Everything SOA related belongs to Kurt Sutter and FX. I only claim the ownership of Ashley and everything else that you haven't seen/ heard on TV.
"What the hell?" Ashley's mouth fell open. Looking at the short brown-haired girl next to her, she almost dropped the phone in her hands. "Emma?" she mouthed with surprise.
"You look like you've seen a ghost," Emma stated with a wide grin, pulling Ashley into a strong hug.
"What are you doing here?" Ashley asked suspiciously, drawing away from her.
Emma looked around at all those eyes tracking their every move. "Can we perhaps talk in private," her eyes made a full circle around the room until they finally stopped on Ashley.
"Mmm, okay," Ash furrowed her eyebrows and showed her the way to the dorms.
"What's going on, you're freaking me out.. How did you even get here?" Ashley fired at Emma, practically pushing her inside and shutting the door behind them.
"I didn't know where else to go. Maxim has lost his mind, he's point blank crazy," Emma sat down on the edge of the bed and rubbed her temples.
Ashley moved to sit down next to her. "Does he know you're here?" she asked looking up at the ceiling board with growing anger.
"Didn't exactly say good-bye to him, but yeah I'm guessing he's aware of my absence," Emma peered at Ashley.
"Shit," Ashley stood up, "I'm not going back to him, neither should you."
"He will find me and he'll find you too," Emma said, clearly terrified. There was not a glimpse of doubt hidden in that sentence.
Ashley looked at the small girl sitting on her bed, she was a few years younger than her, but nonetheless they had hit it off right away when Maxim introduced them what felt like ages ago. To him she was much like Ashley, a charity case he had taken in to be trained into a loyal soldier, only that the soldier part did not turn out exactly the way he had planned, Emma didn't have the guts to hurt people.
To Ashley she was the only person in the whole wide world that could be titled as her friend. And by the looks of it, she was now just as much on the outs with the mob as she. Getting away from everything and everyone, including both the MC world and the mob was one thing when you were alone. Having to take care of Emma too, made it all that much more difficult.
"I'm sorry, of course I am glad to see you, just that it has already been a rough day and seeing that you are just as much in a pickle as I am, makes it all even worse," Ash softened her gaze and gave her a small smile.
"I was just planning on hitting the road, but now I don't know. We should really plan our next move," Ash held out her hand to pull her up, "we should stay here for the night though."
"I'm real sorry for all this, Ash," Emma apologized.
"We'll be alright, I'll think of something, but for the night let's just enjoy our reunion, or what do you say?" Ashley suggested with a devilish smile.
"I'd say, why the hell not, resting on the fact that there might not be that many chances for that in the near future," Emma winked at her knowingly.
"Hey,Jax," Ashley stopped Jax from moving past them as they re-entered the club area. "I'm going to stay for one more night, if that's okay with you.." Ashley forced her gaze to stay on Jax and not roam around for Hap.
Jax simply nodded eyeing Emma.
"That's Emma by the way," Ashley stated.
"Hi, I'm Jax," Jax held out his hand.
"Pleasure to meet you, Jax," Emma gave him her best smile.
"What do we have here? A present for me, doll-face?" Tig appeared next to Jax, eating Emma with his eyes.
"Name's Tig, beautiful," Tig kissed Emma's held out hand.
"What a gentleman," Emma chuckled. "I'm Emma"
Ashley couldn't help but laugh at Tig. The man was persistent and bold. No wonder she had liked him from the start. Listening to Tig try to put his moves on Em, Ashley felt her phone vibrate. On the screen it read 'unknown number'. She raised her eyebrow and moved a bit further away from the crowd to answer it.
"Ashley," Maxim stated with his unmistakable Russian accent.
"Should have guessed it was you," Ashley sat down on the small stairway, "I'm not coming back, if that's why you're calling.
"You've been talking to you brother I see. Well the thing with your so called dad needed to be done, you simply don't belong there and I had to help you see that too," he said with his calm tone.
"I don't need your help to see anything anymore. I'm done," Ashley yelled at her phone.
"You sure about that?" he ignored her screaming and carried on with his alarming calmness.
"I'm saying this real slow now, so that your thick Russian brain would also understand, I AM DONE WITH YOU."
"You're either with me or you're dead, my dear" he hung up the phone.
Ashley stared at her feet, trying to figure out the next move. First thing in the morning they should head south. Maybe Colombia or Chile? Where ever they were going, the place needed to be far away. Not admitting it to herself, she felt a bit sorry leaving Charming. Her eyes searched for Happy. As soon as she found him, she regretted it. He was busy sucking the life out of some crow eater's mouth. She rose and moved to where Tig and Emma were apparently having a drinking contest. "Count me in," she pulled herself a glass.
As hours passed, Ash felt her head getting heavy. She knew she needed to stop destroying her brain cells right away or she would not be sober enough in the morning to get on the road.
"I'll go lay down, guys," Ashley yawned at Tig and Emma, "and hey Tiggy, keep it in your pants."
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"Another round, my lady?" Tig showed a vodka shot Emma's way.
"You think I can't handle it? You're forgetting where I come from, this thing you call vodka here tastes like lemonade to me," Emma joked, raising the liquor to her lips. Wanting to turn around to put her empty shot-glass on the table behind her, she bumped into Jax.
"Sorry," she mumbled, feeling lost in his eyes.
Jax on the other hand was busy searching for something with those blue eyes, "Do you hear that?"
"Hear what exactly?" Tig stepped closer.
"That ticking sound," Jax moved behind the bar and crouched.
"FUCK, EVERYBODY OUT NOW," he yelled on top of his lungs.
"ABEL," Jax ran to the dorms. They managed to get out just as the whole place got shred into pieces by a loud explosion.
Happy watched the whole place go up in flames. Scanning around for Ashley he couldn't find her. "Where's Ash?" he headed over to Tig and Jax.
"She… ," the words got stuck in Tig's throat.
"WHAT, she was with you!" Happy grabbed him by his shirt.
"She went to bed, Hap," the look on Tig's face was a mixture of guilt and horror.
Happy went numb watching the house crumble underneath the fire, he couldn't move a muscle, the moment felt like forever and the only noise accompanying it was the sound of Ashley's friend sobbing in Jax's arms.