A/N: Noah is Shadow Knight 1121's character and Ashley is werewolfgirl022's character.
"In all fairness, he's not too forthcoming about most of what he does… well, I better get on home." Sam says, leaving with Jack after having been talking with Carly for two hours after Carly had gotten back to The Lost MC campground and found Sam waiting for her. So far, Sam found out that she has a half sibling out there but Carly had no idea where Ashley Philips was, having not seen her since the day of the Ludendorff bank job.
Carly looked out at the reddish grey skies that indicated rain wasn't too far away from happening and it was still early morning. Carly turned the Tv on and flipped it to Miami Vice as Sons And Lovers was the episode airing when Johnny joined her in the caravan. This episode always got to Carly, especially when Angelina died in the car explosion and Angelina and Rico's son was taken by his uncle Orlando Calderone.
Carly and Johnny watched the episode intently, flinching when the part for the car explosion happened and Rico looked at the car in complete distress, having not known that his son wasn't in the car. It wasn't much longer before the funeral scene started and Long Long Way To Go by Phil Collins played in the background as Carly jumped back when a loud knock sounded on the caravan door, clearly loud enough to be heard over the storm.
Johnny instinctively gripped his AP pistol but Carly stopped him, stood up and answered the door, seeing a man outside, out of breath and soaked.
"There's some… crazy guy… after me." The man says, Carly letting him in and closing the door, locking it.
"Those locks ain't gonna hold against Trevor. Hey, what's your name?" Johnny says, the man looking at him.
"Noah… Noah Slate." The man says.
"I'm Johnny… this is Carly." Johnny says, him and Noah shaking hands before Noah and Carly shake hands.
"Nice to meet some people who aren't trying to kill me… and I knew biker gangs recruit younger members sometimes but you only seem to be 16, Carly?" Noah says.
"You think I'm young, my cousin started causing trouble from a younger age… just curious, have you seen anyone who looks like this?" Carly says, showing Noah a picture of a younger Ashley Philips.
"She looks a bit like that LS Hunterz gang leader." Noah says.
"That… can't be right, the LS Hunterz's leader is Ashley Bryan." Carly says.
"The one person that you don't want to piss off is Ashley Bryan. Haven't met her but I've heard stories of her." Noah says.
"Only way to figure this out is…" Johnny says, Carly figuring it out.
It was a while later because of the storm but Carly, Johnny and Noah were outside the LS Hunterz clubhouse…
"Tommy, open the door and tell them to fuck off!" Clint growled after hearing a knock at the door.
"Alright mate." Tommy says before walking over to the door and opened it. "You lot fuck off! We don't take it kindly to people who we don't know!" He says.
"I just need to talk to your leader." Carly says, Clint's head snapping up when he heard her voice as he had treated her before at Mount Zonah.
"Well the boss is out, now begone!" Tommy says.
Carly slammed her right fist into Tommy's nose, Tommy screaming in pain as he fell to his knees and Clint laughing.
"Damn it, I really fucking hate tiny people! Look, if you want to find her, you have to look over at a warehouse in Chumash. Must warn ya, don't piss Ashley off because it may be the last thing you ever do." Tommy says.
Carly, Johnny and Noah left, Noah slightly shocked at what Carly did.
"She's tiny but she knows how to hurt people." Johnny says.
"Yeah but that guy was right. Don't piss Ashley off, she'll kill you before you can even blink." Noah says.
When they reached the warehouse, all three walked in and Ashley stepped out of the shadows, startled as they weren't the buyers she thought were showing up.
"Let me guess, the buyer send you guys for the job?" Ashley says.
"Well, who's really going to suspect a teenager, a biker and a former underboss?" Noah says, Carly removing the hood of her raincoat and Ashley's eyes widening in shock.
"You remind me of someone that I used to know, a long time ago." Ashley says.
"I am that kid… just all grown up, Ash." Carly says. Ashley walked over, looking closely as Carly's eyes, the blue eyes that had those violet undertones. Carly's hair was shoulder length now and she had three small stars tattooed on the side of her right hand. She also had a scar that ran through her right eyebrow and several small surgical ones on her right collarbone.
"It… it's good to see you again Carly." Ashley says.
"I missed you, Ash… I missed you so much." Carly says as the two hugged.
Noah looked outside… and his eyes widened in shock.
"Hit the floor!" Noah yelled, all four diving to the ground as the gunfire started and Johnny shielding Carly from the bullets.
"LSPD!" Someone yells from outside.
"Fuck! You guys get out of here!" Ashley says.
"Hell no! I'm not leaving you behind!" Carly shouts, grabbing a nearby Carbine Rifle and shooting at the cops… one of the bullets hit a cop below the belt and he fell down screaming in pain.
"And I'm not having you dragged into my mess!" Ashley shouts.
Johnny and Noah grabbed Carly and ran, Noah shooting at the incoming cops before the trio escaped.
Noah's P.O.V
"Fuck, fuck, fuck!" Carly yelled in anger once we were away from the warehouse. Someone so young, you don't always expect to be foul mouthed. "I can't leave Ashley behind!" She yells.
"Kid… she wouldn't want you getting killed…" I say, trying to reassure her.
"I spent the majority of my childhood thinking that someone killed Trevor and then killed Ashley and that things couldn't be fixed… now I find her again and then we're all shot at?!" Carly says, me seeing the look that told me she felt and acted older than 16… older than a 16 year old should anyway.
A Ute stopped a few feet away, Tommy getting out of it and carefully approaching us.
"She told us to run." Carly says.
"That's the problem with Ashley, she'll put us first and put herself last." Tommy says. "If deals like these go down south, she cares more about making sure that we stay alive instead of herself." He says before we heard an explosive go off at the warehouse.
Carly screamed, trying to run towards the warehouse but Johnny grabbed her.
"Let me go, let me find her!" Carly shouts, tears streaming down her face.
"Hey kid. Listen, Ashley's a tough one, nothing can pretty much kill her." Tommy says.
"I… I just found her again… for nine years, I haven't seen her…" Carly says.
Ludendorff, the bank job… that's when it hits me, Michael Townley faked his death and Brad Snider is dead… and Carly saw it unfold in front of her.
"Wait does Ashley-" I start to say.
"No she doesn't and you don't say a single thing to her yet. I'll figure out how to tell her the truth of what happened." Carly says.
"Wait… you're…" Tommy says.
"Her kid cousin… sorry about hitting you earlier." Carly says.
"Nah, that's okay. I deserved it anyway, I was behaving like an asshole. I also advise you to come clean about what really happened, because if Ash finds out the truth and it's not from you, she gonna be very pissed off." Tommy says.
"Well either way, she's still gonna be pissed." Carly says.
"Pissed about what?" We hear, look and see Ashley. She's covered in soot and looks like hell but she's alive. Carly ran right to her and the two hug tightly.
"Don't ever scare me like that again!" Carly says.
"Ain't the first time I scared someone like that." Ashley says. "Tommy, got an UC tied up in the tray. Can you take him to the clubhouse? We're gonna show him our toys." Ashley says.
"Oh, sounds very exciting." Tommy says, Ashley tossing the keys to her Jeep to him.
"And don't you put a single scratch on my Jeep!" Ashley says, as Tommy walked off.
Carly and Ashley let go, Carly cringing in pain… I guess the adrenaline wore off and the pain's finally hitting her left ankle.
"You okay, kid?" I ask.
"Nothing I can't fix at home. It was nice meeting you, Noah. Thanks for the help back there." Carly says.
Ashley's P.O.V
"What a day…" I mutter after walking into the clubhouse.
"You look like you could use a drink." Scott says.
"Yeah I do. Get me the strongest drink behind that bar Scott." I say sitting on one of the stools. "Tommy showed up yet?" I ask.
"Yeah, he's got the pig tied up… and you wouldn't believe what happened earlier, some tiny girl broke Tommy's nose." Scott says, handing me a glass of whiskey.
"I was wondering if his nose looked a bit flatter than it did earlier." I say.
"Yeah I would have a paid a million bucks to see it happen again." Scott says.
"What the kid look like?" I ask.
"Shoulder length curly hair, unusual eyes… fiery little thing." Scott says.
"Well that would be my kid cousin Carly." I say, Scott's eyes widening.
"The one you said used to climb roofs and trees until she fell out of a tree and smashed her left ankle up when she was five?!" Scott asks.
"That's her… I hope she didn't break her left ankle again, I assume she still has the pin in it from how bad the last break was." I say as Tommy walks upstairs.
"I'm about ready to kill that cop! He keeps asking what my association with Noah Slate is and I don't even know anyone by that name!" Tommy says.
"Well let me do the torturing. I'll get that pig to squeal." I say before climbing off the stool.
Walking down into the basement, I see that the cop isn't actually much older, late 20s at the oldest.
"Hey… what is this supposed to prove?" He asks.
"Blah, blah, blah." I say walking over to the cop. "All that chit chat gonna get you hurt." I say before picking up a set of pliers.
Normal P.O.V, Mount Zonah E.R
"16 year old girl in room 5, possible hairline fracture of her left ankle." Josh says after handing the chart to Clint.
"Alright I'll go and check on her." Clint says before walking into the room.
"I wish I was kidding. Threw a brick at him, he fell down into the snow. Trevor was piss drunk and high." Carly says, Noah laughing as Clint walked to Carly. "Hey, you. How's your day going?" She says as Clint looked at Carly's heavily bruised left ankle.
"My day is going alright." Clint says.
"Wait, didn't we see you earlier when tiny dropped Tommy to his knees?" Noah asks, Carly hissing in pain as Clint tried to move her left foot.
"Maybe, maybe not." Clint says.
Carly screamed out as Clint tried to keep her ankle straight.
"McCall, you do that again-" Carly starts to shout, Clint lightly rubbing her shoulder as Johnny carefully restrained Carly.
"I know you don't want me to touch it, but it's part of my job." Clint says, Carly seeing Clint's tiger tattoo.
"Seems like we both like wild animals." Carly says, Clint smiling a bit. Clint noticed the three tiny stars tattooed on the side of Carly's right hand.
"That resembles a drawing my sister drew once." Clint says.
"Your sister is an artist?" Carly asks.
"She was." Clint says before looking down.
Carly figured it out and decided to stay quiet, Clint looking up again and right at her eyes.
"Purple was her favorite color… she would be amazed nowadays to see that trait in a human's eyes." Clint says.
"So that explains why the tiger is purple." Noah says, pointing to Clint's tattoo.
"Yeah… to honor Clara." Clint says.
After a while, Carly dozed off while her ankle was being scanned in the MRI machine, Clint checking on her.
"How much of that stuff did you give her?" Sara asks.
"Enough to relax her… how's her ankle looking?" Clint says.
"No fracture, muscles are undamaged… but the pin is broken, it's gonna need to be removed and replaced with a new one." Sara says.
A few hours later, Carly awoke after surgery, seeing Jackie and Noah talking to each other.
"Just be careful, the guy's crazy. Hell, he smashed Carly's shoulder up recently." Jackie says quietly.
Carly glanced at Johnny, who was by her right side, lightly stroking her hair…
Everything was strangely calm… but how long would it last?