Finally I could get this chapter out! It's a little on the short side but better than nothing right? Thanks to those who have reviewed. It makes me feel really good knowing that people like this as much as they like Stand Your Ground! So I hope you like this chapter and I'm sorry if there are any grammar mistakes that I've missed. I tried. So please review and tell me what you think! :D

Chapter two

Billy stood in front of his gang in what used to be a mental hospital but they now call it the office. He was watching while they packed up their stuff ready to go to their corners. He was angry though because they were all there except for Joe. He could not get a hold of him. He knew he was most likely with Gabby and he knew she lived in a dorm at the school. But the last thing he wanted to do was bring any unwanted attention to himself by searching for him. From the corner of his eye he spotted Baggy leaving with his bag.

"Baggy." He called out.

Baggy looked over and began to get nervous. He thought back wondering if he did something wrong or if he was short the last time he gave Billy money.

He made his way over to Billy. "Yeah?"

Billy stayed silent as he watched everyone leave. He took a drag of the cigarette he had lit and absently rubbed his nose.

"You talk to your girl lately?" He asked looking around making sure no one was around to hear him.

"Yeah this morning." Baggy said. He had a feeling he knew what Billy was going to ask.

"Has she heard from Madison?" Billy cleared his throat. As much as he was angry at her for leaving, he was able to sleep at night of he knew that she was alright.

Baggy shook his head. "Not since the kid's birthday."

Billy sighed and nodded his head, then he made his way to the back of the office where the chapel was. It was the one place he could think clearly. Most of the boys knew better than to bother him when he was in there.

Before he had met Madison he never thought of the what ifs. He had never wanted to be someone's husband, or some child's father. All he knew was the gang, violence, the blood and the gore. But when Madison suddenly arrived in his life he started thinking about it. He wanted to be her husband and be a father. Though he would never tell anyone about these thoughts. Everybody thought him to be the cold heartless bastard that didn't give a damn about anyone but himself. And he planned to keep it that way. He pulled out his phone to try Joe again. He cursed when all he got was his voice mail.

"Where the fuck is he?" He muttered angrily to himself.


When Gabby came back from her classes, Joe was still passed out in her bed. Becca hadn't come back yet and for that she was glad. She knew Joe would be in a bad mood if she was here when he woke up. She wasn't sure why they didn't get along. She knew Becca didn't approve of his lifestyle, but neither did she at first. Now she couldn't picture him doing anything else. Gabby threw her bag on the floor and took her sandles off. As quietly as she could she lifted the blankets and slide in the bed next to him.

Joe opened an eye when he felt her get in the bed and immediately wrapped and arm around her waist. Gabby reached up to caress his cheek and slowly brought her hand down his neck and chest. She kissed him gently and said his name.

"Joe? You awake?" He grunted and pulled her against him, eyes still closed.

Gabby kissed his lips again and then his cheek. When she got no response from him she trailed her lips down his neck and chest. She knew he was awake because she could feel the shiver that came out of him and heard the small moan that came out of his mouth. She chuckled when Joe snaked his leg around hers and locked them against him, preventing her from moving. She smirked and placed hot kisses to his chest and ran her hands down to his waist.

"That's cheating." Joe smirked and finally opened his eyes making her laugh.

"It worked though didn't it."

"Whatever. How was class?" He asked twirling a lock of her hair around his finger.

"Excruciatingly long. Especially since I knew you were here." She pecked his cheek. "Has Becca been back yet?"

"No." He said. "Thank God." He added under his breath.

"I don't understand why you don't like her. I mean she's female and hot." Gabby teased making invisible circles along his chest.

"I liked her just fine when I first met her. Then she started talking. Now all I see is a chick that doesn't know how to keep her mouth shut."

Gabby just sighed and relaxed against him. She smiled to herself feeling completely content for the first time in a long time. Since she had started school, she spent a lot of time going to class and studying. So it gave her and Joe a lot less time together. Both were lying in a comfortable silence when they were interrupted by the phone on Gabby's desk that had started ringing.

Groaning at their silence being interrupted, Gabby pushed herself off the bed and over to her desk to answer the phone. She answered and sat on the edge of the bed when Joe slipped his hand under her shirt running his fingers along her back.

"Gabby?" Tanya's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Hey Tan. What's up?"

"Uh. Is Joe there with you?" Tanya said sounding nervous.

"Yeah Joe's here why?" Joe had sat up at the mention of his name.

"Just tell him that he needs to get a hold of Billy as soon as possible."

"Yeah sure. Tanya are you okay?"

"I'm fine. Hey we haven't hung out in a while, why don't we do lunch this weekend?"

"Okay. Sounds good. I'll call you later?"

"Yeah. Love you. Bye." Tanya hung up leaving Gabby looking at the phone.

"Everything alright?" Joe asked wrapping his arms around her waist resting his chin on her shoulder.

"I think so. Tanya said that you need to call Billy asap. Apparently he's been trying to get a hold you you. Is your phone on?"

Joe shook his head. "It's in my jacket. I turned it off so no one would disturb me from my beauty sleep." He smirked.

Gabby rolled her eyes laughing softly and grabbed his jacket that was one the floor and gave him his phone. Turning it on, he saw he had several voice mails. All from one person.

"Joe where the fuck are you? You need to get me my fuckin money tonight or your going to be the one going to Bones to explain why he didn't get all his money this week." Billy's voice boomed out from the phone.

"I guess that means you have to go." Gabby said sadly.

"Yeah. But I'll most likely be at the bar tomorrow night if you want to stop by." Joe said slipping his shirt on.

"Sure. Maybe Becca and I can make it a date." Gabby grinned wrapping her arms around his neck.

"I don't care as long as your there." Joe leaned forward to capture her lips in a deep kiss.

"I'll see you later." Joe said and left.

Gabby grinned to herself. She was happier than ever and her and Joe were closer than ever.


Tanya sighed as she looked over at both Billy and Baggy. Billy seemed to know when to interrupt intimate moments between her and Baggy. They finally had some alone time together when Billy started banging on the door demanding she call her sister in order to find Joe.

He then had the nerve to send Baggy out to cover more corners, and of course Baggy did so no questions asked. It was times like these she cursed Madison for leaving because since she left Billy had been completely unbearable. She hated the way Billy treated the people he called his family, and she had told Baggy that many times. But each time it had ended in an argument with Baggy storming out of the apartment. Sometimes he would be gone for the whole night, other times he would be gone for a few days.

It broke her heart when he would leave like that. She knew he was angry and needed sometime to cool down, but did it really take a couple days to cool down from a petty argument?

It was a couple of hours later when she finally decided to call him. She had the number halfway dialed when the front door opened. Looking up she let out a sigh of relief seeing Baggy walk in.

"Hi." She said softly playing with her fingers.

"Hey baby." He said just as softly and closed the door. Tanya put the phone back on the counter. She bit her lip and looked down at her feet.

"So..." She hated awkward silences that seemed to be occurring a lot more lately.

"Can we not fight and pretend nothing happened?" Baggy said as he walked in front of her. He gently grabbed her face and placed a soft slow kiss on her lips. As much as she wanted to object, she felt her resolve melt when he kissed her.

"Okay." Tanya murmured and kissed him back.

Baggy deepened the kiss, pushing his tongue past her lips. She opened her mouth giving him entrance and let a moan come out from the back of her throat. She felt her knees shaking and Baggy let out a growl and pressed her against him, holding her up. She closed her eyes and tilted her head back as he trailed his lips down the middle of his throat. She brought one hand up and ran it through his hair while the other gripped his bicep. Slowly Baggy ran his hands down her back and over her bottom where he cupped and lifted her effortlessly in his arms. She wrapped her legs around his waist and locked her ankles together as he made his way to their bedroom where he planned to make up for all the arguing they had been doing lately.


Becca ran a hand through her hair as she stepped off the bus. She had just come back from the hospital from visiting her father. He had been battling cancer his whole life and had gotten sick the last few months and was now bedridden in the hospital. Since her mom had died when she was younger and since she was an only child, her father had raised her completely by himself. And he did a damn good job of it if she said so herself. She owed it to him for taking care of her so she was going to do everything she could to pay him back and take care of him. Fortunately her fathers insurance payed for most of the medical bills, but she still took up a part time job at a local thrift store. Every check she got she put half away for her father and the other half went to her schooling. It left little for herself to use but once she was a famous magazine writer it would make up for it all.

Turning a corner away from the bus stop she saw the dorm building and started speed walking towards it. It was late and she hated walking by herself at night.

"Hey sweetheart." A voice called out making a sick feeling enter her stomach. She ignored him and kept walking. She sped up when she heard the footsteps behind her quickly catching up.

"Aw come on. Don't be like that." the voice was now directly behind her. Then a hand suddenly grabbed her arm. She had a second to look down to see a greasy dirty hands with black finger nails, that were not due to nail polish, spin her around.

She was faced with a large chubby man with a dark beard that covered most of his face. The small area around his eyes that had no hair was extremely dirty.

"Let go of me." She said trying to keep her voice even. She was terrified but she wasn't going to let him know that.

"You got any money?" He said and ran his hand across the front of her jeans toward her crotch area. She swallowed the bile that seemed to be making its way up her throat. He stuck a hand in the right front pocket doing a little more that search for money.

"Get the hell away from me you creep." She pushed against him trying to get away from him but he was much bigger than her so it didn't do much of anything.

"Just relax. You can enjoy this just as much as I will." The man pushed her against the building they were in front of.

"Stop it, please." She couldn't stop the tears that formed in her eyes when he forced her legs apart.

Becca squeezed her eyes shut and moved her head to the side. It was only when she heard a loud rumble did she open them again. Looking down the street she saw the headlights of a car coming her way. She immediately started screaming and struggling hoping whoever was in the car would stop and help her.

The man brought his hand up over her mouth. "Shut the fuck up bitch. No one's going to help you."

She watched the car drive past her and noticed it was red with tribal signs all over it. She recognized it from the multiple times she saw it drop Joe off at the dorm. She kept struggling and felt the tears fall down her cheeks when the man tried to unsnap her jeans. Then she cried in relief when the car stopped a couple feet away. She saw two men step out of the car. One was tall and hand a bald head. The other was shorter with short hair. It was too dark to really see their faces. She could see the shorter one had tattoos coming up from his neck but they both had heavy jackets on so she couldn't tell if they had anymore but she was willing to bet they did.

"Help." She shouted out to them, hoping they would answer her.

The tall bald guy she saw walked calmly to the front of the car and leaned against it folding his arms in front of him, while the shorter one calmly walked over to her. The guy assaulting her seemed to not hear the car stop or the guy coming toward them. Becca's eyes widened and she let out a gasp when the guy took out a gun from the back of his pants.

"I don't think the lady is enjoying herself." He said and pressed the head of the gun against the back of the guys head.

The guy froze when he felt the gun and put his hands up in surrender. Becca stepped away from him as soon as his hands went up.

"I'm going to give you five seconds to get out of here before I blow your fuckin head off." The guy holding the gun said calmly.

"Alright, alright. If you wanted her for herself just say so." The guy knew he had just said the wrong thing when he heard the gun being cocked.

"One, two..." he didn't have to say anymore as the guy ran down the street and around the corner.

"You alright?" He said and put the gun away.

Becca nodded her head furiously. She didn't know what to say. If he hadn't come when he did, she didn't want to think about what would have happened. She wrapped her arms around herself and looked at the man who had just saved her.

"Thank you." She whispered and he had to strain to hear her.

"What was that?" He asked, then smirked because he had heard her.

Becca pursed her lips together and looked down, then back at him tightening her arms that were wrapped around herself. "I said thank you."

"Spink! Stop flirting and hurry the fuck up. We got a deadline to keep." The guy leaning on the car shouted.

"Hold on!." Spink shouted back. "You high bastard." He added under his breath, then looked back at Becca.

"My name's Spink."

"Becca." She said softly. She wasn't going to ask about his name because as far as she was concerned she was never going to see him again.

"I should get going." Becca said. She thanked him again and began walking away from him.

"So your the room mate of Joe's girl huh?"

Becca froze, then turned around to face him, narrowing her eyes. "Yeah. Who the hell are you?"

"I told you. I'm Spink. Me and Joe are tight. And that's Heco." He said referring to the guy who was looking pretty impatient by now. "You could call us a big happy family."

Becca stared at him with a blank look when she suddenly realized that he was a part of the Darley gang.

"What do you want a prize or something?" Becca said hiding her shock.

"Or something." Spink smirked looking her up and down.

She scoffed in disgust. " I have to go." She turned around again and started walking away from him.

"Be careful sweetheart. You don't know what kind of people are around this time of night wanting to prey on a young innocent girl like yourself." Spink said as he and Heco got back into the car.

Becca ignored him and turned her walk into a jog. She finally made it to her dorm. She prayed that Gabby was asleep when he got there. The last thing she wanted was to tell Gabby what happened because she would no doubt tell Joe, then Joe will talk to Spink.

She sighed in relief seeing Gabby fast asleep once she made it to her room. She quickly changed and curled up in bed with thoughts of what almost happened to her and of who saved her.

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