Chapter 4: Resolution
Jax sat at the head of the Redwood table with his head in his hands, since he had received August's last "present" he was more determined to get Bobby back. He had Tyler working intel on Marks and Cartwright. He hoped that they wouldn't find out he was working both sides of the fence because right now Tyler was his only in. He knew if their alliance was brought to light it would not only mean Bobby's death but also Tyler's. He held the fate of his club and its members in his hands. He had already let Tara down by what he saw as his inability to protect her and he would not let his club down.
"Hey Prez." Happy walked into the room followed by other SAMCRO members.
Jax looked up and turned his attention to his brothers. He felt an overwhelming sense of responsibility to these men. He waited for everyone to sit down around the Redwood table before speaking. "I want to let you know that I have Tyler working on getting some intel on where Bobby is. We will get him back." He didn't know if that was the truth but he would continue to tell them all that.
Chibs nodded at Jax knowing that his president would do everything in his power to get Bobby back safe and somewhat sound. "Sounds like Marks wants the junkie and the body of the priest. We only have a few more hours left until his deadline is up."
Jax shook his head, "He is not getting either of them. I made a promise to her that they would remain safe. Marks will kill them."
"Brother, he is going to kill Bobby if we don't give him what he wants." Tig piped up. Thinking about how he had already sent them packages containing Bobby's eye and finger. He didn't want to think about what else he would sent them.
Jackson wished there was some way that he could give August what he wanted, keep the junkie and her son safe and still have leverage on him. Then it came to him, "Hap do you remember where you buried the bodies of the men who were with the kinky pastor?" Jax asked.
Happy nodded, he remembered where he buried every body he had ever buried in those woods. "What do you want with them, Prez?" He questioned knowing that Jax was calculating something.
"I want you to dig up a body similar to the fat pastor. I just want the torso, no head. Quinn can you and Rat go dig up the pastor? I want his head and if there are any distinguishing body parts, tattoos or anything. But leave the rest of the body there for insurance purposes." Jax said. "Chibs call Moses and let him know I want to meet with August. We will give him the body but not the mother and kid."
With that the room cleared out pretty quickly all the sons knew that they only had a short amount of time to get this done. They knew that if they were in Bobby's shoes they would want their brothers to do everything possible to save them. And each of them knew they would.
It was nearly five hours before they heard back from Moses. They had assembled a newly made body of the kinky pastor and did their best to make it look like him. Chibs had given Cartwright some excuse about the body being decapitated so that was why his head was not quite on the body. Happy did the assembling, he didn't mind the macabre of death or dead bodies; he actually enjoyed it. They didn't talk back. The body was sitting in the back of the van waiting for news on whether August accepted Jax's terms. The pastor's body, for Bobby.
The guys were all lounging around the bar at Redwoody, watching some of the girls getting ready to shoot a scene. They sat around like it was nothing but when Lilah said action those girls went after each other like they were in love.
"Hey Jax?" Chucky came barging into the studio quickly with a box in his hands.
"Shit." Jax muttered, he didn't want to know what was in the box. "What is it Chucky?" He asks as Chucky handed him the box. He glanced down at Chucky's hands, he still couldn't get over the fake fingers that Gemma had bought him while they were in jail about a year before. So much had changed in that time.
"This was delivered to TM. I was told to get this to you right away." He handed the thin rectangular shaped box to Jax. He was curious about what was in it and stood close by waiting for Jax to open it. It didn't look like he was going to open it as quickly as Chucky thought. So he made his way over to the bar, to get a drink and watch a little girl on girl action. What Chucky would have given to be able to stick his hand down his pants and jerk off one more time. Lin made sure that would not happen ever again. And he accepted it.
He stood up and carried the box to the office they used as a make shift "Church" since their table was at the ice cream shop and the clubhouse was still being reconstructed. The guys tended to spend more time at Redwoody, it could have been that they felt like it was home now or it was all the pussy. Chibs, Tig, and Happy all followed him. Jax thought of them as his inner circle, plus they had been there pretty much as long as Bobby had. He sat down at the head of the table and placed the box in front of him. He didn't want to open it, he didn't want to see which piece of Bobby they would receive. The guys sat around the table staring at the box bleakly. This was August's answer which was obviously not what they wanted. They all sat there silently for a few minutes, finally Jax slowly opened the box. His heart was pounding hard in his chest and he looked into it. There was no body parts, just an iPad. Jax frowned as he pulled the iPad out of the box and powered it to life.
"Hello Jackson." It was August Marks. "I told you I am not willing to bargain or did you not understand when I sent you, your last gift? I want the pastor's wife and son as well and his body." August glared into the camera. Jax hadn't noticed but the other members had gathered around him as they all watched what was going to unfold. "I hope that you have Trager there with you, we have a little surprise for him."
"Fawn!" He automatically panicked. He was instantly brought back to the night that Damon Pope, burned his daughter, Dawn alive. It was Damon's way of pay back for killing his daughter, Veronica. Tig didn't force Pope to watch his daughter die slowly and painfully. Her screams still haunted him. He was on the edge of tears. He wanted to go and call Fawn but knew that her boyfriend and his friends put her into hiding and would have called if anything happened to her. If not he would personally kill each and every one of them slowly.
"I'm sure she is fine brother. She has been hidden well." Chibs patted Tig on the back knowing how he would feel if he thought Kerrianne was there. He would have snatched the iPad from Jax and fast forwarded it.
August smiled as he turned the camera towards Bobby who was tied to a chair. "I have to say Munson is loyal to his club. He could have saved his fingers if he would have told us where the body was hidden. You should be proud that you don't have another rat on your hands. Oh speaking of rats…we found yours and well let's just say Juice will not be causing your club any more problems."
Jax saw Bobby's face flash with concern as he looked off to his right at something that he couldn't see off the screen. Jax found himself looking the same way as Bobby as if he would see what he was looking at. Bobby shook his head sadly and a small sob could be heard.
"Was that a woman?" Happy asked. Looking up from the screen at Tig, who had pulled his phone out of his pants pocket and walking out the door of the office. All the guys knew he was going to call in and check on Fawn, as much as she hated him for his part he played in Dawn's death.
"Jackson, you should have heeded my advice about not crossing me." August said as he handed the camera off to someone who they could not see. He was then in front of the camera next to Bobby. He had a knife in his hand.
"No!" Jax called out as if he could stop what was going to happen.
At the same time Tig came charging backing the room, "she is okay." He felt a huge weight had been lifted off of him, knowing his daughter was safe.
"Bobby this is your one last chance to tell me where the body is. If you tell me, I will let you go." August said to him.
"Go fuck yourself." Bobby had a brave look on his face as he turned and looked over to his right again, "Hang in there swee…" his words were cut off abruptly as August slit his throat. Bobby's life was wiped out just like that; his blood pour out of his neck and down the front of his shirt as his head slumped.
"NO!" The scream from all of the guys was almost in unison. The amount of helpless they felt was incomparable to anything they had ever experienced. Jax picked up the iPad and was about to throw it but the screams from a girl pulled him back to the screen.
That is when he saw what Bobby was looking at. "Who is that?" Happy asked as he stared at the tear stained face of the girl. She had big ice blue eyes that were a contrast to her dark hair. Her features were delicate. The camera pulled back from the sobbing girl.
"I don't know." Jax looked at the girl curiously.
"I do." Tig said quietly as he stared at the girl, who looked just like her mother.
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Liv just wanted to wake up from the nightmare she was living. Bobby… She thought sadly as she looked over at his body slumped over in the chair. Everything had slowed down as she watched, the man they called, August slit Bobby's throat like it was nothing. The men had now turned their attention to her. She dropped her head hoping to shut out what going to happen. Maybe she would be lucky and they would just kill her quickly and not play a game of cat and mouse with her like they had with Bobby.
"Trager!" Moses called out to the camera. "Look what we found." He pulled the back of Olivia's head up to face the camera. He had a hand full of her hair and pulled it tightly.
Liv winced in pain, it felt as if her hair was being ripped from her scalp. As she wondered who Trager was. Tears fell down her face in streams. "Please." Was all she could say. She just wanted them to do what they were going to do and be done with it.
"Did you know she was fucking your rat? She was with Ortiz when we found him, gave us an idea of two birds with one stone." Moses said to the faceless people that would be watching the video they were making, to the club that Juice ran from. She was trying to comprehend what he was saying but her mind was in panic mode. Moses tilted his head as he looked at Liv, "You know we killed him, he tried to come after us and I shot him…right here." He said as he poked Olivia between the eyes.
"No! NO!" She struggled to get free from her restraints. They had killed Juice! She screamed in frustration and sadness as she continued to struggle to get free. The ties that they had on her wrists ripped into them and she could feel warm blood dripping into the palms of her hands. Why were they doing this to her? She knew nothing about what they wanted. They had killed the man she loved just because he was trying to keep her safe.
"Shut up!" Moses punched her hard in the jaw.
The punch stunned Liv and the pain radiated all over the left side of her head. She could feel her mouth filling up with blood. It was nothing compared to the pain she was feeling deep within her soul. She felt like her heart was being ripped out of her chest. Juice was gone, his existence was snuffed out. She would never be able to say goodbye to him or feel his embrace or lips again. She whimpered quietly.
"Do you know that your daddy is watching this?" Moses asked her.
What was he talking about her biological dad died before she was born and her adoptive dad was dead as well? She was hit by the fact that everyone one she loved died around her.
"Do you?" He asked her again pulling her face to look at him. "Answer me!" She spit the blood that had been pooling in her mouth at him, he hit her hard again. "Stupid bitch!"
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Tig watched the screen intensely, he wanted nothing more than to reach through the screen and kill Moses. Just as Moses was winding up to hit the girl again, August stopped him.
"Trager, she's got fire in her. I like that. Maybe I will keep her around to break slowly." Marks smiled evilly. "What do you think about that love, do you want me to be your daddy?" He asked the girl.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Liv cried. "My dad is dead, he died before I was born."
Those words echoed in Tig's head is that what they had told her? Is that what her mother had told her? It really was for the better, until now.
"Your move Teller. I would hate to see what would happen to this sweet little piece of ass, if she is here much longer. I want the pastor and his family!" With that the screen went blank.
All eyes were on Tig. He hadn't looked up from the black screen, but he knew they were all staring at him. "She's my daughter." He said quietly as he looked up at his brothers. "Olivia's mother died when she was in Kindergarten. She had never known me….I signed my rights as her father away to her mom's best friends. It was best she never knew me." Tig had tears running down his face, he thought he had done what was the best thing for Olivia. He did it to keep her safe, obviously he couldn't do that.
"We'll save her brother." Jax said quietly, as he wonder if Olivia's fate would be the same as Bobby's.
They all sat there numbly trying to wrap their heads around what they had just seen and the loss of Bobby.
A/N: Two chapters within 24 hours I think that is a record for me. Yes, I changed Bobby's death slightly but I only did it so I could tie Liv into the story. Sorry for all the readers who wanted Liv to end up with Juice. I had decided by chapter two that he would not be continuing on. I don't think that it will be the last we hear from him though. Liv will have some coming to terms moments in the upcoming chapters. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter…Let me know what you think. Cheers….
PS: Anyone else sob their way through last night's SOA episode? My heart broke and I was sobbing like a freaking baby. Like I have said before Kurt is an evil fucking genius! Builds us up just to break us down…slowly!