I know, this is another short chapter, I'm going to try to make the chapters longer from now on. Things are picking up, so lets see what is going to happen now! R&R :)

Chapter Three

"Do you really think Jax would do something like this, Juicy? I mean his own son was kidnapped when he was a baby, why would he put someone else through something like that, a new mother especially?" Chibs questioned.

"Where is Jax now? He isn't here, and we all know he sees nothing wrong with killing mothers." The words hit Juice like a ton of bricks, and he stumbled backwards. "Oh god. He's gonna kill her, because of me. Because I betrayed him, he's gonna kill her, Chibs… We have to find her." Juice was an emotional mess.

"Tig, Hap."

"Yeah boss?" Happy asked, rolling the end of the tooth pick around in his mouth.

"Find Jax, watch him, don't let him out of your sight, but don't let him know you are following him.

"Rat, I want you to get everyone to the club house, let them all know we are on lockdown, no one leaves and no one comes in until we find out who took Nikki, and why."

Everyone knew their jobs, and everyone scattered, getting everything in order, except for Juice.

Chibs sat next to him on the floor, and took him into his arms. He had never seen Juice so broken and in so much pain, his heart broke for him. But if anything would pull him together, it had to be that baby girl in the other room. It had to be.

"Look at me Juicy." Chibs demanded soft, yet stern enough to get Juices attention, which worked. Juice looked up into Chibs' eyes, sobbing, shoulders shaking, but he sat there as quiet as he tears would allow, and looked up into Chibs' eyes. "You have to pull yourself together. We will find Nikki, and we will bring her back, you understand that boy? Now for your daughters sake, you get up, and dry those tears, and be there for her. She needs her mother, but right now she needs you. Now go." Juice had responded in soldier mode. It was the only way to keep his sanity in check. With a nod of his head, he dried his tears, and went into the living room, scooping up his daughter in his arms, and he felt his heart break again. The "what if's" filled his mind, and a few more tears spilled down his cheeks.

With the help of Rat and Chibs, they all gathered Willows things, packed enough diapers, and clothes, and blankets and formula to last a few days. Chibs was the only one thinking clearly, and told Juice to bring a few more of everything, "She's a newborn, lad, she's going to blow through all this stuff sooner than you think." Chibs would know from experience with his own daughter, although he wasn't a present figure in her life now, but when she was a baby, and up until she was about nine, he was always there for her, a constant in her life. It wasn't until he was kicked from the IRA, and was forced to leave Ireland; he couldn't go back to Scotland either. He had reached out to Jaxs old man, and secured a safe harbor there for a while, and eventually joined the MC.

When they were done packing, Juice took Willow to the car, buckling her into her car seat, and putting her diaper bag, and several other bags in beside her.

"Follow Rat back to the clubhouse, I'll be there soon."Chibs said, hugging Juice, and watching him get in the car. Once Juice was settled, he whispered to himself, "Snap out of it. You can't drive like this." He then looked in the rearview mirror, he couldn't quite see his daughter, due to the fact that she was facing the back seat, so he opted to talk to her instead, "I love you Willow, I won't let anything happen to you. We're going to find mommy, and everything is going to be ok." He knew he couldn't be sure of that though; there was no positive sign that Nikki was even still alieve, but Juice pushed that thought out of his mind, and focused on the road in front of him.

Nikki cried out, her head pounding, and her body slick with sweat. She couldn't move, couldn't talk, couldn't see. The only thing she had to focus on was an unknown voice: "Yeah, we got her." -PAUSE- "Nothing will happen to her, for now." -PAUSE- "You have until the end of tomorrow night, if you don't come through with your part of the deal, she's dead."

Nikki started crying harder, her brain was buzzing, and her stomach felt as though someone had wrenched a knife through it. Thoughts of her new family passed through her mind like an old movie playing, just snippets of pictures, and images of her new born daughter. She thought how Juice would feel about all this. How would he explain to Willow that her mother was no longer there with them, or did he even know? If he didn't, did he think that she got sick of playing house already, and decided to leave? How could any new mother just walk away? She loved Juice, and she loved her daughter, and would do anything to make it work, because in the end those two were all she had left in her life.