig asked, not knowing if he had it in him to once again look Clay in the eye.

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Jax knew that Clay would try something, but he didn’t have the people to help him. If they did, they were gone and most men had nothing else but the club, so it would be a brave move on their part. But with Tig on his side, Jax knew he had to make sure everyone else was safe. He had to make sure none of the women got hurt, because Donna, she was already a subject to that and he couldn’t allow anyone else be apart of that.

Nodding his head, he knew that she would be safe. “She will be safe Brother. Trust me. I will do everything in my power to make sure everyone is safe and that includes your wife. I just need you to know no one deserve to feel what Opie felt when he got the news about his wife.” It was all truths, Jax hated to know that Opie felt the pain and there was nothing he could do about it right now.

“I do, you are the best one for the job, I just need to know you’re on the same page as I am, and that you will stay behind me. Not turn on me.” This was the one thing Jax needed to know about Tig, knowing that he will be with the guys and not with Clay. But their first order of business was to get rid of Clay, and Shaking his head, Clay wasn’t going to be in there but he will be at the club house.

“He won’t be in there, but he will be in the clubhouse and get the news once the voting is done. That is how we do this, so everyone votes and then we deliver the news. It will all be on me, not on you guys.”

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"Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me. She's leavin' in a few days, it's best while this shit with Clay plays out." Tig spoke of his wife. Alexandra meant everything to him, just as much as wearin' this Reaper did.

He hated doin' what he did, Donna's death had snapped something in Tig. Never felt the same after, but he was simply followin' Clay. Something he did for decades, but now it was clear the former President had to go.

"I am, one hundred percent behind you. Clay ain't gonna pull me back in, he tried once and knows I won't be havin' it." Tig spoke, in a firm tone. He knew it would take more than words to erase the image of Clay Morrow's right hand. But if that's what it took, than Tig would do it

"With Xan gone, it's me and Ben til she comes back from law school. He'll have the nanny and pre-school during the day, but I'll be the one who picks him up." Tig figured he'd fill Jax in on his added responsibilities while his wife was in law school.

Tig nodded at Jaxs word's before following him into the chapel. Their Charter, and a few other presidents sat around the Reaper table. As Tig took the seat to Jax's right, the familiar seat he had with Clay.

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Nodding his head, Jax understood just where Tig was coming from. Sure, he had done somethings to Opie’s wife, but he has changed and Jax was liking this new Tig and couldn’t hold it against him if he was being honest. “I think that would be best. Make sure she goes to a place he doesn’t know where she will be. That is all I can say, because he seems to know everything and I don’t even know how.”

But all of this had to be done. Clay had done enough and really tuned their whole club upside down and that meant the two of them really needed to stand together, along with the rest of the club and make sure Clay knew he wasn’t going to walk away with this one. He was in deep trouble and that is all he needed to know. But hearing that Tig was fully in, that was all Jax needed to hear. He wanted him at the table with him.

“I need you at that table brother. You’re good, and you are a good guy, just when Clay infected you with shit that didn’t happen, we ain’t having that again. I don’t want you to feel we need to have that, so you’re with us, he won’t do anything to you or your family brother, I can promise you that.”

That is one thing Jax wanted to promise Tig for going against the man that had been with Tig for a while now. “We can deal with that, your kid comes first man. Always will.” Walking back into he chapel with everyone, this was what they were supposed to do. “Okay, so we are all here because Clay has overstepped and made the club look bad. We are voting to remove the reaper from him and banish him from the club. We will go around the table and yay if you agree or nay if you think he should get another chance.”

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Tig knew too of his past, but it was just that the past. And ever since his confession, he'd put the stuff with Donna behind him. The whole club seemed to, after the stuff with Stahl and when it boiled down to it, it was Clay's call. Blood was on both their hands, and Tig knew it too. Maybe that's why he had to do this, help the club vote out the one man who'd gotten so greedy in the end. Clay erased any brotherhood they had, just saw a payday not a club. Now all he'd have is blacked out tattoos, and discarded items with a reaper. "I will, brother. She's gotten into a good school, Clay doesn't know which one, I took her real acceptance letter and made up a fake one. It's the one I showed to Clay when he asked. He's got no clue where his daughter is." Tig spoke, hoping his plan would at least work. And Clay would remain in the dark. "That means a lot, to me, about Ben. He's with Alexandra right now before she departs later today. Such a little guy has no clue about what's going on, he's so innocent. We won't tell Ben about grandpa til he's older." Tig felt a sense of welcome from Jax, that everything from before his heart attack had faded away. That Tig had become a changed man from the one infected with Clay Morrow, the loyal Sgt at arms who'd done anything for him.

But Tig's service was done as the votes went around the table to banish Clay before landing on him. "Yay." Tig spoke firmly, as if the decision he'd made was final.

Tig breathed a sigh of relief, as he leaned back into his chair as the final votes came in. Soon enough they wouldn't be sharing a patch nor a table with Clay Morrow.

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Tig closed the clubhouse door behind him, a nagging feeling in the back of his mind of tonight's church. The man, he'd stood by for years...no decades, it seemed like the former president had been hung out to dry. Living on borrowed time thanks to Gaelen and the Irish, wanted him as some point person to keep the gun business alive. The perfect trade off, Jax gets us away from guns, and Clay continues to earn in Ireland. His blue hues shifted along at his brothers, some sitting along the bar and others chatting about anything but the impending vote. To get their minds off having to put the former president to pasture. Tig knew where his vote had to lie, he just couldn't support Clay after the things he'd done. Mayhem, would be too extreme, a daughter didn't deserve to lose her father. Alexandra was also Tig's ol' lady, the two had been married a while back. The two now shared a son, named Benjamin, who'd been born in the midst of the chaos with the club. "Jax, what are we doin'" Tig asks, placing his hand onto his brother's kutte, "Has it really came to this? I have a heart attack, and now I gotta vote Clay out."

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Jax knew tonight was a big deal. This was the first time they were going into church to vote out someone who has bene with the club since the beginning. But things just don’t line up anymore, and Clay, well he has been a pain in the ass for a while now. Undermining Jax as if he can do the job, when in fact, he can do it better then Clay has ever done and more like his father in a sense. It was more with the deal behind his back that has drove him to do this. Not that he wanted to, but he had to do it. 

The clubhouse was full of patched members from other charters. Waiting to see the verdict of what is going on. Not that Jax wants to make a spectacle out of this because that is not what this is about, it is about a member going behind the presidents back and really making deals, some he doesn’t know about and that alone leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Jax was sitting at the table, watching the clock change until it was time to vote. Not that he was rushing it, but this was a big deal and his trance was broken hearing Tig’s voice. He owed Jax a lot. 

“If you want to be apart of the brotherhood then I would say you have to. If you want to join him, then you can vote against me, but I can’t protect you anymore if you do that.” Jax was being blunt and honest and knew that Tig owed him more then he wanted to admit, and saving the bastards life, and sparing it more then once was enough to get him to vote against Clay and make sure everyone else was on the same page. 

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Tig nodded at Jax's words, he was right. He'd saved his life despite the loyalty that wavered for the soon to be president. All Tig knew for years was standing by Clay's side, being the loyal right hand.

Yet he'd do it, vote against the man who'd he'd spent decades beside. Clay had become a problem for the club, declining health had him seeing more green than a brotherhood.

Dividing the members sitting inside the chapel today. "I'll do it, Jax. If I don't have this club then I've got nothing else." Tig stated.

"And I owe you, sparing my life when I should have been in the ground. Hell I almost put myself there after that heart attack."

"Don't worry about Alexandra, she understands brother. I talked to her, and she'll hang up the badge. Do the law school thing." Tig spoke of his ol' lady.

"Doesn't need to go inside for doing her father's deeds, it was more Clay's badge than his daughters."

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Jax didn’t want to throw that card at him, but he had to. He needed Tig to see that Clay didn’t care about anyone but himself and that needed to change. That needed to be changed when it came to the club and if they were going to move forward. This was a brotherhood and Jax helped Tig because he was a brother and he deserved that but Jax needs the loyalty from him as well. Clay was the issue and they all had realized that after things have happened and Clay doing nothing about it, that is how Jax realized he was behind everything that was happening.

Nodding once hearing Tig’s words and knew he meant it. He had nothing, none of them had nothing when it came to not being in the club, he was just glad he was just glad Tig finally realized Clay didn’t want anything good for anyone if they didn’t benefit him.

“Then you stand by that and this club will have your back. Right now, they are just not sure they can trust you. They know how close Clay and you are, and the things you have done for him. I don’t hold that against you, but you need to show all of them that you aren’t that man and that Clay was the reason you did all of that. The patch is yours as long as you stay true to that.”

Jax flashed a grin at him and hoped he stayed with it. “So we vote and people will trust you once you vote Clay out.”

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Tig knew it too, everyone around that table saw him as Clay's right hand he couldn't shake that image, not in his brother's eyes. Didn't matter how much Jax believed he'd realized Clay only did care about Clay.

The truth was Tig didn't even feel that close to Clay in the end, the man didn't need him anymore it seemed. Just shut him out, like he did everyone else. Not to mention he was married to a Morrow himself, Clay's daughter Alexandra. Maybe they thought his ol' lady would pull him back into her father's orbit. But even she saw, Clay's time with the club was coming to an end.

His hands were goin' but that wasn't it, he'd gotten greedy and saw earning big more than he saw a club. Clay wanted a future for his family just went about it the wrong way, broke the club's rules. And Gemma was just a nail in the coffin for him, there wasn't any way he'd stand by Clay's side. Tig tried to resign that night, but his heart stopped him suffered a heart attack right at the door of Clay's room. Fate. Maybe. Tig pushed the thoughts from his mind as he heard Jax's words, "Don't worry, my vote will be a Yea, Jax. Clay doesn't deserve to wear this kutte anymore." He stated. "There's something you should know, after my heart attack he came and visited me in the hospital. Tried to pull me to his side, tellin' me of some opportunity he was lining up." Tig said with a sigh, "But I turned him down, flat." "This vote ain't goin' in his favor. I can't stand by him anymore, SAMCRO's where I belong. But tell me this, Jax, what did you tell Alexandra?" "She know anythin' about this? I know club shit ain't their business, but you can't tell me, she hasn't seen her dad, picked something up."

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Jax hated that Tig had always been more loyal to Clay. Especially what they did to Opie and was going to get him, instead they got his wife. Tig had a hand in that and it took Jax so long to see past all of that and really feel like Tig was there for all the right reasons, and now that Clay was being pushed out, Tig had to show who he was really with and that had to be them or he was gone as well. Jax wasn’t playing those games anymore. They have enough of that and can’t do it again.

Clay had drove them deep into the ground. Jax was working on getting them out of there and having other clubs trust them because Clay didn’t give a shit about anyone but himself and the way people looked at him, knowing he would drive them deeper. Tig, Jax wanted him to see the that and seeing he was finally clearing his head of the toxic energy that was Clay made it better.

So just running through things that Clay had done, he just had to see where Tig’s head was as he has been out for a while after a heart attack and Jax was worried about his health but his vote counted just as much as everyone else’s at this point. “Good boy. Thank you. Just we all know what he has done, and there are things we don’t talk about which I am sure you guys know he has done, but he denies it. So, vote accordingly and know if he stays someone is in trouble.”

Arching his eyebrows at the fact that Clay tried moves just as he was getting pushed out and everyone wasn’t too concerned with it. He was just hoping things didn’t backlash but they were going to try to make it happen. “Well, he won’t be making anymore, because he won’t have anyone. Don’t worry about it Tiggy, you did well, and thank you for not takin’ him up on that offer.” Shaking his head, he didn’t go to anyone.

“I haven’t told her anything, trust me. This is all between us. Gemma doesn’t even know. So this right here, it is all about us.”

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Tig knew he'd made the right decision steppin' away from Clay. He couldn't let the former President take the only thing he knew away.

There wasn't any life outside of SAMCRO no earnin' straight, and he wasn't about to put supporting the family on Alexandra. It wasn't fair to her he owed it to her, and Jax to leave Clay's ways behind.

"You want this flash? I can do what I was going to that night, resign." Tig spoke of the night of his heart attack. His blue hues shifting to the still in place flash on his kutte.

"But if you'd rather I'd keep it, carry it for you you know I'd do that, brother." Tig stated, fidgeting with his wedding ring.

"Haven't told her anything either, man. No one knows outside the club."

Tig nodded at Jax's words, "Me too. I had a feelin- Clay was just trying to get one last jab at you. But I wasn't gonna let him have it."

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Jax just hope Tig doesn’t go back on his word. That is where he was at right now. He just wanted to make sure Clay didn’t stand a chance, and he was out for good with all the things he had done to drag their club down in his time of reigning at president. Not that Jax wanted to do anything bad, but he just didn’t want to have Clay a chance to come back to the club. That is not what this was about.

Tig was always a little flaky because of Clay, but Jax thinks right now, him having the heart attack and not being there for a while, it made him realize just how important all of this was. Maybe that is why Jax wasn’t too worried about him turning his back on the choice and knowing that Clay was done. Shaking his head, he didn’t want Tig to leave, he wanted him there because he was good.

“No I don’t want you to go Tig. I just need you to trust me. That is all. I need you to trust I have better instincts and I look out for all of you. Not just myself like Clay. I won’t make you do anything for my own good, I can do that for myself.”

Jax knew that Tig liked being in the club, and he didn’t want him to leave. “Of course he was, because that is what he does. He knows he is in trouble, so he tries to take everyone down with him. Just we do this then we let everyone know. So as long as you vote the way I think you are then we are good brother. No more secrets and sneaky shit okay?” That was the only thing, Clay may Tig sneaky and Jax doesn’t want that.

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Tig would never go back on his word, not now. He knew Clay was done, and there wasn't anything that the now former president could say. Nothing that Tig hadn't heard while in the hospital.

He twisted at his wedding ring, mulling everything Jax had told him over. Tig had every confidence that Clay's path for the club could be undone.

Alexandra put the badge away and was soon off to law school away from the fallout of her father's being drummed out. "Do you think she should still go?, with everything? Is she safe, brother?" Tig asked, of Jax.

Tig chewed on his lip, before speaking once again, "So you want me to wear this flash? Despite everything it meant before."

He'd do exactly, and vote Clay out. There'd be no nays at the table. "Is he gonna be in there?." Tig asked, not knowing if he had it in him to once again look Clay in the eye.

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Jax knew that Clay would try something, but he didn’t have the people to help him. If they did, they were gone and most men had nothing else but the club, so it would be a brave move on their part. But with Tig on his side, Jax knew he had to make sure everyone else was safe. He had to make sure none of the women got hurt, because Donna, she was already a subject to that and he couldn’t allow anyone else be apart of that.

Nodding his head, he knew that she would be safe. “She will be safe Brother. Trust me. I will do everything in my power to make sure everyone is safe and that includes your wife. I just need you to know no one deserve to feel what Opie felt when he got the news about his wife.” It was all truths, Jax hated to know that Opie felt the pain and there was nothing he could do about it right now.

“I do, you are the best one for the job, I just need to know you’re on the same page as I am, and that you will stay behind me. Not turn on me.” This was the one thing Jax needed to know about Tig, knowing that he will be with the guys and not with Clay. But their first order of business was to get rid of Clay, and Shaking his head, Clay wasn’t going to be in there but he will be at the club house.

“He won’t be in there, but he will be in the clubhouse and get the news once the voting is done. That is how we do this, so everyone votes and then we deliver the news. It will all be on me, not on you guys.”

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"Thank you, brother. That means a lot to me. She's leavin' in a few days, it's best while this shit with Clay plays out." Tig spoke of his wife. Alexandra meant everything to him, just as much as wearin' this Reaper did.

He hated doin' what he did, Donna's death had snapped something in Tig. Never felt the same after, but he was simply followin' Clay. Something he did for decades, but now it was clear the former President had to go.

"I am, one hundred percent behind you. Clay ain't gonna pull me back in, he tried once and knows I won't be havin' it." Tig spoke, in a firm tone. He knew it would take more than words to erase the image of Clay Morrow's right hand. But if that's what it took, than Tig would do it

"With Xan gone, it's me and Ben til she comes back from law school. He'll have the nanny and pre-school during the day, but I'll be the one who picks him up." Tig figured he'd fill Jax in on his added responsibilities while his wife was in law school.

Tig nodded at Jaxs word's before following him into the chapel. Their Charter, and a few other presidents sat around the Reaper table. As Tig took the seat to Jax's right, the familiar seat he had with Clay.

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Tig closed the clubhouse door behind him, a nagging feeling in the back of his mind of tonight's church. The man, he'd stood by for years...no decades, it seemed like the former president had been hung out to dry. Living on borrowed time thanks to Gaelen and the Irish, wanted him as some point person to keep the gun business alive. The perfect trade off, Jax gets us away from guns, and Clay continues to earn in Ireland. His blue hues shifted along at his brothers, some sitting along the bar and others chatting about anything but the impending vote. To get their minds off having to put the former president to pasture. Tig knew where his vote had to lie, he just couldn't support Clay after the things he'd done. Mayhem, would be too extreme, a daughter didn't deserve to lose her father. Alexandra was also Tig's ol' lady, the two had been married a while back. The two now shared a son, named Benjamin, who'd been born in the midst of the chaos with the club. "Jax, what are we doin'" Tig asks, placing his hand onto his brother's kutte, "Has it really came to this? I have a heart attack, and now I gotta vote Clay out."

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Jax knew tonight was a big deal. This was the first time they were going into church to vote out someone who has bene with the club since the beginning. But things just don’t line up anymore, and Clay, well he has been a pain in the ass for a while now. Undermining Jax as if he can do the job, when in fact, he can do it better then Clay has ever done and more like his father in a sense. It was more with the deal behind his back that has drove him to do this. Not that he wanted to, but he had to do it. 

The clubhouse was full of patched members from other charters. Waiting to see the verdict of what is going on. Not that Jax wants to make a spectacle out of this because that is not what this is about, it is about a member going behind the presidents back and really making deals, some he doesn’t know about and that alone leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Jax was sitting at the table, watching the clock change until it was time to vote. Not that he was rushing it, but this was a big deal and his trance was broken hearing Tig’s voice. He owed Jax a lot. 

“If you want to be apart of the brotherhood then I would say you have to. If you want to join him, then you can vote against me, but I can’t protect you anymore if you do that.” Jax was being blunt and honest and knew that Tig owed him more then he wanted to admit, and saving the bastards life, and sparing it more then once was enough to get him to vote against Clay and make sure everyone else was on the same page. 

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Tig nodded at Jax's words, he was right. He'd saved his life despite the loyalty that wavered for the soon to be president. All Tig knew for years was standing by Clay's side, being the loyal right hand.

Yet he'd do it, vote against the man who'd he'd spent decades beside. Clay had become a problem for the club, declining health had him seeing more green than a brotherhood.

Dividing the members sitting inside the chapel today. "I'll do it, Jax. If I don't have this club then I've got nothing else." Tig stated.

"And I owe you, sparing my life when I should have been in the ground. Hell I almost put myself there after that heart attack."

"Don't worry about Alexandra, she understands brother. I talked to her, and she'll hang up the badge. Do the law school thing." Tig spoke of his ol' lady.

"Doesn't need to go inside for doing her father's deeds, it was more Clay's badge than his daughters."

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Jax didn’t want to throw that card at him, but he had to. He needed Tig to see that Clay didn’t care about anyone but himself and that needed to change. That needed to be changed when it came to the club and if they were going to move forward. This was a brotherhood and Jax helped Tig because he was a brother and he deserved that but Jax needs the loyalty from him as well. Clay was the issue and they all had realized that after things have happened and Clay doing nothing about it, that is how Jax realized he was behind everything that was happening.

Nodding once hearing Tig’s words and knew he meant it. He had nothing, none of them had nothing when it came to not being in the club, he was just glad he was just glad Tig finally realized Clay didn’t want anything good for anyone if they didn’t benefit him.

“Then you stand by that and this club will have your back. Right now, they are just not sure they can trust you. They know how close Clay and you are, and the things you have done for him. I don’t hold that against you, but you need to show all of them that you aren’t that man and that Clay was the reason you did all of that. The patch is yours as long as you stay true to that.”

Jax flashed a grin at him and hoped he stayed with it. “So we vote and people will trust you once you vote Clay out.”

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Tig knew it too, everyone around that table saw him as Clay's right hand he couldn't shake that image, not in his brother's eyes. Didn't matter how much Jax believed he'd realized Clay only did care about Clay.

The truth was Tig didn't even feel that close to Clay in the end, the man didn't need him anymore it seemed. Just shut him out, like he did everyone else. Not to mention he was married to a Morrow himself, Clay's daughter Alexandra. Maybe they thought his ol' lady would pull him back into her father's orbit. But even she saw, Clay's time with the club was coming to an end.

His hands were goin' but that wasn't it, he'd gotten greedy and saw earning big more than he saw a club. Clay wanted a future for his family just went about it the wrong way, broke the club's rules. And Gemma was just a nail in the coffin for him, there wasn't any way he'd stand by Clay's side. Tig tried to resign that night, but his heart stopped him suffered a heart attack right at the door of Clay's room. Fate. Maybe. Tig pushed the thoughts from his mind as he heard Jax's words, "Don't worry, my vote will be a Yea, Jax. Clay doesn't deserve to wear this kutte anymore." He stated. "There's something you should know, after my heart attack he came and visited me in the hospital. Tried to pull me to his side, tellin' me of some opportunity he was lining up." Tig said with a sigh, "But I turned him down, flat." "This vote ain't goin' in his favor. I can't stand by him anymore, SAMCRO's where I belong. But tell me this, Jax, what did you tell Alexandra?" "She know anythin' about this? I know club shit ain't their business, but you can't tell me, she hasn't seen her dad, picked something up."

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Jax hated that Tig had always been more loyal to Clay. Especially what they did to Opie and was going to get him, instead they got his wife. Tig had a hand in that and it took Jax so long to see past all of that and really feel like Tig was there for all the right reasons, and now that Clay was being pushed out, Tig had to show who he was really with and that had to be them or he was gone as well. Jax wasn’t playing those games anymore. They have enough of that and can’t do it again.

Clay had drove them deep into the ground. Jax was working on getting them out of there and having other clubs trust them because Clay didn’t give a shit about anyone but himself and the way people looked at him, knowing he would drive them deeper. Tig, Jax wanted him to see the that and seeing he was finally clearing his head of the toxic energy that was Clay made it better.

So just running through things that Clay had done, he just had to see where Tig’s head was as he has been out for a while after a heart attack and Jax was worried about his health but his vote counted just as much as everyone else’s at this point. “Good boy. Thank you. Just we all know what he has done, and there are things we don’t talk about which I am sure you guys know he has done, but he denies it. So, vote accordingly and know if he stays someone is in trouble.”

Arching his eyebrows at the fact that Clay tried moves just as he was getting pushed out and everyone wasn’t too concerned with it. He was just hoping things didn’t backlash but they were going to try to make it happen. “Well, he won’t be making anymore, because he won’t have anyone. Don’t worry about it Tiggy, you did well, and thank you for not takin’ him up on that offer.” Shaking his head, he didn’t go to anyone.

“I haven’t told her anything, trust me. This is all between us. Gemma doesn’t even know. So this right here, it is all about us.”

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Tig knew he'd made the right decision steppin' away from Clay. He couldn't let the former President take the only thing he knew away.

There wasn't any life outside of SAMCRO no earnin' straight, and he wasn't about to put supporting the family on Alexandra. It wasn't fair to her he owed it to her, and Jax to leave Clay's ways behind.

"You want this flash? I can do what I was going to that night, resign." Tig spoke of the night of his heart attack. His blue hues shifting to the still in place flash on his kutte.

"But if you'd rather I'd keep it, carry it for you you know I'd do that, brother." Tig stated, fidgeting with his wedding ring.

"Haven't told her anything either, man. No one knows outside the club."

Tig nodded at Jax's words, "Me too. I had a feelin- Clay was just trying to get one last jab at you. But I wasn't gonna let him have it."

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Jax just hope Tig doesn’t go back on his word. That is where he was at right now. He just wanted to make sure Clay didn’t stand a chance, and he was out for good with all the things he had done to drag their club down in his time of reigning at president. Not that Jax wanted to do anything bad, but he just didn’t want to have Clay a chance to come back to the club. That is not what this was about.

Tig was always a little flaky because of Clay, but Jax thinks right now, him having the heart attack and not being there for a while, it made him realize just how important all of this was. Maybe that is why Jax wasn’t too worried about him turning his back on the choice and knowing that Clay was done. Shaking his head, he didn’t want Tig to leave, he wanted him there because he was good.

“No I don’t want you to go Tig. I just need you to trust me. That is all. I need you to trust I have better instincts and I look out for all of you. Not just myself like Clay. I won’t make you do anything for my own good, I can do that for myself.”

Jax knew that Tig liked being in the club, and he didn’t want him to leave. “Of course he was, because that is what he does. He knows he is in trouble, so he tries to take everyone down with him. Just we do this then we let everyone know. So as long as you vote the way I think you are then we are good brother. No more secrets and sneaky shit okay?” That was the only thing, Clay may Tig sneaky and Jax doesn’t want that.

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Tig would never go back on his word, not now. He knew Clay was done, and there wasn't anything that the now former president could say. Nothing that Tig hadn't heard while in the hospital.

He twisted at his wedding ring, mulling everything Jax had told him over. Tig had every confidence that Clay's path for the club could be undone.

Alexandra put the badge away and was soon off to law school away from the fallout of her father's being drummed out. "Do you think she should still go?, with everything? Is she safe, brother?" Tig asked, of Jax.

Tig chewed on his lip, before speaking once again, "So you want me to wear this flash? Despite everything it meant before."

He'd do exactly, and vote Clay out. There'd be no nays at the table. "Is he gonna be in there?." Tig asked, not knowing if he had it in him to once again look Clay in the eye.

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Tig closed the clubhouse door behind him, a nagging feeling in the back of his mind of tonight's church. The man, he'd stood by for years...no decades, it seemed like the former president had been hung out to dry. Living on borrowed time thanks to Gaelen and the Irish, wanted him as some point person to keep the gun business alive. The perfect trade off, Jax gets us away from guns, and Clay continues to earn in Ireland. His blue hues shifted along at his brothers, some sitting along the bar and others chatting about anything but the impending vote. To get their minds off having to put the former president to pasture. Tig knew where his vote had to lie, he just couldn't support Clay after the things he'd done. Mayhem, would be too extreme, a daughter didn't deserve to lose her father. Alexandra was also Tig's ol' lady, the two had been married a while back. The two now shared a son, named Benjamin, who'd been born in the midst of the chaos with the club. "Jax, what are we doin'" Tig asks, placing his hand onto his brother's kutte, "Has it really came to this? I have a heart attack, and now I gotta vote Clay out."

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Jax knew tonight was a big deal. This was the first time they were going into church to vote out someone who has bene with the club since the beginning. But things just don’t line up anymore, and Clay, well he has been a pain in the ass for a while now. Undermining Jax as if he can do the job, when in fact, he can do it better then Clay has ever done and more like his father in a sense. It was more with the deal behind his back that has drove him to do this. Not that he wanted to, but he had to do it. 

The clubhouse was full of patched members from other charters. Waiting to see the verdict of what is going on. Not that Jax wants to make a spectacle out of this because that is not what this is about, it is about a member going behind the presidents back and really making deals, some he doesn’t know about and that alone leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Jax was sitting at the table, watching the clock change until it was time to vote. Not that he was rushing it, but this was a big deal and his trance was broken hearing Tig’s voice. He owed Jax a lot. 

“If you want to be apart of the brotherhood then I would say you have to. If you want to join him, then you can vote against me, but I can’t protect you anymore if you do that.” Jax was being blunt and honest and knew that Tig owed him more then he wanted to admit, and saving the bastards life, and sparing it more then once was enough to get him to vote against Clay and make sure everyone else was on the same page. 

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Tig nodded at Jax's words, he was right. He'd saved his life despite the loyalty that wavered for the soon to be president. All Tig knew for years was standing by Clay's side, being the loyal right hand.

Yet he'd do it, vote against the man who'd he'd spent decades beside. Clay had become a problem for the club, declining health had him seeing more green than a brotherhood.

Dividing the members sitting inside the chapel today. "I'll do it, Jax. If I don't have this club then I've got nothing else." Tig stated.

"And I owe you, sparing my life when I should have been in the ground. Hell I almost put myself there after that heart attack."

"Don't worry about Alexandra, she understands brother. I talked to her, and she'll hang up the badge. Do the law school thing." Tig spoke of his ol' lady.

"Doesn't need to go inside for doing her father's deeds, it was more Clay's badge than his daughters."

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Jax didn’t want to throw that card at him, but he had to. He needed Tig to see that Clay didn’t care about anyone but himself and that needed to change. That needed to be changed when it came to the club and if they were going to move forward. This was a brotherhood and Jax helped Tig because he was a brother and he deserved that but Jax needs the loyalty from him as well. Clay was the issue and they all had realized that after things have happened and Clay doing nothing about it, that is how Jax realized he was behind everything that was happening.

Nodding once hearing Tig’s words and knew he meant it. He had nothing, none of them had nothing when it came to not being in the club, he was just glad he was just glad Tig finally realized Clay didn’t want anything good for anyone if they didn’t benefit him.

“Then you stand by that and this club will have your back. Right now, they are just not sure they can trust you. They know how close Clay and you are, and the things you have done for him. I don’t hold that against you, but you need to show all of them that you aren’t that man and that Clay was the reason you did all of that. The patch is yours as long as you stay true to that.”

Jax flashed a grin at him and hoped he stayed with it. “So we vote and people will trust you once you vote Clay out.”

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Tig knew it too, everyone around that table saw him as Clay's right hand he couldn't shake that image, not in his brother's eyes. Didn't matter how much Jax believed he'd realized Clay only did care about Clay.

The truth was Tig didn't even feel that close to Clay in the end, the man didn't need him anymore it seemed. Just shut him out, like he did everyone else. Not to mention he was married to a Morrow himself, Clay's daughter Alexandra. Maybe they thought his ol' lady would pull him back into her father's orbit. But even she saw, Clay's time with the club was coming to an end.

His hands were goin' but that wasn't it, he'd gotten greedy and saw earning big more than he saw a club. Clay wanted a future for his family just went about it the wrong way, broke the club's rules. And Gemma was just a nail in the coffin for him, there wasn't any way he'd stand by Clay's side. Tig tried to resign that night, but his heart stopped him suffered a heart attack right at the door of Clay's room. Fate. Maybe. Tig pushed the thoughts from his mind as he heard Jax's words, "Don't worry, my vote will be a Yea, Jax. Clay doesn't deserve to wear this kutte anymore." He stated. "There's something you should know, after my heart attack he came and visited me in the hospital. Tried to pull me to his side, tellin' me of some opportunity he was lining up." Tig said with a sigh, "But I turned him down, flat." "This vote ain't goin' in his favor. I can't stand by him anymore, SAMCRO's where I belong. But tell me this, Jax, what did you tell Alexandra?" "She know anythin' about this? I know club shit ain't their business, but you can't tell me, she hasn't seen her dad, picked something up."

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Jax hated that Tig had always been more loyal to Clay. Especially what they did to Opie and was going to get him, instead they got his wife. Tig had a hand in that and it took Jax so long to see past all of that and really feel like Tig was there for all the right reasons, and now that Clay was being pushed out, Tig had to show who he was really with and that had to be them or he was gone as well. Jax wasn’t playing those games anymore. They have enough of that and can’t do it again.

Clay had drove them deep into the ground. Jax was working on getting them out of there and having other clubs trust them because Clay didn’t give a shit about anyone but himself and the way people looked at him, knowing he would drive them deeper. Tig, Jax wanted him to see the that and seeing he was finally clearing his head of the toxic energy that was Clay made it better.

So just running through things that Clay had done, he just had to see where Tig’s head was as he has been out for a while after a heart attack and Jax was worried about his health but his vote counted just as much as everyone else’s at this point. “Good boy. Thank you. Just we all know what he has done, and there are things we don’t talk about which I am sure you guys know he has done, but he denies it. So, vote accordingly and know if he stays someone is in trouble.”

Arching his eyebrows at the fact that Clay tried moves just as he was getting pushed out and everyone wasn’t too concerned with it. He was just hoping things didn’t backlash but they were going to try to make it happen. “Well, he won’t be making anymore, because he won’t have anyone. Don’t worry about it Tiggy, you did well, and thank you for not takin’ him up on that offer.” Shaking his head, he didn’t go to anyone.

“I haven’t told her anything, trust me. This is all between us. Gemma doesn’t even know. So this right here, it is all about us.”

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Tig knew he'd made the right decision steppin' away from Clay. He couldn't let the former President take the only thing he knew away.

There wasn't any life outside of SAMCRO no earnin' straight, and he wasn't about to put supporting the family on Alexandra. It wasn't fair to her he owed it to her, and Jax to leave Clay's ways behind.

"You want this flash? I can do what I was going to that night, resign." Tig spoke of the night of his heart attack. His blue hues shifting to the still in place flash on his kutte.

"But if you'd rather I'd keep it, carry it for you you know I'd do that, brother." Tig stated, fidgeting with his wedding ring.

"Haven't told her anything either, man. No one knows outside the club."

Tig nodded at Jax's words, "Me too. I had a feelin- Clay was just trying to get one last jab at you. But I wasn't gonna let him have it."