Trouble! – Chapter 20 – New Haven
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Lily's POV
"Wake up, sunshine." Someone slapped me across the face and I jerked back to life with a groan, silently cursing the piece of thick fabric covering my eyes.
My head hurt like I'd been run over by a semi and my bruised cheek was thumping. God why had I been out of fighting for so long? I wasn't used to pain anymore!
"How's your head feeling?" It was the voice of same person who was in my house and there was something familiar about it.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" I chuckled as another blow was delivered to my face, this time a closed fist and I spit out the blood that pooled up in my mouth at the contact.
The footsteps echoing against what sounded like stonewalls told me that my captor was walking around the chair I was tied up to. I could literally feel his hungry eyes over my cold body and once he stopped in front of me I knew where I'd felt like this before.
"Kyle... Kyle Hobart." I mumbled and was rewarded with another blow, this time to my stomach.
"Ding dong." He laughed humorlessly and pulled off my blindfold before giving me another punch to my face, and although I tried my best not to I couldn't help but wince at the pain shooting through my body.
"I don't suppose you're gonna tell me why you're doing this." I said as I looked around, taking in every detail on where I was.
Looked and smelled somewhat like a garage of some sort, big and empty, some old car-parts laying around but nothing to suggest that it was being used anymore.
"Well, let's just say I've got a score to settle with your dear brother." Kyle said in a chilly voice that made my skin crawl. He'd always had that effect on me, even when he was SAMCRO.
"Then you're barking up the wrong tree." I explained in an expressionless voice. "Alex doesn't care about me anymore. You're wasting your time."
"But you're still the SAMCRO-princess and everyone knows how they all get when something happens to family." Kyle laughed and for the first time in a long time I wasn't sure if I was getting out of this alive.
"Gone? What do you mean Lily's gone?" Clay's loud voice could be heard all over the clubhouse and everyone froze at the mention of their princess.
"Exactly what I said." Kozik had to fight to keep his voice relatively calm.
"We got a note to the clubhouse last night saying how the princess of SAMCRO was gonna be missing by morning. I called Lily and told her to lock the doors and not let anyone but me in but when me and the guys got there ten minutes later she was gone... Bastard took her and killed the girls. There was a lot of blood, Clay. I'm not sure how much of it is Lily's but we both know she would never get taken down without a fight."
Clay looked around the room with eyes that would have scared even Happy.
"We'll be there in the morning. You hear anything you call, understood?" He said in that dark voice that made promises of a thousand years worth of pain for the men responsible.
"You know it. And Clay... Please hurry." Kozik sounded so desperate but Clay was too pissed off to be able to tell him things were going to work out so he hung up and turned to his family.
"Get everything ready, guns, computers whatever shit you've got. We're leaving for L.A in an hour. Sack, call Tacoma. Get Happy to meet us there, tell him Lily's missing and if he asks about his Old Lady tell him we don't know any details." He said in a stern voice and as soon as he was finished everyone besides Jax, Gemma and Tig hurried to get their stuff ready.
"What's going on, Clay?" Gemma asked worriedly. "What happened to my baby?"
Clay ignored her and turned to Tig.
"When was the last time you talked to Lil?"
Tig looked at him with emotionless eyes, the same eyes he'd had for a whole year now.
"You know the answer, why ask me?" He shrugged and although the President felt a strong urge to bash his Sergeant's head against a brickwall he kept his calm knowing that it wouldn't do them any good.
"Because your little sister, who loves you and who you love by the way, has been taken by some lunatic with a grudge against SAMCRO, that's why!"
"Oh my God." Gemma placed a hand over her mouth and Jax kicked over a chair as he cursed.
"Now, if there is any part of Alex Trager left inside you, you'll at least help us get her back. Then you can go back to your moping, all right?"
Tig looked at Clay with his empty blue eyes that at the moment were nothing like his sister's.
"Is that an order?" He asked as if he was discussing the weather.
"Yes." Clay confirmed through gritted teeth.
Tig just nodded and went to get his stuff ready while three pairs of eyes following him, all with different emotions.
Jax looked disgusted, Gemma was outraged and Clay was angry but most of all disappointed. Tig may have always been a sick son of a bitch but he'd always gone to great lengths to keep his sister safe, no matter what and now this... He just couldn't believe he didn't care that she was missing.
~SOA~
Once in his room, Tig leaned back against his closed door and turned his eyes to the ceiling as he slowly slid down to the floor.
A whole year had they been apart and yet the pain in his chest wouldn't let up. He hated to admit it but he missed her, he needed her and now, knowing that there was even a small risk he might never see her again, his heart felt like it was shrinking in his chest.
He'd grown so tired of feeling for the past year that in the end he'd just shut everything out. Putting himself into his "work" and hoping that locking up his feelings wouldn't blow back on him. But now they had and he regretted every single time he'd picked up the phone but chickened out, not once having called her to say he was sorry...
Because he was. He knew he was a jerk, he was born one but Lily had always known that and had been there for him and when she'd chosen Kozik over him he'd just... snapped and had done the one thing he would never forgive himself for. He'd hit her... He'd turned into his old man and laid a hand on the person he loved the most.
He had to get her back, even if she never wanted to see him again.
He had to know that she was safe, he just had to.
Lily's POV
"You know what I always admired about you, Lil?"
He'd been at it for hours and by now I was too weak to actually lift and turn my head to him but managed to roll it enough so that I could see him..
He was squatting in front of me, hands on my thighs, brushing his thumbs over the cuts on them.
"You were always so quiet about everything..." He pressed a little harder and I found myself too tired to hold in the whimper it caused. "At least the things that hurt you." He laughed and took out the bloody knife again.
"I was thinking we'll change that in the next few days."
I felt myself cringe at the sight of the dirty blade and shivered as he trailed the sharp tip of it up my torso, over my collarbones and up my neck.
He chuckled and stood up, satisfied at how the blood slowly trickled from the shallow cut, and walked behind me. He cut the rope tying me to the chair and I cursed myself when I found there was nothing I could do despite being set free.
If there was ever going to be a chance to escape this was it and I couldn't do shit. Some part of SAMCRO I was, I thought to myself as I was hoisted to my feet only to be pushed down on the concrete floor seconds later.
He tied my hands together again, this time in front of me and before I knew it I was up on the balls of my feet, hanging from a chain from the ceiling as Kyle was walking around me, taking in my body with those disgusting eyes of his.
This way, even if I would have had the strength to fight back I wouldn't have been able to and that gave him full access to my bleeding body, something that made my stomach turn.
"Even with all the blood and cuts you still look good enough to eat, Lil." Kyle licked his lips and traced a finger over the edge of my bra.
"Go to hell, Kyle." I hissed and stared into his eyes with as much strength I could conger up, which by now wasn't much at all. I knew exactly what he was about to do and was well aware of the fact that I was only dressed in a pair of jeans shorts and a bra.
"Well, if I'm going there I intend to take you with me." The knife once again traveled up my legs and I hissed when he sliced through my jeans on both sides before tearing them off me.
I never closed my eyes, no matter what he did to me for the passing hours. I kept staring at him, not wanting to think he broke me and I tried to hold in the pained whimpers but in the end I just wasn't strong enough.
I never had been.
It was a puffy-eyed Jules that opened the door to the boys from Charming, nodding in greeting to Clay and Happy, too tired to even acknowledge the others and just led the way into the kitchen where the L.A-charter had been sitting for an hour or so.
Clay walked up to the President and embraced him while the others greeted each other and giving their condolences to Kozik for what had happened before sitting down.
"Good to see you again, Dog." Clay greeted the big man who greeted him back with a sullen look on his face.
"We're all glad you here, Clay." Both Presidents sat down as well before starting the meeting.
"Okay, so what do we know?" The older of the two men said and all eyes were directed to LA's VP, Pope.
"We've started knocking on doors, talking to the people she works with, all of them say the same thing. That she's a great girl and they can't understand why someone would want to hurt her."
The youngest of the patched LA-members, Flea, spoke up.
"I tried to look up as much as I could on her digital life but my skills are nowhere as good as Juicy-boy's, so that might still give us something to go on."
Clay turned his eyes to Juice.
"You and Flea start working on that, I want to know everything about who she might have come in contact with since she moved here."
Not exactly being a computer-wiz he didn't realize just how much work that was but neither of the young men would tell him. If it helped them find Lil they would do anything.
"Alright, everyone get settled in and eat something." Clay said. In an hour I want you all ready to do whatever we need to do to get our Princess back.
"Ray!" Dog called one of his closest friends, a very quiet man but very capable at his job. "When the boys are done I want you to go with them, make sure they get where they're going."
The man just nodded, a simple gesture but the determination showing in those green eyes of his made Clay realize that this man loved Lily as if she had been his daughter.
~SOA~
"Thanks for letting us use your place, Jules." Happy said and placed his bag on Jules' bed.
"No problem, anything for family, right?" The model shrugged tiredly.
"Julie..." Happy walked up to her and placed his hand at the back of her neck and made her face him. "We'll find her."
"Yeah, and what if we can't?" Jules felt the tears form in her eyes. "What if we're too late? What if..."
"Hey!" Happy's hands on her shoulders shook her out of her rambling. "We will find her and when we do you'll be the first one to know, I promise." He spoke softly but there was that determination that showed Jules that he was as upset about the situation as she was.
"Hap, I was the last one to see her last night. If I had just gone with her..."
"You'd probably be laying dead in a ditch somewhere right now." Happy finished her sentence for her humorlessly because that really would have been the worst case-scenario. "No one here blames you for Lily's disappearance, I can guaranty you that. Now..." He moved his hand from her neck and gently cupped her face with both hands before kissing her softly. "Stop worrying and go help Gemma. Bringing two charters together we'll need all the food we can get."
"You do realize this is probably the only time I'll let you patronize me?" The model said with a raised eyebrow and placed her hands on her hips, pushing her worries aside for the time being.
"You do realize you look incredibly hot when you do?" Happy responded with a smirk that made Jules snort.
"In your dreams, Loman." The girl flipped her long blond hair and walked out of the room causing the Son's smirk to grow.
"All night long, baby-girl."
~SOA~
Two days had passed since SAMCRO arrived in L.A and everybody was on edge. They had questioned pretty much anyone who had come in personal contact with Lily over the past year and nothing. No one had a grudge against her, no weird phone-calls to her cell- or home phone, nothing to warn her about what was going to happen.
No one wanted to say it aloud but they all thought the same thing: What if they were too late to save her?
They were sitting around the big dinner-table in Jules kitchen, discussing what they had done and what else could be done, because they were going to find Lily! No matter what.
"We spoke to the manager, no threats, no strange phone-calls to Lily in the year she's been 'ere." Chibs said in a sigh.
"And we did a deep background-check out the manager, no red flags. There's nothing on her, Clay." Juice said with an apologetic look on his face. He and Flea hadn't gotten any sleep for the past two days, hyped-up on caffeine and sugar, trying to find something, anything that could lead them to Lily only to have come up with absolutely nothing.
"Guys, what if we looked at all of this the wrong way?" Koz, who during the whole meeting had stared out the window, looked at them as if lightning had just struck him.
"What do you mean?" Dog asked, not quite understanding what the Sergeant at Arms was getting at.
"I don't think he truly wants to destroy Lily." He explained. "Think about it." He took out the note that had been left at the clubhouse for them three nights ago.
"The bastard refers to her as the 'Princess of SAMCRO'... I think he's from Charming."
"Because he knows the mother charter's called SAMCRO? Try again pixie-boy." Tig snorted but Kozik didn't pay him any attention.
"He knows about her nickname, maybe it's a coincidence but it was Tig who gave it to her, right?"
This was starting to get everyone's attention and you could literally hear the wheels in their heads turning.
"Guys... I think he's SAMCRO."
This started mumbles throughout the room and Sack spoke up.
"But anyone in Charming would know that Lil and Tig aren't... on good terms anymore." He had been about to say 'family' but stopped when he noticed a small change in Tig's demeanor.
"So... Former Son then?" Flea asked.
"With something against Tig." Happy added.
"Kyle Hobart." Jax groaned and as soon as they got the name everything fell into place for them.
"But why me?" Tig said, as if unaffected by the whole conversation.
"You were the one who burnt that tattoo off of him." Bobby explained.
"Like he said, it was the only thing he had left. Now he's set out to destroy the one thing that you have." Jax thought aloud. "Lily."
"Juice! I want to know every real estate Kyle owns! I don't care if it's here in L.A, in Charming or wherever. Find it!" Clay shouted and Juice sprung from his seat and quickly got to work while everyone got ready to pull out.
Kozik walked up to Clay.
"Do you really think he'll still be there? It's been nearly three days..."
"He's dumber than he thinks. He'll be there." Clay said firmly but Kozik knew that there was something the President wasn't telling him.
"There's something else, isn't there? That makes you think he's still there."
"You're not gonna like it." Kozik braced himself, he may not like it but he needed to know.
"Tell me."
Clay looked around to see everyone getting busy with gearing up for the upcoming rescue, whether it was there in L.A or back in Charming they all needed to be ready, and he lowered his voice as he spoke.
"He's always had a thing for younger pussy, and let's just say he liked Lily little too much for his own good." Clay explained although it pained him to think about it.
"He stalked her?" Koz was seeing red but he managed to keep his voice somewhat steady.
"Yeah, Tig caught him once. Let's just say it didn't end good." Despite his words Clay smiled, bastard deserved the beating he got that day.
"So when we find her..." Not if, not if, he reminded himself! "What can I expect?"
Clay didn't want to do this to the man but he'd asked and he needed to know what he was in for.
"Kyle Hobart is a sadistic motherfucker. He's had her for three days, she'll be beaten up really bad and I think it's safe to say she'll have been raped."
Clay's voice was void of any emotion because he just couldn't bare to think of his god-daughter in that way. He wanted to think of her as the strong woman she was and not as the scared and scarred girl he knew they would find.
"We got it, Clay!" Juice ran up to them. "He owns a closed garage called the 'New Haven' not too far from here."
"Where?" They all stood up and headed for the door.
"South Central!" Juice called back.
"I know where that is, it's 20 minute away!" Dog said and before they could say anything else they were out on the street, starting up their bikes and riding to save their princess.
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