It was the start of the working day at Teller-Morrow; Opie had been there from first light, working out his anger on the machine he was fixing. Juice was working on some club business today at his laptop inside the club house but he didn't care what the cheating little shit did any more, he and Juice were seriously looking at breaking up as far as he was concerned.

He had been mad to think that he and Juice had any chance of a life together, it might have worked he thought had Juice not cheated on him with one of the male porn stars at Caracara. He had overheard the actor at Caracara the day before bragging to another about how good a lay Juice was.

The sound of a vehicle in trouble as it drove into the garage grabbed his attention and he left the machine he had been working on. A white hybrid car with its tyre missing rolled to a stop just in front of the garage. A petite slender blonde stepped out of the driver's side and approached Opie who was looking at the state of the wheel.

"I think it's flat."

"It went out on the highway."

"You drove here on that all the way from the highway."

"It's bad innit?"

Opie looked down at the front wheel more, his arms crossed in front of him as he studied the damage.

"The tyre's gone and the rim is off, it's gonna need some work."

"Will it take long?"

"Probably a few hours…You're one of Luanne's girls?"

"Lyla."

"Opie."

"Yeah I know."

They continued talking for a few more minutes, Opie was enjoying her company it had been a while he thought that he had enjoyed a woman's company. As they talked he observed other things about her, she had a nice shape to her, a little less curvy than he would have liked a bit too much on the lean side for him but she nice.

Opie got one of the mechanics to give Lyla and her kid a lift to the places she needed to be and he walked her over to her car, getting in to move it to one of the bays. As he switched the engine on, he glanced down at the floor and the saw the remains of some blow on her car floor.

"Shit!"

xXx

Juice came out of the back room with a crate of beer in his hands to find Jax sitting at the bar waiting for him. Things had been tense since the guy's had come back from the blood run and he had noticed the tenseness in Opie whenever he had mentioned Jax, he was not the brightest button in the box or so the guys thought and they obviously thought that he did not notice the tension between them all but he had, he was not as stupid as they all thought.

"Hey Jax what's up?"

He hauled the crate of beer up onto the bar as he waited for Jax to start talking, he knew that Jax had been to see Lowen, Otto one of their members who was in prison had been attacked and Lowen had contacted the club to let them know of his condition.

"How's Otto doing?"

"Missing an eye but stable."

"Oh shit does this mean retaliation."

Jax shook his head, he wanted retaliation but at the same time he did not want retaliation, they did not have enough information about the kind of man they were dealing with. They all knew that it was Zoebelle behind the attack but it was proving it.

"Retaliation now is a bad idea; we play right into their hands if we do."

"Zoebelle is squeaky clean Jax, not even a parking ticket. We are gonna have to do some street level recon to find anything."

"Exactly."

xXx

Clay along with Tig and Opie had just walked out of the barber's shop just as a trio of Zobelle's men with Weston in the lead headed their way across the street.

"Oh this should be interesting."

Clay muttered as Opie surged across the street to meet them, Opie had been angry all day and both the older men with him had felt the anger that had been pouring off the younger man in waves and as they watched the approaching storm they were looking forward to seeing Opie do some damage.

"You need to get your asses out of Charming."

Opie snarled at the despicable Weston as he stood in their path. He had no intention of allowing any of the guys in front of him get to his prez and the anger that he had felt at what he saw as Juice's betrayal stung as well and he just really wanted to hit something. As Juice was not present or the porn prick Weston was as far as he was concerned the best replacement he could get right now.

As he was about to swing back his fist a Harley flew stop in front of the group of men, Jax jumping off his bike tried to stop what was about to take place.

"A street brawl does not fix this Ope, if anything it will make it worse."

Weston sprang forward shoving Jax's Harley over, Jax reacted and he threw the neo Nazis against the nearest car. The AB guys rushed forward intending to help Weston but before they move more than a few steps in his direction, they were both taken down by Tig and Opie as they joined in the brawl in the middle of main street. Concerned spectators watched from the sidewalk amongst them Gemma and Clay who was more than happy to watch his brothers fight. In the distance sirens could be heard as Charming PD made its way to the disturbance.

xXx

The guys were all gathered in the Chapel, the four brawlers had finally been released from Charming PD but only because the chief could not afford to feed them. The main discussion on the table was retaliation against Zoebelle and the Aryan Brotherhood, the club wanted blood but Jax was still unsure about the nature of the retaliation.

He knew that Clay was right, they had to retaliate or the rest of the MC's and gangs in the area would see them as weak and the sons could not be seen as weak but Jax also knew they had to be smart about it as well. They needed more Intel before they rushed into anything foolhardy and he was not sure if he was going to be able to stop it.

After the meeting, many of the sons left and disappeared through the main door and were out the front of the clubhouse when a taxi drew up, Lyla got out. The garage had phoned her earlier to let her know that her car was fixed and she could pick it up anytime she wanted.

Opie approached her as she was about to get into the car and he could see Juice watching him from where he was standing, talking to his Pop. Deliberately making sure that Juice could see what he was doing, he flirted with Lyla chatting to her as though he was interested in seeing another woman since the death of his wife, his precious Donna.

He saw Juice look away as Lyla handed him her number, Opie smiled at her, making her blush under his scrutiny and she thanked him as she got into her car and drove off. Glancing over to where he pop's and lover were he noticed that Juice was not looking at him and he wandered over to where Tig was sitting on his bike, he leaned against another bike and the two of them talked about the blonde bimbo who had just left the lot.

KAAAAAAABOOM!

All of a sudden a loud explosion filled the air as the minivan that Chibs had got into to move into the garage exploded, the force of the blast sending the fleeing Scotsman flying through the air. He landed hard, the back of his head slamming down hard on the concrete as his unconscious body hit the ground.

"OH SHIT CHIBS."

Everyone on the lot ran over to where the Scotsman had landed, a pool of blood could be seen pooling under his head. Jax calling for Tara who pushed everyone back, she started to loosen his clothes as someone else called 911.