11 years old...

"Dee, come on." Gage said with a jerk of his head. Adira looked at the sight before her. Her father, of whom she had not seen since she was five, was standing in front of her. You could tell he had been crying, but now was trying to hold himself together. Beside him stood her step mother Janet, her oldest son Bradley was beside her. Then finally it was Adam, the baby holding onto Bradley's hand.

"Gage I do not want anything to do with them!" She hissed narrowing her swollen red eyes.

"I don't care what you want right now! Now we have to go with dad and Janet." He replied getting annoyed with his younger sister's attitude.

Adira huffed blowing her hair out of her face. She didn't have to be happy about any of this. Her mother was dead and her father and his newest wife were now here in her small hometown to move her and her two brothers to the other side of the country. She didn't know why he wanted anything to do with her now, she hadn't heard from him in over 5 years. She didn't know why her Granny and Pop were making her move. All she knew was that tomorrow would be her first day in Charming.

Adira shuffled slowly to her father and her step family, with help of Gage pushing her along and Slade clutching to her hand. He was just a baby when her dad disappeared from their lives. Slade had never actually known their father, so she looked down at her little brother and gave him a small reassuring smile. Ever since their mom died last week he was glued to Adira. He didn't understand why they had to say goodbye to their mom while, as he explained it, said goodbye to her sleeping in a pretty bed.

"Hey Dee, baby." Her father said softly. He had been in town as soon as he got the news that her mother was dead. He still wore the leather on his back with pride. He newest wife looked at her with pity.

"Daddy." She ground out without looking him in the eye. She knew right now she had to be strong. She had Slade to look after, and now she had James. Her little half brother who was two. She just knew she had to hold herself together, at least until she was alone later.

13 years old...

Adira huffed as her father sat across from her at the table with a reaper carved into it. When ever she was in trouble, Clay allowed her dad or Tig to hash it out with her in the chapel. She had grown to absolutely loathe this room. Ever since she moved to Charming she spent a lot of her time at this table with her father and Tig.

Not long after moving to Charming, Adira became sort of a problem child. She would skip school, get into fights, and found every way possible to get in trouble. Her father didn't want her resenting him anymore than she already did, so every now and then Tig would be the one to lecture her and dish out punishment.

Now looking at her father he looked tired, like he didn't know what else to do with her. She knew she was risking a lot of things. Her dance and cheer coach was becoming tired of her behavior by now. The only reason she was still on the team was out of pure talent. She was one of his best and didn't want to lose such a strong member of the team.

They had been sitting in silence for more than ten minutes before he finally spoke. "Dee if you don't stop this shit your competition coach said he would kick you off the team. You have too much talent to just throw away" he sighed.

"Why do you even care? It's not like you cared the five years before mom died! You never called, you never visited! You don't get to care!" She screamed pushing herself up from the table.

"Adira Elizabeth you sit your ass down and listen to me." Her father said through gritted teeth. She scowled but obliged to his request.

"What I am about to say, don't let it change your view of your mother. That woman loved you with all her heart." He said looking at her with dead eyes. "Your mother kept me out of your life. I can't say I really blame her though. This life isn't easy and it can be dangerous. That's why she left, was to protect you. She thought the best way to do that was to cut me completely out of your kids lives. It breaks my heart knowing I missed five very important years of you guys lives but I'm here now. Just know that I loved your mother, I always did. She was the one that got away and that I never stopped loving." He finished as he stared at Adira who was staring at the table.

"I'm sorry." She whispered folding her hands in her lap, not daring to look up. She thought if she did, she would loose control of her emotions

.

"I get why you have been mad at me, but Dee, give me a chance here. I want to see you excel in life. I'm hard on you because you have talent and intelligence that not many people are blessed with having." He sighed running a hand over his face. "Now you're grounded for three months. After school you are helping Gem in the office. No TV unless you are watching it with me. Also no going out with friends or any of that. You focus on school and dance for the next three months you hear me?" He said eyeing her.

"Yes daddy, I hear you." She huffed rolling her eyes. Her father couldn't help but chuckle. She was exactly like her mother.

16 years old...

A black Mustang came screeching into the parking lot before coming to a stop in its regular parking space. They guys in the garage watched at the driver of the car jumped out with her long blonde hair billowing out behind her. If there was one thing they guys knew other than not to cross Gemma when she was in a mood, was not to cross Adira.

Chibs and Jax chuckled seeing the girl storm to the office. Jax had become a brother to her and Chibs like an uncle. They had seen many of her tantrums over the years. She hated being followed and both of them knew she was in a tizzy because her father had ordered her to be with a patch or one of her brothers at all times. Daryl didn't take chances with her, even her half sister Brooke had a patch on her, and she lived with her mother. Kate understood why Daryl put a patch on Brooke, she knew he wanted his girl safe. Even if her banker husband wasn't thrilled about it.

"Gem!" She screeched as she made her way to the office. Before she could even reach the door two motorcycles came tearing in. Bradley and Gage looked none the happy wearing an expression that matched Adira's.

"Jesus Christ what is the damn racket out here?" Gemma yelled as she came storming out of the office. She held her hand over her eyes to shade them from the impending California sun.

"Please tell me that dad is joking." Adira bit as she got closer to Gemma. "I don't know what his reasoning is to send Thing One and Thing Two to stalk me but they need to back off. I mean seriously now, they're prospects! Do something about them before you're two prospects short Clay!" She screeched storming into the office as Clay joined his wife.

The two step brothers approached Gemma with sheepish looks. Gemma just raised her eye brow at the two waiting for an explanation. By this time most of the guys had taken a smoke break and was watching the scene in front of them.

"Gem you know how she is. She's a freaking hurricane when she's mad. All we did was tell her that dad requested us to stay with her right now due to circumstances." Gage sighed, shrinking under Gemma's stare.

"So you went and pissed princess off because you told her she needed a patch or y'all with her at all times?" Gemma smirked throwing a hand to her hip shaking her head.

"Gem that girl is positively insane." Bradley grumbled before making his way to the club house. Gemma just shook her head as she walked into the office behind Adira.

If there was one thing Gemma knew, it was that Adira was a force to be reckoned with. While she had calmed over the last six years she had been in Charming, she still had a temper on her. Everyone called her a "mini Gemma" due to her personality. Adira liked Janet, but they weren't close like her and Gemma were.

Janet and Adira never clicked. Adira never clicked with her half sister's mother, Kate, either. Although Brooklyn was another story, she took to her big sister right away. Despite Kate being remarried to some banker now, she loved that Brooklyn and Adira were close. While Brooke was eight years younger than Adira they were as close as they could be. When she first moved to Charming Kate had Adira babysit Brooklyn. It became a regular occurrence and now Brooklyn was just as talented in dancing as her older sister. Adira was also the assistant coach to the dance and cheer team Brooklyn was on.

18 years old...

Gemma huffed as she made sure everything was perfect at the house. Today they were celebrating Adira graduating high school and landing a contract with a dance company out of San Fransisco. Gemma wanted to make sure everything was perfect for her. She knew that once Adira moved to San Fransisco for dance she wouldn't be around much.

Gemma helped her look into the company and it was well respected. They traveled a lot, though. Not just in the US, sometimes they went to Europe and South America as well. Gemma knew this was a huge opportunity for Adira so she hid her feelings and planned the party.

"Hap!" Gemma yelled from the back yard. Tacoma had sent Happy down to help out with a Mayan problem. Right now he wasn't needed so she had given him and Kozick the job of helping her set up.

"Yeah Gem?" He asked wiping his hands on his jeans. "When Dee gets here keep her occupied please. I have to finish up a few things for her, since Clay went and pulled all my damn help on what ever mission it is that he's on." She frowned.

Happy just nodded his head. He hadn't seen much of the blonde teenager over the years. It seemed like every time he was in town she was busy with school, dance, music, or something else she apparently was amazing at. He knew she was Daryl's daughter, and that Gage and Bradley were her brothers, but that was it.

Before he could even get lost in his train of thought her Mustang pulled into the driveway of the Teller-Morrow house with beat up truck pulling in right behind. He looked out the window to see a very irate girl slamming the door of her Mustang as she made hand gestures to the guy getting out of the truck. Happy made his way out to the porch to make sure she was okay, he wasn't going to get involved in what ever drama she had unless he had to.

"Damnit Sean I told you we were done! I told you I didn't want you here! Why can't you just fucking listen!?" She screamed as he walked up to her and looked down at her with his arms crossed.

"Why can't you understand the way I feel about you? Just because you're moving to San Fransisco to dance doesn't mean we have to break up." He replied indignantly.

"I don't want to be tied down to anyone but my family when I leave here Sean. I don't want to have to worry if my boyfriend is cheating on me while I'm performing. I don't need that distraction. My dancing is everything and comes FIRST in MY LIFE. The ONLY thing that ranks the same as my dancing in my life is my family. And YOU are not family Sean. Now go home, go where ever, and find yourself some skank and screw her brains out. You didn't have a problem doing that a month ago when I told you I was leaving. So you know what, go fuck yourself!" She yelled turning her back to him.

Before she even had a chance to storm off Sean grabbed her roughly by the arm. Now Happy was paying attention, the last thing he needed was Gemma crawling up his ass because some little shit boyfriend of the princess hurt her.

"Let me go." She said lowly before cutting her eyes to the movement she noticed on Gemma's porch. She internally let out a sigh of relief to see a Son there, watching her, even if she didn't recognize him.

"We are going to talk Dee." Sean ground out gripping her arm tighter. This was part of the reason she was leaving Sean, he was a controlling prick who had a temper. She just hadn't seen it until she told him she was leaving.

"Sean, you're hurting me." She whined trying to pull from his grasp. She wiggled and squirmed for a few minutes before looking back to the porch to see the Son already half way to her and Sean.

"Let the girl go." Happy said with a deadly tone laced in his voice. The kid looked at Happy with his eyes narrowed before letting go and squaring his shoulders to Happy. Which in itself was utterly hilarious. Happy had a good 8 inches taller than Sean and a lot bigger by muscle mass alone.

"What is it any of your business of what I do with my girlfriend?" Sean sneered, unmoved by the murderous look on Happy's face.

"I very clearly heard her ask you to leave. I heard her when she said you were hurting her. Now I don't give a damn who you are you little shit but if you do not get the fuck out of here now, you aren't going to like what happens." Happy said darkly as he stepped closer to Sean, bringing himself to his full height.

Sean look at Happy and then back to Adira before letting out a snort and getting back in his truck before tearing from the house like a bat out of hell.

"Thank you." Said a small voice behind Happy. When he turned around he saw Adira standing there, hand on the place Sean had been gripping. Her head was turned down and she didn't dare look at him.

"That little shit bothers you again, you let me know. I'll set his ass straight." He rasped stepping over to her and gently grabbing her arm to make sure she wasn't hurt.

Adira looked up at him through her lashes. She had met this Son a couple of times, but she couldn't remember his name. This was the most they had ever interacted and she felt awkward standing there as he examined her like she would break under his touch.

"I'll be sure to do that. I don't remember your name, I know I've met you before in passing." Adira said softly as he let her arm go.

"Happy." He grunted releasing her arm. At the same moment two motorcycles pulled to the curb. When Happy looked over he saw Bradley and Gage. He looked back down at Adira who had a huge smile on her face at seeing her brothers. She ran over to them, but not before she briefly glanced back at him giving him a small appreciative smile.

20 years old...

"I am so nervous right now Dee it's not even funny." Melanie said sitting beside Adira at the makeup table.

"Mel you will be fine. Trust me. You're an amazing dancer. Don't let the nerves get to you." Adira smiled at the younger new girl in the company. Mel was much like Adira, she signed with the company right out of high school. She was new to the professional dance scene but she had major talent.

"Miss Baudin, you have a visitor. Says he's a friend of your family. Some scary looking tattooed guy." Kyle, the production manager, said sticking his head in the dressing room. Adira looked at him then back to Melanie before shrugging her shoulders and getting up to follow Kyle.

Adira followed Kyle to a small outside area behind the theatre. They had been told if they needed fresh air between shows that this was a place they could go. As Adira looked around the small area that looked like a garden she saw a back with a cut on it, the reaper staring at her. A small smirk formed as she realized who her "scary" visitor was. Standing in front of her looking extremely out of place was Happy Lowman.

"Excuse me sir, here she is." Kyle said clearing his throat to gain the large mans attention. Happy turned around and gave Kyle a hard glare that sent him scampering off before looking at Adira.

"What are you doing here Hap?" she asked as he walked over to her. He stood towering over her, not saying anything before grabbing her hand and leading her to a bench that was near by.

"You dad told me you were performing in Seattle a few weeks ago, gave me a ticket and told me to check on you." He rasped as she sat down on the bench.

"Hap I saw you like three weeks ago when you were down to see your ma. What has dad so wound up he sent you to see me perform?" She asked with a small giggle as he cut his eyes to her. Adira carefully lowered herself to the bench being mindful of her costume.

Ever since she moved to San Fransisco her father had tasked Happy with checking in on her when he came down from Tacoma to see his mom and to stop and check on her when he headed back.

"You know how your dad is about his girls." He snorted as he leaned forward resting his forearms on his knees.

"Hap if you wanted to see me, all you had to do was call." She teased lightly pushing his shoulder.

"All dancers need to be in place in 5 minutes." She heard the outside speakers crackle. She knew she needed to head back in.

"I'll find you when you get done, go do your job." He rasped standing up and holding a hand out to Adira.

"You're actually staying to watch the show?" Adira asked raising a perfectly manicured brow.

"Stop asking questions and go dance. We'll talk later." He replied with finality in his tone. He looked down at the small blonde in front of him all dressed in her costume. He couldn't lie, she was absolutely gorgeous. Although he preferred her when she wasn't all done up with the layers of makeup she had to wear on stage.

"Okay Hap, I'll see you later." She smiled before squeezing his hand and running off. He sighed as he went to go find his seat in the audience.