Thank you all for the reviews and support. Sorry about the delay of this update. My WiFi was being wonky, now it's good. Enjoy this chapter, and the Foreign Face Off between Bri and the ever sassy Chibs.


Happy POV

"She's hot." Tig said, as if he was just now getting to see Bri for the first time. I guess the dislike for her, or the dislike for who she was at the beginning had worn off completely. All my brothers have been appreciating her looks and sarcasm. I didn't like the looks they have her, but I couldn't possibly kick all their asses and still remain in the club.

"No, she's gorgeous." I smiled as I took her appearance in. Her overalls fit snug in all the right places, her boots were unexpected but they went well with the image she was trying to give off. To me she was leaning towards being a bit white trash farm girl, I didn't mind it at all.

"That too." He smiled at me.

"Do I gotta break your nose again Tig?" I asked. "Or will you keep your comments to yourself?"

"I'll be quiet." He laughed.

"Hap!" She came over to us. The other side of the overalls now hung down at her waist. It revealed her shirt which was riding up to reveal a sliver of tan skin.

"What?" I moved my eyes up her body and to her face.

"Look." She handed me her tablet. "I can see them."

"How'd you do that?" I asked.

"I used to spend hours watching Juice hack shit. I picked up a few tricks along the way." She smiled at me. "They're gearing up for something."

"How do you know?" Jax asked from behind me.

"Well Jackson." She said in a mock southern accent. "I speak AND understand Russian."

"Smartass." Jax said "I mean what are they saying exactly."

"The black haired guy, his name is Henry, he told the blonde one, who's name is weirdly Jacky, to get guns." She sighed. "Then this second blonde, his name is Marco, he's not Russian he's Italian, he is in charge of explosives."

"You know their names how?" Bobby asked from behind her.

"I grew up with the Eagle. I always thought I'd take it but I took the snake and the Skull." She shrugged. "Now I just have the Skull."

"So who runs the Eagle?" Jax asked.

"My mother." She stared blankly at us. "Long story short. She wants all the power."

"What do we have to do with it though, I don't get that." Jax frowned.

"Did you anger anymore Russians? Beside mine?" She put her hands on her hips.

"Nope." I answered. "We didn't."

"Then I don't know, don't worry. I am about to handle these men." She smirked. "Watch the tablet boys."

We gathered around the tablet, our attention on the scene unfolding in front of us. We heard gunshots and the thud of bodies hitting the floor before the last guy dropped. A single shot to the head. Then a familiar face appeared in the camera. "Got 'em Bri." Aleksandr said into the camera.

"That's how you take out the enemy boys. Safely from a distance." Bri grabbed the tablet. "Don't draw any unwanted attention to yourselves. You obviously are doing something to grab the Eagle's attention."

"Being me." Tig smirked. "They're jealous of me."

"Ha!" Bri cackled. "I have guys, and I have girls, which would you prefer to run Eagle interference?"

"Guys obviously." Jax said.

"Wait, wait." Tig said. "Let's take a vote."

"I want girls." Kozik said.

"They're not to fuck guys." She sighed. "They're my special ops. Military trained, legit bitches. That make the Marines look like pussies."

"Hey!" Kozik smacked her arm. "Ex Marine here."

"Me too." Tig said.

"My point exactly. Pussies." She laughed. "Spec Ops or Guys?"

"Guys." We all said at once.

"Unbelievable." She smiled. "This is serious and you want the guys and not the qualified women."

"Guys are easier." Tig said.

She winked at him. "I see you booboo. I knew you had it in you."

"I didn't mean it like that." Tig ran a hand through his kinky black curls. "Jesus, Bri. You've been with Kozik too long."

"I actually got my sense of humor from Happy." She smiled. "He's always cracking silent jokes. Listen closely."

I shook my head as everyone fell silent, as if really waiting for me to say a joke.

She laughed. "I was being sarcastic as fuck."

"Knew that." Chibs finally spoke. "I still think you're more of a gash than you are of any true help."

"Oh." Her face fell. "Lemme show you how many fucks I give." She reached in her pockets and pulled them inside out. "Would ya look at tha' I have no fucks ta give ya." Her Scottish accent was on point.

Chibs bit back a smirk. "Aye." He sighed. "Gash."

"I'm going over there and I'm going to ask myself, what would Jimmy do?" She said as she crossed her arms and stalked off to a tree. She didn't stand, she lifted herself up into the tree. Disappearing out of our sights.

"Had to piss of the pregnant woman?" Kozik asked. "Classy Telford. She's not going to climb down until she gets an apology."

"I was jokin with the lass." He shrugged. "Didn't think she was so sensitive."

"Are we ignoring the fact that she named an actual Irishman from our past or not?" Tig asked.

I shrugged. "Never mentioned him to her ever." I glared in her direction. "She's got Intel I guess."

SOASOASOA

Bri POV

I hopped out of the tree and landed with a hard thud on the ground. Dust billowing out at the point of impact. I rubbed my stomach then ass as I rushed over to the guys. Aleksandr had picked up activity and was sure that the Eagles were on the move towards TM.

"Guys!" I yelled as I skidded to a stop, knocking into Jax, sending him to his ass. "Sorry." I laughed as he popped up. "Eagles are moving on TM!"

"Let's go!" Jax yelled.

#

"You stay here." Happy pushed me back into the SUV with a little too much force. "We got this."

"But…" I started then clamped my mouth shut. I wasn't going to win this argument so I dropped it. Instead reaching under the seat and pulling out my trusty glock. Just in case I needed it.

"Kill or be killed." He smirked as he took off towards the others.

It killed me not to be fighting side by side with him. I knew it was dangerous but I still selfishly wanted to be part of the action. The Eagles had descended on to TM and I wasn't sure why. The Sons hadn't had real power since the deal with the Irish ended. Their only allies were the Grim Bastards and the white brotherhood.

"Come on Bri think." I kicked the back of the seat until my knees grew sore. "Fuck, Happy." I pushed the door open and dropped down, moving to the back of the SUV. I pulled up the carpeting and popped open the sunk in case, pulling out my favorite sniper rifle. I went to climb to the roof when I felt a heavy hand bare down on my shoulder I whipped around and found Aleksandr smiling behind me.

"Let me do this." He said as his expression turned dark and serious. "I save them for you."

I smiled and nodded tightly as I got back into the SUV. Happy that Aleksandr was by my side, just as he'd been so many different times before.

The SUV shifted as Aleksandr climbed on top. I could only picture him flattening himself out, prone on top of it as he set up his shots. Lining up his targets one by one before picking them off. I had watched him do it time and time again, mostly with fake targets. Soda bottles, scarecrows, and balloons. This time he had human targets and I got to watch as he protected my dysfunctional SOA family.

"Drop em." I whispered. I looked out the window and saw a guy Happy was fighting with drop to the grpund. Then the man shooting at Kozik and Chibs went down even harder than the first one. The last guy, he was scared, I saw him whipping his body around trying to find where the shots were coming from. Aleksandr was two for two. Then, by the hands of Happy, the third man went down hard and I smiled to myself.

"Holy shit!" I heard Jax yell. The fire fight was over. So many Russians lay dead on the ground. I sent up a prayer in Russian and slid softly out of the SUV. I watched Aleksandr lower himself off the SUV tucking the rifle under his arm.

"Thank you Alek." I wrapped my arms around him. "I owe you one."

"Remember, We protect our own." He smiles down at me. "They are your family, so they are mine to protect too."

"We protect our own." I said to myself as I ran over to Happy and Kozik who were looking more shocked and tired than the other guys.

"Shite." Chibs ran a hand through his greasy hair. "Is everyone in one piece?" He looked over all the guys.

"They were after Happy." I finally said out loud to them. "I'm pretty sure they were. It's the only logical thing."

"I told you to stay in the fuckin' car." Happy was seething.

"I did!" I yelled. "I am safe. Aleksandr killed two of the last three guys."

"You killed them?" Kozik asked with a satisfied smirk. "Boss shit."

Aleksandr slowly nodded his response. "Doing what my title calls on me to do."

"What is your title?" Kozik asked.

"Head of security." He laughed. "Bodyguard, enforcer, protector."

"He's my king's hand." I smiled.

"Nice." Kozik smiled at us. "See now, him being one makes sense Banana. Me being one, not so much."

I shrugged. "Fine. I mean, suit yourself."

"I'm still confused on the Happy bit." Chibs said as he looked at me. "Why him?"

"He's my Achilles heel." I sighed.

"Ahh." He shook his head. "Gonna have to take him with you. We can't afford another shoot out like this. We're lucky it was empty today."

"We protect our own Telford." I said forcefully. "Are you trying to kick Happy out of his rightful family?" I shoved him backwards. "We protect our own at all costs, you think I don't know this is a shit situation? That this is mostly my fault, but you guys are his family and you're not going to pawn him off on me. I love him more than words can express but he, well he belongs with you guys. Not in the middle of some fucked up Russian civil war because of me. Well this is Juice's fault." I rubbed the bridge of my nose and frowned at the bump that was there. "But still we protect our own, he's protected you, and the club, and the innocents of the club and now it's your fucking turn to protect him. Killer or not he still needs to be protected."

"I'm not letting a piece of gash like you tell me what the fuck I need to do girl." He tapped me on my shoulder. "Aye, we do protect our own, but he's yours to protect now too."

"That's what I did!" I yelled at him. "I protected him. He's mine, I'm his. We protect each other. I'm trying to get ahead of this shit, I'm not used to running a criminal organization. So excuse me Filip."

"Katarzyna." He spoke and smirked. "We will help you."

"Good." I looked around. "I'll have the guys come by and clean this up."

"Why haven't the police showed up?" Jax asked.

"I have a friend." I smirked.

SOASOASOA

Juice POV

She was standing over me, like a dark spirit. Her hair fell in waves and it brushed against my chest. Her mouth was twisted up into a wicked grin. She was watching me, I don't know how long she had been but now, she was watching me. I was watching her, the way her dark eyes flickered over me, her wicked grin falling into a sad smile until it settled into a worried frown.

She was just here. She wasn't Natalie. In fact I hadn't heard from Natalie in awhile, it didn't worry me though. It was an eerie calm feeling that worked its way deep into my bones, knowing she was standing, watching, worrying over me.

"You solid?" She asked, her hand running down the length of my mowhawk. "Remember, don't lie to me."

"I'm fucked up. I'm still solid, but I'm fucked up." I sighed and fought the urge to pull her down on top of me. She wasn't mine, she belonged to another. A brother. One who had been protective over me on more than one occasion. "Why are you here Brianna?"

"Because I feel guilty." She sighed and sat on the edge of the bed. Mindful of my body and the countless tubes pumping me full of pain killers. "I blame myself for all this shit. I got the second largest faction of the Russian Mafia out to snatch up Happy."

"Why guilt for?" I looked at her. She had seemed to age faster these days. She bit her trembling bottom lip and her perfectly arched brows stitched together with sorrow.

"Because I can't do anything." She let out a hefty sigh. "I have one option, and one option alone. Step down and let the Eagle consume the Skull."

"Then step down." I whispered. "Happy is important to you right? Step down and everything should be good."

"If I hand power over to my mom, well I don't think it would sit right." She fiddled with the hem of her shirt and looked at me. "I need your help."

"You hate me though Bri." I sat up in bed and studied her face carefully.

"I don't hate you. It's the opposite, you know I love you. Not in love with you, but you get the drift right?" She smiled at me. "I need your help, you're the only one that is under the radar."

"Tell me what you want to do." I smiled at her. "I love you too you know."

"Duh." She shrugged. "I want to out smart the Eagle."

#

I let the plan seep its way into my brain. Processing what Bri had outlined, it could work out perfectly, or go to shit really fast. I told her I would help, and I meant that. I wanted to be on her good side again, or at least in her good graces.

"Mr. Ortiz." The nurse came in. "You get to be discharged in the morning. To a private after care facility."

"What?" I looked at her and frowned. "After care facility?"

"Yes." She smiled. "That gorgeous brunette set it up before she left. She really is good to you huh?"

"Yeah she is." I smiled and nodded at her. Bri was putting her plan into action and I was apparently going some place where she could keep tabs on me while I healed to make sure her plan was going to be executed properly.

SOASOASOA

Natalie POV

I was scared, I knew she was mean, but I had never thought she would stand and watch me be kidnapped by oversized men in suits. I was blindfolded and the ride to this house seemed to go on forever. Now I was in a white room, with everything I could possibly need and I was still scared.

"Eat." The man urged me through the door. "For the baby."

That's right, I rubbed on my stomach. I had to eat for baby Luna. Keep her strong and healthy, she would no doubt be ripped from my arms after I gave birth. I fought back the tears, I was done crying. I had brought this shitstorm on myself. Twenty five thousand dollars and I was on the path to being slaughtered. Not killed, slaughtered. No doubt the end I was now destined to meet would be brutal and bloody.

"What did you so to piss her off kid?" The guy stood in the door way of my room with his bushy brows raised in interest as he stared me down.

"Told the police about her and the Family." I shook my head. "I fucked up! I got paid to talk to them. Otherwise I wouldn't have talked at all. I was thinking of my baby." I gestured to my growing belly.

"Tough shit." He shook his head. "You realize whoever you linked up with is trying to kill her?"

My heart fell to my feet. "Why would her mom kill her?"

"Power makes people do crazy shit." He frowned. "Eat." He pointed to the food. "She gave me strict orders to keep you alive and well. To watch after the baby too."

I nodded slowly. "Thanks for this."

"Don't thank me. This was all Bri." He smiled. "She's too good to you, I would have cut your baby out while you were alive and forced you to watch the whole thing."

I swallowed hard at the image his words created. It was brutal and barbaric but I could see him standing over me with a nasty knife, cutting into me with the sole purpose to torture me. To rip life out of me, while both Luna and I faded away.

SOASOASOA

Happy POV

I had spent enough time with Bri and Natalie and learned how to block out all of their bullshit conversations. Nothing had prepared me for the conversations her and Giselle had. It was all about guns, sex, and violence with the two of them. It was like watching Kozik and myself have conversations. It was creepy but hearing Bri brag about her phenomenal sex life and Giselle groaning with jealousy, had me satisfied and turned on.

"Babe." Bri whispered against my ear as she scooted to sit behind me. Her long legs draped over my shoulders. "Need you so bad Happy." She ran her fingers down the sides of my neck.

"You have a guest." I tilted my head back and looked at her. Her eyes heavy lidded and full of lust as she smirked down at me.

"Koz can keep her company." She kissed the top of my head. "You owe me, I saved your life, from three really huge men. 'Member that Hap?"

"I remember." I laughed. "It was sort of fuckin' hot how you went toe to toe with Chibs afterwards."

"I thought you'd be pissed about that." She trailed her tongue over my ear. "I overstepped."

"It's good." I pulled her over into my lap. "You're a mini baby mob boss, you're allowed to get all worked up about shit at certain times."

"Mini baby mob boss." She shook her head. "You think I'm going to give birth to a killing machine?"

"If you stop being reckless about shit then yes. You keep this fuckin' call of duty shit up, then no, you'll lose our kid and I'll be pissed the fuck off about it. So will Ma and Auntie."

"Damn." She pouted. "I'll be safer. Alright? No more guilt tripping me, shit is heavy."

"I'm being an asshole because I love you and actually am gettin' excited about being a dad. So get your fuckin' shit together Bri." I pressed a soft kiss to her lips. "Don't make me regret all of this baby girl."

"I won't." She nodded. "I won't make you regret us. I promise."

"Good, this heart to heart, this shit, doesn't leave this sofa or room." I smiled. "I love you."

"I love you too." She smiled, shifting herself on my lap. "We gonna fuck or Nah?"

"One track mind." I shook my head and stood up with her in my arms. If she wanted to fuck, I was going to give it to her. Hard and fast until she was melted into the mattress and panting hard.