Perfect Life chapter 5
Chapter title: Damage
A/N: Morning everyone! My first proper regular update, yay! Hope you enjoy this chapter, had to smuggle in uploading before school since I'm busy tonight. Anyway enjoy!
A couple days later Chase woke up with a yawn, she grabbed her phone to check the time, 6:47am, as usual. A reminder flashed up on her phone screen CHARITY DRIVE, DON'T BE LATE! She groaned and went to sit up, her laptop was sitting on the coffee table next to her, which means she fell asleep on the couch, again. Someone's light snoring can be heard from the other sofa across from her in the living room, she looks over to see Juice with his own laptop sitting on his chest with his hand hooked protectively over it, that's when she remembers, the two of them spent the evening trying to find some dirt on Zobelle, which seemed damn right impossible, guy was as clean as a bloody bar of soap. After searching that empty trail, they must've fallen asleep.
After righting her glasses she grabbed one of the cushions beside her and threw it at the Puerto Rican, he jerked awake and almost dropped his computer, Chase just laughed at him "Morning sunshine" he sits up, puts his beloved laptop out of harm's way and rubs the sleep from his eyes, he grumbles out a "Morning" response before getting up to make them both a drink that will hopefully give them a bit of a kick to start the day.
A couple minutes later he returns with Chase's tea, god forbid he gave the girl coffee, he learnt not to make that mistake again a long time ago. As well as a coffee for himself, she smiled at him as he placed the mug in front of her "thanks"
"No problem"
She held the warm mug in her hand, this was her favourite part about having hot drinks, the feeling of warmth beneath your finger tips and you sip from the slightly too hot liquid inside. "We can't hang around too long, I've got that charity run today"
"oh shit, that's today?" she nodded "damn I forgot" she just laughs at him
"Yeah I think I got that. You got any clothes with you?"
"Yeah in my computer bag"
"Cool, well once we finished these off we can get ready and head off so I can help save the kids" she smirks at him before taking another sip of her tea, wasn't half bad either, guess she's known him long enough now that he knows how to make her a drink.
PERFECT LIFE…
They were all getting ready to leave for the drive, a couple guys from the other charters were there too, prepping stuff for the party afterwards and sorting out their own bikes.
The SAMCRO lot look up at the sound of an old bike backfiring, next thing Bobby comes riding out of the garage on his first damn bike "Chitty Chitty, bang bang" Chibs shouts as the man rides to a halt in front of them all, Chase whistles
"Hey, hey, it's an old fat boy on an old fat boy." Everyone starts laughing as Bobby gets up, he looks over to Chase who is still chuckling "I'm not even sorry, that was a good one". Jax lights a cigarette and walks over to the proud owner
"I thought you put that beast to sleep."
"This fat boy ain't even reached his prime" Bobby defends his precious bike but Opie hits him with another dig
"Barely looks like it can reach the end of the lot."
"Best bike for a long ride. And I'd put it up against any of your pretty Dynas."
Bobby starts the bike again and they all watch as smoke and whatever other crap is in that exhaust spills out. Sack is the first to complain
"Oh, man, really? Aw goddamn, man, come on. I gotta ride behind that thing?"
"Shut up. You should be used to getting sprayed in the face prospect." Chibs shouts at the kid and Chase starts laughing again, Sack fakes one
"Eat me, Chibbie" that would be a good comeback if Chibs didn't have one to counter it
"The thing is, I like a full scrote when I snack on someone." That was it Chase was off crying with laughter as she leant on the Scot.
"Oh yeah, well pretty soon you can have that" now that caught the groups attention.
After taking the piss out of Half Sack for his ball implant, Clay and Gemma finally roll into the lot, they were all still laughing when Clay drove over "What?" Bobby just smiles
"You don't wanna know. Really"
They do the finishing tests on their bikes whilst Clay talks to Piney. Finally the president swings around and drives forwards slightly, ready to take off for their little charity event. Happy walks over "What do you say, Prez?" the rest of his charter pulls up behind him
"Let's go save the children." Happy pulls out his gun and fires it in the air, signalling the start of their drive, everyone cheers as they begin to pull out of the Garage and onto the road.
There it was again, the wind. Making her hair fly off of her back as they all flew down the road, this must've been the biggest group they've ever ridden with because they get a lot more looks than usual, but this time not so many of them are glares, seems word got out about their charity run. They ride past the Nazi cigar shop and Clay turns to glare at Zobelle as he hangs his shop sign.
As they ride further away from Charming, the Redwood charter move to separate from the charity ride group and take a left down to the Irish military surplus store.
PERFECT LIFE…
Eddie greets them at the front of the shop and takes them into the back where his dad is waiting for them. This was the plan all along, the charity ride is just a cover for the Sons so they can traffic guns for the Irish.
"How do we carry?" Clay asks as Eddie rolls out a blue blanket with slots big enough for the hand guns they were delivering
"Ten guns in each. Roll it up. Strap it on." Cameron explains
"Just a biker with a bedroll." Bobby clarifies, it was a pretty good idea if they were being honest, like Bobby said, and it was just something that people wouldn't take a second glance at.
They continue to talk about future delivery arrangements, but as they moved on to the topic of the Irish it seems that Eddie takes a slip, which leaves Cameron to explain, her gives a heavy exhale before talking.
"Jimmy O, some of the Falcarragh crew… Might be comin' stateside, time allows." Everyone pauses to look at Chibs, the poor guy had a shitty history with Jimmy O, he's the reason he's got his Glasgow smile, and not to mention he also stole his wife and daughter away from him.
Chibs looks straight at Cameron, an unreadable emotion on his face, he speaks in Gaelic before translating for the others present
"Their day will come." Chibs ends that conversation and they all move to pack their guns and load them onto their bikes.
As they go to get back on their bikes Chase calls Sack over to her, she's feeling generous today and decides to take pity on the kid
"Hey Sack, I'll take point at the back this time, save you and Tig getting stuck behind the fat boy"
"Really? Thanks, will you be alright?"
"Yeah course" the prospect went back over to his bike and they all left the Irish to join back up with the other charters.
Perfect timing, as they pulled out the others were just driving past. They easily settled back into formation and continued to their destination.
Just as they were coming up to a bend, Bobby's shitty old bike starts to backfire and with all the smoke coming out of the exhaust Chase loses sight of the road "Bobby what the hell?!" Chase shouts at him before she misses the bend and goes flying off the road, doing a front flip straight over her handle bars, her crappy helmet flew off which resulted in her taking a hit to the head and she takes a rough fall to the bottom of the hill.
The others rush off their bikes "Hey who's down?" Clay shouts at them, they all head to the edge of the hill
"Chase, Chase!" Half Sack shouts as he and Chibs slide down the hill to get to her, Bobby is next down after them, hoping she was alright.
"Chase, you alright?"
"Shit, Chase. Chase!" she was pretty out of it, she tried to sit up but almost fell back down, the guys caught her though "Shit, we better call and ambulance" Half Sack nodded and pulled his phone out to dial 911.
"Fuck!" Was the first word that came out of her mouth, the ambulance was on its way and the pain was starting to hit her full force.
"Kid you alright"
"Yeah Bobby I'm fucking right as rain" she felt kinda bad for being so harsh on him but she was in pain and that never put anyone in a good mood. Although, her sarcasm let Bobby breathe a sigh of relief, at least she was functioning enough to bitch at him.
"Can you sit up?" Chibs asked the girl, she struggled slightly but got there in the end, but not without a few gasps of pain. She looked down to the main source to see that her left leg had been cut open, blood seeping from the wound
"Aw shit"
Once they're finally at the hospital and Chase's consciousness is back to normal she looks up at Clay as she is being rolled from the ambulance "Sorry, boss"
"You just get patched up. We'll come by after the drop" as she's wheeled past Bobby she points up at him
"I swear I'm gonna shove that bike so far up your arse!" Bobby moves away from the girl, slightly worried for his own wellbeing and moves over to Clay.
"She's gonna be just… fine" Clay starts to walk back to his bike
"You tend to her every beck and call! You understand"
Chase was laid out on a gurney with her hand behind her head, waiting for her leg to be sewn up, this sucked, that was the last time she ever offered to help out Half Sack. She looked down at her feet to see Happy standing there "How you holdin' up?"
"I'm alright, leg kills and I've got a splitin' headache though. Plus my knee is gonna be fucked for the next few days" he looks down at her confused before he finally remembers what she's talking about
"Damn you still got that knee thing?" It was a rhetorical question and she knew it.
"No Hap, it just decided one day to get up and jump out of my body. Of course I still have my fucking knee thing" as a kid she used to suffer horrible knee pains, the doctors could never find what was wrong so she had to settle for wearing a Velcro knee support for a while, so now even as an adult if she jars her knee bad enough the pain returns and the support has to be strapped back on to ease the pain.
He just scoffs at her sarcasm but lets it slide after today's incident, he pats her good leg for comfort and she could tell it wasn't his specialty but the thought was enough to make her smile. "Sorry" she apologises to her friend.
"What the hell are you talkin' about, you can't take her?" Bobby was arguing with the receptionist.
"Miss. Crosby has basic coverage. She can only be admitted to a hospital in her plan." Bobby wasn't having any of her bullshit
"She's bleedin' in your hallway."
"I'm sorry. We'll have to transfer her to Red Bluff. She's stable enough to travel." He ran a hand over his face from stress
"How about you get her some pain meds?"
"I can give her some Advil." This woman's totally calm demeanour was pissing him off, his patch sister was lying in a 'hospital' hallway bleeding and they can't spare a little bit of needle and thread?
"She's got a gash the size of your attitude on her leg. Got enough Advil for that?" with that he collects the prospect and they walk back over to the girl to break the news.
Happy looks up to see them walk over and asks the question he knows Chase is wanting to know "How much longer?" Bobby stood by her side and prepped himself
"There's good news and bad news. Good news is you're stable enough to travel." This caught her attention
"Travel? Travel where?"
"Well, that's the bad news. We gotta move you to another hospital." Bobby turns around to yell at the receptionist
"H.M.O. bullshit!"
"Fuck come on. Stitch me up!" she shouts over to the main part of the hospital.
The receptionist bends down to talk to her colleague, still keeping an eye on the bikers "Call Red Bluff. We need this girl shuttled—quicker, the better."
"Okay" the other receptionist picks up her mobile and dials, she picks up Chase's insurance card so she can see the name.
"Hey, it's me. Run this name through your database? Cassandra Crosby."
Chase continues to lie there for a while, the boys standing around her chatting, she was bored out of her mind plus her leg felt like it was on fire and a jackhammer was going off in her head. Finally one of the nurses comes over to give her some painkillers "It's about fucking time" between the cold welcome and the biker patch it was easy to say that the poor nurse was scared of Chase. She also brings over some bandages and a wheelchair so they can get her outside and to this other hospital they were all so fond of.
As they walk out of the hospital door Bobby remembers something "Oh, shit. That bitch still has your insurance card." Happy pats Bobby on the back
"I got it" Chase turns around to shout a thanks at the nomad.
"Okay, so where the fuck is this hospital?" Bobby sends Half Sack to find out where the hell they were supposed to be going. He pulls Chase and her wheelchair to a halt and walks around to her front "you do know that Clay said your task is to be my bitch."
"He did?" Bobby asked with a raised eyebrow
"Yeah. I got one request… Leave that piece of shit fat boy on the side of the road before someone else gets hurt"
"But... That is my baby. That is the first bike—"
"No no, no excuses. You almost killed me." Suddenly a blue van pulls up beside them and a tough guy jumps out of the passenger side door with a gun in hand pointed at Bobby.
"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa!" Chase shouts over all the commotion, Sack comes running over just as a couple more men hope out the van with guns. The boys are helpless being held at gun point. Two of the men grab Chase and throw her into the van "Hey, get the fuck off me! Goddamn it! Bobby!" She struggles against her assailants "Hey dickhead watch my leg!"
"Chase! Chase! Shit. Don't worry! We'll find you!" Bobby shouts the reassurance to the girl as the truck drives off.
Sack and Bobby run to their bikes and that is the one moment Bobby's bike decided to pack in, Sack's however is in perfect condition and he takes off after her.
Happy comes running out after hearing all the racket and Bobby explains what happens. Unfortunately someone kidnapping one of Hap's closest friends seemed to make him really pissed. "Get your goddamn phone out and call Clay!" the nomad shouted.
PERFECT LIFE…
As the van speeds off, the one thought going through Chase's mind was shit shit shit! It's not like she couldn't hold her own in a fight with a bunch of guys, but being stolen and chucked into a van with a bunch of guys, whilst injured, now that was a pretty scary reality.
By the time the van stopped, Chase was no longer worried about the possibility of being assaulted by these guys, they obviously had orders to keep her alive and in a somewhat good condition.
They pull over so the driver can run out to the side of the road to take a piss which meant that all four remaining occupants of the van were left to sit in silence amongst each other. Well as she always does, Chase breaks the silence between the group "No one's gonna tell me why the hell I'm here? Nothing?" she chuckles as a long period of silence is followed by her question. "Wow you guys are born conversationalists" she sighs when they still remain silent "wow. Okay… Well I'll start." She looks over to the person sitting in the front passenger seat "I'm guessing you were some school sports star there baldy, never quite good enough to get into the big leagues and just too damn stupid to graduate." This provoked the guy sitting across from her
"Shut your mouth, bitch" she just smirks at him
"Okay you're definitely in this line of work due to your aggie issues." This time the guy on her right, who seemed calmer than the rest of them, spoke up
"You hear what he said?"
"Oh and you, come on, you gotta be bi at least. Probably got a thing for ol' Mr angry over there and this job—it's your way of staying close." That was it, she provoked the aggie guy to a point to where he leapt at her from his seat and punched her in the face. Baldy sets him straight before he can hurt her anymore.
"We don't collect if we bring her in beaten. Besides, how do we look if we beat up and injured girl. It's Oregon"
"whoa wait hold up. Oregon? I've got nothing outstanding in Oregon."
"That's what you think darlin'"
"wow aren't you guys a big fucking help" they had all had enough of her smart comments
"Gag her" that little light bulb suddenly went off in her head, she knew what she had to do. Mr aggie went to tape her mouth but she wasn't going down that easy, she head-butted the guy but then Oprah next to her shoved her onto the floor and started kicking her, luckily baldy still had his head screwed on straight and made the guys break it up. But he didn't do it for fun, once they got her stood up he punched her in the face and sent her falling backwards, she just laughed.
The bounty hunters drag her out of the van and drop her to the floor, "what you boys hitting me for? I was cooperating" she just laughs again at the predicament she put them in, it hurt like hell but It bought her extra time, and that was the time her brothers needed to get her back.
The driver was finally done taking his piss, after talking to his little buddies about what they should do with Chase they came up with a plan to take her to the nearest hotel and get her cleaned up before they deliver her. They threw her back into the van and drove off.
Once they arrived, they dragged her beaten form into the room and tied her to a chair, anger issues sat down in front of her with some antiseptic and started cleaning her face wounds, he was being extremely slow and unnecessarily rough, but she refused to give him the satisfaction, she swallowed the pain deep down, like she's been trained to do, to make her show that she isn't weak.
Everything was silent as the bounty hunter continued to clean her up. That's when she spotted the TM truck through the window, she smiled as best she could with the ductape on her face. Next thing, the motel wall is crashing in and Happy, Chibs, Sack and Jax came busting in with guns blazing. Jax and Chibs screamed at the bounty hunters whilst Hap went over to cut Chase free, she ripped off her mouth gag and smiled at the hunters. "Hey guys, well as fun as this has been, I gotta split, this is my ride" she grabs her knife and gun off of the sideboard before limping over and jumping on the back of the truck with the others.
"Piney you crazy bastard, I love you" she shouts at the man through the back window, the guys fuss over her a bit before they reach the others.
Clay walks over and Chase can tell that what the guys did was against Clay's wishes and that he was slightly pissed with Piney, she decided to step in and pull some of the heat of the older man "listen Clay, I know you're pissed, but the guys were right this time. That motel was a quick stop. I would've been in Oregon by the end of the day." Clay acts as though he didn't hear her and looks past her and over to Piney
"Take her to St. Thomas." He then looks over to her with a smirk "hopefully that's in your plan." The president is about to walk away when Piney finally speaks
"You know this isn't on Jax, it was my idea. Just have to blame it on the, uh, dementia." Piney just laughs and Clay rolls his eyes behind his sunglasses and walks off. Piney looks over to Chase who is staring out the window "It's gonna be a long ride Chasey" he gives her his bottle of alcohol with a straw sticking out of the top and she just looks at it
"uh, got another straw?" Piney, who is still chuckling grabs a straw from the fold away visor above him and hands it to her, she smiles at him as much as her face will allow "thanks" she then starts to gulp down the liquid, hoping it would take the edge off. Despite what the others might think, she definitely wasn't a lightweight when it came to liquor, she had trying to catch up to Chibs all these years to thank. So she drank away knowing she will still be able to move and talk by the time they get to the hospital.
Chibs jogs over to the van just before Piney pulls out "hey, I'll come by to check on you tomorrow if your still in the hospital" she smiles at the Scot
"see you then, have fun at the 'charity event'. Oh! And don't forget to tell the guys from the other charters that I said hi and sorry for missing the party.""
"Sure. Rest well sister" she nods and Piney starts to pull out of the lot.
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At long last, Chase is at St. Thomas waiting to get patched up, she chats to Piney for a little bit until Tara walks past "oh my god, Chase what happened?" The women had a look of worry on her face for her friend. She waved the doctor off
"Bike accident, missed a bend. Smooth right?" She smirks at her before deciding it hurt too much and let her face fall back into its natural expression.
"Will you be alright?"
"Course I will, trust me, this is nothing compared to some if the injuries I've had" she nods
"Alright well I'll come by later to check on you" Chase smiles at her
"Thanks doc" she turns and almost runs into one of the nurses, who happened to be a guy.
"Sorry Doctor Knowles"
"Oh no that was my fault Luca" she looked between Chase and the male nurse "are you attending to Miss. Crosby?" He nodded "good, you make sure she is well taken care of"
"Of course" the man nodded again before walking over to Chase "Hello Miss. Crosby, I'm Luca, I'll be patching you up"
"Great and call me Chase" he nodded and started to wheel her away, until she remembers something "wait! Piney, I need you to give Juice a call, tell him to bring me some take away food, I think eating the hospital food might be the thing that sends me over the edge" he just chuckles and nods before waving goodbye to the girl and going to call Juice as asked.
After all of the day's drama she finally got a minute to just sit down and relax in her hospital room, that nurse was a pretty nice guy, they got to talking whilst he was stitching her up and she had to admit it was nice to talk to someone who wasn't judging her or afraid of her for once, plus his accent was pretty cool and he wasn't too hard on the eyes either.
Turns out her silence was cut short because soon there was a knock at the door "Chase?" Juice poked his head through the gap in the door, and once he realised it was her he fully entered the room and took in her appearance
"Hey Juicy"
"Shit, what happened? Piney wouldn't tell me anything" Chase chuckles at that, she had a feeling that the old guy would do that, he always liked suspense.
"I'm alright, my leg is from a bike accident and the rest is from me pissing off bounty hunters who kidnapped me at the hospital… Yeah, It's been a long day" he looked only slightly shocked at her eventful day
"Damn, well it's a good thing I brought this then" he pulled out a brown KFC bag from behind his back and took a seat next to her bed
"Ortiz, I swear you are a saint" he hands over the bag and watches her unpack it, he got her favourite, popcorn chicken with chips and two hot wings, he even remembered the gravy! Another mistake he has learned over the years not to make is forgetting that damn gravy. He just shrugged his shoulders.
"What are best friends for?" he grabs his own burger from the bag and they just sit around and talk, a nice normal end to a messed up day.
A/N: Hope this chapter was a bit better than the others, it's a lot longer and I feel this is where my writing is starting to pick up, I'm in the middle of writing chapter 9 now and I feel things are still going strong so I hope you stick around long enough to read future chapters. Thanks for the support so far and enjoy the rest of your day/evening.