A/N- I KNOW ITS BEEN FOREVER! PLEASE FORGIVE ME!

Jax strapped on his holster and smiled at Beth in the mirror as she lay in bed watching him. "So you're going on a charity run?" Beth asked him.

Jax walked over and kissed her deeply before sitting next to her. "How much do you want to know?"

Beth stared at him. The past two months, she had learned more about SAMCRO than the 6 months prior that she and Jax had been together.

"Enough." She said.

"We're going to defuse some shit with a club the Mayans are thinking about patching over. They've been giving the Grim Bastards shit, and it's time for it to stop."

"Alright." Beth said, quickly digesting the information.

"Sack's gonna be staying with you until all this is done, don't pull a Gemma, just let the poor kid do his job."

"That's no fun." She pouted.

Jax rolled his eyes and chuckled at her. "Be good." He said, kissing her forehead. His hand trailed down to her shoulder blade, where her dove tattoo was. "I think your bird needs some company."

"What did you have in mind?"

"A crow…" He said nonchalantly.

Beth grinned at him. From what Lyla and Gemma had told her, a crow was like… a promise ring. It was a big step. "Yeah, that would be ok."

"We can get Happy to do it when we get back ok?" Jax said, suddenly very excited.

"Yeah. Sounds good." She said, chuckling at his happy reaction.

"Be safe." He said, kissing her again.

"Be safe." She parroted, squeezing his hand.

SOASOASOA

Bethany finished locking up the shelter and laughed at Kip, who looked miserable sitting on his bike and smoking a cigarette. "You could've come in, played with the puppies." She said in an enticing tone.

"Jax said all business. Puppies aren't business."Half Sack said.

"But they're so cute." She teased.

Sack smirked at her, but she could tell he really wanted to go see the dogs; he always enjoyed spending time at the shelter. "Maybe you'll need help fixing a cage or something tomorrow?" He offered.

Beth smiled, "Yeah, I'm almost positive there's something that only a big bad biker could do."

They both narrowed their eyes at a red sedan that pulled into the parking lot, stopping at the opposite end of the lot, and Kip stood in front of Beth. He relaxed and took his hand off his gun when a young woman stepped out of the car and walked towards them.

"I'm sorry, I'm so turned around. Can one of you tell me how to get back to the highway?" The woman asked, looking exasperated.

Beth let out a breath, and gave the woman directions, feeling silly for being on edge.

The woman looked Beth over and smiled. "Don't I know you?"

Beth tried to place the girl, but couldn't remember seeing her anywhere.

"Yeah, aren't you Jax Teller's girl?" She said enthusiastically.

"Yes…" Beth said warily.

Before Beth or Kip could react the woman pulled out a gun, pointing it at Beth. Both put their hands up in reaction, their eyes widening. A Hispanic man stepped out of the car running up to them, also pointing a gun.

"Son of a bitch… Salazar." Kip said under his breath.

"Who?" Beth asked.

"Calaveras prez. He's supposed to be meeting with the Mayans and the Sons on the run right now."Kip told her quickly before Salazar reached them.

"What do you want to do baby?" The woman asked Salazar.

He looked at the two with their hands up in front of him. "Take them both. An old lady and a prospect will help our negotiations." He told her. "Get the girl." He told his old lady, who grabbed Beth roughly, jabbing the gun into Beth's back. "Hey punk, give me your piece." He growled at Half Sack, who pulled the gun out of its holster begrudgingly. He thought about taking a shot at Salazar, but there was no way he could without Beth getting hit by Salazar's old lady.

The two SAMCRO prisoners marched to the sedan, and Half Sack was shoved in the trunk, while Beth was blindfolded and pushed into the backseat.

SOASOASOA

Salazar drove all night to make it to his meeting with the Mayans and SAMCRO in the morning. He left the three men watching the 'bargaining chips' strict instructions not to get too rough, but have some fun, and not to get off with Teller's old lady. The last thing he needed was Teller on a rampage, if he decided to retaliate… well he couldn't imagine a piece of shit SAMCRO touching his girl. All he needed was for his club to patch over into the Mayans, and SAMCRO agreeing to letting them run H through Charming was the sure fire way to get it.

The meeting came quickly, far enough away from SAMCRO, Calaveras, and Mayan territory, so that no one had the upper hand. Clay, Jax, Tig, Bobby, Opie, and Happy sat with the higher ups from the other two clubs, waiting for someone to throw an idea on the table.

"Would getting a deal to run our product through Charming get the Calaveras a Mayan patch?" Salazar asked Alvarez.

"That's never going to happen." Clay interrupted.

"Would it?" Salazar insisted.

Alvarez thought for a minute, and nodded. "Yeah I suppose so."

"Can you give me a minute with the Charming boys then?" Salazar asked the Mayan president.

Alvarez narrowed his eyes, but nodded and took the Mayans out, leaving just SAMCRO and the Calaveras.

"What's your angle slug?" Jackson asked Salazar.

"A trade. Something that you really… really want, for our safe passage." Salazar.

"And what do you have that we would want?" Clay asked.

"Maybe some really good burritos?" Tig asked with a laugh.

"Nah, ese. Your old lady." He said, looking at Jackson.

Jax's eyes blackened and his mouth set into a thin line. "Excuse me?"

"Calm down Jax, Sack's watching her, he would've called." Bobby reassured him.

"Oh we have him too." Salazar's VP added.

"They're relatively fine. For now. Your club agrees to our deal, I tell my boys to take them back to Charming." Salazar said.

Jax looked about two steps away from his head exploding. "I want to talk to her."

"She's fine, gringo." A Calavera assured him.

"I WANT TO TALK TO HER!" he screamed.

"Fine, fine. Then we talk. And remember, no deal, no old lady, no prospect." Salazar said, pulling out his phone stepping away from the group and calling the house the hostages were being held.

"Salazar, man… this is bad."The voice on the other end said.

"What do you mean this is bad? It can't be bad! All you had to do was watch them!"Salazar hissed into the phone.

"We fucked up man… it's bad…"

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