Sam opened her door when she heard a knock. She was currently getting ready to meet the boys over at Fun Town. Her heart fluttered when she seen Juice standing outside her motel room with his signature goofy smile on his face. "Hey Sam." he said casually but hesitant at the same time. "Hey Juice what's up?" she asked as she held the door open further so he could walk in. "I was wondering if you wanted to go to Fun Town." he said as he looked at her nervously. She gave him a small smile. "I am going. I'm suppose to meet everyone over there later." she informed him. "I mean go with me." he finished. She looked up at him with wide eyes. She knew that he wanted to talk to her but she didn't figure that he would flat out ask her to go to Fun Town. He noticed her hesitant expression and quickly spoke again. "If you would rather go as friends that would work to. I just figured you wouldn't want to walk in alone." he explained lamely. She giggled at him getting all nervous. "OK. We can go as friends. I would really like that. Just let me finish getting ready and we can go." she said as she turned to walk into the bathroom. She didn't miss the triumph smile on his face and she shook her head and smiled to herself. Luckily the closet was right in the bathroom as she planned to wear a different outfit.
Once they arrived Juice instantly pulled her toward the games. "Wanna play against me?" he asked as they stopped at the water gun game. "You're so on!" she exclaimed excitedly as Juice handed over the money for them to play. She picked up the water gun as he did the same beside her. "You're going down Ortiz!" Sam threatened as she playfully glared at him. He gave her his goofy smile as the green light turned on signaling them to go. Sam aimed the gun and pulled the trigger as water shot out of the gun. She was too focused on her bucket to see that Juice was winning. The dinger went off to declare Juice the winner. Sam looked at him with fake anger as he smiled down at her. She couldn't stop herself from smiling as his smile was effective. "The carney made his way over to them with a bored expression. "What prize do you want you can pick any size stuffed animal." he said breaking their staring. Juice had noticed that Sam had her eye on a big stuffed wolf. It was absolutely beautiful and he thought he could possibly win her over if he got her the wolf. "I'll take the wolf." he told the carney as he glanced at Sam to see a small smile on her face. Once the carney handed the wolf to Juice, he turned and smiled at Sam. "How badly do you want this wolf?" he asked her teasingly. She eyed him suspiciously. "Why what do you want for it?" she asked with narrowed eyes. "How about dinner tomorrow night?" he asked her confidently. She looked at him with a thoughtful expression. She let out a breath of air and grabbed the wolf from him lightly. "Tomorrow at 7." she said simply with a small smile.
They walked around some more until Sam seen a picture booth. "You wanna?" she asked pointing to the booth. He shrugged his shoulders and led her to the booth. They slipped inside and Juice put in the tickets. They got ready and the first picture was just a normal one with the both of them smiling. The second picture was funny faces where Sam stuck her tongue out and Juice scrunched up his nose. The third picture Sam did a cute lip pucker face and Juice did a sexy smolder face. The last picture Sam smiled so big that her whole face lit up. Juice snuck a glance at her and didn't notice that the picture took. They exited the booth and Juice reached for the pictures first. He looked and seen the last one. He panicked and ripped it off and stuffed it in his pocket quickly. She gave him a funny confused face. "Why did you take that one?" she asked him as he handed her the others. "I just really wanted to keep one." he told her lamely. She looked like she didn't quite believe him but let it go. She heard noises behind her and turned to see Clay and Gemma heading toward them with Jax and Tig right behind them. "Well, well, well guess who decided to show up?" Jax teased as they stopped in front of the pair. "Hey guys enjoying yourselves are you?" Sam asked teasingly right back. Jax gave her a knowing smile. "By the looks of things you've been enjoying yourself as well." Gemma imputed noticing how Sam blushed at the comment. Elliott Oswald and his walked their way and Clay stuck out his hand. "Elliot how are you doing?" he asked shaking his hand in a friendly manner. "Hey Clay we're all doing good how about you guys?" Elliot asked being friendly. "Sam its good to see you back in town. Its been a while." Karen said as they shared a friendly hug. "Yea I'm in town for a little while. Its good to see you guys too." Sam said. "Mom I want to go on the tilt a whirl again." Tristan complained. "Sweetie not right now." Karen whispered to her. Jax took out a ticket and handed it to her. "Here you go darling." he said as he gave it to her. "Oh thanks but that's not really necessary." Karen started. Jax brushed her off. "That's no problem really. They kicked me off cause I was screaming too loudly." Jax teased. Sam saw the look that Tristan had on her face and shook her head. She remembered being 13 and thinking that bikers were the shit. Jax nudged Sam and Juice for them to follow him. "Come on let's go this way." he directed. They started to walk away from Clay and Gemma. "So what were you guys doing in the photo booth?" Tig asked eyeing them both. "None of your damn business Tiggy." Sam smart mouthed jokingly. She squealed when Tig turned to put her in a headlock. "I don't care how old you are now. I can still kick your ass." he teased. Juice and Jax chuckled behind them as they watched the scene. "God damn it Tig! Let go before you mess up my hair!" Sam complained as she pushed against him. He finally let her go with a little shove. "That will teach you next time won't it?" he asked sarcastically as she stuck her tongue out at him. Bobby walked their way shaking his head. "Is Tig messing with you again Sammy?" Bobby asked laughing. They all laughed and they waked past a couple men that Sam didn't recognize. "Is that a couple of Darby's guys?" Sam asked noticing that the boys were checking them out as well. "I have no idea. I don't recognize them." Jax said. They walked to where the clown was sitting. "Oh look at that! Big bad bikers!" the clown taunted making Jax take the bait. He paid the lady and threw the first ball. He missed and the clown laughed. "What's wrong? The biker can't get the ball in the hole? I bet that's what your biker slut thinks too!" the clown said pointing to Sam. The boys started shouted at the clown and ran forward. "Hey!" Sam shouted angrily taking offense to the insult. Juice became furious what the clown insinuated and dunked the clown shoving him in the water along with Jax. "Come on guys! I didn't mean it!" the clown tried to explain. Sam crossed her arms angrily watching as the boys were defending her honor. Juice's phone rang and he moved aside so he could answer it. He hung up and looked at everyone who was walking away from the clown. "Hey guys we gotta go. The Irish are coming." Juice informed them. Jax turned to Sam and held out his arms. "We'll catch you later." he told her as he pulled her into a hug. She hugged him back. "I'll see you guys later." she told them as she watched them walk off. Juice turned around and ran back toward her. "I'll call you later." he whispered as he kissed her cheek softly. He ran off to find Clay with a big goofy smile on his face.
Sam walked around until she seen Gemma coming out of the photo booth. Sam walked over to her with a confused look. "We're you in there by yourself?" she asked her curiously. Gemma gave her a wicked grin. "I had some extra quarters available." she told her as they walked around the fair together. "I'm surprised that you didn't go with the boys to meet with the Irish." Gemma commented giving her a look. Sam shrugged her shoulders. "Clay said that he didn't need me for this. Plus they didn't want me near them. I'm not back for good so Clay is keeping me out of club business as much as possible." Sam informed Gemma. Gemma nodded in understanding. She observed the big stuffed wolf in her arms and raised an eyebrow in amusement. "Who won you the animal? Could it have been possibly been a certain Puerto Rican that has had his eyes on you for days?" Gemma asked wanting to know details. Sam blushed as she nodded her head. "He asked me out. We're having dinner tomorrow night." Sam informed Gemma as they stood in line for cotton candy. Gemma gave her a knowing smirk. "I thought you weren't interested in any of the boys. Plus you don't plan on sticking around too long." Gemma said to her as she gave her a disapproving look. "I know and I don't plan on it. I don't even know why I said yes. He just asked and instead of saying no like I was going to I just said yes." she rushed out not fully understanding her own reasoning. Gemma gave her a smile. "Maybe deep down inside you know that you like him and want to spend time with him. He's a good guy. He's sweet and he doesn't go on dates much." Gemma stared her down with a protective look. "Just don't break his heart. He's not like the others he's more sensitive." Gemma explained. Sam listened to her as everything sunk in. Did she really want to get involved with a son?
Sam wondered around alone. She bought a drink and started walking around. She heard a noise coming from the woods. She quickly walked toward the noise knowing that Karen and Elliot were looking for their daughter Tristan. When she heard the noise she expected that Tristan wandered off and got lost. What she found made her freeze in shock. She found Tristian in a bloody crumpled mess crying laying dirty on the ground. Sam instantly got down beside her but came closer to her slowly. "Tristian honey, Its Sam do you remember me?" she asked speaking slowly as she looked Tristan over. Tristan looked up at her with a broken hollow gaze. "Shit." she whispered to herself and grabbed her phone. She dialed Elliot immediately. Sam took off her jacket and wrapped it around Tristian so she had some cover when Elliot and a couple of deputies made their way through the woods over to where they were.
The next day Sam stormed through the clubhouse looking for Clay. She seen Elliot in the office talking to Clay and Jax and she knew that Elliot was coming to them to look for the man who raped his daughter. She paced back and forth in the clubhouse as she waited for the boys to be done with church. She looked up when the doors opened and they walked out. Sam instantly stormed over to Clay. "I know that Elliot came to you to find his daughter's attacker and I want in." she stated straight to the point. Jax stayed behind to see what Clay was going to say. He crossed his arms and gave her a look. "I thought you didn't want involved with club shit anymore." he threw in her face. She sighed. "I don't but this is town shit and I'm the one that found her. I think I have a right to help find her." she defended and insisted. Clay looked at her in amusement then he smiled. "All you had to do was ask princess." Clay teased causing her to roll her eyes at the nick name. "Gemma is heading over to the hospital why don't you tag along with her and see what you can find out." he instructed to her. Juice ran into the room and they all turned. "We got company." he said showing the video of Hale and a couple of deputies walking across the parking lot.
Sam stood in the clubhouse as she watched Hale talk to Clay and Jax about taking statements about their whereabouts. She was going to go out there and talk to Hale when Juice stepped in her path blocking her way. "Hey." he said giving her a big smile. She smiled back at him, she cursed him in her head for his smile being so infectious. "Hey yourself. Are we still on for tonight?" she asked him giving him her full attention. "Yea definitely!" he spoke out quickly. She giggled and he realized that he wanted to always make her giggle like that. "Umm what are you doing now? Do you want to go grab some lunch?" he asked her with a hopeful tone. She glanced out the door and caught David's eye as he walked back to his jeep. She turned her eyes back to Juice. "I can't. I'm on my way to the hospital to talk to Tara, but I'm excited for tonight." she kissed him on the cheek and brushed past him toward her car.
Sam walked through the hospital hall and spotted Wendy's room. She glanced in as she walked past to her signing some papers with a couple of people in suits watching her. She smirked and turned the corner and bumped into Tara. "Whoa hey! Just the doctor I was looking for!" Sam exclaimed with a cheerful smile. She seen the look on Tara's face and her smile vanished. "What's wrong T?" she asked her once best friend. Tara shook her head. "Its nothing to worry about. Are you here about Abel?" Tara asked changing the subject. Sam caught on but went with it. "No actually I'm here to talk to Tristian. I was the one that found her and I wanted to make sure that she was Ok." she informed to Tara. Tara nodded as she glanced to see Hale walking toward them. Sam turned when to face David when he stopped beside them. "What are you doing here Sam?" he asked even though he already knew the answer. "I'm just checking on Tristian. I wanted to see how she was doing." Sam said giving David a look. "This is now police business. I don't want Samcro involved in any of this." David said forcefully to Sam. Sam stared him down. "I'm not with Samcro I'm here all on my own. You could never stop me doing this before and you sure as hell can't stop me from doing things now." she exclaimed to him before turning back to Tara. "I'll catch up with you later T." Sam stated before she turned to walk down the hall. David followed after her and grabbed her arm to stop her. He pulled her back so she was flush against his chest. "I remember having to handcuff you to get you to listen." he whispered huskily in her ear. She let out a shaky breath and looked up at him. He looked back at her and sighed. "You win but we do this together." he said firmly as he let go of her arm. She moved away from him quickly. "I also remember kicking your ass when you handcuffed me to things." she glared at him. He smiled down at her. "If you call fucking til we passed out kicking my ass then yea you did." he whispered again before he brushed past her. She closed her eyes to get herself to calm down. Even though it didn't work out between her and David she could never deny that they were good together in bed. She blew out a breath dramatically as she followed him down the hall. He sure knew how to push her buttons.
Sam stood beside Hale as he asked Elliot and Karen questions. "I went for ice cream thinking I could be back before the ride ended. But when I got back she was gone." Elliot explained. "Any small detail can help with this." Sam insisted calmly. Karen shook her head. "If we know any more we would tell you." Karen said giving Sam a glare before she walked back into the room with Tristian. Sam looked into the room and sighed. "I know that this is hard on you guys. I can't possibly imagine what you're going through. But I can tell you that we're doing everything that we can to find the attacker." Sam gave Elliot a look that said Samcro was on it. He nodded in understanding. "This is a small town and for something like this to happen suddenly is suspicious. I will find him Elliot you have my word." Hale promised. Sam laid a comforting hand on Elliot's arm and nodded. He turned and walked back into the room. "You got any ideas Sam?" David asked her. She turned to face him. "I have a theory. You said this was a small town right? Well everyone knows everyone. There are a group of outsiders here. I'm thinking we start with the carneys at Fun Town." she stated to him. He nodded in agreement. "I think you're onto something. Let's go." he turned and they walked out of the hospital together.
Jax and Chibs pulled up beside Half Sack as they watched Sam and Hale talk to the carneys. "How did you guys know where I was?" he asked them curiously. "Sam texted me and said that her and Hale were working together. She's keeping us informed." Jax said to Half Sack as they watched Hale get into his jeep. They watched as Sam made her way over to them after Hale left the grounds. "Hey boys!" she smirked as the came to stand in front of them. "Gemma called and said that she wanted me to meet her at the hospital. So I'm off Hale duty for a while." she informed them. Jax and Chibs nodded in understanding. She glanced at Half Sack and smirked. "Nice scooter." Sam teased as she laughed. Half Sack groaned. "Can't one of you guys loan me your bike?" he asked desperately. "Not unless he grows a set of tits." Jax stated. "Big tits, huge tits." Chibs exaggerated. Sam gave him a look. "And I'm out. See you guys later." she waved as she took off to her car.
Sam walked down the hallway of the hospital. She instantly spotted Gemma talking to Tara and she made her way over to them. "Hey how is Abel doing?" she asked Tara breaking up whatever they were talking about. "He's doing better. I'll keep you updated once I know more." Tara told her shortly not taking her eyes off Gemma. Sam looked between the two women and sighed. "Did I miss something?" she asked rhetorically. Tara scoffed and faced Sam. "Did you have anything to do with Wendy overdosing in the hospital?" Tara asked her angrily. Sam kept a straight face and leaned closer to Tara. "If I did she wouldn't be alive right now I promise you that." Sam stated in a low dangerous tone. Gemma gave her a look of approval and amusement. Tara scoffed and walked away from them. Sam snickered as she looked up. She instantly spotted Darby walking off the elevator. "Oh shit there's Darby." Sam whispered to Gemma as they watched him. Sam pulled out her cell phone and called the first person that came to mind.
Juice was finishing explaining what all he found on Darby's guys to Clay and Tig when his phone rang. He looked at the caller ID and seen that it was Sam. "Hey Sam I can't really talk right now." he started as Clay and Tig looked up him. "You guys still looking for Darby?" she asked him through the phone. "Where?" he asked her quickly. "He's here at St. Thomas he's in the south wing. I'll try to stall him just get here." she said before she hung up the phone. Juice turned back to Clay and Tig. "Uh that was Sam, Darby is at St. Thomas." he informed Clay. "I want you to load up all the that we have." Clay ordered Juice who nodded. Tig pulled out a baggie of white pills and pushed them into Juice's hands. "Put those away for me." he said as he turned to follow Clay. "What are they?" Juice asked looking at them. "Vitamins!" he shouted back as he got on his bike. Juice shrugged and took a pill and put one in his mouth.
Sam sat outside on the bench as she waited for Darby to come out. She looked up when he walked past her. "How's it going Ernie?" she asked catching his attention. He turned and smirked when he seen her. He walked over slowly toward her. "Long time no see darling. How's the princess of biker's doing?" he asked throwing her question back at her. "I can't complain at the moment. What brings you here?" she asked to get friendly conversation. "4 packs a day finally caught up to mom. She has stage 4 lung cancer." he told her. "I'm sorry to hear that." she said sounding not real sorry. He looked at her and leaned forward. "You look real good Sam. I seen you yesterday running around the carnival with the Puerto Rican. You look like he's been giving you some special attention." he gave her a nasty smirk. She narrowed her eyes in disgust. "What are you jealous?" she asked knowing that Darby as always wanted in her panties. She looked when she seen the tattoo of the Nazi symbol on his chest. She gave him a pointed look. "I see you got some new ink in Chino." she stated. "You like?" he asked her with a flirty smirk. She smirked back and leaned forward. "Not even a little bit." she hissed out. She heard the roar of bikes pull up and she stood up. "It was nice catching up with you Darby. Hope we don't do this again." she stated as she walked away back to her car. She passed by Clay and he stopped her. "Meet us at the club house." he commanded and she nodded.
She pulled up to the clubhouse and seen the boys rushing out with a big duffel bag. "Clay threw her a black zip up hoodie. "You still good with a gun?" he asked her with a smirk. She smirked back and changed her shoes before she got on the back of Tig's bike. She wrapped her arms around his waist as he sped off. They pulled off on the side of the road and met with Jax and Chibs. Sam got off the bike and checked her gun to make sure that it was loaded. She stuck it in the back of her pants as she followed the boys down the hill to a house that had a big fenced in dog house. "It looks like a full house." Sam observed as they looked around. Sam noticed that there was a bunch of cars parked. "Alright Sam keep a look out. If any men try to run shoot them." Clay commanded and she watched as the boys took out the men standing watch and messing with the dogs. She sat and waited as the boys finally busted in the house. They came back up about 10 minutes later laughing and singing cumbayhah. She gave them funny looks as they stopped in front of her full of smiles. "I take it that it didn't go as planned?" she asked as they walked up the hill. "We had a misunderstanding darling. But they didn't do it." Jax stated as they walked back up the bikes. Sam turned to face Jax. "Gemma texted and asked if I would meet her back at the hospital. Do you mind giving me a ride?" she asked him. "Sure darling anything that you need." he assured her handing her his spare helmet. She slid in behind him and he sped off down the road.
Sam walked through the hallway looking for Gemma. She found her reading to Abel in the nursery. Jax came to stand beside her with a smile as he watched his mother. She came out when she seen them. "Did you guys find what you were hunting for?" Gemma asked Jax. He shook his head. "We hit a dead end." he said with a dead tone. Oswald walked over to them. "Did you guys find the guy yet?" he asked them. Sam shook her head. "One of us needs to talk to her to see what she knows." Jax told him. Oswald shook his head. "She has been through too much already." he objected. Sam sighed and pushed past him and walked down the hall toward Tristan's room. She took a deep breath and slowly walked inside. She seen Tristian sitting there on her phone. "Hey sweetie. Do you remember me? I'm the one who found you in the woods. How are you feeling?" she asked softly sitting down on the bed beside her. "I'm not suppose to be talking to anyone about this." Tristian said in a small voice. "Its OK Tristian I already know." Sam assured her. Tristian looked at her with wide eyes. "You do?" she asked her hesitantly. Sam squeezed her hand lightly for comfort. "I do. I want you to know that you have nothing to be ashamed about. I only want to help you, but I can't do that if you don't tell me who did it." Sam said to Tristian. The little girl finally broke down in tears as she pushed her way into Sam's arms.
Sam closed the door lightly behind her as she went to look for Jax. She found him sitting in the nursery talking to Gemma. "I got some news for you." she said as she walked into the room. Jax and Gemma jumped up to face her. "I just talked to Tristian. She remembers everything. It was the carney at Fun Town dressed as the clown." she informed Jax. Jax cursed under his breath. "Does Hale know?" he asked her. She nodded an answer. "Yea he does. There was no way I could stop him from knowing." she shrugged her shoulders. "OK Sam good job. Stall Hale so he doesn't follow me." Sam nodded as she followed Jax out of the room. Gemma watched them leave. Sam came to a stop behind Jax and looked around him to see who he was staring at. She looked and seen Hale talking to Elliot and Karen. Jax walked down the steps as Hale came toward them. Sam blocked Hale's way instantly. She pushed her hand against his chest to stop him. "Let him go David. You and I both know that guy is going to get what's coming to him." Sam stated softly. David looked down at her with a small glare. "I don't care about that Sam. Your friends can't take the law into their own hands like this. I will be there to stop them." Hale promised as he walked around her to go in the direction that Jax went.
Sam went back to her motel room to get changed and dressed for her date with Juice. She didn't hear from him all afternoon and he wasn't with his brothers when they went to find Darby's man. She quickly showed and put on one of the only decent dresses she owned. She looked in the mirror after she was done and took a deep breath. She felt excited about this. She grabbed her bag and keys and left the room to head to the restaurant where she was suppose to meet Juice. Once she got there she noticed that his bike wasn't there yet. She stood outside and waited for him.
Almost an hour went by and she just about gave up. "Sam?" she turned around quickly to see David walking toward her still dressed in his deputy uniform. Sam gave him a small smile. "Didn't we just see each other a couple of hours ago?" she teased trying to cover up her disappointment. "What are you doing here? Were you suppose to be on a date?" he asked her looking her up and down subtly. Sam sighed before she put on a fake smile. "No I always dress up nice and stand outside restaurants looking like a complete loser." she joked. Hale saw right through her act and stepped forward. "Any guy would be lucky to go on a date with you. Who was it?" he asked her trying to cover his jealousy. She gave him a sad smile. "Don't worry about it David. I'm sure you don't want to hear about anything that the girl who broke your heart has to say." she said to him quickly. "I still care Sam. You may think that I don't and that I've moved on but I haven't." he stepped forward to stand closer to her. "I believe in second chances and somehow you're back here. I don't want to question it too much. You were my first love and probably will be my last." he whispered to her softly. She took an intake of breath at his confession. "It was Juice." she confessed softly to him. "I was suppose to be here tonight with Juice." she looked up at him. "He's an idiot and not all there in the head. You can do a lot better than that Mo hawked moron." David moved around her to leave but he stopped and turned back to face her. "Have breakfast with me tomorrow." he stated to her. She was about to reject his offer but found herself nodding instead. "I'll see you at the diner in the morning at 8." he kissed her forehead softly before he turned and walked down the street out of sight. Sam sighed as she pulled her phone out to call Juice. His phone instantly went to voicemail. "I don't know why you're not here, but I waited for you for over an hour. Maybe this was a sign that we aren't suppose to be anything more than friends. I think that is best. Take care of yourself Juice, goodbye." she hung up the phone and wiped the tear that escaped from her eye. She scoffed at her crybaby behavior and stomped off to her car.
The next morning she stood outside the diner as she watched David walk toward her. She smiled up at him through her sunglasses as he stopped in front of her. "Hey sorry I'm late. I had to handle something." he told her as he held the door open for her. He didn't tell her that he woke up Juice laying on the ground by the post office and that his buddies more than likely dumped him there. He knew that Juice had probably been there all night and that was probably why he stood Sam up. But he wasn't about to tell her that. He had a second chance with the girl that he was in love with and he didn't plan on letting anything ruining that.
