Perfect Life chapter 4
Chapter title: Let it Burn
A/N: Hey everyone, I'm having real trouble with restraining myself from updating, this is the first fic where I've written ahead of myself and I really just want to upload everything, but if I do then I'm gonna catch up on myself and I'll probably stop writing, but any who I thought since this is the second update and I was away just before it, I thought I would cheekily upload another chapter and use it to let you know about the routine I'm gonna set up for this fic. Ok so I'm still at school and I have loads of homework due to GCSE's and stuff so my writing may slow down a little but hopefully not too much. Also I volunteer Tuesdays after school at a charity shop so the updates might be late evening (if you're from the U.K) and if I'm absolutely shattered by the end of the day then I may have to update the next day. But overall, Tuesdays are going to be update days and I will try my very best to stick with this fic. Thank you all so much for your support so far and I hope you enjoy this chapter, it's pretty short compared to the others and it's more of a filler in a way, more interesting stuff happens in the next two chapters so I hope you will stick with me until then… okay anyway enjoy!
The next day is spent sorting stuff out with Caracara. Chase, Juice and Chibs are at the studio keeping an eye on things, the two guys had bags of crisps and were sitting beside her on the sofa watching the live filming, they all stop and cringe as Lyla shoves the top of a glass bottle into the guy's ass, after it's finished the two of them stand up and clap "Bravo! Encore!" Chibs shouts at Lyla and the guy she's working with. Chase looks at the two of them and sighs
"hey guys, you've got things handled here, I think I'm gonna head back to the garage, I've hand more porn than I can handle for a day" they just laugh and nod at her.
Chase pulls into the lot and decides to go see Gem and see if she needs any help, it'd be nice to have some female company for a change. She smiles at Gem through the door to the garage office but her smile drops when she sees Gemma jumping away from Tig in shock and Chase was pretty sure she saw fear in her eyes too.
As she walks up she sees Gem hand Tig a piece of paper and him walking away, the older woman takes in a shaky breath and seems to be calming herself down, Chase makes sure to walk a little louder to make her presence known since she really didn't want to scare the woman any more than she already was. "Hey Gem, everything alright?" the woman puts her brave face back on and it's like the fear and anxiety was never there in the first place
"yeah, of course" Chase just sighs, she didn't want to push the woman but she had her own theories about her injuries, she wasn't stupid, she's seen her fair share of assaulted women back in the day and Gem was showing all the signs. It was obvious that she hasn't talked to anyone about it which she really needs to do, but Chase knew that Gemma would deny it with everything in her, there had to be a reason she was hiding it from them all. She just decided to let it slide for the time being since she really didn't want to piss the woman off, besides she could be wrong, but deep down she knew that she was onto something, something she really wished she knew nothing about.
Just as they were sorting out papers Gemma's phone rings "Hello?" a woman starts shouting down the phone and Gem has to move it away from her ear due to the sheer volume of the woman on the other end, hell Chase can hear her from the other side of the room "Luann! Luann, calm down. Start over" she calms down Luann enough to get a proper answer out of her which causes Gemma to sigh "alright, I'll leave now, see you in a bit" she hangs up the phone and Chase looks over at the woman
"trouble down in porn paradise?" Gem just smirks at the girl and nods
"I guess you could say that, apparently Bobby told Luann that he is doing the books and she's pissed"
"yeah I got that, but I didn't know that about Bobby, guess Clay set him to it" she shrugged her shoulders and watched as Gemma went out to her car.
As the woman pulled out, Chibs and Juice pulled in, Clay stormed pass them to his bike "Hey Clay" Chibs tries to greet the man but gets a reply of
"Get back to work, shithead" Chibs raises and eyebrow as he and Juice share a look
"Pretty sure he was talking to you."
Chase walks out just as Chibs and Juice get off their bikes, Tig speeds out of the lot and heads after Clay "The hell was that all about?" she questions
"got no idea" Chibs replies
"Hey, you wanna make a start on getting some intel on Zobelle?" Juice asks his fellow computer geek, she nods and the three of them head inside.
Chibs grabs a drink whilst the other two head into the office to do what they do best. They're in there for about forty five minutes before they re-emerge with some Intel on their new rival.
PERFECT LIFE…
Clay finally gets back and calls a meeting in the garage, he looks over to Juice and Chase "what do you got?" Chase places the file in front of the man and shrugs her shoulders
"Zobelle's a goddamn saint."
"He owns five cigar shops. Deacon at his church. Widower. One kid" Juice continues for her. Jax chucks a piece of paper over to Clay and explains about what Zobelle did back in San Bernardino.
The meeting's cut short when Gemma walks in and tells Jax that his porn star admirer is waiting for him, the others laugh at the man's predicament with her, she was persistent as hell that girl.
As Jax leaves Clay makes a snide comment that ends up with them throwing shit at each other back and forth again, the guys just look around at one another, this shit with these two had to stop because if it didn't, well their differences are gonna get their club members hurt.
The awkward tension hung in the air after Jax left, Chase decided to move past the little family issue and get down to business "so, how we gonna get the location of Darby's meth lab?" Opie looked up at her
"Well we know where one of his guys deal so… We can send Juice in, make him think that he wants to buy, lead him over to the rest of us and we can 'question' him" the others nod and Juice groans at the fact that he is the bait, again.
"Sounds like a plan" Chase announces "Let's get to it" and with that they all go to get ready for their little interrogation.
Juice pulls his baseball cap over his head and walks over to Darby's guy, "got a need, brother?" Juice nods, they gotta admit the guy is a good actor with the way he acts all jittery and slightly beat down by withdrawal.
"Yeah. You got a 40 bag?"
"Hey, yo, relax. Relax"
"My foreman sees me, I'm screwed man." He pants with worry "Hey, over here. Over here" Juice leads the dealer behind a stack of wooden logs, right where the others are waiting for him. The man waves off his Aryan guard dogs and follows Juice. "This ain't that, uh—this ain't that Mexican shit, right?" the guy laughs
"oh no man, I'm all about made in America" just as they round the corner Tig jumps out and punches the guy straight across the face, leaving Juice to hold the man's arms down. Tig uses an interesting but effective method to get their information from the guy, turns out the dealers balls weren't made of steel.
PERFECT LIFE…
After the constant back and forth the club decide to let Hale and Charming P.D handle Darby's meth lab, it meant that they could finally see if Hale's on Zobelle's payroll or not.
A while later back at the club house, Tig and Opie come barging in "suit up you lot, we got a meth lab to blow up" Tig shouted to his fellow club members
"Wait, so Hale really is working with Zobelle?" Juice asks and Opie nods
"Looks that way" the others just accept it and move to get changed into all black, ready for the fun, illegal task of blowing shit up.
SAMCRO emerge from the bushes located behind the meth lab, Jax looks up "That's gotta be it" Opie nods at the first pair which consisted of Tig and Chibs
"Go" Jax takes another look at the red house, he spots somethings and calls the pair back
"Hold it! Cameras" they nod and pull their balaclavas down to mask their identities. Chase, Juice and Opie were next "we'll clear the house. Then blow it" Ope nodded and double checked to make sure he had the explosives on him. Once they are all set up they cock their shotguns and fire into the windows of the house, trying to scare the occupants away.
They hear shouts coming from inside the house so they duck and cover to try and avoid the gun fire they were dishing out, Darby's little meth fairies ran for their truck and sped off to avoid getting killed.
After they left, the crew went inside the house to make sure there was no one left. After a couple shouts of "Clear!" they all ran back to where they emerged from since there was decent cover back there. Once they were all set Jax asks "Who's got the remote?"
Juice shakes his head "Ope's not using one." Clay and Jax just look at each other before the rushed sounds of Opie's footsteps were followed by the giant explosion behind him. He was only just fast enough to escape the initial blast, the blow did however knock him down, but he was unharmed and ran straight back to his brothers, who were looking at him with slight shock at yet another crazy thing the widower had done.
The boy's get changed in the back of the van whilst Chase drives them all back to the club house, Clay decided to check in on Gem, which gave Chase enough time to run inside quickly and get herself changed and ready for the wrap party. She grabbed the keys to her navy, land rover defender on her way out of the club house. She was thankful she left her car here the other day because knowing her luck she was gonna have to get Chibs home somehow and in his drunken state she knew he wouldn't be able to get there himself.
PERFECT LIFE…
As soon as they got there Chibs and Tig had found a girl each and a bottle of booze to sit down with, a couple of the Caracara girls spotted Juice and decided to have a chat and a drink with him. Which left Clay to go talk to Bobby, and Jax, Chase and Ope to spend a bit of time together. The three of them sat down by the drinks table, Jax got straight back up to get them all something.
Once they'd all settled down with their drinks Jax started to speak "Crazy, huh?" the two of them nod and look over to their brothers who were getting bombarded with beautiful porn stars. Jax looked at his best friend "Heard you went a little cowboy at that Mayan thing a couple of days ago." Opie sighed and gave a slightly accusing look to Chase, on his right, who just shrugged her shoulders,
"He was gonna find out somehow Ope, thought it was best he hear it from me" Jax nods
"Listen Ope we care about you, that thing today with the explosives…"
"I don't have a death wish guys." Chase shakes her head at him
"You got something going on"
"I got the club. Just throwing myself into it." He took a slightly nervous sip of his beer, now it was Jax's turn to shake his head
"You got kids, Ope. Don't throw yourself too far." Opie just sighs and gets back to his drink, finally Chase breaks the tension and they move onto a new topic.
Mid way through the conversation Chase notices Tara at the door having a stare down with Ima, she taps the boys and points towards the door. "Oh, shit" Jax swears
"You want me to handle it?" Chase offers, she and Tara were pretty good friends, she's a nice girl who had patched her up countless times, she'd do pretty much anything for the doctor. But Jax just shakes his head
"Nah, I got it" he jumps out of his chair to go and check on his girl.
"Poor girl's in deep, huh?" Opie states as they watch her leave and Jax run after her
"I dunno, I mean sure she's gotta learn to adapt a bit but once she has, she'll put Ima and all the other crow eaters in their place. She's got potential, plus she really does love Jax" Ope laughs
"Don't I know it" they laugh and decide to talk about everything and nothing, Chase cares about Ope and with all the shit he's pulled lately she has to admit she is more than worried about him but it was nice to just take his mind off of everything and have him relax for once, he hadn't done so since finding out about Donna.
Another long day was drawing to a close, It was about three am when Chibs was completely and utterly hammered, Chase thought she best take him home before he attempts to use his bike, she says her goodbyes to Opie, who is also shattered, and goes to look for Chibs "Come on you alcoholic" he just laughs but gets up and manages to follow Chase out of the studio without tripping over himself.
As she opened the door to the man's house she decided she was too tired to walk the short space back to her house and crashed on Chibs's couch, the man wandered back to his bedroom with a slurred "Goodnight" and left Chase to wonder how the hell she got stuck babysitting the Scot, she laughed at the thought before giving herself up to the wonderful world of sleep.
A/N: Hey everyone, thanks again for reading and if you could leave a review that would mean a lot. Thanks and enjoy the rest of your day/evening.