Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Sons of Anarchy, they belong to the genius Kurt Sutter and FX! Only the OC's belong to me.

(Set after season 3 and before/during season 4)

Alyssa O'Donnell walked out of the ATF Oakland field offices building excited, yet a little apprehensive about her first assignment. She requested transfer from the New York offices for this exact assignment, but now that she was briefed and ready to begin she couldn't help but kick herself for ever leaving New York.

Alyssa was fresh out of school and after interning with the ATF her senior year of college, they offered her a job as an agent, provided she completed her training. She knew she wanted to be an agent after her first day of her internship and worked hard all year to get in the physical shape required and studied diligently to pass the written tests. Thankfully all of her hard work paid off and she was at the top of the recruits that year.

During her one-year probationary period, she received a lot of brash and cross remarks from the other male recruits on the job. They all knew that she scored very high on her tests and some didn't like being upstaged by a woman. A lot of it was meant in jest, because deep down she knew that most of them would take a bullet for her, but she couldn't help but want to prove herself to them. Which is exactly what landed her here in Oakland, CA.

When the position opened up for a young female agent to go undercover to infiltrate an outlaw motorcycle club, she immediately sent in her request without thoroughly thinking it through. She knew that if she was accepted the guys would no longer be able to give her any qualms about her ability as a field agent. As much as she wanted to prove it to herself, she wanted to prove it to them more, so once her request was granted, she took the job and was on a plane to California in less than two weeks.

If she had taken the time to actually think it through, she would have come to the conclusion that a 24-year-old female with no actual experience in being alone in the field, much less undercover, should not take this as her first assignment. Sure, during her probationary period she worked several cases, and even made arrests, but all of those were done with senior agents right next to her able to step in and take over if needed. She excelled during her probationary period, which is why, she thought, that she was granted this position in the first place. If her senior field agent had given any indication that she could not do this job to their superiors, then she would not be on her way to Charming, CA right now.

She had heard the rumors of Agent Stahl and her brutal murder, and also that no one was ever prosecuted for it. Other rumors swirled around the offices about who did it, some believed it was the Irish Kings and others believed it was members of the Sons of Anarchy. A few others even said they heard that she had it coming. Either way, Alyssa wasn't too worried about that happening to her. She knew what people said about Stahl and her personality. Alyssa was nothing like Stahl and she wasn't going to go about her investigation the way Stahl would have. Alyssa was going undercover and now that her new background identity was set up, no one would even suspect anything.

The ATF already had a lot of information on the Sons of Anarchy motorcycle club, all Alyssa had to do was get close to a member or friend of the club and relay any information she had. There was no specific objective for her, anything she overheard, saw, or was told could only add to the case the ATF already had. The agency didn't want to risk losing another agent, so putting her in to actually get information out of them was a bad idea. Basically she was meant to be eyes and ears, but not a tool meant to influence anything.

Once inside her new apartment, she looked around the rooms to see how the agency had decorated it for her. There was nothing ostentatious about it. A plain brown couch sat in the living room facing an old looking television that she wished was a flat screen. There was an ugly green reclining chair in the corner next to an end table with a lamp on it. Beige carpeting was laid out in every room besides the bathroom and kitchen, which had ugly yellow tile. Her bedroom had a double bed, a dresser with a mirror connected to it, and an end table with two drawers. There was an empty small spare room that would be good for storage; because another bed would clearly not fit in it it was so small. Other than that, it was pretty basic and meant to set off the idea that she wasn't well off, all she could afford was what she had, and that wasn't much by the looks of this apartment.

This job was only meant to last six months, a year at the most. All she had to do was get close to the club and get whatever information she could. The apartment didn't have to be anything other than what it was. She knew it was better looking like this so she didn't get attached to this town. She was told to only bring two bags of luggage with her, mostly clothes. She knew better than to bring any mementos or anything to make her feel at home, because this wasn't home. It was just a place where her current job was located. The people that she was going to meet and deceive weren't her friends, they were just part of the job.

So I recently fell in love with Sons of Anarchy and just watched seasons 1-3 on netflix and then watched season 4 on the computer, and I'm proud to say I'm addicted! I decided to write a story to pass the time until season 5 gets here. This will be my first story that I've written and I hope I can do a good job and do justice to the SOA characters. There might be some OOC at times, but bear with me, I'm trying! If you guys like it I will continue the story… thanks for reading!

-Jade