Disclaimer: I don't own the casts of Sons of Anarchy or Criminal Minds, they belong to their respective creators. I do however own the band Space Monkey and it's members. I also own the character Kali Teller and any other that you don't recognise.

Title: The Wild Ride

Created: 2011

Chapter 01: Before The Storm

Late in the middle of the night Kali Teller stood leaning against a random hotel wall. She had travelled across the country-side so many times that she had lost count. She had ran so far from her family but also so close to them at the same time. Her friends didn't know of her past and she had wanted to keep it that was for as long as she could, that all changes when she's made to return home.

"Why does waiting seem to take forever?" Anna asked as she sat cross-legged in the hall way of their hotel. She'd forgotten the key (locked it in the room when they left earlier in the day), and they were waiting for their friends to turn up with the hotel staff, or a new key.

"Because it does?" Kali replied, she knew that it wasn't really the answer that Anna had been looking for. "Because we're talking about the boys? Boys who get stopped everywhere."

"They didn't all have to go back down!" Anna laughed, leaning against the wall as she looked at Kali who rolled her eyes.

"They didn't? But you told them ALL to go back and not come back without the staff," Kali said as she sat on the floor next to Anna as her phone rang. Kali pulled out her phone and looked at the caller ID, pressing the green phone. "Jax?"

'Kal are you free to talk?' Jax Teller questioned, Kali was his baby sister and currently with her boyfriends band.

"I will be in just a minute, we're kind of locked out of our hotel room," Kali answered, Jax was in the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, or SAMCRO, and it wasn't often that he called his sister asking if she was free to talk.

'Okay, well don't say anything. Just listen,' Jax spoke quickly as he was in a huff, his infant son had just been taken and he wanted him back. 'Abel's gone,'

"What, give me two shakes of a tail feather," Kali put her hand over the mouth piece and looked towards Anna. "Annie, I have to take this, I'll be back in a couple of minutes," Kali stood up and walked down the hallway away from Anna. "Jax what happened?"

'The Irish bastard – from the True I.R.A' Jax said taking a deep breath, and looking to their father Clay and his best friend Opie. 'Killed Half-Sack, who was trying to protect him and Tara,'

"I'm coming home. He's not going to get away with it big brother. Tell dad that his little girl's coming home, and Jax we'll get him back," Kali told him, she had a feeling that it was what he wanted to hear.

'How soon will you be home?' Jax questioned, it was what he wanted to hear. Clay looked at him as if to say you're talking to your sister.

"Soon, I have things to clear up here first," Kali told him before adding. "I'll be home tomorrow, I'm like an hour away..." she said as she started to walk back to he friend. "Do you think one of the guys could maybe come get me? I don't feel like sitting on a train for X amount of time,"

'I'll go, where is she?' Opie could be heard asking in the background.

"Tell him I'll meet him at the gas station on the corner of Shank and Hill Road in Sacramento, it's on the outside not far from Charming," Kali paused remembering that it was at least an hour maybe a little less from Charming. "Maybe a little less than an hour, either way Opie should know where to go,"

'He wants to know what hotel you're at and he'll get you from it,' Jax said quickly, at least talking to her was slightly taking his mind off of thinking about where Abel could be.

"Fine, I'm staying at the Reddux, I'll meet him in the foyer at say eleven tomorrow morning," Kali said as she had Sam wrapping his arms tightly around her waist and resting his head on her shoulder.

'I'll tell him, and thanks kiddo. I miss you,' Jax said, he hadn't called her kiddo in a long time,

"It's alright, I miss you too. I'll see you tomorrow," she said as her body relaxed in Sam's arms. "Bye Jax,"

'Bye Kal, see you tomorrow,' Jax sighed, hanging up the phone and shoving it almost carelessly in his pocket.

Sam spun Kali around to face him, he knew a little about her family but not a great deal. He knew that she had, had two brothers and that one of them had died when they were kids. Her brother Tommy had died when he was six years old, he was a little less than twenty-four months younger than her. Her bother Jax was four years older than her and had always looked out for her.

"I have to go home, not our home...but my home. The home I grew up in," Kali said biting her lip as she looked at him, meanwhile Peter had managed to get there room keys and opened the doors.

"When do you leave?" Sam questioned, stilling her in the eyes as the others went into their rooms. Peter handing the key to Kali.

"Not till eleven tomorrow, I told Jax that I had things that I had to do before I left," she paused smiling at him. "I can't tell you why I have to go, cause it may or may not have some illegal activities happen...and I don't want you getting caught up in it,"

"Illegal activities?" he queried, raising his eyebrow as they realised that they were the only ones in the hallway.

"Don't ask, please. It's safer if you don't know. Trust me, it's how my brother protected me when there was things that he didn't want me knowing about," Kali told him remembering how when she had been questioned about things her family had done, her and her mother had said nothing so as to not implicate themselves. "Sam, there is always going to be things that you don't know about me. I'm sorry but it has to stay that way if you want to stay alive,"

Kali looked at Sam and prayed that he understood what she was getting at. There was things in her life that had to stay quiet. Like her involvement in SAMCRO she was the only female aside from her mother that had active roles in what happened with in the club. She often sat in on 'church' meetings as they were called but hadn't since she left Charming, when she was twenty-one, though she returned every year for Christmas.