Author's Note: As I stated in the first chapter, Tara, Abel and Wendy will NOT be apart of this story. As much as I love them in the actual show, they do not fit the plot that I have for this story. Also, has anyone read any good Opie/OC stories? I was searching for some and the ones that popped up are just of an OC who is his sister. Boo! I feel like no one is giving him any love.

Quinn had tried to shut the bedroom door behind her but Jax was able to put his arm out to stop it from shutting, allowing him enough time to get into the room before shutting it behind him to keep Gavin from entering.

"Jax, you need to leave." Quinn spoke lowly without looking at him.

"I'm not leaving." Jax stated with a matter of fact tone, "Tell me what happened Quinn." Jax added and Quinn remained silent. "Are you in danger now?" Jax questioned and furrowed his eyebrows when Quinn let out a cold laugh.

"Why do you care Jax?! You don't even know me!" Quinn nearly shouted. Jax saw the broken look in her eyes for a split moment before they returned to anger.

"Because I care about you Quinn! I can protect you if you're in some sort of trouble!" Jax half shouted back and Quinn shook her head.

"There is nothing you can do Jax. The cops barely did anything until that happened." Quinn pointed her finger towards the door to indicate that she was talking about the photos on the computer.

Jax moved to sit on the edge of the bed and kept his eyes on Quinn as she paced back and forth in her large bedroom, "Just talk to me Quinn. I promise you can trust me with this." Jax stated honestly.

The truth was, if someone was a threat to Quinn, he would do what he could to make sure that she was protected even if the cops wouldn't. He silently watched as Quinn grabbed her long hair and began to pile it on her head and then wrapped a hair band around it, then wiped her cheeks to face him.

"You want to know what happened?" Quinn questioned and watched as Jax nodded his head. Quinn could tell that Jax would not stop asking or wondering what happened to her until she had told him the entire story so she let out a frustrated sigh and sat in the chair that was in the corner after opening the door so Gavin knew that she was alright.

Quinn wasn't surprised when Gavin came barreling into the room glaring at the blonde man and then noticed that she was sitting in the corner chair, "It's fine Gavin." Quinn mumbled.

"You want me to stay?" Gavin questioned.

"Go check the food." Quinn responded not taking her eyes off the man she considered a brother and watched as he looked at her for a moment before giving her a nod in understanding.

The brunette waited until Gavin had left the bedroom and then looked to Jax who wouldn't tear his eyes away from her and let out a small sigh knowing that if she told him what had happened, there was a chance they wouldn't hang out anymore, but she knew that he wouldn't drop it until he knew.

"We were in New Orleans for a job. The couple ended up canceling at the last minute so we decided to stay the week to just check out local shops and shit." Quinn began to explain, "We ended up at a local bar our last night there and we were having a good time with some of Gavin's friends from college who were there on vacation." Quinn added, "There was a bartender there who was being overly charming and just seemed like a nice enough guy, good looking, so I got the idea to have a one night stand with him." Quinn let out a sigh and glanced towards Jax for the first time since she started the conversation and noticed that he was watching her closely with his elbows resting on his knees and his hands closed together in a fist resting against his mouth listening.

"That went how a typical one night stand would go. It was fine, and even fun for the night. The next morning I woke up to him watching me sleep which was a little weird but I didn't think anything of it. He had offered to take me to breakfast but I declined because I was running late to pack for our flight back home." Quinn adjusted herself in her sit, "I ended up losing my cell phone and asked if he had seen it and he said that I didn't have it with me when I got to his place and I thought I just lost it at the bar or Gav had it." Quinn explained, "I ended up catching a cab back to the hotel and asked Gavin if he had my phone and he said no so we tried to use the find my iphone and it wasn't on so we figured that someone just had stolen it at the bar. So I just decided to forget about it and get a new one once I got back home." Quinn added and then let out a sigh, "It was a couple of weeks after I got back home that things had gotten weird. I had totally spaced on changing the passwords to my social media accounts right after my phone went missing and noticed that people were getting deleted, messages were getting read that I didn't read, so I changed all my information but it was still happening after that."

Quinn was thankful that Gavin had entered the room with two beers in hand, and handed one over to her and decided to lean against the wall in the corner for some of the conversation.

"I ended up having to go on a last minute photoshoot in Chicago and ran into the bartender from New Orleans at the hotel. At the time I thought it was a weird coincendence because David said he was there for some business meeting so I didn't think anything of it. He asked me to dinner but I declined because I didn't want anything from him and I told him that a one night stand was not intended for more but politely. He seemed to be okay with that at the time. He ended up sending room service to my room the next morning apologizing for coming on too strongly and wished me well. I ended up leaving that afternoon to fly back home. I noticed that my social media accounts were being fucked with again so I changed my passwords again and it didn't stop." Quinn explained, "Fast forward a couple weeks later, I had just gotten back home from traveling and I stopped for coffee at a coffee shop and low and behold David was in there." Quinn looked to Gavin before looking to Jax and noticed that he was tense, "I went to the cops and told them that there was something off about the guy because I had never told him where I lived. They didn't do anything because he hadn't harrassed me or anything at that point." Quinn explained, "That went on for a couple of weeks but each time I saw him around town he would go out of his way to try to talk to me but I told him that I was seeing someone and politely declined the offers to dinner or to grab coffee. I ended up talking to Gavin about it and he figured out that my information was stored in my phone that was taken and it had access to all my emails and the he must have taken it but we couldn't prove it when we went to the cops about it."

"That's bullshit..." Jax muttered his first words.

"Tell me about it." Gavin retorted.

"So as time went on I started to see someone I met at a party for photographers." Quinn explained, "When things started to get a little more serious between us, David started to make his prescense known more. I finally flipped out on him asking him what he was doing in my hometown of all places, why he wouldn't leave me alone in the middle of the coffee shop. He basically said that he was there for business and I ended up hitting him because it was bullshit. He made me feel absolutely crazy about the entire thing the way he held himself with so much confidence. Like to the point where maybe he was there for business and I just thought he was there for me. It just didn't make any sense. I finally broke down and told my boyfriend about the entire thing and when we were out to dinner, he confronted David on the street and threatened him. That made everything a lot worse than what it was at that point. The guy ended up sending flowers to my house at least three times a week. He had sent messages to Facebook, he would call all hours of the night. I took all of that to the cops, they finally gave me a restraining order but it didn't stop him. When we had our one night stand he recorded it without me knowing and sent it to my house, and that's when my boyfriend had enough and called it quits because he couldn't handle all the drama." Quinn wiped her cheeks, "I had tried deactiving all my accounts, changed my number more than four times and then when I blocked all of his numbers that he would use, he went bat shit crazy."

"I had a friend who's older brother is a Dectective in the next town over so I asked him if he would talk to his brother for her because the cops in that town are worthless, and it was to the point she wouldn't leave the house, her phone would be turned off and she just shut herself off from the world." Gavin spoke up, "He had came over and looked at all the things she had saved from that asshole, explained everything and he promised that he would do what he could to make sure that he would leave her alone for good."

"Jeff. The guy who Skyped me earlier is the Detective. He was able to put a stop to it for a little while by staying with me and going out in public with me. Jeff approached him after David had tried approaching me and placed him under arrest but he had to take him to the police station in town and they ended up letting him go out of some sort of misunderstanding so Jeff headed back to his place without knowing. He ended up coming to my house while I was sleeping and broke in. Started talking about how I belonged with him, that no one would be able to keep us apart." Quinn shuttered and Gavin knew that she needed a break.

"Quinn, go check on the food. I'll tell him the rest." Gavin explained and Jax couldn't tear his eyes away from Quinn as she sat for a moment before giving him a thankful nod and walked out of the room.

Gavin looked to Jax, "She ended up trying to go along with whatever he was saying to her because he had a knife, and he tried to sleep with her but she grabbed her phone before saying she had to use the restroom first and she locked herself in the bathroom and called Jeff. He was able to hear that he was in the house before he kicked the door down and dragged her out. He ended up beating her so bad that by the time Jeff had gotten there she was unconscious. She ended up with several broken ribs, a fractured eye socket, so many stitches" Gavin grimaced. "A factured collar bone, a severe concussion, a broken ankle, a fractured knee. He really fucked her up. Jeff ended up being able to get him with attempted murder with how bad she was beated and he had tried to strangle her. He was arrested trying to go into the hospital to see her that early that morning." Gavin finished up the story of what had happened to Quinn.

Jax was speechless. He ran a hand down his face trying to fight the urge to fly off the handle with what had happened to the brunette.

"Jesus Christ." Jax sighed, "He still in prison?" Jax questioned.

Gavin gave him a nod, "He tries once every year to get out on parole for some good behaviour bullshit. It's always around the same time of the year too, when he met Quinn. That's why Jeff calls to check in on her. If it wasn't for him, there would be no doubt that she would be dead because of him." Gavin explained, "Just do me a favor..." Gavin added causing Jax to look at him, "Don't treat her differently. She has came a long way from where she was three years ago. She doesn't do the whole pity thing well."

"I wouldn't treat her differently because of that..." Jax commented.

"If you are going to stop hanging out with her because of that, you need to be up front with her about it and not lie. She doesn't have any friends outside of me and some of my friends who know about what happened and she hasn't dated since it had happened because people can't handle that sort of shit." Gavin explained, "I just want to make sure..." Gavin was cut off by Jax.

"I get what you're saying man." Jax commented, "Don't worry about it. I'm not going to treat her differently and I sure as hell am not going to stop hanging out with her just because of some lunatic."

"Good to know." Gavin gave a nod, "We should probably get out there the food should be close to getting done."

Once Jax had stepped outside into the back yard he took a cigarette out of the pack that was in his pocket and lit it up then took a long drag of it. He felt extremely bad for even asking her to be open about something that was so personal for her. He knew that he shouldn't have pressured her into talking about something, he barely knew the woman but when he saw the pictures he needed to know what had happened. He couldn't explain it.

His bright blue eyes watched as Quinn took the chicken and steak off of the grill and onto a plate and then handed the plate over to Gavin to take inside. Jax knew that he needed to apologize for being so persistant and flicked the cigarette bud into his yard over the fence and walked towards the brunette.

Quinn glanced up to Jax when she felt his large hand on her forearm and felt him gently tug on it and pulled her towards him. She was caught off guard a little when he wrapped his arms around her. Quinn stood tense not knowing what the hug was for. She automatically thought it was a goodbye hug, like the ones she had recieved several times after being open with people.

"Look... I hope we can remain friendly when we see each other out. I understand that it's too much..." Quinn began to trail off but Jax cut her off by pushing her back a little and scrunching his face in confusion.

"I just wanted to apologize for even questioning what happened. It wasn't my place to ask questions but when I saw the pictures..." Jax trailed off for a moment keeping his hands on her arms gently. "Just know that with me being next door, you are safe Quinn. I promise you." Jax added honestly.

Quinn looked to Jax's blue eyes and couldn't explain it but she knew that she could trust him when he said that he would make sure she was safe. She wasn't sure why she could since she barely knew the man but she did feel safe with him. That was probably why she folded so easily when he asked what had happened. If any other person would have nearly demanded to know, she would have told them to go fuck themselves. The entire idea of trusting a man she barely knew scared the crap out of her.

All Quinn could do was nod her head to Jax. She wasn't sure what she should say. She had a lot that she wanted to say but she knew that it would come out completely harsh. When Jax leaned down and kissed her forehead and wrapped his arms back around her for a moment she instantly felt relaxed for a few brief moments before he pulled away all together.

The brunette watched as Jax had grabbed the potatoes and placed them in the bowl and then turned off the grill and followed her into the house.

Once they had gotten their plates and fresh beers, they had decided to eat around the bon fire that Gavin had started. Quinn had kept quiet while she ate since Gavin and Jax were holding conversation about everything under the sun. She was well aware that Jax kept stealing glances towards her as she ate, and didn't bother to look in his direction almost afraid of what she would see on his face.

Quinn knew that she was physically attracted to the man right from the start but the last time she was attracted to a man, it turned her life upside down. She knew that Jax wasn't like the bartender but she also knew that most men didn't want to deal with the baggage and drama that came along with being around her. Quinn had tried to date a few times once the bartender was in prison but a couple of men didn't like the relationship she had with Jeff since she hadn't gotten to the point where she told them what had happened. Then a there were a few who didn't want to deal with what had happened in general once it got to the point of her opening up about it. So she finally just figured that she'd give up dating and if she happened to meet someone along the way and accepted what happened then she would deal with it then. She knew that wasn't going to try to pursue anything more than friendship with Jax because she didn't want to make things awkward when he finally figured out he didn't want to deal with all of the skeletons in her closet. Especially since they were neighbors and she had no plans of moving any time soon.

Gavin knew that Quinn was close to hiding herself away in her bedroom by how quiet she was being while eating. He knew the brunette way too well. Usually when she would talk about what had happened to her, it would send her in a weird funk for a day or two and it didn't help that it was that time of the year the bartender would try to get parole.

"I think I'm going to call it a night." Quinn announced and Gavin didn't miss the look of disappointment that came across Jax's face, "We have a busy day tomorrow." Quinn added to Jax.

Jax gave a nod in understanding as he finished his plate of food and went to stand up to take his dish into the house with Quinn but she stopped him.

"I can get that. Going that way anyway." Quinn managed a small smile.

"Nah, I got it." Jax stated and Gavin smirked to himself knowing that Jax wasn't going to allow Quinn to run away from things non-stop, "Gavin, it was really nice meeting you." Jax added turning to the young man.

"It was nice meeting you too." Gavin gave the man a nod in return.

Jax followed Quinn into the house and watched as she put her dishes into the sink with a few that were sitting on the counter and went to grab his dish but he took a step closer to her and put his dishes in the sink.

"Thank you for dinner." Jax looked down to the brunette.

"No need to thank me, it was thanks for showing me around town." Quinn responded with a small smile as she rinsed off the dishes.

"When do you go to Cancun?" Jax questioned leaning against the counter near the sink.

"At the end of the week." Quinn replied as she began to fill the dishwasher with the dirty dishes. Jax gave a nod in understanding and then scrunched his face for a moment before looking to Quinn and noticed that she raised an eyebrow.

"What?" Quinn questioned lowly as she dried her hands off with a hand towel.

"Let me take you to dinner." Jax stated, "When you get back from Cancun." Jax added with a charming boyish smile.

Quinn had to admit that it was a little hard to not say yes when he would smile at her but she let out a small sigh, "I don't think that's a good idea Jax."

"Why not?" Jax questioned with a small charming smile as he looked down to her.

"Jax, we barely know each other. We're neighbors. I think going out to dinner would end up complicating things down the road." Quinn stated matter of factly and Jax narrowed his eyes for a moment.

"You always play by the rules darling?" Jax questioned, "It's just a dinner, and it's not like we're complete strangers now." Jax added and watched as Quinn rolled her eyes.

"You usually get your way don't you?" Quinn questioned back and saw Jax's huge grin and knew the answer without him even answering.

"How about this. We can talk while you're in Cancun laying on a beach somewhere to where you can get to know me a little better, and then when you get back you can decide if you want to go out to dinner with me?" Jax offered, "If you don't want to then I won't bring it up again." Jax added, and noticed that Quinn began to think over his words, "So what do you say? Deal?" Jax questioned.

Quinn let out a small sigh, "Fine. We can talk while I'm in Cancun, but I'm not promising anything."

Jax gave a huge grin and leaned down to kiss the top of her head, "I'll take it. I'll let myself out." Jax commented.

Quinn shook her head with a little laugh, "Have a good night Jax."

"You too darlin." Jax replied as he walked out of the front door.