A/N: Chapter warning for sexual assault and pretty severe and descriptive abuse. I apologize for the wait but I'm going to try and update more often. Let me know what you think of this chapter or any ideas for future ones.
The next morning after the hit, there was a knock at Esai's door. The person on the other side didn't wait for a reply, the door opening and Marcus Alvarez himself walking inside
"Uh-Oh" JT exclaimed
"Uh-Oh is right," he said, pulling a chair across from her "You don't belong here, mi hija"
"Where do I belong then? Because I have no idea anymore" she asked
"Something you want to share little one?" he answered
"I found my dad. Turns out he's been right next to me this whole time and he never said anything, someone else had to tell me. And I got kicked out of my foster home. They stuck me in some shit group home on the border and this guy that runs it, he-" She stopped, realizing she was saying too much
"He what?" Alvarez prodded
"...Nothing. He's just another asshole"
"I know about the job. What happened. You never belonged there in the first place, you should go home"
"What about Esai?"
"I'll take care of my son, don't worry"
"Can I just...can I stay here a little while longer? Please, I don't want to go back there yet"
Alvarez nodded, squeezing JT's shoulder and getting up to leave
"Marcus?" JT called out
"Yeah?" he replied
"If I ever needed to get out of town for a while...would you be able to help me?" she asked
"Why would you need to get out of town? You involved in something you shouldn't be?"
"No, it's just…a safety thing I guess. If things go south in Charming"
"If you ever need help, with anything. You come to me mi hija. Understand?"
JT nodded "Thank you"
He sent her a smile and left the room. She laid back on the bed, finally feeling a bit relaxed and fell asleep, ignoring the persistent ringing of her cell phone.
"JT isn't answering her phone either" Gemma stated, snapping her phone shut
"You think they went after her too?" Opie asked
"I don't know. She didn't show up for Abel and isn't answering her phone" she answered
"JT can take care of herself, I mean she probably got held up at the group home"
"I can't just sit here"
She got up and began walking toward the door, but was caught by the arm by Clay
"Hey," he said, "Until we see where this lands, you stay put, understand?"
"What if they got to them?" she demanded
"Jax and JT can take care of themselves, Gem," Tig told her
She glared at him and Opie rose to his feet "I'm going to go down to the hospital, see if he's down there"
"I'll go with you" Piney grumbled
Just as Opie and Piney left, Chibs came out of the chapel to explain what was going on with Cameron and Clay told him to just do what he could. A few moments later the doorbell buzzed and Gemma looked at the monitor
"Unser at the back door" she called out
"Let him in," he told her, then turned to Tig "Shut those doors"
Tig told Chibs and Juice to keep Hayes quiet while Gemma let Unser into the building.
"What can I do for you Chief?" Clay asked
"I need to bring you down to the station, ask a few questions" Unser replied
"Why? What happened?" Gemma inquired
"Someone went after Darby last night. Killed one of his guys, two women, at his house. In Charming" Unser announced
"You think it was us?" Gemma asked as she strolled behind Clay
"I also found two dead Mayans over on 18. Half a mile outside of Charming. Last time I looked at the scoreboard, Nords and Mayans were the away team"
"Glad to know you're rooting for the home team, Cheif" Clay joked
Unser glared "I-I see you for a minute?"
Clay looked at Gemma then got up and followed Unser
"This ain't funny at all. Five DB's. Know what kind of heat that brings?"
Clay stared at him, then slowly opened the Chapel doors, revealing Cameron Hayes.
"Jesus Christ!" Unser exclaimed, "Who the hell is that?"
"Friend" Clay answered "With two bullets in his ass that were meant for my head. The Mayans went after me too"
"Goddammit!"
"We didn't have anything to do with Darby. And the dead Mexicans were a result of their own stupidity, but I made sure that it didn't land in Charming"
"Barely. My office still has the stink of ATF. This body count's going to bring that haughty bitch right back. I need you to come with me, all right? Due process"
"I got nothing to hide" Clay agreed, following Unser as he tried to leave
"Hey, you don't go alone" Tig stated
"Hey, I think I could keep him safe" Unser cut in
"It'll be fine. You hold it together here" Clay reassured
"I'll meet you down there," Gemma told them
"No!" Clay barked "You stay put" he grabbed her face and kissed her before leaving
After they left there was another problem with the Irishman, and this time Gemma was going to find Jax, whether Tig stopped her or not.
JT stayed at the Mayan clubhouse until later that evening when she finally returned to the group home. Harvey was passed out in his office as she crept into the room she shared with four other girls. She was just passing by the showers when something wrapped around her throat and pulled her into the bathroom, her body hitting the tiled wall with a thud, several pairs of hands keeping her still. The cloth around her neck was pulled tighter as her head was forced back
"Fuck you" she choked out
The person behind her slammed her face into the wall, then had her pinned to the floor where she could see some of the other girls of the house pinning her down, one holding the cloth against her neck while another girl sat on her chest
"You better listen maggot. If Harvey doesn't get what he wants from you he takes double from us. Understand?" the girl on her chest sneered
"What the hell...are you talking about" JT coughed
"You gotta pay your dues goldie locks" one of the other girls replied
"We know you got away last night" the girl holding the cloth barked, pulling it tighter "He came after me for that shit"
JT gagged, trying to pry the cloth away from her throat. One of the girls must've seen her face start turning colors because the one near JT's head loosened the cloth so she could breathe. After taking several deep breaths she looked to the girls holding her arms and legs
"And if I don't? Pay my dues?" she questioned
"We do worse than this" the girl on her chest warned, then got up.
Before JT could react, she was hauled to her feet and held tight by the cloth on her neck, cutting off her breathing and the other girls began beating on her, some with their fists and others with socks full of batteries. She was struck in the face a few times, feeling her nose dripping blood and her freshly split lip, but the worse was when they got her in the torso with the batteries, her chest feeling like it was caving in. She wasn't awake for all of it, blacking out from lack of oxygen a few minutes after they began, but that didn't stop them, instead, they allowed her to drop and continued to beat her with the batteries, the girls that didn't have them opting to kick her. The beating went on for another half hour until they heard Harvey began to move around, sending them scattering and leaving Jude bloody, unconscious, and totally defenseless.
JT finally started coming around sometime the next morning, groaning from the pain and letting out weak coughs. She tried to move, but pain radiated throughout her entire body, causing her to try and cry out, a strangled noise coming out instead. She looked over herself, seeing dried blood and bruises on her hands and blood staining her shirt. When she saw her legs her heart stopped. Her pants and underwear were around her ankles, blood streaking down her multicolored legs. Moving quickly she grabbed her pants and put them back on right, crying through the pain. She was able to lift herself up using the sink, a monster looking back at her through the mirror. Her face was covered in dark bruises, her eye was swollen shut, cheek was swollen as well, her cupid's bow covered in blood from her nose, and her lip was split wide open causing her chin to be bloody as well. She turned her head up, looking at the deep bruising on her neck from being choked. Fighting back the tears gathered behind her eyes, she dug around for her phone, flipping it open and scrolling through her contacts, questioning who she should call. After scrolling through the list of names twice, she closed the phone and stuffed it back into her pocket, then began trying to drag herself back to her room, whimpering and crying the entire way.
When she finally made it back to her room, she collapsed on to the bed, coughing and spitting up blood onto the floor. One of her roommates, Charlotte was sitting in her own bed across from her. After seeing JT fall into the bed she got up and tried to help her, but was pushed away by JT
"Get away from me" she rasped
Charlotte stood there "I heard what the others did to you. Everyone's talking about it"
"So? That supposed to mean something?"
"I'm sorry"
"Your sorry doesn't mean shit to me"
"It's every woman for herself in here Judas. If I stuck my neck out for you we'd both be hurt. Most of the girls in here have no problem throwing someone else under the bus"
"Do you have a point? Or are we just chatting?"
Charlotte went into her dresser drawer and pulled out a box and a bottle of water, bringing it back to JT.
"It's the morning after pill. I have a small stash, you know, in case…" she trailed off "Think you can take it?"
JT nodded and took the water bottle and the pill she was handed, letting a bit of water sit in her mouth and dropping the pill in, swallowing quickly and trying for more water since she had a hard time swallowing the pill.
"Thanks," she told Charlotte
"No problem. What are you going to do now?" she asked
"I don't know. He already…this is fucked"
"Well, uh, I'm going to get ready for school"
JT groaned "Think you can score my work for me? I can't go like this"
Charlotte nodded and left the room.
When she was sure Charlotte was gone, she pulled the phone out again, sending a text to Gemma and seeing one from Marcus.
To: Gemma
From: JT
Got locked down at the home. Be there first chance I get.
She hit send then opened the one from Marcus, reading that Esai was killed the day before and SOA and Mayans had a truce. She was sad about Esai but understood that he was reckless and a bit of a liability. A minute later she received a reply from Gemma
To: JT
From: Gemma
You should've tried to call. Are you ok?
To: Gemma
From: JT
All good
After sending the message she hid the phone again and moved so that her back was pressed against the wall and let herself fall out of consciousness again, the pain becoming too much for her. She spent the rest of that day in and out of sleep, Charlotte returning from school with her work which she tried to do. The next two days after that she was in bed, doing the work Charlotte brought her and avoiding the other girls and Harvey. But, she wasn't able to avoid them forever. She got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, assuming everyone was asleep, creeping down the hall. She went inside and did her business and when she went to open the door she was knocked backward, the same girls pouncing on her and beating her again.
"Can't hide in your room forever. Your dues are up again, time to pay bitch"
They didn't beat her as badly this time, instead, they got her so she was too weak to fight back and left her for Harvey to find. This time when he wandered into the bathroom, JT was trying to pick herself up and get away. He knocked her back down and held her down with one arm, taking her pants off with the other. She tried to fight him off, but couldn't, opting to close her eyes and scream instead.
After he was done and gone, JT laid on the floor, crying in pain. She felt like she couldn't move, the shock consuming her until the fear took over when she heard more footsteps. She thought it was Harvey coming back, but it was the girls who had jumped her coming back for more.
"Stop. Please, just stop" JT mumbled
"You need to learn to take your dues and not scream" she replied "Get her down"
It didn't take much to subdue JT, a few hits with the battery socks and they had her pinned. One of the girls came into the bathroom carrying a large jug, handing it to the leader. She opened it and ordered them to hold JT's mouth open, forcing the liquid into her mouth and down her throat. Realizing they were forcing her to drink bleach, and she started trying to thrash her head to stop herself from drinking, but they held her still. Finally, they stopped pouring, throwing the bottle to the ground
"Damn, she almost drank the whole thing" one girl commented
"Let's get outta here," said another
The all left the bathroom, leaving JT coughing, gagging and vomiting on the floor. Knowing she would die if she didn't get help, she started to drag herself out of the bathroom and down the stairs. It took forever just to get to the stairs, but she was able to roll down them, landing in front of the door. She couldn't reach the doorknob to open it without throwing up some more, but she was able to get herself outside, the cold air causing her to cough more violently. She got off the property, staggering, and holding onto anything she could stay upright. She wasn't sure how long it had been but eventually, she made it to a crossroad, a police car sitting at the stop light in front of her.
Hale had seen the bloody girl, trying to walk up the road, her hacking cough getting his attention. He got out of his car and made his way toward her, one hand on his gun in case she got violent when she suddenly collapsed to the ground. He broke into a run, diving to his knees next to her, recognizing Judas Teller. She was choking, so he turned her on her side and blood and vomit spurted from her mouth
"This is Deputy Hale, send me EMS to the crossroad of Main St and Park Drive. I have a female, teenage, having some sort of reaction to something and she's beaten pretty badly" he called into the radio "Judas? Can you hear me?"
She made a noise in reply
"Can you tell me what happened?"
Her throat burned every time she opened her mouth, so she motioned with her hand to write and he handed her a pen and paper. On the paper, she wrote three words before going into shock 'Forced Drink Bleach'
"She's going into shock. Get me that ambulance" Hale screamed into the radio
The teen had gone still by the time the ambulance showed up, the medics working to get her stable while Hale followed behind them.
It was nearly 3 am when Gemma woke up to her doorbell ringing and several hard knocks on the door. Clay reached for his gun and got up, motioning for Gemma to stay there, but she didn't listen, following a few paces behind her husband. He peeked through the window and looked back at his wife, hiding the gun in the drawer
"Hale," he told her
"What's he doing here?" she questioned
Clay shrugged and opened the door
"Clay, Gemma, I'm sorry to wake you. I tried to find Jax but didn't know where he was" Hale explained
"What's going on?" Gemma questioned
"It's Judas. She's at St. Thomas in the ICU. You should come" he answered
"I'll call Jax," Clay told her
"Wait, wait, I just talked to her the other day she was fine. What happened?"
Hale hesitated and Gemma gave him a glare "I found Judas wandering near main. She was covered in blood and bruised and coughing. She collapsed before I could get to her, she was choking on her own vomit. I asked her what happened and she wrote down 'Forced. Drink. Bleach' before she went into shock. The rest I think you should hear from the doctors"
"Jax is on his way there. Come on, baby" Clay said, coming back into the room fully dressed. Gemma nodded and left to put her clothes on so they could leave as soon as possible.
Jax was already at the hospital with the other members when Gemma and Clay arrived, pacing the floors restlessly
"Hey baby" Gemma greeted, hugging her son "What did they say?"
"They haven't told me anything yet. Just told me to wait" Jax replied
"Hale told me that he found her near main covered in blood. Collapsed and started choking on her own vomit. She told him someone forced her to drink bleach" Gemma explained
"Jesus Christ. Someone at the group home?"
"Didn't say. Only said three words. But I think so"
"This is all my fault"
"You didn't know this was going to happen"
"She said group homes were dangerous. The girls would attack each other. She knew this would happen"
"I'm still missing how this is on you"
"Because" he snapped "If I just put her with me in the first place she wouldn't be here"
"Family of Judas Teller?" called a doctor
Jax went to her followed by Gemma "I'm her father. What happened?"
"Judas was beaten, several times over the course of a few days. I found bruising that's at least a few days old, and she's got a few cracked ribs. Unfortunately, we also found evidence of sexual assault. Your daughter forcibly ingested bleach and she damaged her throat and stomach severely along with her lungs. We've intubated her for now, and we'll reassess her when she wakes up."
Jax couldn't catch his breath, "Wait, wait, wait. What do you mean when she wakes up?"
"She's sedated. A tube is breathing for her until her lungs can heal" the doctor explained softly
"Can we see her?" Gemma asked
"Of course. Give us a moment and a nurse will bring you back to her" the doctor answered before walking away.
Everyone felt the tension in the room after the doctor left, Gemma sitting down and wiping tears from her face before anyone could see. Jax stood frozen, tears running down his face and his fist clenched
"Jackie boy?" Chibs questioned
Jax turned to them, letting out a ragged breath
"Mr. Teller? You can come back now" called a nurse
Jax, Gemma, and Clay followed the nurse into the ICU where they stopped in front of the room labeled with JT's name.
"Before I let you in, I should warn you, it's a bit of a shock" the nurse warned
Jax nodded and went into the room, his heart stopping at the sight of his daughter on the bed, her skin different colors and a tube coming from her mouth. He fell into the chair beside her bed, grabbing her hand and bringing it to his face
"How long will she be like this?" Gemma asked the nurse
"We don't know. It could be days, weeks, maybe even months" she answered, leaving the family alone.