Back into the fire
Two days later Kendal was in a convenient store bathroom down the road from the SAMCRO club house. Opie texted her that he and Jax were headed back for Happy's Birthday Party. Jax wanted to meet up and get the information Kendal had been scavenging since Opie told her the big mess that everyone and especially Tig was in.
Kendal would have to go back to Charming to handle everything properly and Opie did not disagree, however, Ellie had a gargantuan melt down. She never wanted to step foot in Charming ever again, and Kendal did not blame her. They made the compromise that Ellie would get to pick out a nice resort hotel in a bigger city near Charming and Kendal would commute daily, and in a week or so Kendal would drive everyone back for the 4th of July parade.
Two hours ago Kendal left Ellie and Chase in the hotel in Sacramento and headed to Charming with Kenny in tow, he was going to stay with his friend James. Kendal left him about 15 minutes ago and promised her friend Melissa a girl's night with a few bottles of wine and gossip…especially since Melissa had a new man in her life.
Since then she had been getting into costume and character in the Exxon bathroom. Kendal zipped up her ankle high-heeled boots she gave herself a once over in the mirror; skimpy tight leather shorts, cropped silky turquoise halter top, teased up hair with loose curls down her back, dark & smoky eye shadow, dark maroon brick-red lips, hoop earrings, and to really make it believable a ribbon choker with a silver anarchy charm on it. She looked like a cross of Beyoncé, a 50's pin-up girl, and biker chick chic…this would have to do.
She looked at herself in the mirror and said "You can do this. You are not a suburban soccer mom, you are a bad ass. You are dressed like slut, but that is okay, you're trying to blend in…" she sighed in frustration. That was not the pep talk she was intending to give herself.
She tried again looking very serious "This is for Opie. This is for Tig. Suck it up soldier, you will do this, you will succeed, you have no other option." she nodded fixing her mascara one last time before heading out the door.
Kendal tried to buy a pack of gum to not feel bad for the 20 minutes in the bathroom, but the cashier drooled and said it was free. She winked at the youth and went to her rental car feeling like she had at least gotten the costume right.
As she approached the Teller Morrow shop Kendal was at full attention, she noticed two unmarked cop cars and one non law enforcement car watching the compound and its activity. A sigh escaped her lips as she drove through the gates and noticed the guards on the roof, their plan to be hidden had failed horribly. This clearly proved her theory that the cops were not looking for any bust they were waiting and hoping for a big bust. Two counts of illegal possession of a semi-automatic firearm was not enticing enough for these officers, they wanted something juicier.
She parked and took one last calming sigh before getting out and imagining this was her life, she was just a crow eater. Attempting to imitate the girls she met when she worked here, her hips started to sway more with her walk and she put on an air of utter confidence and as expected a hot girl in skimpy clothes went about as noticed here as a frying pan in a kitchen.
Kendal blended into the party well, she got a few cat calls and one prospect slapped her ass, she had to swallow her instinct to punch him, and gave him a sardonic smile saying "No cut, no sweet butt…" and sauntered on inside.
The party was raging well, loud music rang out and it stunk like weed & whiskey, she gave an idle look around trying to find any one she knew and came up empty. She went to the bar and the prospect bartender handed her a beer saying "You're new…I'm Fat Phill."
"Fat Phill, I'm Kay and I am more retro…" she lifted her beer to him before taking a long pull, turning around and leaning on the bar surveying the room. She finally saw Happy in the corner getting a pseudo lap dance from one of the girls she was imitating. She laughed for a minute imagining what Opie would do if he saw her with another man like that, poor guy wouldn't know what hit him…either of them.
Kendal was imagining the scene when the prospect from outside leaned beside her and said "I'm getting my cut soon, hot little thing like you could be my old lady if you play your cards right…" he said trailing his fingers up her arm.
Kendal never knew how hard it must be for these girls not to kick every one of these assholes in the balls every time they opened their mouth, she smiled at him and decided hard to get maybe her best play until Opie got there, she also was fighting the urge to say 'I am someone's old lady you dipshit not get your fucking hands off of me' but what came out of her mouth was "Honey there is nothing on me you could handle, go back to the kiddie pool and come back when you aren't using training wheels…" she shewed his hand away and turned back to the party.
"Come on, baby…" he said taking her hand and putting it on his semi erect dick "I will treat you real nice."
Opie had been torn by every emotion since Kendal agreed to come back to Charming. He was scared because he did not want her near any of the bullshit he was pulling her into; overjoyed because he would get to see her, smell her, touch her, just be with her for a while before she went away again. Moreover, he was excited, ever since their first ride together he felt like he had found the Bonnie to his Clyde, she however, turned out to be an angel to him, the mother to his children, and on occasion the woman who put him in his place. He was really looking forward to doing non-parental things with his girl.
He texted her to meet them at the clubhouse for Happy's party; when they arrived he did not see her car and felt like a boy whose ball went over the fence. As he walked into the club house, it took him about 2 seconds to find her, she was stunning, not in her usual way though she was...being hit on by a prospect who just put her hand on his dick.
It took him two strides to cross the room to her, he heard her say "I would rip it off like a paper towel" before his fist made contact with the prospects face.
He was almost growling at the others around her and said "Mine." before kissing her to drive his point home.
Jax approached laughing at the prospect on the floor "Welcome back Kay, causing trouble as always…"
She stopped kissing Opie "Down boy," she flirted, then looked at Jax "Hey there Mr. President…" she said in a playful mocking tone.
He smiled at her "Do you guys need some time?"
"Naaa…" she smiled slyly at Opie, "we have all night…" she pushed away from Opie and turned to Jax, but Opie kept a possessive arm around her.
Jax looked at Fat Phill and the prospect on the floor, "Leave." Phill helped the other off the ground and both headed outside. "What did you find out?"
"Probably more than you wanted me too…" she gave him an apologetic smile "first you got a leaky ship and you have to plug that shit up now."
Jax and Opie looked at her cautiously "How bad is the leak?" asked Opie.
"Like the Titanic…" Kendal explained.
"Shit." Jax disparaged.
"But I think I have an idea who it is…maybe. I need to talk to you and a few others in private first." Jax nodded "You also have some muteness little shits here too." Jax arched his eyebrow at her "Opie told me about the break ins, I hacked the police files, they aren't thieves, they are dipshits stirring up trouble, no reason to do that unless…"
"To make me look weak…" Jax said and she could see his anger peaking.
"We have 3 new guys who were friends of Clay before he got benched, could be them." Opie added.
"May not be in house…I hope it's not…" she said looking at Jax who was already mapping his next moves "Hey, I know I can't really go undercover here, too many people know me, but I rather go as unnoticed as possible, and I rather people not talk about our kids at all." She said looking at Jax and Opie "I know I have to be Kay here, but I rather be the Kay coming back for a ride on the wild side with Opie and to see her brother than…you know me…me…Ms. Soccer Mom Suburbia USA."
"Is that why you are here like this?" Opie questioned as Jax was in deep thought of what this news meant.
"If by like this you mean, dressed like a girl who can't wait to get her legs wrapped around a Son by any means necessary and undetectably different from the others crow eaters…besides one of the enforcers calling her, his…" she looked at him sarcastically "then yeah, that's why I am like this…how am I doing?"
"If I wasn't in love with my fiancé I would take you right here on this bar…" he said as words of encouragement.
"Promises, promises…and I never said yes." She chided and then looked back at Jax who was still formulating moves and counter moves in his head.
"Someone needs to see Big Otto…" she said offhand "you will need to start there."
"Tara has tried…" Jax said "Why do you think that is our first step?"
"He is the only key they have to true Rico, if that is even what they are aiming for, and once we figure out your leak here, one of your bigger problems go away, next is Pope, and after that I am gone." She said firmly. "I am doing this for Ope & Tig not the club." She said giving him earnest and serious eyes.
Jax nodded "I know Kay. Thank you." He gave her an apologetic smile conveying his feelings on having to drag her back into all of this.
"It's a good thing you are pretty and have a bad boy charm…" she said in acceptance.
"I'm standing right here…" Ope said from behind her.
"Just playing my part…" she said giving Ope a peck on the cheek "Plus I would never do anything with Jax, Tara is a kindred spirit when it comes to jealousy…" Kendal laughed "she would cut a bitch…but with the skilled hands of a surgeon…"
Jax gave a knowing laugh "let's hang around at the party for a while give Happy a chance to enjoy it. Chibs will be back in half an hour or so then we slip into church, I have some more to tell you."
Kendal nodded as and turned to Opie and said "Now let's make this shit believable" rubbing against Opie a little more as she stepped away behind the bar to grab each of them a beer.
Jax called next game and went to the pool table, while Opie & Kendal took a seat on the couch watching everyone. Kendal was in Opie's lap whispering asides in his ear that would make him erupt in laughter. When he finished his beer she got up to get him another and he slapped her ass.
The look Kendal shot him made him say "Sorry babe, got caught up in the play…"
"It's alright cowboy, I'll get you back later." She winked and went to the bar where Fat Phill had resumed his bartending duties.
"Two Shiners" she laughed at the weary look he gave her.
Clay came up from behind and said "Hey Kay, you're looking good."
Despite her mind, her body acted on instinct and anger, in 2 quick moves there was a giant crash as Clay fell to the ground and Kendal stepped on the oxygen hose on his neck blocking it and digging her heel into his chest and she said clearly and loudly "You don't get to talk to me, ever again." She dug her heel into his solar plexus a little more making it even harder for him to breathe "talk to me or my family again and will fucking kill you." She said with conviction.
Everyone was a little too shocked by the scene to react, but one of the newer prospects tried to pull her off and met Opie's fist. Opie whispered in Kendal's ear, she slowly removed her leg from Clay's chest and went with Opie back across the room still staring daggers into Clay.
The new club members stared mouth agape at the hot crow eater who just floored & threatened the former president of the club, the older members waved but had the good sense not to approach her yet.
Opie was whispering softly in her ear that everything was okay and with a growl added "and if anyone gets to kill him, it will be me."
She finally stopped giving Clay the stare of ten thousand deaths and looked at Opie's face, he was torn (as he always was) clearly pleased by her actions but he also trying to maintain some sort of peace or calm within the ranks.
"Fuck them!" she said where only he could hear her "this is a fucking shit organization if they make you sit at the same table with the men that murdered your wife and father. Baby, I have never asked you to leave this life, and I promised myself I never would but this is bullshit and you are so much better than this." Her heart was in her throat as she spoke "Let me kill him and we can run away together... me, you, the kids..." with every word Opie looked crushed she closed her eyes and said "I'm sorry... i'm sorry, its just..."
He shut her up with a hard kiss, pressing her against the wall. When he stopped he said "You have nothing to be sorry for. You want what is best for you and the kids…"
"Ope" she looked at him with so much sincerity his heart ached "I want what is best for you too. YOU are what is best for the kids and me. I just don't function right without you… I mean I survive, but you make it complete. I know I never tell you this shit because I don't want to pressure you or give you more pressure or whatever…" she was almost crying now "but, I need you. The last few years have been great with the kids but so lonely and shitty for me, I spend every day missing you and just wishing I could have you with me…"
She kissed him lightly then sniffed back the tears that were about to fall "While I am here I will be your Bonnie..." she sighed "and despite my new suburban roots, I know I will love it, I can barely wait, to be a bad-bad girl again and this time with you, but…" she took his face in both of her hands "we have a home to go to, we don't have to be here." Before he could disagree or say a thing she kissed him sweet and gentle "I love you…but this is temporary for me…you're not, you have never been, this shit is though."
She sniffed her tears up, wiped her eyes and ran and jumped on Happy's back. "Happy! How many new tats do you have to show me?!" she laughed and kissed his cheek.
"Kay!" He said laughing and flipped her off his back and hugging her when he let her go he lifted his shirt and Kendal saw at least 2 dozen more happy faces.
"Busy boy…" she said Opie came up behind her and they all jovially talked until Chibs and Tig came in.
Tig made a bee line for Kendal and swooped her up into a hug "What are you doing here?" he said spinning her in a circle.
"You know just a little visit, a little help for my friends…" she whispered in his ear.
"Where is Dee? You have to keep her far away from all of this…you too." He said putting her down and about to lecture on how she was a mother and this was not the time or the place for a visit but a small shake of her head shut him up.
Chibs came forward and gave her a little hug "how you doing Kay girl?"
"Better than this stinking lot, you have 3 cop cars and 2 unidents watching and your guards are all but waving their dicks at them." She said only loud enough for those in the immediate area to hear her.
"Church?" Juice asked Jax.
Jax shook his head "Just a closed door meeting of the minds…" he whispered into Happy's ear and then headed to the conference room followed by Chibs, Tig, Opie, and Kendal.
Once they closed the door behind them Happy lovingly through one of the crow eaters on the pool table and called out for "SHOTS!" The party seemed to hit a rather large raging factor after that.
Kendal sat on the edge of the table closest to Opie looking at the others who looked at her expectantly. "Well, first you have a leak and I don't think it is a prospect because they do not know enough, and it is not one of you, so you can work it out yourself or I can politely ask everyone questions…" she said with only a slight hint of sarcasm.
"We will find out…it has to be one of the new guys…" Jax said.
"I wouldn't be so certain, what I hacked from the AD's office the informant knew shit from a while back…like me…I don't like that one bit boys." She said eyeing them all with disappointment. "This is someone close, someone you would never suspect, and someone who you would trust with everything I am telling you…SO clearly do not trust a fucking soul."
Jax nodded "now about our other matters…"
Kendal sighed "the illustrious Mr. Pope." Hopped off the table and made her way over to the opposite end where Tig stood with crossed arms. "there are many ways to take down a man such as Pope…the most obvious is kill him. The more painful is to dissect him until there is nothing for him to do but bleed out and beg for mercy." She hugged her brother's side "I intend to gut him with or without the club…"
"He is well protected, and has that contract on who ever kills him…" Ope says looking at her with concerned eyes "I didn't want you in this deep."
"Then you shouldn't have brought me in at all." She said giving him a boiling stare "He fucked with my family…and no one fucks with my family." Tig kissed her forehead "If you are going to continue to play his reindeer games that is fine…I would prefer it actually, it would keep you and Tig off of the radar for what is going to happen to him." She looked at Jax "I don't care what you say Jax I know he still wants Tig…" Jax opened his mouth to say something but she spoke over him "You are smart and you bought Tig some time, but he will want his head on a platter and that will never happen." Jax nodded at her.
"How do we find the leak?" Chibs asked diverting back to the immediate problem at hand.
"I will let you boys ponder that,"' Kendal said as she let go of Tig and walked back over to Opie "If you need me to question anyone I will be available tomorrow, now my boyfriend is going to drag me out of here like a caveman and take me to his place. You all are going to tell everyone who knows me that I brought you a job…and for the newbies, say I was just entertainment."
Jax explained to everyone that Kendal though clearly not undercover was trying to be as blended as possible, and besides kicking Clay's ass and Opie decking a prospect she wasn't doing a bad job.
As Opie was leading her out Jax asked "Kay, who do you think it is?"
"I am smarter than that…" Kendal said looking over her shoulder "you don't accuse a brother without evidence…I know that much."
Jax looked at her sincerely "please?"
She looked on him with pity "Someone who the police have given a harder than normal time to, someone who can't seem to get back to being alright, someone who has done something out of character lately…" she opened the door "someone who could be in that" she referenced the scene of debauchery and sins of all imaginable sort "and still looks like a cat just shit in their mouth…" and then she nodded at the man in the corner who was looking around but had no sense of joy in him.
Jax and Chibs got up and looked at the person she nodded at "No…" Chibs said.
Kendal kissed his cheek and walked out dodging several different versions of a good time including a prospect getting head from a crow eater. As she made her way through the crowd she took a shot of tequila from another crow eater and turned and poured it in Opie's mouth and put the lime in her mouth.
He picked her up as he sucked the lime. He spit the lime out and kissed her violently, when he put her down she said "Let's get the hell out of here…" he nodded at her and looked ravenous.
To amuse himself and to give her the full crow eater effect he picked her up through her over his shoulder slapped her ass and headed out the door to a few cheers from the on lookers.
They got on his bike and she wrapped her arms around him laying her cheek against his back as he took off. A few minutes later they were kissing on his door step, when he slid back to open the door she whispered that someone had followed them but drove off when they arrived at the house. Opie dismissed it as an undercover cop and shoved her inside and continued to ravage her.
They had made love for hours and until they were both thoroughly exhausted. They had fallen asleep in each other's arms when Opie's phone went off. Kendal moaned in annoyance reaching over Opie grabbing the phone and handing it to him "Make it stop." She begged snuggling closer to him.
A low grumble came from his chest as he answered "What?" Kendal was purposely ignoring the noise from the other line and pressing as close to Opie as she could winding her legs with his and settling back in for sleep "Alright…yeah I said alright." he grumbled at the phone and then hung up looking down at Kendal on his chest. "Babe,"
"Nooo" she whined.
"Sorry…" he said as he slid her from him and sat on the side of the bed.
"Fine." She pouted turning over and letting her back and ass show "Leave me the keys I have to go get my rental in the morning I told Ellie I would be back by breakfast."
"I'll leave them on the table…" he said leaning over to kiss her cheek, then grabbing his things and leaving the room as quiet as he could.
Kendal was drifting back to sleep and was almost there when she heard a window break. Her eyes popped wide open she grabbed for the phone and the gun Opie always had in his bedside table. Much to her glee there were 3 burner phones and one gun with an attachable suppressor. She grabbed it all and headed for the tiny closet closing the door as she heard 3 pairs of footsteps crunching through the glass in the kitchen.
She called Opie with one phone put it on speaker and mute and kicked it out into the room, she used the same treatments on the other phones one calling Tig, and Jax on the other. By the time they were turning the door handle to the bedroom she had controlled her breathing and was screwing the suppressor into place.
Opie had been on the road to Karakara for about 15 minutes when his phone rang he did not recognize the number but he pulled over and answered. "Hello?" He could not hear much but he heard…footsteps?
He listened closely to the ambient noise and finally he heard someone say "Come out come out wherever you are girly whirly…we are going to treat you real nice…"
Opie immediately turned around and headed back to his home praying that Kendal had checked the bedside table and found the gun.
Tig was laying on the couch in the club with two girls stacked on top of him. He heard his phone ring he dropped it and then picked it up "Hello?"
He could not hear anything on the other end and was about to hang up until he heard a man's voice saying "Come out come out wherever you are girly whirly…we are going to treat you real nice…"
He bolted up, screaming at the phone, but no one answered back. He bolted to the back got a few larger weapons and then headed for his bike and waited for anything to tell him who they had gotten their hands on praying it was not Fawn.
That's when he heard 3 silenced gun shots from a gun with a silencer and his sister's voice saying "three men in cuts, one tall, with a goatee the other shorter with more hair and a tattoo of a mermaid" there was a scuffle of movement and Tig could not hear what was happening until he heard a man cry out in pain.
"Your boyfriend is miles away honey, you can't take on all three of us…" Tig started his bike and kicked off heading for Opie's house fast as hell.
Kendal laughed hauntingly "I could if I wanted to, matter of factly the only reason your alive now is so Jax can get more information…" she looked at the three of them keeping her gun steady at the biggest man's head "and really so my brother can get out some of his feelings…"
The smallest of the three made a lunge for her and she used his unsteady gait to aid her as she kicked him in the bullet wound in his thigh, she had so thoughtfully given him early, making him cry out.
The other two lunged for her at the same time, she managed to shoot one in the elbow as the other knocked her to the ground and wrestled her for the gun. "Who's your brother sweety…" he teased as he held her down and took the time to feel her up.
"Tig" she said as she bit down on his ear and ripped it off kicking him backwards as he screamed and reached for his missing ear. Kendal scrambled to her feet and shot him in the shin making him crumple to the ground.
All three men lost their color when she said her brother's name "You are Tig's sister…?" one of them asked with a shaky voice.
"Yep…" and she heard a bike bellowing towards them "and I bet you that is him…or Jax.." she said turning her head to the side and listening carefully to the engine "that is a super glide…" she smiled at them "you are lucky, that is Jax, Tig shouldn't be far behind…"
"How?" the one asked holding his arm together.
"Oh I called them the second you broke the glass," she snorted in laughter "for outlaws you are shit at breaking the law…" she laughed and the man with only one gunshot wound came at her again. She stepped to the side of his messy grapple and elbowed him in the kidney before pistol-whipping the back of his head.
Jax walked in the room right as she struck the back of his head with the gun and had his gun aimed on the others in the room. "you good Kay?"
"Well enough, but I need to put on clothes before Tiggy gets here…" and she heard another bike pulling up. She went to the closet and pulled out one of Opie's button up flannels and slid into it before Tig came busting in the room.
