The footsteps that had entered her café, could undoubtedld only belong to Gemma. Dani turned around, putting down the cloth she had used to clean the coffee maker on the bar. She leaned against the counter, waiting for what Gemma had to say.

"Hey," Gemma spoke. "I got a question."

Before she continued speaking, Gemma turned her body to look around the café, which was empty except for an old guy sitting in the corner. Hehad been staring at the same newspaper for the entire morning.

"It's more of a favor, actually."

Dani raised her eyebrows. A favor usually meant a favor for the club. What did she offer that could be of any help to them? Whatever it was, she could hardly turn it down, especially since they had helped her out tremendously with Harrison. Dani was in their debt.

"I'm listening," Dani said, her eyes falling on a coffee stain on the counter. Quickly she wiped it clean.

"The club got some money problems. Maybe you could offer them a loan and help them out, with interest of course."

Dani's heart began to sink as she really couldn't help them out with this. After she finding out how many losses she had made yesterday, there was no way she could offer SAMCRO any money. Giving them a loan would probably mean the end of her café.

"I'm sorry, Gemma," Dani started. "I can't."

"You'll get it back! It would really help them out right now," Gemma tried to convince her.

Dani put her elbows down on the counter before burying her face in her hands. She looked Gemma in the eye again, trying to explain herself. "I have some money troubles of myself, Gemma. I can't afford to miss anything right now."

"What do you mean you have money problems? The place is always packed! And after the fundraiser you shouldn't have to worry about the cost of the remodeling…"

Dani shook her head. "I know, I don't know how it happened. I made a pretty big loss this month and I have to sell a lot of cake if I want to cover it. Sorry, I really can't help them out right now."

Gemma smiled softly. "That's okay, baby. If I had known I would've never asked."

"I would've helped them out if I could, you know that."

"I know, sweetheart. But why didn't you tell me? I could've helped you out."

"Only found out yesterday. I really have to keep up with my administration a little better, but it had been so busy over the past few months."

Gemma leaned forward and grabbed her hand. "Dani, if you ever need anything you can always come to me, okay? You are family and we take care of our own."

With Gemma coming down to the café to ask her for a favor for SAMCRO, Dani had found herself wanting to call Jax again, asking him what was going on. It seemed as if she was thinking of the most random things to give her an excuse to call him.

To try and get her mind off him for once and for all, she was going to do something she had never done before. Dani was going on a blind date with a guy she had met on the internet a week before. Normally she would never jump into things like this, but with the whole Jax-situation she needed this to get her mind off him.

Dani had come to the realization that she definitely wanted him back. But her mind had told her to stay away from him.

The guy she had met seemed pretty decent. He looked nice in his profile picture, and the message he had sent her were actually quite sweet. Compared to Jax he was very different, though. Where Jax was an outlaw, this guy was an entrepreneur like Dani, owning several businesses in Stockton. They didn't even look alike.

Yet Dani had agreed to meet him. Maybe she had acted a little before she had really thought it through, but it was too late to go back now anyway.

She had dressed up in a simple black dress that she also had worn to the opening of the café. Her hair was pinned up and she had kept her make-up to a minimum. If she was allowed to be honest, she had to admit that she was looking pretty good.

To be safe, Dani put her gun in her purse anyway. Harrison was still ever present in the back of her mind, and not having met this guy before, she didn't want to take any chances.

When she heard a car approaching, Dani hastily shuffled to the front door, checking her hair in the mirror really quickly. Not wanting to come across as desperate, Dani waited for him to knock on her door instead of her storming outside.

While her heart was pounding, she opened the door after hearing his knuckles on the wood, flashing him a smile.

"Wow, Dani," Luke said. "You look amazing."

She did not recognize Luke from Charming when she was stalking his online dating profile, but he had told her in a private message that he never really had the time to come down here.

"Thanks," she replied, her cheeks reddening.

It had been a really long time since she had been on a date, and she kind of forgot how it all worked again. Jax hadn't been the going-on-dates type.

He placed his hand on the small of her back and pushed her towards his car.

"Where are we going?" Dani asked, only knowing they were going out for dinner.

"I got us a table at that restaurant in town. Lumpy's?"

He opened the car door for her. Dani got in gracefully, trying not to tip over on her heels.

"That's a nice place," she commented, not being used to this kind of chivalry.

Luckily there was no one in the restaurant who was affiliated with SAMCRO. Dani was a little afraid she would run into someone she knew and would tip off Jax, but as far she could see there was no one.

They both had ordered their dinners and started talking about their businesses. It turned out Luke owned a couple of clothing stores and was in the process of opening a new one.

"I just reopened my café," Dani spoke, trying to say something as well. For now, Luke had been speaking all the time, making it difficult for her to get a word in. At least this way there were no awkward silences.

"Oh, that's nice," Luke replied. "It's just so hard to chose the color palettes I want to use…"

He rambled on and on about the decoration and Dani had to admit it was getting harder and harder to pay attention. She was very grateful when the waiter interrupted him to give them their appetizer, which Dani dived in eagerly. At least she could eat while he was talking her ears off.

Luke continued talking about all his other businesses before continuing to comment on the restaurant they were eating in. According to him, the place was in desperate need in some modernization.

Dani tried to ignore him, focusing on her food. On the internet he had appeared nicer than he actually was and she made a mental note never to go on a blind date ever again. It was so easy to pretend to be someone else online.

By the time dessert came out, Dani had said about five things, and they were mostly about the food. She had chosen a rich chocolate cake, making her wonder why she didn't sell something like this at the café.

"So, Dani, tell me a little more about this café you're running."

Dani almost choked on her cake, surprised he was asking her a question. Quickly she swallowed her bite of food and put her fork down.

"Well, what do you want to know?"

"Anything," Luke flashed her a smile.

"It's been open for quite some time now after it had been completely trashed by some thugs. But it's all retro style now and it looks really nice," she spoke.

"I would love to see it someday," Luke replied, before continuing about retro themes in marketing.

Dani raised her eyebrows and continued with her cake. Like she would ever invite him. She could already picture him bashing everything she was doing like he was doing with Lumpy's restaurant. There was not a single item in the building he had not yet made a comment about.

She wasn't enjoying this at all, but being as polite as always she decided to patiently finish this dinner, let him take her home, and let it be the end of it.

After what seemed like an entire day instead of just a couple of hours, Luke had finally brought her home. He had been complaining about the way his steak had been prepared and after a few minutes Dani had zoned out, fixing her gaze on the outside world that was whizzing past.

How could someone come across so differently online? After meeting him in person she had immediately regretted doing this. It seemed like such a good plan at the time, and who knew, maybe she would've met someone she really liked and could've replaced Jax.

But this guy definitely couldn't. Never before had she ever heard Jax complain, even after all he had been through. Being the VP of a club wasn't the most easy task, yet he did it so easily without ever moaning about it.

"Thanks for the dinner," Dani smiled, hoping Luke would stay in the car and not walk her to her front door. But being the gentleman that he was, of course he got out as well.

"No problem," he replied. "We should do this again."

"Yeah," she laughed awkwardly.

They made their way down to the door. Dani unlocked it quickly, standing in the doorway. Her eyes followed him closely as he took a step forward towards her.

"I really enjoyed this," he spoke.

"Yeah, me too," Dani mumbled, trying to close the door a little. "I gotta go now. Have a lot of work to do."

Luke smiled, which made her a little nervous, but she turned around to close the door.

But Luke had placed his foot in between so it wouldn't close.

"Dani?" he spoke. "Aren't you going to invite me in?

Everything was going fast. Before she was able to think Dani had grabbed her gun out of her bag and without looking she pulled the trigger. The way his hand curled around the doorpost and the shadows hit his face, he looked exactly like Harrison. Add his weird behavior to that mix and for a moment she really believed Harrison was standing in her doorway.

When she realized what she had done, Dani gasped, letting the gun fall to the floor. She rushed forward to Luke, looking at the damage.

He had dropped down to the ground and she saw blood pouring from a bullet wound in his shoulder. If she had shot a couple of inches to the right she would've shot him straight in the heart.

"Oh my god," she gasped, staring intensely at the red stains that where forming in his shirt.

"What the fuck did you do!" Luke exclaimed. He was clearly in a lot of pain but Dani's mind had gone completely blank.

The first thing that came to mind was pulling him inside as gentle as she could.

"I thought you were someone else!" she tried to explain, but as the stain in his shirt got only bigger she realized the wound did not stop bleeding.

"Are you crazy?!"

Dani wasn't sure anymore. She could've sworn she saw Harrison and she had reacted immediately. Maybe she was going crazy.

Luke was now lying on her kitchen floor. Dani reached for a towel and pressed it against his wound, trying to stop the bleeding. She had actually no idea if this worked, but they always did it like this in the movies.

"Hold it like this," she told Luke, starting to really panic. What have I done?

"You shot me!" Luke said, like he couldn't believe what just had happened.

Dani retrieved her phone from her bag, dialing the first number that came to mind. Her gaze shifted back to Luke, who was clearly struggling with keeping the wound stabilized. They couldn't go to the hospital with this. She had shot him with an illegal gun, and there was no way in hell she was going to jail.

Finally someone picked up. Dani took in a deep breath, trying not tremble as much when she spoke.

"Jax?" she said, before explaining exactly what had happened.

A/N: So, first of all an apology for the long wait. I've hardly been home the past week so there wasn't much time for me to write. Second of all, what did you think of this chapter! Quite a twist at the end, wasn't it? :) I hope this makes up for the lack of updates a little bit.

I can't promise when the next update will be, as I still have a very busy week ahead of me. I'll try my best to write as quickly as possible.

Please let me know your reaction, and I'll see you next time :D