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Age 30
2022
Vin sighed as he once again sat down for church. Between yesterday and this morning he was getting sick of this room. The men slowly followed him inside and settled. They were obviously just as anxious to get this over with.
"You pick up on anything at the station?" Vin immediately asked Happy.
"One better, talked to Hammond."
"And what did our friend have to say?" Frankie asked sarcastically.
"A few very interesting things actually." Shark took over. "He claimed they had no idea anyone but patches were inside. Also knew about the sentries on the roof."
"There was no one on the roof when the SWAT team showed up here." Tom Tom unneedingly reminded the group.
"He didn't say how he knew about them. Just said their 'sources' told them. Someone was watching the clubhouse. Either cops or a snitch."
"Do we need to add an in house snitch to our list of problems?" Harry asked.
"Don't think so. This day and age cops could have a camera pointed at the clubhouse 24-7 and we'd never know. I sweep the property twice a week, but a camera with a good zoom could track our comings and goings from a block away. It'd take me weeks to track down every electronic signal being sent from the vicinity. And if it ain't a live feed, just a periodic data burst, fuck, forget it." Casper explained.
"It could have been X." Vin said. "He could have been watching us this whole time."
"Best place to hide I suppose. We assumed he'd stay as far from the clubhouse as possible." Bull offered.
"Did we get confirmation X was the witness?" Happy asked.
"Basically. X either knows more about this city than we gave him credit for of he's one lucky son of a bitch." Vin answered.
"According to Gates, someone walked in with information and Greggs sat down with him." Tom Tom picked up after Vin.
A string of mumbled profanities came from the men not at that particular meeting with Gates.
"A clean ex-gang member that came to the city for a fresh start just so happened to be changing a flat tire and saw Lenard and Chris ride past him, heard a crash, and saw Lenard ride back again." Vin repeated the story.
"Right stretch of highway, right time frame." Tom Tom added.
"Identified Lenard and Chris by tattoo, bike, club patches, and faces. And apparently saw it all as they rode by him without slowing down." Vin continued.
"And Greggs jumped on it." Casper mumbled.
"Fuck, Greggs probably fed him half the details." Tom Tom shrugged.
"They can't build a case on that, no way. Not that shit, not with X's record." Casper complained.
"If they add in motive of Lenard getting promoted the prosecution could stand a fighting chance." Shark spoke up.
"But that's not true, only ace in the hole we got is that Lenard didn't want to be president. Frankie and I can both testify to that." Vin said.
"Nothing any of us say will matter. Prosecution will say we're lying to protect our brother." Casper shook his head.
"What about some of the men X was working with? Get them to admit X wasn't clean, that he came here to deal. Discount the prosecution's only witness." Tom Tom suggested.
"Those men are dead." Happy reminded him.
"Actually." Casper cleared his throat, "two are in prison in LA, Red and Cato are free and seemingly clean in LA, and Salus is still probably somewhere in Fresno laying low." Casper corrected his father in law.
"We killed Deus in front of all those men." Frankie added.
"I realize that, but they don't have to mention that part. If they say they came here to deal with X, and that the man went insane after his brother disappeared and blamed the club, it could seriously discount his testimony." Casper explained.
"Why would they help us? We ain't got the kinda money needed to make that happen. We just paid off Gates. The rest of our excess cash is gonna go to Sieben for Lenard's defense." Vin questioned Casper.
"Maybe Sieben could offer the guys in jail a deal if they testify." Bull suggested.
"Only the prosecution has clout like that." Frankie corrected him.
"Red and Cato. If they have indeed gone clean they'd make good witnesses. Might want to do the right thing. Or might be missing the easy cash. We could pull something together. Other charters always need help. I could take the prospects, do some work, bring back some cash." Shark offered.
"I was thinking Salus actually." Casper spoke up. "Native to Fresno, well known. Get him up on the stand to say X came here to deal, that he was too insane to work with. Offer him a decrease in fees, permission to deal in our territory."
"You just said he's well known. Why would they believe his testimony?" Harry asked.
"Salus owns a dry cleaning business. Pickup and delivery. It's how he distributes. He hasn't had charges against him in three years, since he started the cover. Put him up on the stand as a drug dealer turned clean small business owner. He says X came to town wanting to partner up with him, was insane, had some weird vendetta against us. Salus doesn't have to admit to anything illegal, he just has to discredit X to the jury." Casper explained.
"He's the only one we have something tangible to offer something too." Shark backed up his friend.
"Exactly. We can give him more territory, negotiate fees, offer protection, even backup against his rivals. He's got pressure from the north, but he won't cross over onto our side because he can't afford the toll." Casper continued to paint a picture.
"We don't know where Salus is. He hasn't surfaced since he left D-27." Tom Tom brought up.
"We don't know if Salus was hiding from us or from X. With X out of the picture he might resurface. If not, we can transfer all our efforts from finding X to finding Salus." Casper defended his plan.
Vin sighed. "Not sure how I feel about it, but it appears to be our most tangible plan. Salus falls through we can maybe try the boys in LA. Anyone got anything else?"
"We still on lock down?" Harry asked.
Vin wiped a hand over his face. "Since we know X is stuck in wit pro we should be okay to open the gates."
"Thank fuck." Bull mumbled.
"You live here, ass wipe." Shark snapped.
"Yeah, and I want my fucking room back."
"You sure Vin?" Casper asked, ignoring Bull.
Vin exhaled before slowly nodding his head. "Lenard called this lockdown to keep everyone safe while we hunted down X. We knew he'd be striking back. He has. And the only good thing to come of it is that now he's stuck in wit pro. He's out of our reach, but we're out of his too."
"And he's got no one left to reach out to." Frankie added.
"I'm all for releasing the leeches, but…I don't think we should send the kids home." Harry spoke up.
Casper sighed. "I feel the same way, but the kids don't want to be here. They're scared of this place after the raid."
"We'll keep the prospects on them." Happy stated.
Vin simply nodded his head. He wasn't going to question Happy on how he wanted his grandchildren protected. "I need a team on the streets looking for Salus. Casper, do your thing. Get us some leads."
Casper nodded his head as Vin picked up the gavel. "Anything else?" He asked the men. He received no replies and banged the gavel.
Casper opened the door to the dorm room quietly and listened to Gabby reading in bed to the kids. As far as he knew they had yet to leave the room. Gabby had even brought their breakfast and lunch into the dorm.
"Hey." He got their attention and came further into the room. "I got news." He said happily.
"Can we go home?" Kristen immediately asked.
"Yup!" Casper exclaimed and picked Kristen up off the bed.
Gabby didn't bother asking 'really' or 'when'. Casper wouldn't have told Kristen unless it was true and immediate. Instead she got up off the bed, Mathew on her hip, and walked towards Casper who was now trying to prevent Kristen from hastily packing the family's bags.
"Are you coming with us?" She asked her husband quietly.
"Yeah." Casper gave her a quick kiss. "But I'm gonna be in the office."
Gabby nodded her head and handed Mathew off to him. "Kristen sweetie, I'll pack up. Will you please put the toys away."
Kristen ran off to the closet and dragged the toy box out to fill up as Gabby grabbed one of the duffle bags and set it on the bed. "Is anyone else coming home with us?" Gabby asked.
"Tony's gonna help us get settled in." Casper answered. The two had their own refined code when it came to talking about the club in front of the kids.
"Is grandpa gonna come over?" Kristen asked from the floor.
"Probably." Gabby answered automatically. "Is Lance going home with Becky or is she coming home with us?" She asked in a quieter voice over Kristen's head.
"Lance is gonna stay with her."
Gabby silently nodded as she packed. She'd never technically been put under the protection of a prospect before. Usually when one was sent over to hang out and help around the house it was because Chris felt guilty for occupying so much of Casper's time. Being given a virtual bodyguard made her uneasy. This was Fresno, not Charming. Bad stuff wasn't supposed to happen here.
"Does Becky know?" She asked absently as she continued to pack.
Casper opened the door quickly and popped across the hall. He listened at the door before knocking and returned to his wife with a grin.
"Tom Tom's filling her in." Casper answered her. Not that he had doubted it. He also didn't doubt that Tom Tom would be at Becky's apartment right alongside Lance.
Leaving hadn't been as easy or as quick as Gabby had hoped. But she was finally home, and extremely glad to be so.
"Hey." She called quietly to get Casper's attention. He looked up from his computer and she walked into the den and shut the door.
"Everyone settled in?" Casper asked, grabbing his wife's hips when she got close and pulling her down to straddle him.
"Mathew's napping. Kristen and Tony are coloring in her room."
Casper chuckled. "Are they now? And how are the prospect's coloring skills?"
"Hmm, he stays in the lines pretty well but he has no imagination. The sky is blue, the grass is green, all the animals are brown."
"No pink sun?"
"No pink sun, no orange water, so boring." She laughed and kissed him. "How's the hacking going?"
"Not good so far." Gabby nodded sympathetically.
"So…anyway…somebody cleaned out the kitchen. I've got a grocery list a mile long. Thought I'd be a good girl and bring a body guard with me to push the cart."
Casper tightened his hands possessively at the thought of Gabby leaving the safety of the house.
"You're dad's on the way over, send him out with the list."
"Me and Hap in a store on a busy Sunday afternoon? Really babe? He'd open fire at the checkout."
"Just him."
"That sounds even more cruel." She ran a hand through his hair and studied him. "You think we're still in danger." She stated outright.
"Love, if I thought you'd let me, I'd wrap you in bubble wrap and lock you up in a five star suite with armed guards at every door and window."
"That is really specific."
"If something happened to you I'd die Gabby. When you left I fell apart."
"Casper…"
"No, no blame, no fighting. I'm just telling you the truth. Things are getting dangerous. The idea of something happening to me, not getting to watch the kids grow up…that would be awful. But something happening to you; losing you and having to go on with my life, raise the kids on my own, I don't think I could do it."
"Don't say that Casper, Jesus, don't even think it. Nothing's going to happen to either one of us. And if it did the other would have to go on, for the kids if nothing else. If something happens to me you have to be there for them. If something happened to you I would do everything in my power to still make you a part of their lives."
Casper gave his wife a small smile. "You really shouldn't doubt yourself so much. You're an incredible mom."
"You're a pretty damn good dad."
Casper pulled her down to him and kissed her fiercely. "Did you lock the door?" He asked panting as he pulled away again.
Gabby nodded her head and started to climb off of him. Casper hung onto her tightly and stood up. He laid her down gently on the pullout before standing up straight to remove his cut and hang it over his chair.
Gabby took the opportunity to pull her shirt off and he stood for a moment and admired the view.
"Hasn't been that long." Gabby teased as she knelt waiting for him.
"No, but you're so fucking beautiful." He rushed back to her and ran his hands over her exposed flesh as he kissed her. He laid her back down and climbed on top of her, his lips never leaving hers as he worked the button on her jeans undone.
They both worked to push her jeans down her legs and he shifted his attention to her bra. Once he freed her breasts he let go of her lips, dragging his tongue down her neck to her left nipple. Gabby whimpered uncomfortably as he latched on and he immediately let go and licked the underside of her breast instead.
He trailed down to her stomach kissing and licking her flesh. His fingers hooked under her panties and he dragged them slowly down her legs while latching onto a spot on Gabby's ribcage that had her immediately bucking and grabbing at his hair.
"Fuck fuck fuck." She whispered loudly and he took it as his cue to move down further. He nipped gently at her hip before making his way between her legs.
She was warm and wet and he sunk his tongue deep between her folds. He circled her clit a few times before she pulled him away by his hair.
"Love?" He questioned but she didn't respond. She scrambled up and pushed him on his back. Her fingers worked quickly to release his belt buckle and she pushed his jeans and boxers down to his knees before straddling his legs and taking his hard length immediately into her mouth.
Casper groaned loudly and pulled his shirt off over his head. He wrapped her hair tightly around his fist and watched her lips travel up and down his length, her eyes stealing glimpses at him every time he uttered a moan or curse.
"Gabby." He groaned when she popped his dick out of her mouth and moved to his balls. "Fuck Gabby, let me fuck you."
She ignored him and continued her ministrations on him. Casper vary rarely let Gabby finish him off this way. As much as he enjoyed a good blowjob he considered it foreplay, he wanted to make love to his wife, not treat her like a whore.
She took him wholly in her moth once more and he thrusted up, his free hand seeking fistfuls of the abandoned clothing around them.
"Please. Fuck, please Gabby." He begged and stared at the ceiling trying to hold off his orgasm.
Gabby responded by licking up his hard shaft and catching a drip of precum on the tip of her tongue.
"Fuck, fuck Gabby!"
"Shhhh." She teased him with a finger on her lips. He looked back down at her and watched her move up his body and finally slide down on his shaft letting out a deep moan of satisfaction as he filled her.
He grabbed onto her hips to slow her pace, he would be damned if she got him off first. She whimpered at the loss of friction and went from her knees to her feet, bouncing on him.
"Jesus, fuck!" He snapped and grabbed her sides, pushing her off of him onto the mattress. He tried to smoothly slide on top of her but his legs were hopelessly tangled in his jeans and boxers stuck on his boots.
Gabby laughed at his predicament and slid her fingers to her clit as he backed off to strip off the rest of his clothing. He watched her touch herself and moan as he chucked his boots in the corner and stepped out of his clothing.
He climbed back onto the pullout and gave her one firm lick up her sex. "Shhhhh." He teased her back as she moaned and slid back inside of her causing another loud moan.
"Fuck you feel good!" Gabby exclaimed, playfulness gone, as her fingers and her husband's dick brought her close to orgasm.
"Was there ever any doubt about that?" Casper asked, absently nipping under her jaw.
"Shut up." Gabby said somewhat nicely as she shoved Casper up on his knees. She planted her feet on his chest and he automatically grabbed her ankles, pounding into her.
His eyes flicked constantly between her fingers still working her clit and the incredibly sexy way her lips quivered and parted slightly every time he thrusted.
She came finally with a loud groan and he wrapped her legs around his waist, and dropped down to his elbows thrusting quickly till he came as well, his teeth pressing but not quite biting her neck.
"Fuck that was good." He groaned as he rolled off of her.
"Mmmhhmmm." Gabby hummed her agreement.
He smirked as she lay naked and unmoving, obviously fully satisfied. He kissed her stomach just above her navel before standing and quickly dressing.
She sighed and slowly donned her clothes as well. She wiped her hands on her jeans and smoothed down her hair before giving her husband a quick once over and opening the door.
"Shit." She cursed.
Casper stepped up to the door immediately, heart pounding, fearing danger. Instead he saw Shark, with a huge shit eating grin on his face, leaning on the closet doors across the hall from the den.
"Shark." He greeted his brother.
"How long have you been standing there?" Gabby asked him.
"Somewhere around the last 'Jesus Fuck' but ah, he beat me by about five minutes." Shark pointed to the kitchen and Gabby and Casper both froze at the facial expression Happy was wearing at the kitchen table.
Gabby opened her mouth to say something, anything, but nothing came out. She, THEY, really did need to be quieter.
"Is this your grocery list?" Happy asked, holding up the notebook page, completely and blatantly avoiding eye contact.
"Yes." She said hesitantly. She felt her husband's hand leave her shoulder. The coward was gonna hide in his man cave, great.
Happy stood and looked directly at Shark. "Come with me, we need a cage." He stood and walked directly towards the front door, not looking anywhere near his daughter.
"Keys?" Shark asked Gabby and held out his hand, his smile had yet to even dissipate.
She dug them out of her pocket and handed them to him.
Shark grinned even more. "You need to wash your hands." He could smell the sex on them.
Gabby finally gave in. "After I brush my teeth." She grinned back, managing to hold in her laughter.
"JESUS CHRIST!" Happy yelled and stormed out the door, slamming it.
Gabby and Shark both burst out laughing. Casper closed the den door, this was Not funny to him.
Shark stopped laughing and cleared his throat. "Seriously Gabs, you gotta stop." He pointed to the closed front door, they could hear Happy revving his bike, getting away as quickly as possible. "He's old. You're gonna give him a heart attack."
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