Chapter 25

Juice arrived back at the clubhouse. As he parked his bike, he felt Nicole's hands slip from around his waist as she got of his bike. He turned around just in time to see her stumble.

Nicole placed her hand on the railing just in front on her. She lowered her head causing her hair to fall in front of her covering her face. Juice raced to her side placing a steadying hand around her waist. She flipped her hair over her shoulder so that she could look at Juice, who was looking rather concerned for her but she was too nauseous to answer him.

Juice took her hand from the railing and placed her arm around his neck. In one swift motion he bent down picking up her legs with his other arm. He pulled her close to him as she wrapped her other arm around his neck burying her head into the crook of his neck.

As he carried her into the clubhouse Gemma rushed over to him.

"Jesus Christ is she..."

"Yeah, she drank a little too much." Gemma looked at her niece who was now sleeping peacefully in Juice's arm.

"Take her to Jackson's room."

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Nicole started to stir as she the sunlight hit her face through the blinds. Her eyes fluttered open but she quickly closed them again as the light hurt her tired eyes. Turning her body away from the light, she tried again to open eyes, this time more successfully. As the room came into focus she saw someone sitting in the chair opposite the bed. A smile crept onto her face as she watched him sleeping in the chair.

She pulled the blanket off her that Juice had obviously put over her, and takes the blanket with her as she walked over to Juice. As she placed the blanket over him she lightly kissed him on the cheek. She found herself staring at his sleeping from. He had been nothing but nice to her and all she had done was throw it back in his face.

Her thoughts were cut off when her cell started ringing. Locating her purse that was on the night stand she pulled out her cell and cancelled the call. She spun around to see if the noise had woken Juice, she was glad to see that he was still asleep.

Once she was outside Jax's room she checked her cell to see who was calling her this early in the morning, she froze when she saw Ryan's name. She quickly called him back, she was worried she hadn't heard a word from him since the whole Jax and Happy situation.

"Ry, where the hell have you been?"

"I'm sorry I left without saying anything but I figured I better let Happy cool off."

"What why?"

"He threatened me in the kitchen."

"He did what, what did he say to you?"

"Look it doesn't matter it just proves that I was wrong we can't be together Charming."

"What do you mean?" Nicole felt her heart drop was he leaving her.

"I think we should leave." Nicole was stunned into silence. "Nic you still there?"

"Yeah." She ran her fingers through her hair as she paced the floor. As she turned around she saw Gemma standing at the bottom of the hallway, staring at her.

Nicole turned her back on Gemma. "Look I have to go." She whispered into her cell.

"Will you meet me later?"

"Yeah...yeah um call me later." She hung up before turning back to face Gemma who had a questioning look on her face.

Nicole composed herself as she walked towards her. She looked at the coffee that Gemma was holding in her hands.

"Any more of that?"

"Here.." Gemma held out the coffee mug, "This is for you. I was just coming to see if you were awake, I see that you are."

"Thanks." Nicole took a sip of the coffee, god it tasted good.

"Who was on the phone?"

"Carl, just wanted to check how I was." Nicole hated how easily the lies were coming out.

"Really." Nicole could hear in Gemma's tone that she didn't believe her. Ignoring looking at Gemma she took a seat at the bar.

"Where is everyone?" She asked quickly changing the subject.

"Police station."

"Why?" Gemma took a seat next to Nicole who finally looked at her.

"Jax was arrested last night." Nicole almost choked on her coffee.

"Why didn't anybody tell me?"

"Well you were kinda out of it."

"I can't believe he did this, son of bitch." Nicole jumped off her chair and started heading back to Jax's room.

"Who you talking about.?"

"Fucking Hale." Nicole shouted as she disappeared down the corridor.

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When Nicole entered the room she saw that Juice was still asleep. She walked into the bathroom quickly brushing her teeth before running a brush through her hair, pulling into a low ponytail.

"Juice, hey come on sleepy head." Nicole nudged him gently, she smiled when she saw that he was starting to stir.

"Hmm...what is it?" He asked sleepily as he rubbed his eyes.

"We need to go."

"W?here" Juice asked slowly becoming more awake.

"Police station." Nicole said as she sat on the bed, pulling on her boots.

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When Juice and Nicole they saw Clay and the others sittingon a police car. Juice let Nicole get off before he parked up. She walked over to Clay.

"What's going on"

"They arrested Jax and Weston last night at Timberland. The rest you know." Nicole turned on her heels and started storming towards the station, but Clay stopped her.

"Where are you going?"

"To get Jay out." Clay laughed at her. "What?"

He pointed over her shoulder where Unser was escorting Jax down the steps. Clay released Nicole as he could feel her pulling towards Jax.

When she reached Jax she threw her arms around his neck. Jax stumbled backwards from the force of her hug, but he finally wrapped his arms around her waist. They share an embrace for a while, before she pulled away.

"Are you okay?" Jax nodded. Nicole turned her attention to Unser "Where's Hale?"

"Inside."

"Nic don't even think about it, come on we've got bigger problems than Hale right now." Jax pushed her in front of him as he headed over to the other guys, Unser following behind them. Everybody gaves Jax a hug or a handshake.

"Right let's get out of here." Opie suggested.

"Actually..."

"What is it now" Clay asked Jax, dreading the worst.

"Unser you want to take this one." All eyes were on the Chief.

"Zobelle and his daughter are going to be released it seems he has been working for the FBI."

"A rat?" Nicole mused, Unser nodded in agreement.

"Yeah he's been working with them for years giving them any Intel that keeps his ass out of jail."

"So he's protected." Clay rubbed his hand over his face, this was unbelievable.

"Look."

Happy pointed in the direction of the station. Zobelle and his daughter Polly were being escorted out by Hale and a man wearing a suit, he definatly belonged to FBI.

Hale looked over at all the eyes that were staring at them, he eyes locked straight away with Nicole's, he could tell she was pissed with him because he had broken his promise to her. He turned back to Zobelle.

"My men will escort you where ever you need to go."

"That won't be necessary Deputy Hale" Zobelle answered as himself and his daughter got into their car.

"Holy shit" Nicole mumbled as hers and everybody else's attention was now on the formation of Harleys driving up the road.

"Looks like browns are protecting their investment." Happy muttered.

Zobelle pulled his car into the middle of the formation of bikers. Alvarez led the way as they drove off.

"Come on, let's follow." Clay instructed. He gave Nicole a kiss before joining the others as they climbed onto their bikes. Jax turned back to Nicole, Happy standing next to him.

"It's not going to be safe for you, will you get a ride home with Unser?"

"Yeah of course, just be safe." Jax and Happy went to walk away but Nicole grabbed Happy's arm.

He turned to look at her. She knew that if anyone else had grabbed him like that they wouldn't be breathing for long, but she knew that she could get away with it.

"What?" Nicole looked at Jax.

"Give us a second." Jax looked at her in curiosity but agreed.

"I'll let you know where we are Hap." Jax climbed on his bike, catching up with the others.

"So..."

"What did you say to him?"

"To who."

"Ryan." Happy shook his head as he laughed a humorous laugh.

"He went running to you, god that guys a bigger dick than I realised."

"I get that you were looking out for me, but I never asked you to. So from now on stay out of business" She went to leave but this time it was Happy turn to stop her.

"I don't care if you want me to or not, as long as I'm around and your around and your in trouble then I will protect you. Because like it or not were family and that's what families do. Anyone of them guys would do the same thing if they knew about Ryan."

"Well then maybe I shouldn't be here."

She pulls away from him and headed inside the station. She looked around for Unser. She located him just outside his office, her joy of finding him however didn't last long when she realised he was with Hale. In one way she kind of felt sorry for him, because today was the wrong to cross her and Hale was about to feel the full effect of her bad mood.

"Are you happy?" She spat at Hale gaining not just his attention but everyone else's who happened to in the station.

"I had to do my job." He said defensively.

"How about we take this inside." Unser ushered them both inside his office, he didn't want everyone hearing Samcro business, and he was sure Nicole would agree when she calmed down. "Right does someone want to fill me in on what's going on here."

"He lied to me." Nicole started.

"Like I said Nicole I had to do my job."

"That's it hide behind your badge, you promised me you wouldn't arrest them."

"I can't believe that you're being like this." Hale turned away as he rubbed his jaw.

"Ditto, you know what they did to Gemma, you know that she will never make a statement against them which means it's up to us to sort this shit out, but somehow you just keep saving them. God I can't believe I told you where they were how could I be so stupid." Nicole's hands were on her hips in a very Gemma-esc way.

"I've heard enough." Unser shouted "Nicole I'm taking you back to the clubhouse."

"Nic I really do want to help you with this." Nicole looked at him and could tell that he was genuine.

"You really want to help David?"

"Yes."

"Then start acting like a friend and not a cop."

"What do you want me to do Nic, I can't just forget that I'm a cop."

"You still have Weston here?"

"Yeah." Hale answered slightly confused by her question.

"Let me talk to him."

"What" Unser snapped now including himself in their conversation.

"No way." Hale told her firmly.

"You want to help, then this is how you can do it, please. Plus he's behind bars what can happen." Hale looked past Nicole and stared at Unser who was shaking his head showing that he didn't like this idea. His eyes fell back onto Nicole, who was giving him a pleading look.

"God I'm going to regret this."

"Hale you can't be serious." Unser argueed but Hale didn't listen.

He took Nicole to the holding cells, as she went to walk inside he placed he extended his arm in front of her.

"You have two minutes with him. You shout if you need me, I'll be just outside."

"Okay."

Nicole took a breath before walking into the cells. Weston was sitting on his bed, he turned his head towards her as he heard her enter. A smile rests on his face at the sight of her.

"Well who do I owe this pleasure to you?" She ignored him and looks around the other empty cells.

"I see your boss got out."

"He ain't my boss or my concern, you however are quickly becoming it." She laughed slightly, although she tried to hide it he could tell that there was fear behind her laugh.

"Well maybe he should be your concern. The suit that walked him out of here, it wasn't a lawyer he was an FBI handler, your boss is a rat." Weston was now on his feet standing against the bars. Nicole stepped back.

"You're lying." He seethed.

"Why would I lie?"

"Then why are you telling me this?"

"Because I would love to see you rip him apart." She stepped back towards him. "And then we'll rip you apart" He reached his hand threw the gap in the bars and grabbed her wrist, pulling her closer to him, she tries to hide her fear.

"How about I rip you apart." She tried to pull away but he placed his other arm through the bars, wrapping it around her waist. He now had her pinned against the bars. Nicole was struggling against his grip but he was too strong.

"I wish we had got you instead something tells me you would have been more fun than your Aunt, not that I have much to complain about."

"You make me sick and I can't wait for Jay to cut you up, don't worry I'll make sure he takes his time so that you can feel every second of the mind numbing pain." She snapped through gritted teeth.

He moves his hand from her waist, and grabs her head before he rammed it against the bars. Nicole gasped in pain as her head made contact with the cool metal.

Hale walked up and down the hallway, he kept checking his watch, that was until Unser had made an appearance and started lecturing him about letting Nicole see Weston. Both of them stopped arguing when they heard a small cry come from the holding cells. Looking at one another they ran into the cells. They were both shocked when they saw that Weston had Nicole pinned against his cell. Hale pulls out his gun aiming it at Weston.

"Let her go." Weston dropped his hand from her head but keeps hold of her wrist.

"Ryan, you figured out how he found you yet?" He whispered to Nicole.

"I'm not going to ask you again, let go of her" Hale shouted. But was shocked when Nicole placed her free hand up signalling him to stop.

"He's was working with us. He knew about everything. He was the one that lit the match on Cara Cara, he did it all just so he could get to you, so that he could kill you."

As Weston saw the realisation wash over her he finally let her go. Unser rushed to her side, walking her out of the holding cell. Hale quickly followed.

They were both talking to her but she couldn't hear anything she was in shock. It wasn't until she felt something running down her face, she was bleeding.

"Come on lets get you cleaned up before I take you home." Unser spoke softly.