Disclaimer: I unfortunately don't own the sons of anarchy but like many I wish I did. I do however own the character Danni! And the other characters that you don't recognise.

Chapter 9

"Urg, I thought this was Gemma's idea" Tig complained as they all sat around the clubhouse not partying like they had hoped.

"It was, she wants more family time or some shit like that" Clay said taking a swig from his beer.

"Well can we leave since she's not here?" Tig asked.

"You wanna be on the receiving end of Gemma's wrath you go on ahead" Jax replied and Tig huffed slouching in his seat.

"Where's Danni?" Chibs asked.

"She called to say she would be late" Clay answered.

"How late?" Juice asked but Clay just shrugged.

"Lass better not wiggle her way outta this if we have to stay here" Chibs said.

"Nah, I'm sure she'll show…eventually" Bobby chuckled.

"We can't start the dinner until Gemma gets here because she was bringing all the stuff" Tara said.

"We'll just have to wait then" Donna sighed.

"I'm bored…let's put music on" Cherry said with a smile and turned on some music really loud.

"Pool?" Half-Sack asked Opie and the latter nodded after downing his beer.

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Danni had contemplated just missing the dinner/family time at the club house altogether but she knew that her mother meant well and so she sucked it up and made her way over there over half and hour late. It was already dark and she took the back road which was usually deserted at this time of night but she saw a van pull out from where it had been parked at the side of the road and she got curious.

"You're already late…forget it" she mumbled to herself.

She was going to let it go but as she passed she noticed a car on the side of the road and realised that it was Gemma's but Gemma was no where to be found. She looked back at the van that was very far in the distance and knew she had to follow it just in case her mother was inside…it was a long shot but she wanted to make sure.

She followed the van for quite some time before it finally pulled up to an abandoned warehouse. A woman stepped out of the van and then three men came from the warehouse and opened the back of the van and Danni saw them pull her unconscious mother from the back. The woman got back into the van and drove away as Gemma was carried inside. Danni grabbed her phone and dialled her father's number tapping her fingers against the steering wheel.

"Come on dad…pick up" she muttered to herself but she got no answer.

"Fuck" she cursed before she tried the club house phone and again got no answer. Danni slammed her hands against the steering wheel, she had no weapon and no one was answering their phones. She shouldn't really go in on her own but her mom was in there and god knows what those three men had planned for her.

Danni took a deep breath before slowly getting out of her car and cautiously walked towards the warehouse. When she got to the door it was closed so she opened it as slowly as she could trying to be quiet and upon entering heard voices in the next room over. She walked to the door that was open ever so slightly and peered in; what she saw made her sick to her stomach.

Her mother was chained to a wired fence and three men were standing around waiting for her to come to which she was just barely. Danni's mind was reeling, what the hell was she supposed to do? She couldn't kill them because she had no weapon, she couldn't sneak her mom out because they were right there and she couldn't call her boys because none of them were answering.

When Gemma came to completely one of the men who she assumed to be the leader of the three stepped in front of her and said some words that she couldn't hear. As the man began to unbutton his pants Danni panicked. She could not let her mother get raped! She didn't have a weapon; she had no backup and no way of getting her mother out. There was only one thing she could do.

"You might wanna make sure that your little girlfriend isn't followed next time" she said as she walked into the room trying not to shit herself.

The man stopped trying to get Gemma's pants undone and all four of them looked at her. Her mother looked at her wide eyed knowing that she wouldn't willingly risk her own safety if the guys were on the way but the fact that she was desperate enough to let herself get hurt in place of her meant that they were on their own.

Danni wasn't an idiot, she knew exactly what was about to happen to her but she would rather it happen to her then her mother. Her mother's confidence was what made her who she was, it's what makes her so strong and Danni couldn't let them take that away from her. The main guy motioned for the other two to grab her and they held her against the wall opposite her mother as the main guy stepped in front of her this time.

"Like I told her; tell Clay to stop his gun dealings with minorities" the guy said.

"Or what?" Danni asked.

"Or I'll come back and do what I'm about to do to you to your mother" he said and Danni knew then that she had saved her mother this fate but she couldn't save herself.

As he reached for the button on Danni's jean shorts Gemma yelled "Get away from her you son of a bitch!" but she was ignored as she thrashed around and the three men stayed concentrated on Danni.

Just because Danni knew it was happening does not mean she was going to make it easy for them. Her wrists were cuffed above her head and two of them stepped back as the main guy stayed in front if her. He pulled a knife out and cut her top down the middle, his hands roughly grabbing her breasts as she jerked away from his touch. His large hands gripped her bare thighs tightly leaving bruises for sure and then his hand was in her panties. Danni forced herself not to cry as she felt his fingers roughly enter her at once.

While he was distracted she managed to slip one hand from the cuffs but the other was too tight and the only way she could free herself was if she broke her wrist. The bastard in front of her kept thrusting his fingers into her painfully while he cut her stomach with the knife randomly. When he looked at her she spit on him disgusted by what he was doing and he punched her in the face a couple of times, the knife catching her skin every so often. She looked over at her mother and saw that the two men were not raping her but they were hitting her a few times. As a punch was delivered to Danni's stomach she came to a decision.

When the man in front of her was satisfied that he'd hurt her enough with his fingers he began to pull himself from his pants and Danni closed her eyes. The two other men had moved off to the side from her mother a little but Gemma was still cursing at them all. When she felt her shorts get tugged down she squeezed her eyes shut and grabbed her chained wrist with her free hand pressing it against the cuff and twisting it in an unnatural way causing her to scream while freeing her from the chains and she dropped to the ground.

The two men off to the side pulled their guns and shot at her as she hid behind the other man for cover. He managed to stab her in the leg with his knife before he was shot a couple of times not having moved from surprise and she grabbed his gun shooting one of the men leaving only one left. Danni fell to the ground as a bullet hit her side and she shot back at him getting his leg making him fall before she shot at his head.

Everything was suddenly silent and Danni rolled to her back pulling her hand form her wound seeing it drenched in blood. Her breathing was ragged and she felt light headed and in a shit load of pain.

"Baby? Dove?" she heard her mother shouting her.

"Mommy…" she whimpered in pain.

"God baby…Danni! Danielle?"

"Hm?"

"Can you get me down from here?" Gemma asked gently but inside she was freaking out.

"Um…" Danni trailed off and dragged herself towards her mom a little bit so that she could get better aim of the chains attached to Gemma's wrists. When she had good aim she held her wrist up with her sore wrist to keep her hand steady and she shot the chains allowing her mother to drop to the ground.

"Oh baby…gimme your keys, come on" Gemma coaxed as she tried to help her to her feet taking most of the weight. She herself was beaten quite a bit but it was nothing compared to Danni.

Danni patted her pocket to weak to actually retrieve the keys. Gemma half helped and half dragged Danni to the car and took the keys helping her into the backseat so that she could lie down. She got into the front seat and hit the gas driving like a mad woman knowing that her baby's life was hanging in the balance.

When they pulled up to the club house Gemma again almost had to drag Danni from the car to the entrance of the club house. She threw the door opened and began to enter the loud room, music blaring and loud voices.

"Gemma! Finally you're here, I was…" Tig started but stopped when he saw her but not got sight of Danni yet.

"Gemma baby…what happened, why…?" Clay started to ask as the music went off but then Gemma walked further in and they saw Danni.

"Jesus Christ!" Bobby swore seeing all the blood and the ripped clothes. Danni couldn't stand anymore and collapsed to the floor but Juice had rushed to her side as soon as he saw her and caught her before she hit the ground, gently lifting her bridal style and laying her on the table that the boys had cleared.

"What the fuck happened mom?" Jax asked panicked as Tara and Chibs began to work together assessing the damage as Danni's eyes drifted shut before they opened again and repeating the process.

Gemma sighed before tears started to fall from her eyes something that never happened in front of the boys "I pulled over to the side of the road because a woman said her baby was chocking…the bitch hit me on the head knocking me out and shoved me into her van. I'm assuming that Danni saw when she was on her way here and followed us…I'm also assuming that she tried calling…" Gemma trailed off as Clay checked his phone and Half-Sack checked the club house phone and both cursed at the missed calls "She followed three men into the warehouse and when I came to they told me to tell you to stop your gun dealings with minorities. He undid his pants and reached for my jeans" they all tensed especially Clay "And then Danni walked into the room and they were immediately off of me and onto her. They cuffed her hands above her head and started to do to her what they were going to do to me."

"Did they…?" Juice let his question hang in there air, it was too painful to say.

"No…not exactly. He groped her and violated her with his fingers" the guys cringed "But his dick didn't get anywhere near her before she broke her own wrist to get free. The first guy stabbed her leg before she used him as a sheild and he got shot. She grabbed his gun shot one of the others before she was shot in the side and then she killed the last guy, got me free and I got us here." Gemma wiped some of her tears looking at her little girl and she sighed "She had no weapon, no backup and no way to get me out so she did the only thing she could"

"Which was?" Opie questioned gently.

Gemma smiled slightly but it was a sad one "Diverted their attention from me to her" she stated.

"Danni? Danni…I need you to keep your eyes open for me ok?" they heard Tara say to Danni and they made their way over to her.

"Mm…tired" she mumbled.

"I know lass but you gotta stay awake for a little while" Chibs said gently as he helped Tara try and control the blood loss.

"You need anything?" Clay asked them looking at his broken baby girl and they both shook their heads concentrating on Danni completely.

"Mom…is she…mom…ok?" Danni asked incoherently.

"I'm right here baby…I'm fine ok?" Gemma assured her while wiping some more tears.

"Hm…that's…good…" her eyes slid shut again.

"Danni? I'm going to need more towels for the blood…clean water…my medical bag" Tara stated and everyone went off to get some things except Gemma, Clay, Jax and Juice.

Danni's eyes didn't reopen this time and it sent them into a panic. They all began to call her name other than Juice who was crouched by her head and he whispered into her ear so that the others couldn't hear him.

"Danni? Baby, I need you to open your eyes for me. Come on, you know what it was like thinking you lost me…you don't want me going through that do you? You can't die on me babe, please…I love you so god damn much, more than my own life…open those beautiful blue eyes for me…" he coaxed her as the others continued to call her name. Her eyes fluttered open and she immediately locked eyes with Juice who was smiling slightly at her "That's my girl" he whispered into her hair.

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Many, many painful hours later Tara and Chibs finally had the bleeding under control and fixed her up pretty damn well considering the only things they had to do it with.

"Well, how bad is it?" Clay asked them as they came back into the main room both covered in blood.

Tara sighed "The bullet wound wasn't too bad thankfully; it missed anything major and was mostly just at the edge of her skin so there wasn't any internal damage just a lot of blood. Her leg is much the same, no internal damage but they'll both be sore for weeks before the pain begins to ease. She had two broken ribs and three bruised ones but they should heal ok since they're wrapped. Then there are her flesh wounds; the cuts and bruises…they'll heal nicely but she'll have a couple of small scars on her stomach from the knife but they'll barely be noticeable. She should heal perfectly well…physically" she told them and there was relief but also anxiety from the "Physically" part.

"Any idea when she'll wake up?" Gemma asked them worriedly glancing through the open door at her daughter on the table.

"Could be a couple of hours or a couple of days, it depends on her" Chibs informed them before going to change his bloody clothes.

A little while later Chibs and Tara were blood free and they were all sitting around waiting. Jax glanced over at Juice and wondered if he should say something.

"So…anyone else see her tat?" he asked his eyes still on Juice but he didn't seem at all surprised by the tattoo.

"Yeah…a crow with Juice's name in its claws" Cherry said.

"Did you know she had it?" Tig asked Juice.

"No…well, not until that night when Greg messed her up. I saw it then…" he said quietly.

"Oh yeah, that's the tat you saw when you…" Donna started but then stopped when the girls shot her looks.

"When he?" Opie urged his wife.

"Nothing…doesn't matter" she dismissed and looked away.

"Okay" he said frowning slightly before shrugging.

"I can't believe what she did tonight" Chibs said shaking his head in amazement.

"Yeah…its amazing but then again it was Gemma who was being hurt so maybe we shouldn't be so surprised" Piney said.

"Yup, I mean if she willingly got stabbed for Tara and her unborn nephew it's no surprise she'd do this for Gemma" Bobby added.

"It's not nice to talk about someone…behind their back you know" Danni croaked from the table and they were up like shots.

"Sorry baby" her dad apologised with a small smile.

She shrugged a little "S'okay" she smiled and Gemma gave her some water.

"How are you feeling?" Tara asked.

"There aren't even words…" she said closing her eyes and taking deep breaths against the pain.

"Here's some meds for the pain" Chibs handed them over and Danni took them gratefully.

"Thanks…how bad am I?" she asked.

"Physically, you'll be sore for a while but you'll eventually be ok save for a few barely noticeable scars on you stomach" Tara told her with a smile.

"Good" she sighed choosing not to comment on the "Physically" part.

Clay sighed "Baby, I'm so sorry that I didn't answer my phone or the clubhouse one we were…" he started and they all looked a little guilty.

"Don't" she interrupted him "Don't feel guilty about this ok? You couldn't have known…it's not your fault; the blame is on whoever did this. Don't give em' the power by feeling unnecessarily guilty." She told them and they nodded a little.

"Ok…" Clay sighed.

"So…nice tat" Tig smirked and Danni laughed a little but winced in pain.

"Yeah? You like?" she asked completely undeterred.

"Well, the name could have been changed but whatever" he teased and she smiled a little before her eyes closed again.

"I think I'll sleep a little more" she said quietly and they piled from the room.

Jax kissed her on the head "I'm glad you're ok" he whispered before leaving, Gemma and Clay following suit.

Juice sighed and smoothed her hair back, she was already asleep. He kissed her gently on the head and then on the lips before he whispered "I love you" and he left the room quietly to join the others.