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Set the morning after the last chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not have the rights to SOA and make no profit off my writing. Anything you don't recognize from the show I have created.

Content Warning: This fanfiction is rated M. Please respect that warning and do not read this if you do not want to read M rated material.

2022

Age 30

Gabby stood in Kristen's doorway listening to Casper read their children a story. She smiled when he noticed her and blew him a kiss before walking back to the master suite. Casper finished the story quickly and pressed a kiss to his son's forehead before carrying him to his own room.

Casper took a turn standing in his own doorway watching Gabby massage lotion on her legs, slowly moving her way from her calves to her thighs, under Casper's favorite short silky black nightgown.

"Kids are down." He informed her, walking further into the room and locked the door behind him.

"You want to help?" Gabby smirked and rubbed the remaining lotion into her hands.

Casper shed his clothes as he slowly walked towards her. "Where do you want it?" He whispered in her ear grabbing her bottle of lotion with one hand and sliding her nightgown strap down her shoulder. "Here?" He asked before kissing the exposed skin. "Here?" He asked again moving down to her shoulder blade.

"Mmmm lower." Casper tossed the lotion bottle on the ground and slipped her other strap off her shoulder. He ran his hands over the smooth material covering her torso before gently tugging the nightgown off and letting it pool at her feet.

She leaned against him as his hands ran over her body, cupping her tits. She looked up at him and he bent down and captured her lips, she really loved how tall he was sometimes.

Casper slowly walked them to the bed and laid her down, balancing himself on his elbows on top of her and slowly started to kiss her. There was nothing he loved more than kissing his wife. He took his time with her, tracing her lips with his tongue, gently sucking her bottom lip into his mouth, sweeping his tongue over hers. His lips smiled against hers as she whimpered and pulled herself up against his body wrapping a leg around him and grinding against him.

Her fingers dug into his back as she ground her wet pussy against his hard on, he let her have the control, it was all the same to him when they were in bed like this, as long as it was slow he didn't care who was in charge, he just wanted to loose himself in her. She wrapped her legs around him and he slipped inside of her, almost like a natural reaction. She gasped and he smiled against her lips, making his thrusts as slow as he could manage. She pulled herself tighter against him, taking him deeper and he stilled his actions making her groan. Gabby wasn't nearly as big a fan of slow love making as he was. Gentle and loving was one thing she always said, slow was another.

"Patients Love." He whispered in her ear and sucked on the sensitive skin just underneath it. She arched her neck giving him better access and clenched her muscles around his dick, she knew how to play him as well. Her hand trailed from his back to his ass and she pulled him even closer. She wished she was strong enough to flip them but even though Casper wasn't a large man his 6'5'' muscular frame was too much for her to maneuver.

"Mmmm" he hummed and started thrusting again while he kissed along her jaw. He pulled out and she whimpered. He chuckled as he slipped off her and pushed her on her side. He wrapped her in one long arm and pushed her top knee up to her chest so he could slip back in her and stoke her clit with his other hand. There wasn't much she could do to him in this position other than rest her hand on his ass and so his lips found the back of her neck as he took control and felt her relax against him.

"Baby." She breathed out.

"Yes Love?" He teased.

"Babe!" she gasped and he kissed down her jaw.

"Come for me Gabby, come for your husband." He continued thrusting as he stroked her clit and pulled her closer as he felt her tremble. He kissed her swallowing her moans and held her tight till her orgasm passed. He flattened her on her back and stared into her eyes, "now do I get what I want?" She simply smiled and closed her eyes, licking her lips as her head fell back to the mattress and he continued to ever so slowly thrust in and out of her, feeling every inch of her surrounding him.

Gabby woke up warm in her husband's arms. He was once again awake before her and absently stroking her shoulder with his thumb. "Can we talk?" She asked as soon as the fog lifted from her brain. 'Can we talk' or 'we need to talk' had always been the couple's code for club business and Casper nodded his head adjusting his hold on her as she sat up.

"You guys were in good spirits after church last night, has everything been resolved?"

"Tony got us what we needed. D-27 seems to be here on their own. Two of the men have no link to the LA gang, and another seems to have been ostracized. He must have taken a small following with him when he left. We voted last night to explain the way things work here, our rules, our fees."

Gabby nodded her head but narrowed her eyes. "And if they don't take it well after being allowed to operate freely for so long?"

"Then they leave." He kissed the tip of her nose to reassure her and she sighed. "You don't want them to leave?"

"I just don't have a good feeling about this whole thing, haven't from the start." She shook her head.

"Not your place to worry about that." Casper said sternly and held her jaw to look her in the eye.

Gabby grinned, she never could convince him she could handle club problems. "My apologies Mr. SOA, how can I ever make it up to you?" Casper scoffed and leaned his head against the headboard of their bed.

"Too early for teasing." He mumbled. Gabby licked her lips and slipped out of his hold under the covers. Casper rolled his eyes expecting his wife to try and annoy him and instead gasped as she took his limp cock in her mouth. "Fuck Gabby!" He flinched at the unexpected warmth around him and tangled a hand in her unruly morning hair. It didn't take much for her to suck him hard and deep throat him. Casper threw the covers back and watched his wife's head bobbing up and down on him. He pulled her hair back in one hand so he could see her face and when she met his eyes and popped his dick out of her mouth swirling her tongue around the tip and licking off his precum he pulled her forcefully up his body.

"Don't like?" She grinned licking her lips.

"You won't get pregnant that way." He managed to get out before sticking a finger in her pussy and groaning at how wet she was.

"No, but it'll feel good." He growled and grabbed the back of her thighs pulling her onto his dick and impaling himself as deep as he could in her.

"So will this." He growled out and again wrapped a hand tight in her hair as she rode him with vigor.

They both closed their eyes at the creek of a bedroom door and stilled as their own doorknob turned. "I locked it." Casper assured her in a whisper and looked at her pleadingly to keep going.

"Daddy?" Kristen called through the door and Casper let go of his wife's hair and rubbed a hand down his face.

"Should have let me swallow." Gabby smirked and Casper glared at her.

"Daddy's sleeping." He yelled and Gabby clapped a hand over her mouth to stifle a giggle.

"You're not sleeping, you're talking." Kristen tried the door knob again.

Casper tossed Gabby onto the bed next to him. "Daddy's coming sweetie." Gabby shook her head 'no' and dissolved into more laughter as Casper threw the blanket over her and pulled on his jeans from the floor. He checked to make sure his wife was covered before he opened the door and squatted down.

"Good morning sweetie." Casper smiled and kissed his daughters cheek.

"Daddy, you promised we'd make pancakes." Kristen wrapped her arms around his neck and Casper stood up taking her with him.

"Yeah I did, didn't I. Kristen do you know what time it is?" Casper rolled his eyes as Gabby pretended to snore under the blanket to avoid her daughter.

"It is 6:17." Kristen said proudly.

"And do you know what day it is?" Casper carried his daughter down the stairs.

"Saturday!"

"Yes Kristen, it is 6:17 on a Saturday morning."

"And we're gonna make pancakes!" Casper smiled and gave up, it was impossible to stay mad at his daughter.

Gabby got out of bed and grabbed a quick shower and threw sweatpants and a t-shirt on before sneaking into Mathew's room. He had managed his way out of bed and was throwing plastic blocks into his empty toy chest. "Hey little man, you want pancakes?"

"Mommy! Pancake!" Mathew got up and ran to his mother so she could pick him up.

"Yes, Daddy and sissy made us pancakes!" She carried her son down the stairs and set him down in the hall to run into the kitchen on his own.

"Daddy!" Casper turned around and Gabby smiled innocently at him. She was in no way ashamed at getting out of making pancakes with her six year old daughter, especially since Casper's bare chest was nearly covered in white powder. He shook his head at her and picked up Mathew not caring that he was leaving white handprints on his son's pajamas.

"Daddy we need to flip!" Kristen called out on a stool next to the stove.

"Okay, Mathew we gotta flip!" Casper turned around and grabbed a spatula. He flipped one over and paused at the doorbell.

"I'll get it." Gabby laughed and walked out of the kitchen to the front door. "Shark?" Gabby asked as soon as she opened the door and saw the obviously hung over brother in dirty clothes and sunglasses; she bit her lip not to ask any questions.

Instead of saying hi he held out his cellphone and played a voicemail. "Uncle Shark me and Daddy are gonna make pancakes! Come over!"

Gabby covered her mouth to not get snapped at for laughing. "There's four more. I want my pancakes and I want coffee." Shark walked past her and flinched at the squeal that came out of the kitchen. "AND ASPIRIN." He grabbed Gabby's arm. "Lots and lots of aspirin."

"Uncle Shark you came!" Kristen propelled herself off her stool and ran to Shark who automatically scooped her up instead of letting her plow into his legs.

"What's Uncle Sharks rule about Saturday's munchkin?" He spoke quietly and flinched again when she took off his sunglasses.

"Uncle Shark doesn't do Saturday morning's he does Saturday afternoons." Kristen recited.

"And when did you call me?"

"But Uncle Shark we made pancakes!" Kristen defended herself and Shark caved when he looked her in the eye.

"Did you make me a special pancake?" He asked, setting her on the counter and taking Casper's coffee.

The doorbell rang again and Shark flinched again swallowing the three aspirin Gabby dropped in his hand.

"I'll get it." Gabby repeated herself.

"Oh Kristen, how many more people did you invite?" Casper handed Mathew to Shark and looked his daughter in the eye.

"Just Grandpa." Kristen ducked her head as Gabby walked back in the kitchen with another hung over biker. "And Uncle Vin." She added as Vin collapsed onto a chair and buried his face in his arms on the table.

"Anyone else?" Casper asked.

Kristen shook her head and looked down at her lap. "Am I in trouble?" She asked.

Shark sighed and shrugged his shoulders and Vin turned his head to look at the back of the little girls head and smiled. "You promise not to call your uncles for breakfast so early again?"

Kristen nodded her head vigorously. "What time can I call them?"

"Noon."

"10:30."

"11:00" The adults all looked up as Happy walked in, his head and face covered in stubble but nowhere near as hung over as the other two.

"Grandpa!" Kristen shrieked and Shark and Vin again flinched.

"You're lucky you're cute sweetie." Happy picked Kristen up off the counter. "Let's teach you how to make coffee."

The entire club plus several nomads, minus the prospect pulled up to the rundown house they had tracked down as D-27's place of operations. The prospect had planted himself across the street as a bum and alerted them when the entire gang was inside. They knew now D-27 was 11 men strong. The got names and jackets on eight of them. The leader was Deus and had been kicked out of the Diablo for some unknown reason. He had taken at least five Diablo's with him, and two men had no connection to the LA gang but were in some way related to an ex-diablo. There were three wild cards in the gang as well that the prospect hadn't managed to get names on. Druggies in the neighborhood had given Tony info that two Fresno small time dealers had joined D-27, but the club had yet to narrow down whom.

Five Nomads spread out around the house in case the men tried to run. All nine Fresno patches headed to the door, they knew fairly well what to expect, Tony had gone above and beyond and actually managed to do a buy out of the house, he was able to sketch them a blueprint of the inside and give them a fairly good idea of where weapons might be hidden.

Vin knocked on the door, Lenard and Chris flanking him. The door opened a crack and instantly slammed shut. The officers stepped aside and Shark and Bull each took a shoulder to the door busting it open. From there it was on. Happy Tom Tom Casper Frankie and Vin ran in first, guns drawn, Shark and Bull came in next. Chris and Lenard wear the last wave, Harry staying in the yard watching the door. Shouts could be heard from the Nomads that had caught a few men trying to get out the back, once that route was cut off the D-27 men seemed to panic.

"Everybody freeze!" Chris yelled at the top of his lungs when half the gang dropped to the ground and the other half started pulling weapons. "Guns on the ground, hands on your heads and no one gets hurt. I want to talk to whoever is in charge here!"

The younger members complied with Chris' order, a few of them looking genuinely terrified. The older, more experienced members lowered their weapons, but there was no way in hell they were going down on the ground.

"I'm in charge here. Who the fuck do you think you are?" A tall man with a scar under his left eye stepped up.

"I'm the man deciding whether you live or die. Drop the gun or he's gonna break your goddamn hand getting it out." Chris nodded to Hap and the man shoved the gun into the front of his jeans. "Good enough. I'm Chris. You're stepping in on my territory. I ain't asking you to leave, but there's some rules you're gonna need to follow. You being in charge, that makes you Deus."

The man seemed slightly taken aback that Chris seemed to know his name which was an added bonus of the intelligence he had gathered. "Here's how this works. You know who we are, don't you? If you didn't your men wouldn't be shitting themselves right now." Chris waved his gun, safety on, at the few men that had remained on the ground.

"We've given you ample time to come to us, learn the rules, offer up some cash." A good enough excuse he felt for the delay in action. "You don't seem to have appreciated the chance."

"Here we just thought you were all pussies." Deus snapped defensively.

Happy walked up to Deus and took the gun out of the front of his jeans and shoved it in his mouth. "That's Hap's nice way of telling you to shut the fuck up." Vin smirked and Shark full out grinned, both men still had guns drawn on the group.

"There's a price to be paid for slinging on our streets Deus, and there's rules." Chris stepped closer and eyed Hap to pull the gun out. "You do know about the rules, don't you Deus?"

"D don't follow no rules, old man."

"Say D, who's your second?"

"X." Deus spat out and a slightly younger man obviously related to Deus nodded his head.

"Nice to meet you X." Chris nodded and Hap pressed Deus' gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. "You're now in charge." Chris added to X as the man watched his former leaders body collapse to the floor. "Now about those rules."

Casper sat at the bar, a beer in his hand, an empty shot glass turned over in front of him. Tom Tom sat next to him nearly mirroring his actions and Bull sat in the corner blankly staring at a sweet butt failing miserably in her attempts to tempt him.

"They gonna be okay?" Frankie asked Chris handing him a fresh beer.

"Hard to believe that's the first kill they've seen." Chris shook his head.

"Been sending Vin on all our shit, then Hap…" Lenard nodded his head.

"Takes a different kind of man to not think twice at a kill like that." Chris eyed Hap, currently getting a blowjob by the blond that had added a smiley face to his collection.

"Think we're jaded after so many years?" Lenard asked quickly downing the shot handed to him by Vin.

"We beat a lot of heads, run off a lot of shit bags, not all that often we kill 'em outright." Vin shrugged and downed his own shot.

"That shit really didn't faze you at all, did it?" Lenard shook his head at Vin.

"We voted, we agreed, cut the head off and the body dies. Those guys are gonna run for the hills man, we ain't gonna see them again." Vin defended his callous attitude.

"X seemed to listen pretty intently to what we told him." Chis offered up to his officers.

"X seemed interested, his men were fucking pissing themselves. Can't run that kind of outfit when half the gang gets scared off with one hit. Even if he wants to stand up, boy don't have no legs, or arms. You see that one kid on the ground crying? Thought he was gonna puke when that blood started seeping to him. And he still wouldn't fucking move, wouldn't budge a god damn inch." Vin smiled but held in his chuckle as his brothers obviously weren't as keen on the kill.

"We'll know in a week, their first payment is due next Monday. We get an envelope full of cash the man has more balls then we thought." Chris finally took the shot Vin had handed him.

"And if we don't?" Frankie put out.

"Then we make sure they're gone, or we kill X and elect another." Vin swiped the last shot off the table and walked across the bar to Happy handing him the shot as he zipped up his jeans. The killer grinned and downed it, handing the empty glass back to the sweet butt with a nod for another.

Casper parked in the garage more than a little tipsy. It was late, he had missed dinner, and putting the kids to bed, his brain, foggy as it was, knew he should have come home earlier, and a bit more sober.

Gabby was sitting on the steps at the garage door in her robe having been roused from bed by a call from her father. She had been warned earlier that it had been a hard day, and not to expect Casper. She appreciated her father's warnings. He had spent many years sheltering her from everything club related, so to now have him cluing her in to her husband's needs was both comforting and a bit disconcerting.

"Hey baby." Gabby stood up and hit the button to close the garage before walking toward her husband.

"Gabby." Casper wasn't so far gone that he was slurring, but he certainly didn't look steady on his feet.

"You have a bad day?" She snaked her hands under his cut and held his sides.

"We…yeah, yeah love." He sunk his face down into her hair and breathed in, "bad day."

"Come on baby, you need a shower." She pulled away and attempted to tug him to the door.

"Do I have blood on me?" Casper looked down at his shirt and then examined his hands.

"No baby, no blood, I just want you all wet and soapy and naked." Gabby tried to entice him.

"I don't deserve you." Casper pulled himself away from his wife and sat down on his bike.

"Yes you do, I'm not as perfect as I appear to be." Gabby walked up to him and pulled his head against her chest. He buried his face in her silk covered cleavage and set his hands on her hips.

"You're not perfect, no one is. You're a good person, a good wife, a good mother. I couldn't put my kids to bed. I didn't…I didn't want them to see me, I…"

"Baby." She ran her fingers through his hair and he pulled her closer to him, needing her firm presence against his body. Seeing him like this was breaking her heart.

"Baby, you love the kids, you are a good dad. You are a good person, if you weren't a good person you wouldn't feel like this right now." She squeezed her eyes shut and forced the tears back. Her father had told her exactly, or nearly exactly what had happened, the club had tracked down the D-27 and he had killed the leader. He hadn't cared, hadn't been upset or ashamed. He just wanted to inform her, let her know her husband hadn't taken it so well.

"I stood there and watched him die. I knew it was gonna happen, I went, I helped, I…" Casper swallowed back a sob and Gabby pulled him tighter into her chest.

"I love you baby." Gabby whispered into her husband's ear.

Casper shook his head and pulled away. "No, I…I shouldn't be here. I shouldn't have come home, I…"

"Casper." Gabby grabbed his face in both her hands. "You are my husband, my old man, the father of my kids. I know how the club works, I know what they ask of you, I've known since before I ever met you, before I took your ink. I love you, I love you as much as I loved you this morning, even if you had been the one to pull the trigger I would still love you as much I did this morning. Come inside, come to bed, hold me."

Casper dropped his head back to his wife's chest and his hands back to her hips. "I love you so much."

"I love you too." She assured him.

"I can't go inside." He shook his head against her. She knew part of his reaction was the alcohol in his system. Casper tended to get depressed if he drank much passed a buzz. She could count on one hand the number of times he'd gotten drunk in the 8 years she had known him.

"Then hold me out here." She pulled his head off her chest and looked him in the eye. He allowed her to pull him up and settle him on the stairs she had previously been waiting on. He dropped down hard and leaned against the door leading to the house. Gabby sat down on his lap and tucked her hands under his cut. He wrapped his arms around her, letting one hand rest on her head, pulling it to rest in the crook of his neck.

"I'm sorry Love." He spoke into her hair, "I'm so sorry."

"Nothing to be sorry for Casper. Nothing." She emphasized, meaning both the day and his reaction to it.

"Fucker's killed my brother." X ranted to his own new second, Tiago.

The men had packed up and retreated to their kitchen on the outskirts of town. As far as they knew the Sons didn't know where it was, but they had their two Fresno recruits, Salus and Viper outside to hopefully recognize any of the Son's if they rolled up.

"They knew a lot of shit X." Tiago had gotten more worried the longer the Sons had spoken to them. He knew who the Sons were, he thought he knew what they were capable of. It had been his cousin Ace's idea to come to Fresno and Tiago was worried X might take the death of his brother out on him.

"I ain't sitting down for this man." X was pacing across the room, waving his gun around with every sentence. "What are the boys saying?" He turned around to stare down Tiago.

In truth a lot of the boys were talking about skipping town, a few of them were hoping to get back in with the Diablos, but Tiago knew if X found out he was about to be abandoned he'd lose it completely.

"They're worried, but they're loyal, they'll back you man." Tiago assured him.

"Good, good." X nodded his head and continued to pace the room.

Tiago sat on the floor of the back bedroom and rested his head on the dirty wall. "Sling's still cooking, right?" X stopped pacing and looked panicked.

"X man, Sling can't cook with us in here, Jesus man, you trying to kill us all?" Tiago lifted his head but continued sitting.

"We need money. We gotta have something to sell to get money." X started pacing again. "We fucking need money Ti!"

"Look, X," Tiago reluctantly stood up "I really think we should just pack up and go, cut our losses, there's plenty of other towns to sell in man."

"THEY KILLED MY BROTHER!" X turned and screamed, pointing his gun at Tiago. "They ain't getting away with that man, they ain't getting away with that!"

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