Heart In Chains
Sadie Stone ran away from her abussive husband, taking her children along, hoping for a fresh start . When she arrives to Nashville she recieves help from one of the most unlikely person in the world. Country superstar Luke Wheeler, what happened after that she couldn't believe. AU. Sadie/Luke.
Luke and Sadie goodness, why do I do this to myself?
Don't own anything
Chapter 1: She didn't have time
Sadie glanced back to her review mirror. Expecting to see a green truck following them, instead she saw two small bodies sound sleep. She turned to her right to check on Katie, she wasn't sleep but she wasn't looking at her either. She was staring beyond her, away from the window, wishing she could erase the memories of what had happened to her tonite.
Katie had just arrived home from school, late from her choir practice. Her mother was in the kitchen getting dinner ready and she of course offered to help. Her daddy was nowhere to be foud. He was probably still at work or gettin' his ass drunk somewhere as usual.
"So my teacher said I could finally play the lead in the school musical this year." Katie told her mother.
"That's wonderful sweetie, It took them long enough..."
"That's what I said!" Katie huffed. "No one aprecciates real talent, not even when it's slappin' them right in the face..But I guess not all of us can be Juliette Barnes. She's so lucky to have been discovered and all..."
"It ain't that simple though, trust me, I know." Sadie said, her fingers focus on mixing ingredients in the bowl. She smiled at her child's excitment though, it'd been a while since something this good happened to them, they needed some good news.
"Did you hear about Jude St. Jones beig with Luke Wheeler?" Katie asked suddenly, shifting the subject because she knew her mom would get sad of thinking about how she couldn't make it out of Virginia and be a star.
"What? Wasn't he dating Rayna James?"
"Mom, seriously that was like ages ago, they didn't even get married..."
"Oh." Sadie rolled her eyes.
"And then he had like this, Taylor Swift moment like song and threw a party at his house where everyone could just go, would you imagine what that would be like, being in a Luke Wheeler concert?" Katie went on. "But she was right to leave him. I Know she still loves that Deacon guy from her band, the one who had Cancer..."
"How is it that you know all of this but your grades don't improve, I swear girl what you could do with that memory of yours..."Katie rolled her eyes at her. Her 14 year old was too much of a handle sometimes.
She'd married Pete because she had been pregnant. There was no lie about that, she'd been 16 and her very conservative family wanted her to have a future but she had gone on and gotten herself pregnant, not by the school quarterback, but by a deadbeat good for nothn' guy who wasn't worthy of her.
Still, she married him and they had a baby, at first, Sadie thought they could really make it work, but as months went by, Sadie noticed Pete had began to change a lot. He'd become easily irritated and annoyed. He'd yell at her for no aparent reason and she would take so it wouldn't scalate.
Then after the baby was born, he was fine once more and Sadie thought maybe becoming a father would help Pete to remain focused but he seemed to resent his life even more, he resented the fact he'd become a father and now he was stuck with her forever.
Still, years went by and she and Pete got by, raising their kid the best they could. he tried to be a good dad, for the most part, he almost always was, when he was around, and when he wasn't, Sadie sometimes hoped he'd never come back.
But he did, and he became a father to two other kids.
"Speaking of which, would you be so kind as to check on you know who? make surre he'd not gotten distracted?"
"And go do my homework?"
"And go do you your homework" Sadie smiled as she heard Katie drag her feet along the hallway. She opened the door slowly, only to reveal her two little brothers, one was sleeping while the other was watching TV quietly, he ingnored as she came in but as soon as she took away his enterteiment he groaned
"Hey!"
"Mama said you should be doing your homework..." Katie told hIm. Sawyer rolled her eyes at her.
"What mama don't know it's that I already finished mine." He told her.
"Did you now?" Sawyer nodded, "May I see it then?"
"What for?" He inquired. "Are you school patrol or somethin'?"
"Or something... you better be doing your homework when mama comes in here or she won't be happy."
Then they heard the sound of Pete's truck parking in the front. And Sawyer's playfull smirk whiped off almost instantly. He let the TV off and sat on his small desk.
Katie went back outside, closing the door behind her.
It didn't take her long though to see Pete was drunk and he didn't want nothing to do with them, he just wanted more beer.
Katie shared a look with her mama as she moved to her own room.
It wasn't long after she'd locked the door she began to hear the shouting. Another vase or somethin' breaking. She closed her eyes, sitting on her bed.
Then she heard Sadie scream. She bolted out of the room just to see her mama on the ground, she was protecting her side as Pete took her anger at her, but now he had noticed her and Katie begged for him to just turn away and go to his room.
But today was a bad day and he had wasted no time to show her that.
Their life had been like that forever and she was used to it, but when Sadie woke her up late at night, she knew something really bad had happened, and then she saw it, the bruises, and cuts and... Sadie tried to keep calm as quiet as she packed just as much as she could carry. Her mama had told her they were going on a trip. So she packed the kids and drove away in her beat up van, Katie prayed her daddy wouldn't notice they were gone until it was too late as this wasn't the first time they'd taken this sort of trips.
But tonite something in her mama's eyes told her something had been different, as different as to make her run away, with basically everything they had on them and nothing much left. She had carried a sleeping Sawyer to the car and he'd asked what was happening but she just said they were gonna go drivin'
And driving they went. Sadie was afraid to stop in case Pete may be following them, but as morning came they were still a long way from Nashville.
"Mama? Is it mornin'?" Came Sawyer's drowsy voice.
"Not quite yet sweetie. Go back to sleep..." Sadie said kindly.
"But...I really have to go..." Sawyer said biting his lip, and Sadie knew he meant it. So she scanned the road for a gas station. And parked.
"Is this Nashville yet?" Katie asked as she stirred in her seat as soon as Sadie parked.
"No, honey listen I need you to stay in the car for a sec while I take your brother to the bathroom..."
"Ok" Katie said with a weak smile. Sadie turned to her mirror to put on some cover on make up and glases and opened the gloves compartment to take out some money.
She opened the door for her small son and led him inside, Katie sighed as she stared on herself in the mirror, she was stil wearing her pijamas and her hair was a mess. She sighed as she felt her stomach grumbling. She took a granola bar from the brown bag her mom awlays carried in the back of the van and ate. She glanced back to see if Rory had woken up but he was still sleeping, so blisfully unaware of how much he'd missed and she was thankful for that.
"Mama? Where we going again?" Sawyer asked Sadie as he washed his hands.
"A magical place honey." She said simply.
"Oh" He said Sadie sighed, fighting the tears as she nodded her head and led Sawyer trough the store, buying herself a coffee and some kind of breakfast for the kids.
When she came outside, she hadn't noticed the giant tour bus that had come to make a pits stop. Swyer let go off her hand as he noticed the bus and she groaned in pain, trailing behind him quickly.
Katie eyes couldn't believe what she was seeing . A Wheels Up tour bus had come to a stop in the same place where she was. In her car, in her pijamas.
Someone swallow her now. Or better yet, give her glasses because she thought she saw her little brother running up to it, with Sadie following close behind.
As fast as she was runnin' she wasn't suure she could catch up to her son before he could reach the bus, and she was holding her coffee and bag in one hand.
She hadn't noticed him coming her way as she focused her eyes on not droping her coffee as she chased her kid. But she was quickly met by his broad chest, making her drop everything.
"I'm sorry..."
"No, I'm..." Sadie looked up to be met by some of the most beautiful blue eyes she'd ever seen.
She'd seen those eyes before.
"You alright miss? Sorry, I was lookin' where I was goin' " Luke said with a smile. Luke Wheeler stood in front of her and... "Here," He handed her the brown bag. "Whatever is in here seems okay, but I am sorry to say, can't count on the coffee."
"That's alright" Sadie said as she accepted the bag.
"No, please let me buy you another one, it was my fault you dropped it." Luke offered kindly.
"No, it's not really necesary." Sadie insisted.
"Hey Luke, there's some kid in here!" Someone called after them. Sadie froze.
"Of course there is Waylon, that's Colt!" Luke said turnin' his head.
"Nah, I don't remember Colt bein' this small..." Waylon said.
Luke turned to Sadie. "Excuse me..." He turned back towards the bus, Sadie wanted to cry. Luke was going to realize there was indeed a kid 'in there and he belonged to her.
Luke noticed the look on Waylon's face as his boss approached the steps once more. "That ain't Colt is he?"
He then noticed the little boy with dirty blonde curly hair as he hid under a seat. Waylon's seat.
"Hey there, you a robber?" Luke asked the little boy as he peeked under the seat. He knew he wasn't meant to be talking to strangers but he had been the one who had sneaked inside so he figured he best make his escape before his mama got mad at him.
"No sir." Sawyer said. "I ain't no robber, name is Sawyer."
"Well no robber Sawyer." Luke said. "If you ain't doing anything wrong, why you hidin'?"
"Just wanted to look at the guitars." Sawyer said. Luke and Waylon shared a glance.
"How do you want to that if you're under there?" the litle boy shrugged. "Come out and we can talk." Sawyer bit his lip but in the end agreed, accepting Waylon's hand as he crawled out. Luke noticed he had only a pair of sleepers and a BuzzLightYear pijama on. "See, it's better this way huh?"
Sawyer nodded. "Mama..." Luke turned around to see the lady with the coffee and sweets behind him. "Mama, he's got guitars!" Sawyer told Sadie with a wide grin.
"Mama?" Luke repeated. "He belongs to you I take it?"
"I'm so sorry, Mr. Wheeler, he just...Sawyer James, you come down right this second..." Sawyer stood next to Luke and smiled as he did what he was told. Luke watched as Sadie took the little boy away by the hand.
"Hey wait up!" Luke told them. "He can still look at the guitars if he wants, there is no harm in that, take it as an apology for makin' you drop your coffee."
"Can I mommy? Can I?" Sadie sighed. They really couldn't stay here any longer if they wanted to make it to Nashville before Pete could.
"No, thank you but... we must be on our way, we still got a long way to go." Sadie told Luke.
"Nashville huh?" Luke said. "No wonder your boy likes guitars, you a singer?"
"No, not..."
"She plays guitar, though she doesn't have hers cause we left it at home, but she plays and sings too." Sawyer let out, which made Luke smile.
"How does a singer leave her guitar behind?" Luke asked.
"You don't... we should really go..." She turned to her car and dragged Sawyer without another word. Luke watched her walk away. He didn't really mean to offend her.
"Mom! Do you realize who you were talking to just now?" Katie told her. "Oh my god and Sawyer... what did you see?"
"He's got guitars and his bus is bigger than our house!" Sawyer told her sister. Sadie told both kids off as her head was killing her. She was about to go when someone knocked on her window. Katie's eyes widened as her mother lowered her window. "Here ya go, I hope you still needed since it's a long way to Nashville."
"Thank you. You really didn't have to."
"Don't mention it. You'all have a safe drive now... Oh and little mister no robber?" Katie saw Sawyer's head turn. "I'll take a raincheck on that guitar showin' , if your mama is as good as you say she is, she might need a new one."
Oh no! What did I just do? What did you think? I need more Sadie and Luke in my life.. can't wait for the new season, praying for Laura to come back! Thanks for reading and don't forget to review!
