Chapter 1:

The roar of a Mustang caught the ear of the men working in the Teller-Morrow Garage. Tig looks up from the car he's working on to see the blood red car parking. He dropped everything he was working on, stepping away.

"Shit," he swore. "Code Red."

Most of the men backed away from what they were working on. They looked around not knowing how to prepare for this incoming attack. It could either turn out good or bad. Whatever was coming, it was usually a battle that they found themselves unprepared for.

Juice walked up to Tig, staring at the woman who got out of the car. "What's a Code Red?"

"Code Red is a term for when major shits about to go down," Tig said with a shudder.

"Who is she?" Juice asks as the woman grows closer.

"That would be my sister," Jax said, coming up to stand next to the two men.

The woman walked closer. Her blondish-brown hair shinning in the sunlight. She wore a black corset and a short skirt. On her arm was the Sons symbol. A few other tattoos scattered her skin, but nothing as prominent as this. Her heeled boots clicked as she walked across the concrete. As soon as her hazel eyes saw her brother, a smile lit up her face.

She wrapped her arms around Jax, kissing his cheek. "Hey, handsome. Seen my dumb ass of a brother around?"

He shook his head, laughing. "Drunk already little sister? It's ten in the morning."

The woman backed away. "Is it? Huh?"

Now that she was closer, Juice could smell the scent of booze on her.

Looking over, she saw him standing there looking her up and down. "Now who is this piece of meat?"

"That's Juice. He just patched in." Jax said. Before she could make a move, but he held her close. "Now, now, Ruby. You're an old lady."

Ruby shook her head. "Yeah, not anymore."

"Oh, shit. What did you do?" he asked.

"Why do you assume it was me that fucked shit up?"

"Because I know you," he replied.

Ruby Teller was trouble. All the Sons knew that. It'd been almost five years since she'd rolled out of town on the back of a brother's bike. She'd become the old lady of the Washington chapter's VP. Since then her appearances in Charming were practically nonexistent. Which was a good thing too. Charming could only handle one Teller woman at a time and it had it's hands full with Gemma.

Gemma walked out of the office to see why no one was working. What she saw was her oldest daughter who was almost as reckless as her son. "Ruby, I didn't know you were coming back in town. How long are you staying?"

"Permanently," Ruby said, offering a smile.

"What happened to Duke?" Gemma asked.

Duke was the VP that Ruby had been involved with. Everyone had thought that someone had finally managed to tame the wild child.

"Out of the picture."

"What'd ya do, shoot his ass?" Gemma questioned.

Ruby grinned. "Two slugs, one in each shoulder."

"Shit, sis. He's a brother." Jax said, running a hand through his hair. "You can't just shoot him 'cause he disagrees with you?"

"Wanna test that theory, Jackson?" Ruby questions, looking up at him.

Sometimes it was hard to believe the two weren't twins. With the exception of her brown hair, they looked almost exactly alike. Whereas Jax's features looked rugged, her's took on a more feminine shape.

Ruby looked older than she was. She was two years younger than Jax. The two had been close growing up. When he became a prospect, he stopped hanging around her. Once that happened, she began to rebel. At first it was trying to hook up with the Sons and crashing parties. Then she got into deeper shit. Wherever she went, trouble followed.

"So where's the bitch?" Ruby asks, looking around the garage. "I assume she's somewhere near since she probably still sucks on your tit, Mom."

"Ruby," Gemma warned, glaring at her daughter.

"Everything all right?" came another female voice.

Alicia Morrow walked out of the office to join her mother. Her dark brown hair was in a pixie cut. The color of her eyes almost matched the shade of her hair. There wasn't a single tattoo on her. A light blue sundress and sandals wasn't as revealing as what her mother and half-sister were wearing.

"Huh, it's like she appears when people think about her." Ruby said, reaching into her brother's pocket to grab his pack of smokes. She lit one up, taking a long drag from it. Blowing the smoke in Alicia's face, she smiles as the younger woman began to cough.

"Smokings bad for you," Alicia said, crossing her arms over her chest.

Ruby just rolled her eyes. "A lot of things are bad for you. Never know what's good unless you try it out first. Then again, you know all about trying things out don't you?"

"That's enough, Ruby." Jax said, stepping in between the two. "You didn't come back just to start up the same old shit."

"Oh, Jax, always the hero. I love ya, brother, but you always tend to back the losing side." Ruby told him. Turning around, she looked at Juice with a grin. Wrapping her arm around his bicep, she dragged him out of the garage. She nodded towards the line up of bikes against the fence. "So tell me which bike is your's, handsome?"

"Third one on the left," he says, proud of his bike. He'd rebuilt it before he'd become a prospect. It's what had landed him a chance to be apart of the sons.

Ruby pressed her lips to the side of his neck. She kissed up and down, sucking a bit. After a moment she pulled away. "See you later, Juicey."

With that she made a dash towards his bike, keys dangling in hand. He stood there, dazed for a minute before he realized what was happening. She'd made it on the bike, starting it up. Juice chased after her as she roared off down the street with his bike.

Tig laughed, coming to slap a hand on his back. "Now you see why she comes with her own warning."

Jax hopped on his bike, racing after her as fast as he could. The rest of the club that was present watched as he chased her. It was best to give the two of them their privacy. Jax was the only one who had ever been any good at handling that ticking time bomb.

"Donna's gonna be pissed." Opie said when Tig and Juice walked back into the garage.

"Why is that, brother?" Happy asks.

"Before Donna and I were together, Ruby and I hooked up. She liked to hold it over my head at all the wrong times. That last time being the day after Donna and I got back from our honeymoon." Opie explained. "With Donna pregnant again, she'll just assume that somethings up. She's sensitive about everything and with that being such a touchy subject, it's gonna be a shit storm."

"Is she really that bad?" Juice asked.

"Let me explain it to ya real easy, Juicey boy." Chibs said. "She's like a pretty present all dressed up looking like a treat. It's not the outside you have to worry about. It's what's on the inside. Inside could be a treat as good as the outside or it could be a bomb. You never know what's gonna happen when you shake the box."

Jax knew exactly where she was going. It was the same spot that she went every time she needed a breather. Outside of town was a small creek that not a lot of people knew about. In one of the trees that stood alongside the creek bed was a treehouse. The door to it claimed it as a Sons of Anarchy dwelling.

He climbed up the tree, going into the tree house. Ruby sat in the middle of the little building, looking out the window at the land around.

"What's going on with you?" Jax asked her. "I know you and Alicia don't get along, but it isn't like you to pick fights this early."

"Shit went down in Washington, Jax." Ruby sighed.

Sitting down in front of her, he made sure that he made eye contact. "Did you really shoot Duke?"

"Found out he was cheating on me," she shrugged. "He'd left his phone in the living room one day when I'd been out shopping for a club event. It started to go off, so I went to go see who was texting him. Turns out it was Alicia with a topless picture. Pissed, I went to go confront him only to find the bastard balls' deep in some sweet butt."

"Fuck," Jax said. He'd thought that Duke was a good guy.

"Yeah, turns out he'd gotten that same sweet butt pregnant. Instead of staying with his old lady, he ditched me for her. Not even sure if it's his kid."

Jax put his arm around his younger sibling. "Anything else happen I should know about?"

Ruby shook her head. "That's it."

"Good. Us Tellers have to stick together."

"Especially since we're in a world full of Morrows."

"Don't be like that, Ruby." he starts.

"One day, you'll see that I'm right about all those fuckin' Morrows." she says, leaning against her big brother.