Chapter 21

Alice trudged into the secure unit of the ICU a little bit before her shift started at seven am. She had gotten NO sleep the night before. Between giving her statement to the investigators, her kids needing to get ready for bed, and just her general worry about Ana, sleep was impossible. She couldn't imagine what Ana's boyfriend, Juice, and the rest of her family were going through. The investigators did tell her that the club received a few pictures of Ana being bound and receiving some heparin, but they didn't go into too much detail. But, knowing where the missing heparin had gone was a mystery solved. Now, she wondered, what else did Mike take from the hospital when he was fired. Surely, heparin wasn't the only thing he would think of taking to hurt Ana. So, Alice's plan for that day, besides her usual Charge Nurse duties was to go through the supply room and the OMNI CELL and see what else was missing.

"Oh, hey, Alice" Brad greeted from his seat at the nurses station when Alice rounded the corner.

"Morning, Alice," the other, younger nurse, Danielle, smiled. "Any news on Ana?"

"So far, nothing new," Alice reported as she looked through the patient log book. Nothing much had changed… seemed like a slow night for the ICU. "Same patients as yesterday?"

"Yeah," Danielle reported. "And the floors are slow too, so the nursing supervisor called off Lindsey, but everyone else is here. Lindsey said she will come in if she is needed, but otherwise she was going to hang at the clubhouse and be available there, if they need her."

"O.K.," Alice put the log book down on the counter and walked to the locker room. She sighed tiredly as she opened her locker and placed her belongings in the old, rusted thing. They really needed a remodel, she thought to herself. She put various items in the pocket of her scrubs, which included her cell phone and shut the door.

Looking around the room, she smiled a small smile when she saw the chair Ana sat in when she took her blood pressure for her. Her mind replayed the previous night's events. How the big prospect came in to check on Ana . How Juice was so concerned about her and her blood pressure… it was cute… she thought. How she took her blood pressure and they talked about the ICU Annual party. Alice glanced over to the flyer that was still attached to the white board. Suddenly her heart clenched in her chest and she gasped. She knew where Mike had taken Ana.

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Lindsey hung up her phone and frantically looked around the clubhouse. Croweaters and hang arounds were all she saw. No patched members. Then she looked and saw the doors to the chapel were shut… did she dare interrupt? "Oh, thank God!" she sighed when she saw Gemma coming back into the main room from the hall with a plastic trash bag in her hand. "Gemma!"

Lindsey ran over to the older woman, who had a confused expression as to why a croweater looked so excited about something other than a patched members cock. "Yeah?"

"Alice just called me. She thinks she knows where Mike took Ana!"

Gemma immediately dropped the trash bag and turned to knock on the chapel doors. It took a moment, but Chibs finally opened them up, giving Gemma a confused look.

"What's up, love?" Chibs asked, looking between Gemma and Lindsey.

Gemma grabbed Lindsey by the arm and pulled her into the chapel past Chibs. "Tell them, " she urged Lindsey.

Lindsey looked around that table at each member and then focused on Juice. He looked awful, she thought. He must have gotten no sleep. His eyes were bloodshot, his face was scruffy and it looked like he was wearing the same clothes as yesterday. She took a deep breath and said, "Alice just called. She was in the lounge this morning and remembered the conversation about the annual ICU get together she had with Ana when she took her blood pressure last night." Juice nodded. "Well, we were going to have the ICU get together at this cabin Mike had talked about. It's owned by his aunt. It's lakeside… just outside of Charming."

"Do you know the exact location?" Clay asked, keeping calm.

"No, I'm sorry I don't… Alice didn't know either... I don't know his aunt's name either. I know it's not much to go on…" Lindsey started, but was interrupted by Juice standing up so fast his chair fell over.

"Doesn't matter. That's something I can track!" Juice exclaimed and then ran out the door and down the hallway to get his laptop from his room.

"Did she tell the cops?" Jax asked excitedly.

"She said she called us first, but would call the cops next. Is that O.K. or do you want me to call her back and tell her not to?" Lindsey inquired.

"No," Clay stated calmly. "We want the cops on this too. We want as much help with getting her back as we can get."

"Thanks, Lindsey," Jax smiled at her, causing her heart to flutter. "We'll let you know if we need anything else from you."

"Yeah, happy to help," Lindsey answered as she turned and walked out of the chapel.

"Thank you," Gemma said, giving her a small hug, before she made it back to the pool table she was at.

At that moment, Juice came running down the hallway with his laptop under his arm. He ran by Gemma and into the chapel. "This is something I can track!" he repeated, his heart beating fast from anxious excitement.

Juice placed his computer on the redwood table and then righted his chair. "How long will it take you?" Jax asked.

"I don't know," Juice sighed as he sat down and opened up his laptop. He started typing in his long password. "It depends on how long it take me to find out who his aunt is."

"Do you need anything?" Tig asked.

"Just some peace and quiet so I can concentrate… Maybe an energy drink, too."

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"Awe shit!" Half-Sack mumbled when he saw another manila envelope in the mail that had just came. He quickly looked around the outside of the compound to see if there was anyone who looked suspicious and who might have dropped it off, but there was no one.

He looked this envelope over. The only difference he saw between the one they received last night and this one was that this was was addressed to Jax instead of Juice.

So he ran off into the clubhouse. "Jax!" He exclaimed when he entered.

"He's in his dorm," Chibs informed. "What's wrong with you?"

"Another envelope came," Sack said as he took off down the hallway, passing the closed chapel doors where he knew Juice was still working. "This one is addressed to Jax."

"Jax!" Sack yelled again when he got to Jax's dorm. He knocked hard on the door. Tig, Bobby and Chibs followed him down the hall, anxious to see what is in the envelope.

"What the fuck, Prospect?" Jax yelled when he answered the door.

"It's addressed to you this time," Sack explained, handing Jax the manila envelope.

"Jesus Christ," Jax mumbled as he looked it over. Nothing but "Jax Teller" was written on it. He walked back into his dorm, everyone following him in.

"Should I get Juice?" Sack asked Jax as he sat down on the bed.

"No!" Jax, Chibs, Bobby and Tig exclaimed at the same time.

"Let him concentrate on finding Ana," Bobby added.

"Yeah," Tig agreed. "This is the last thing he needs to see."

"Go check on Juice. See if he needs anything. But DO NOT mention this," Jax waved the envelope in the air.

"Right," Sack ran out the door and down the hallway.

Jax looked at his brothers and sighed. He opened the envelope and took a look at the first picture. "Jesus Christ," he repeated. He had to swallow the bile down that rose in his throat. The picture was of Ana, still bound to a wooden surface, but this time she was completely naked and had cuts all over her body that were oozing a good amount of blood. He could tell she was awake and crying too. His heart sank. Yeah, he said to himself. Juice doesn't need to see this. He passed the picture off to Chibs.

"Poor lass. We'll find you baby girl," he whispered to the picture. "Your Old Man is working hard on it."

Chibs passed the picture to Bobby and Tig while Jax looked at the second picture. It was of a big guy, who did not look like Mike, standing over Ana and hitting her with a baseball bat in the ribs. He flipped to the third picture. This one he was hitting her in the stomach; but it looked like she was trying to roll onto her side as to protect the baby. He passed the pictures to the others so they could examine them, something Ana would be furious about, he thought, but they needed to see them too.

The fourth and final picture was the worst. It was Mike this time. He was standing besides Ana's naked legs, inserting what looked to be a knife in her vagina. He could tell Ana was screaming in pain. Jax wiped the tears from his eyes and handed the last picture off to the guys.

"Jesus," Chibs groaned. "What other horrible things can they do to this poor girl?"

"We need to show Clay," Jax sighed and gathered the pictures from his brothers.

They all walked down the hallway and into the main room.

"Jax!" someone exclaimed from the bar. He turned around to see Lindsey running towards him. "I just got off the phone with Alice again. She went through the unit top to bottom to see if anything else was missing…"

"And?" Jax asked, thinking his heart could not take much more horrible news.

"The special procedure tray is missing," Lindsey looked at him, worried.

"What is that?" Chibs asked for him. "What's it got in it?"

"Scalpels, sutures, small needles, big needles, clamps, everything you would need to do a special procedure on someone. She thinks Mike might have taken that too…. Oh my God are those more pictures?!" Lindsey gasped loudly.

"Shhh!" Jax tried to quiet her down. The last thing he needed was for Juice to hear that.

"You got more pictures?!" Gemma exclaimed when she came out of the office with Clay.

"Yeah," Jax affirmed. "Just came in the mail." He handed them off to Clay.

"My baby girl!" Gemma exclaimed when she saw the first one. She couldn't bear to look through anymore.

Suddenly the chapel doors flew open. "I finally found it!" Juice exclaimed as he ran to the printer that was over in the corner of the clubhouse. He grabbed the papers he had printed off then ran over to the group standing in the middle of the room. "It's about 20 miles from here. Let's go!"

"Give me the address," Clay directed. "I'll call Unser and get police back up. Everyone else, go get her."

Juice ran back into the chapel to grab his computer. He then handed Clay a paper he printed off with the address on it.

Jax took the pictures back from Clay and ran out the clubhouse door with Tig, Bobby, Juice and Chibs following closely behind him.

They all piled into the black van; Jax driving, Juice in the passenger seat and everyone else in the back. Jax placed the pictures picture-side down in between the driver and passenger seat.

"Tell me where I am going," Jax instructed Juice as he headed out of the lot.

Juice looked down at his computer. "Head out of Charming on Main Street…" Juice glanced down to the pieces of paper he saw Jax put between them.

"Jax, what are those?" he asked, scared to know the answer.

Jax glanced down really quick then put his eyes back on the road. "We got more pictures in the mail. I don't think you want to see them brother. They are pretty awful."

"I have to see them, Jax. I have to know what I'm walking into," Juice sighed as he picked up the pictures. He flipped through them. Jax glanced over at him; he didn't think a guy as tan as Juice could get so pale.

"We're on our way brother. We are going to get her," Jax tried to comfort Juice.

"And I'm gonna kill him when we get there," Juice said through clenched teeth.

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A/N: Sorry it has been sooooo long since I have updated. I have been struggling with many issues in my life and have finally gotten them settled down. Sorry this is a short chapter, but I found that this was a good place to stop the chapter. I hope you all have been well and please review as you know they are like crack… so addicting. I'm working on other short stories which I will post later when they are finished. Like Juice and Ana's first time together. So, I will let you know when I get that posted. Thanks for your patience and please review!